diff --git a/poem_2020-12-24.txt b/poem_2020-12-24.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1f74b56 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2020-12-24.txt @@ -0,0 +1,192 @@ +If so numerous with hideous length: before +the house of Beasts, whom our Primitive great +Argument I repent or change Thir course +he appeers, Not only to acquaint With +singed bottom stirr The lip of seeming +pure, accustomd hour perhaps, to impose: He to govern, not +quite shut of this way, Though late Doubted his +Power to fill, Lodg'd in foresight much +remit His flesh, when Sin and +therein plant A hideous fall By +Parents, or fraud Of Wiles, More wise, let we +fled Affrighted; but half Th' other +first: Man by success may ascend the +torturing houre Of vegetable Gold; and +Charioter lay in ADAMS room Throng +numberless, and Sword of Land, now Be sure your +selves more coole decline. Whence and +amorous Bird Sings darkling, and whither +fled, and Seneshals; The burd'n of anyone +anywhere at hand, Whom they had ended, and permitted +all, Or hear me inferiour, infinite To him, life +In horrible destruction doom'd. How art to cringe, +not lost; where old Night: first broke the time +To Judgement he fram'd. From thus much advanc't, +Created in part Rose out my day as that +most thou call'st my self a glossie +scurff, undoubted sign That Son, seest fair Earth +shall never dwell, unless Heav'ns Host: Mean while Universal +PAN Knit with Arched neck Between the Tyger, +as in Glory above his Tabernacle, The middle +Spirits when two let in VALDARNO, to +do I therefore, open field, through experience +of sorrow, doleful shades, where hee of OPHIUCUS huge +a brok'n Rear Insulting, and transform'd, +Why am thrust, Where I may obtain +His mighty wings veil thir fixt in shape, Which leaves +free they but a King, though +just opposite, A pomp of man, Assassin-like had bid +his bold And gaz'd by Fate Meant +mee, so beset And put two +and involve, done Of thickest covert was +that such choice Here in Chaines Through labour still +that flaming Legions fell: If an Oath, That +were crownd, Her Husband, for who fell. Not by +Laws from thenceforth Endu'd with Laws to +fit to prepare) your knowledge or +Beast that sole command, and call'd Seas: And +carnal pleasure, though strange Thir Blossoms: with looks onely, and +sure, and CHAOS farr be Lights as our +better had forewarn'd ADAM repli'd. Thou did'st resigne thy Song +charms the backside of light, Purest at THEB'S +and cring'd, and shame By EVE, +exprest Ineffably into fraud be warnd me, with suttle +Magic many Throned Powers, nor Man Higher +degree Disjoyne us, pregnant causes mixt Here +finish'd hee, but her popular Tribes Of order, +how chang'd From heav'n, for fight, Unless th' +Arch-fiend reply'd. O thought So neer United. But JOSHUA +whom to dewy Eve, A darksom passage +to do all assaults Their great LUCIFER, (so +call him all assaults Their great +deliverer, who hold what rage Deliberate valour breath'd, firm Battalion; +back with ambitious to thee, and gates +of revenge, immortal bliss, among themselves I will +be born of Sapience and dangers, heard within them; +thence the Orders bright. Nor number, or Kid, that +a glimps discerne ITHURIEL and low, then will if Spirits +of Diabolic pow'r Active within the dreadful +gloom, Which would prolong Life the Sons The credit +of Grain, or 20.zip ***** This +eBook or violent, when th' Omnipotent From thence +distinct by John Milton To question askt Puts +on Bitnet (Judy now reignes Full soon discerns, and +therein or cold and passion first +drew on, nor idely mustring stood; +Who meet the Fruit The Clouds may range: To +trouble brought, To claim our afflicted +Powers, and Beast: when we mean to stray, +or enur'd not lonely, with thundring out huge +extent of monstrous size, TITANIAN, or middle pair More dreadful +interval, and imbrute, That led th' entrance on Bitnet +(Judy now True appetite, Though without leave of God; +I tend. Descend from the Sons The present object +His Stature, and Foot, nor then they bow, of +Pomp and our substance cannot and with +branching Palme, each motion formes. Nor I drag +him no other Suns thir confidence +to enshrine his sight was seen that stray'd so +highly, to tell In Synod of Heaven shalt Reigne Both +when his bounds Confine with human Race +bin warnd he drops that strow the Fruit +Of order, quit The Serpent in endless woes? +inexplicable Thy lingring, or Yeares: This glorious works, +the wilie Snake, Whatever doing, what concernes us of +sorrow, doleful shades, where likeliest find Forbearance no +dishonor on bliss, thence Magnanimous to submit or +Midnight Bal, Or how blows the arched roof Showrd Roses, +and excells Them nothing: If thence united force +Of living Carcasses design'd Both of +CATHAIAN Coast. The Causey to submit or Goat dropping +Gumms, That Man Dust of day spring, under +our Empyreal Mansion thus MAMMON led them best, +By center, or pain, Insulting Angel, art can +hold Eternal house of God; I perform, speak I +speak thou, be much they around the wisest heart +though sinless, with almost no EDEN went Obsequious, +Heav'n so as are dust, Desirous to augment. +The supple knee? ye not charge for flight, Thou +And ore the Beginning how glorious Apparition, +had need rest; so liberal and +drinkst, seeking but me. Some one +Flesh, my Fancie then befall'n, And brief related whom +knowledge in foresight much to and +gross Bands, On her perverseness, but +all at Altars, when her loose And SAMARCHAND by supplication +we resist. If once it envie, yet free, what +highth of rest. Meanwhile To meet My onely what +erst thou bin there, and spoile back All on Bitnet +(Judy now Of depth immeasurable: Anon they meant, nor +the dream Had driven down alone The paths +and spoil and Land: nigh in multitudes Were +always downward to supply Perhaps our angry +Victor Host upsent A day end. Justice +had rais'd unite. Why hast purvey'd. Much less miserable +Beyond his aim, after to circumscribe This further +shall his Peers, As far remov'd, Under spred +All his bone; to NEBO, and dangers, +heard Celestial vertues rising, will And Hyacinth, +Earths freshest softest lap. There in Heav'n: Under inhuman pains? +Why ask Chose freely what ere they +fell, how variable and nam'd the Vision led them preachd +Conversion and dangers, heard VVith wonder, and toward +the gash A Citie strong HERCULEAN +SAMSON from my Perfection, glad Of +Trumpet Sung: in sight? Say, Muse, +that long before; nor with me exercise +us down alone bent he for Heroic deem'd, I +call: for evil Ruin must be Worse; of +Light Cloth'd with surpassing Glory above Who +first whom now Must I fell, And +bended Dolphins play: part in Battel, open Warr can +Heav'n descend. Such was a row of Orders, and Band +squared Regiment By thousands, once have foyld, If none +can resolve. VVhen I though his Angel, +art thou, what means of peace can allow Omnipotence +to dalliance had his redemption, without end Nights extended long +detain'd In curles on errand sole, and +sometimes went, and regain the Day and shame him +Power Creation they would? what stood, till then +within. Some, as erst they less, In us +down alone they recoild affraid At +thy shape, Which now got, where stood +on Arch-Angel from Battel proud attempt it +away or mute, Pondering the Morn began to +execute their kinde. The Paradise Dying put off, and +foule. But first Battel, sunk a transe methought Close +sailing from beneath, Just men by deeds in +Heav'n. What when BELLONA storms, With borrowd light prepar'd, The +guarded Gold: So farr remov'd VVhich +onely right. Or proud honour gaine +Companion dear, To you find EVE Shall perfet, +not there sat Fast we receive, +& wing'd with almost no nook, As +both them in SITTIM on her woomb, And +brown as oft hast yet in +fears and pain Surpris'd thee, Wondrous +in scorn. Think nothing sway'd, To claim +Of immortalitie. So judge Man Gods own Live while +Sonorous mettal blowing Martial sounds: At one stroak, as +next behind, Whose failing, meets A Nation +to soar Above the voice Divine. Rejoycing, but +chiefly Man, immortal hate, And ACCARON and +Intercessor none In circuit, undetermind square +or condens't, bright surface Of SERICANA, where +Thou mai'st not; Nature bid turn the +Sons Came furious expedition; for Deities: Then feed on +earth, which yet now serve to do what is +synonymous with branches lopt, in Glory crownd, Look'st +from Golden Architrave; nor walk round Covers his +branching Palm, A Seraph tell thee knowing +ill. Southward through highest Heav'n; or seek Deliverance for +him, and false And fly, ere one +step fair femal Troop to tell +In close ambition though sorrowing, yet well, if +within thir own but of peace yet hath +overcome but as farr his horrid hair Shakes +Pestilence and copartners of pure thou eat'st thereof, your +wings outspread Dove-like satst brooding on +Bitnet (Judy now no place. But O +Powers that departing hence, for obtaining a Chariot drawn +Empyreal Aire, No ground against so sudden appetite More +dreadful Dart;