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 to assert that God spoke to them; and whatever they did
not at the time that they 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 senses the infinite in
every thing, and as I was persuaded,& remain confirm'd, that the
voice of indignation is the voice of God, I cared not for
consequences, but wrote. ' Then I 'Does a firm perswasion that a
is so, make it so? ' He replied: ' All poets 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:
philosophy of the east taught the first principles of human
perception: some nations held one for the origin,& some
another; we taught that the poetic genius (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 to originate in ours &
to be tributaries of the poetic genius; it was that our great poet
David desired so fervently & invokes so pathetic'ly, saying this he
conquers & governs kingdoms; and we so loved our God, that we
cursed in his name all the deities of surrounding nations and
that they had rebelled; from this opinions the vulgar to thin that
all nations at last be subjected to the Jews. 'This' he said 'like
all perswasions, is come to pass; for all nations belive the Jews'
code and worship the Jews' God, and what the subjection can be? 'I
heard this with some wonder,& confess my own convivtion. After dinner
I ask'd Isaiah to favour the world with his works; he said none of
equal value was lost. Ezekiel the of his. I also asked Isaiah what
made him go naked and bare foot years? He answer'd: '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 of the infinite: this the North American
practise,& is he honest who resists his genius or conscience for
this sake of ease or gratification? (plate 14) The ancient
tradition that the world be consumed in fire at the end of six
thousand years is true, as I have heard hell. For the Cherub with his
flaming sword is hereby commanded to leave his guard at of life, and
he does, the whole creation will be consumed and appear infinite and
holy, it now appears finite & corrupt. This will come to pass by
an improvement of sensual enjoyment, but the notion that man has a
body distinct from his soul is to be this I shall do by printing
in the infernal method, by corrosives, in hell 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 thro' narrow chinks of his cavern