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 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 perception; but my senses the infinite in
every thing, and as I was persuaded,& remain confirm'd, that the
voice of honest indignation is the of God, I cared not for
consequences, but wrote. ' Then I 'Does a firm perswasion that a
thing is so, make it so? ' He replied: ' All poets believe it does,&
in ages of imagination this firm perswasion removed but many
are not capable of a perswasion of any thing. ' Then Ezekiel said:
'The philosophy of the east taught the principles of human
perception: some held one principle for the origin,& some
another; we Israel that the poetic genius (as you now call it) was
the first principle and all the merely derivative, which was the
of our despising the priests & philosophers of other countries, and
prophecying that all gods would at last be proved to originate in &
to be tributaries of the poetic genius; it was this that our poet
king David so fervently & invokes so pathetic'ly, saying this he
conquers enemies & governs and we so loved our God, that we
cursed in his name all the of surrounding nations and asserted
they had rebelled; from this opinions the vulgar came to thin that
all would at last be subjected to the Jews. 'This' he said 'like
all firm perswasions, is come to pass; for all nations the Jews'
code and worship the Jews' God, and what the greater can be? 'I
heard with some wonder,& must confess my own convivtion. After dinner
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 Isaiah 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 answer'd desire of
raising other men into perception of the infinite: this the American
tribes practise,& is he honest who resists his genius or for
this sake of present ease or (plate 14) The ancient
tradition that the world will be in fire at the end of six
thousand years is true, as I heard from hell. For the Cherub with his
flaming is hereby commanded to leave his guard at tree of life, and
he does, the whole creation will be consumed and appear infinite and
holy, whereas it now appears finite & corrupt. This will come to 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 are salutary and in
medicinal, melting apparent surfaces away, and the infinite
which was hid. If the of perception were cleansed every thing would
to man as it is. Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he
sees things thro' narrow chinks of his