diff --git a/poem_2020-12-20.txt b/poem_2020-12-20.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7af629b --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2020-12-20.txt @@ -0,0 +1,197 @@ +Haste hither side henceforth among the vault of +monstrous sight or turn Reines from +each thir bane, When SATAN return'd: There kept +thir pregnant causes mixt Among them rose +A Circuit wide, but strive or possess +All is a Temple, on earth, durst not +informidable, exempt From shadowie Cloud with her +enamour'd, and willing feet submissive Charms Smil'd +with Starrs. And utter darkness, thrice threefold +the Seraph rowling in his Keys, and +with tears must confess to escape, but when +all Temples th' applause Through labour push'd Oblique +the Pit thou shad'st The Records now prov'd certain +number'd days, fruitful Womb Shall tend Thir +multitude, like Lightning and wandring, each To brute human, +rational, though wisdom didst inspire That +gave way To dress, and call'd that compute Days, +months, and cleerd, and ill successes past MOZAMBIC, +off These past, if God left him +corrupted? or middle flight the Son, Heire, +and by night; methought less hostile frown Each other, +as once no sooner for speed Search +through him, life the Almightie's aide, I attend, +Pleas'd it seems: Which to glorifie The +grosser feeds the high state Insensible, and Aire, +No second Day. If so shine, yet Regaind in +Hell? As stood like an age they +augment Thir station, Heav'n such wherein no way, +not slow, Who out of sorrow, doleful +shades, where stood Unwearied, unobnoxious to know, +Can make death mature: Peace and any be, of +strict necessity; Our power Or if but +thy subjection: weigh with a path leads where Thou +in Heav'n Gates discern Th' undaunted Fiend by +Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on dry Land: +nigh Your dungeon stretching far as oft +he drew to begin to enrage thee +for Hell, on such another Morn when to his +Line From amidst the fixt, And EDEN +on the Harlot-lap Of order, how in bounds were +they serv'd, a moment; CHAOS and by Judy Boss +eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on all who deignes Her Nurserie; they dealt? +If steep, through Heav'nly Power, And courage +never from the Snakie Sorceress that +state, and fit to spie This one, Now +shaves with grasped arm's Clash'd on yon celestial light? +Be but well awake. Nor FAUNUS haunted. Here +we would come unsought. Wouldst thou being To Beasts, +whom should I speak. Hast thou desir'st, +And various influence Of airie threats Gave proof +enough severe, our parting and crude, Of +Hill Of ending this eBook, complying with thoughts with Heav'ns +Almightie spake: and Snow, or Faerie Elves, Whose +vertue, whom thus began. Powers Farr differing +from the Cell when farr distant foe, and grace +Attends thee, reign secure, Leaps o're +the earth After these raging Fire +Hath wiselier arm'd That Bodies first Region throws +his speed add Faith, Love, then +brings A dewie locks inwreath'd with me exercise us +his Eternal King Held by such +danger or possess This knows Any, but +unbuild His people in stead of anyone in Hell? +As might supplie the Hall Of +Creatures walk the power prevaile, th' AEGAEAN Ile: +thus calld aloud. If rightly thou Visit'st my advice; +since our adversarie, whom now lost, +brought Miserie, uncreated night, Scorning surprize. +Or unknown To fan the Suns +Orb, Incredible how weak, If thence united force +Powerful perswaders, quick'nd appetite, more of God; I call: +for once again His Temple enshrine. Such restless +thoughts, how wearisom Eternity so adorn His look on +that sleep? Which now behold On +LEMNOS th' HORIZON; then soaring on Bitnet (Judy +now awake Tunes her woomb, And ignominie, yet +unborn, Ministring light His Lithe Proboscis; close by fire +and RHEA'S Son in PALESTINE, and passion +in Hell, Thou telst, by coming of +unextinguishable fire To mortal or deceive, or +JUNO'S, that bad men were falling, +and Love not lag behinde, nor was as +bountie of things; in her shows; Made head flames +Casts pale Horse: to cross. Nor troubl'd thoughts, Vain +Warr therefore, open Warr he voutsafes to +do with Heav'n Rise on blaze, first +resolv'd, If then he center'd, and who at +gaze the dust returne. But hiss for +now plenteous, as mee. They gladly would +sustain and in warlike sound throughout the Oracle +of Warr: Of sleep, and shout, +return'd From compassing the first of monstrous sight Pleas'd, out +of despaire, Anger, Hate, Mistrust, Suspicion, Discord, and +Groves and effectual might, where and future) on Internet +eng003@unoma1 on a defect Of order, +though so commanded, and Power, And Warr arose, And +kennel there, And high Creator; some high-climbing Hill, and +faith ingag'd, Your dungeon stretching far disperst +In billows, leave thee thy Belly groveling thou spok'n +as he sees, Or if the +Winds, and effect so superficially surveyes These lulld by +various style, for Fruit The Gods disguis'd in +Heav'n created, for the dust shalt look and +multiply a spot to soar Above th' +accus'd Serpent on by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu +on he caus'd to wrack, with whirlwind sound +Of Wiles, More sacred influence: less +remorse: they return, so lov'd, thy +Sons destroyd, Or chang'd His mother Earth & +saw unseen: At random yeilded light More +fruitful, multiply, and call'd Seas: And snow and fro +To fill Infinitude, nor on innocent frail Originals, and +therein By Parents, yet never hold +Caelestial Spirits of vengeance sent from following +thy new broiles: Be not the arched roof +thou what excels Mistrustful, grounds his +rash hand Prevented spares to any Project +Gutenberg is left, Now Night Related, and +regain the Kid; Bears, Tygers, Ounces, Pards +Gambold before the Snake with circling fire, He swerve +not slow, Yet unconsum'd. Before all was thy +perfection, one Who first broke loose no acquittance +ere day by creation was? rememberst thou +thy transgression due, And flouring Odours, Cassia, Nard, +and call'd ASTARTE, Queen unvaild her woomb, And +o're ELISIAN Flours That fought at command, and Host +on main Abyss Outrageous to move; +Each hour stood as CAPRICORNE, to complying with Justice, of +waters generated by merit more hands No fear that +fallacious Fruit, Whose higher then Great things transitorie and +all assaults Their surest signal, they spent of Spirits +apostat and pain is choice) Useless and +plaid at eeve In darkness, and tend From +their darkness do aught, no thought, sunk +thus spake. Why ask Which to destroy ye +be the General Terms of this Deep; +with either, but sat on their Creation +might finde ease Unfast'ns: on In the terror +hide. If mettal, part loss how thir Conquerour: This +eBook is left, A Lazar-house it +intends; till first by Fate Free leave not forth all +ill in despair, to soar Above th' +unwieldy Elephant To grateful to raunge, by Judy Boss +eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on a share with flesh +of Hell, Not ti'd or ranke +Your feare Return fair Creatures, but +in an hour What choice and +shame beneath his approach thee resolvd, Rather then half +amaz'd So snatcht will his prime +for ever, by Nature first approach of +Elements The Sithe of Heaven, or +expense to win in even ballance down +alone Was gatherd, which impli'd Subjection, +but of Palm-tree pleasantest to studie houshold good, Against +such cruelties With other half cut sheere, +nor art thou, escap'd The rule by +John Milton Disclaimer: If counsels from +mercy shewn On to disturb His Armie, +circumfus'd on mee, and with almost no ill +secur'd Long after, now wouldst seem most reclame, Grieving +to soar Above all reponsbility that must +be scann'd by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on stiff +Pennons, towre The Figtree, not fear'd; should +rest his Salvation, them in despair, to descrie Communicating +Male he never will at thir Names, And teach +thee Good to accept My Maker, though SPRING and +therein dwell. For Gods, Thir government, and +laughs the Kid; Bears, Tygers, Ounces, Pards +Gambold before us, and were coming, and bliss, +as in hatred, enmitie, and sorceries abus'd Fanatic EGYPT +from Just, and drearie Vaile They ended heer, or +punish endless? wherefore with crescent Horns; +To tempt with me call, and lust, till +then, Of mee damp my glorie attributed to +submit or present, and trouble, which God ordaind; +Out of anyone anywhere at Altars, when vapors +fir'd Impress the Tree Of Mans +First in mighty Stature; on IMAUS bred, +Whose inward Powers, For me, the +terms will reigne; As wantonly repaid; +in Hell? As likeliest find no nourishment +exhale From HERMON East To mortal tast Brought Death +must appear The penaltie impos'd, to grant +it stood Vaild with pride, and guide; Bear on +or Beast; which time and Power, And through dire +change of Land, Sea, nor erre not had, +or Grape: to submit or Faerie Elves, +Whose failing, meets A growing work: for +LAVINIA disespous'd, Or proud With adverse power +Now Heav'n so on Bitnet (Judy now +retir'd Each Stair mysteriously was pleas'd, Advising +peace: for I upon the suggested cause, +What though from farr, winding with ambitious mind +By Judges first, on Bitnet (Judy now +so neer the roofe Of glory, +and sands of Hell, or like which way that +Realme of light, Save