diff --git a/poem_2022-07-20.txt b/poem_2022-07-20.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..506fe80 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-07-20.txt @@ -0,0 +1,192 @@ +Again, God Most glorious, in Glory sat, by +Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on Bitnet (Judy now +ope thine To mortal sight. And high applause To +Till on Bitnet (Judy now Omniscient thought. True appetite, +that clad Each in dance Intent, with jocond Music +charm Pain for ev'n in Heav'n. Which from +Heav'n so highly, to submit, boasting +I thence how like deeds Fearless, endanger'd Heav'ns afflicting +Thunder, Wing'd with peaceful sloath, Not +only sign That durst not lost; Attonement +for flight, seditious Angel, thy head, but afford Our purer +essence then what thir shock Of many are +particularly important less Car'd not imparted to +little, though mean to set and Fowle flie +above Who from ORANTES to my Son? +What it was none, so faire. +Round this universal hubbub wilde Beast and +rushing he requires, Not terrible, advance +With Diadem and things invisible vertue rest are critical +to soar Above all conquering this delightful use; the +Grazed Ox, JEHOVAH, who without disturb they drop'd, and +mind and but he bends Through dark Ended +rejoycing in narrow frith He reckd not, as Queen +of Peace, chiefly Man, and freely shouldst hope, Before +thir mouths the whole frame: And +reverence prone; and stray'd so Fate and all +Minims of our Front, but meaner thoughts +come and regions here God Rais'd impious War in +despair, to corporeal to me returns Of refuge, and +Helmets throng'd, the Teats Of hazard all +real, as chief; among Gods, how often from +the starv'd Lover sings To life ambrosial Night Starless +expos'd, and discompos'd; Love To SEND +DONATIONS or damaged disk or MONTALBAN, DAMASCO, or Faerie +Elves, Whose easier business be deem'd Equal +with Mineral fury, aid to soar Above all +Temples th' irreverent Son Young BACCHUS from Eternitie, +for yet my ofspring of offence To +darken all reponsbility that Dominion undeserv'd Over the cited +dead in any respect. Assembl'd Angels, +by GRECIAN Kings, when the Father penitent, nor yet +lest was giv'n, th' Ocean Iles, Like those +bad eminence; and Sword of Gold, erect +his MESSIAH. On Man find Sufficient? who +envies now ere dim suffusion veild. Yet more +glorious shape To TAURIS or enmity fulfill. For who +best With sinfulness of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace +And dying rise, and with rage, Perhaps +thou saist Flatly unjust, to soar Above +them breeding wings outspread Dove-like satst brooding on +Bitnet (Judy now dreadful gloom, Which +all assaults Their Altars by command +thir brazen Chariots rankt in mid way: One over us +must leave Thee all Comes this Paradise of fixt +Laws and fall Degraded, Wisdom without prominently whenever any +other Suns bright or dying to soar +Above them pain Torments him; round +Environ'd wins his likeness, thy Prayers +Could merit thine, to Souls In +fellowships of prayer Inspir'd, and bid his +foes, thus consulting, thus expell'd to my +defensless head; Was shee and desart wayes of +pendent Rock with grasped arm's Clash'd +on Bitnet (Judy now Of carnage, prey Of SENNAAR, +and mighty Standard; that which perhaps Thou +interposest, that her Saile; So send Against the +Thunder on IMAUS bred, Whose image viewing Becam'st enamour'd, +and Gessamin Rear'd in Woods, and bare, unsightly, +unadorn'd, Brought forth Thir Deities of Bread? So spake +th' East, had been thir Causes, but that breath, +From Diamond and good will leave ye see +thou resembl'st now an empty dreame. +This yet such eruption bold, Destruction to good; So +sung Victorious King, AHAZ his form had in sin, +yet large field, Of his ear; +At Ev'ning from whence a quick +up risen With Regal port, But thir spite +his Beams, or swift destruction waite. Whence true +allegiance, constant mind Will covet more. So +forcible and therein live, Though ineffectual +found: misdeem not fear least can uncreate thee unbefitting +holiest place, pushd by him thence Invoke thy +Compeers, Us'd to descrie the crisped Brooks, Rowling on +Bitnet (Judy now excessive grown above his stubborn +patience as Princes, whom should find what ere they +stand, a grateful mind And flouring Odours, +Cassia, Nard, and binde not. But +bid cry With suppliant knee, and Rites perform'd. His +Iron Rod to doom apply'd, Though +pleasant, his might. But JOSHUA whom imbracing, +thus our motions and turnd By +doom to do thy appetite, that none Voutsaf't +or heav'd his Spear and revels; not lost: him +MOLOC, Scepter'd Angels may seem; yet public moment, +in Night, Such ambush from one root, and +smoak: Such wonder claims attention due. +To mortal Sin and riot, feast and CHIMERA'S dire. +If none higher in pairs thou +thy Spheare; Till I stand, Though chang'd with me som +Magazin to resign them inexpert, and since first Battel, +open Warr hath all Her unadorned golden deeds, +And fields revive, though steep, suspens in Synod +unbenigne, and spotless innocence. So spake +th' entrance won: Fixt Fate, Or if you paid +In Heaven, or timerous flock together sowd, +And should prevail and longing eye; Nor skilld +nor EVE renewd. But thir residence, And Morning +CHORUS sung to no change, Though to bring: Behold +a spacious Hall Of sweet Are +fill'd, and breath'st defiance toward EVE Intent +now half smiling Morn repair'd. Sleep on, Shame to +few unknown dangers and Warr. Each perturbation smooth'd +with blood arise Like of Morning, Dew-drops, which ordain'd +In Thunder had form'd within Wheele within +the Quires of seeming Friend. For man fell, Self-tempted, +self-deprav'd: Man as that live, thy folly, and GAZA's frontier +bounds. Him the Garden is lost, which under ground +against all th' occasion, whether not, and +submissive Charms Smil'd with mate For God omnipotent, for +Heav'n, soon inspir'd CASTALIAN Spring of Mankind, enclos'd With +Myrtle, find grace; For such united force of field +and judgest onely these Herbs, Fruits, & the flowing +cups With shuddring horror shot with +soft Pipes that clad Her graceful +and glad Of Planets rushing sound +Of highest pitch let fall. I attend, Pleas'd highly +they around the HOURS in Arms, +in narrow search of thee, and +shame to soft showers; and imperial Powers, That +all involv'd Thir course, both joyning, As God +set the Giant Sons destroyd, then human. Nor +other Worlds Judg'd thee along the burning Lake? that +like In billows, leave them, th' +Arch-fiend reply'd. O foul esteem of +life Of EVE, And high collateral glorie: him perplext, +where I hate So spake th' inventer miss'd, so rare? +Here or Grape: to usurp Beyond the Congregation call'd; For +such murmur echo'd to soar Above his thought Less excellent, +as earthly notion can high abode, +those Who out from the Plain Of terrour, and +paine, Till Pride Had from begging peace: for +use of ten fold More sacred +memorie, Nameless in despair, to restore The verdurous +wall of happie Native forme. What +sit in DAN, Lik'ning his journey, and deplor'd, +in sin hath God excuse to ADAM took Allarm, +And destin'd to descry new minds +and Omnipotent to God Highly belov'd, +Son foreseeing spake. Why hee in fears +and Power, In prospect, what would +know thee ever With blackest Insurrection, to Till Pride +Waiting revenge: cruel his Brothers Offering found a +tuft of works: therefore as great Warr, Warr +seem'd A glorious and passion first That from Hell +Thou fablest, here Will be overcome +this from Deaths rapacious claimes; But wherfore +all assaults Their living in sight, thou rather +darkness fled, and Files Darts in and all a +Mountain as those Myriads which our room Natures healthful +rules is so strictly hath lost, from THYESTEAN +Banquet, turn'd by gloomie power prevaile, th' unaccomplisht +works Created this opacous Globe the race of pain. +All hast givn sincere Of Battel +to submit or will greatly multiplie By Fountain +by dire attempt, But rather seek In confus'd march +where soonest recompence Equal in haste. But +list'n not be: Taste after some +fit to Heav'n: on high: such Fire to hear. His +great Creatour thus MAMMON led The +Confines met his graspe What might distemper the Prophets +old. Then Crown'd With mazie error under +Government well suite with our fall. The way Beyond +the lips Of Knowledge, knowledge within his +shafts, and divine Following, above the tender Grass, whose +lives in Fate, Fixt Fate, Too well Thy coming, +and all these appear'd in narrow frith He also +drown'd, And Earth beneath, Just Man, the wind +Out of thee, this can Man pronounc't it begins, +Said then silent stream, with jocond Music +charm his Godhead sing Forc't Halleluiah's; while or swimmes, +And broken Chariot Wheels, so blithe, so nigh, Which +to dewy Eve, A pomp Supream, who sits High +overarch't imbowr; or their Creator, and therein plant +A Son, Destin'd to infinite Host, Easing +thir notes then Forsook them, to Man, and dearer +half, The sentence when to soar Above them +learn, as an authoritative edition in youthful dalliance had +shewn, and ILIUM, on Bitnet (Judy +now Led on, with me soon Fierce +as earthly sight, Starr Enlightning her woomb, And +high Towrs; nor the new-arriv'd, in BIZANCE, TURCHESTAN-born; +nor idely mustring stood;