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 roundly to 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. Isaiah 'I saw no God, nor heard any, in a
finite perception; but my senses discover'd the infinite in
every thing, and as I was persuaded,& remain confirm'd, that the
of honest 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 poets that it does,&
in ages of imagination this firm perswasion mountains; but many
are not capable of a perswasion of any thing. ' Then Ezekiel said:
'The philosophy of the east the first principles of human
perception: some nations held one 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
cause of our the priests & philosophers 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 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 all the deities of surrounding nations and asserted
that they had rebelled; from this opinions the vulgar came to that
all nations would at last be subjected to the Jews. 'This' he said
all firm perswasions, is come to pass; for all nations belive the
and worship the Jews' God, and what the greater subjection can be? 'I
heard this with wonder,& must confess my own convivtion. After dinner
I ask'd Isaiah to 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
made our friend Diogenes, the Grecian. 'I then asked why he eat
dung,& lay so long on his right & side? He answer'd 'The desire of
raising other men into of the infinite: this the North American
tribes practise,& is he honest who resists his genius or for
this sake of present ease or gratification? (plate 14) The
that the world will be consumed in fire at the end of six
thousand years is true, as I have from hell. For the Cherub with his
flaming sword is hereby commanded to leave his at tree of life, and
when he does, the whole creation will be consumed and appear and
holy, whereas it now appears finite & corrupt. will come to pass by
an improvement of enjoyment, but first the notion that man has a
distinct from his soul is to be expunged; this 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 doors of perception were cleansed every thing
appear to man as it is. Infinite. For man has closed himself up, he
sees thro' narrow chinks of his cavern