Luyện nghe bài hát A Memorable Fancy 2

(plates 12-13)
The prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel dined with me, and I asked how they
dared so roundly to assert that God to them; and whatever they did
not think at the that they would be so misunderstood,& so be the
cause of imposition. answer'd: 'I saw no God, nor heard any, in a
finite perception; but my senses discover'd the infinite in
every thing, and as I was persuaded,& remain confirm'd, that the
voice of honest indignation is the voice of God, I not for
consequences, but wrote. ' Then I asked: 'Does a firm perswasion a
thing is so, make it so? ' He ' All poets believe that it does,&
in ages of imagination firm perswasion removed mountains; but many
are not capable of a firm of any thing. ' Then Ezekiel said:
philosophy of the east taught the first principles of human
perception: some nations one principle for the origin,& some
another; we taught that the poetic genius (as you now call it) was
the principle and all the others merely derivative, which was the
cause of our despising the & philosophers of other countries, and
prophecying that all would at last be proved to originate in ours &
to be tributaries of the poetic it was this that our great poet
king David desired so fervently & invokes so pathetic'ly, this he
conquers & governs kingdoms; and we so loved our God, that we
cursed in his name all the of surrounding nations and asserted
that they had rebelled; this opinions the vulgar came to thin that
all would at last be subjected to the Jews. 'This' he said 'like
all perswasions, is come to pass; for all nations belive the Jews'
code and worship the Jews' God, and what the subjection can be? 'I
heard this with some wonder,& must confess my own convivtion. dinner
I ask'd Isaiah to favour the world his lost works; he said none of
equal was lost. Ezekiel the same of his. I also asked Isaiah what
made him go naked and bare foot three years? He answer'd: same that
made our friend Diogenes, the Grecian. 'I then Ezekiel why he eat
dung,& lay so long on his right & side? He answer'd 'The desire of
other men into perception of the infinite: this the North American
tribes practise,& is he honest who resists his genius or for
this sake of present ease or (plate 14) The ancient
tradition that the world will be in fire at the end of six
thousand years is true, as I have heard hell. For the Cherub with his
flaming sword is hereby commanded to leave his at tree of life, and
when he does, the whole creation will be consumed and appear and
holy, whereas it now appears & corrupt. This will come to pass by
an improvement of sensual enjoyment, but first the notion man has a
body distinct from his soul is to be this I shall do by printing
in the method, by corrosives, which in hell are salutary and in
medicinal, apparent surfaces away, and displaying the infinite
which was hid. If the doors of perception were cleansed every would
appear to man as it is. Infinite. For man has himself up, till he
sees things thro' chinks of his cavern