These lines also are from Jerusalem. Compare with them the words in Heaven and Hell, "All deities reside in the human breast;" and the psalmists cry to the people, "Ye are Gods, and all of you are children of the Most High!"
And again let me quote:—
The Mundane Shell is a vast concave Earth, an immense
Hardened shadow of all things upon our Vegetated Earth,
Enlarged into dimensions and deformed into indefinite space,
In twenty-seven Heavens and all their Hells, and chaos
And ancient night and Purgatory. It is a cavernous Earth
Of labyrinthine intricacy, twenty-seven folds of opaqueness,
And finishes where the lark mounts!—Milton, p. 16.
Is not this truly terrific poetry? Does it not recall St. Paul's passionate prayer? "O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
"This second aphorism indeed is the theme of all the prophetic books, as indeed it is the theme, if not of the songs of Innocence, at least of many of the songs of Experience,
