This Cabinet is form'd of Gold 5
And Pearl and Crystal shining bright,
And within it opens into a World
And a little lovely Moony Night.
Another England there I saw, 9
Another London with its Tower,
Another Thames and other Hills,
And another pleasant Surrey Bower,
Another Maiden like herself, 13
Translucent, lovely, shining clear,
Threefold each in the other clos'd,—
O what a pleasant trembling fear!
what a smile! a threefold smile 17
Fill'd me that like a flame I burn'd;
I bent to kiss the lovely Maid,
And found a Threefold Kiss return'd.
I strove to sieze the inmost Form 21
With ardour fierce & hands of flame.
But burst the Crystal Cabinet,
And like a Weeping Babe became—
A weeping Babe upon the wild, 25
And Weeping Woman pale reclin'd.
And in the outward air again
I fill'd with woes the passing Wind.
14 For Blake's definitions and comparison of ' Translucence ' and ' Opakeness,' see Jerusalem, f. 42, l. 29 sqq.25, 26 Cp. 'The Mental Traveller,' ll. 85, 86:—
'Till he becomes a wayward Babe,
And she a weeping Woman Old.'
Prefatory Note to 'The Grey Monk'
The original draft of 'The Grey Monk' is found on p. 12 of the Rossetti MS., where it forms part of xlii. The MS. Book version consisted of fourteen stanzas, which Blake afterwards separated into two poems—transcribing eight stanzas into the Pickering MS., under the title 'The Grey Monk,' and engraving seven as the untitled lines at the end of his 'Address to the
