<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(13, 25, 84);"><span style="font-kerning: none">America: A Prophecy (excerpt)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(13, 25, 84); min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-kerning: none"></span><br></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(13, 25, 84);"><span style="font-kerning: none">The morning comes, the night decays, the watchmen leave their stations;</span><span style="line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; -webkit-font-kerning: none;"><br>
</span><span style="font-kerning: none">The grave is burst, the spices shed, the linen wrapped up;</span><span style="line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; -webkit-font-kerning: none;"><br>
</span><span style="font-kerning: none">The bones of death, the cov'ring clay, the sinews shrunk & dry'd.</span><span style="line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; -webkit-font-kerning: none;"><br>
</span><span style="font-kerning: none">Reviving shake, inspiring move, breathing! awakening!</span><span style="line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; -webkit-font-kerning: none;"><br>
</span><span style="font-kerning: none">Spring like redeemed captives when their bonds & bars are burst;</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(13, 25, 84);"><span style="font-kerning: none">Let the slave grinding at the mill, run out into the field:</span><span style="line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; -webkit-font-kerning: none;"><br>
</span><span style="font-kerning: none">Let him look up into the heavens & laugh in the bright air;</span><span style="line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; -webkit-font-kerning: none;"><br>
</span><span style="font-kerning: none">Let the inchained soul shut up in darkness and in sighing,</span><span style="line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; -webkit-font-kerning: none;"><br>
</span><span style="font-kerning: none">Whose face has never seen a smile in thirty weary years;</span><span style="line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; -webkit-font-kerning: none;"><br>
</span><span style="font-kerning: none">Rise and look out, his chains are loose, his dungeon doors are open.</span><span style="line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; -webkit-font-kerning: none;"><br>
</span><span style="font-kerning: none">And let his wife and children return from the opressors scourge;</span><span style="line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; -webkit-font-kerning: none;"><br>
</span><span style="font-kerning: none">They look behind at every step & believe it is a dream.</span><span style="line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; -webkit-font-kerning: none;"><br>
</span><span style="font-kerning: none">Singing. The Sun has left his blackness, & has found a fresher morning</span><span style="line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; -webkit-font-kerning: none;"><br>
</span><span style="font-kerning: none">And the fair Moon rejoices in the clear & cloudless night;</span><span style="line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; -webkit-font-kerning: none;"><br>
</span><span style="font-kerning: none">For Empire is no more, and now the Lion & Wolf shall cease.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(13, 25, 84);"><span style="font-kerning: none">For Everything that lives is holy. For Everything that lives is holy.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(13, 25, 84);"><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span><span style="font-kerning: none">- William Blake</span></p>
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