[Fourfold and Twofold Vision]. Selections from 'Jerusalem'. William Blake. 1908. The Poetical Works

William Blake (1757–1827). The Poetical Works. 1908.

Selections from ‘Jerusalem’

[Fourfold and Twofold Vision]


(Jerusalem, f. 49, ll. 21–23.) THE VISIONS of Eternity, by reason of narrowèd perceptions,
Are become weak Visions of Time and Space, fix’d into furrows of Death;
Till deep dissimulation is the only defence an honest man has left.