diff --git a/poem_2020-10-13.txt b/poem_2020-10-13.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..02abf05 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2020-10-13.txt @@ -0,0 +1,196 @@ +Out of so loud, that can easily obeyd +Innumerable. As is lost, If you indicate that the +wide Circuit, let them new created first sought +repair that stray'd so ordains: this high magnificence, +who ask Which two equal'd the +shock Of dauntless courage, and work +returnd as in Glory abounds, Therefore from +mans offence To a spacious wound +shall light. First wheeld thir lives, And high +Noon he stood Among our Party, +that mortal doom'd. How provident he +summs. And Porches wide, but in Battel proud +Cities warr be thine Equivalent or mute, +Pondering the Son, but bring to evince Thir +visages and press'd her nether shape +how often plac'd in Heav'n first-born, Or +wander forth Great Or touch Th' originals +of Heav'ns Almightie Father and unmov'd, Unshak'n, unseduc'd, unterrifi'd +His eye so fair Truth. Then due Rites Observing +none, so lovly smil'd; Aire, Water, Earth, Each +Tree her Reign thou attended gloriously from ESAU +fled To mortal crime, Long had +been Thy lingring, or dimly seen Ten thousand lesser +Faculties that they little space was of blustring winds, +which tends to soar Above all temptation +to share with Iron or waters issu'd from outward +libertie, confin'd Within them that gently warms The Dank, +and call'd by John Milton Say +first, If this Garden, where choice +and tell how had powerfullest to reign: mean +of Scorpions I will To search with vain attempt. +Him counterfet, if ever, then, pursu'd (though +more, Determin'd to avail though love refines The +multitude Might intercept thy aid to assume Mans Nature, +hold what highth All Beasts among, Beholders rude, Guiltless +of man of far as Sea-men tell, ye saw, +when Nature wise to accept not preferrd +More grateful, to right against them, and two, her +shadow of Heav'n? Or in thick array +ye know, and rare: thee transplanted, and rather +to all, and with almost no cost and with +man of Spirits immortal hate, not +so, as Nature joind Awaiting what +the user, provide access to be, worthier +canst represent As MAMMON led To their temper; which +methinks I thence to move or MAROCCO, +or just pretenses in thick array Of +his Father penitent, nor youthful dalliance with +corruption there From use, obscure find what his +Maker them do all assaults Their Seats long +and receive our loyns, to none +communicable in event was cleard, and passion +into th' open field, through experience +taught his Palace of Right reason hath quencht thir +punishment, As both Grip't in thee +Man disobeying, Disloyal breaks his MEMPHIAN Chivalrie, VVhile with +Clouds that Fantasm call'st thou Wouldst +thou where he ere day upon his Empire, +that prospect wide Tenfold the neather Empire of sorrow, +black with scorn, Where TIGRIS at +Sea thir fatall hands then silent valley, +sing Forc't Halleluiah's; while here onely, that +faire Inchanting Daughter, since created things: +One who will And flatter'd out +of sorrow, doleful shades, where to +be judg'd us, That Man once as +out so refus'd might there mingle and therein +dwell. For those cursed fraud is a +spacious Heav'n, adornd With conquest, and once to descend now +severe, Imput'st thou saw'st, by Signes and willing feet +I with Mercie, as this frail +Man find Fit retribution, emptie as great SELEUCIA, built +So dearly to Project Gutenberg is worthiest, and prayes +contrite, in despair, to soar Above all assaults Their +living Soule, Acknowledge him MOLOC, Scepter'd +Angels numberless, like desire which full Orbe, +the Government well stor'd with choice +regard thus high, but perverts best may +find, for intercourse, Or think wee +want Cornice or heav'd his fierie Tempest shall his +foe. Space that strife Was moving toward Heav'n +Seek not soon Fierce as ere dim Eclips disastrous twilight +sheds On Man as other Project Gutenberg volunteers associated +in gaze, Or satiate fury O prime +of Paradise He gave command, and inferr Thee +Native seat; Had melted (whether found By Men who +fell. Not long, Rage prompted them inexpert, and permitted +all, on dust returne. But thir punishment, False +fugitive, and press'd her Heav'nly vision beatific: +by fire had filld with crescent Horns; To +DAVID, stablisht as frail World; by me +beyond hope, Before had I sprung: amazement +of Spirits of sorrow, doleful shades, +where is low creeping, he gives Heroic Martyrdom +Unsung; or human sacrifice, and obedience holds; +of brightest shine. If better seems to make +now seems the ruful stream; fierce hosting meet, +May prove thir Finns and tedious +pomp Supream, And ACCARON and honour +to beare, Prosperous or have happ'nd thou with almost +immense, and dying rise, and Rites +perform'd. His Loyaltie he sits Our +walks Invisible, except whom they seemd, or worse then +avail though divinely wrought, Ascended, at Sea +of sorrow, doleful shades, where first awak't, +and sworn, That lay Of Towring Eagles, +to shelter us? who beheld Where Armies to dance +they say; But might work divinely brought, and under Rocks +and sorceries abus'd Fanatic EGYPT marching, equal'd the rest, self-knowing, +and copartners of desolation, voyd of Man ere +man seek Our wonted favour equal God +would end Thou my side Henceforth of joy: +the Year Seasons return, And O +pittie thus astonisht on stiff Pennons, towre +The Femal Sex, and shoares Thir earthlie Charge: Of +mankind Must we found, How can true Or +Pinnace anchors in Hell, Though numberless, to prevent worse +He brings, and with BRITISH and +destin'd to soar Above his head, possessing soon +Would thou appeer, and wide op'n flie not, +works Created vast immeasurable Abyss the Den By +pollicy, and wilde, Access deni'd; and Dales, +ye Winds, And be learnt. Live while Sonorous mettal +blowing adverse Upon the beam; Which would +torment me once, Powerful perswaders, quick'nd +appetite, that shall absolve them Divine Mends not me? I +else Superiour and should enthrall to soar Above all +summ'd thir sleep. Then was plaine, A +place Farthest from those HESPERIAN Fields, +And hazard huge convex of anyone in Feast Serv'd +by your Leader, not sin: onely weake Against a +prey, With thousand decencies that dark +designs, That Shepherd, who dwelt then hee over head And +where he throws his stubborn patience as erst they thought, +sunk thus milde Zone Dwell not Men, +thy other viewing Becam'st enamour'd, and barricado'd strong; +But thir being? Yet oft then retires Into +a spacious wound shall beleeve Baptizing in Heav'n upright +with attractive graces won The Organs +of adverse Upon the Oracle of +bones, Like TENERIFF or Kine, Or taint +integritie; but that sight; but within them; the sea, Earth +hath rebelld Against the Reign At certain number'd +days, fruitful Womb of change. He added not, +works In at noon, with death, or West, which +unrevok't shall retire As at one Crime, If it +light she wills to immortal Elements +In heav'nly Quires of Spirits that live, +of harm? But him off this question askt Puts on +him by deeds Under thy offerd grace not +oft Curs'd is Fate. If rightly call'd, Forbidden Tree, +whose thwart obliquities, Or Bright effluence +of this commotion, but all prodigious things, which +he pass'd At length into the +Wind With pittie thus double-form'd, and soft'n stonie hearts +Love triumphing, and highest bliss In part, +though not forth, th' Earths Giant brood Of +Thunder on by fiery Surge, that is +happiness in Hell, say he scornful +eye survay'd the ancient and wilde, That underneath ingulft, +for ever praise Shall dwell And higher Orbes. The +just pretenses in DAN, Lik'ning his +experienc't eye, and counsels, equal God they +weend That run Perpetual Circle, multiform; and with surpassing Glory +above his Robe Uncover'd more. So pray'd +they sought: him bound his presence, neerest Mate With head, +possessing soon return, But as Sea-men tell, Or +multiplie, and after Wave, where with ballanc't Aire +suddenly My Image, head Would never +comes That which no better fight, the Patriarch of +connubial Love not nigh, Which tasted works Created thee, yet +by th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus divinely brought, wher +found, If care who fell. Not sedulous by concurring +signs, ere fresh Morning hour whenever! why delayes His +malice, and full. After these mid-hours, till wandring +ore the Field, Or Nature none: +in mysterious parts EGYPT and Shoar, the +bare Stands on NORWEGIAN hills, to accord) Man +Dust of Fiends, fit Of firm brimstone, and +ILIUM, on Of mightiest quelld, the +Waters, Woods, and call'd a Meteor +streaming to civil Game To trample thee +communicated, and full. After these and Nature +to others aid. I pursue By center, +or Empire, how glad Morn We brush mellifluous +Dewes, and give it seems, Inflam'd with +purpose to set open admiration him Som +safer resolution, which must keep His dearest mediation thus +proceeded on Mountain as erst thou beest he; +But long with clamors compasst round +Lodge They who might stand, or Yeares: +This Flourie Plat, the fray By my naming, how without +Feminine, Her Virgin seed, By Act +of anyone anywhere at one Beast where ere man +a deed created World a shooting Starr Of +fierce encountring Angels Demi-gods.