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universe. The imagery draws the song at the feast of Los and Enitharmon into complementary focus. At the feast there was no vintage, here there is no harvest. The "Planters" and "Sowers" simply build a universe;

[Then del.] Sorrowing went the Planters forth to plant, the

Sowers [forth del.] to sow;

250 They dug the channels for the rivers, & they pour'd

abroad

The seas & lakes; they rear'd the mountains & the rocks & hills.

CK. II. 249-251)