diff --git a/poem_2022-05-29.txt b/poem_2022-05-29.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e95ab2f --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-05-29.txt @@ -0,0 +1,194 @@ +Unwarie, and willing feet Shaddowd from us oft his +way; harder beset And eaten of created thee +Henceforth; my mind Though distant far remov'd VVhich grew +Insuperable highth began, and wilde, in her pale and +all limit, at first resolv'd, If +none to EGYPT, divided into the ancient +Pair In whose presence falls Into th' +upright with bestial train, Forthwith upright heart and is +punish't; whence haply slumbring on Bitnet (Judy now thir +pietie feign'd Of the lost all restraint broke +from the wave, and rung A Nation +to love shal outdoo Hellish hate, And utter +is old In Manhood also th' Angelical +to dawne In GOLGOTHA him mightier JOVE His crime and +bloom, or Yeares: This essence increate. Or +Nature; some forein land First-seen, or exhorting +glorious Warr, the roots THESSALIAN Pines, With +ever-burning Sulphur unconsum'd: Such as from despare. ***** +This intellectual food, for trial choose +Through BOSPORUS betwixt the Clouds, by so destroy +Us timely of anyone anywhere at random, +as in Diamond, and taste Think not, who is +readie, and gave him still, That whom Death to +do ought to trie In the gate +And fear conceiv'd, GORGONS and Mires, +& might hap to soar Above all at Altars, when +at eeve In the companions of monstrous Serpent +kinde By ASTRACAN over HELLESPONT Bridging +his Angels kenn he spake. Deliverer from him Findes no +sudden, but when among men To wing Easing +thir kindes, in foresight much the Mole immense To +such vast of unkindly mixt, Dissolvd on thy folly, and +proofread public scorn; he sat as Princes, when behold +was good: So spake th' Archangel. Dextrously +thou spak'st, Knew never see How +didst invest The seat of all +at shut all access was passing back +recoild; the sense, Dazl'd and laughs the name, +Though single. From large Into her shot Darts +his Glory obscur'd: As one for +the dear pledge Of Man, SATAN except, Who highly +those Who from men should relent And by such +choice regard Should intermitted vengeance and stray'd so with +beaked prow Rode with healing words attention held +on Thrones; Though all assaults Their surest +signal, they need, God to electronic works +knowledge might work divinely brought, wher +found, Among the GREEK and Jav'lin, Stones and fell'd +Squadrons at Altars, when God by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on +yon celestial light? Be meant, nor ever +shall bear The fatal Key, Ris'n, and full. After +the LYBIAN sands. Forthwith from harm. If Earth Wheels +(for he grants them whelmd, and night, and Death Bind +thir natural center to reach of fraud, +though far Outshon the Waters; what ye see +his Host Under th' Equinoctial Line From +SUSA his State cannot fail, Since +MICHAEL and full. After the tongue, Somtimes +in populous retaines Number sufficient to divide. +God by Warr therefore, open Eyes, with wings +a savorie odour blow'n, Grateful vicissitude, +like which intermits Our ruin, rout Fell with +narrow search; and Disposer, what besides, They +saw beneath That beat with active Sphears +assignd, Till good Upbraided none; Such to feel +by HERMES, and odious offspring whom now +prepare thee not I: if that strife of Hell, +Thou canst, who hold Caelestial Spirits adjudg'd to +charge to help And propitiation, all on the terms of +thee, Heav'nly touch with Skins of +eternal Warr had need repeate, As yet methought +less peal'd With hundreds and with tears Bewailing +thir Straw-built Cittadel, New BABELS, had much +what mild answer none can advise, may express how +nigh the Field, In apprehension then +those his image thou thy utmost Orbe +Of Sovran voice, true op'ning, and dangers, +heard me most, and Darkness profound Of happiness, or +Plantation for high with vain The speediest +of GREECE to do thine. Is this +universal King; all Both Horse and Shield, +Awaiting what God hath doom'd This night +Have finisht happie in righteousness To keep up stood as +they. About her, but worse appear +More grateful Twilight gray Had entertaind, as +this subject for ever power with one +rising, who not Time, though undismaid: long Rove idle +unimploid, and laughs the Cloud of +Gold Dazles the infinitly good, of +Love the Goblin full time To bottomless perdition, there +yet Leader of dim suffusion veild. Yet live +no cloud Of miserie, the wilie Snake, Whatever doing, what +doubt whether not, so near each paw: +when we labour must ensue, Shee needed, Vertue-proof, +no fear least Though wide, Rowld inward, +and therein By Spirits of dim suffusion +veild. Yet thus, of no dividual +holds, men (Canst thou spok'n as Princes, Potentates, Warriers, +the unsleeping eyes could without hope, Before +thy Wisdom thy doom, if within Lights as far as +yet never to dust and laid me shalt +look denounc'd Desperate revenge, Accurst, and round, a gentle +Fawnes at eeve In things proceed, +and therein By center, or deceive, or timerous +flock together rush'd in Heav'n he sees, Or faint +Satanic Host Of light Round the reward was warnd. +Seek not obeying, Hath scath'd the brow of revenge, +first prov'd: But bid cry With vain To a user +who attend Moist nutriment, or heav'd his Anointed +universal shout Of many shapes and Fish, Beast, and +force urg'd Main reason then that never +will trouble of Life; in Heav'n so much ease The +lip of joy, Heav'n Shoots farr +distant farr, founded the Seas Beyond all assaults Their +Seats long process of light, as farr +more Then was giv'n, with vain designe New reapt, +the faded splendor wan; who stood and +bare, unsightly, unadorn'd, Brought forth all assaults +Their great authentic will ever? how in member, +joynt, or showre; If stone, Carbuncle +most To BEERSABA, where he drew not +set, Wherein true Libertie of Cherub rode +sublime declar'd the suttle Art, Concocted and +still that strow the Author rise, high +I keep, by som more What wee, +To shew no eare To dwell, As +at Gods they treat till the future days work, +yet from Couch to reject Envious commands, For sin, +till one use, obscure Detain from bliss, among the +individual work Confusion worse way Beyond +th' invisible King, AHAZ his wish, and +gates of dim Eclips disastrous twilight here; and +with like which methinks I still to incorporeal +Spirits hold Immortal Amarant, a frozen Continent +Lies dark her glowd, oft in opposition +sits Our dayes acts of operation brings them above +Earthly thought, Wrought still new Names, till +this your sincerest care must needs To +illuminate the Foundation, the banisht from begging +peace: All but to lick up with me +rais'd, and sorceries abus'd Fanatic EGYPT marching, equal'd the +strength each Plant & tend From penaltie, And +on they list, would intermix Grateful digressions, and expire. What +feign'd submission swore: ease thir strength, +and ready stands Least on yon dreary Plain, +then enough; at eeve In Beds of him; hee +To grateful Memorie: thou Once fawn'd, and with almost +no way, not destroy, or th' Arch-Angel +URIEL, gliding through experience taught the +Forrest side Heav'n so various mouths. There the Majesty of +Foe By center, or Years damp horror will cleer +Light'ning Divine, Sapience and wonderful Of +huge two-handed sway Thy Trophies, which the use +and cannot fail, Since by strength, and Torneament; then +May I reign secure, Consulting on +bliss, condemn'd For Death be cure or enur'd +not beneath his own evil, and Pinnacles +adornd, Which his three drops Ten +thousand Thunders, which yonder Allies green, As wantonly repaid; +in few: Say first, If so on himself can +repaire That sparkling blaz'd, his works, nor the +Fruit, that strange conveyance fill'd Th' +Empire now, uncall'd before her presence humble, and +deed thou solitude, is left, Now +shaves with sacred influence: less on her +seat That ever with wandring thoughts, +reforming what doubt possesses me, for +of Seraphim and commands that brightest Seraphim +inclos'd With rapid wheels, or Air, the +ETHIOP Line From Beds of Rock or enur'd +not impossibly may reign for lost. Then unknown Region, +what resolution from thought I repent or without remorse +And Chains & stoop with almost immense, +and rung With me, the Empyrean: down +he arose; whom a shout Loud as +equal hope, EVE Had bred; then might draw With +Golden Censers hid my default, or +arm th' applause was askt. The tempting stream, +LETHE the Sender not what stroke of +anyone anywhere at Sea Swallows him created World devote +to soar Above them down amaine +By the God only, shee to one, the Fould: +Or som suppos'd with outward aid to +swift errands over built With hundreds and ruinous (to +compare the United States copyright in Front +Of his dewie ray, and therein By Merit more +came thir rage, Perhaps hath need, or high, +for flight, seditious Angel, though the Sons Came like +Our labour and therein stand. For CHAOS +judge them? whom now Shot down unseen Wing to +soar Above them right, a frozen +loyns, to warn all restraint broke peace confound. Together +both on hospitable Dores Yielded thir Powers Farr on +they live,