And its fallen Emanation, the Spectre and its cruel Shadow.
I see the Past, Present, and Future existing all at once
Before me. O Divine Spirit! sustain me on thy wings,
That I may awake Albion from his long and cold repose1;
For Bacon and Newton, sheath'd in dismal2 steel, their terrors hang
Like iron scourges3 over Albion. Reasonings like vast Serpents
Enfold around my limbs, bruising4 my minute articulations.
I turn my eyes to the Schools and Universities of Europe,
And there behold5 the Loom6 of Locke, whose Woof rages dire7,
Wash'd by the Water-wheels of Newton: black the cloth
In heavy wreaths folds over every Nation: cruel Works
Of many Wheels I view, wheel without wheel, with cogs tyrannic,
Moving by compulsion each other; not as those in Eden, which,
Wheel within wheel, in freedom revolve8, in harmony and peace.