<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(11, 11, 51);"><span style="font-kerning: none">America: A Prophecy (excerpt)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(11, 11, 51); min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-kerning: none"></span><br></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(11, 11, 51);"><span style="font-kerning: none">The morning comes, the night decays, the watchmen leave their stations;</span><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Lucida Grande"; font-size-adjust: none; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; font-kerning: none;"><br>
</span><span style="font-kerning: none">The grave is burst, the spices shed, the linen wrapped up;</span><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Lucida Grande"; font-size-adjust: none; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; 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="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Lucida Grande"; font-size-adjust: none; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; font-kerning: none;"><br>
</span><span style="font-kerning: none">Reviving shake, inspiring move, breathing! awakening!</span><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Lucida Grande"; font-size-adjust: none; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; 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; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(11, 11, 51);"><span style="font-kerning: none">Let the slave grinding at the mill, run out into the field:</span><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Lucida Grande"; font-size-adjust: none; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; 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="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Lucida Grande"; font-size-adjust: none; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; font-kerning: none;"><br>
</span><span style="font-kerning: none">Let the inchained soul shut up in darkness and in sighing,</span><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Lucida Grande"; font-size-adjust: none; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; font-kerning: none;"><br>
</span><span style="font-kerning: none">Whose face has never seen a smile in thirty weary years;</span><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Lucida Grande"; font-size-adjust: none; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; 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="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Lucida Grande"; font-size-adjust: none; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; font-kerning: none;"><br>
</span><span style="font-kerning: none">And let his wife and children return from the opressors scourge;</span><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Lucida Grande"; font-size-adjust: none; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; font-kerning: none;"><br>
</span><span style="font-kerning: none">They look behind at every step & believe it is a dream.</span><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Lucida Grande"; font-size-adjust: none; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; 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="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Lucida Grande"; font-size-adjust: none; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; font-kerning: none;"><br>
</span><span style="font-kerning: none">And the fair Moon rejoices in the clear & cloudless night;</span><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Lucida Grande"; font-size-adjust: none; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; 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; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(11, 11, 51);"><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; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(11, 11, 51);"><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; font-size-adjust: none; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span><span style="font-kerning: none">- William Blake</span></p></div></body></html>