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William Blake - The Book of Urizen: Chapter VIII
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1. Urizen explor`d his dens
Mountain, moor, & wilderness,
With a globe of fire lighting his journey
A fearful journey, annoy`d
By cruel enormities: forms 
Of life on his forsaken mountains 

2. And his world teemd vast enormities
Frightning; faithless; fawning
Portions of life; similitudes
Of a foot, or a hand, or a head 
Or a heart, or an eye, they swam mischevous
Dread terrors! delighting in blood

3. Most Urizen sicken`d to see
His eternal creations appear
Sons & daughters of sorrow on mountains 
Weeping! wailing! first Thiriel appear`d
Astonish`d at his own existence
Like a man from a cloud born, & Utha
From the waters emerging, laments!
Grodna rent the deep earth howling 
Amaz`d! his heavens immense cracks
Like the ground parch`d with heat; then Fuzon
Flam`d out! first begotten, last born.
All his eternal sons in like manner
His daughters from green herbs & cattle 
From monsters, & worms of the pit.

4. He in darkness clos`d, view`d all his race,
And his soul sicken`d! he curs`d
Both sons & daughters; for he saw
That no flesh nor spirit could keep 
His iron laws one moment.

5. For he saw that life liv`d upon death
The Ox in the slaughter house moans 
The Dog at the wintry door
And he wept, & he called it Pity
And his tears flowed down on the winds

6. Cold he wander`d on high, over their cities 
In weeping & pain & woe!
And where-ever he wanderd in sorrows
Upon the aged heavens
A cold shadow follow`d behind him
Like a spiders web, moist, cold, & dim 
Drawing out from his sorrowing soul
The dungeon-like heaven dividing.
Where ever the footsteps of Urizen
Walk`d over the cities in sorrow.

7. Till a Web dark & cold, throughout all 
The tormented element stretch`d
From the sorrows of Urizens soul
And the Web is a Female in embrio
None could break the Web, no wings of fire.

8. So twisted the cords, & so knotted 
The meshes: twisted like to the human brain

9. And all calld it, The Net of Religion
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