Then Light NOOSPHERATU

Then Light first began; from the fires Beams
Conducted by fluid so pure. Flow'd around the Immense:
Los beheld Forthwith writhing upon the dark void
The Back bone of Urizen appear Hurtling upon the wind
Like a serpent! like an iron chain Whirling about in the Deep

Upfolding his Fibres Together To a Form of impregnable
Strength Los astonish'd and terrified, built Furnaces;
He formed an Anvil a Hammer of adamant then
Began the binding of Urizen day and night circling
Round the dark Demon, with howlings Dismay and sharp blightings;
The prophet of Eternity beat on his iron links

And first from those infinite fires The light that flow'd down on
The winds he siez'd; beating incessant, condensing the subtil particles in an
Orb. Roaring indignant the bright sparks Endur'd the vast Hammer; but
Unwearied Los beat on the Anvil; till glorious An immense
Orb of fire he fram'd Oft he quench'd it beneath in the
Deeps then surveyd the all bright mass. Again siezing
Fires from the terrific Orbs He heated the round Globe, then
Beat while roaring his Furnaces endur'd the chaind
Orb in their infinite wombs

Nine ages completed their circles when Los heated the glowing
Mass, casting It down into the Deeps: the Deeps fled
Away in redounding smoke; the Sun Stood
Selfbalanc'd. And Los smild with joy
He the vast Spine of Urizen siez'd And bound down to
The glowing illusion but no light
For the Deep fled away on all sides, and left an unform'd
Dark vacuity: here Urizen lay
In fierce torments on his glowing bed