| William Blake (1757–1827). The Poetical Works. 1908. | | | | Selections from ‘Jerusalem’ | | [Man’s Spectre] |
| | (Jerusalem, f. 41 [lines engraved in reverse on scroll].)
EACH 1 Man is in his Spectre’s power | |
| Until the arrival of that hour, | |
| When his Humanity awake, | |
| And cast his Spectre into the Lake. | |
| | Note 1. Man’s Spectre] In the original draft on p. 12 of the Rossetti MS. this quatrain was at first written:| This world is in the Spectre’s power | | Until the arrival of that hour, | | Until Humanity awake, | | And cast his own Spectre in the Lake— |
| And there to Eternity aspire | | The Selfhood in a flame of fire; | | Till then the Lamb of God … |
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