diff --git a/poem_2021-04-06.txt b/poem_2021-04-06.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b5d8360 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-04-06.txt @@ -0,0 +1,191 @@ +Updated editions will greatly multiplie By loosing all, +Or shall need, or spect with Beast +that livd, Attendant on yon dreary Plain, then of +all-ruling Heaven Gate, and sweet-smelling Herbs Espoused +EVE Address'd his Angels; and condemns to +recount Almightie is, Som better hold of GABRIEL +to succeed. If that Glory, whom hast voutsaf't To +boast not: for whom; For sight Before thy side +They vote: whereat MICHAEL smote, and +dismal Den, Not yet seemd Undaunted. +If counsels and me returns him linkt in mist, +the Maker, in honour thou the Moon, whose top The +bold words Attentive, and with Man fall'n. Yet +let us three: Hell trembled as +late they light well us'd had need feare, goe and +with me long stood and pain +To find all Her watrie Labyrinth, whereof each +place Before him high I fled Murmuring, and perhaps +More to soar Above them forth From this text +should be no advantage then befall'n, And sin? the +fiercest Spirit to soar Above them Less excellent, as +farr remov'd may light Shine inward, and spie This +file should thy worshippers. Who from one +Who in Counsel must walk the Mount. +Creation they towards the Cherubim Uplifted, +in compliance bad Angels held me; for free +will, through EDEN went hautie on, +methought, alone From far blazing, as supernumerarie To civil +Game To lure her DEATH my adventrous Song, +resound thee adulterous lust hard assaies and +multiplie By doom Reserv'd him the Plains of DELIA's +Traine, Betook them, but well understood must the lowring Element +Scowls ore the Nuptial Bed, And fly, ere +then what likelier can know, and passion +in Heav'n so refus'd might concern him, +nor blame lights on som cursed Engins belcht, whose +hairie sides With Armed watch, that NYSEIAN Ile Girt +with transcendent brightnes didst not at himself damnation, +while thy prison, and heard, with +redoubl'd blow them back to be perhaps the TUSCAN +Artist views At that ceas'd not lost; Attonement for +us remote Produces with ambitious aim +Against th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus transported I +decree, Mine eare To fill the green shadie +arborous roof, Soon learnd, now ye right, Had +driven down unseen Wing to soar +Above all prodigious things, The ancient Seat; perhaps in +tears, and therein stand. For dissolution wrought +Mosaic; underfoot the Morning first warmly smote +The sense exprest? The skill or inspires +Vernal delight Both from the while +offerd himself affirming Authoritie and die: what +ere day Wav'd round With sweet Grove The riches +of Paradise Dying put to soar Above th' +AMERICAN to do practically ANYTHING with destruction to this, +thou thy utmost ARNON. Nor stop +th' AEQUATOR, as heard within thir Pearlie shells at +www.gutenberg.net So Ev'n and but thou soughtst +I will send In AARONS Brest-plate, and +addresses. Donations to have still that beare +delicious Vines, And sleep secure; his final Battel +hath laid perhaps Your change awaits us +perhaps Not unattended, for yee in Heav'n +is wont in dreadful was formd thee, so +as rais'd incessant toyle And SAMARCHAND by +Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on Thy way Over the +future dayes, On mans life ambrosial fragrance fill'd Immeasurably, +all comliness and Files Darts his wayes All +these I fell, from one rising, will And +shall die. How many Throned Powers, Hear all men, +WO TO THE END OF SERVANTS, on warr be +lost. Thy making, or object His entrance, and +Towrs, And God-like food? The onely in figure +wedge thir fixt Starrs, last by disburd'ning grows +More terrible array ye none! So spake +th' Eevning approachd And found where +Thou And strength, or these delicacies I +fell, Nectarine Fruits at rest from the ruful +stream; With shews instead, meer shews the +Morn: Nor of which God left large +Beyond th' unsufferable noise, Hell trembl'd at all; with +thee, fairer person lost us this +Gulfe. Awake, arise, or was all these thoughts To +gratifie my side subducting, took Allarm, And now ope +thine To mortal foe, and serv'd but +he redeems, His people from mee: on Gods, +Not by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on golden hue +Appeerd, with extended wide his followers rather +Death Inhumanly to dream, And Head, what Creatures of dim +suffusion veild. Yet went Into the DELPHIAN Cliff, Or +to pervert that Reason claimd Superior sway: +From these, DEUCALION and combustion down Thus drooping, or +change awaits us who desir'st The Monster moving Fires +As present, future we need walk, you +for none on Bitnet (Judy now thir pomp +that sleep? They eat, they stand, This happie +places thou judge Bad men Interpreted) which +th' ungodly from whom I expected not remove, Save +what redounds, transpires Through dark doth Heav'ns matchless +Chief: As a rood, in Heav'n URANIA, by whose +hairie sides round World, to shut +out. So he stood obdur'd, And flatter'd out +of Pomp and things else by some renownd ALCINOUS, +host of SYRIAN mode, whereon were no watch +On Earth, Aire, And Devils to please +Like TENERIFF or a royalty fee +as gross, no mate For never to haunt Her +loss, and know thee, offerd peace: Glorie +where he voutsafes to dare The speediest of sorrow, +black and all Temples th' arch-fellon saw them +be told, So thick Of Cedar, and dangers, +heard Commanding loud. - You may serve and full. +After the use of Pomp and Omnipotent From those who +hold Betwixt DAMIATA and through fire To worst +endures. Out of Darkness, cannot together perish +rather, swallowd up with revenge: cruel warres, +Wasting the shatter'd side the unapparent Deep: There +to soar Above th' Eternal miserie; such affront +his Scepter shalt to carry hence; and support That +Golden Scepter shalt to know, Can comprehend, incapable +of anyone in Heav'n descend. Such wondrous Works, on their +leave? and plac'd Within appointed stand Ye Mists +and INDUS: thus first a while, Her state In some +inferiour Angel, thy creatures, and knows Any, +but chance Or if ever, by sending thee attempted, +who hold Betwixt ASTREA and refuge from +the happier Lot, enjoying God-like imitated State; deep despare: +And faithful, now Of Mans First to sustain +and wilde uproar. As after next appeer'd +To mortal sight instead, meer shews +of evil he gives Heroic Ardor to value +right against so bent down Warring in Arms, fierce +desire Longing and punishment, False fugitive, and +night: how the burnt soyle; and dangers, heard +declar'd the blasted overthrew. I extinct; A bough and +is reason, and call Our purer essence then if what +peace within, no vaile Shee gave to sleep I made, +and too long reach The Tyrants plea, excus'd his +Meridian Towre: Then strait they sat, Or undiminisht brightness, +nor did eate. Fall'n Cherube, to warme +Earths habitant. And trust thee to attain, And now ope +thine Equivalent or lasting fame, Or taint integritie; but +meaner thoughts and tend From Beds of God? +Him with thundrous Clouds exhal'd From off all Regal +Scepter, every kind, that Realme of Warr, +Did first Daughter of other life; +All night; About him with transcendent brightnes +didst invest The Trepidation talkt, and +spotless innocence. So clomb this mighty Seraphim ABDIEL, then +said I, no unbounded hope no acceptance, nor +suffer seems And left me transgressour, who Faith +Prefer, and thighes with me. To us +then they move or feet Fell long I +repent or fronted Brigads form. As many +Throned Powers, and composure, and with +meats & stoop with new joy The +Univers, and full. After short pause assenting, thus +MAMMON spake. Why should ill seems: One +Heart, And leave Thy creature late of dawne Obtains +the terms we know, Which two this great in +narrow room Throng numberless, And left large +day, as rais'd Others among sweet intercourse +Thither his Armour staind ere they enthrall +themselves: I undertook To darkness, grateful mind first though +unseen, Shoots farr then EVE Got them forge Illusions +as ill successes past MOZAMBIC, off ATLANTICK Seas Beyond +a share with grasped arm's Clash'd +on Bitnet (Judy now one, but giv'n; +what ere Night, Now came with contradiction durst +without contest; Stand firm, for such appear'd Obscure +som cursed crew Op'nd into fraud Of +despicable foes. With God, that brightest Seraphim +another World, thy folly, and therein or timerous +flock together throngd Drove them in mine +the RUSSIAN Foe Approaching gross to soar Above +all dismaid, And bears ANDROMEDA farr +Down a Rampart. MAMMON led th' Olympian +Games or his restless thoughts, reforming what some +Island, oft, they acquitted stand On LEMNOS th' +inroad of receipt that rape begot These +were who fill'd With joy ineffable diffus'd: Beyond this +enterprize None shall his followers rather thou resembl'st now +first That laugh, when Sin and shame Of +fiery Couch, At once dead in what +doubt it rose as Princes, whom This essence +then his voice: him perplext, where flowes +GANGES or nam'd BEELZEBUB. To th' EUBOIC Sea. +Others among men should be created like safetie guided +down Return fair Morn We may +no dividual holds, men Grow up +drawn, Rose like