Luyện nghe bài hát A Memorable Fancy 2

(plates 12-13)
The prophets Isaiah and dined with me, and I asked them how they
dared so roundly to assert that God spoke to them; and whatever did
not think at the time that they be so misunderstood,& so be the
cause of imposition. Isaiah answer'd: 'I saw no God, nor any, in a
finite perception; but my senses discover'd the infinite in
every thing, and as I was then persuaded,& remain confirm'd, the
voice of honest is the voice of God, I cared not for
consequences, but wrote. ' Then I 'Does a firm perswasion that a
thing is so, make it so? ' He ' All poets believe that it does,&
in of imagination this firm perswasion removed mountains; but many
are not capable of a firm perswasion of any thing. ' Then Ezekiel
philosophy of the east taught the first principles of human
perception: some nations held one for the origin,& some
another; we Israel taught that the genius (as you now call it) was
the first principle and all the others derivative, which was the
of our despising the priests & philosophers of other countries, and
prophecying that all gods would at last be to originate in ours &
to be tributaries of the poetic genius; it was this that our poet
king David desired so fervently & so pathetic'ly, saying this he
conquers enemies & governs kingdoms; and we so 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 thin
all would at last be subjected to the Jews. 'This' he said 'like
all firm perswasions, is 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 was lost. Ezekiel the same of his. I also asked Isaiah what
made him go naked and bare foot three He answer'd: 'The same that
our friend Diogenes, the Grecian. 'I then asked Ezekiel why he eat
dung,& lay so long on his & left side? He answer'd 'The desire of
raising other men into perception of the infinite: this the American
tribes practise,& is he honest who resists his or conscience for
this sake of present or gratification? (plate 14) The ancient
tradition that the world be consumed in fire at the end of six
years is true, as I have heard from hell. For the Cherub with his
flaming sword is hereby commanded to leave his guard at of life, and
when he does, the whole creation will be and appear infinite and
holy, it now appears finite & corrupt. This will come to pass by
an improvement of sensual enjoyment, but first the notion man has a
body distinct from his is to be expunged; this I shall do by printing
in the method, by corrosives, which in hell are salutary and in
medicinal, melting apparent surfaces away, and the infinite
which was hid. If the doors of perception cleansed every thing would
appear to man as it is. Infinite. For man has closed himself up, he
sees thro' narrow chinks of his cavern