"A Memorable Fancy, Plates 6-7" lyrics
As I was walking among the fires of hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius
Which to Angels look like torment and insanity, I collected some of their Proverbs
Thinking that as the sayings used in a nation, mark its character, so the Proverbs of Hell
Shew the nature in Infernal wisdom better than any description of buildings or garments
When I came home: on the abyss of the five senses, where a flat sided steep frowns over the present world
I saw a mighty Devil folded in black clouds, hovering on the sides of the rock
With corroding fires he wrote the following sentence now perceived by the minds of men, & read by them on earth
How do you know but ev'ry Bird that cuts the airy way
Is an immense world of delight, clos'd by your senses five?
Which to Angels look like torment and insanity, I collected some of their Proverbs
Thinking that as the sayings used in a nation, mark its character, so the Proverbs of Hell
Shew the nature in Infernal wisdom better than any description of buildings or garments
When I came home: on the abyss of the five senses, where a flat sided steep frowns over the present world
I saw a mighty Devil folded in black clouds, hovering on the sides of the rock
With corroding fires he wrote the following sentence now perceived by the minds of men, & read by them on earth
How do you know but ev'ry Bird that cuts the airy way
Is an immense world of delight, clos'd by your senses five?
