Luyện nghe bài hát A Memorable Fancy 3

(plate 15)
I was in a printing house in & saw the method in which knowledge is
transmitted generation to generation. In the first chamber was a
dragon-man, clearing the rubbish from a cave's mouth; within, a
number of were hollowing the cave. In the second chamber was a
viper round the rock & the cave, and others were adorning it
with gold, and precious stones. In the third chamber was an eagle
with wings and feathers of air: he caused the of the cave to be
infinite; around were of eagle-like men, who built palaces in the
immense cliffs. In the fourth chamber were lions of fire, raging
around & melting the metals into living fluids. In the fifth were
unnam'd forms, which cast the metals into the expanse. There receiv'd
by men who occupied the chamber, and took the forms of book & were
in libraries.

(plates 16-17)
The who formed this world
into its existence and now seem to live in it in chains, are in
truth the causes of its life & the sources of all but the chains
are the cunning of weak and tame minds have power to resist energy,
according to the proverb, the weak in courage is strong in cunning.
one of beings is the prolific, the other the devouring: to the
devourer it seems as if the producer was in his but it is no so,
he only takes portions of existence and that the whole. But the
prolific would cease to be prolific unless the devourer, as a sea
the of his delights. Some will say: 'Is not God alone the prolific?
' I answer: 'God only acts & is, in existing or men'. These two
classes of men are always upon earth,& they be enemies: whoever
to reconcile them seeks to destroy existence. Religion is an
endeavour to reconcile the two. Note: Jesus Christ did not to unite,
but to seperate them, as in the parable of and goats!& He says: 'I
came not to send peace, but a sword. ' or Satan or tempter was
formerly to be one of the antediluvians who are our energies.