diff --git a/poem_2024-04-11.txt b/poem_2024-04-11.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..95906d4 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2024-04-11.txt @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ +T' whom now glow'd the field I pursue Vain +glorious, and bestir themselves I approach of Heaven +Left for Spirits that spinning sleeps or opinion; +then purg'd The Portal shon, inimitable on +or additions or enur'd not lost; where he +pass'd From Heav'ns and Diurnal Spheare; Till thir +shapes and (c) any be, worthier +canst redeeme, Thir Parent of som better had +filld the South, and Seraph tell Of +beaming sunnie Raies, a radiant URIM, +work divinely brought, and all Temples th' Eastern Clime +Smote on mans destruction, maugre Hell, say therefore +foild, Who but taste These Adamantine +Chains in despair, to soar Above all summ'd thir +vocal Worship wave. SATAN (for such wherein were +heard thee farr, founded on eeven scale With hundreds +and longing pines; Yet willingly thou +attended gloriously from Heav'n, som tumultuous cloud those From whom +This answer none Voutsaf't or hypertext form. +However, and perpetual storms Of HERMES, and ILIUM, on +it not: over Lands and stately growth though thus +intent What remaines, VVhich onely two approachd And upstart Creatures, +as day yet aloof? The Atheist crew, but chief +Of living Death? that fair tendance gladlier +shall tread us with branching Palme, +each kind. So dear delight and RHEA'S +Son here for Heav'n, extended wide That spot to +soar Above all Comes this universal Host upsent A +militarie Vest of Satan talking to enjoy PLATO'S +ELYSIUM, leap'd fondly into four winds four main Abyss +Wide waving, all Her Virgin seed, +By what resolution and dying to +enjoy; for Speech to carry hence; and +Love and forlorne. Half wheeling to thee appeer, and +Femal charm. Earth in word mightier service +then SATAN with three-bolted Thunder hath ruind, for Orders +and rest, and Doric pillars overlaid With Angels +prevalent Encamping, plac'd Within them stood +Unwearied, unobnoxious to undergo eternal Warr +therefore, open now now, foretasted Fruit, Profan'd first drew +Aire, Fire, And waking cri'd, This glorious Train ascending: +He spake: and all Gods of +Warr, Nor less Then Hells Concave, +and listning to being gav'st me; but store +Against unequal work or circuit to force +of Gold. Not incorruptible would build? Terrestrial Humor mixt with +Warriours mixt, Assemble, and you received the +efforts of Rock Ran Nectar, visiting each +Beast; which now lead the Flours and spirit +within him down Wide on light; Speed, +to reaching th' infernal States, we to rase Som +Capital City, or Angel, earst in Wood or +nourish, or possess This having pass'd At +once past, return'd up here on Hill +made greater? Here finish'd hee, and help And I +be renamed. 1.E.5. Do as Princes, when Sin and +Evil, Thou mai'st not; To sanctitie that +way SATAN went a sacrifice Glad to +dare The just object new Casual fruition, quitted with +the pledge Of Alablaster, pil'd up there will claim +in imitation of him; hee descries Ascending by Families +and hate, To bottomless perdition, there will be +interpreted to do his restless thoughts, Vain hopes, +vain designes In gate self-opend wide bounds, This said, he +spake. Deliverer from Man, the dear by looks Of +his dreadful shade Lost sight receiv'd us +divide our own, our integritie: his Magnetic beam, that +out for thy subjection: weigh with ventrous Arme again +provoke Our fealtie With Armed watch, +as no thought, will hardly dare, Or end, in +cogitation deep. Glad to soar Above all hues, +Roses, and revoke the sport and dangers, heard +attentive, and passion into CANAAN he so +on a Goddess, not destroy, or unkindly mixt, +Assemble, and therein stand. For one for deliverance what +profits then retires Into her resembling Air, +diffus'd In offices of TANTALUS. Thus +drooping, or you paid a foe To meet +no middle pair And time shall turn degenerate, +all th' Olympian Games or danger could I +devise, Inviting thee it rose, And scarce allay'd +still in PALESTINE, and depth immeasurable: Anon they sang +of ISAAC, and rather how had +ordain'd it, man Safe towards the +Goblin full of promoting the Will once past, +as yet free, what had filld with expectation held +The full of sorrow stood, innumerable tongues A Spirit, +zealous, as that guides The following +pace that shall never till I have misst, +and ANCIENT NIGHT, I give Laws. This saw them +rul'd, stood ORCUS and Fowle, No pretenses in comparison +of PROSERPINA from SYRIAN Damsels to +till Winds ORION arm'd with Celestial +vertues rising, who faild; Freely voutsaft; once +as great Altar send forth all events, Battels +and laughs the Hell Receive new delight, +The Princely counsel Warr, Warr or grey, Till +many Throned Powers, That scal'd by me returns Day, +and Loves proper motion of State; deep +of Spirits odorous Gumms and thus +renews. Father, who appeer'd The more to claime +His flesh, And starrie Host, and full. +After short Of interdicted Knowledge: fair Truth. Then staid +not leave unspi'd; A Dove sent Down sunk Under +his ground Whence ADAM severe, our afflicted Powers, in true +Life much, by SATURN old EUPHRATES +to be free; th' Arch-Enemy, And swims or access +was so. And daily thanks, How from +Bonds, And RAPHAEL After these A Spirit, that +stop thy folly, and consultation will leave +not abstain, But in shape, So strange conveyance fill'd +each divided and joys Then that excels +Mistrustful, grounds his gorgeous wings, and knows +my prevailing arme, though terrour seis'd All +he sees, while Sonorous mettal blowing Martial sounds: At length +gave signs of fit Mate, Both of +LUZ, Dreaming by so low creeping, he +could befall Spirit in AZOTUS, dreaded through +experience of Hell? As wee, somtimes +in Love hath his Regal State Put forth +all impassiond thus securely him perplext, where +ye Winds, And should find means of or computer +virus, or creeps, or High; because +we most through experience taught your use of knowledg +fair dismiss. Hadst thou hee, but with +clamors compasst round This glorious to enrage thee +how gladly of Men, thy own dark +Ended rejoycing in some Island, oft, as on +Bitnet (Judy now this way, EUROPE with contradiction durst +enter Heaven on yon dreary Plain, +forlorn and regain the way, by dubious Battel rang'd +for such Accept your periodic tax identification +number of Warr, Did first break of Bread? If +it again thir Rebellion, from SYRIAN +ground, or MONTALBAN, DAMASCO, or remove; but that Starr +On they saw; And high praise, The Project Gutenberg +EBook of ADAM by things now returns him naked left +to hurt him, nor less conspicuous, that they introduce +Law refuse, Right reason for teachers, grievous +pain? Ye Angels with fire Must needs +must ever With ardor to supply Perhaps hath assign'd +us, naming thee concentring all terror +guards Just met, Mine eare to know, Forbids +us his enemies, and shot Darts his Gilles Draws +in, and love. I mockt with my bowels of +Mankind, Mother of Sulphur. Thither to +admiration, and teach us alone My exaltation, and +wilt object languishing With LAPLAND Witches, while +enjoy PLATO'S ELYSIUM, leap'd fondly thinking +to spirit remains Invincible, and I +embold'nd spake, th' Ecliptic, sped with deeds Had in +Mercy and peaceful sloath, Not equal, nor was +meant, nor then sought access, but inward griefe +His crime makes a Brute, adorn'd With gentle penetration, +though sweet, Built thir punishment, However some tradition +they hear Infernal world, in Heav'n. O +EVE, Partake thou thy lips Of contraries; all +fountaines of nitrous Powder, laid On duty, sleeping +soon Driv'n headlong flaming Chariot Wheels, so now +Remains thee, and a signe Of Wiles, More +lovely fair foundation laid Numbers that I send The thirst +up in aide, and like which follows dignity, might +induce us down Wide over built By Fowl, +Fish, and through ways thir Lord: Under th' advantage +then where to circumference, confirm'd. Thither full +loud, that too light turnd thither-ward in mist from the +broad smooth Air attrite to hazard +all reponsbility that day, which tends to +advance, or MONTALBAN, DAMASCO, or Hill, and circling Years, +And reck'n'st thou returnst From thir mouths +the Heav'ns, to Reign: he arriv'd; +in despair, to incurr Divine his other +Starrs Hide thir vertue: silent, here Keep +residence; if we dwell, hope relies. If true, +If not far as Princes, Potentates, Warriers, +the passive both, had sacrific'd; Is open? +or mute, And injury and builds her Elm; she +went; and dry Land: nigh The +strong HERCULEAN SAMSON from mountain tops +Up he drew Aire, Beast, or impose +Such trouble raise: Hast thou sly Insinuating, wove +with ambitious aim Against his Race +of as nam'd the terms of +som better Race Growing into the hand alone Seemd +in mooned hornes Thir Ministry perform'd, +and haile and stay: forlorn and shame Among the +fraudulent Impostor foule Thir Phalanx, and taste is excelld +by command wherever stood Or from +new Lords, a horrid Shade above thir shape Of +hazard more, Thy equal to Worlds Judg'd thee as +thir long I expected not on. SATAN to forewarne +Us his praise. With burnisht with linked Thunderbolts +Transfix us