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 to assert that God spoke to them; and whatever they did
not think at the time that would be so misunderstood,& so be the
cause of imposition. answer'd: 'I saw no God, nor heard any, in a
finite organical perception; but my discover'd the infinite in
every thing, and as I was then persuaded,& remain confirm'd, the
voice of honest indignation is the of God, I cared not for
consequences, but wrote. ' I asked: 'Does a firm perswasion that a
thing is so, make it so? ' He replied: ' All poets that it does,&
in ages of imagination this firm perswasion removed mountains; but
are not capable of a firm perswasion of any thing. ' Ezekiel said:
'The philosophy of the east the first principles of human
perception: nations held one principle for the origin,& some
another; we taught that the poetic genius (as you now call it) was
the first principle and all the merely derivative, which was the
cause of our despising the & philosophers of other countries, and
prophecying that all gods would at last be proved to in ours &
to be tributaries of the poetic genius; it was that our great poet
king David desired so fervently & invokes so pathetic'ly, saying he
conquers enemies & governs kingdoms; and we so loved our God, we
cursed in his name all the deities of nations and asserted
that they had rebelled; from this opinions the vulgar came to that
all nations would at last be 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 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 'The same that
made our friend Diogenes, the Grecian. 'I 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 this the North American
tribes practise,& is he honest who his genius or conscience for
this sake of present ease or gratification? (plate 14) The
tradition that the 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 is hereby commanded to leave his guard at tree of life, and
when he does, the whole creation will be and appear infinite and
holy, whereas it now appears finite & corrupt. will come to pass by
an improvement of sensual enjoyment, but first the that man has a
distinct from his soul 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 away, and displaying the infinite
which was hid. If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing
appear to man as it is. Infinite. For man has himself up, till he
sees things narrow chinks of his cavern