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"0, I am weary; lay thine hand upon me or I faint,

375 "I faint beneath these beams of thine.

"For thou hast touch'd my five senses & they

answer'd thee.

"Now I am nothing, & I sink

"And on the bed of silence sleep till thou

awakest me."

Thus sang the Lovely one in Rapturous delusive

trance.

380 Los heard reviving; he siez^d her in his arms;

delusive hopes

Kindling, she led him into shadows & thence fled

outstretch'd

Upon the immense like a bright rainbow, weeping & smiling & fading.

(K. II. 374-382)

Blake's major addition to Night the Second ends here at line 382 and establishes the perverse sexual relations between Los and Enitharmon, The Arcadian environment of Los and Enitharmon can be seen to offer an illusion of unity only and this illusion is depicted in Enion's lament. Enion exists at the limits of non-entity and her lament describes the truth of the generative cycle of the first universe of Pythagorean form and harmony. Given in full below, this lament stresses the inversion of the life/death cycle of Ulro and then depicts its moral hypocrisy. In the alternation between summer excess and winter famine those with plenty, rejoice; those without, die:

Thus liv'd Los, driving Enion far into the deathful

infinite

That he may also draw Ahania's spirit into her Vortex

Ah, happy blindness! Enion sees not the terrors of the

uncertain,

And [oft del.] thus she wails from the dark deep; the

golden heavens tremble:

"I am made to sow the thistle for wheat, the nettle

for a nourishing dainty. "I have planted a false oath in the earth; it has

brought forth a poison tree. "I have chosen the serpent for a councellor, & the dog

390 "For a schoolmaster to my children.