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In . the deepewight , and amid silence dead as stone * the wnqlaam < Ma I make , pronouncing charmed prayers in my thoughte toe the j ^ e talllc base signified by the square oj eighty and toe the sulphur M $ fcjk cementeth alt . I did then cast the semblance of a giants ' heady anil jn y existence henceforth appeared gone into Terrible Dreame f « # « uf I said unto this dreadful * Effigy—I will endow thee with the thinkfiijj principle—and with wordes ; and thou shah bee unto the humaH generations as an earthly godde . :
Yhe perigee of the moon , the holy trine , and grand conjimctwH of the southern stars , did I note down in characters which became ** lj + * con * ciou *> and long consulted their heaven-hallowed mysteries , fhe hour of animation approached !—the horologe of my laboratory sounded its clanking seconds with ci louder pace . '—Time comes ! he comes !
And beholde the weakness of this mortall bodye , this ineffectuall corse ! Worn downe toe eye-sealed lethargye and unto breathinge deathe , my last wordes called for one to watch . And my attendant came unto mee , and I set him to watch the coming houre , and I solemnly charged him that he should arouse mee with all human force ¦ , when the sense of the Image began to break through its blank and rigid eyes . So I sank down upon the earthe and slept *
Oh age , infirme age ! thy will and purposes die before thee . thou urt a withered tree which the woodman hath spared for hys contempte . Even so deathe suffered mee to awake that I might beholde mine own blighted hopes . The houre was past !—the weak in soule had Jied dismayed and left mee slumbering on despair . The fragments of mine idol lay strewn around !—its shattered image looked ghastly up at inee !—and F smote upon my temples and went awaye . Yet have I preserved and treasured to Ttiy soule the wordes it pro ? iounced , as repeated unto mee by the tongue of ignorance *—not thence lets sacred ; still great and undejiled .
Time is ! - > - —the mighty web of the involving present ; the breath-infused rounde of life and out war de sense ; the unstable conseiuusnesSy baseless and frothed with wordes ; ( ire thrust asidey and Time strides through the Jlaw J Time was !—My prostrate Maker !—impious in thy power e ! —above whose heavy eye-lids and o v erclouded minde the drowsy eurses of Oblivion hover !—leaden-hearted age , to whom no thunder respond eth f —co Me-limbed knee-trembler of defeated though te f —lifewasted and sense-emptied old poor e man , in whose laste grey locks the lightnings shall daunce find playe as oer a white mildewed tombe ;—rise uppe and view the ruine of thy labouring year eg !— -Awake ! a voice from the triumphant Deep- —a voice of miscreated lyfe shouts through thy bones , awake f —for Time hath passed !
4 This / resumed Montana , ' as you will perceive , is only a fragment . It was accompanied with a few other papers , consisting of tracts and arguments both against and in favour of magic . They were in too much disorder to be arranged into any determinate conehision . They are not published with his worlds
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1836, page 507, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2660/page/47/
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