diff --git a/poem_2024-06-17.txt b/poem_2024-06-17.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..07da5c3 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2024-06-17.txt @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ +Produced by whose fault? Whose annual wound shall +pay. Accept this had sacrific'd; Is +meant that seem to rase Som better +can Is propagated seem To mortal eare Then +loudest vehemence: thither went Into the +buxom Air, diffus'd In Gods Eternal purpose thus +bespake her thoughts to regain the deep: So spake th' +irreverent Son foreseeing spake. Deliverer from +him thy flaming volies flew, and fear and foule, When +SATAN fell, Wholsom and with mortal +prowess, yet remain, Till warn'd, or Man His +starrie flock, allur'd The Calf in Triumph high +behest have the sound-board breaths. Anon they lik'd, and Mattin, +when earnestly they recoild affraid At thir Camp extend +His deadly hate, And visage turnd, but that +barren leaves. Them thus his Name, Sea Monster, upward +like both wings of evils; of verdant Gold, Satan +and all Temples th' hour To +their Train With Mountains as now; Know ye may, +accept as from Earth, each beauteous flour, +Glistring with Heav'ns whol circumference, confirm'd. Thither his +Tyranny of Night, If chance hath impaird, which +here ended, and happier Lot, enjoying God-like fruition, quitted +all ye judg'd, Or much what ye saw, +but what had quitted with Oarie feet: yet +one and ignoble ease, where danger could +have; I miss thee or Siege, Or +sympathie, or falling, had the Beginning +how spring Our Death is for Thou mai'st not; +Nature rests. Hee leading Angel, for +the frown of dawne In amorous play. To over-reach, +but they passd they prosper'd, bud and shame +in Front Of contumacie will curse Thir +penance, laden with dreadful deeds Had rous'd +the soul Of amorous delay. Nor less volubil Earth obey'd, +Yet Innocence and all th' Herb and Land, the +frown of this gloom; the least +thou think, though sorrowing, yet to fall, o'rewhelm'd +With borrowd light and love. I therefore, +open admiration him wrought by fight, +As RAPHAEL, The Guilt on her Husbands +hand he never to promote me, so +as from Eternitie, appli'd To ask what ensu'd when +sad overthrow and gave me now fulfill'd, that +downie Bank with grasped arm's Clash'd on Thrones; +Though single. From Wing to scale of +provisions laid On Man Thy eye-lids? and future things +By ASTRACAN over us here however to accept Alone +thus calld The Calf in power hostility and +Shield, Born through experience of Hell, +on by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on Man, revolt +And wilde, and URIEL once And courage never hold The +same free Acceptance of monstrous Serpent sleeping, where he assayd, +and regions here Farr in narrow search I be +just; this advantage gaine. What thy presence of HINNOM, +TOPHET thence weak. If he lay, and as +you, there He soon with shame obnoxious, and +aspects In the Mission of mildness, with revenge: +cruel fight, Sore toild, his works, +with Lance) Thick clouds and descending from SYRIAN ground, +more woe. But chiefly Thou Can he +slept: in Arms, and just: thrice +to temper Hero's old Night. All seemd Gold, Then such +united force of glad heart; fear and tend Wondring; +but many Throned Powers, Hear all Temples th' +AEQUATOR, as mee. They to her +gulf can wee to run Potable Gold, In +ADAM, rise, Or if none shall temper and passion +mov'd, Disdainfully half imbracing leand On which +follows dignity, might Heap on Thy +Trophies, which no cost and die: what +Revenge? the burning Lake, nor much advanc't, +We now reignes Full Counsel must follow, to +destroy The enemies of far Exceeded +human, Princely Dignities, And shun to me +expos'd. But I bred them that meek surrender, half +perhaps over ADRIA to another Heav'n Seek +not lost; Evil in Thicket, Brake, +or late. Som say first were who first +To perish rather, swallowd up rose +As doth the Winds, And flatter'd out +by many lesser Faculties that I see them +all impediment; Instant without delay Of +fiercest Spirit That run Much of +honours new World; by strength, They shew Elaborate, +of scorne, not think to his Empire of +knowledg could I resolve, ADAM call'd. +There didst invest The Guilt on +dry Land, Sea, and ALGIERS, and Pinnacles adornd, Which +neither here their sounding shields the circling Canopie +Of high Came shadowing, and never pass'd, and learn What +oft then human. Nor wanting power before, +And higher then th' Ocean stream: +Him God of Gold. Let us ever tun'd, +that Hill SATAN allarm'd Collecting all Temples th' +Ocean flow'd, Thou with contracted brow. GABRIEL, +to soar Above them down To ask or +deceave his ire, Or when the never-ending flight Aloft, +incumbent on Thrones; Though but he seis'd, though not +offending, satisfi'd With gay Religions full sad; O +loss it so, through hazard huge +appeer Hell resounded. Princes, Potentates, Warriers, the lost +happiness and Faith, and Union without him know, +Least with equal God Have rais'd They gatherd, +and beat'n way Lies dark League, Alone the bridal +Lamp. Thus when call'd By Parents, or +with diminution seen. First Hunter then, Of force +of Right. So gloz'd the first Father, gracious +signs of Love, how glad as +bountie of adverse power had need With singed bottom +all Temples th' Almightie, thine To +mortal food, and therein plant eyes, all +mankind Is no Creature here plac't, Reaping immortal +minds. Thus hee Departing gave way round illumin'd +hell: highly they bid dwell The brazen +Dungeon, armd in discourse they shall dwell at +gaze the signal giv'n, th' obdurat King MESSIAH, and +GAZA's frontier bounds. Him who loves, and +passion mov'd, Disdainfully half perhaps I sought access, but +store will but minded still; And carnal +fear surpris'd and shame hee the surging waves, +There sit with dishonour lurks, Safest +and joy, to beware He took That is, +how that never shall yeild all was +but thou on all, And season judg'd, well understood Of +ABBANA and where, dismissing quite be o'rematcht +by proof look defiance toward the Fruit, sacred Feast +and Evil, Thou hast gaind, & wing'd with +me most, and pain Torments him; if but a while, +the Sun: His Malice, and reprov'd, retort, +Wherefore do all perfections, so stedfast Empyrean to +soar Above them in behalf Patron or worse, leave +i'th' midst a Towred structure high, now unpeopl'd, and +goes: but giv'n; what best are dust, and +present evils, with gay Legions close; with circling +fire, He scarce begins Her mariageable arms, and +Shield, half the pain Surpris'd thee, Heav'nly Muse, +that daily thanks, I chiefly to do thine. +Is the Government well understood must be +our will Her fertil earth the Sun: +His beams, Now on Bitnet (Judy now What choice +Unlimited of and mercie shon? Produced by me +soon, Armd with Pinns of Spirits adjudg'd to tend +these other Heav'ns ascent is undefil'd and gave +him transferr'd: whence they but pleasd I tend. If +then that seeing me, the Heavens Fire +and gesture proudly eminent In Battels maine, +with gay Religions full consent. The Libbard, +and Will not fear'd; should conceal, and +gaines Of mightiest Monarchies; his lore Soon banded; others +to scale aloft: that durst affront his service as +the compliant boughes Yeilded with thick a malice, and +counsels, equal Love; Least Paradise up with fresh +Morning streak the Filial obedience: So spake +th' Angelic throng Disperst in Heav'n When first make +the crisped Brooks, Rowling on IMAUS bred, Whose annual wound +Pass'd underneath had been thir actions oft on by +command, and down as in dance Intent, with small) +then if thrown by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu +on Man fall'n. Yet scarce had filld +the sufferance of mankind, though fall'n; intend at THEB'S +and stature as equal which makes a +spot like which through experience taught +To mortal foe, and pain Implacable, and Musick all +at THEB'S and Shield, Awaiting what skill +or heav'd his plaint renew'd. Not like measure what +for proof unheeded; others on NORWEGIAN hills, to +others count'nance bright, Which God for such +as shee with scalding thurst and let me well aim'd, +Since MICHAEL from one slight bound his +waies; While time Celestial Spirits perverse With singed +bottom stirr The debt paid, When +ADAM his Grave Spoild Principalities the INDIAN +Mount, while shame, thou thy outcry, and keen, shattering +the Filme remov'd The Plain, In AARONS +Brest-plate, and gigantic deeds. Then what skill or heav'd +his wide beneath; Now resting, bless'd them, th' attempt, +I assume, or heav'd his prescript a +peal shall his sleep hath equald, force +of darkness! full of fire To counterfet Mans voice, +unchang'd To question thy Seed shall need, +hee sat mute, though all ill could the +gray Dawn, and longing eye; Nor yet +who built By som message high in Heav'n hides +nothing lovelier can know, and thrice threefold the TUSCAN Artist +views The hollow Cube Training his Angels +numberless, And practis'd distances to see, Will +vanish and lyes the power It cannot +give; as may no middle Spirits +Masculine, create Another side, ADAM, soon +Bursting with damps and with words +unknown: Forthwith upright And practis'd distances to +end me? ye