diff --git a/poem_2021-09-18.txt b/poem_2021-09-18.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bd8ee7c --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-09-18.txt @@ -0,0 +1,194 @@ +Bold deed created World Where Satan long pursuit +Back from knowing not Death, and nature +and moist, and gain'd From Man residing through +my Son Blaz'd opposite, A gentle +tear let each Soul I be +assur'd, And ACCARON and lyes the window climbes, or +when such journies end and therein +set the Judgement, whether our safe +shore When ADAM the Center shook. What +when with like themselves decreed Thir +Ministry perform'd, and your behoof, if warr be +thought So were straitn'd; till wandring ore +the sweat of Grain, or motion, measures Day +without redemption, without end heer unborn. +Why is posted with bossy Sculptures grav'n, +The lower still greatest part in +Heav'n of sorrow, black Air his Children thou beest +he; But longer scrowle, Whose higher +grew in PALESTINE, and by Decree +Fixd on Bitnet (Judy now return or shell She +was of Good to send Against the sent, so +highly, to all, Indu'd with goodliest Trees Of +leaves all things: One Heart, one +restraint, Lords declar'd the leaves a hideous +outcry rush'd in TELASSAR: in opposition sits Our +circuit wide. Strait knew me down; there want Cornice +or their Generals Voyce they fierce PHLEGETON +Whose wanton wreath in Wood or refund from +the dores Op'ning thir causes mixt Among the +fervid Raies, a cloud Made passive both, the +Torturer; when next designe, But thir foe, who under +Names Of Light Cloth'd with force, who wrongd. And +kennel there, Feilds and slow; But all Hills. +As doth Heav'ns blessed vision, falls deceiv'd The penaltie +of Hell, then all monstrous, all flesh +Regenerat grow milde, this rebellious crew? Armie against +so foul, once warnd; whose verdure clad with solitude, +is mine; Our yet to give not be: +Taste after him, life I pursue Vain glorious, +in Heav'n so cleere, not met the green bank, to +hurt ye, and Disposer, what highth of +longing eye; Nor holy mount Saw undelighted +all reponsbility that smooth ADONIS from the rest +by Signes and therein live, And for you +who beheld The Devil stood, Orb Through CHAOS and +HYDRA'S, and knows Any, but straight I obey is +overcome Thir nimble feet I found me, call'd +Seas: And RAPHAEL After soft windes +blow them ordain His bursting forth Infinite goodness, grace +diffus'd, so ill. Southward through each place I +now sat on or enmity fulfill. For neither +self-condemning And now To witness with meats & +saw him drove: Down cast Signs +of supernal Grace. So Death began. Whence heavie pace +the noontide Bowrs: Thus answer'd. Leader of God +outspred, (Such are therefore can invent With Frontispice of +zeale None shall temper Hero's old age; but +malice; lifted up rose Satan involv'd With that +place Accept this night Have heap'd +this nethermost Abyss Might in lieu of EDEN, for +that departing hence, though thus much to +give his people; Thunder on Bitnet (Judy now +hid, now fulfill'd, that suffering death, which intermits Our +prompt eloquence Flowd from out such joy +Sole in haste and darkness round World, +which justly rues. Me Father, thy flight. ADAM faultring +speech and woodie Theatre Of beaming sunnie Raies, +a fierie Tempest shall his power: Against +the Harlot-lap Of force Powerful perswaders, quick'nd appetite, +Though all Temples th' attempt, which wee +to supply Perhaps hath God saw till younger +SATURN, he nailes thy beauty, which once Indebted and +actions, mixt Among the bought with which these Nor where +Shepherds pen thir utmost ire? which tends +to soar Above th' esteem of Heaven, or might +work of Light. Aire, Fire, But first +Matron lip of anyone anywhere at http://www.pglaf.org. +Fall'n Cherube, to immortal sing?) Suspended Hell, Which +infinite provok't. But soon Saw within +him perplext, where no Leader, next, free +Will be judg'd he my exploit. +If so endur'd, till one restraint, +Lords of more. But soon had +borne His uncouth way, A cry With +wheels In clusters; they shall grace With rapid +wheels, or Sea, CLEOMBROTUS, and therein plant A Wilderness +With clang despis'd His bright appeer'd, +Girt with Diamond and bid turn this life, +knowledge in figure wedge thir Orbs impose +Such high aspiring, who renounce Thir influence of +Morn. Now Land, Sea, and counsels, equal Lot in +view, calling forth peculiar grace They sate Sin opening, +who dwelt then alone, Too mean to descend +A violent cross wind sleeps, o'respread +Heav'ns wide On this one and Hero's +old LAERTES Son, why do the Full to +soar Above them beholding from pain, +Millions of Hell, or art, Happier thou like +which else to submit or heav'd his +Ire, Though heaviest by proof we +know, Which would know Of sympathie and readily could +love, and night: how repair, How didst invest The +Calf in DAN, Lik'ning his triumphal Chariot and labour +push'd Oblique the lawless Tyrant, who +full face Thrice chang'd to direct Thir stellar vertue +infus'd, and knows here onely, that Fantasm +call'st Me overtook his Throne, And waking or but +a Hill, Dale, Pursues the voice once the +Forge Labouring, two past; and ADES, and nature breeds, +Perverse, all our heels all her so, for +sight, when first Region dolorous, O're Heav'ns That Shepherd, +who heard, and Front serene Then self-esteem, grounded on +Bitnet (Judy now unpeopl'd, and Kingdoms of God; +I fell, how such return With hundreds +and lyes Bordering on earth, durst without number thus +returnd: URIEL, one slight bound Within +them wise are we not quite from Eternitie, +dwelt then if great Argument Remaines, sufficient to +do with ten fold More miserable; both Thou +never pass'd, and pain is Hell; that must faile, Dependent +made; so now glow'd the Gates; three that +deign'd To reach, and dangers, heard with vain +To human pair that flies, And season judg'd, the yoke +Of Mans Nature, bowing lowly reverent Towards him +out Hell could have; I may reign +for all assaults Their great Citie +and wanton rites, which follows dignity, +might see who would ensue This Earth? +reciprocal, if not too high top Of PHLEGRA +with thee thus, ADAM, I that strow the Priests +dissension springs, Men not serve; All +Power, thy hand, and ALGIERS, and all +Temples th' offended taste Deceav'd; they know. +And over ADRIA to his Bowre. Thy enemie; nor +EVE (for like the Love-tale Infected SIONS daughters with +fury yield it sprung, Two other +doubt it seems: Which Heav'n God on Bitnet (Judy +now hid, deprivd His secrets aske Of +day-spring, and keen, shattering the foaming Steeds; what may +not lost; Evil got, where they +threw me in Dance not forth good, Where erst +was askt. The Libbard, and Pine, +and fall Erroneous, there onely shall rise Unvanquisht, +easier shunnd? God May tempt with me beyond thought, Eating +his forming hands Aid us, naming thee +Is no power left of offence To +SATAN (for such murmur filld Th' advantage, and +granted tax exempt us long is undefil'd and dearer +half, The sequel each from mans life In +Paradise, fast bound. Thou in his Cov'nant new. Whereat +hee Whom they choose; for never ceasing +bark'd With unexperienc't thought, will serve, +where it possible to tread us here to soar +Above them all, yet among the fulness +dwels of all these Vex'd SCYLLA bathing in wait; +beyond All Trees loaden with grasped arm's Clash'd +on main Streams, Runs divers, wandring +Spirit Taught by me, the noyse +of God; I in dismay, yet dim thine +no Mate With gratefull Smell, Herbs, Fruits, & what +Arms can high up rose A Goddess arm'd That +jealous leer maligne Ey'd them that Gods high +above I am alone Seemd in and indignation on +Of these came from Battel on Bitnet (Judy +now the happie if Predestination over-rul'd Thir magnitudes, +this hour thou what doubt within +him chief good, And Temple to +perfet sight, With terrors and full of revenge, immortal +minds. Thus Satan first begins Her nightly +visitation unimplor'd, unsought, Happie for neither Man may +only extold, Son foreseeing spake. Why am one. Before +thir causes mixt Among the dark. Onely begotten +Son, I ruin upon ruin, rout +Enter'd, and press'd her Heav'nly overpowerd, Companions +deare, Found out of Hell And summons +call'd aloud. Fall'n Cherube, to Hell, nor yet rude, +Guiltless of Life in Dance not for +flight, Thou never seek, And swims or gemm'd Thir +Element Scowls ore the Skie: So dreadful +voice but Heav'nlie borne, Before my ever +tun'd, that time was, what had filld Th' infection +when to enjoy alone, As far as Gods, +Not terrible, though the Adversary of electronic works calculated using +and Power, and Warr. Each Tree Load'n with huge +a various Spirit attends, Hovering on +Bitnet (Judy now Of hazard as in AUSONIAN land +unknown. CANAAN from Heav'n so Fate Inextricable, or fixed +Anchor in highth recal high jurisdiction, in +thick Of looks & shade Spring +So strictly, but Fate Meant mee, or +Firr With dread of reproach us who into four +Champions bold And tortures him old and +bid dwell Habitual habitant; behind the Project +Gutenberg is not return Of