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Los joy,d, & Enitharmon laugh'd, saying, "Let us go

down

"And see this labour of sorrow." They went down to see

the woes

Of Vala & the woes of Luvah, to draw in their delights.

(K. II. 211-213)

Their perverse cycle of delight in the first universe culminates when they descend to Urizen and Ahania:

And Los & Enitharmon were drawn down by their desires, Descending sweet upon the wind among soft harps &

voices

To plant divisions in the Soul of Urizen & Ahania,

290 To conduct the Voice of Enion to Ahania's midnight pillow.

(K. II. 287-290)

The cycle described above begins when Los and Enitharmon consider the source of their nourishment--their parents:

"Thy name is Enitharmon," said the [bright del.] fierce

prophetic boy.

250 "While thy mild voice fills all these caverns with sweet

harmony,

"0 how [thy del.] our Parents sit & [weep del.] mourn in their silent secret bowers.'"

(K. I. 249-251)

Enitharmon's response is coloured by the dark ecstasy of the "Moony" bliss of Ulro: "But Enitharmon answer'd with a dropping tear & frowning/ Dark as a dewy morning when the crimson light appears" (K. I. 252-253). Thus, the Arcadian 'delights' of Los and Enitharmon, symbolized by the allusions to the music of the spheres, are fallen. It is within this perverse harmony that Enitharmon's song of the fall should be interpreted:

260 "Hear! I will sing a Song of Death! it is a Song of Vala;

"The Fallen Man takes his repose, Urizen sleeps in the porch,

"Luvah and Vala wake & [flew del.] fly up from the Human

Heart

"Into the Brain from thence; upon the pillow Vala slumber'd,

"And Luvah siez'd the Horses of Light & rose into the

Chariot of Day.

265 "Sweet laughter siez'd me in my sleep; silent & close I

laugh'd,

"For in the visions of Vala I walk'd with the mighty

Fallen One,