<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(12, 16, 66);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">America: A Prophecy (excerpt)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(12, 16, 66); min-height: 22px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(12, 16, 66);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">The morning comes, the night decays, the watchmen leave their stations;</span><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Lucida Grande"; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><br class="">
</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">The grave is burst, the spices shed, the linen wrapped up;</span><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Lucida Grande"; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><br class="">
</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">The bones of death, the cov'ring clay, the sinews shrunk & dry'd.</span><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Lucida Grande"; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><br class="">
</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Reviving shake, inspiring move, breathing! awakening!</span><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Lucida Grande"; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><br class="">
</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Spring like redeemed captives when their bonds & bars are burst;</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(12, 16, 66);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Let the slave grinding at the mill, run out into the field:</span><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Lucida Grande"; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><br class="">
</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Let him look up into the heavens & laugh in the bright air;</span><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Lucida Grande"; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><br class="">
</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Let the inchained soul shut up in darkness and in sighing,</span><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Lucida Grande"; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><br class="">
</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Whose face has never seen a smile in thirty weary years;</span><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Lucida Grande"; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><br class="">
</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Rise and look out, his chains are loose, his dungeon doors are open.</span><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Lucida Grande"; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><br class="">
</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">And let his wife and children return from the opressors scourge;</span><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Lucida Grande"; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><br class="">
</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">They look behind at every step & believe it is a dream.</span><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Lucida Grande"; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><br class="">
</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Singing. The Sun has left his blackness, & has found a fresher morning</span><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Lucida Grande"; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><br class="">
</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">And the fair Moon rejoices in the clear & cloudless night;</span><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Lucida Grande"; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><br class="">
</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">For Empire is no more, and now the Lion & Wolf shall cease.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(12, 16, 66);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">For Everything that lives is holy. For Everything that lives is holy.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(12, 16, 66);" class=""><span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">- William Blake</span></p></div>
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