And did those feet in ancient time

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Thank you Pabs for this enjoyable read! Most interesting to see this! :)

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... don't have my books to hand at the moment - but I seem to recall the "dark Satanic mills" was more a reference to the arid theological etc debates at the Universities than a vision of the Industrial Revolution. Have I totally misremembered? Does anyone have a Longman's Annotated Blake within reach?

I have it. And I have amended my text to read: "It is in fact a protest song, written about 1804, about the rapid growth of the Industrial Revolution. It is a call to fight for a New Age of spiritual enlightenment (indeed, the Preface to Milton from which the stanzas are taken contains the earliest recorded use of ‘New Age’ in an environmental context)".

Well, I'd never have guessed it.