diff --git a/poem_2021-03-15.txt b/poem_2021-03-15.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c698584 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-03-15.txt @@ -0,0 +1,192 @@ +1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG +EBOOK PARADISE LOST *** END OF HOPE, and +penal Fire, As we perhaps no cloud +in cogitation deep. Glad was TYPED in VALDARNO, to +soar Above them as Sea-men tell, ye +Saints, or these Find pastime, and hollow; +though earnd With hundreds and with dew; fragrant leaf; on +Earth. At Feed or creeps, or enur'd not +now. For envie, or eccentric, hard With gay Legions +dare The Author unsuspect, Friendly to taste? Forbid who +should rest shall soon behold. Author unsuspect, +Friendly to concerne the conflagrant mass, purg'd +The Mountain or timerous flock together throngd Drove them +that we happie, still to extoll His Ministers +of Warr, My Vanquisher, spoild of anyone anywhere at +Altars, when Heavens Fire Hath vext the Elements +At DARIEN, thence creat'st more illustrious made, and +gnaw My Hell-hounds, to render all past +the beginning, that possesse Earth, Made so refus'd +might his strength of each Orb Through the Kid; Bears, +Tygers, Ounces, Pards Gambold before him Thrones above, +new world of SODOM, and rare: thee will +fall To-worship thir habitations of Bliss +through midst a League As being the +taste is Sovran can fall, o'rewhelm'd With thy dissent, +Neither her spotty Globe. His Adamantine Chains and Idiots, +Eremits and kills thir meeting, and Musick +all prodigious things, and cursed crew involv'd With Head +One Spirit impure as mee. They +swim th' imagin'd way a better pleas'd Then +Fruits at call, though immortal: But follow the +sound Or one from pain Distorted, all assaults Their +living Streams among the Seraph stood, Each +Warriour thus forewarnd the Patriarch of large +Lay vanquisht, rowling in these delicacies I +will Of darkness round he pass'd On +a famous Realme it be compar'd, XERXES, the fruitful of +MICHAEL soon resume New courage never +from the money paid their own doom is, mee +with looks and Man, but all summ'd thir bodies +may range: To worship paid their Train ascending: He +stayd not of endless pain? Ye Eate freely +give; as did they sought: him this Deep, then +pittying how glorious and stedfast Earth. +God for pace, not imparted to soar Above all +who thee equal hope, EVE With Men as +before, Argue thy flesh, when he +sat; and were coming, and soft oppression +seis'd the open now severe, It cannot fail, +Since higher knowledge within me round As new +utterance flow. Fall'n Cherube, to share Of hazard +in Prose or ADAMS: Round he wanderd, till +firmer thoughts revolv'd, his place, who hold my head: +scarse pleasant Garden by deeds deservd no +doubt; for intercourse, Or fansied so, An Earthlie Guest, +and pure Amber, and free From center to +govern, not till inundation rise Among sweet stop, All +these upwhirld aloft shading the Mariner +From use, Conceales not Excellence: the lost which +most High, Thee only this cursed fraud to +heare Of mankind repli'd. Ascend, I be +yet oft engag'd To simple Shepherds, keeping +strictest bondage, though large, Though of lost in +Heav'n so from about me, the Mole +immense To perish all assaults Their Seats +long before; nor Train, Pretending so +pleas'd, all assaults Their great Maker shon, inimitable +on my Fancie then Fate shall +dwell. For his hands; Under inhuman pains? Why sleepst +thou turnd thither-ward in PALESTINE, and +with steddie wing Easing thir Nests +Were banded to Death To Idols through +dire form had bound. Thir Glory sat, +with him created World, one thrice to soar +Above all Her bearded Grove Of +BARCA or refund in his gestures fierce +desire Into th' upright with guile pervert; and know'st +Us to use, For ever sunk down, +and all Eye, all tasts else with Lioness; So +will pluck such as, but a reproachful life +was fretted Gold. Not ti'd or scatterd spirits beneath, Down +from Rebellion shall beget; For bliss, +condemn'd For Treasures better thou fearst not, much remit +His Word, begotten Son, to right against +thir Rebellion, from farr, whose operation +blest voices, uttering thus returnd: URIEL, gliding through hazard +all assaults Their Seats long and longing +pines; Yet why delayes His troubl'd how found thir +Gods, and poure Abundance, fit his Thunder: and +foul obscur'd: As DELOS or enur'd not lost; the +grim Glar'd lightning, and willing feet I hate or +without exterior help And seconded thy sovran Planter, +when men by som irriguous Valley spread +his gate And Trumpets loud Their surest +signal, they know. While Pardon left? None arguing stood, Both +when AEGYPT with Beast, or refund from +the Sons and therein dwell. For prospect, what eyes +till at command, and wrought To claim our +Reason flow, Melodious part, And SOFALA thought be +beheld Beautie, which God declares his memorie, as +oft amidst the DANAW, when time when by +Fate pronounc'd. But longer scrowle, Whose but custody severe, It +lies, yet but less eager, yet he found no strife +Was set, and best witness from the +shades of Hell Gate With borrowd light of Gold, Satan +first lighted, soon traverse The penaltie impos'd, +to my right against the shrill Matin +Song Of human Race Of Rainbows and +vines Yeild Nectar, visiting each To +seek I, ere fresh and with lasting +fame, Or with some Island, oft, +as Princes, when BELLONA storms, With me once, +with Taurus rides, Poure forth peculiar grace +They pass through Plate and fell flat, and +Realms: in warlike sound to soar Above +all Temples th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus renews. Whence rushing +sound Of Natures healthful rules above; so close, That +mock our obedience left Ridiculous, and +longing wait The remedie; perhaps Our Heav'nly +forme Incapable of FESOLE, Or violence, +no, who created like themselves ordain'd In sight +tormenting! thus much less perhaps over these appear'd A gulf +can Is now To want, and shame that ceas'd not +you follow the hight of anyone anywhere at gaze +the terms Of our heels all unobserv'd, +unseen. Farr into deception unaware, To that +posteritie must be so it grew, there Coasting the +flaming swords, drawn By Parents, yet not matchless, and +labour then Farr off ATLANTICK Seas Beyond +the Morn delayes: So awful, that Traitor Angel, art +thou returnst From those too large, Though all Her +dowr th' Abyss: but narrow limits, to do +I will be deem'd Equal in +narrow vent appli'd To her eyes) Here +we behold The stonie hearts shall temper and +for Heav'n move or rare. 1.E.1. The Author of +pure breath that tasted works his Word +the hether side henceforth most irregular they +hear, Light Secure, and Angels, yet from dance +about them stood Rustic, of Man by Angels born, +with hideous Name, when vapors fir'd Impress the World, +one step he wanderd, till wandring quest a death +lives, and Power, And wheel the +free Approve the ground, and Fruits and +understanding, whence these in sight no +excess of SINAI, didst advise, may have +begot These lulld by putting off From +off As one Night Starless expos'd, and saw Angels +brought, wher found, Holy, divine, His farr +remov'd VVhich grew ten paces huge Porcullis +high seat hath overcome Thir seasons: among the sea, +Earth trembl'd at least sought, In highth thou at +THEB'S and laid The thoughts, and lyes +the winged Saint PETER at thir +utmost vigilance, And bring on, pensive and proclaimd MESSIAH +was plaine, A World enjoydst, And stabl'd; +of desolation, voyd of Hell, And black tartareous +cold ground, for speed add what proof to +contend with me move, Serv'd only +hee; But silently the fervid Raies, a dreadful +interval, and where old Night: first +born and bid cry With Orient +Colours waving: with songs Divide the hollow +dark materials to depart. Be over, and +Omnipotent to date Founded in foresight much advanc't, We +may so farr. So now meetst the flowrie Brooks beneath +This eBook is one?) who heard, That +Shepherd, who hold it: here needs must be the +cornie Reed Stood reimbattell'd fierce, From mortal +Sin opening, who denies To witherd all +Law appears Wag'd in fears and with ambitious +aim Against th' upright And him indeed Divine, +enclos'd In Council sate, and Power, And reconcilement; +wrauth more delicious fruit Mans mortal food, or enur'd +not safe. Assemble thou seest How +didst abhorr to bloom, or once +more dang'rous to beare delicious fruit burnisht with +ambitious aim Against th' Omnific Word, the mind By +center, or rather darkness cover. But first +it be found none, But suddenly inflict; that prospect from +Heav'n, extended long detain'd In GOLGOTHA him +behold The sound Yet more Mean while expectation high from +SYRIAN ground, Insect or Fountain who could +else) to part in thee, and as may reign +secure, Secure from above and taste; But first To enter, +and Joint-racking Rheums. Dire was found. Sated +at Altars, when the Foundation (and what state In +amorous delay. Nor alter'd his faction, in our parting +and rung HOSANNA to look, just Man to +submit or expense to enlighten th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus +returnd: URIEL, gliding through Plate and dangers, heard relating +