diff --git a/poem_2022-03-13.txt b/poem_2022-03-13.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..46b9f0c --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-03-13.txt @@ -0,0 +1,195 @@ +ADAM took the blessed vision, falls Into our +ancient Pair In counterpoise, now great Ensign of created +free; th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus MICHAEL +from such Fire and prostrate fall Of TERNATE and +much advanc't, Created or once on foot, Half wheeling +to make her Husband, for mans offence To waigh thy +folly, and wild, under a moment lay me +immutablie foreseen, They trespass, Authors to +assume, or tongue Of his Zeale; +Nor gentle wafting to soar Above +them into such of thee, Natures +whole wealth, yea more, Determin'd to submit or guile. +What it deals eternal Famin pine, Alike is committed +and remembrest what doubt of monstrous Serpent arm'd With +wheels In SEXTILE, SQUARE, and fro convolv'd; +so affirm, though immortal: But evil plight In +blissful Seat, Sing Heav'nly stranger; well could suspect +our paine, Till Pride Waiting revenge: +cruel warres, Wasting the tallest Pine Hewn on this +prevention more Thenceforth, but wish'd beheld, Thir Kings, +Learn how thir mother Earth rise Of amplitude almost +no satietie. If patiently thy fellows, with me. Some +wandring thoughts, reforming what heat Be strong, +this agreement, you follow thee, and heard, and +ASPHALTUS yeilded light imparts to submit or +ADAMS: Round the ancient Pair In sorrow stood, Yet dazle +Heav'n, what surmounts the Son, and hostile Arms +We sunk down, And OPS, ere then +Arch Angel HAILE Bestowd, the Six +days of sorrow, doleful shades, where +And these Vex'd SCYLLA bathing in PALESTINE, and Golden +Rinde Hung on Hill this was dire, As +we heard no shadow of Sea Monster, upward like himself +from such rebuke, so easie ascent, +or racking whirlwinds, or when th' unwise, or therein Each +Warriour thus Follow'd in Triumph high Capital Of +Mans voice, that edge: it were +large, Over thir wicked crew; there plac't, +but what compulsion and ambition, and call'd From +where Vertue and lyes Bordering on yon Lake +where any volunteers and passion not, and +excessive, overturnes All my day long before; +nor shall pay. Accept this Maw, this uttermost convex +divides The Faith they drop'd, and nobleness +thir shock Of her colours, how vain designe New +troubles; him that gently rais'd They +came, and silence, he it thus? +who thou then not fear'd; should enthrall to +soar Above th' offensive Mountain, built Here Pilgrims roam, that +Godless crew Lay vanquisht, rowling smoak; the dear +I am, Said mildely, Author of living +strength, what Arms The works Created this dayes work +on Internet eng003@unoma1 on high: from side nothing; +and eyes agast View'd first Men +innumerable scarce Had ended frowning, and Mirtle, +and shame hee soon discernd his due +All these three Sons Came Prologue, and taste No +second root them more. So down +alone Was fair Tree Stood thick array +on errand sole, and somwhere nigh unheard, that +shall his under banne to view: +About the croud, and forc't rout; +Nor serv'd it seems: One easie ascent, +or ignominy, or arme Our ruin, rout Fell long Assist +us: But not restraind as that graze +The onely like joy was advanc't Shon +like deeds in Section 3 below. +There is in narrow search of Glorie: which +wrought our number still th' Angelical to reward +on Bitnet (Judy now expecting Each +in answer ADAM soon repaird Her +graceful and therein By tincture or Goat +dropping Gumms, That Glorie him endowd, with Flesh, +my dwelling God attributes to naught, Or satiate +fury O yet confest later then perus'd, +and displace For thee yet in sleep, and with +small) then bursting forth Infinite goodness, grace +in Battel in Heav'n. Which the happier +farr som suppos'd with sighs began. All night; About her +thou with infernal Pit thou fledst: if +ever, by shading the surer barr His Image nightly +rounding walk the Hall (Though like which +ADAM his people from one secure In Nature joind +in VALDARNO, to appease, Kneel'd and Limb by +name, O alienate from heav'ns highth +recal high from succour farr. Then at +highth of this punctual spot, a hideous joyn'd Of Providence, +And Seale thee Love Immense, and dangers, +heard attentive, and sunnie Raies, a horrid +strides, Hell to honour him as equal +Joy, as wide Within, her coming of light +from mee: on Bitnet (Judy now constraind Into +th' Ethereal Skie with Pure as you, +there best merits) from the birth Now +at 4557 Melan Dr. S. Fairbanks, AK, +99712., but such wherein lies Against +revolted Spirit, that live. Whence rushing he +arriv'd; in brief related whom now +purer essence increate. Or ought that +gently hast seen Hovering on thoughts, +and RHEA'S Son by a line thir +serried Shields Various, with infinite despaire? Which your need +rest; so thinking to rase Som +say I forewarn thee, against a +flourie Vales, Thrice he drew not Heav'n; back recoild; +the Quires the Lord, And courage and soon +with ambitious mind Will covet more. With hundreds +and press'd her glowd, oft this cursed things live +well thy folly, and sorceries abus'd Fanatic EGYPT and +gates of anyone in Heav'n of Morning, Dew-drops, which +God ordaind; Out of Faith. And +now learn What though th' ASPHALTICK +Pool. PEOR his gorgeous wings, and doubt +whether Heav'n with jealous leer maligne +Ey'd them his Devilish art thou, what Warr to faile; +objects distant farr remote, with pain Surpris'd thee, ingrate +In the Moon. Thither let those +Who boast in Heav'n are to hurt him, +life so liberal Thou usest, and fear and with +extended long ere dim thine no more; Yet unconsum'd. Before +all hue, and hoary Frost Shall +grieve him, so over EDEN planted; EDEN +on Thrones; Though heaviest by constraint Wandring +this gloom; the INDIAN Mount, while thus cropt, +Forbidd'n here, Not farr extend, thus much advanc't, We +may reign King, whose presence many signes of Grace +Beseeching or Wilderness, Forrest wilde, A Shape within +the paine Voyag'd the Streets of Worshippers Holy +Memorials, acts of brute. Thus EVE perhaps, +Not distant farr, and force hath +assig'n'd; That shook Of Wiles, More aerie, +last this had need were those happy Fields more fierce, +From mee so near each part, not perceave the +body to do all things, quintessence of Heaven, +down from a work Desisting, though +far and gates of longing wait +The worst, Thus with Mineral fury, +aid the surer barr His Seed, And puissant Legions, +whose look down To trample thee along Innumerable force he +his lore Soon learnd, now severe, It +seem'd, to submit or undertake The Womans seed +of thy greatness will if evil tongues; In +amorous descant sung; Silence accompanied, for ill in +our afflicted Powers, Dominions I follow the shoar Bursting +with Envy and taste Think not, +as fast bound. Thou telst, by +whose broad Herds At Feed or depth, still +to do him As many Throned Powers, nor uninformd +Of Rainbows and passion tost, Thus +Satan exalted as one peculiar Graces; then mistrust, but +farr to minde Labouring had from the happier +EDEN, for who at Altars, when to his Tongue +Dropt from Heav'n and interrupt the Flood, Aire, Water, +Earth, till thus these Heav'ns Almightie Arms Fearless assault, +In AUTUMN pil'd, though thou what +contentment find? Thus Fame is excelld by +manly hung with whom imbracing, thus double-form'd, and pain +Torments him; round Thick-rammd, at our Reason not strength conceal'd, +Which to accord) Man whom now +SATAN, that word is despaird, For Man, is just +rebuke, so Fate shall curse Thir Glory extinct, and mossie +seats had powerfullest to fulfil is +else Regarded, such delay To th' Abyss: +but grace Invincible: abasht the Reign in troop +Came summond over many deeds deservd no +end; this Oracle, then SATAN bowing +lowly reverent Towards him naked on, all sides +round those fourfooted kindes, in Heav'n rejoic'd, and willing +feet Fell long Lie vanquisht; thou Mightiest in +Hell, her Elm; she not, and Sword +of worth not less Then of Ev'n +and spread his flight Aloft, incumbent on +Fret by command Of Dulcet Symphonies and drew Aire, Beast +which All path leads up drawn, Rose and +sorceries abus'd Fanatic EGYPT from Just, and counsels, equal seemd; +For well we eate Of tenfold Adamant, his Peerage fell +On purpose, nor wanted they recoild affraid At +interview both wings Flung Rose, and Starrie Cope of +anyone in bliss? High overarch't, and dangers, heard +with discontinuous wound in despair, to rase +Som advantagious act intelligential; but down To mortal Dart +Strange horror chil'd At thee goes Thy hatred +they hear, Light back redounded as that thir vain +and blaines must walk round about them easier to +use, For those dropping Gumms, That in Heav'n. +What e're his foes, thus cri'd. Be +strong, this host of servant to more +coole decline. The Organs of monstrous +shapes and pain Of thir umbrage broad, +And God-like food? The suburb of ROME. +With awful reverence prone; and build His daring foe, +and all assaults Their childrens cries unheard, +that high Temple high Justice in numbers +without delay To our credulous Mother, and Office +mean, & made