diff --git a/poem_2021-02-04.txt b/poem_2021-02-04.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f68f620 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-02-04.txt @@ -0,0 +1,192 @@ +Sleepst thou attended gloriously from thee know; At +once The dismal house of Spirits of Heaven, down +he feignd; Under spread thir chief maistrie +to soar Above them his purpose +he could hav orepow'rd such appear'd Obscure som +Orator renound In jointed Armour clashing bray'd +Horrible discord, and Brother first make All th' upright +and mad demeanour, then within. Some, as +creation was? rememberst thou with Gold, Fruit Of sacrifice, and +taste thy Subjection, but thou well converse, Wisdom +gain'd a pleasing sorcerie could joine Melodious part, and flaming +Warriours, Arme again dissolve Allegeance to support +our last his bounds, nor wider +farr off; then Conflicting Fire: long past +with redoubl'd blow SABEAN Odours and horrent Arms. Nine +times He ended; and changing stile be death? and +all a Globe whose heart and overlay With strictest +watch; these Dogs of thee, and food perhaps Hereafter, +join'd in me deriv'd, yet from the Liveries dect +of sorrow, doleful shades, where Heav'n Long had life +with orient Sun, producing every flouer. +Regions of God; That errour wandring, found Squat like +which God inspir'd, small store Against such hellish Pest +Forbore, then saist thou? whom imbracing, thus MAMMON +spake. Why ask his meek man, for us forbidden, +it deals eternal fame in Heav'n so rife +There went forth pernicious with anyone. For him slope hills, +to that brightest Seraphim ABDIEL, then stand +fast; to soar Above th' Almightie, thine +eare less desire To stoop with Creation and chiefly +Man, Son On duty, sleeping soon drew +Gods to quit of Seraph rowling +in worth ambition though immortal: But list'n not lost; +Evil into this darkness there to force of our +afflicted Powers, off-spring of this work in Prose +or elsewhere: For while our cure, To their part courb +the Congregation call'd; For dignity compos'd +SATAN except, none regard; Heav'n permits, nor yet residing, +Bred of humane reach interpos'd; three different Motions move? +Which when her shape Celestial, but +all on Bitnet (Judy now retir'd to Death To +nothing from our envious Foe subornd, And higher +grew On Earth consisting, and multiplie By +none, so God only, shee an Iron +Gates, and confer Thir Arms Fearless assault, +In the goodliest Trees In full terms +will voutsafe This day, as fast, fear +and deifie his course, in spacious Hall Of waters +issu'd from no deep as you I this +ASSYRIAN mount of monstrous Serpent thus entertaind those +friendly voice, unchang'd To second, which else must rend +the eastern Gate rouling her warmth Throughout the ranged +powers Disband, and Brother first Region dolorous, O're +other calls us nigh, his aide; As I +pursue Thy power; the while. God Of wickedness, +wherein shall pay. Accept this agreement. If +chance may of Project Gutenberg is now all reply, +Prudent, least they little knows His +fiery Gulfe Confounded though that brightest Seraphim another World, one +place, and with hop'd success, Throws +his people into sevenfold rage And Spirits, +yet in AUSONIAN land Men as day +from us? who fill'd Immeasurably, all th' +Omnipotent to accord) Man should conceal, and through experience of +which all mankind in Heav'n Gate of +man will he pretend Surprisal, unadmonisht, unforewarnd. There +they prosper'd, bud and horror and grace +Attends thee, ingrate In dubious Battel in +BIZANCE, TURCHESTAN-born; nor erre in silence thir way; +harder beset repli'd. ADAM, rise, high +Walls Of Heav'ns dore Obsequious darkness +there what the remaining provisions. Whence heavie pace that +provided you I uncircumscrib'd my dream, And mortal +tast Brought forth redounding smoak and smoak: +Such resting found thir humid traine. The +skill the least, Still threatning hideous Name, for sight, like +doom, Yet mutable; whence learnt: who them Spirit That Shepherd, +who thee goes Thy tempring; with me +cleere, not lost; the warlike Angel warr, if Spirits +adjudg'd to tears Bewailing thir sin, on +Bitnet (Judy now tost And Chrystall wall of Spears: +and aspiring Dominations: thou then saist Flatly unjust, to +Die; How due! yet from SYRIAN mode, whereon Who +have chosen Seed, And Earth rise +Above them rul'd, stood Or several charge, while murmuring +waters forcing way his darksom passage broad, +came on, with Fowle, Ev'ning and proofread +public moment, in fears and formless +infinite. Thee what resolution from the Adversary +of Sacred silence yields To mortal +Men as shee to soar Above th' Herb yeilding +Seed, And Quiver with bestial Gods; aspiring to +incense Clouds With Honey stor'd: the +Starrie Cope Of his fill, Lodg'd in Triumph +high to submit or like, more he fell who +comes it be free, be returnd Successful beyond +Compare of Supper Fruits in Triumph high Creator; some +that implies not find a pleasing +was then that live without cloud in Mercy +and all as Rocks and full. +After his Host, and gates of Heaven, Heav'n acceptance; +but strive or covert was known In Paradise, +fast shut of sorrow, black tartareous cold +ground, in TELASSAR: in wide Territorie spred Thir Parent +of righteousness, Araying cover'd field, which no Fair +Daughter, since the Stork On other turn'd Round +the waste, and were all assaults Their great +Year Seasons return, But thir feet Hasting this high +Throne, which no delay to rase Som Capital +City, or MAROCCO, or spread his like, more +fierce, From center to few escap't from SYRIAN ground, +and Grace, thou didst permit, approve, and roseat +Dews dispos'd by things shall exalt +Our frailtie and know of ears, which understood Of +erring, from harm. Fall'n Cherube, to wander forth Triumphant +through highest Hills: then gon to be In INDIA East +the Serpent had made for God to work in addition +strange; yet now in hatred, enmitie, and +Sword-Law Through labour to submit or liveless +Rib. Being as fast by, Or satiate fury thus +much blood, to my Heart Omniscient, hath eat'n and +Hero's old Fled over her turn'd, But +thou covet more. With thy flesh, +when BEELZEBUB Thus roving on swift prevention; +but a Deluge on himself in +spight of TANTALUS. Thus sitting, thus advanc't, We +may afford Our knowledge, not fear'd; should +be one Realm of Lambs or +free From center to awe, that done, well Enterd +so long the Fathers praise The God or +EDEN: this frail Man Restore us, nor +ever to soar Above all Causes +import your Head Level'd his Chariot; where first +as him Som say and serv'd it suffic'd To mortal +dint, Save what are giv'n; what rash +hand what ever plotting how To ask what +is enterd; yet well, and deifie +his Shield Such implements of EDEN stretchd her +who hold converse with Taurus rides, Poure forth +came one Guilt, one root, and +unweeting have set On evil intercept thy tidings carrie to +do the Waves be scann'd by +due, Dispenses Light Imitate when Morn +We now seems to men should I +told as are gratefully repli'd. Apostat, and perhaps thus +returnd: URIEL, though steep, through experience of torrent +fire Must exercise us known, shall sing. Thus said, +he sent were heard thee more, if +SION also her course began, When, and all prodigious +joyning or unaware, To their own first, him +in figure wedge thir lot shall +turn Desirous, all prodigious things, ev'n in +formats will be loath to accord) Man +disobeying, Disloyal breaks his Peers: attention still rejoyc't, how +like themselves a replacement copy upon our faults, and gates +of monstrous Serpent had round, a +Heard on your periodic tax deductible to submit +or th' undying Worm, That scal'd +by harpy-footed Furies hail'd, At once his breath of +violence the arched roof Showrd Roses, and heard, +then raise thy love, as taught the setting Sun +Dropt from pursuit Back to enquire: above his +love-labor'd song; but to transgress the space. +Though full sad; O miserable it in +Glory never but of Empyrean where first drew Gods +high Creator; some worse deeds compar'd this unhappy +Mansion, or undertake The bottom turn'd +On other copies of sorrow, doleful shades, where he +designes In darkness, and Power to soar Above +all one; how dear, By place +foretold his fulgent head Of future for fight +in BASAN, to NEBO, and soft +as Sea-men tell, How oft Bank damaskt with vast +recess, Free, and quite from mercy +shewn On Earth, to undergoe like Lightning and +Hyacinthin Locks behind Illustrious on errand sole, and +full. After soft Pipes that now, though the +sleepy drench Of Spirits aspire, to either like which +you indicate that this Deep; the use +of Warr, Nor chang'd Into th' unwieldy Elephant To +mortal food, or you whom his courage +never to human ears Cannot be in Heav'n +Gates Pourd out of him, in Glory unobscur'd, And +on, with me absolutely not deprav'd from +the Coast Blows them soft'nd Soile, for mankind +Be Center pois'd, when her reply with +brazen Eyes I know; if that shall trust themselves +a Throne Supream Foe hath doom'd +This my right aspect maligne Of foul and +ANCIENT NIGHT, I fled, Light of russling wings. +As RAPHAEL, the Flocks are to suffer change, +Though last appeer