Robo poem for 2023-02-04
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The deadly aime; thir doom apply'd, Though after
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known In with shame Of knowledge, not
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void of GABRIEL spying, thus MAMMON spake. Deliverer
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from despair. In wealth and therein plant A herd
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of warring Angels numberless, to enrage
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thee Author rise, First his Regal
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Power supream? And Fabl'd how chang'd From
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off In thir broad circumference Hung over
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us wide, Rowld inward, and revenge
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On duty, sleeping found my sense, yet
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these appear'd A Circuit wide, and wine.
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Witness this new-made World, another Morn To mortal sting: about
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thee sufficiently possest before them. But since denounc't
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that warr'd on the Fables yet know
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must be. Let none thence be known as Celestial
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Beautie adore And Tumult and repossess their fears. Then
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aught appeers, And wrought by dubious Battel drew, Streaking
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the Seale, And be free, Yet Virgin Majestie
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seemd That to submit or unaware, To bottomless
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perdition, there of murmuring sound the revenge. First,
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what doubt it speak thou, who dwelt
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then none to be admir'd, Admir'd, not anough had
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stole JOVES authentic will send, The multitude of anyone
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anywhere at Eevn, Unsuckt of Heaven,
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or shrink from Heav'n he assayd, and call'd RAPHAEL, The
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barrs of sorrow, black attendant Death. Here swallow'd up
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here Chains and darkness there left Ridiculous, and Power,
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And corporeal substances require Thy condescension, and sought
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Vain hopes, vain And visage incompos'd Answer'd. I
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am secret; Heav'n Rise on highest design,
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by him boast so many an Altar send
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Against his course, till Sin, not performing end
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wilt consent to contend, And through Eternity, To mortal
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eare Then let me once, with wings outspread Dove-like satst
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brooding on winged Spirits, yet those in
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prospect lay. Down right against thee, dim Night Related,
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and as that this windie Sea flow'd Of
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onset ended frowning, and all Sun-shine, as easie
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it long, for him, that VVhich grew ten Furies,
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terrible Example the rather Death ensue?
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But bid cry Surround me, from the Seas Beyond
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compare Great Or Dairie, each Bird When to
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more dang'rous to soar Above th' accustomd
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hour Not felt, Commotion governd thus, behold in Heav'n
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his, or Sunnie Hill, Smit with Serpent
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had servd necessitie, Not unattended, for ever cleer.
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Whereof hee sat On duty, sleeping soon
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fill, Lodg'd in Heav'n hides nothing lovelier can
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be who since, but endevord with redoubl'd blow them
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round Environ'd wins his high Towrs; nor
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touch; here seek In Heav'n Expected, least
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of limb Heroic Martyrdom Unsung; or strict Fate
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will raise That space was form'd, Save
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when at eeve In future days dying rise, First
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MOLOCH, horrid hair Shakes Pestilence and taught his
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love shal outdoo Hellish hate, To deepest Hell,
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say I repent and receave no way
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To luxurie and rowld Of Thunder: and
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Scepter shalt look he spake. Deliverer from God Rais'd impious
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Crest Sat on Bitnet (Judy now all these our
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afflicted Powers, in secret amity things created
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the Kid; Bears, Tygers, Ounces, Pards Gambold before us,
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equal Love; Least it to accord) Man
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Which God incense His Seed, And ACCARON
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and scarce had filld with revenge though
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all-knowing, what happiness I espi'd thee, adorn'd
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With ruin overspred, Had cast off These things, let
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us most, and gave signal blow To meet Night, Seed
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Is not lost; Evil be resolv'd. He
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nam'd. Thus high titles, and no cloud
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those hearts To mortal voice, nor is a
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LIMBO large Lay Siege, Or when a transe
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methought Close sailing from th' Eternal ANARCHIE,
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amidst the Signal giv'n, with ambitious aim Against the
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Love-tale Infected SIONS daughters with solitarie hand
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his Pride Had rounded still I seduc'd them to
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thee into the worlds material mould, and full.
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After the arched roof thou fledst:
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if great first-Movers hand the baser fire
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Unquenchable, the flowing haire In worst
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extreams, and faded bliss, Into th' expanse of
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truth thus expos'd. But God the deep
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Of difficulty or Air, And waking cri'd, This having pass'd
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through Heav'ns wide beneath; Now less conspicuous, that spinning sleeps
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or Foreland, where flowes GANGES or herds,
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or hypertext form. However, and count'nance red Lightning
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and frustrate all Her shadowie Cloud a wonder seis'd, though
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many Throned Powers, and goes: but returns
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Day, or lowly reverent Towards him to each
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Creek & Whom to be best, though
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damnd I pursue Thy favour, him
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of Firr With gay enameld colours mixt: On
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either hand the Royal State, Favour'd of God's
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high collateral glorie: him not Realms
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of anyone anywhere at command, and colours mixt, Assemble, and
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thrice in Paternal Deitie, while Sonorous
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mettal blowing Martial sounds: At that fail not lost;
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Attonement for hiss of monstrous size, TITANIAN, or Festivals,
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and Powers, That slumberd, wakes despair
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That with potent multitude With sinfulness of public
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moment, in PALESTINE, and Warr. Each
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quarter, to do all Her mischief, and
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lyes the most conspicuous, when we more?) propounded terms
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of EVE, and Conscience represented All incorruptible would render Hell
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Draw after us round This be mortal combat or
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re-use it comes. Ascend to wander forth came mantling o're
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the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation as Sea-men
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tell, Tell, if no nourishment exhale From
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a death condemnd A Shape within
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thee yet never from the vast Abyss And his
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Sail-broad Vannes He speeds, and his sovran will,
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the number still to my attempt, I intend at these
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delights Will once beheld Where pain From CANAAN,
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to partake with ambitious to soar Above them with
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lofty Gates Pourd out fit head; Was not
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feel; Yet are set, With me most, when
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themselves at Hels dark Illimitable Ocean stream: Him
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followed his Angel, and envying stood, Both Harp Thir specious
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deeds well his wrauth bent to soar Above
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them mute. Thrice chang'd in PALESTINE, and SILOA'S Brook
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that now, thou with small) then
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survey'd Hell He through mid Aire inspir'd
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CASTALIAN Spring So fit, so foul, once to
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Truth, in darkness by John Milton My Image, head
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draw What meant that Globe farr
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som Magazin to die Well manag'd;
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of peculiar grace Attends thee, Divine effect so hainous
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now, which makes a Boggie SYRTIS, neither Man whom hast
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where stood escap't from bad to soar Above all assaults
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Their living wight, as freely we enjoy Free leave
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obtain'd Unacceptable, though faultie since, Baptiz'd or Heaven: Thither,
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if that strow the Snowy top
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their Generals Voyce they know. And
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longer will put to walk by force he judges
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it returnd by putting off th' envenom'd robe, and
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glad as fast, too farr deceav'd; thy folly, and
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therein plant A lower Clime) Dismounted, on earth,
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durst oppose th' ungodly from ORANTES to fulfil
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is for ever burn'd With our good, created
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thee, Whither shall redound Upon himself; horror backward, but
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now light And shape hath assig'n'd;
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That on Thrones; Though distant foe, who beheld
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so various objects, from the potent multitude of pain
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To mortal eare Then was the Fruit forbidd'n!
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som small room Natures works Created mute all resistance lost,
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not whence deep Still follow'd and
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colour, shape they plagu'd And on, methought, alone
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Encompass'd shall pervert; and shame that advantage
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then enough; at Altars, when thousands trooping came
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they, by whose combustible And finde ease out
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mankind, in themselves. Thy sweet repast; then this, and ras'd,
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And took his fury yield it in
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Heav'n Into a despite and full.
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After these came mantling o're the roving on
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them shall finde Mine eare less not till
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men and glad that oft remember, when
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to tell Of composition, strait they come
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Into a slow and sparkles dire; Attended with mine
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ear one great River sunk, and QUILOA, and
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shame in Heav'n And Strength undiminisht, or
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Morn, Or NEPTUN'S ire Had driven down alone receaves
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The Race though brutish forms Rather then wander with
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hop'd success, Throws his Spies About them
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low and pain From skirt to
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share with steddie wing Tormented all assaults Their living
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Carcasses design'd Both turnd, Admonisht by thee in
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PALESTINE, and obedience and all things; Thou hadst:
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whom mutual Honour clad with ruin: sage he can
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measure all, Greatness of sorrow, black GEHENNA
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call'd, Forbidden Tree, That heav'n would be resolv'd.
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Produced by my Celestial Father from sleep Oppress'd them,
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since fate In all Sun-shine, as Celestial Roses smil'd.
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Then cavil the Garden choicest bosom'd smells Reservd
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from the Lee, while Venial discourse bring
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me once, Powerful perswaders, quick'nd appetite, that alluring
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fruit, and therein plant eyes, and expectation held The
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seed preserve. Farr off From off
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Human, to defend Encroacht on golden Sun
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On duty, sleeping found Eternal, thine eyes what eyes
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could hav orepow'rd such appear'd Obscure som cursed World
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where delicious Grove, What better these piercing Fires between;
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Over all assaults Their living wight, as you
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prepare Fit retribution, emptie as before, Argue thy
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view Nor glistering, may not by som
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new delights, As we hold Eternal to soar
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Above all hue, as this dire Arms? yet
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they guessd him linkt in fears and ILIUM,
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on Internet eng003@unoma1 on Bitnet (Judy now
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unpeopl'd, and beguil'd,
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