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I will not cease from mental fight,
Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand
Till we have built Jerusalem
In England’s green and pleasant land.

William Blake

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And did those feet in ancient time (Jerusalem) (Primary source)
And did those feet in ancient time, also known as Jerusalem, is one of William Blake’s most celebrated and enduring poems. It poses a series of rhetorical questions about the divine presence in England’s history and landscape. Blake asks whether Jesus Christ, the “holy Lamb of God,” once walked upon “England’s mountains green” and if the heavenly city of Jerusalem was spiritually founded there, even amid the “dark Satanic mills” of industrialization and oppression.

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