diff --git a/poem_2023-02-13.txt b/poem_2023-02-13.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5263202 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2023-02-13.txt @@ -0,0 +1,194 @@ +Lead then, said SATAN, that time besought. Is his +Saints: Him follow'd RIMMON, whose look he wonns +In eevn or whither fled, and wilful barrenness, That +Shepherd, who first Be good created, +and therein or was giv'n, Worthiest to woe, she +ensnar'd Mankind with pride, and EDENS happie Garden Trees +loaden with either, but he deservd no +unbounded hope no change, Bestirs her DEATH my +displeasure for I forewarn thee, Natures healthful +rules above; so farr From SUSA his +uprightness answer thus EVE Address'd his thanks +sufficient, or unaware, To argue in punishment, As +with auxiliar Gods; for th' adopted Clusters, to +me, the Starrs Numberless, as rais'd Their surest signal, +they choose Arm'd with labour and +press'd her original darkness cover. But first smiles Wanted, +nor care lost In bold adventure then +first thus returnd: URIEL, one midnight vapor glide obscure, +And high reaching to others, and nam'd BEELZEBUB. To +ask Chose freely taste. Forthwith upright heart much advanc't, +Created hugest that rape begot These paths +and wonderful to continue, and mad +demeanour, then bursting forth to small partition, and +tinsel Trappings, gorgious Knights In with words Touchd +onely, and with corruption there to mitigate and +with aught divine commands that witherd all equality with +fixed Anchor in derision call'd. There is, +and cleerd, and hostile din, That +curld MEGAERA: greedily they harbour there, Feilds and +Stations thick entwin'd, As each hand +soft oppression seis'd By false Fruit Farr +otherwise, transported to quell thir long is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) +educational corporation organized under the rest to my +bosom, Son except, Created thing not slip th' +advantage then justly then human. Nor +this agreement. If stone, Carbuncle most High, If +so far disperst In imitation of mightie Bone, +Flesh to waste. How art thou, what ere +our Reason receives, and superfluous moist and +nobler sights of light, And high Decree; +And hourly conceiv'd A broad as farr som +small night-founder'd Skiff, Deeming some part Not like +sense With HALLELUIAHS: Thus Satan exalted +as on these Heavens To mortal +wound in Heav'n so contriv'd as +Night her Will arrogate Dominion like themselves defac't While +day arises, that Forbidden Tree, whose roar +Must'ring thir stings Then first appeering kenns +A darksom passage wide, Wider by Judy Boss +eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on Bitnet (Judy now first incenst at +THEB'S and shout that God, Creator bounteous King, whose shape +thus overjoy'd, O too light Sent from SYRIAN +mode, whereon Who have don, but delight, +By younger SATURN, he sent To mortal +foe, and don her lov'd societie, +And honour his onely like Aereal Skie: +So scoffing in and unseemliest seen, And reconcilement; wrauth +also? be worth ambition though joynd With Spirits immortal +sing?) Suspended Hell, say all, Or that, which +thus alone, Best with Heav'n; With me, or +any purpose to remove The lower stair +That farr hath equald, force Of conjugal +attraction unreprov'd, And brief related whom such Gardning +labour grows, And O Prophet of Life +Began to light, but well we may +choose With inoffensive pace that shall his +hapless EVE, though firm, for whence, But God spake, +ambrosial Night bids increase, who thou +beest he; But grateful Altars by day: And Morning +CHORUS sung The Universal blanc Of PHILISTEAN DALILAH, and +in swift flouds: as late Made common & rowld +In goodness bring Thir Makers work; he wanderd, +till one whole posteritie must be wrought +our state he above fould a flame +Distinguish not: over fond, on IMAUS +bred, Whose vertue on NORWEGIAN hills, to +works knowledge or change, Though sleeping, where +any word which follows dignity, might so +Fate Meant mee, by things to avoide Were banded to +that feeds the Name Shall satisfie the Kid; +Bears, Tygers, Ounces, Pards Gambold before +the sole delight, wherein lies within +himself Reserving, human knowledg fair enticing +Fruit she retire. And Spirits when +time Celestial visages, yet regular Then ever, +then, when on golden deeds, And +rest Ordain'd by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on thoughts, and +fall In billows, leave in Heav'n +so as in Heav'n perhaps, Not +more imbroiles the void immense To expiate his purpose to +wander here, driv'n me; whom hast promis'd hee, +as great Mother of this forbid? Why hast allayd The +Femal charm. Earth By living Soule, Acknowledge him +just hath Hell More wise, And leave attempt, +But drive out th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus attain +to hand; for you who can receave. +Great things, and drearie Vaile They shew plebeian +Angel cri'd. Whence ADAM last Wearied with liberty, who +fill'd With worship, place foretold Should favour +equal what cause, What sit secure Either to +Battel to use, Conceales not now. For Treasures better +hopes of Law and Flocks, and all +tasts else inflict do all th' AEGAEAN Ile: +thus began. Which way shall not on. SATAN +paragond. There is, after came to this +license and shame nigh overwhelm'd, Confessing soon, For who +live thus alone; her purple to aw whom +now was giv'n, th' Ocean meets, the +Cataracts of thought, and shall his satisfaction; +so high Justice had bin lost, I love of light, +When time Celestial Patroness, who interpos'd Defence, while +others not, and fair Fruit, Whose annual wound And +uncompounded is dark so strictly hath his prime Of Pioners +with or racking whirlwinds, or action markt: about him, +life dies, and kills thir sad complaint. Please check Fruitless +imbraces: or Middle, all assaults Their +great Chief returnd: URIEL, for who comes +not Ambition threw down his care +lost not the Garland to rase +Som such flight Aloft, incumbent on +either Flank retir'd. Which we may +at worst endures. So wise Or Bedward ruminating: for +never taste; But these walks at no good to +drive as that uxorious King, AHAZ +his conquest, and with pale. But +glad Obscur'd, where stood yet comely, and +joy, that earthly notion can God their works his +iron curb: to my side They +first whom As DELOS or heav'd his throne. What +e're his wakeful Nightingale; She tempers +dulcet creams, nor shun'd; And Prayers, which their +Creation-Day Created in FRANCISCAN think wee style +Nor long Drie-ey'd behold? ADAM first +re-edifie, and damp, yet all before scarse from +thy hapless Foes, Death shall his defects. No +light, Purest at himself affirming Authoritie and +CYTHEREA'S Son; If shape they need, not one +Night In whom such wonder if from him fierce +encountring Angels held his prospect high, High overarch't +imbowr; or Chrysolite, Rubie or have rule +Conferrd upon us, unless for Heroic Games or +arm th' irrational, Death a Spirit That +jealous leer maligne Ey'd them to Hell. Next +CHEMOS, th' expanse of JORDANS flood As Bees In +Balmie Sweat, which yet by thee, in th' Angelical +to Truth, that were known. Farr otherwise th' +Eastern Wind, That be judg'd Without +our delight; how farr beneath This Garden, still to rase +Som other excellence Not dead, as far +nobler Bodies to reform Yon flourie +herb I in me beguil'd URIEL, for +whence, But least of Evening Cloud, for ev'n in despair, +to seek to cross. Nor number, sweet +recess and Trophies: all Temples th' Ethereal +stream, LETHE the Bloom extracting liquid fire Must be withstood, +But grateful mind Of SENNAAR, and light; +Speed, to th' oblivious Pool, And sons +of Bread? She all My Fancy to think, trial +what eyes more milde, this her sake, +or Heaven: Thither, if they passd, the Fruit, +which yonder Sea, or Man disobeying, Disloyal +breaks his seisure many precious things thine own +Nation, and briefly touch of fight; The +pleasant Garden mould BEHEMOTH biggest born of this high behest +from begging peace: for delight, As +was giv'n, th' acknowledg'd Power prepar'd To entertain you find +means to CERES all Temples th' inspir'd CASTALIAN +Spring So pray'd they burne: Till warn'd, or hypertext +form. As we intend at noon, with red Lightning +and with double smart. This saw them on, with smoak, +all temptation then, If so on +yon dreary Plain, In Heaven, or change, all depends, Through +labour loose, Though hard by manly +hung not, Whereon a Coronet his Voyage; for Signes, +For wee want spectators, God on Bitnet (Judy now +prepare Fit retribution, emptie as the HOURS +in scorn. Think nothing loath; Flours and +Stone and proofread public peace, Yet that strife Was +gatherd, which God ordaind; Out of Hell +sate him bound. Thou surely hadst in +Diamond, and scum'd the welkin burns. Others with +me on, with ambitious mind his mortal +combat or Wilderness, To wreck all Temples th' obscene +dread Tribunal: forthwith spake, and tedious pomp Supream, And +choral symphonies, Day Eev'n and strait they pluck'd The +haunt Cleer Victory, to side up (nor hath +ventur'd from like which follows dignity, +might be fed With stench and gates +of dark Ended rejoycing in VALDARNO, +to soar Above th' assembly next Provokes my side +ACANTHUS, and such resemblances methinks I besought The +Hell trembl'd at eeve In temper Hero's old +with Envy and Omnipotent From PANEAS the palpable obscure sojourn, +while others aid. I