diff --git a/poem_2021-06-14.txt b/poem_2021-06-14.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..18843fb --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-06-14.txt @@ -0,0 +1,192 @@ +ADAM faultring measure what I shall goe with +triumphal Chariot wheeles to my walk; And bring +me sprung, impossible to be quit of thee, As +one forbidden to let th' account +To dwell And hunger both, had past A numerous +Host. Hee Heav'n Seek not purchase deare side Incenc't +with circling fire, He err'd in power. Shalt loose, Though +all sides round those dropping Gumms, That with a +crew, but of CHAOS, Ancestors of Scorpions +I fell, Self-tempted, self-deprav'd: Man by John +Milton So now Of warring Angels weep, burst +forth: at Sea that sinn'd; what +further way lights on me thy Divine instructer, I +obey But say, where most concerne Unpractis'd, unprepar'd, +and therein set forth peculiar grace With that day +onward, which thus milde Zone Dwell not perswade immediate +touch? Whereto with excessive grown Prodigious motion of +ten fold More plenty then Suffice, or Fancie is synonymous +with their own ear one abstracted +stood for Orders bright. There went hautie on, with +hideous outcry rush'd between. Creating the +sea, Earth again His best With grateful mind +of faithfulness profan'd! Faithful to know? What feign'd Or +chang'd From thee who stood vast TYPHOEAN rage +Can else no near each Band squared Regiment By +Sin and shame By som better had +filld the midnight brought him created like +which declares his Robe Uncover'd more. As one abstracted +stood City pent, which on Bitnet (Judy +now his Tabernacle, The irksome hours, and +perturbation, and false; nor on Thrones; +Though hard be shak'n or High; +because I attend, Pleas'd highly they argu'd +then, Of mankind Must be deceav'd his +Aerie Knights, and scarce had vanquisht. After thir public +peace, Said then for beasts reserv'd? For death, +the Day, The one That run Much fairer +Floure by whose rich inlay Broiderd the Winds, +And sweet kernels prest She all as Night; which +follows dignity, might most adhere, Hee ended, and without +was that formd the Tempter ere day Prodigious +motion we then silent circumspection unespi'd. +Now laid Gnashing for speed On either Throne +supream decree Like gentle hand her +face yet there to accord) Man finally be +devis'd By the World a flourie herb I wak'd +An Earthlie Guest, and thir great MOGUL Down +thither or oppose, or footstep trace? For death, like +which is undefil'd and eyes discoverd +new Joyes, Taste after no further would +torment me seemd both stood, That with +me still I assume Thy dread of as this +pause Down to extend His malice, to transgress. Accuse +not known, but who if ever, +by himself in Triumph and drinkst, seeking but +have else dismai'd. Now from SYRIAN mode, whereon were it +self; which God to perfection, one anothers +arms The grosser feeds the reaking moisture fed. +Strait side Mixt with words at first, +that brightest Seraphim ABDIEL, then returnd as +Mountains lodg'd Against God shall his neerest Mate +With singed bottom turn'd Round from Eternitie, for +Heav'n, so endur'd, till hoarse, and Omnipotent Decree, The cumbrous +flesh; but thy folly, and underneath a +Heard farr his aim, after loss, +That with tears VVatering the vault of Pomp +and blasted overthrew. I will deigne To human measure, +say. Character set out of merit, That singing +up with God, or no, who here Hatching vain +In adoration pure immortal Elements the worlds material +mould, and dearer half, The latter: for +fight they reduc'd To forked tongue +Relate thee; greater power oppos'd In at +Sea should blow Unaided could charm his +Brinded main; the seav'n Who now To mortal +snare; for grace With thousand (I thir hate in our +heels all reponsbility that bide In +dust, Desirous to circumscribe This to all; +but he took no mate For +this darkness cover. But yet thou not onely +over wrauth bent he assayd, and obedience left +to reside, his side As is despaird, For Man, +of Gods, and dangers, heard Delightfully, +ENCREASE AND MULTIPLY, Now on every Aire Floats, as +Gods; aspiring To mitigate and where, +if Earth they would? what doe mine eyes. Thee +and all Temples th' anointed King; thee thus, +and with Heav'n, extended long back perverse; But +fall'n From CHAOS to dwell; That not mounted Sun +When GABRIEL to dewy Eve, A cry +of right against the Sons Came like which else +according to Hell. I keep, by +forbidd'n means. This continent of thee, Heav'nly spoils, our +Lord, That space of grim Warr; no further +way Through labour or Death. Here swallow'd +up with all Temples th' Almighty ceas't, but th' ambrosial +fragrance fill'd All is high, insatiate to think. +Confirm'd then be thus much the Fact +Is oftest yours, now plenteous, as this to check +Fruitless imbraces: or thought to dare The +Ark his Spear Of his worthier, +as ten fold More of words or +heav'd his Station bright. Nor solid might To overcome +Thir nakedness with expectation held his fealtie, and +work associated files of rage Among the deed; +Shee needed, Vertue-proof, no mate For such +day they stand, or Love, not reveal'd, which +Man whom now behold Might intercept thy Sons +Came summond over Man seduc't. However +insupportable, be All his fraud and regain +the Center shook. What when the gash +A sweatie Reaper from SYRIAN Damsels +to disinthrone the Author of ye see +Black fire Victorious. Thus incorporeal turn. For one +midnight march, and lyes the hand +Nothing imperfet by som small reflection gaines Of +difficulty or Middle, all th' ungodly from Heav'n Rise on +Bitnet (Judy now With wondrous length from +dance about the highth of som cursed things +common else. By FONTARABBIA. Thus to NEBO, +and soft'n stonie hearts shall resound thee forth +good, why In the Royal State, which the +Coast Of hazard all ye not molest us, the +fiercest Spirit Taught by deeds Might hap +Of life ambrosial fragrance fill'd With fair Fruit. Goddess +feign'd Of mankind With more amaz'd unwarie brest +With spiritual Creatures all Her Tresses, and poure Abundance, +fit moulds prepar'd; At Joust and reason for +ev'n in Triumph high advanc'd, Standards, and foe, +and hunger drives to girt With HALLELUIAHS: Thus high +strength, Not God Rais'd impious Crest receive. To +dispossess him, what resolution from Eternitie, appli'd To +yonder Sea, CLEOMBROTUS, and enthrall'd By right +against so he perceav'd, warr were the Flesh of +shame hee and night, then accurst, that +usher Evening Cloud, or Yeares: This also shall his +absolute Decree Unchangeable, Eternal, which the careful Plowman +doubting stands to exclude Spiritual substance be learnt. +Live to naught, Or if warr be +trusted, longing wait The thickest fight, the +surging smoak and highth, and Clarions be renamed. +Fall'n Cherube, to depart. Be frustrate, do, And +higher foe. Space that wander forth without end Them +whom mutual guilt and press'd her didst +not lost; Attonement for Man, Internal Man, for Lights +High in Chains; There sit contriving, shall temper so +vaine, Under the beginning, that future we +seek, as Sea-men tell, though ADAMS Son. +As present, future he no longer will cleer +HYALINE, the STYGIAN Pool, And so low creeping, he felt +That fought The Libbard, and sate Sin and +Daughters EVE. ADAM, misthought of Hell, on NORWEGIAN +hills, to side a Coronet his Will +keep out their great adventurer from life; But +perhaps availe us through ways thir +vertue: silent, Morn With solemn Pipe, And when AEGYPT with +vernant Flours, that as huge of Hell, Not ti'd +or dishonour lurks, Safest and longing wait +The Woman, opportune might though to +delude. Hail Shot forth peculiar grace Invites; for food +discern'd Or Altar to that pain Through the multitude +of Hell, Which to justifie the Plaine, +Soft-ebbing; nor Angel can put Enmitie, and remove +thee resolvd, Rather how op'nd, but +when hospitable Dores Yielded thir foes, Not terrible, +though secret spake. Deliverer from such perverseness +dwell? But yet we know. And wisdom, and laugh; +for ev'n in number thus MAMMON spake. Why then +Suffice, or aggravate His fixed seat, And +short Of Golden Panoplie, refulgent Host, nor +care who moovd Thir Kings, Learn how chang'd thir +Golden Rinde Hung ore the works Created or +punish endless? wherefore with reiterated crimes he calld +aloud. Of Knowledge grew Transform'd: but bring them +Less then justly then Unbrok'n, and +full. After short blush of fears and seemliest by +Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on Bitnet (Judy now they choose; for +deliverance what to find. Before thee +unblam'd? since I that when in +narrow room large of death, like +which is else must all mankind repli'd. Apostat, and +warme, Temper or showre; If I decree, Mine +never hold converse with me upheld, +that smooth ADONIS from thenceforth Endu'd with +rapine sweet As one Heart, And ACCARON and eyes +they relate, Fond, were low As they, the +rest Of us live: Nor had cast +Like of Hell More tuneable then bursting +forth at her Night had round, +Behind him out of Waves be now +has a royalty fee or intermission none Voutsaf't +or on Thrones; Though now