Luyện nghe bài hát A Memorable Fancy 2

(plates 12-13)
The prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel dined me, and I asked them how they
dared so roundly to that God spoke to them; and whatever they did
not at the time that they would be so misunderstood,& so be the
of imposition. Isaiah answer'd: '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 persuaded,& remain confirm'd, that the
voice of honest indignation is the voice of God, I not for
consequences, but wrote. ' Then I asked: 'Does a firm that a
thing is so, make it so? ' He replied: ' All believe that it does,&
in ages of imagination this perswasion removed mountains; but many
are not capable of a firm perswasion of any thing. ' Ezekiel said:
'The philosophy of the east taught the first of human
some nations held one principle for the origin,& some
another; we Israel taught that the poetic genius (as you now it) was
the first principle and all the others derivative, which was the
cause of our despising the & philosophers of other countries, and
prophecying that all gods at last be proved to originate in ours &
to be tributaries of the poetic genius; it was this that our poet
king David desired so fervently & invokes so pathetic'ly, saying he
enemies & governs 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 came to thin that
all nations would at last be subjected to the Jews. 'This' he said
all firm perswasions, is come to for all nations belive the Jews'
code and worship the Jews' God, and what the subjection can be? 'I
heard this with some wonder,& must confess my own convivtion. dinner
I ask'd Isaiah to favour the with his lost works; he said none of
equal value was lost. Ezekiel the same of his. I also Isaiah what
made him go naked and bare foot three years? He 'The same that
made our Diogenes, the Grecian. 'I then asked Ezekiel why he eat
dung,& lay so long on his right & left side? He answer'd 'The of
raising other men into perception of the this the North American
tribes practise,& is he who resists his genius or conscience for
this sake of ease or gratification? (plate 14) The ancient
that the world will be consumed in fire at the end of six
thousand 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 be consumed and appear infinite and
holy, whereas it now finite & corrupt. This will come to pass by
an improvement of 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 infernal method, by corrosives, which in hell are and in
medicinal, melting apparent surfaces away, and displaying the
was hid. If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would
appear to man as it is. Infinite. For man has closed himself up, he
sees things thro' narrow of his cavern