Luyện nghe bài hát A Memorable Fancy 2

(plates 12-13)
The prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel dined with me, and I asked them how
dared so roundly to assert that God to them; and whatever they did
not think at the time that would be so misunderstood,& so be the
cause of imposition. Isaiah answer'd: 'I saw no God, nor any, in a
finite organical perception; but my senses discover'd the in
every thing, and as I was then persuaded,& remain confirm'd, the
of honest indignation is the voice of God, I cared not for
consequences, but wrote. ' Then I 'Does a firm perswasion that a
thing is so, it so? ' He replied: ' All poets believe that it does,&
in ages of imagination this firm perswasion removed mountains; but
are not capable of a firm of any thing. ' Then Ezekiel said:
'The philosophy of the east taught the principles of human
perception: some nations held one principle for the origin,&
another; we Israel taught the poetic genius (as you now call it) was
the first principle and all the others merely derivative, was the
cause of our despising the priests & philosophers of countries, and
that all gods would at last be proved to originate in ours &
to be tributaries of the poetic genius; it was that our great poet
king David desired so fervently & so pathetic'ly, saying this he
conquers enemies & kingdoms; and we so loved our God, that we
cursed in his name all the deities of surrounding and asserted
that they had rebelled; from this opinions the vulgar came to that
all nations at last be subjected to the Jews. 'This' he said 'like
all perswasions, is come to pass; for all nations belive the Jews'
code and worship the Jews' God, and what the subjection can be? 'I
heard this some wonder,& must confess my own convivtion. After dinner
I ask'd Isaiah to favour the with his lost works; he said none of
equal value was lost. Ezekiel the of his. I also asked Isaiah what
made him go and bare foot three years? He answer'd: 'The same that
made our friend Diogenes, the Grecian. 'I then Ezekiel why he eat
dung,& lay so on his right & left side? He answer'd 'The desire of
raising other men into perception of the infinite: the North American
tribes practise,& is he honest who resists his genius or for
this of present ease or gratification? (plate 14) The ancient
that the world will be consumed in fire at the end of six
thousand years is true, as I heard from hell. For the Cherub with his
sword is hereby commanded to leave his guard at tree of life, and
when he does, the whole creation will be and appear infinite and
holy, whereas it now appears finite & corrupt. will come to pass by
an improvement of sensual enjoyment, but the notion that man has a
body distinct from his soul is to be expunged; this I do by printing
in the infernal method, by corrosives, which in are salutary and in
medicinal, melting apparent surfaces away, and the infinite
which was hid. If the doors of perception were every thing would
appear to man as it is. Infinite. For man has closed himself up, he
sees things thro' narrow of his cavern