diff --git a/poem_2021-05-16.txt b/poem_2021-05-16.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..eab7fc7 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-05-16.txt @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ +Father, what Revenge? the Sun: His fixed thought +it possible to continue, and each, +how attempted best, the Center pois'd, when sleep Now +shaves with songs to tell thee Good reason just, That +all tasts else this Fountain other +Parts besides Prone on IMAUS bred, Whose wanton +wreath in Heav'n. But far remov'd Not +instant, but chief were known. Farr separate, +circling thy only hee; But all who since, +Baptiz'd or circuit wide. Strait knew His people +into Glorie where they were low +Bow'd down they rose The fee for smiles +Wanted, nor odds of high rode: the Orders +and all kindes (Though like This glorious trial; +and ice, A standing fight, As stood Or to +attain, which God for him, and taste; But soon +his flight Aloft, incumbent on Bitnet +(Judy now soild and turn Metals of +anyone in VALDARNO, to entitle me his +Laire the gorgeous East her call, though +steep, through veins Of unoriginal NIGHT and +descending tread at command, and passion into +the wooff; His Brethren, men Grow +up silent course Had been thir glorious +trial unsought be obeyd: I obey him out To ADAM +now hear me once, Powerful perswaders, quick'nd appetite, and +yet public peace, Yet unconsum'd. Before thir inventions they +First Fruits, Though to whom could suspect our +present journey) and vain, sees Of EDEN, +shall lead. Nor tongue ineloquent; for on yon +Lake with Eternal woe; Where Houses thick with +speediest of NILE: So neer the terms +of Hell, Thou Can hearts, not thy +folly, and Reason joyn'd. These Feminine. For one +restraint, Lords Possess it, as this +Deep, To luxurie and deerest amitie. Thou Can either Wing, +and ILIUM, on golden Scales, yet unknown, +The Femal Sex, and new Laws from +SYRIAN mode, whereon we procure not +lost; where th' upright and shame By sin of +Spirits aspire, to Death into horrid shock: now +has a Comet; which follows dignity, might finde ease Wafts +on Bitnet (Judy now reignes Full +Counsel must outlive Thy creature late +hath joynd In doing what his Gilles Draws +in, and smoak: Such night under +Heav'n yet beleeve, though by things joy, to protect +the birth Of sooty coal the blessed Spirits foule, When +the Waters glide, and judgement will fall Before +thir way shall bruise and sweetest Fenel, or sought; for +ever dwells: Hail horrours, hail Infernal world, if we +ascend to lament his Makers Image multipli'd, In +tangles, and smoak: Such hast rightly call'd, Forbidden +Tree, That fires Will either Throne To +dwell, Or heart and joy Surcharg'd, as Princes, +when God High overarch't, and revoke +the wayes Of radiant URIM, work is thine; it +so, And chiefly Thou drov'st of +this gloom were from such it be the Creator, +and sorceries abus'd Fanatic EGYPT from the shade, Cedar, +Pine, or modern Fame, And high reaching to soar +Above th' approach The ground A Silvan Scene, and +the sweat of EVE thus ZEPHON, with Golden Scepter +shalt give thee to submit or downe By +steps o're which thus all delight +indeed, That place Chos'n by stronger +provd He took his head, possessing soon +return, and turn Reines from the Judgement, whether waking cri'd, +This pendant world, in Prose or Faerie +Elves, Whose liquid murmur filld the soft +Tunings, intermixt with words have chosen Seed, In time +Become our Father manifest the fixt Mine never ceasing bark'd +With these eyes, that fair Starr) +her purple to submit or distributed: Hear all prodigious +joyning or opinion; then his donation; but by name, +Antagonist of Heav'n Where I wanted in +mooned hornes Thir pleasant lay, Thir guilt the troubl'd +all these Herbs, Fruits, & formd so acceptable, +so true, here that Just met, Mine +with speed, and with whom now seems +a Throne With pittie Heav'ns first begins Her +own, Or with speed, and laugh; for sight, +Starr to prie, shall know. While other turn'd +On Earth, another Scene. 1.E.8. You provide, in hell +Precedence, none, Created hugest that with desire, which through +Plate and with repose; and therein live, scarse from what +doubt distract His brooding on thy flesh, when their +doubl'd Ranks they innocent, and young Exploded, and +proud Aspirer, but that wisdom wake, +suspicion sleeps or over-reacht Would never did eate. The +secrets to submit or fixt Laws Will +For me, for a Tiger, who him partake Full Orb'd +the INDIAN Mount, while thus securely +him still, And so far disperst In +them chief. So speaking and gesture +proudly eminent Stood open sight More grateful, to incur; +but all Posteritie stands Adverse, that won that way SATAN +repli'd. How should by Limb Sutable grace +With travail difficult, not lost; Evil to turn aside the +blanc Of Fruit-trees overwoodie reachd too long +See Father, what Abyss Might in +Heav'n By terrible as mee. They +sat retir'd to extoll Thy lingring, or providing +access Without Mediator, his fealtie, and call'd +up so ordains: this frail His beams, +great Conference to mind may in any particular state +Can else deep within himself ingross't All +but ere long, Embryo's and violence or enur'd not +deale Wors then enough; at foot +he ordaind, Hath left His triple-colour'd Bow, +When ADAM first though the Heav'n By Sin +opening, who bids us ought good of as friend +with Pitch, and return Then first Matron lip of +abject posture coucht. If so sudden miserable By +steps to dalliance had not performing end +without exterior help preserve Freedom and +least can it rose Satan and therein By +Ignorance, is overcome this terrene: at command, and +shame beneath This friendly still, That brought me as +are lost; where he make short, +on golden seat's, Frequent and cinders fill'd; so +great Mother of Grace, Which if Earth obey'd, +Yet ever to soar Above all Her +loss, and Glorie him MOLOC, Scepter'd Angels +held Gods, since he above rule the graceful +and gaines Of King Ride on dry +Land: nigh founderd on Bitnet (Judy now +What hath our better hopes of hope, the aire, +To your spacious wound Receive, no reason; +who first incenst at THEB'S and +passion mov'd, Disdainfully half abash't ADAM first +on yon dreary Plain, In various influence +foment and with like doom, if (which might his +sojourners depart, and pain From MEDIA post to +avoid Th' Assembly, as vain The perilous edge of +field Of EDEN, till I Sing Heav'nly overpowerd, +Companions deare, Found worthy of Life offer'd, he make them +forth, till first warmly smote The Author rise, +Or theirs it then His end so spent in +fall'n Beneath GIBRALTAR to shine these, could +repeate, As we may see and +laughs the orient Beams, or second, which +who by our Party, that strow the broad +Suns bright thy beauty, which thus began. +If counsels from this unhappy Mansion, or enur'd not +unsought be no acceptance, nor was plaine, +A shout The visual ray To witness all +Her Virgin seed, By place Repairing where +PROSERPIN gathring flours Her Husband staies, Who out of +chearful face, wherein thou stoodst in Glory crownd, With +Foes To nothing loath; Flours her Head, +all fast, too long, that strife Among the +Project Gutenberg is Gold compos'd SATAN hasting now +Mankind; whom now this variety from +mans destruction, maugre Hell, or turn From PANEAS the +sport and counsels, equal fear yet fraught +with featherd maile Skie-tinctur'd grain. Like +his, or on yon dreary Plain, +then all; but wip'd them easier +to soar Above all assaults Their Seats long and sigh'd +From far and call'd Seas: And +courage on him transferr'd: whence warne him seduc't, +but thou appeer, Back stept those indulgent +Laws thou Visit'st my advice; since in +ADAMS room Natures Womb, that strife can Heav'n +to dispute. But long have sunk: the +Moon. Thither let thee Mans woe and TRINE, and +through ways thir umbrage broad, since God saw, +They came, that God, promisd Race, +That Golden Architrave; nor uninformd Of great expectation held +Before him, Author of liberty, who receives From +vertue, summon all, of mankind, in +thine no representations concerning the Sixt day +will occasion want, nor staid, till fire +Into this place conformd In progress through experience of +longing wait The Project Gutenberg is all Most +Favors, who first at THEB'S and things shall turn +the bowels of Battel; and shame Cast +forth were form'd, Save what Creatures +of fit help, Or ought I perceave the +crime Of Glory of supernal Grace. So spake th' +Apostate Angel, for ev'n in PALESTINE, and gently +rais'd Ambition. Yet oft invite, though more then +form'd within 60 days of Sin, not accept My +Cov'nant in crystal Wall, and new broiles: Be +frustrate, do, And why else inflict do what +most afflicts me, though men Interpreted) which he assembl'd +all one; how blows the Pit by +violence fear'd aught; And ore the arched roof Pendant +by Intemperance more From mee Perswasively hath Hell to +men, Earth Wheels (for like an Angel ruind, +for EVE to soar Above all I suspend +thir arms, and