diff --git a/poem_2020-10-29.txt b/poem_2020-10-29.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..028a28a --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2020-10-29.txt @@ -0,0 +1,198 @@ +If that equal anger all honour rise; +Least that abortive gulf. If he +pass'd, and behold Eastward to arrive The Sithe of +Pomp and press'd her enclosure green, +As through With Trumpets sound throughout Dominion +like to shelter us? let forth So on earth, +durst dislike his taste No sooner for +us naked strove, Stood open field, and as fierce Foe +SATAN, I wound in spight of +wise, Since by dire was to one, +Now ris'n, And carnal fear I obey +But have told as hate So spake +domestick ADAM fatherly displeas'd. A World more came from +farr, and regain the Bloom extracting liquid +fire; And good have else set the +most or Hill, Dale, Pursues the frown of +Use part in haste. But that thy inexperience what +intends thy Embassie attend; And study of rest. Meanwhile +the crime Of mighty Father (For +Eloquence the third of Pomp and +instead of sweets; for who live +there, nor let us remote Produces with +rosie hand Prevented spares to seek their Essence +pure, and Vallie, Rivers, Woods, O spirit and smoak: Such +ruin upon my constant Lamp, and supposest That +dwelt happy there From many Throned Powers, in coate, Rough, +or later; which whether waking or are outside +of Death; so abject thoughts more Incens't, +and spirit within himself Impossible is +a Serpent Tongue Dropt from him there, +Feilds and instinct. Fall'n Cherube, and dangers, heard +remote. Towards her, she ascends above shade, And scarce +allay'd still govern well the Son, +who enclos'd In a pretty Trespass, +and pangs unfelt before. The rest can +it thus? who appeer'd Spangling the Gulf shot with delight; +how op'nd, but O miserable Beyond his +horrid fray By the VIRGIN and Pickaxe arm'd Fell +with gust, instead of nature and +Palaces he make sure your knowledge in +Arms, unarm'd they sat, His captive multitude: +For which yonder Allies green, Our purer essence +then created thee conversing I sprung, Two +of mankind, though here stand front +to evil shall them Day and smoak: Such prohibitions +binde Volatil HERMES, and light turnd +my afflicted Powers, nor missed the Sun's decline arriv'd +Who having pass'd From their State +secure, Leaps o're with uplifted beyond this less +Then unknown till SATAN, and light; when th' upright +heart too much, by occasion pass through experience +of this by success untaught His +lustre rich imblaz'd, Seraphic arms and bid sound +Of thundring AETNA, whose hither thrust me soon, +Armd with you follow me, for the Empire up +here Thus when it comes. Ascend to dare The Air +attrite to girt With Man, did they +in narrow space was Sabbath kept. And visage +round This downfall; since by some thing on +errand sole, and cinders fill'd; so +deform what form and with genial Angel +by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on Bitnet +(Judy now SATAN, that witherd all Him who renounce +Thir multitude, and empties to her in Arms, +unarm'd they sung Omnipotent, Immutable, Immortal, Infinite, Eternal silence +on us up, the respit his Tabernacle, The +stonie hearts To worst abuse, or anguish, and sorceries +abus'd Fanatic EGYPT and slight bound Thy youth, thy +conduct, and Sea-mews clang. To hide What +though Sin, not expose to soar Above his +good For state, had filld Th' intricate +wards, and call'd EGYPT, divided Legion might so deare? +It cannot together throngd Drove them Spirit That stood vast +room Throng numberless, to aggravate His secrets +of GREECE to do ill secur'd Long after him, for +speed gave signs of season him MULCIBER; and +flourie lap Of utmost measure all, Or +thence from EDEN over sovran Throne +Yeilded with grasped arm's Clash'd on my +day dimm'd his days may reign secure, +and all unawares Fluttring his Pride Waiting revenge: cruel +his happie Light, Which into sevenfold rage Deliberate valour +breath'd, firm Battalion; back with honour claim'd AZAZEL +as us'd Permissive, and where grows Death Inhumanly to +praise Shall bruise his Dart Shook, but his Enemies. +At once, and Towrs, And courage never +to gaine Companion dear, and all hue, as appertaine +To waste it away or say, where +ALCINOUS reign'd, fruit Mans mortal Men with +ambitious to enrage thee worthiest to +impart Things else thou what delight Beyond +the dreadful in flight or refund from Heav'n: +And hairie sides With other Hemisphere Divided: +Light of Heav'ns Host: Mean while o're the wild +Of force as farr then silent circumspection unespi'd. Now whenas +sacred song; but soon for ev'n in Heav'n +he rais'd, and Grey, with necessitie, +Not thy praise And courage never +wilt bring Twilight gray Had cast off from following pace +the copyright in me, the happie men, +and dash Maturest Counsels: for Heav'n, +this conflict, had bid his Angels; and +ruddy flame. Before him, Towns, and +lyes the Bullion dross: A crew +The evil intercept thy head, devouring fire. +They therefore as easie intercourse Thither by som glimps +of fierce intent ITHURIEL and lyes Bordering on +Bitnet (Judy now reignes Full Orb'd the burning Lake, That +run Potable Gold, Then feed on men. Immediately +a solemn Rites: But to submit or +providing access was sin'd and therein By +center, or modern Fame, And reconcilement; wrauth +whose he lifted up stood Of +airie threats Of sense, In mutinie had past +through Pond or Fish of Knowledge grew +Insuperable highth recal high over us +down alone My journey brought First his +loines and with Oarie feet: yet from within +30 days work, or enur'd not lost; the tenth +on in our state In woman, then +To wreck all Temples th' approach Her self with +me. To set From out of shame +beneath His Quadrature, from the palpable obscure sojourn, +while Universal reproach, far with ambitious +aim Against the Plain Of mankind +Must we renounce, and therein set Thir universal hubbub +wilde uproar. As we find Some I fell, +nor rising foulds, and ELLOPS drear, And +broken Chariot Wheels, so violence of God +want of cold OLYMPUS rul'd not, who denies To +trample thee O shame Cast out huge a +dream! Thus roving on NORWEGIAN hills, to +incurr Divine The birds thir foe, Though +single. From HAMATH Northward to enter none; +nor knew me inferiour, in Thunder and +waterd all prodigious things, foreseen This River-dragon +tam'd at shut all things that witherd all shall +beleeve Baptizing in substance with audible lament his +swift thought, and years, towards them from like which +op'nd from beneath, Down right hand, and thrice to +Create, if ye and therein By lik'ning spiritual +Creatures deare, Well have not lost; the +angry Foe subornd, And higher foe. Space +that sung: Just are by confusion stand. +For heav'nly Host with me from +those chiefly where he spake. Why ask +Chose freely taste. Forthwith upright beams +That dar'st, though long usurp; ere the bestial herds +Attest thir prey, Watching where she +reserv'd, ADAM interpos'd. O Man find thy +Associates, ADAM, well hast part, though the Moale Rising, +the four Quarters hasted then suffic'd +To mortal sight Of many Throned Powers, Consult how +gird the Hills where no near each inward lost: +On thir Orb a while, Her bosom +smelling sweet: and into thousands, once O're Shields +in foresight much advanc't, We shall cause +Mov'd our Union irresistible, mov'd on +Bitnet (Judy now severe, our delight; how chang'd +in Glory witherd. As soft layes: Others among Thousand +Celestial Spirits to light As Man pronounc't and +tedious pomp of things; and Earth: And shook +his loines and one bad were they to +pine Immovable, infixt, and I, methought, alone +is undefil'd and Musick all praises +owe, And courage on ground he fixes +sad, Depopulation; thee now To undergo eternal +Paradise which thy Humiliation shall come, and all Her +annual wound Receive, no Creature form'd within those dropping +Gumms, That name, Antagonist of Scorpions I Sing +Heav'nly fragrance fill'd each Beast; which +plenteously The ancient TARSUS held, Even +Sups with wondrous Art In amorous dittyes +all things, a Scout farr remov'd Not longer +scrowle, Whose Seed (O hapless Paire Sate Eagle-wing'd, +beside it be his? Or of receiving it, or +dishonour lurks, Safest and full. After his winged +messengers, To mortal to single as in Plaine +God outspred, (Such are in him out of +Death amain Following his dewie locks +inwreath'd with Winds blowing Martial sounds: At +once, now triumphs, and therein or +Adulterie, where CHINESES drive farr Down right endu'd With regal +sound Of hazard in Arms, unarm'd they found +where And heavier on circumfluous Waters glide, +and Revenge, deceiv'd The great LUCIFER, (so call +To nothing high: such bethink them, his Beams, or +liveless Rib. Being as nam'd the shame to INDIANS +known as you follow what point of +mankind, in sight, by whose clarion +sounds and night; About them on Thrones; Though threatning, +grew ten fold More orient Sun, Before thy +call. Now rowling, boiles in PALESTINE, +and dearer half, The waters issu'd from the +fixt, And starrie train: But perhaps Not +noxious, but all Nations will Thine +shall recure, Not by those numerous hatch, +from them