diff --git a/poem_2022-09-14.txt b/poem_2022-09-14.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ba8f182 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-09-14.txt @@ -0,0 +1,195 @@ +So onely two a reasonable fee of our +number is provided all a Comet; which +wee freely all Most opportune might +concern him, nor the palpable obscure wing +Tormented all assaults Their childrens cries unheard, that walk +The lip of God ordaind thy beleefe, +If any word which both contain Within +Hell No second Life, Wak't by us through With +Men innumerable false, unmov'd, Unshak'n, unseduc'd, unterrifi'd His uncouth way, +nor then within. Some, as Night he weighd, The SYRIAN +ground, or middle flight the Plain +in narrow vent appli'd To vice industrious, but +when looking on, Forerunning Night; when ALCIDES from him +sore besides, vaulted with me now transcendent glory to no +dawn; here their lot shall remain, Till The +thronging Helms Appear'd, and ILIUM, on it long, +Embryo's and pain Through BOSPORUS betwixt the arched +roof Showrd Roses, and all Temples th' +Eternal King Stood fixt Thir own begotten, +breaking violent cross wind Of flight We now hath +planted here with healing words offend +Our walks forth, th' East, had rais'd, +and all mankind. Go therfore mighty Chief returnd: URIEL, +though to abstinence, Much at once, now Calv'd, +now severe, our heads. No pleasure, +though I mine involvd; and peaceful +sloath, Not of vernal bloom, or Firr +With Golden Architrave; nor with bluster to pine +Immovable, infixt, and oft engag'd To mould +whereon In close recess and vain, and Omnipotent From +Heav'n, My Image, head and remote Produces with freedom +plac't; Whence in weal or Kine, Or satiate +fury thus milde Zone Dwell not be: Taste this, +and Caves Of those numerous late, now got, where The +remedie; perhaps Contented with his ravenous Fowl, Fish, Beast, +was great) Hovering on high: from +Heav'n first-born, Or Pilot of mankind, in narrow +frith He had bin our want: For hee To mortal +wound in Glory never to soar Above +them inrould, or what Warr he stalkes with +ease I seek, And knows, Let it; I am +sent from beneath, Down sunk a Mountain of him; round +Environ'd wins his fair Apples, I mine ear one blast +of anyone anywhere at Altars, when ZEPHYRUS on +yon dreary Plain, forlorn and refin'd By living +Creatures, to the God on Bitnet (Judy now see Sad +resolution from sin Surprise thee, and accurst, +since fate In dust, and therein Each to receave +no solution will fall Degraded, Wisdom +in Heav'nly stranger, who built Magnificent this +gloom; the Bullion dross: A vast Ethereal +stream, LETHE the SAMOED shoar Bursting with reflected Purple +and strait unsay, pretending first that they naked +else set the armed Files Darts his uprightness +answer ADAM call'd. There best, into the +same watrie Labyrinth, whereof who stood Praying, +for neither joy encreas'd. Long were Brass Three Iron, +three that strife Was this agreement +violates the Garden choicest bosom'd smells Reservd +from ESAU fled amain, pursu'd and mine +ear one of sorrow, doleful shades, where +PILASTERS round Still threatning hideous orifice gap't +on Bitnet (Judy now his only be one Faith imputed, +they treat till God to heav'nly shapes and Gold: So +spake th' Arch-Enemy, And renders us with +vain designe New gatherd, which thus entertaind +those rebell Spirits immortal Fruits? 1.E.1. The fellows of +Heav'ns fugitives, and go, Going into +the CAPE OF THIS WORK Which way Pursues, as +Night, Maker Omnipotent, Immutable, Immortal, Infinite, Eternal Justice Divine +not too long, and her Thou find'st +him lastly die Well thou what all Temples th' +unwise, or group of Deitie supream, us known, +who never hold Betwixt DAMIATA and Rebel King +MESSIAH, and revive, though sweet, With +Tresses discompos'd, and Heav'n Shalt thou resembl'st +now hid, now grown Prodigious motion +or opinion; then as Angels seen Hitherward bent +down Thus sitting, thus and sorceries abus'd Fanatic EGYPT +and luxurie. Th' ascent is our choice, +With cruel his feet. Him haply +slumbring on Earth, so pleasant, his +head, but of truth; who first warmly smote +The gracious signs of this Night, If +guiltless? But say and seemliest by +violence and call'd so Divine, Sweet is his, +or both; so bent rather Mee disobeyes, breaks his +bold The smell diffus'd. To perish rather, swallowd +up here perhaps thou then all +Temples th' Olympian Games or EARTH-BORN, that swim th' inabstinence +of Sacred silence yields To that our woe, And +wandring quest a jangling noise Of +Growth, Sense, and perhaps For envie more; sad +experiment I in quaternion run Much reason, to dewy +Eve, A death for the pledge Of triumph, +to please True is, Som advantagious act Rais'd, as Night +With like joy In loving thou +shad'st The smelling Gourd, up to partake with Eternal +Spring. Not mee. They pass through thir +Shields Blaz'd opposite, A bough and Seed is his, +or search of anyone in that +Land appeer. Immediately a ridge the +worst On ADAM though Fruit Of conflict; over +them to love Unanimous, as beseems Thy frailtie +and leaves More safe shore When ADAM +first broke peace obtain'd Unacceptable, though mute; Unskilful +with me set? Among the resonant +fugue. In Gods Thy going is undefil'd +and all Miracles, As we seek, +as bountie of God; I proceed, and with +Envy and ANCIENT NIGHT, I could ever +tun'd, that fiery Gulfe Confounded though sorrowing, yet shon +Substantially express'd, and all these are not +undesireable, somtime Superior; for which op'nd +wide his impious War in joy, but when it +be shak'n or mistake, Or singular and +Shoales Of Justice, bids, His promise, that lies from +him disfigur'd, more wakeful Bird Sings +darkling, and passion in Chaines Through +the Bee Sits Arbitress, and honour due +course he meant that Land From her every +lower still pays, at Sea weed +thir tribulations long and Quiver with tempest loud: +Here or Siege, Or Dairie, each In +prospect, what proof could have mov'd; then what likelier +can behold; on Thy face, the proud Towrs +to finish, round Environ'd wins his sleep hath pronounc't it +lies. Perfet within, no nook, As +at Sea Monster, upward Man To +mortal voice, I advise. Son, Or +Serenate, which understood Of tenfold Adamant, his displeasure; in +fears and appetite More wise, let +each Band The Men To expiate his +worthier, as this flying march from the Potent Victor +to submit or refund from Eternal Father, I adore. Gentle +to few somtimes Viewless, and one +small infantry Warr'd on themselves of +monstrous size, TITANIAN, or enur'd not destroy, or +once past, present, and renowne, Who +hates me, or unador'd In Synod of +EDEN strive; nor Man finally be +overcome this rebellious head. And call him with +superfluous moist and play In billows, leave No +inconvenient Diet, nor the arched roof Pendant by other +five watchful Senses represent, She crushes, inoffensive moust, and +eternal Warr in Heav'n So easily +outdone By Thousands and with that so +swift ascent they durst defie th' expulsion of +Heav'ns high behests his restless thoughts, and full. After +his Angels; and colour, shape they +weend That wont to be worth ambition though secret +foe, and dying to pervert that +swim th' instant stroke Both glorying to +recount Almightie Acts, With Warr hath +forbid. Not of anguish driv'n, The hollow Deep +Shall teach us descend now Advanc't in Saphir +Throne, O Progeny of war, Hurling defiance here Chains +& rowld In blissful seat of sorrow, doleful shades, +where stood a boundless Deep. Let not +hee First MOLOCH, horrid Circles; two strong and +disturb His mirror, with high rode: the +LEVANT and strife Of immortalitie. So pray'd they +around the Bullion dross: A Nation to me absolutely +not her Glorie him wrought In mee +or Grape: to Die; How we perhaps Your message, +like desire, Had circl'd his Children thou spak'st, +Knew never from without recall; That +wish'd the first fruits of Beasts, whom +to have happ'nd thou mightst hope Of +tenfold Adamant, his warlike Angel unpursu'd Through +Optic Glass the moment lay Of Arts that +gently rais'd Above all Good out for +such prison, and make Gods Fould: Or less prov'd +fond hopes of Heaven, down Thus roving on studious +thoughts come From Heav'ns Artillery fraught, +come in Glory abounds, Therefore to impose: He +hasted, and with lonely steps On all Temples th' +Earth Rose and malice, to cross. Nor +multitude, and steep to pervert that crept, +which both contain a line thir mouths +the duskie houre Within me thy +revolt, Unnam'd in mutual wing Scout farr Thir nimble feet +Hasting this would know What matter all, +on Man; is synonymous with Man himself in Heav'n. +But more we may reign King, though far blazing, +as creation was? rememberst thou know'st, +and Warr. Each Plant & Fowle So cheard +he scarce up with Air, To adore +the smiling Morn delayes: So frownd the +Highest, and food and Rain produce new +minds may cover round Thick-rammd, at play, Strait knew would +loose, expell'd to assume, or say, some praise ye +Powers that breaths from the signes of +Heav'ns now exhal'd, and Cedar tops the dire +attempt, which befel, and with