"Rightly understood the Preludium is an oracle of the second coming
of Christ and of the Armageddon of 1793 which must end in the final doom
of the kings of the earth and their armies. Orc-Christ is coming as
tiger, not as lamb, and the time is past of nature's sunless shadowy
existence and of the dull round of devouring and devoured."
David V. Erdman, Blake: Prophet Against Empire.
