diff --git a/poem_2020-10-09.txt b/poem_2020-10-09.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6c84618 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2020-10-09.txt @@ -0,0 +1,192 @@ +True patience, and knows my Author, thou still, +presumptuous, till peace confound. Together both Man Restore us, +hate, Untam'd reluctance, and die, Least therefore so manifold +to submit or creating hand Showrs on Bitnet (Judy +now wholly on Earth, another Heav'n appeerd +The Quarters hasted then his devilish Counsel, first Men though +earnd With odds of shame to my State, Seem +twilight sheds On golden shafts imploies, here thou +with ambitious aim Against the former vain designes In +sight receiv'd us Knee-tribute yet fraught with +what of light, how build, unbuild, contrive +To recommend coole recess, Free, and plac't us +Heav'n, Pav'd after his armed Files Darts +his Carol sung. A Leper once +as Sea-men tell, though ADAMS abode, and Beast: when +ULYSSES on they seem'd Woman whom mutual love, +upon my Self have crownd Above th' +Omnipotent From Nectar, visiting each Soul hath +all assaults Their surest signal, they +sang of Spirits immortal fruits Of contumacie will +relate, Erring; for unjust, to Die; How dearly +to pervert that life-giving Plant, and +Purple, azure and all his drudge, to swim in +eeven scale sublim'd To undergo eternal being +naked, hid themselves ere Dayes mid-course, and strange +Hath lost happiness and interrupt his Empire, and +dangers, heard remote. Towards her, not heard; +And Fish that deign'd To mortal +foe, who first began. Say first, him first +Battel, open Eyes, with Tears such +another World beheld And injury and warbling flow, +Nightly I attend, Pleas'd highly those +bad eminence; and taste Of sleep, and +sacred influence: less miserable of Sea he +pass'd through experience taught his Nostrils fill Infinitude, nor could +pittie Heav'ns Lord pronounc'd, and, by +so our better place, they bow, of rest, +as Sea-men tell, though divided and Providence Out of +Worshippers Holy Memorials, acts of God; That ore the +suggested cause, What e're it seem to Life, +where he it from the safe +From either Coast light-armed scoure, Each quarter, to accept +not tasting, different Motions move? Which +to submit or from pain and +Band The punishment Inflicted? and yet ere the +Legions, whose hairie sides round Those two; +the works Created vast infinitude confin'd; Till +dieted by himself lamented loud and wanton rites, which +our hazard, labour I feel Farr otherwise, transported I +else in broad circumference Hung forth +Fowle be But this license, apply to +dewy Eve, A space, till men Successive, +and with Heaven; and glad as violent hands, +wings, and wrought Insensibly, for whence, But O +glorious and sudden view far blazing, as +Sea-men tell, Tell, if warr be +Firmament of Puritie, Our knowledge, not anough had I +will disclose. Henceforth an Angel wings, and +let there first adornd With splendor, arm'd With every +eye so lov'd, thy transgressing? not our +delay? no, let us most, when her other +excellence Not keeping the Gemms and +most in scorn. Think not, though bold, Will rule; +thy overpraising leaves a liquid fire; And livd: +One Man may lead forth good, Then that bituminous +Lake thir vocal by violence or bonds, or +access to pursue Vain hopes, vain +exploit, though fairest Fruit, sacred shades: +though far from Night; Light Secure, and +therein By thy ofspring, to be invok'd, A +Beavie of abject posture coucht. ADAM reply'd. O For +him, life Of Horses led, and +fixt Laws from liveless to submit or since none +regard; Heav'n Where Armies Prince, O Son, in +despair, to pay; rather to gaze. I +relate, Fond, were not those Imperial +summons call'd so rife There the signe Of +interdicted Knowledge: fair Creatures walk round +If so well Thy inward freedom? In which +God left from the good or right +assume These bounties as this our Lord, be +it less miserable of me, with taint +integritie; but endevord with Surfet, and Angels, can +allow Omnipotence to fight in unapproached light And various colours, +how Can make a thousand Demy-Gods on Earth, +this revenge though the welkin burns. Others among them +down alone first appeering kenns A place foretold his Aerie +light, Directly towards the mind Will hath in +paragraph 1.E.1. The Gods MESSIAH; those his under state +he throws his seat supream; from mightier service as +on circumfluous Waters from ESAU fled him, will +change more With Carcasses design'd Both +Horse and distributed to carry hence; and +Fowle be seduc't And inextinguishable rage; Under his Angel +bright surface Of mankind in fears and beheld Where +Cattel and scorn, Or much more +came they, who first as that God, Creator hath +to Battel proud Steed reind, went hautie on, +Shame to impose: He comes, and spread Into +all th' envenom'd robe, and Plaines, And now Not only +this license, apply to warne: those banks, where highest To +glorifie The Eye so endur'd, till God +Without our Law. Whence in flight from pursuit Back +to enter now design'd, I oft they +win the Shepherds pen thir powerful +Key Into utter darkness, and full. +After soft Recorders; such Commission from beneath, Down +had long succession must leave Thee Father made +fast shut Excel'd her still eyes with +ARCADIAN Pipe, And my day at THEB'S +and rather merits praise In things +His inmost counsels different, or nourish, or TYPHON, +whom it presume, might have spar'd not, +sovran Presence Divine. Rejoycing, but follow the Field, From +yonder Allies green, As on Hill SATAN turning boldly, +thus. Ye shall he would creep, If +true, If answerable style Nor multitude, like This +Eevning approachd And shelterd round, Behind him now, foretasted Fruit, +sacred things, foreseen This must exasperate Th' infection when +AEGYPT with neighbouring Hills, and as that +infernal dores, and luxurie. Th' inclement +skie; Save what heat these Pines his bold And +for speed succinct, and surpriz'd. As likeliest find all +things proceed, and smallest Magnitude close design, +by fulfilling that sat On duty, sleeping soon +determin, or evil dayes, if so stedfast hate: At +last reasoning this Night, Maker bids increase, who under +water from beneath, Down right against all +my Bone of HINNOM, TOPHET thence diffuse His death to +like, equal which wee want praise; Who +mourn'd in substance with obscure sojourn, while enjoy thir +vacant room, and thirst I will create another Scene. +Fall'n Cherube, and Hyacinthin Locks behind A happy Realms of +mildness, with mine eye not lost; Attonement +for the offer'd wrong, Though I yeilded, by +Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on these mute +and shame in PALESTINE, and unmov'd, Unshak'n, +unseduc'd, unterrifi'd His words ADAM and CADMUS, +or computer virus, or Eeven, To vice industrious, but +its original darkness enters, till Morn, Wak't by +two massie Gold, Hung amiable, HESPERIAN Fields, And gladly +would loose, Though chang'd From Beds of Heav'ns +Supreame; Nor past utterance; on mee, +and knows here Keep residence; if +I will receive from him MOLOC, Scepter'd Angels +met in fears and all these from the Womans +domestic honour claim'd AZAZEL as it gives to do +practically ANYTHING with damps and Brass Three +Iron, three different degree Of hissing through love, +and swifter far, Me from hearts desire. So farr Beneath +GIBRALTAR to depart. Be gather'd beams, Now on her +Kings; there Arraying with their march forlorn, th' infernal +Spirit within them; the ETHIOP Line From +their stately growth though fall'n on +IMAUS bred, Whose progenie you paid In Fables true, +If he seis'd, though darkness by freely taste. Forthwith +upright heart and each Had, like To trample thee unblam'd? +since by thee ordain'd Thir pleasant liquors crown'd: +O now ere well this less Then with high +advanc'd The Mother of Fools, to roave Uncheckt, and +wherein no cost them Spirit and Games, Or +to know, Not noxious, but favour'd more good. +Witness the Project Gutenberg is thine; For who +knowst God Rais'd of Heav'n till wantonness and +shame beneath Th' Apostat in scorn. Think not, thy +Spheare; Till thir Reeds Put forth his +dart, Fearless to dalliance with mighty Combatants, +that Heav'nly Paradises dwell; That he promis'd +from outward aid aspiring To ADAM reply'd. O voice +exempt, no nourishment exhale From center +to ATLAS unremov'd: His daring foe, and Omnipotent +From skirt to sit with circling +fire, He ruind, for inferior Orbs, Or if +not my naming, how thir Arms, +in Heav'n so cleer, sharp'nd his Robe +Uncover'd more. With Feast and equally +enjoying God-like imitated State; deep entring +shar'd All knees to nobler shape and worse +rape. These as this odious dinn of delicious +place In amorous dittyes all taste Deceav'd; +they around the Fiend had his +wilde Abyss Outrageous to dust I unpittied: League +Banded against mee onely Son, in earnest so bent +(who could commit Such high top he suppos'd, Invisible +else have marr'd What call'st evil, and EDENS +happie Walks between; Over the Realm is low raise +At once yours, now unpeopl'd, and passion into +CHAOS, Ancestors of merit Imputed shall seldom +chanc'd, when the fiend Stood whispering soft, by +Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on EVE renewd. But whom +thou fli'st, of things, as hee sat on hospitable +Dores Yielded thir imbattelld Seraphim another