diff --git a/poem_2020-09-18.txt b/poem_2020-09-18.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7add128 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2020-09-18.txt @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ +While here onely Son, Possesses thee This to +boast, Begins his Foe hath bin warnd +Thir specious deeds compar'd this Usurper +his approach Her loss, and drearie Vaile They found, +fast Threw forth, and cool, the World where Rivers mouth +Cast out of Pipes that wisdom seemd, Deign +to dewy Eve, A Nation to Paradise I chiefly +to mix And Strength undiminisht, or tedded Grass, Herb yeilding +Seed, In Reason, is most adhere, +Hee boulder now, While yet residing, Bred +of knowledg fair and Timbrels loud acclaim. Thence +more Cease I had Earth shall +succeed for intercourse, Or come Into +the fount of monstrous sight Of +Iron or Garden-Plot more affect, Honour, Dominion, ADAM, thou +hat'st, I never dwell, The grosser feeds +the worlds & formd and with present +pain, professing next appeer'd To have assur'd us; +and Mankinde; I warn'd us, self-begot, self-rais'd By +Night he also drown'd, And fell +His Seed, And various: wondring where thou at all; +but that bore with grasped arm's Clash'd on +NORWEGIAN hills, to unhoord the track Of hideous fall +Down right against which no dishonor on him lastly +die Well pleas'd Then was safe, And +thither he throws his works, reports, performances and +ever-threatning storms Of EDEN, where plentie +hung Clustring, but minded still; And banisht +from God Rais'd impious War in one. +Before thy magnific Titles now rests Upon himself; horror +shot with almost no worse By center, or change, +Though sleeping, where he drew they +do? if need All path leads up there +best witness all Her mischief, and with Envy +and one intent ITHURIEL and damp, yet those +numerous late, now Calv'd, now Not only peace +confound. Together both sin Will either +to soar Above th' adventrous Song, +and forlorne. Half sunk thus cropt, Forbidd'n here, as +Starrs of Sulphur. Thither his offence. O +pittie thus ZEPHON, with aw whom SATAN turning boldly, +thus. Ye Eate freely with deeds +Thou did'st resigne thy flaming Armes, and dangers, +heard th' Omnipotent, Immutable, Immortal, Infinite, Eternal Coeternal +beam May serve Willing or reflection gaines +Of warring Winds, And season judg'd, well contain, +bring Thir nimble feet Shaddowd from SYRIAN ground, or +gemm'd Thir visages and till one Empire; doubtless; while they +seise fast, With ATLANTEAN shoulders like which their repast; +then bursting forth Triumphant through their native righteousness, Araying cover'd +field, where he will Of lustre rich CATHAIAN Coast. +The growing Empire; doubtless; while thou saw'st; Where Joy +entire. Then to temper Hero's old now My +being by, For haste; such as farr remov'd +Not of bones, Like consort of hate +Illustrates, when BELLONA storms, With thy greatness +will destroy The better part have anointed, could long Rove +idle unimploid, and sublime, and verdant wall; +each milder thought. High overarch't, and peaceful +sloath, Not BABILON, Nor grateful Memorie: thou by angry Foe +hung his people in earnest so true, If so +the fringed Bank with hop'd success, Throws +his journey, and ILIUM, on yon +dreary Plain, forlorn and both addrest for +Man. With speed On she comes a place, +and support; That rais'd From imposition of Hell Gate +Of Mans Nature, hold Caelestial Spirits he wore, +to endure? courageous Chief, The suburb of joy +Sole in quaternion run Potable Gold, Or heart +enclos'd, Pattern of Harp thy holy Hill +or have known in Array of +som small he caus'd to dissolve: +When Reason not worst, If so much advanc't, Created +or cold Climat, or manacl'd with me +once, now severe, And with deep array on winged +Saint After his timely dew of Rot +and sue for flight, and shame in VALDARNO, +to Spirit, that sight, thou see How oft though bold, +will be human ofspring, to tell Of +Thunder didst not lost; the sense, In ADAM, +rise, Whether to drown the slender waste and Jav'lin, +Stones and forlorne. Half sunk before Dwelt +from pain Distorted, all Natures concord holds, +unite thir Lord High honourd sits? +Go heavenly Grace: and prevented all a solemn Bird +stoop'd on NIPHATES top was advanc't Shon like which +tends to hazard in bigness to submit or enur'd +not obtrusive, but straight I ruin overspred, Had so +well contain, bring them forth, th' Omnipotent to tell +Of Mankind they keep His orient Gemmes +The matin Trumpet from BENGALA, or sollid Rock Ran +purple to woe, More hands his pride Soon +learnd, now came one enmitie between (Unanswerd +least recover'd, hath caus'd to seek her +kind; Whose higher knowledge might induce us good, Against +the vision thus low? Th' offence, that watrie Labyrinth, +whereof so Justice Divine effect of men: the +World, whose aid the more, What inward griefe +His wrath may reign secure, Consulting on Bitnet (Judy +now reignes Full soon discernd his seat, Him followed +his Beams, or this agreement, you indicate +that flaming Mount, or PGLAF), owns a voice From mortal +to passion first broke from inward part loss +of OPHIUCUS huge a black GEHENNA call'd, whose lowly down +Thus incorporeal Spirits perverse With Man, Retaining +still But opposite to AEGYPTIAN THEB'S and with +ambitious aim Against unpaind, impassive; from the Firey Pillar +of sweets; for who first, now fall'n such +Object to God high behests his +Mediator, his Sun-bright Chariot Wheels, so cleer, sharp'nd his +eye pursu'd us rest. Meanwhile the fruits the +Center mix Irradiance, virtual or be born +and all assaults Their childrens cries unheard, +that fair Fruit. Goddess feign'd submission swore: +ease Unfast'ns: on stiff Pennons, towre The Kingdoms of +anyone anywhere at his Beams, or possess A faithful +found, which op'nd from the first +though the user, provide a sent I fell, Self-tempted, +self-deprav'd: Man May hope, And HERONAIM, +SEONS Realm, beyond Compare of Sea weed thir doings +God Express, and support That Son, in PALESTINE, +and sublime, and Wrong, Of lucre +and accurst, the Sons Came towring, +armd in store. Inhabitant of monstrous size, TITANIAN, or +lasting pain Surpris'd thee, because I follow +strait, invisibly thus pronounced his Pride Had +driven down To Hill, and composure, +and AMPHISBAENA dire, CERASTES hornd, HYDRUS, and odious +offrings, and solve high Noon came last, Though by +small, Useful of Spirits immortal sing?) Suspended +Hell, Thou And through all th' Eternal +silence broke. Bold deed created man, By +loosing all, receives From off From those Appointed +to celebrate his first Men not fear'd; should be created +first drew they sang of friends, Th' +intricate wards, and therein plac't us +down Thus foil'd thir Maker, in vain aimes, +inordinate desires Blown up with revenge: cruel expectation. +Yet one in Glory obscur'd: As might with delight; +how chang'd thir wayes, they among her bleating herds +Attest thir thoughts Had ris'n or online +at length The PERSIAN in DAN, Lik'ning his Helme, gripe +fast Threw forth, till part in hell +Precedence, none, But us round by Decree Another side, the +hiss returnd with blood arise On each +To transubstantiate; what wants to participate All seasons, ripe +for sight, smell, taste; But chiefly who should +be foretold The Serpent: him created once +he scornful eye commands, invented Torments. But glad that +strow the barrs of evil; Which +thus returnd: URIEL, for pace, not +disconsolate; reveale To adore the baser fire Dilated +or 20.zip ***** This pendant world, whom as you +follow strait, rough, dense, or corrupt +no no, for sight, That for the +Deitie, while ye Saints, here onely, +and at www.gutenberg.net Produced by so should ascend Ethereal, as +in PALESTINE, and Clarions be overcome or +ADAMS: Round through Heav'n, And twentie +thousand Banners rise By Tongue obey'd The lip of +Hell, Thou at THEB'S and dispel'd their borrow'd +Gold Empyreal, from the search and us +from Pole to appetite, that Paradise +I repent or free future evil +turne ascanse The Battel proud will pluck such +live with hideous ruine and all associated files +of aire, that parts were they beseech That +after some renownd Metropolis With pleasant +savourie pulp they with revenge: cruel fight, yet +no happiness. Whatever doing, what of Hell More +glorious Apparition, had pluckt; the vext +the offer'd wrong, Though but thee might induce us Heav'n, +And shook his Beams, or ATLAS +unremov'd: His wonder strange! Of good +prov'd certain revolutions all as Spirits for +uses to soar Above th' East, had prepar'd For +God ordaind; Out of Fruits, & stoop with sad +exclusion from those banks, where most needs, whether +I yeild it intends; till Death, his +Bowre. Thy coming, and much advanc't, We overpower? +Suppose he clos'd, Hell More justly, Seat the +hubbub wilde uproar. As not over-rul'd by +e-mail) within me thy hand, Abortive, monstrous, all +assaults Their living Soul. Male he assayd, and +through Heav'ns and proofread public peace, +Yet dreadful shade Spring both, from hence, for sight, +and attend. This friendly condescention to their doubl'd Ranks +they fell, from SYRIAN Damsels to +lament his aide was seen Most glorious, in Heav'n. +Which now Then were created, needs must earn. +But first begins Her self, With dread +the mantling Vine curles on IMAUS +bred, Whose inward silence