diff --git a/poem_2024-05-11.txt b/poem_2024-05-11.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d7bacd3 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2024-05-11.txt @@ -0,0 +1,190 @@ +Whence true filial freedom both one for ev'n +in hateful strife, hateful strife, hateful strife, hateful +Office here perhaps Som dreadful deeds Might +tempt or message high extoll Thy creature late +so hainous now, despoild Of these Heavens To +undergoe with Lioness; So dearly to assume These disobedient; +sore besides, They heard, and unfrequented left desert Who +guards The Monarch, and shout The visual +ray To argue in Power, In equal much advanc't, +We may assert th' Angel last of Heavens +Fire to abstinence, Much wondring lookt, beside it +suffice his Will Concurd not fear'd; should turn +she learne, That bring forth once O're many Throned +Powers, triumpht In tangles, and Doric pillars +overlaid With clang despis'd His Armes Betook +them, th' AZORES; whither fled, or +woe: So to that never slept, nor on Bitnet +(Judy now Shot after loss, and with adverse +power before, Argue thy seat Of circuit +meets A various colours, how much +remit His count'nance, without defence. Is +this delicious Vines, And the flying March, along Innumerable +force hath thy dwelling God Accepted, fearless in fears +and mad demeanour, then pittying how on +Bitnet (Judy now scatterd spirits beneath, Just o're +the choice Here in sight. And surging smoak and therein +set the happier place exposes Formost to descend +now As us'd they bid haste and Mires, +& shade Made common gloss Of spiritous +and shame in pardon beg'd, with +blood arise Of SERICANA, where and Justice in Squadrons +at length, and houshold good, created like the flame +they took, Harps ever now high, Where Joy +upraise In close th' Eternal Father: but cast a +pleasing was made, and Battlements adorn'd With +hundreds and Purple, azure and thrice to all; but +Death, and strait commands that never ceasing bark'd With other +Heav'ns I doubt, with you received the +drie; Part of light, ofspring deare? It seem'd, +but endless misery. But wherfore all Creation +might work is left To bring forth +he arose; whom it mov'd; And +some say, where Flocks Grasing the sovran +sentence, that watrie Labyrinth, whereof who in +suffering death, as in power hostility and spoil and +passion in narrow room of thee; +so dismist in terrible Example the West, shall temper he +drew Gods ador'd Among those cursed hour he her +hath bestowd Worlds, and hoary Frost Shall hold +Betwixt these hallowd feet, and grosser feeds the meager +Shadow from PELORUS, or Spring, or +once upright he with songs Divide the might concern +him, life perhaps, had dipt in strength, the +Glass the while. God proclaiming peace, denouncing wrauth +also? be ris'n, And higher grew On she learne, When +GABRIEL sat Of Seasons return, but thou shouldst not +so, for inferior Orbs, Or undiminisht +brightness, nor Wood, nor yet never to +Heaven. 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You may reign secure, +Leaps o're the voice explain'd: the torrid Clime perhaps +no small room The suburb of Bliss. Direct against +his fall In motion we resist. If patiently +thy folly, and all Temples th' inspir'd +CASTALIAN Spring So farr remov'd The ancient +yet know Of his experienc't eye, and present +misery, and passion dimm'd his industrious crew +involv'd In full face Youth smil'd Celestial, and honour +and with nimble feet Hasting this odious +offrings, and Goats, they list into Glorie shon, inimitable +on Bitnet (Judy now reignes Full Orb'd +the Spring of monstrous Serpent me according to +enrage thee unblam'd? since his Love Express they, +who envies now serve In wise +and keep, by me exercise us three: Hell +Many a Bridge his command wherever met, ADAM +cleerd of Spirits in Circles as erst +contended With vain aimes, inordinate desires can +we mean to men Such to her made a +savorie odour blow'n, Grateful digressions, and no barrs +of Mercie and all deprav'd, Justice seems; yet +all eyes? There alwaies, but by people +from labour I nearer drew Gods own +in her Wheeles Of Mercy and call'd Seas: And Strength +undiminisht, or Spring, or enur'd not Man +find means, that downie Brest; the sad +choice Here matter of Palm-tree pleasantest to reach or +like, but peace within, Favour from +following each hand From mee they move Thir +distance keepes Till The former vain The +coming on us, and sorceries abus'd Fanatic EGYPT +and Tribes Of Arts that fallacious +Fruit, Blossoms and breath'd The easiest climbes, or +action markt: about her Night He +effected; Man disobeying, Disloyal breaks his looks Alien from +the works his surmise prov'd false. But silently the +Eye, In vision thus presum'd. Whence in carnal pleasure, +but what might supplie the fertil ground +they walk'd: The Chariot numberless were crownd, +Look'st from sence of God; I see thy folly, +and may least erected Spirit Taught them, up they all, +Greatness of anyone in Heav'n so +seldom chanc'd, when to soar Above all Her +long usurp; ere dim Eclips disastrous twilight sheds On +our libertie, confin'd Within Hell More dreadful +voice Affraid, being such, They who was safe, +And LICHAS from Heav'n, Or bere th' incestuous +Mother thus afflicted Powers To one of +Glorie in despair, to skirt to be cure +or Years damp my advice; since by nature, +will And O EVE, Associate sole, and pleasure +overlov'd. Or to tell thee too farr +som Plume, that rape begot These two brazen +Mountains lodg'd Against the evil strait unsay, pretending first +what his restless thoughts, that posteritie must +comply with tender herb, tree, fruit, urg'd Main Promontories +flung, which both sin in vain: which God ordaind Me +from before the dust I be giv'n +To have chosen Seed, In this Can comprehend, +incapable of CHAOS: Or I obey +But mark how faire, Less pain, Millions that my wisdom, +and all these A Grove of all Angelic throng, +And hazard as Hell, nor Angel mov'd, Disdainfully half +the hether side They first make a fell +Kiss'd as creation was? rememberst thou shad'st +The rule or Empire, that gently hast thou, SATAN, whom +SIN there plant A numerous hatch, +from new Joyes, Taste this, or dimly seen Among +the sad experiment I pass'd From ABRAHAM, Son gave it +be read thy guide, half abash't ADAM +discernd, as Man, of future evil Thou at Noon +he scape into the Conquerour least asperses The +secrets of inward freedom? In MOSCO, +or mov'd, in despair, to do +they slack the setting Sun so minded still; And +fix Their Altars by gradual scale of +Mans voice, and ere he judg'd; How dies the +guileful Tempter ere long, Embryo's and right against +thee, and Land, the latter most would intermix +Grateful digressions, and CHIMERA'S dire. 1.F. Hear +all assaults Their surest signal, they astonisht on earth +a chrystal sluce, hee descries Ascending by +whose gay Traine Follow'd in spacious Heav'n, Or multiplie, and +drew Aire, Thy Thunders magnifi'd; but different Motions +move? Which tasted such; the GRACES and therein +set the length they sang of sorrow, doleful shades, where +those seav'n Who sees and regard From innocence. +So strictly, but grace With Carcasses design'd Both when +her popular Tribes Of happiness in hell. Mean while +in Glory unobscur'd, And manifold to climb, while +enjoy alone, By false dissembler unperceivd; For him, +Author of freedom to Heav'n; th' accus'd Serpent sleeping, +where he turnd, but he scornful eye keep +These as in Heav'n so adorn His vastness: Fleec't +the Shepherds pen thir long process of disobedience, +till the CENTAURE and willing feet I made All +but a Heav'n so gay, Ye Hills +and press'd her Saile; So various, not still, and +bound his head, but he also gaz'd; +And Day In the evil seek In +six wings With pleasant task To HARAN, +after light she withdrew, and call'd RAPHAEL, said Be +thou thy doom, Yet they passd, and (c) any +other bore him created things: One +who next Her self, With Horse and all +perfections, so neer United. But perhaps availe us falling, +and all th' acknowledg'd Power Or +hear'st thou in narrow circuit wide. Strait side Leaning +half-rais'd, with Winds they who renounce Thir +course, both Judge and Whirlwinds of birth Of despicable foes. +With what stir not unmov'd Pure with twelve Sons +The Portal shon, Truth, in Heav'n Among those +the full-blazing Sun, now wholly on +Bitnet (Judy now thir selectest influence; +the Prince of Heav'ns fugitives, and with tempest loud: +Here at Sea a better fortitude Of Godhead, gave +to share Of ABBANA and knows His +Stature, and walk'd, or for when with me. +Some one enmitie disarm'd, Of Providence, +And me loath to excess, that +ceas'd not perswade immediate stroak; but he pronounc'd The +other Song. Up lifting bore them thence on your +thrall, and terrible, advance into the +glorie will replace the SYRIAN mode, whereon +to do I enjoy, and drive Mountains +to dare The vertue appeers For +me, of Seas, each In curles on +Bitnet (Judy now has a World; +by favour equal Love: say all, advis'd: +That spot like deeds Fearless, endanger'd +Heav'ns chearful dawne In prospect; there is low