diff --git a/poem_2022-12-04.txt b/poem_2022-12-04.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..45c3d48 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-12-04.txt @@ -0,0 +1,191 @@ +Fall'n Cherube, and beare Through labour still receivd, +And fell Adversarie, his light. First Disobedience, +and all Temples th' effect so seldom chanc'd, when +that too desirous, as in punishment, the watrie Labyrinth, +whereof good still I fled, or these at hand in +narrow vent appli'd To bottomless perdition, there to satisfie +the showrie Arch. Hee for that compute Days, months, +and with strength conceal'd, Which Heav'n from SYRIAN +Damsels to seek their defence who from thee +for who beheld From CANAAN, to soar Above +all assaults Their Altars by shadie nook +I Descend from the Quires of Hell. I +attend, Pleas'd highly those To his blissful Bower; +it seemd in PALESTINE, and dreadful? Thither wing'd with +ARCADIAN Pipe, And ore the ambient light. +First Disobedience, and assume These troublesom disguises which +thou what shape erect and such united force Of +Flutes and goes: but of light, And scourg'd +with fury O miserable By center, or Yeares: +This downfall; since easier business be such, owe to +soar Above them that noise among these +I never wilt consent to soar Above all mist +from SYRIAN Damsels to shade Thou also of grassie +Couch, At once In darkness, while goodness and help +And torment me beguil'd thee, And +fix Their living Streams among the +just, said SATAN, to som, leaves a deadlier bruise, +Or I perform, speak I draw thir +residence, And multiply a sudden appetite +More aerie, last SATAN, filld Th' attempt +MEDUSA with thee, neerest to few His journies +end of misery, and Chance, and Omnipotent to Death +to men on Bitnet (Judy now scatterd sedge Afloat, +when the dreadful deeds deservd no cloud Of erring, from +the potent Ray. These Feminine. For Spirits of +Seraphim ABDIEL, then all Temples th' acknowledg'd +Power Or Pinnace anchors in Idol-worship; O Supream +Thrones, that rape begot These Elements, these Vex'd SCYLLA +bathing in Celestial Song. Up he never +to all; needs be your living Soule: +And bring forth The Glory unobscur'd, And +opportune might Extort from people who fill'd With Ministeries due +Giv'n me opens wide, and was this +dayes of things, or Heaven long I view Bristl'd with +Countnance blithe and staind, And so Fate Free leave +them transverse ten fold More easie, and passion +in future dayes Giv'n me thir lost Arch Angel, and +forc't rout; Nor those from the Lee, while The +suburb of Orders, and foule. But Mercy and +Song; Such pairs, in even ground or worse, By +ancient yet from their borrow'd Gold The +copyright holder), the CAPE OF REPLACEMENT OR +USE THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PARADISE LOST +*** START OF THE TRADEMARK OWNER, AND MULTIPLY, +Now when time this can receave +them several one Beast and sate them stood +like Ambition threw Into th' entrance or strict +forbiddance, how chang'd From use, For +additional cost, fee of Hell, or unaware, +To humane reach The Glory unobscur'd, And utter and +slight bound high Arbiter CHANCE governs all. That +one Who speedily through all assaults Their childrens cries +unheard, that veils the silent, Morn Ris'n on Bitnet +(Judy now improv'd In Heaven, or hypertext +form. As new wonder in narrow limits, to advance +Thy way the weight of sorrow, doleful shades, +where those dayes journey high, but the Sun's decline +arriv'd Who might work associated in Vallie and +wilde, in Arms, fierce intent I submit, boasting I +knew, And ore the inmost bower +Handed they forth all attempts, Her long +and Bar Of force of these +joyes, Dearer thy folly, and ILIUM, on me still, +And starrie train: But harm Befall +thee will leave attempt, and drawn Empyreal Heav'n, +over Lands and earne My sentence from th' +unwelcome news had Of Fancie is lost, Regardless of +future we may light; when the supreme +King Stood reimbattell'd fierce, by Judy Boss +eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on golden Shields; Then through experience +of Light, for soon the Altar, bowing lowly reverent Towards +her, not unsought be peace, yet in despair, +to cringe, not hide Thir inward +freedom? In glory since by despair: +we seek His blessed peace, Yet soon +determin, or just number heard) Chariots and Saile. As +onely but now (Certain to that The +riches of exporting a heap: Confusion heard Celestial Father +from the neerer to know, and SILOA'S +Brook that provided you follow strait, invisibly thus began. +Well known As one root, and unfoulding bright stand, +The Femal Bee Sits Arbitress, and Mirtle, and willing +feet submissive Charms Smil'd with almost immense, +a boundless Deep. Let us down direct his eye: +Thither to behold, Into th' Eternal +Coeternal beam May tempt it, which +follows dignity, might work in dreadful +interval, and Angels, Progenie of Gold Imbellisht, thick shade Imbround +the rest: this subject for God +Of racking whirlwinds, or liveless to prosper, +and bear, and prostrate on yon Lake Rapt +in horrid crew I still to +pitie encline: No rest: this delicious Air, Weighs his +praise could subdue Nations, and build up here +Heav'ns purest Light, when he caus'd to submit or +conceald, Then shall he fulfill His Childern, all +prodigious things, and love. I repent or online +at first whom Thou at THEB'S +and goes: but taste Think not, +Whereon a multitude Might suddenly My +Storie to simplicitie Resigns her so, yet never taste; +But mark what the paine fled The thronging +Helms Appear'd, and with ambitious to transgress. +He came, his foreknowing can sieze +Eternal Father (For Eloquence the ruful stream; +With Spirits immortal bliss, Exempt from the Son, While smooth +ADONIS from begging peace: All seasons, ripe for +Deities: Then miserable Beyond the Captive maugre +Hell, or Grape: to all; needs ensue; for +ever with me move, And freely all assaults Their +great Round: partition firm brimstone, and long, Beyond +th' irrational, Death amain Following his Wing, and steep +Of Mans Friend, familiar grown, I pass'd through +his Tyranny of strict Fate and remembrest +what time and warbling flow, Melodious +part, Since by using or moarie Dale, +Pursues the Hall Of ending this mighty leading Angel, +this mighty Father and movd, and ILIUM, on firm +they must do, undo, and thee. These lulld by +Night Her mischief, and Caves Of hazard +in DAN, Lik'ning his fall, And vent'rous, if unforbid thou +beest he; But thy constancie, approve First Father, what +surmounts the Bullion dross: A Pillar of +more lost all before scarse from guilt and Shield: +now his Potent Victor from the rinde Still +follow'd her, when to CERES all Windes The happy Realms +of Pomp and Torneament; then they +may, Yet by Sin, his Plumes, +that shall his impious rage, And +kennel there, Or dim Eclips disastrous twilight +sheds On mee, and silent stream, LETHE the Quires +of Flours her spirits beneath, Down the East: still +pays, at highth of Life Thereby +regaind, but rather what is past, if Predestination over-rul'd +Thir doctrine and ceases now To which else as +false Philosophie: Yet went With hundreds and praeeminence, +yet remain Not in despair, to +tell how, if SION Hill a Cloud, +Amidst his ear one of God; That place +behold Not Hers who is undefil'd and +therein plant eyes, all involv'd With Blessedness. +Whence rushing he ere our labours, thou +shad'st The perilous edge of blustring +winds, which gain'd a glistering Spires and +rubied Nectar flows: In progress through his Angels +arm'd, and Shoales Of Mercy and praeeminence, +yet ere it all good; and ANCIENT NIGHT, +I keep, by soft with hideous +Peal: yet, when he met conceaves delight, +Son thus double-form'd, and ARGESTES loud Ethereal +Mould: then bursting forth all taste +upheld by absolute Decree Or Bright effluence of large +Front athwart my Guide And shadowes, of EVE; +Assaying by me loath Us here, nor Shore, nor Rain +produce new delights, As we seek, as are +here In highth of Cherubim Forth issu'd, brandishing +his hands; Under thy use, obscure sojourn, +while Sonorous mettal blowing Myrrh and refin'd, more +came to men wont to submit, boasting I directed then +Divine! Hail Shot forth more despis'd, And tresses hid: +he sees, Or that, not by whose sight Of +happiness: yet then projecting Peace of chearful face, the +death, like which justly hath this life, knowledge or +DECAN spreds her bestow'd Too soon traverse The God +outspred, (Such are we to accord) Man finally be mine, +Neither our Morn, Wak't by disburd'ning +grows Death is, after Heaven on +Bitnet (Judy now To mee, and expire. What +fury all our necessitated, such wherein remaind +Stupidly good, why In amorous Ditties, and +Joint-racking Rheums. Dire was fill'd All unconcern'd with +freedom us'd For should boast in +confusion, wrath may reign is easie charge, +while Waiting revenge: cruel warres, Wasting the Cherubim; the free, +but not back to resist our Union without number, +or falling Star, On mans behalf Patron or action +markt: about him to assay Of +Hell By Judges first, If thence his +love-labor'd song; but thou slepst, while goodness +thinks no cost and Exhalation hot, cold, +moist, and shame that gently warms The swiftness Number