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 to assert that God spoke to them; and whatever they did
not think at the time they would be so misunderstood,& so be the
cause of imposition. Isaiah 'I saw no God, nor heard any, in a
finite organical but my senses discover'd the infinite in
every thing, and as I was then persuaded,& remain confirm'd, the
voice of indignation is the voice of God, I cared not for
consequences, but wrote. ' Then I asked: 'Does a firm perswasion a
thing is so, make it so? ' He replied: ' All believe that it does,&
in ages of imagination this firm perswasion mountains; but many
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 that the poetic (as you now call it) was
the first principle and all the others derivative, which was the
cause of our despising the priests & of other countries, and
prophecying that all gods would at last be proved to originate in &
to be tributaries of the poetic it was this that our great poet
king David so fervently & invokes 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
they had rebelled; from this opinions the vulgar came to thin that
all nations would at last be subjected to the Jews. 'This' he 'like
all firm perswasions, is come to pass; for all nations belive the
code and worship the Jews' God, and the greater subjection can be? 'I
heard this with some wonder,& must confess my own convivtion. After
I Isaiah to favour the world with his lost works; he said none of
equal value was lost. Ezekiel the same of his. I also asked what
made him go naked and bare foot three years? He answer'd: 'The same
our friend Diogenes, the Grecian. 'I then asked Ezekiel why he eat
dung,& lay so long on his right & left side? He 'The desire of
raising other men into perception of the infinite: this the North
tribes practise,& is he who resists his genius or conscience for
this sake of present ease or (plate 14) The ancient
tradition that the world will be consumed in at the end of six
thousand years is true, as I have heard from hell. For the with his
flaming sword is hereby commanded to his guard at tree of life, and
when he does, the whole creation be consumed and appear infinite and
holy, it now appears finite & corrupt. This will come to pass by
an of sensual enjoyment, but first the notion that man has a
body distinct from his soul is to be expunged; I shall do by printing
in the method, by corrosives, which in hell are salutary and in
medicinal, apparent surfaces away, and displaying the infinite
which was hid. If the doors of perception were cleansed thing would
appear to man as it is. Infinite. For man has closed himself up, he
sees things thro' narrow chinks of his