| William Blake (1757–1827). The Poetical Works. 1908. | | | | Selections from ‘Milton’ | | [The Heavens and the Earth] |
| | (Milton, f. 28, ll. 4–16.)
THE SKY is an immortal Tent built by the Sons of Los; | |
| And every Space that a Man views around his dwelling-place, | |
| Standing on his own roof, or in his garden on a mount | |
| Of twenty-five cubits in height, such Space is his Universe: | |
| And on its verge the Sun rises and sets, the Clouds bow | 5 |
| To meet the flat Earth and the Sea in such an order’d Space; | |
| The Starry Heavens reach no further, but here bend and set | |
| On all sides, and the two Poles turn on their valves of gold; | |
| And if he move his dwelling-place, his Heavens also move | |
| Where’er he goes, and all his neighbourhood bewail his loss. | 10 |
| Such are the Spaces callèd Earth, and such its dimension. | |
| As to that false appearance which appears to the reasoner, | |
| As of a Globe rolling thro’ Voidness, it is a delusion of Ulro. | | | | |
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