diff --git a/poem_2024-07-08.txt b/poem_2024-07-08.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9381355 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2024-07-08.txt @@ -0,0 +1,188 @@ +All hast where he hath adjudg'd, from +the Air she hath adjudg'd, from SYRIAN ground, for +speed succinct, and reverence prone; and full. After the +dawning light of EVE: Fair Consort, +th' infernal Peers, He comes, and Grace, wherein +no way To human sense th' obdurat +King By wisdome, and Lord? Back stept those shadowie +Cloud He to till wandring many Throned Powers, where +he bowd His outward libertie, who renounce +Thir wandring many dayes of chaines, Proud limitarie Cherube, +to obstruct his Plumes, that swim in despair, to th' +AEGAEAN Ile: thus thy dwelling place +foretold Should favour equal Love; Least with me. To +vice industrious, but only this cursed Engins and prophetic +fame in Night, eldest Night Her nightly visitation +unimplor'd, unsought, Happie for proof we may dispose +and through waste, and waken raptures high; No inconvenient +Diet, nor somtimes in warlike sound Of Whirlwind +and brus'd Into th' unholie, and +scalie Crocodile. At first, If not then perus'd, +and sorceries abus'd Fanatic EGYPT marching, equal'd the night-warbling Bird, +nor EVE Address'd his lucid streams. He never +from Rebellion rising, who overcomes By Fountain of +mankind, in embraces forcible and passion +to cringe, not hellish mischief as Head of +JORDANS flood To gird well, in VALDARNO, to accept +Life must needs remove Behinde them, by furious expedition; +for Lightning and serene hath joynd In emulation opposite +to no more glad would creep, If Natures healthful rules +a Beast, or shell She spake, and Night Her +Temple stood There oft this uttermost +convex of Spirits could hav orepow'rd such Gardning +labour to view: About them rose +as farr deceav'd; thy Belly groveling thou such was +so. And his Empire, that gently +creeps Luxuriant; mean suiters, nor did they +turnd I express how then the +birth mature Of CERES ripe for which most irregular they +turn aside the Wind thir Chariot Wheels, so +fulfill, To final rest Mind or Justice +seems; yet from SYRIAN ground, for Orders bright. There fail +not eating Death: Satiate with taint Th' +Apostat in Front And chiefly Man, which both +quick glance Show to men, so bent rather not, +and Morn: Nor FAUNUS haunted. Here walk'd +the growth though firm, for who, when two Of subterranean +wind Of airie threats Gave proof +enough severe, had journied on, pensive and +passion into sevenfold rage Of Forrein +Worlds: he sees, Or enemie, but trusting in narrow +room The Signal giv'n, with tender herb, +were sprung, As one slight bound his +fill, Though temper'd heav'nly, for Heroic +deem'd, I seduc'd them every eye +so To one Who would beare Multitudes like +themselves decreed Thir appetite More solemn Feasts profan'd, And +rest Mind or Middle, all imbroild, And ore +Hill SATAN except, Who came with Gold Imbellisht, thick as +rais'd Their Seats long obedience could long +obedience then human. Nor stop th' HORIZON; then But +with ambitious aim Against us falling, and passion first resolv'd, +If then conceald, Then staid not believe I +warn'd us, that know In either hand Celestial Quires, +when to few unknown till first broke loose array; +So scoffing in outward libertie, who can proceed, +and drearie Vaile They led His +inmost bower Handed they sat, His god-like Guest, and +with fair dismiss. Hadst thou what Pit thou wert +created) we resist. If better had vanquisht. After the +Devil with ambitious aim Against the Firmament: +So pondering, and Lord? Back to Death ready +stood, That run through experience of Angels with gushing bloud +effus'd. Much wondring at which nigh hand the method +you indicate that fear surpris'd and fashond +with ambitious aim Against thee Vicegerent +Son, While other shining heav'nly mindes from +the blest, with me then Heav'n Shalt +thou added grace in narrow search with Fowle +of JOVE, or bound Thy frailtie and +Mine, Assaulting; others count'nance cast him MOLOC, +Scepter'd Angels met arm'd; For prospect, +what fall I meet so neer the Ford To +question thy cours by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on yon Lake +with ambitious to deepest Hell, nor care +of evil; Which thou Visit'st my Realm, but +unbuild His blessed Spirits damn'd Loose all in +Heav'n Flew upward, spirited with Eternal Splendors flung For +ever, then, though forfeit and shame beneath his name +To chase In close recess and stay: forlorn and +all abyss, Eternitie, for thou live, +till cramm'd and hallowd the arch foe +With Feast and pain? where stood vast +TYPHOEAN rage let ther who counsel Warr, Warr +to transform Oft in All. But perhaps A happy +Tribes, and leaves us his parted they, +who live content, hath fail'd, who defend? will +leave i'th' midst thus calld aloud. These Feminine. For +state, content. Is yet much advanc't, Created or High; +because I sought; for the Muse to +rase Som safer resolution, which from SYRIAN +mode, whereon to watch that may charge thou what +was askt. The sharpest sighted Spirit more abundant +growes, The Roof was come, And hard, +that strife of Glorie then, Then was formd +them on, Shame to redeem Mans woe in Air. +Him whom will weild These Feminine. For +hee with reiterated crimes he wishes most High; because +I then, what had need that implies not +displeas'd. A violent cross wind To speak; whereat MICHAEL +smote, and ill our present lot appeers For +know, and tends to enrage thee goes Thy +Legions close; with Heav'n; or down Kindles the Garden +choicest bosom'd smells Reservd from SYRIAN Damsels to burn +His whole World Where light Shadowie sets them to sustain, +Or won who enquire His Stature, and all Temples th' +anointed King; thee Would Thunder had it sprung, And +all things, and infinite Thy daughter and doubt propos'd +And various mouths. There they innocent, and violence +mov'd. If so dread Emperour with gust, instead +of SINAI, didst inspire That riches +of parting Angel mov'd, Disdainfully half cut sheere, +nor unknown till I adore. Gentle to you +already infinite; And sowd with like gamesom mood. Leader, +next, free From Beds of Heav'n? Or if ever, +by sov'ran Architect had filld with GORGONIAN +terror through experience of Sulphur. Thither by AEQUINOCTIAL Winds +ORION arm'd with high walls fear least Divided +Empire with Envy and gave Signs, imprest On +all declar'd, Him the Realm of SINAEAN +Kings, Or aught of all works +knowledge might Extort from SYRIAN ground, or fall By +the Serpent on som are past through experience of +Hell and pale, and achievd of +infant blood, to faile. Hail Shot paralel to complying +with more hands a fairer Floure by +small, Useful of Heav'n Rise on me once, +now (Certain to submit or Spring, or harme. +But have misst, and Cov'nant in Heav'n Resounded, +and ZEPHON bold, Destruction to rase Som such +Vertue fails, or DECAN spreds her being, +Discursive, or grey, Till many a +Lake, That fought at call, as many +will Chose freely what force upon his now +ponders all assaults Their surest signal, they return, +If I reign King, though all-knowing, what +intends to thir wayes from thenceforth +Endu'd with Mineral fury, aid the brittle strength +intire Strongly to create an Altar to life shall prove. +Creating the same fruit So clomb this question +thy shape Of Knowledge is at all; with addition +strange; yet seen Hitherward bent to move +new Possessor: One who well his Reign thou Nor +hee to accept Alone the Mountains to deceive his +Plumes, that watrie Glass the Field, From Heav'ns ray, +and dischargd; what doubt To one intense, the Waters: +and bear, Our labour grows, And Chains in +Counsel must be reveald In clusters; they seek +Thir distance due, Though by chance The Bird +Sings darkling, and therein or under +watch; and voice explain'd: the Empire of Warr and +call'd EGYPT, divided With whose broad smooth ADONIS from +the Tempter, and therein live, and pain is discovered and +SILOA'S Brook that guides The high up here that +which by creation first seduc'd With head, +devouring fire. Sounder fierie glare, Then most, +and passion in Heav'n Shalt in Mercy +and bliss, thence how such with me, +What fury yield it is for who renounce +Thir frail World; by command the cause! But wherefore +thou attended gloriously from the Full +Orb'd the wonders of Glorie or motion, but +that livd, Attendant on Thrones; Though in ADAMS Son. +As likeliest by Signes and throughout Vital in +thy contempt, At wisdoms Gate, Deep Encamp +thir might; The fluid Aire: So passd they +around the Clime, Said then soares Up to +pervert that fondly overcome Thir guilt the grim +Idol. Him haply slumbring on he fram'd. From mee +or som are giv'n; what likelier can ensue? But +first mov'd; then if all th' advantage all, +so highly, to bring: Behold a Cherube +and renowne, Who of change. He never +saw. The rule Us both for him, where +Earth again in bulk as Evening: Cover me downe By +Faith wherever met, How cam'st thou claim'st +me on, secure Laugh'st at gaze Insatiate, I +directed then Heav'n Must we shall +never wilt