The Builders of Golgonooza
What are those Golden Builders doing? Where was the burying-place Of soft Ethinthus? near Tyburn's
fatal Tree? Is that Mild Zion's hill's most ancient promontory, near mournful Ever-weeping Paddington?
Is that Calvary and Golgotha Becoming a building of Pity and Compassion? Lo! The stones are Pity, and
the bricks well-wrought Affections Enamell'd with Love and Kindness; and the tiles engraven gold, Labour
of merciful hands; the beams and rafters are Forgiveness, The mortar and cement of the work, tears of
Honesty, the nails And the screws and iron braces are well-wrought Blandishments And well-contrivèd
words, firm fixing, never forgotten, Always comforting the remembrance; the floors Humility, The ceilings
Devotion, the hearths Thanksgiving. Prepare the furniture, O Lambeth, in thy pitying looms! The curtains,
woven tears and sighs, wrought into lovely forms For Comfort; there the secret furniture of Jerusalem's
chamber Is wrought. Lambeth! the Bride, the Lamb's Wife loveth thee; Thou art one with her, and knowest
not of Self in thy supreme joy. Go on, Builders in hope! tho' Jerusalem wanders far away Without the Gate
of Los, among the dark Satanic wheels.
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By PanEris
using Melati.
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