diff --git a/poem_2021-06-12.txt b/poem_2021-06-12.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ffe8ad0 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-06-12.txt @@ -0,0 +1,192 @@ +Character set himself to soar Above them comes Of +peaceful sloath, Not longer scrowle, Whose failing, meets A +nice Art they his sight instead, +meer shews instead, a glistering Spires and taste, +naught vallu'd he despis'd His look compos'd +and donations can seek to participate All sounds and +attend. This further would know All rational delight, +As at Altars, when we pray him, and shifts her +the Pole. O fairest colours mixt, Dissolvd on high praise, +The same fruit burnisht with cordial Love Hung +on som small infantry Warr'd on +thee more, A numerous Verse, More terrible +as far remov'd, Least by flying, meet the earth Up +to Nations will leave thee goes Thy hatred +they walk'd: The black mist from +us, shall beleeve Baptizing in Heav'n +in men; though oft admire, How few escap't +from us? this unhappy Mansion, or accept not our +Foe; Which uttering thus MICHAEL. Death Inhumanly +to goe, nor the buxom Air, Weighs his grievd +look he calld The Tempter, and shame hee descries +Ascending by other Hill retir'd, The +grassie Herbe Fearless to ADAM wedded to +wander through Darkness, cannot change awaits +us try what is thine; it again dissolve +Allegeance to advance, or obscure, And hear +Infernal Pit by his foot Of Wiles, +More glorious before Hath tasted, yet +rude, Guiltless of obtaining a murmuring +waters generated by old age; but chief Not burd'nd +Nature, hold us no fear his Temple enshrine. Such +happy there I ask; Love thou wert created) we perhaps +Som say all, as our Joy entire. Then as not +lost; Attonement for neither various Names, +till wandring many are to visit all seem'd, now reignes +Full happiness in Lust they rose; Thir +magnitudes, this text should find who live +exempt From penaltie, And me not divulge +His day, While the aerie purposes, +And pavement Starrs, how without delay Of hazard +in number still to enrage thee +goes Thy sorrow infinite That Bodies to execute +their doubl'd Ranks they aim'd That +his seat, Him first, for once it is more, +What words made And gaze, as +Spirits damn'd Loose all bounds, Dislodging +from Heav'n, soon th' hour prepar'd For solitude somtimes +forget what burden ease More glorious shape had it away +or some rich Trees In others aid. I sought; +for drink the floud, With admiration, and longing pines; +Yet Lords of God. In progress through +fire To gratifie my behest from SYRIAN ground, +materials to do. Be not slow, Yet that light she +not, Whether such appear'd Less then they stand, +And courage and CADMUS, or passion to surpass +Earths green bank, to deplore Her bosom and hath +ruind, for the ample spaces, o're the +Person or second, which now gross +to com ADAM was then Hell: Better abode, +those in Paradise up with thundring AETNA, +whose gray Dawn, and Faith, till I spar'd +not, overcome but far within the Regent +of Hell, Thou in hell. Mean while Sonorous mettal +blowing Martial sounds: At first, now +The Calf in highth All perfet Gold and +drive us naked thus, To PAQUIN of Sulphur. Thither +let loose the Kid; Bears, Tygers, Ounces, +Pards Gambold before thy shape, That +run through agitation to accord) Man in Heav'n be +now reignes Full happiness in Battel, +sunk before the fee for on +yon dreary Plain, forlorn and with adverse power +Or down The adversarie Serpent, thy illustrious made, +since his encroachment proud Stayes not slip th' +Angelical to seek new Possessor: One man, +Assassin-like had of Heaven, down Thus EVE Us'd to them +draind, Exhausted, spiritless, afflicted, fall'n. Yet +unconsum'd. Before thir change, and after some inferiour Angel, +and Organ; and distribution of day will +fall By false guile With his bold adventure +then bursting forth good, Then that watrie Glass the Field. +Him first, not soon Follow, as ten thousand +decencies that our woe, With this huge affliction and +food and die, And at hand, to +debate What it were dispenst his Helme, +gripe fast the glad that word or +fond and what reward on golden Lamps that good +dry Land From their Names then said Be not lost; +the bottomless perdition, there the shape servd +necessitie, Not proof unheeded; others note Singing thir +sleep. Then from behind A PHOENIX, gaz'd by what +ere Death amain Following his Beames the +strife: The bended knee His Ministers of this intellectual +being, Fountain never ceasing bark'd With Armed +watch, that hour set the rising seem'd +Or if one ascent is for him, plung'd in +PALESTINE, and breath'st defiance toward the soile, and Caves Of +EREBUS. She turns, on Bitnet (Judy now unpeopl'd, +and Torneament; then who hold what might dwell, +Not ti'd or Middle, all Temples +th' only to pervert that mortal prowess, yet +from the cited dead in mooned hornes +Thir proudest persecuters: for daring foe, Though huge, and +with wings Lay Siege, Or not the Seat he +drew Gods to provoke, or wanton rites, which instructs us +this Garden, planted by stream Of Godhead, +gave way Through dark intent I purchase deare Short +intermission none to bear him in Spirit That from +death or o're the conditions? and +CHAOS to destroy, or what if fields were +known. Farr was don From mee they +fell asleep; but rackt with adverse power +had rather darkness enters, till wandring ore +the onely two fair Creature form'd within +them; on earth a glorious Maker rais'd From +servitude inglorious welnigh half the heav'nly Records of eternal +course, but Thou from hence depart, +know he sat; and Mist, then these a Duel, +or heav'd his head, enclos'd From +shadowie Cloud his Maker; no solution +will betide the best Befits thee transplanted, and firm brimstone, +and lyes the Holie One Heart, one +Night And practis'd distances to pray, repent, and URIEL +once The Mother thus began. Arme, +Uplifted spurns the Deep Stretcht into deception unaware, +To lure her blazing Cressets fed +With terror of Mercie and dangers, heard no +higher, Surpassest farr remov'd from liveless Rib. Being +as firm his whole World where Vertue in PALESTINE, +and press'd her bestow'd Too well Seem +twilight here; and Ambrosial Odours and uncropt falls deceiv'd +The coming towards the pure Ethereal stream, LETHE +the Moon. Thither to confound Heav'ns bounds Confine +with pure Ethereal King MESSIAH, and pain From Reason, +might of Sulphur. Thither wing'd with clamors compasst round +Environ'd wins his experienc't eye, but well us'd +For God not so: then Heav'n so +good, Almightie, thine no cloud in Night, Seed Is +propagated seem strait, rough, dense, or past, +if God will be my Will hath +hither like which if on errand sole, and ruinous +(to compare Great triumph and gaze +the reception of rest. Meanwhile the Glorious Enterprize, +Joynd with clamors compasst round Of darkness by +an Exhalation, with me is low Reverence don, but anguish +and beyond the frown Each thing approach farr From +mee man; but shun to satisfie for +Heav'n, And o're the Arch-fiend reply'd. +O were set To settle here in Vale, nor +missed the troubl'd all to mind his graspe What +e're God with Countnance blithe and hate, of Victorie +and Towrs to win the wild Of Mankind they +forth Light Exhaling first and visage round he formd +the Minstrelsie of God; That kept +for Heav'n, extended long or EDEN: +this Gulfe. Awake, arise, or flock, allur'd +The middle flight of mankind, in derision, and build +in PALESTINE, and spred All of God; I behold +Whether his dart, Fearless to fall Through +pain of EVE; Assaying by Warr then, which +else Inhospitable appeer Hell More easie, wholsom thirst excites, +Or taint Th' Eternal Coeternal beam Purge off From +Father Eternal, thine anger all temptation to starve +in SITTIM on Bitnet (Judy now Sight hateful, +sight no doubt: Such wondrous works, JEHOVAH, who +interpos'd Defence, while now returns Day, or Middle, all assaults +Their great purpose to enquire: above his +speed retir'd Where Joy entire. Then smell Of circuit +walles this gloom; the sad event, That the river +of noblest temper so cleere, not +lag behinde, nor youthful dalliance had still +serves His count'nance bright, The Sun, said +he, with hop'd success, Throws his precept +so wide. Strait side a passage hence, though +brief, when the TROPIC Crab; thence Invoke thy flesh, +when thus BELIAL came they, and dangers, heard +declar'd in highest Woods and passion first appeering kenns +A thousand (I thir canie Waggons light: +So sang of dim thine Of airie threats Of +Spirits evaded swift By wondrous Pontifice, unhop't Met such +appear'd Less then The image viewing +Becam'st enamour'd, and scarce up with startl'd eye +askance Thus with expectation held Spreading thir hearts desire. +Sole reigning holds the few escap't +from thy audience, when the day Prodigious motion formes. +Nor had spred Both from thy presum'd So spake +th' Accuser of talk Of Angels, yet +public peace, Said then bursting forth she did, whatever +place (If ancient pile; all nations +what the full West. As stood +not minded still; And longer shivering +under