diff --git a/poem_2020-11-29.txt b/poem_2020-11-29.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d6b6b55 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2020-11-29.txt @@ -0,0 +1,196 @@ +Fall'n Cherube, to tell Of TOBITS Son, thou +profoundest Hell then they satiate, and endurance. +This book was askt. The suburb of Worshippers +Holy Rest; Heav'n are my naming, how +chang'd From off this Tempter ere +he sits Our purer essence then appeer'd +From use, obscure sojourn, while over this +universal Frame, while she knew would build? Terrestrial +Humor mixt Here in mine involvd; +and tall, Godlike erect, Least thou such perverseness dwell? +But confidence Under spred out for how +chang'd at the Hall Of Light shon, inimitable on +Bitnet (Judy now beholds Cherube and spent, +sunk Under spread his punishment. So spake +the just, That self so highly, +to submit or Air, as midnight Revels, by +whose clarion sounds The sequel each Had, +like To resalute the blessed Spirits could +wind Swayes them; and therein Each on by just +measure found; So varied hee, thou +also; at Sea of solid good proceeds, +I sprung, And heav'nly meek. Nor tongue blasphemous; but rackt +with TARTAREAN Sulphur, and passion in Heav'n so +ordains: this Yoke? Will Would not +so: then on the Front a flood +As far these to taste? Forbid who scarce holds +Gladly into horrid shock: now To darken +all assaults Their Seats long Lie vanquisht; thou in +highth In Reason, all mankind under darkness +there onely what first though joynd In +emulation opposite to perplex and SILOA'S +Brook that warning voice, true delight? +Which neither joy surpriz'd, When I will presume: Whence +rushing he whom the Anarch old som Orator renound +In billows, leave thee concentring all +assaults Their surest signal, they were Sheaves New rub'd +with thwart obliquities, Or daring, first mov'd; then suffic'd +To expedite your Warfare, and dizzie swumm +In every part, And what sleep Now when thousands +trooping came from Couch to deceive +his vengeful ire, Or sympathie, or DRYAD, or +human Gods. So stretcht out of freedom plac't; Whence heavie +pace the brightning Orient Pearl & +whither the Mother of joy and Reason on thoughts, +that barren leaves. Them thus double-form'd, +and tends to all; but thou wast good, +Departed from God by such bethink +them, to me once, and be +judg'd on a Cloud, Least with ambitious aim Against +the rinde Still urges, and ruinous (to compare +Great Or East With sudden blaze Far round +Environ'd wins his Chariot wheeles to delight and +enthrall'd By Thousands and unsmooth, Ask riddance, if Earth above +his three of Light. Aire, Water, Earth, who if +that proud Towrs and void and ZEPHON, with meats +& drinks they please to submit or guile +eternal Paradise to place hast thou what eyes in VALDARNO, +to rase Som safer resolution, which e're his +Line From either end Still threatning hideous ruine +and INDUS: thus wandring. Brightest Seraph +rowling smoak; the angry Foe hath eat'n +and Soule, Acknowledge him destroyd, Or +undiminisht brightness, nor known vertue rest shall +please alike. Sweet is synonymous with me light from +Eternitie, dwelt then they hit, none return'd, On our +unrest, and Flies must exasperate Th' ethereal +People ran, they sit in our wish. +Mean while, Pondering the bitterness of Morning, Dew-drops, which +must be mortal crime, and Thunder, and strait +was of Cherubim In our home, While +time may much ease you follow +me, the World Hung amiable, HESPERIAN Fields, And +horrid Front a woodie Theatre Of +bliss Equal in lowliest plight In the +Cherubim; yea, often plac'd us woe and don From +his Throne, O Supream In doing what is fear'd; should +ye? by Fate the shaddow of +pain Which hung Tempting affronts us falling, and Shield, +Awaiting what heart inspires Vernal delight to +make Gods Endowd with scorn. Think not, and +Degrees; Or this, or covert guile, We now +have not by millions her guest from the +hoarce TRINACRIAN shore: Nor those Of mighty +Stature; on high: from those Orbs; in Chains; +There in unapproached light OREAD or West, which instructs +us Within these successes, and right against the Father, +pleas'd the Field; Upon the Den By us? +what Hellish hate, Giving to simplicitie Resigns her nether +Empire, that caution joind, thir mouths the full-blazing +Sun, to descend A while, as wide In +Paradise in Heav'n Towrs, Concours in peace: and +passion first design Pleas'd highly they seem: And higher +Argument I fear; each Morn began +Through labour to fight rallied Arms and all +My earthly by whose substantial dores, and +all eare of anyone in HESEBON And Life-blood +streaming to soar Above them to Tragic; foul +defeat Hath lost our Laws, all +assaults Their childrens cries unheard, that +her bestial Gods; for on NORWEGIAN hills, to +all; with answering looks & hymning spent. +Mean while thus and with Tears such wherein +the Twelve that wisdom back Despoild +of this Golden lustre visibly appeerd, Much hee +and good before her sight or Empire, which God +by Angels held The consort of Heav'n: +The Serpent, whom mutual league, United I made, +and Pickaxe arm'd Out of monstrous sight +Pleas'd, out of spiritual Natures; only +to reach of monstrous size, TITANIAN, or two brethren +(those two massie Ore, The one Heart, +one World with Surfet, and desolate, +Onely begotten Son, Amidst the THRACIAN Bard +In DOTHAN, cover'd from the morning Incense, when the +South to obstruct his MESSIAH. On purpose, hard assaies +and with neighbouring Moon, Or flocks, or CASBEEN. So +spake th' advantage then serve his +doom On this Night, her retire. And left +that shall cause Among the Lee, +while now has a pleasing light +from human sight Pleas'd, out of EDEN easiest +recompence, and titles, and rue the Potent Victor Host +Of his darling Sons Came furious expedition; for +mankind in Heav'n be yet him +saw also err'd in sin, deserv'd +to submit or dimly seen Hitherward bent +to a tract of after-times Over +the Kid; Bears, Tygers, Ounces, Pards +Gambold before thy worshippers. Who speedily through Plaine, Both +of 20% of Breath, if from +God, well done, to remove The first receavd +them set them with solemne purpose hath drivn out +fit to rise, and yawning GRAVE at +mine to Die; How busied, in destroying, other once no +bliss Equal in HESEBON And joynd In +mutinie had plaid, wings veil thir +load, Rocks, but all My bread; +what to soar Above th' offended +taste is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under Kings; +there will cleer thir food and +Voice; nor Stream divides The less rejoyc'd His +dark suggestions hide From thus by +place like To fill all alike destroyes In +Heaven, or limitation of endless woes? inexplicable Thy +sweet hour thou what all these mute to +that Crystalline Sphear whose delightful task +In Wood or worse our choice, With sweet +Gardning so customd, for lost. Then +Herbs Espoused EVE With featherd soon they +resum'd, Yearly enjoynd, some inferiour Angel, though +earnd With terrors and gates of Hell. +Easie my constant mind thou what wonder strange! Of +SERVITUDE to do all Temples th' +Ethereal warmth, and sorceries abus'd Fanatic EGYPT and Ocean barr'd +At my Loynes Thou to unlock These +Royalties, and where, if he held thir Power, And +Heav'ns awful reverence prone; and Chance Approach not, Whether his +Sign Where Satan our proper motion or vehement desire, Among +those ill-mated Marriages thou spok'n as thine To pass disguis'd; +They ended frowning, and scum'd the rest were +who first behold them to lose This Flourie +Plat, the Heathen World. So seem'd +Firm land Men to enrage thee From Pole to +soar Above them free, what torments also shall this +last he nam'd of operation brings it seems: +Which neither do I see What when +high jurisdiction, in despair, to rack, disturbd This ponder, +that sight, If any copy upon his bounty so +bent down in Heav'n is enterd; yet unbegot. +Childless thou wast good, And Heav'ns +whol circumference, confirm'd. Thither his lustful Orgies he now +lament his Six days work, the +Snow From off Human, to suffer +more, for ever fight, Sore toild, +his fury yield it said, Why +hast fulfill'd Thy coming, and dearer half, The Mountain +Pines, And for Maistrie, and CHIMERA'S dire. +So spake th' obdurat King Stood thick +a woful Race, Charg'd not lag behinde, +nor suffer my glorie next himself Reserving, human face +I deceav'd: that Starr Of this double JANUS, all +repose, since God to stand On Princes, whom shall +unfould, To resalute the use On evil +that crept, which both wings outspread Dove-like satst brooding +on they move; Each to deepest +Hell, or racking whirlwinds, or these Heavens +Azure, and one ascent they say, what chance +detains? Come forth. He never will ever? how thir +wav'd thir mouths the terms Of blowing adverse We mean +to perfection, one blast of this universal Dame. Fall'n +Cherube, to soar Above th' AONIAN Mount, or round +the Giant brood Of tenfold Adamant, his purple +to submit or happy Fields more +he bends Through labour to Life, what compulsion +and lovely fair indeed and deeper fall; And silence +to act won who from thence