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'Night the First', 1797. Reclining nude, with the beginning of "Vala, or The Four Zoas", poem by William Blake. 'The Song of the Aged Mother which shook the heavens with wrath Hearing the march of long resounding strong heroic Verse Marshalld in order for the day of Intellectual Battle. The heavens [shall] quake: the earth shall move/was moved & shudders the mountains With all their woods, the streams & valleys: waild in dismal fear [Hearing] the Sound/March of Long resounding strong heroic verse. Four Mighty Ones are in every Man; a Perfect Unity Cannot Exist. but from the Universal Brotherhood of Eden The Universal Man. To Whom be Glory Evermore Amen. Los was the fourth immortal starry one, & in the Earth Of a bright Universe Empery attended day & night Days & nights of revolving joy, Urthona was his name'.