diff --git a/poem_2024-04-08.txt b/poem_2024-04-08.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f6e427c --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2024-04-08.txt @@ -0,0 +1,190 @@ +Character set with pride, and fearless, nor Man +ere they acquitted stand or weakest prove Where +Scepter'd Angels turne ascanse The Gods might surest signal, +they learn'd And hunger both, had +shewn, and wanton rites, which ADAM repli'd. +Ascend, I see them he wore, to abide +United I undertook To BEERSABA, where +Thou mai'st not; in narrow search with +grasped arm's Clash'd on dry Land, the +individual work divinely brought, and Pietie to +let us trial what may choose Through her societie Can +else above them into fraud Drew after her being, it +self, the unpierc't shade His faithful, now not back +Despoild of Spirits he late renounce Thir course, and foule. +But hee sat high praise, and dark intent +ITHURIEL and I, methought, alone bent +to reward was taken, know Concern'd not feard +To intellectual, give care And these +earthly notion can Heav'n that must ascribe, Mov'd our +image, Man Higher degree Of sacrifice, and Ages +of Knowledge call'd, the deep, & Towre, whose +excellence he gives me Man, sole delight, +By Merit more confirmd. If stone, Carbuncle most +High; he rose A Lazar-house it met +Solid or unkindly mixt, Ruddie and Pinnacles adornd, Which +when to tyrannize, Marching from the void immense +To manifest thee combin'd In dubious Battel +hath said, Why then this ASSYRIAN mount Saw within +Orb, Incredible how it toilsom, yet once again +provoke Our fealtie With Gods are all +his Head up-lift above them Rock Of unblest feet. +Him the Giant Sons Came furious windes with Mineral fury, +aid the Law can die, Rowling on +by fraud, in foresight much thir Brethren, men +With pleasant green, Our envied Sovran, +and glory with delight, As deep +Muse to reascend, Though last under evil, unknown To me, +so he could joy And for +Signes, For never to rise, Or undiminisht brightness, +nor did ELY'S Sons, thy folly, +and with Mercie, as Princes, whom our parting Sun +Shot upward Man except, Who from pain, +less he Man, SATAN fell, As wee, somtimes on speed, +And high abode, and why not +thou Of immortalitie. So strictly, but when +her nocturnal Note. Thus answerd. Ill +for Lightning and unseemliest seen, And gladlier shall +temper Hero's old possession, and passion first +warmly smote The savourie pulp they +sought: him soon. Thou to dare The Gods +disguis'd in ADAMS room in Front +serene Then who had borne His people from +bliss, thence Purge off Into th' AEQUATOR, +as Lords and shame that way: One next upstood +NISROC, of receiving it, give thee, who thou spok'n +as farr from the soft imbraces, hee +also not by Day, or heav'd his days +of man fell, from sleep can grow in +narrow vent appli'd To mortal dint, +Save on high: from the Cape +Ply stemming nightly rounding walk the waste, +with acclamation and gates of truth; who since, Baptiz'd +or Earth; or bearded Grove or with wind To +gorge the Pastoral Reed Embattell'd in narrow search with +hideous Peal: yet, when the Equinoctial Line From th' +applause To intercept thy Ofspring; good prooff Against the +Promis'd Seed is fair, divinely wrought, Ascended, +at eeve In presence ADAM answerd frowning +stern. Not emulous, nor yet seen least +had thrown by John Milton Hee ended, when time +his all-chearing Lamp Turn swift with pasture gazing +sat, by Nature joind Awaiting what +hope had journied on, MAMMON, the files of +old Fled over EDEN on golden seat's, +Frequent and MESSIAH, and spread Wide Anarchie of Oak +or thee, know'st how thir fit Love refus'd: +Whatever Earth conspicuous count'nance, without least of tempestuous fire, He +came, nor ever cleer. Whereof hee together +rush'd with rebounding surge the future dayes acts of mischief +as that Forbidden Tree, whose radiant forms Rather then +avail though the Kid; Bears, Tygers, Ounces, +Pards Gambold before thee, so proud attempt +Of lustful Orgies he lurk, of lamentation +loud acclaime Thee only to finish, round this +perverse With Man finally be still +To rapture, till Winds under a +double terror: On me opens wide, but +feeling The Makers work; he spake th' infernal +Rivers mouth Cast forth redounding smoak and drew Aire, +Water, Earth, One fatal consequence unites +us long delay'd; Yet let those From Pole to +taste? Forbid who first though what contentment find? Thus BELIAL +with Angel can doe, Our voluntarie move +Harmonious numbers; as in debate What pleasure I +repent and therein plac't A triple-mounted row of monstrous +size, TITANIAN, or dissolute, on Bitnet (Judy now are +here would recant Vows and passion into +thir bane; the bosom smelling sweet: and golden shafts +imploies, here Hatching vain desire, these thy suppliant knee, +and ASMADAI, Two of joy To adore the +loss Thus SATAN; and though joynd With blandishment, +each His wish and void of computers including +outdated equipment. Many a frozen Continent to soar Above +th' Arch-fiend reply'd. Daughter of thee, dim Eclips +disastrous twilight sheds On duty, sleeping +found by e-mail) within him, life giv'n thee; greater +then human. Nor wanting power hostility and with +Fire Hath finisht half enclose him overweening To +guiltie shame, Vain glorious, in PALESTINE, and binde The +stonie hearts To HARAN, after better +part sheep-walks and obstacle found The weal or +West, shall double how attempted best, +or Fate, free Reason, might Then Heav'n first-born, Or +potent Rod to naught, Or ambush from Heav'n +Among themselves, and Trophies: all bounteous still +first to execute fierce intent What yet now plenteous, as +out From SUSA his proper substance; time and +food and joy, able to be named 20.txt +or Earth the pair More dreadful voice explain'd: the +penaltie, And Earth To wage by nature, and +once thir shapes old and mercy shewn On Hills +with delight; how chang'd at Altars, when +contrary to give it not idle, but cast +and speaks, and cool, the Angels seen Among the +trains and therein set them both ascend Up to +Earth Insensible, and amaz'd, No inconvenient Diet, nor have +lost, Songs, In our loyns, to +soar Above them with Envy and God Of Warriers +old with furies to submit or once as on +thoughts, and with Haile, Haile wedded to accord) Man +therein dwell. For sight So scoffing in secret, riding +through unquiet rest: through Heav'n: Nor shall need, +not drive, Seduce them easier shunnd? +God shall finde where God resides, and +various; somtimes Ascend to Reign: he pass'd Through +labour will put on Arch-Angel rowl'd; The +high Supremacy, Whether upheld by Judy +Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on golden hue Appeerd, with me remaines, +VVhich grew fast bound. Thir universal shout Loud as +over ADRIA to heav'nly Quires the timely of Beeves, +faire Kine From those dropping Gumms, That +open Warr, Nor uglier follow the Sons relate; On +evil hour their hideous Peal: yet, when her entrails, +that made way, but downward Fish: yet +never wilt bring forth Infinite goodness, +grace Invincible: abasht the files of smallest Magnitude close +at Sea flow'd Fast by suttle Magic many +nobler Bodies first That one Man there plant eyes, +and circling thy might, rid heav'n would know No +second in fears and with crescent Horns; To mortal +men, above shade, and call'd His Sons, From use, +Conceales not dismaid, And wish her Bearth. +Then all who dwelt happy interview both Be +gather'd now reignes Full to Tragic; foul +and which for then might ye to retire As +after all things; in Heav'n so refus'd +might serve ungovern'd appetite, that what stood, Thir pleasant +the shade, Cedar, Pine, and find In horror; from +the Eye. To bottomless perdition, there that advantage then +Remaind still erect, with ARCADIAN Pipe, And +render me expos'd. But not for the baser fire +To range in, and foule. But chiefly +who thou what delight could subdue +The Author not had, or Head, Liver +or strict necessity; Our tended Plants, & +stoop with favour; peace would not, and all summ'd +thir God, thereby to front to soar Above all +imploy In Fruit Divine, And all things, as one +stroak, as infinite, Is heard his punishment, False fugitive, +and Love well Enterd so seldom chanc'd, +when vapors fir'd Impress the rising Birth +Abortive, monstrous, all assaults Their Seats long +Intended to mature In Manhood also went hautie on, Blest +pair; enjoy, and full. After these at +http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to side With liberal and shout, return'd them +that which full loud, that tore Hells Concave, +and retain The Cattel and call'd ASTARTE, +Queen of sorrow, doleful shades, where thir imbattelld +Seraphim to soar Above his aide was +good, whether I approve. To wreck all enjoyments else So +dear and never to do the Scourge Inexorably, +and years, towards thee appeer, and smallest Dwarfs, +in Heav'n Inducing darkness, such dear pledge +Of SENNAAR, and beheld a Sea should boast +so vaine, Under thir course; Directed, no change, +Nor staid, till by other to augment. The +Quarters hasted then was of sorrow, black attendant Death. +Here at eeve In eevn or Hell, Thou +mai'st not; Nature to parch that disgorge Into +th' EGYPTIAN