"In the years following the French Revolution William Blake's poetic expression of his radical sympathies grew even more pronounced. In America (1793-94) he retrospectively celebrated the American Revolution as a triumph of life and liberty over the death-dealing oppression of British rule.

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The success of the Americans in throwing off the binding chain is acclaimed in its own right in this poem. But the War of Independence is also taken as a type of what Blake envisaged as a universal energy of revolution which would sweep away all tyrannies. The spirit of this revolutionary energy is characterized as Orc who, early in America, uses a biblical language of resurrection and renewal as he imagines the dawn of a new world of freedom
 

    The morning comes, the night decays, the watchmen leave their stations;
    The grave is burst, the spices shed, the linen wrapped up;
    The bones of death, the cov’ring clay, the sinews shrunk & dry’d.
    Reviving shake, inspiring move, breathing! awakening!
    Spring like redeemed captives when their bonds & bars are burst;

    Let the slave grinding at the mill, run out into the field:
    Let him look up into the heavens & laugh in the bright air;
    Let the inchained soul shut up in darkness and in sighing,
    Whose face has never seen a smile in thirty weary years;
    Rise and look out, his chains are loose, his dungeon doors are open.
    And let his wife and children return from the opressors scourge;
    They look behind at every step & believe it is a dream.
    Singing. The Sun has left his blackness, & has found a fresher morning
    And the fair Moon rejoices in the clear & cloudless night;
    For Empire is no more, and now the Lion & Wolf shall cease.