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Credit: William Blake
The Song of Los, written in 1795, is one of William Blake's epic poems, known as prophetic books. The poem consists of two sections, "Africa" and "Asia". In the first section Blake catalogues the decline of morality in Europe, while the second section consists of Los urging revolution. This illustration of Urizen presiding over the decline of morality served as the work's frontispiece.