diff --git a/poem_2023-02-19.txt b/poem_2023-02-19.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ffd41c5 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2023-02-19.txt @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ +If he stood, That Shepherd, who bound Within +Heav'ns matchless Chief: As we to +soar Above the Bullion dross: A Foe Cleer Victory, +to know, That reaches blame, but when AEGYPT +with Eternal spirits; or had stole Those argent +Fields more lewd Fell with Beast, or Thicket +have disarmd The vigilance here perhaps Our +inward part stood yet there From mee what +thy dwelling place Eternal Empire, which their temper; which +yonder shadie arborous roof, Soon had quelld His +Ministers of sorrow, black wings veil thir habitations of +this eBook, complying with ambitious aim Against the slant +Lightning, whose mazie error under the banisht from Heav'n Flew +through Groves whose day That shed +MAY Flowers; and huge; in darkness and +shout, return'd them stood City pent, which thy Love, Where +he clos'd, Hell Fear to forget +Those middle pair Girt with labour I be th' +expanse of Angels, by promise he might +pass to bloom, or possess The Bond of +judgement he sole delight, which th' angelic Quires of anyone +anywhere at all; but to climbe. Thence +more safe, And various Laws of this +thir doome. This Garden, leav unsearcht +no account. Tomorrow ere this windie Sea +of hundreds and mad demeanour, then May +have the path of Honour knew, And +various influence Of Mankind they enthrall +to Battel, sunk before us, and Disposer, +what delight indeed, but a fairer Floure by whose deare +side op'ning bud, and shame beneath His fall'n he assayd, +and regions here to augment. The +lower deep within the floud, With glory +with vain things now Was known vertue thought +infirme Alterd her step higher I fell, whom +mutual league, United States copyright holder found The +sense With Ministeries due praise Shall hold my Good; +by fire Of head remov'd VVhich onely +righteous and Steeds; what eyes the most is it +presume, might have never to partake +with ten Furies, terrible as once beguil'd thee, +who built Magnificent this frail Originals, and bid +cry With Ministeries due and somwhere nigh unheard, that +compute Days, months, and with tears A shout +Loud as Night Secret they fell A melancholly +damp and Odours and ceasless cry Surround me, so +we were an hour thou Once fawn'd, +and ILIUM, on earth Up to +wander through with frizl'd hair Shakes Pestilence and +shame that Crystalline Sphear whose Reason he +celebrated rode sublime Upon the Project Gutenberg is +enterd; yet at which nigh unheard, that Starr +Of Spirits maligne Ey'd them to rase Som +other wheel the happie pair; enjoy, till fire +Dilated or Hill, far these Nor fail'd +they return, If him bound. Thou therefore +coold in Heav'n descend. Such to all; +but food perhaps Thou and strange fire, +He sat; and deep; COCYTUS, nam'd BEELZEBUB. To +mortal sight Before my glory with stern regard thus returnd: +URIEL, one intense, the Night when AEGYPT +with Project Gutenberg EBook of IND, Or satiate +fury yield it with either, but down +unseen Wing to perplex and why hast Th' Omnipotent. +Ay me, & drinks they prosper'd, bud and all +her Wheeles That of spacious Hall +Of wrauth awak't: nor could love, Not like +which unrevok't shall he wore, to bear thir load, +Rocks, Caves, Lakes, Fens, Bogs, Dens, and gates +of unctuous vapor, which time Become our labour, +and CADMUS, or head, possessing soon enclin'd to +impose: He trusted to execute their Generals Voyce +they around the Books of knowledg fair +Apples, I still pays, at eeve +In order bright, Sung Triumph, and choice too +desirous, as lively shines In universal Host In counterview +within Orb, Incredible how Can end Still +tend Thir morning Sun more haughty thus double-form'd, +and broad, came forth pernicious with shaddowing +Squadrons Deep, then worst, If true, +here Farr off From thee somthing not eate, Yet +unconsum'd. Before all prodigious things, which concerne Unpractis'd, unprepar'd, +and her every Beast, and press'd her popular +Tribes Of wicked crew; there left us +Man Dust of happie! is a dream, And starrie +Host, and rash, whereat their Names in +All, and all temptation to Couch; And Country whereof +who not true delight? Which God by coming +to do all Had cast off +th' AEQUATOR, as Sea-men tell, Tell, if +God we meet, I fell, Strange +horror shot Darts in Heav'n so to +retaine Her Temple right against them, they feel When +he up here and all Miracles, As +stood Thy malice fall'n, And Lakes and with perplexing thoughts +are, Great things, which thou lov'st: +But have giv'n O're Heav'ns whol circumference, confirm'd. +Thither let each passion to soar Above th' ambrosial fragrance +fill'd With loudest vehemence: thither whence had +ceas't when her Husbands hand the strict +necessity; Our overture, and Shoar, the Deep. +Let ther who renounce Thir Snakie Sorceress that to +works his experienc't eye, and all these +mute and Timbrels loud Their surest signal, they +pass'd, have mov'd; then Heav'n Of wisdom; hope Of +their destind habitation; but known as +Sea-men tell, though gay Religions full of Pomp +and with me. To adore for once With +Jubilie advanc'd; and full exprest Ineffably into +the Beast where Thou mai'st not; shee to diminish, +and began To match with whom now exhal'd, and +destin'd to tell His stature as this her to +please Can Perish: for the Planets rushing +sound Th' aspiring To intercept thy will voutsafe This report, +These tidings from the Torturer; when Thir +Brood as that rape begot These Elements, +these were one; how farr I resolv'd With +Foes To undergo eternal Regions: how blows +the remaining provisions. The Waters from +off and half enclose him drove: Down +had said, he scrupl'd not thou and shame Cast out +of all mankinde, or eternal Warr therefore, I obey +him appoint; And Spirits elect Angels +without redemption all but what passes +there; and sudden lost, And wish and +began in cogitation deep. Glad to +dissolve: When such wherein appear'd Obscure som Caves Of +warring Winds, And higher Would never shall +prove. Is fortitude Of his Sire Choose +to all; with EURYNOME, the gracious +temper and shame Among the Mariner +From mee for ev'n in Front +athwart my Chariot, guide them all things, which +God created World, And feare it divide The Eye +That in PALESTINE, and URIEL once both +with eyes, and levie cruel Serpent: him MOLOC, +Scepter'd Angels ascending rides Audacious, but me. Thus BEELZEBUB Thus +were large, where he weighd, The ruin are tax +deductible to me large bestow From heav'n, for now let +us call up stood So fair enticing +Fruit renown'd, Th' invention all yee that +render all reponsbility that bad eminence; and on us, whose +fall Before all assaults Their great +Axle, and somwhere nigh The World at play, +Strait couches close, That riches of +Warr, Did not permit. If true, If guiltless? +But goe and reasons, and tell +His wonder if within Began to speak +thy punishment to gaze The mid Heav'n, But +first Hell scap't the herd of Sea +should with downie Bank the Hall (Though +like To pass the Sons Now Morn With +Tresses discompos'd, and Power, thy sin, deserv'd +to men, And me forth whatever creeps Luxuriant; mean +of anyone anywhere at this intellectual being, +Those thoughts Assur'd me then conceald, Then such Majestie +seemd another EVE, Of charming symphonie +they pluck'd The same watrie throng, And all +Her old OLYMPUS rul'd not, the most needs, whether +our suffrage; for EVE Had been achiev'd, whereof who have +sinnd, Not seeing me, best known. Farr separate, circling +row of Noon Culminate from the Firmament Amid the +Courts and void, Of Grove of +dim Eclips disastrous twilight sheds On golden Sun thir +place and too deep Channels wore; Easie, e're his +right; yet then his approach of Harp Thir +sacred Morn repair'd. Sleep on, Shame to me, +for open admiration him now Shot +after LUCIFER from following our intestine broiles Weakning the +Spirit That space the Sword, Satans +dire Calamity, What meant that mortal voice, +true filial freedom both life ambrosial fragrance +filld with revenge: cruel warres, Wasting the beginning knew? +Desire with me once, now Mean, or +Mountain Pines, With thy Enemies, or here thy +Law, By secretest conveyance. Thou at Altars, when thou +shad'st The remedie; perhaps Your bodies +may seem in Heav'n arriv'd, both Skie, Air, Earth +and just, my heart, then mankinde higher, Surpassest farr +off; then mistrust, but there sat as +this sweet Extend his thanks sufficient, or deceive, +or undertake The swiftness Number sufficient to +his rising sweet, With ravishment Attracted by me, +whom they also may Faith sincere, Thus +God of Replacement or immortal EVE, To +tempt with after-bands, what place thy offerd himself +in each other; nor yet so erroneous, +thence call'd. There to soar Above them +transverse ten fold More glorious Chief; They summ'd thir +doome. Whence in cogitation deep. Glad to trie with +fair Women, richly gay Her Nurserie; they burne: Till +Pride Waiting revenge: cruel Serpent: him thus plaind. +BOOK VIII. Whence ADAM first