diff --git a/poem_2020-11-27.txt b/poem_2020-11-27.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e337441 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2020-11-27.txt @@ -0,0 +1,194 @@ +T' whom imbracing, thus EVE, some small room Throng +numberless, And livd: One Gate ascend, sit and +Justice must; unless by gloomie power Or if +fields revive, though begun My Tongue +obey'd The Poles of Heav'n? Or +not of this can discern Th' infection when the +train of EVE Perceaving where Earth the mouth Cast forth +peculiar grace Invites; for such appear'd Less then +in Heav'n in connexion sweet, Nor +I that shall sink Beneath GIBRALTAR to scorne The new +Worlds; whereof who drinks, Forthwith the Deep. Let +such Commission from this Tempter ere long Rove idle +unimploid, and glad that fondly deem'd, I saw. The +Femal Light, Thrones, Princedoms, Powers, Under him to th' +adopted Clusters, to these walks forth, though free Will +be wrought by harpy-footed Furies hail'd, At PANDAEMONIUM, the +Foundation was lost. Of order, how +awful goodness thinks no assault, In +vain, sees Of Mans voice, nor walk with +everlasting groans, Unrespited, unpitied, unrepreevd, Ages +of joy my Lot. Shall change +To Starr the Labourers heel Homeward with +grasped arm's Clash'd on Thrones; Though +now Of echoing Hill Delight thee how I +saw, thus renews. Haste hither From compassing the race of +touch with Mineral fury, aid the heat these wilde +Woods and thought Both when Spirits in Tents thou +me. Thus fenc't, and sorceries abus'd Fanatic +EGYPT from the Foundation (and what passes there; and +gates of JORDANS flood As neerer danger; goe +Before thir secrets of hell Precedence, none, so various shapes +and Days Continu'd making, or Reines, Cannot well ended +they meant, Turnd him endow, Exalted +to dissolve: When first Parents in narrow search +with grasped arm's Clash'd on yon boyling cells prepar'd, +The hollow Universal Maker we seek No less toil, +and by Contagion, like that gently rais'd +Their great purpose thus double-form'd, and possess Life Neglect not, +who knew him disfigur'd, more precious things +so cleer, sharp'nd his Host, left His uncouth paine +of anyone anywhere at large Beyond a Mountain Pines, And +now thir Nests Were always downward +Fish: yet have feard To which alwayes +thee, Not longer shivering under feares, That made porous +Earth Wheels (for Night Starless expos'd, +and oyle; and years, towards the +circling fire, He ended weeping, and shame +By attributing overmuch to occur: (a) distribution +of Spirits to exalt With him, punisht +in opinion stand On you two, her Bearth. Meanwhile the +fiery Couch, these walks Invisible, except whom +The high Decree Another now has agreed to contend, +And dig'd out of Heav'ns awful reverence prone; and +Stations thick the Son, in narrow room Throng numberless, +and therein plant eyes, all assaults +Their childrens cries unheard, that God, In +mee I revive At Eev'n, And therefore on yon +celestial light? Be good wherein appear'd Obscure som +tumultuous cloud Of their borrow'd Gold compos'd +SATAN still with level pavement: from sleep +and scum'd the Kid; Bears, Tygers, Ounces, Pards Gambold +before us, shall I keep, by Judy +Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on golden Chain To +motion, but that flaming volies flew, From +Nectar, visiting each place can repell. His wish and +walk'd, or immediate Warr, Nor are +of bright Turnd fierie Steeds Reflecting blaze Far otherwise +th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus began. Best with +me most, and Gonfalons twixt Van Pric +forth profuse on Orient beam Purge off +Human, to bear, and Mirtle, and bliss, +condemn'd For envie dwell Permits not; shee in unapproached +light & hymning spent. Mean while Night Related, and +press'd her thou with bossy Sculptures grav'n, +The glorious sight, thou lov'st: But fondly deem'd, +I else enjoy'd In imitation of your +laughter, hath chief might work us Two +Planets seven, and through Pond or +fleecy Flock, Ewes and gay, Ye Powers therein +plac't in joy, that word or +Faerie Elves, Whose vertue to a Cloud, +for flight, seditious Angel, art thou, I else +set On duty, sleeping soon inspir'd CASTALIAN Spring So +standing, moving, to view Nor tongue of thee, +this by easie yoke Of ARGUS, and before +the Saints In wealth and sole part Still +follow'd RIMMON, whose exile Hath brought By terrible Example +the fluid Aire: So Law can +bid his game) With this Ethereous mould +BEHEMOTH biggest born First Disobedience, and a Serpent +had then my dread they best merits) from us +up, the deep, & found So +now Be wanting, but only evil Be +good malignant, to think. Confirm'd then suffic'd To expiate +his play; he disdaind, and were joyn'd +The rest High overarch't imbowr; or online at +noon, with me thus, how the warlike Angel +can enjoy thir Powers that future dayes journey +high, with hellish pair that Starr Of Mans +woe and Battel proud attempt MEDUSA with infinite Thy +wish, exactly to feel begun Early, and Saviour of +light, but a vengeance Arme again dissolve Allegeance +to move; Each Tree of hope, the +Image multipli'd, In circuit, undetermind square or bonds, or +Earth Bear his paw Dandl'd the general safety +best known. Farr off From Beds of +JORDANS flood a Summers Noon-tide air, Brusht with bad +eminence; and mad demeanour, then breath that place +can your Leader, not to irksom night; About her +course began, When, and huge; in Heav'n. Each +perturbation smooth'd with a copy and sham'd his Omnipotence, +with calumnious Art Of OREB, or heav'd his +uprightness answer thy Subjection, but known as vain +plumb down The sharpest sighted Spirit +in hell Precedence, none, whose exile Hath eat'n +and spoil and Art they rould in thee, +shun the sentence chose his Guardians +bright, when thus intent ITHURIEL and +nature and uncropt falls to quell thir names Eternize +here observd His secrets to submit +or CAPITOLINE was then SATAN with +BRITISH and Wind With singed bottom +broad circumference Hung high Arbiter CHANCE governs all. +In wealth of weight, till younger SATURN, he came, +but thenceforth Endu'd with scalding thurst and slothful: +yet that finds her Eye, In dubious Battel now +known what to submit or enur'd not +of MICHAEL Wrought still to approve not +lost; where peace recoverd sad. Evil be weak is +his, or message high magnificence, who beheld Beautie, which +the Foundation makes remiss the mid air: +So deep to enrage thee more; Yet unconsum'd. +Before thy rebellious rout Fell long Had +ended parle, and where, if within thee +quite be invulnerable in doubtful what mean +of anyone in broad circumference Hung over +him with ASIA joyn'd, SATAN except, Created evil, +and wonder if there fast they around the Fiend, and +press'd her thoughts and thou what happiness and betraid Him +God from disorder sprung: Swift to us, in +Peace. The miserie, I had prepar'd +For strength & drinks they shall find +grace, Thy praise ye see and despite +and gates of OPHIUCUS huge of liberty, who unseen +Wing to dwell; That what ensu'd when to +rule, which The haunt for on Bitnet (Judy +now Mankind; whom mutual help preserve Unhurt our belief, +that with ice And Matrimonial Love, which we +know How due! yet these Dogs of Mercie and +coast of him; hee the Polar +Winds the melodie of anyone anywhere at Altars, +when BELLONA storms, With wonder, fall'n From Beds of as +great mischief swift. Hope farwel Hope, If Prayers Could +merit more bright'nd, thus returnd: URIEL, for yee +five watchful Senses represent, She crushes, inoffensive +moust, and call'd and Mine, Assaulting; others +note Singing thir story written left, Now nearer, Crowns +inwove with feats of Victorie and odious offrings, +and though SPRING and commands to +give Law and Fowle, Ev'ning and with Spade and +Timbrels loud Through labour hard and dearer half, +The Prison ordain'd thir innocence Melt, +as to tears Bewailing thir own Image of +words and RHEA'S Son belov'd Mayst ever plotting +how have fled the surging smoak and +shame to surprize To chains Heapt on he surveys, +and all Her Temperance over him As +being I started back, Remembring mercie, and free +Acceptance of sorrow, doleful shades, where hap +to submit or Midnight Bal, Or could +have; I grow In this side up +A cry With Centric and with solitude, is fume, That +farr then mankinde higher, Surpassest farr remov'd Not mind +Of Godlike Power: for such Thir station, +Heav'n arriv'd, Wafted by Fate the Spirits immortal love +Alone thus wrapt in DAN, Lik'ning his love-labor'd +song; but anon A happy though free, +If I wondring tell how just? of +change Thir Office on yon boyling +cells prepar'd, they as in charge +is reason, to chuse for grace +Attends thee, against example high! Ingaging me down Th' undaunted +Fiend by turns, on yon Lake Rapt +in crime, the God spake, and +pain Through labour or might supplie the +chief delight, Awake, arise, or o're the dear +delight He drew they cast him +begotten Son, in Heav'n Long had +ceas't when thir Legions, or PYTHIAN +fields; Part loosly wing against Heav'ns +matchless Chief: As not drive, Seduce +them stood much hath Man Which to redeeme, Thir +inward thence creat'st more sublime Upon the sound throughout +the proud With Armed