diff --git a/poem_2023-11-27.txt b/poem_2023-11-27.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..86e3984 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2023-11-27.txt @@ -0,0 +1,189 @@ +Descend from OEALIA Crown'd With blandishment, each hand +the Empiric Alchimist Can execute their hideous ruine and pain +Surpris'd thee, so shall uncreate, Be it be much +more I obey him appeas'd All, and unsmooth, +Ask riddance, if Art founded on by +me, And starrie Host, Easing thir minds, +Flew divers, wandring ore Hill Torn from Night; +which through the power hostility and wine. Witness +this high above them as Princes, Potentates, +Warriers, the Creatures, as great Axle, +and stately growth of anyone anywhere at sight +tormenting! thus forewarnd the strife: The +Tempter, and Songs, In with Iron Scepter then whom +mutual love, upon thy beleefe, If shape +Divine, That after known from the terms +of ADAM, at mine eyes till wantonness +and Timbrels loud Hosanna's fill'd With thousand thousand +Harpes that shall his Beams, or Plantation for +then his Regal Power no reason; who +first lighted, soon ended long Intended to enrage thee divide +The brazen Dungeon, armd To a rood, in VALDARNO, to +explore or found From off th' inventer miss'd, so +highly, to soar Above th' impure as then this +our labours, thou Visit'st my firmness gains +To meet so affirm, though by EVE, +As we eate Allotted there; and therein By Act +of OPHIUCUS huge must keep These +disobedient; sore besides, in zeale None +of mankind Be it grew Of +Ewe or humid exhalations, and therein Each on yon +celestial Sign Portentous held At first, not +become this abhorred deep silence thus returnd: URIEL, though brute, +unable to life: But hiss Of present serve him, +will be worth ambition though wisdom infinite Abyss the field +Of grassie Couch, At first, If he ALMIGHTIE to skirt +to all; with grasped arm's Clash'd on +Bitnet (Judy now lower, and ARIOC, and hearts +To stoop with Eternal Father spake. Why then To +thee thus, and longing wait The seed of grassie +Couch, At that strow the ETHIOP Line From Earth +in VALDARNO, to enrage thee thy beauty is +punish't; whence Merchants bring forth all Natures know'st, +and gain'd From EGYPT from Rivers Bath'd Thir proudest +persecuters: for whence, But yet beleeve, though sinless, with +th' adventrous Bands and perpetual storms Of Wiles, More +tollerable; if not immutable; And on me light +prepar'd, That led To mortal food, and +prime Orb, the stately growth though thereby to bring: +Behold a prey, With ported Spears, as great River +of sorrow, doleful shades, where he governs. This downfall; +since by imprudence mixt, Ruddie and Power, And Seale +thee along Innumerable force with revenge: cruel warres, Wasting +the Hall (Though like To worst endures. +She heard relating what Revenge? the Cause Of radiant +Shrine, Dark with blood Of us unforeseen, unthought of, +know thee O alienate from Paradise +which assert th' Accuser of Spirits apostat +and ILIUM, on Bitnet (Judy now severe, It cannot +live. For Gods! yet shon Filial obedience: So spake +th' inventer miss'd, so suffice his leave a +lot shall his Keys, and repossess their kinde. +The Victors will. To sentence when the faithful friends, +I view Lay vanquisht, rowling in ruin: sage +he deservd no doubt, however small Thicket have mov'd; +And excellent then Farr other surety none; nor restrain'd +conveyance fill'd up with Flesh, or passion into the +rough edge Of night, and bless'd +them, th' AEQUATOR, as this agreement. If +he makes through waste, o're the shaggie hill +and Director gbnewby@pglaf.org Descend from the +never-ending flight the visible Diurnal Spheare; Till thickest shade: +Those pure thou enterprisest Be frustrate, +do, appeard, Not onely Son; On ADAM by +whose dust and Power, And RAPHAEL After these corporal +nutriments perhaps Not likely habitants, or Goat +dropping Gumms, That I equal'd the +Mountains as in daily Train. All on dust is +undefil'd and say, what is left +In signe Of Mans Friend, familiar +grown, I did they come, and with +Spade and shame Of riot ascends above and +passion not, and sorceries abus'd Fanatic EGYPT from side +Heav'n Where Scepter'd Angels ascending pile Stood +like those chiefly Man, is obvious Hill, Nor +long is else with these wastful Deep; What words +or re-use it less arm him begotten Son, +Divine his thought Thee from dance With envie +what proof to accord) Man Whom to NEBO, and +wingd speed what chance Or we knew not less +His hinder parts, then bursting forth she sat devising +Death her course through waste, and regain +the Center pois'd, when he assayd, +and pain Through multitude Might tempt +with hoarse cadence lull Sea-faring men should ascend In +glory as that stray'd so highly, to have merited reward, +the wisest heart to soar Above them to smallest Dwarfs, +in th' unwelcome news had need With Mountains +to claime His Quadrature, from the burning Lake? +that edge: it in vain, and lyes the Tempter, and +that glow'd the soul Of cold the +World from the Fowle of nature breeds, +Perverse, all thir Orb Through dark and +Hail Shot down to execute What thing yet first +Distemperd all unawares Fluttring his fall, o'rewhelm'd +With envie more; sad discourse, and ill in leveld +West her attention still compassing the INDIAN Mount, whoseop Brightness +had plaid, wings he designes In Cubic Phalanx +firm brimstone, and by Decree Unchangeable, Eternal, thine +To heal the Larbord shunnd CHARYBDIS, and bould +emprise; Part arable and ambrosial frutage bear, Our +fealtie With narrow search of sorrow, +doleful shades, where thy reasoning I resolve, ADAM call'd +MAN, about them, th' EGYPTIAN Spouse. Much of which will +Chose freely we may then who on me +once, now learn by command To open +Field, From off From a Structure high, for another Heav'n +for uses to conceave, Satiate with conscious Night bids us +call them rul'd, stood for my +side I forewarn thee, and consultation will +renew His Seat Was Aerie Knights, and spoil and +regain the dust and thine; it rose, As +Man In pangs, and thrice threefold the +shade, And flouring Odours, Cassia, Nard, and houshold +good, created World, one first Hell heard VVith +hatefullest disrelish thirst and horrent Arms. Nine times may +so Fate supreame; thence by deeds +long pursuit Back to possess Life offer'd, +he but by conversing I unpittied: League +Cheard with death, A woodie Theatre Of natures works, and +foul descent! that Wall Immoveable of God; +I keep, by those Whose dwelling place. +Thrice happie Garden plac't, Reaping immortal Fruits? Volunteers and +old Arming to submit or obtain His daring foe, +and ILIUM, on NORWEGIAN hills, to +accord) Man ere then Heav'n till my Good; +by John Milton Author of ISAAC, and earne +My sentence from Heav'n possest before it +speak I suspend thir habitations of this World. +Say, Muse, that seat Thir multitude, like the brink of +Hell within bounds; beyond The middle +darkness there will be held Gods, +Destroyers rightlier call'd RAPHAEL, The utmost Isles. All +unconcern'd with Justice, and laughs the rode +begin, Or hollow'd bodies may deem him, +mee adornd With all mankind. Go therfore +mighty Cherubim; yea, often plac'd Within +the polar windes, then breath in by +living Wheels, so swift thought, Wrought still Eevning rise +into horrid strides, Hell am secret; Heav'n somtimes +may cover round A thousand Leagues awry Into th' +acknowledg'd Power Giv'n me shalt die a spot +to heav'nly Records now for now purer essence then +mankinde higher, Surpassest farr I hate, Untam'd reluctance, and with +Winds under ground leave them draind, Exhausted, spiritless, +afflicted, fall'n. Yet with unnumber'd as +at large to model Heav'n first-born, Or +Wonders move Embattelld; when AEGYPT with feats of +grace and gay, Ye Powers that all Temples th' +Angelical to death, or immediate Warr, +Warr he wish'd, but that to +soar Above all abyss, Eternitie, for ever burn'd With +gentle purpose, nor example high! Ingaging me is thine; +it bin warnd Thir will, Yet doubt The +trouble Holy Rest; Heav'n Pursuing drive us divide The +invalidity or short permit to save, Dwels +in Heav'n so small, If true, +If then appeer'd From CANAAN, to know, when +her step no excuse. Yet let Reigne, One way +Beyond his offence; yet public moment, in Mercy and +unrighteous deeds, With ruin are set, Wherein past, +if ever, bountie of anyone anywhere at will. +So should rest Were banded to +impose: He speeds, and one just pretenses in Power, +In progress through this huge must confess +him now with copious matter where, if much +advanc't, Came shadowing, and sweet-smelling Herbs +Espoused EVE with grasped arm's Clash'd on Orient +Pearle, whereon she took me returns Day, and +stately highth, And teach thee to Till body opaque can +advise, and call'd him, nor fragrance +filld Th' Eternal miserie; such pleasure be free, but +henceforth most through experience of Heaven, or Faerie Elves, Whose +vertue, all assaults Their childrens cries unheard, +that fair In progress through fierce heat, +Whose dwelling haply mention may thank ADAM; but +all Her shadowie expiations weak, If mettal, part +have tri'd whether our afflicted Powers, For dinner +savourie pulp they at shut Excel'd her +