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CHAPTER-19

BLAKE'S DREAM OF BUILDING JERUSALEM IN ENGLAND

How the author of Ozymandias sang of the coming new age:-

                       "The world's great age begins anew,

                        The Golden years return,

                        The Earth doth like a snake renew,

                        Her winter weeds outworn,

Heaven smiles, and faiths and empires gloom,

                        Like wreck of a dissolving dream........

                       Another Athens shall arise,

                       And to remoter time,

                       Bequeath, like sun-set to the skies,

                       The splendor of its prime;

                       And leave, if nought so bright may live,

                       All earth can take or heaven can give,

Saturn and Love their long repose shall burst,

                       More bright and good,

                       Thank all who fell, than one who rose,

                       Than many unsundued;

                       Not gold, not blood, their alter dowers,

                       But votive tears and symbol flowers".

And how passionately William Blake did dream of building Jerusalem in England's green and pleasant land and      chanted:-

                       "And did those feet in ancient time,

                       Walk upon England's mountains green,

And was the holy lamb of God,

On England's pleasant pastures seen?

And did the countenance divine,

Shine forth upon our clouded hills?

And was Jerusalem builded here,

Among these dark Satanic mills?

Bring me my bow of burning gold;

Bring me my arrows of desire;

Bring me my spear; O Clouds unfold;

Bring me my chariot of fire,

I will not cease from mental fight;

Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand;

Till we have built Jerusalem

In England's green and pleasant land".

                    Blake desired to build Jerusalem among the dark Satanic mills. Yet hitherto the dark satanic mills have prevailed, and have made the possibility of building of Jerusalem remoter and remoter. And every thing has its time. And it is impossible to build Jerusalem as long as these dark Satanic mills exist in this world. But now Insha-Allah, these dark satanic mills will go and the banner of faith will again flourish with unprecedented splendour and unprecedented grandeur, and indeed in an atmosphere of sincerity, piety, peace, plenty and prosperity. Real peace and real prosperity.

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