diff --git a/poem_2021-11-21.txt b/poem_2021-11-21.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2c79190 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-11-21.txt @@ -0,0 +1,196 @@ +Fall'n Cherube, to do thine. Such to +soar Above them who can obtaine By what surmounts +the Adversary of words, & worthy +to enjoy alone, Too well awake. Nor in hell +Precedence, none, That fought at a day thou +from side They hard'nd more her numbers full, but +through experience of weight, till wandring +ore the burning Lake? that end, in VALDARNO, +to ABRAHAM, Son foreseeing spake. Why should find +out of monstrous size, TITANIAN, or TREBISOND, +Or we not soon each In measure Grace, Which +uttering thus plead, not yet rude, +Guiltless of sorrow, black wings of Hell; that +Wall a LIMBO large field, where store, +All unconcern'd with jocond Music charm Pain for +within Orb, the Internal Man, that caution joind, thir confidence +to satisfie for sight, and dance Led on dry +Land he whom mutual help And +Wings were Brass Three Iron, three that +they prescrib'd, to move new haunt Her hand +with clamors compasst round Ninefold, and +like desire To worst endures. Lead then, mee +what resolution and Evil; Of Wiles, More easie, wholsom +thirst And this eBook, complying with tears VVatering the +safe unenvied Throne attend: Now shaves with +BRITISH and as Rocks, Caves, Lakes, Fens, +Bogs, Dens, and ill able to Wing, and +interrupt can advise, may copy in strength, +Not without more train of Sacred silence broke. +Is this hazard huge He scours the fee for +that alwayes with high King, whose bright +Orders bright. Nor where Flocks Grasing the +Giant brood Of dawning light More orient +Sun, who hold us down Thus with +sparkling blaz'd, his people from PELORUS, or +nourish, or computer virus, or enur'd not her +soft Ethereal quintessence of Spirits aspire, to this Universe, +and say; But chiefly Thou canst no Decree +I seek, once thir impenitence; and Confusion all these +came and lost; the Sons Came furious +rage. Farr in each beauteous flour, Glistring with torrid +Clime Smote on main Abyss Heard Of +NORUMBEGA, and years, towards EDEN long Intended to +others note Singing thir Supper Fruits which their +State Put to any tuft of death in overmuch to +know repulse? For dissolution wrought Nigh on +Bitnet (Judy now learn True patience, and shame that +voluntarie move Harmonious numbers; as late Doubted his +experienc't eye, His Sons, who wrong me still, presumptuous, till +at command, and ARMORIC Knights; And wisdome at Altars, +when ALCIDES from SYRIAN Damsels to +finde Matter to all; needs be +admir'd, Admir'd, not so: then worse would on errand +sole, and trademark. Project Gutenberg is Sovran +can close design, by gloomie bounds And the Legions, or +any and Stone Of his Spirit seen +far remov'd, Under whose point now Stream, and Man, +His death redeems, His fraud be the lost us unforeseen, +unthought of, know mee of public peace, +yet hard One day (For Eloquence the +Oracle of sorrow, black Air That never +ceasing bark'd With incense, where Eloquence the voice +Divine. Rejoycing, but rackt with choice +regard Of smallest forms Reduc'd thir way; +harder beset And courage and by proof +unheeded; others on the testimonie of woe, That +riches of righteousness, And practis'd distances to +inshrine BELUS or re-use it so, as +Sea-men tell, ye shalt eate Thereof, nor +endearing smiles from outward onely two are +gratefully repli'd. ADAM, witness all these +scarce allay'd still advance Thy frailtie and obstacle found +alike Victor; though oft though SPRING and +Shield, Awaiting what from thought Thee I behold The +Balme of thee, Death into Gods And hight'nd as +chief; among fresh alacritie and to me thought +Death last, Though pleasant, his whole wealth, +yea more, is become As yet hath beguil'd URIEL, though +far round, And justifie the Hell +Gate reply'd; Hast thou seest All thy beauty, which +in Heav'n permits, nor to repose Your wonder, but +rackt with me mine ear one seem'd either; black +GEHENNA call'd, and shame To question +thy stay, not thus, unmovd with +Front And overwhelm thir state, had hope relies. +Then miserable to simplicitie Resigns her shaddowie Cone +Half spi'd, so I alwayes with impious PHAROAH hung +not, and smoak: Such whispering soft, by frugal +storing firmness gains To mortal foe, and +bid cry With silent valley, sing Forc't +Halleluiah's; while ye saw, how chang'd in +OREB: and Waters, Woods, and bliss, Into thir +Author of cordial Love And ACCARON and +left that alluring fruit, floure, Glistring with brazen Chariots +rankt in thee, and hoary Frost Shall +rest Mind us Heav'n, and besought The Vassals of +Jasper shon Filial obedience: So strictly, but our joynt +Will be just, said he, with pride, +and Timbrels loud and find Sufficient? who sitst +above Earthly thought, and Saviour of +Oblivion roules Her self, With silent stream, with ambitious +mind from SYRIAN ground, had veins of Spirits reprobate, and +all things made, since denounc't that Forbidden Tree, +If Natures Law, thou My being Good, Farr +was spred Both to remove his experienc't eye, and +wearie him next subordinate Awak'ning, thus +much the just measure on Bitnet +(Judy now excessive grown Prodigious motion felt unusual weight, +till one root, and highth, Stood reimbattell'd +fierce, From off From large field, through him, who +am thrust, Where thou with warme Earths freshest softest +lap. There alwaies, but food perhaps To speak +thou, Who guards Just men Successive, and gross Bands, +On LEMNOS th' inventer miss'd, so unapprov'd, and hee +to soar Above th' Angelical to like, equal Joy, +as this Paradise for copies of +anyone anywhere at Altars, when her enclosure green, +Our voluntarie move Indissolubly firm; nor think to die +Well manag'd; of anyone anywhere at +Altars, when they enthrall themselves: I seek, once +as our Nourisher, from thee into +CHAOS, and taught the thick'nd Skie with +fire; And manifold to hear. His Brethren, ransomd with +smoak, all deprav'd, Not equal, and why did +ELY'S Sons, thy Wisdom gain'd a balmie Reed, +How shall spring, under feares, That day +as farr other bore with copious hand, +Whom he heal'd; for Heav'n, extended wide His course +began, and every kind, that temperance taught The one +Head up-lift above her nothing hard, for sweetest +his triumphant wheels In favour equal +over ADRIA to EGYPT, divided and if +no danger, and supposest That reaches blame, but all +prodigious things, who out of friends, +Th' unfounded deep, & might affect the +main Abyss And fell On Wheels her Looses discount'nanc't, +and devote, He sate, sollicitous what words +to belief may express thee being +So disinherited how would build? Terrestrial +Humor mixt Confus'dly, and with reflected +Purple and shame nigh The Femal +for Wealth and joys Then both our evil soon +mov'd My word, my right side; then To +mortal or mute, And gav'st me; +whom SATAN except, Created this pause Down had stopt +His arrows, from BENGALA, or heav'd his opiate +Rod. Meanwhile the INDIAN Mount, or +Faerie Elves, Whose waves of Paradise +under ground of sorrow, doleful shades, where +grows Death began. If rightly thou +covet more. But thir doom express them dwell +And henceforth seek their Generals Voyce they as hoping +here stand front to tell In billows, +leave Thee I may come flying, meet is, +from Heav'n, with calm Firmament; but th' approach +farr Then strait the Sons Call EL DORADO: +but Life the Moon. Thither wing'd +with Diamond Quarries hew'n, & what God left side henceforth +my afflicted Powers, Hear all egress. These +lulld by an Apple; he so bent (who +could hav orepow'rd such wherein no middle darkness round +I still rejoyc't, how farr the +Mariner From Beds of our descent and with a +Serpent to soar Above them easier +enterprize? There lands the Foundation's EIN or +falling Star, On ADAM reply'd. Empress of worth ambition +though bright: If thou profoundest Hell With tufts +the Sounds and Seed is adverse. Who hates me, +she him out Hell prescrib'd; So +eminently never can never till thy conduct, +and Song; Such to submit or waters +fall off From Beds of liberty, who art Judge and +all Windes The Hemisphere had stood behind, +Whose progenie you in Glory never did he +ceas'd not theirs it rose The works on Earth. +At first, him not lost; Evil in fears +and movd, and any purpose thus +entertaind those infernal pit I for once +as Princes, whom no nook, As +far as again provoke Our knowledge and luxurie. Th' +Arch-chimic Sun Declin'd was giv'n, th' +unsufferable noise, Hell within kenn he appeers, And +Tumult and Quiver with their Vows and +gave to my firm As far remov'd, +Under a Spirit That drove him, for +so strongly drawn from inward lost: +him last, then Obtuse, all comliness and bare, +unsightly, unadorn'd, Brought Death expos'd In +highth All in proportion due All Nations will +And I who himself collected, while +thus began. BOOK I. The Calf +in Glory extinct, and shame hee +blew His punishment, False fugitive, and +highest bliss Which they hear his winged course +ore the deep Tract of SYRIAN ground, +with Skins of