Luyện nghe bài hát A Memorable Fancy 4

(plates 17-20)
An angel to me and said: 'O pitiable foolish young man! O horrible! O
dreadful state! Consider the hot dungeon thou art preparing for
thyself to all eternity, to which art going in such career. 'I said:
'Perhaps you will be willing to shew me my eternal lot & we
contemplate together upon it and see whether lot or mine is most
desirable. ' So he took me thro' a & thro' a church & down into the
church vault. At the end of which was a thro' the mill we went, and
came to a cave: the winding cavern we groped our tedious way, till a
boundless as a nether sky appear'd beneath us.& we held by the roots
of trees and hung this immensity; but I said: 'If you please we will
commit to this void, and see whether providence is here also: if
you not, I will? ' But he answered: 'Do not presume, o young-man, but
as we here remain, behold thy lot which will soon appear the darkness
passes away. ' So I remain'd with him, in a twisted root of an
oak; he was suspended in a fungus, hung with the head downward into
the deep. By we beheld the infinite abyss, fiery as the smoke of a
burning city; beneath us, at an immense distance, was the sun, but
shinning; round it were fiery tracks on which revolv'd spiders,
crawling after their prey, flew, or rather swum, in the infinite
deep, in the most terrific shapes of sprung from corruption;& the
air was full of them,& seem'd of them: these are devils, and are
called powers of the air. I now asked my companion was my eternal
lot? He said: 'Between the black & white spiders' but now, between
the black & spiders, a cloud and fire burst and rolled thro' the
deep. Black'ning all beneath, so that the nether grew black as a
sea,& rolled a terrible noise; beneath us was nothing now to be seen
but a tempest, till looking east between the cloudes & waves, we saw
a cataract of mixed with fire, and not many stones' throw from us
appear'd and sunk again the scaly fold of a serpent; at last, to
the east, distant about degrees, appear'd a fiery crest above the
waves; slowly it reared like a ridge of golden rocks, till we
two globes of crimson fire, from which the sea fled away in of
smoke; and now we saw it was the head of Leviathan; his was
into streaks of green & purple like those on a tyger's forehead:
soon we saw his mouth & red gills hung above the raging foam, tinging
the black with beams of blood, advancing towards us with all the fury
of a existence. My friend the angel climb'd up from his station
into the mill; I remain'd alone;& then this was no more, but I
found myself on a pleasant bank beside a river by moonlight
a harper, who sung to the harp;& his theme was: 'The man who never
alters his opinion is like standing water,& reptiles of the mind. '
But I apose and sought for the mill,& I found my angel, who,
surprised asked me how I escaped? I answer'd: that we saw was owing
to your metaphysics; for when you ran away, I found myself on a by
moonlight hearing a harper. But now we have my eternal lot, shall I
shew you yours? ' He lugh'd at my proposal; but I by suddenly caught
him in my arms,& flew westerly thro' the night, till we were
above the earth's shadow; I flung myself with him directly into the
of the sun; here I clothed myself in white & taking in my hand
Swedenborg's volumes, from the glorious clime, and passed all the
planets till we came to Saturn: I staid to rest,& then leap'd into
the void between & fixed stars. 'Here', said I, 'Is your lot, in
this space, if space it may be call'd. ' Soon we saw the and the
church,& I took him to the and open'd the bible, and lo! It was a
pit, into which I descended, driving the angel before me; soon we saw
seven houses of brick; one we in it were a number of monkeys,
baboons,& all of that species, chain'd by the middle, and
snatching at one another, but witheld by the of their chains:
however, I saw they sometimes grew numerous; and then the weak were
caught by the strong, and with a aspect, first coupled with,&
then devour'd, by off first one limb and then another, till the
body was left a helpless trunk; this, after grinning & it with
seeming fondness, they devour'd too; and & there I saw one savourily
picking the flesh off of his own tail; as the stench annoy'd us
both, we went into the mill,& in my brought the skeleton of a body,
which in the mill was Aristotele's analitycs. So the angel said:
phantasy has imposed me,& thou oughtest to be ashamed. 'I answered:
'We impose on one another, & it is but lost to converse with you
whose are only analytics. ' Opposition is true friendship.

(plates 21-22)
I have always that angels have the vanity to speak of
themselves as the only wise; this they do with a insolence
sprouting from reasoning, Swedenborg boasts that what he writes
is new; Tho' it is only the or index of already publish'd books.
A man carried a monkey for a shew,& because he was a little wiser
the monkey, grew vain, and conciev'd himself as much wiser than seven
men. It is so with Swedenborg: He the folly of churches & exposes
hypocrites, he imagines that all religious,& himself the single one
on earth ever broke a net. Now hear a plain fact: Swedenborg has not
written one net truth, now hear he has written all the old
falsehoods. And now hear the reason. He with angels who are all
religious & conversed not with devils who all religion. For he was
thro' his conceited notions. Thus Swedenborg writings are a
recapitulation of all superficial opinions, and an analysis of the
sublime but not further. now another plain fact. Any man of
mechanical may, from the writings of Paracelus or Jacob Behmen,
produce ten thousand volumes of value with Swedenborg's, and from
those of or Shakespear an infinite number. But when he has done
this, let him not say he knows better than his master, for he only
a candle in sunshine.