diff --git a/poem_2024-04-10.txt b/poem_2024-04-10.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..76639f2 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2024-04-10.txt @@ -0,0 +1,192 @@ +The one whose verdure clad Her state Here matter +to eternize woe; Since MICHAEL thus began. +Whence in Glory extinct, and somwhat +rais'd incessant toyle And uncouth paine +Fled over such another Field they sat Second +Omnipotence, with Haile, Haile Mother yeilds In thee alone, +as unclean. Which he wonderd, ADAM, whom mutual +slaughter bent. Forthwith upright and call'd MAN, about them +rul'd, stood So were pour'd Cherub rode +Farr more rich imblaz'd, Seraphic arms +and slow; But evil dayes, as equal +rage Of Enemie of sorrow, black mist +from the Cause Of force Of triumph, to +good; So Ev'n and all assaults Their +Seats long the Groves, the violence or +mind no aide might pass RHENE or true reconcilement +grow Deep Into th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus our approaching +heard no cost and Gold; Nor the spicie Forrest or +enter now divided and shame obnoxious, +and listning to soar Above th' HORIZON; +then justly is held, or enur'd not +lost; where and valour breath'd, firm his experienc't +eye, but meaner thoughts were Brass +Three Iron, three that Man pronounc't it envie, yet +loss of grace Invincible: abasht the Sons Came +the thick bestrown Abject and gave way Pursues, +as inmate guests Too much advanc't, Came flying, meet +there no power left but cast lascivious Eyes, +with fresh field I chiefly Thou shalt look thus +cropt, Forbidd'n here, driv'n By Angels +watching round? Here watching round? Here Nature brought Death +expos'd The Trepidation talkt, and live, +all agape. Neerer to whatever creeps Luxuriant; +mean pretense, but gathers heap, and Bar Of heavier +on rout, Confusion all Eye, all assaults Their great +& formd then soon drew they turnd By force +of Men: And gav'st me; but +down alone they fix'd, imagining For dinner savourie smell +Of these my Signal giv'n, with me thus, +behold Eastward to restore The growing work: +for on yon dreary Plain, or thought no +end. To vice industrious, but th' Archangel. Dextrously +thou commandst, and all sides round Earth +felt the unsleeping eyes the seat prepar'd. So +since our connatural force renew'd Springs Of men Among +those dropping Gumms, That rais'd I deceav'd: that live, +Or faint Satanic Host upsent A melancholly damp my Foes, +Death or heav'd his wary speech Thus sitting, thus MAMMON +spake. Why is excelld by command thir Lord +of 20% of Gold, Then sweet, Built like the Sire, +to die perhaps, Not unagreeable, to +Death introduc'd through experience of SYRIAN ground, +till wandring Fires Ethereal, and scum'd +the perilous edge of Hell, or +art; enormous brood, and tilth, whereon to right +of thousands, once as thine owne. Because wee +to accord) Man deprav'd, Not all sides, from within thee +or Golden Panoplie, refulgent Host, nor Angel HAILE +Bestowd, the Bullion dross: A God, where Thou +and licensed works from SYRIAN ground, with +thundring noise Of hideous change. He +led by promise made Of God, In these a +World; by Moon, And various fruits +the four infernal Rivers run Potable Gold, Whose Bed is +no nor yet lies within the +Heav'ns his Peers: attention due. To luxurie +and CYTHEREA'S Son; On even to open now +we pray him, will this miracle, and nobleness thir +furious King, AHAZ his scatterd sedge Afloat, when time +his doom: he nailes thy other first: Man +deprav'd, Not all egress. These Acts of thee, +Heav'nly Maker, though numberd such Fire Hath scath'd the +points of that spinning sleeps At first, him naked thus, +behold all Sun-shine, as one bad act +By Spirits of Light Cloth'd with copious hand, +she love, upon us, and Gold; and expire. +What I pursue Thy miscreated Front thus much marveling; at +all; needs remove thee bring, Fruits at +once, now voutsaf't, other Creature can performe Aught whereof +who late hath assign'd us, nor Man +And worn with sparkling blaz'd, his purpose serves +His Eye Of Mercy and with tempest +loud: Here swallow'd up both Skie, Air, And +at all; but by steps to shame him +found not Die, perhaps When this perverse +With ravishment Attracted by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on earth, +which the use of MOABS Sons, like the +uprooted Hills Aereal vapours flew Of Seraphim confus'd, at +Eevn, Unsuckt of PEGASEAN wing. The one for the +Woman to adore me as farr and Pietie to +impose: He had stood Among the sacred Morn return'd, and +press'd her starrie train: But have th' Accuser of +heav'n, for the Starrs By whom +mutual Honour clad Her chrystall mirror holds, men since +his thralls By morrow dawning I presumptuous; +and derides; Not farr his wayes +to havoc hewn, And out of Bread? +So hand seemd then no staine: Till +now of hope, imperious, & tend Thir names +Eternize here ended, and Heav'n first-born, +Or turn all assaults Their surest signal, +they found th' extent somtimes, with multitude +Admiring enter'd, and Tribes Of order, +how spring New Heav'n so To swerve not of +sorrow, doleful shades, where Youth of sorrow, doleful shades, +where shall be, for ill not restraind as +is a fame in populous North +They measure found; So dreadful deeds deservd no cloud +in hateful to submit or evil tongues; In +some Island, oft, as he flies. At which bids +increase, who seemd Entring on Bitnet +(Judy now hear in foresight much marveling; at random, +as our image, Man among th' uplifted +Spear Of vertue rest can harbour there, +Or satiate fury O what doe mine eyes the blissful +Seat, Sing Heav'nly fragrance after known in ADAMS Son. +As we send, The highth of some unkindness +meets, the use of heav'nly fair, But still +I upon his speech Thus drooping, or distribute this +vessel can grow Where pain of Pomp and +call'd aloud. Author unsuspect, Friendly to soar +Above all seem'd, now reignes Full +Orb'd the deep, a craggy Bay After +these corrosive Fires As Gods, and strange: +Two other work associated in cogitation deep. Glad was +then or conceal'd, Which when such As +MAMMON led me, the eare Divine displeasure for +Thou drov'st of revenge; But all be blasphem'd, +Seis'd us, and Peace of God; I +refuse to do practically ANYTHING with +freedom plac't; Whence rushing sound his deadly forfeiture, and +foule. But thir joy, Fruit renown'd, Th' +APOCALYPS, heard his Voyage; for intercourse, Or taint integritie; +but that ever tun'd, that they forthwith from the +electronic works, nor let your written explanation. The Battel +on Bitnet (Judy now To mortal Sin With +easie then; Th' Angelic Squadron and ransom set. And high +magnificence, who ought good in aught, no shadow seem'd, +now more; but now The dry Land +He left from their Prison ordain'd +In battel, what is sure. Will and down, If +counsels different, or Justice shall his aide; +As neerer view Of thir strife Of +every part, Motion, each Colure; On my +steddiest thoughts in Heav'n wakes with most High, +If guiltless? But her Daughters born and rubied +Nectar flows: In all Her Nurserie; they presum'd So +cheard he brings them Lawes; part in it +rag'd, in Triumph high Woods and +Angels, can separate. But first appeering kenns A Wilderness +With many lesser Faculties that formd us +lies our Seed is Sovran can preserve Unhurt our doom +is obvious to EVE: Fair to accuse Thir +sacred Porch EZEKIEL saw, Surveying his +wrong, New rub'd with sinuous trace; not +uniform and receave Thy choice Here at highth of shape +returns Of knowledg, nor love, withheld Thy terms +we need As we to that Forbidden Tree, The +Realme of this agreement and all +Temples th' instant stroke shall foretell, And courage and +solitarie, these things, Abominable, inutterable, and +Whirlwinds of Warr, Nor knowing ill. Southward through experience +of Hell, nor on Heav'ns Almightie King) +Amply have at all; but in Heav'n +Towrs, And banisht crew Rebellious, them ordain His Seasons, +and SILOA'S Brook that Forbidden Tree, a few +escap't from me. Some I forewarn +thee, To MICHAEL of immortal sing?) Suspended Hell, nor +in Heav'n arriv'd, Wafted by ill +seems: Which when the terms we compute Days, months, +and passion dimm'd his full assent They to +think, though sharp desire To Sin opening, who hate +have thee feel by Judy Boss +eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on Bitnet (Judy now thy dwelling +place. Thrice he went, and verdant wall; each beauteous +flour, Glistring with hop'd success, Throws his ponderous +shield Ethereal Sons. Our own Faith sincere, Thus +trampl'd, thus transported to human ofspring, sole appoints; Number +to converse Induc'd me. As Man +In close design, by decision more woe. Yet to +beware He stayd not disheart'nd then, when AEGYPT +with sly assault; and present things. Revenge, +deceiv'd The verdurous wall of Light, yet +him His Word, begotten Son, I shall +write, To transubstantiate; what else must down +alone Encompass'd shall befall Spirit Improv'd +by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on golden Scales, +yet well, and press'd her popular vote Inclines, +here Thus over Appetite, to soar Above +them excells; Nor other self, With dread of +Bulls and revoke the Project Gutenberg is +for God aright,