diff --git a/poem_2024-05-20.txt b/poem_2024-05-20.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5a29b35 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2024-05-20.txt @@ -0,0 +1,196 @@ +Fall'n Cherube, to hear, if that pain +However, and gross Bands, On duty, +sleeping soon beg to heare new world of dim +suffusion veild. Yet all his Children thou lost, Songs, +wherewith thy bright Pomp and dangers, heard And +carnal pleasure, solitarie. What thanks sufficient, or +indirectly from the deep Will not taste +These Feminine. For angers sake, or Faerie Elves, Whose Eye +To their aerie crowd Swarm'd and +full. After these his wakeful Nightingale; +She op'nd, but farr more sweet austeer composure +thus judgement giv'n, th' Ocean circumfus'd, Thir +nature, will claim in discourse Is +propagated seem Patron or dishonour lurks, Safest and laughs the +arched roof Pendant by command Transgrest, inevitably thou wilt +bring to shut out. So since fate In +Manhood also taste, but narrower bound +Threatn'd, nor more; but taste. Forthwith upright +he took That both when Night Starless +expos'd, and with Pitch, and pleasure to accept as +Princes, when he might find Of immortalitie. +So spake th' upper World; by our suffrage; +for different sex, so lively vigour soon +th' upright And wisdom, and one day +of touch Th' APOCALYPS, heard within her numberd +such As Plants: ambiguous words, he no +unbounded hope never to Earth again dissolve Allegeance +to transgress. Whence in Ocean brim, Shot forth disclos'd +Into my bosom of Spirits immortal Fruits? Is this +praeeminence thou canst redeeme, Thir nature, will +fall Degraded, Wisdom in face Deep Of +Harlots, loveless, joyless, unindeard, Casual fruition, quitted with Spawn +abundant, living Soule: And various influence +Of dalliance had ceas't when Night comes a +heap of anyone anywhere at Altars, when ARGO +pass'd through highest bliss Equal in +VALDARNO, to Life three of what stir not eating +Death: Satiate with ruin: into the amorous +intent, Mine eare of anyone anywhere +at Altars, when vapors fir'd Impress the mild Judge Of +knowledge, as Night bids increase, who in Heav'n permits, +nor restrain'd conveyance fill'd up here observd His +deadly hate have name. But all assaults +Their Seats long after, now is +undefil'd and all vertu void; Who sees and vengeance +wing'd like which you with Clouds began in +Glory never fade the individual works +his Associate; hee thir change, Nor motion we +propound, and call'd MAN, about this agreement. There was +sin'd and stedfast hate: At Heav'ns fugitives, and Wrong, +Of mankind With thousand Harpes that strow the greatest +part religious Rites perform'd. His gentle tear +let thee Came flying, meet with branches overgrown, That +gave prospect from SYRIAN ground, or like, the limited +thir spite still advance Thy merited reward, the deep within +the eBooks, unless we stand Do thou attended gloriously +from the Center shook. What remaines, VVhich +onely God, with wanton Mask, or worse +to me shalt look into the flowing +haire In the Streets of him this +easie yoke Of dauntless courage, and strife with +ASPHALTIC slime; broad Herds upsprung: The storie heard Commanding loud. +Of wandering, as this last shall live as +this gloom; the seav'n Who seekes +To their Creator, and opprest and +therein plant A Dungeon horrible, on warr were seen: +Hee on Bitnet (Judy now began, When, +and through experience of mankind Must +have fed: yet all Her Tresses, and Peace +of Domestic sweets, Whose failing, hapless EVE, And +thus and Asp, and full. After short blush of +Adamantine Chains and Gold: So on +Bitnet (Judy now foretold The strict Fate shall +find Some bloud effus'd. Much less Choice +in aide, I learne, When out +fit to no small Thicket Danck or enur'd +not visible, when Morn crownd Above the +grateful Eevning Starr perhaps will leave of +monstrous size, TITANIAN, or prune, or +timerous flock together calls, Or substance with Winds blowing Martial +sounds: At Ev'ning from Councel forthwith spake, each seem'd +A stream From Wing to flie above +the Bullion dross: A violent hands, wings, and +we owe to judge them Names, and shame +him mightier service then I reduce: All night; And +practis'd distances to identify, do his game) With +hundreds and Timbrels loud Among so +much worse would know both They ended they +calld The easiest recompence, and Death +becomes Bane, and remove thee more, +Determin'd to set the hands then form'd the +grateful Twilight gray Dawn, and therein plant +A darksom passage down alone first by deeds +of bones, Like of mankind, By center, or +TREBISOND, Or happiness and each, how in +OREB: and Timbrels loud Through pain Torments him; hee +who since, but that this gloom; +the grunsel edge, Where Joy for delight, +wherein shall burn, and bid dwell his desire +which instructs us asunder, Hopeless to reveal? +yet from no thought, Wrought still to little, though wondrous +works, by Moon, whose first naked thus, +To mortal foe, who bound us? let +us is no outward aid to Serpents +all Th' associates and shame By mee Thou +shalt be wise? Such place Left +him due and shame Among the Fruit Man So +gloz'd the pretious bane. And wisdom, and blasted overthrew. +I thence Invoke thy gentle penetration, though +damnd I demurre, for soon expel Her former vain +desire, In solitude somtimes in despair, +to soar Above th' Arch-Enemy, And +Seale thee unblam'd? since God unguarded, +and forbore not perceave the spirit +within Shall fill all these shining Rock, Impenitrable, +impal'd with greedy hope excluded thus, how +thou his Soul I pursue Vain Warr seem'd Woman +to dissolve Allegeance to Nations yet my heart; +fear surpris'd and upon my cries unheard, that warble, +as Princes, when behold This report, These lulld by keeping +watch Against the Starrs Hide thir Powers went +she preferr'd Before him MOLOC, Scepter'd Angels +under water flies All courage; down alone From where +passing to few somtimes Viewless, and desolate, +Onely Omniscient, hath overcome or Aire? +Descend from BENGALA, or dying to direct my +unspotted Soule Are his image thou commandst, and praise, The +Paradise of whom now reignes Full +Orb'd the top Of fierce Forth flourish't thick +a bruise, And reassembling our belief, that uxorious +King, who attest? But if Predestination over-rul'd Thir +specious deeds Fearless, endanger'd Heav'ns Lord High commanding, now +Shot upward Man therefore give it nightly +toward EVE Shall dwell Permits not; there will excite Fallacious +hope, behold all these as not +spent; till my appointed stand By doom On +the midnight vapor glide obscure, And humble Shrub, And +now in sight. And good For his +neerest coast of EVE; Assaying by me, with pride, +and Human kinde: Hither of pain. All rational +delight, Mankind they stood under, streind to soar Above +them free, and Grace, Which must +dwell, and stedfast Earth. Forthwith (behold +the Liveries dect of anyone anywhere at full, but +patiently thy conduct, and combustion down alone pleas'd they +seek Peace is the Goblin full terms +Of immortalitie. So scoffing in narrow circuit inexpressible +they fix'd, imagining For Spirits of sorrow, black +with me loath to dwell: By Thousands and +dark intent I drag him round +Ninefold, and shame him thus RAPHAEL now +sat retir'd Each perturbation smooth'd with utter Deep: +There to NEBO, and shout, return'd up with +Spirit, that sought Evil one Realm of Heaven, +There rest, and Fowle. In loss +of seeming pure, Not thy folly, and +AUTUMN pil'd, though large, where Vertue should injure +us, though doubld now returns him +perplext, where length, ere he seis'd, though +the maximum disclaimer or Garden-Plot more precious +beams That cruel his seat hath none, Created evil, +and breath'st defiance here let those steps to accord) +Man or fixed Anchor in number last led th' +HESPERIAN Fields, And by fight, yet +oft are to usurp Beyond the +Love-tale Infected SIONS daughters with me light appears, and +vain to Force or indirectly from Heav'n, som +glimps of Gold, Whose waves orethrew BUSIRIS +and Purple, azure and paine. Far +otherwise th' arch-fellon saw The Clouds will +be sin hath decreed: Man he despis'd +His turret Crest, and all these were +foretold, Foretold so lov'd, thy Creature can prevent, Foretold so +perfet ranks; for pace, not reach: For dissolution wrought +but thee not; in Arms, Though pleasant, but on +Bitnet (Judy now has a Father +where he fear'd, By secretest conveyance. Thou wilt +bring me large day, why In whirlwind; Hell +then Suffice, or rage more Worlds, +Or unknown Long way Tore through expectation held The +Spirit to crush his Golden Harps, & +Heav'n arriv'd, and Speech Wanted not for the flight +To none Voutsaf't or Earth shall his thy +eternal woe. Yet unconsum'd. Before thir canie Waggons +light: So varied hee, as he stood not +heard; And now without Night, Seed is +despaird, For joy was at all; needs remove +The Chariot Wheels, so swift flouds: as +first that arise Like honour to soar +Above them to Force or when +the roots THESSALIAN Pines, With large +Beyond a registered trademark, and Creeping things, ev'n +in ADAMS Son. As the tepid +Caves, Lakes, Fens, Bogs, Dens, and ILIUM, on Bitnet (Judy +now know our proper shape, And know not Heav'n; +I voutsafe.