Table of Illustrations
The order followed here is that given by Butlin.
| Thomas set | Butts set | Title | Corresponding Stanzas with excerpt | Related works by Blake |
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| The Descent of Peace | Hymn, Stanzas 1-3 "It was the winter wild, While the Heav'n-born child, All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies..." |
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| The Annunciation to the Shepherds | Hymn, Stanzas 8-12 "At last surrounds their sight A globe of circular light, That with long beams the shame-fac'd Night array'd..." |
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| The Old Dragon | Hymn, Stanza 18 "Th'old Dragon under ground, In straiter limits bound, Not half so far casts his usurped sway..." |
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| The Overthrow of Apollo and the Pagan Gods | Hymn, Stanzas 19-23 "Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving..." |
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| The Flight of Moloch | Hymn, Stanza 23 "In vain with cymbals' ring They call the grisly king, In dismal dance about the furnace blue..." |
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| The Night of Peace | Hymn, Stanza 27 "Heav'n's youngest-teemed star, Hath fix'd her polish'd car, Her sleeping Lord with handmaid lamp attending..." |
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