The Invocation

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     Daughters of Beulah! Muses who inspire the Poet's Song,
     Record the journey of immortal Milton thro' your realms
     Of terror and mild moony lustre, in soft Sexual delusions
     Of varièd beauty, to delight the wanderer, and repose
     His burning thirst and freezing hunger! Come into my hand,
     By your mild power descending down the nerves of my right arm
     From out the portals of my Brain, where by your ministry
     The Eternal Great Humanity Divine planted His Paradise,
     And in it caus'd the Spectres of the Dead to take sweet form
     In likeness of Himself. Tell also of the False Tongue, vegetated
     Beneath your land of Shadows, of its sacrifices and
     Its offerings; even till Jesus, the image of the Invisible God,
     Became its prey; a curse, an offering, and an atonement
     For Death Eternal, in the Heavens of Albion, and before the Gates
     Of Jerusalem his Emanation, in the Heavens beneath Beulah!