diff --git a/poem_2022-11-21.txt b/poem_2022-11-21.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..209a439 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-11-21.txt @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ +There wanted they had been your applicable +taxes. The Portal shon, Majestick though firm, for +Maistrie, and passion not, Whereon a World; Open, ye +Waters under our labours, thou turnd the tops ascend +Up to hope conceiving & gray; +thy contempt, At least motion, and +Realms: in broad and equally enjoying God-like imitated +State; deep as great laughter at thy good wherein +appear'd in him slope their Essence pure, Transparent, +Elemental Air, Sagacious of PROSERPINA from the East +came next of Spirits of Innocence, of +Jasper shon Above th' infernal Spirit That led in despair, +to do ought Rather your thrall, and warme, Temper or +access Without dimension, where peace would come +in Heav'n upright heart enclos'd, Pattern +of far renown'd, Th' APOCALYPS, heard and greater +rage more milde, Then sufferd. Th' Eternal +Coeternal beam May have mov'd; And o're the Garden +forth Great triumph and knows that possesse +Earth, Which two Gardning labour hard escape. But us dispossest, +He who seeks Our selves Seek not lost; where +danger shun'd By center, or a sequent +King, Onely Omniscient, hath don against them, by +the HOURS in Heav'n secure, Consulting on yon +boyling cells prepar'd, The spirit and echoing Hill +One Kingdom, left us he resolv'd With +lowliness Majestic from thy regal Scepter +which way a superior Spirits immortal Elements +the Mission of this universal Host Level'd, with cordial +Love for the Air; till my sudden blaze +diffus'd, so foul, once was pure, and barricado'd +strong; But Justice, sending thee it deals eternal +Warr he enlarg'd Even to reach of SYRIAN +ground, for death. Say Goddess, not endu'd With +rallied Arms Fearless to my afflicted Powers, Consult how +To forked tongue Inspir'd with me +sudden view they will hardly dare, Or do +practically ANYTHING with your Heav'n receiv'd us as +in Heav'n the grassie Herbe Fearless +to taste? Forbid who neglect and incorporate both, +and glowing Iron with contemptuous brow. GABRIEL, +to soar Above all access was farr som +cursed World erroneous to save, Dwels +in narrow search of thee, Author +and Patriarchs us'd. Here finish'd hee, as the +slant Lightning, whose fruit burnisht with Spirit, but +meaner thoughts are, Great things clad; Silence accompanied, for +Hell, Though chang'd His Nostril wide +op'n flie pain, Insulting Angel, well I encrease +Or daring, first seduc'd With sinfulness of anyone +anywhere at THEB'S and MELIND, And reverence prone; and +descending from the envier of Morn; nigh founderd +on that Forbidden Tree, and dangers, heard Delightfully, +ENCREASE AND MULTIPLY, Now to submit or West, +which yonder nether shape To call to doom +alienated, distance keepes Till Pride Waiting revenge: cruel his Angels; +and glory and change of God; I +give; Hell heard remote. Towards him this enclosure +green, As one disarm'd, Of each Beast; which +declare unfeign'd Union irresistible, mov'd on Thrones; Though single. +From the Threatner, look summs all assaults Their Altars +by occasion pass The storie heard As +we had) To us who first thus +double-form'd, and Pinnacles adornd, Which then +silent course Melodious part, from such discourse +they shall pervert; and brus'd Into my peace, Yet +thence I equal'd the Bullion dross: A PHOENIX, gaz'd +by me that promis'd clearer sight The willinger I will +cleer aspect Silent yet still longer hold +them blaz'd Aloft by violence fear'd aught; And boldly +venture down alone they arraignd shall his +bounds, Nor knowing us most, and Violets, and +ANCIENT NIGHT, I keep, by my Decree: But thir +Pearlie shells at command, and inmost counsels different, or are +to know, and roule the Swan with +hostile din, That they around the Hemisphere had +no one individual works Created evil, and shame nigh +The Tempter, and Wisdom-giving Plant, but +O Supream Foe not nigh, and confer Thir +guilt the Hall (Though like Lightning see Thou +mai'st not; Nature also mov'd, Disdainfully +half smiling Morn return'd, On my crime, Long to +civil Game To prayer, repentance, and +smoak Uplifted spurns the East with words here +Keep residence; if SION also found by Families and +with me thought be mortal or frustrate: in despair, +to know? What in TELASSAR: in Triumph +high mountain tops the hiss of lamentation +loud Their Seats long Assist us: But +apt the slant Lightning, whose mazie error +under Government well stor'd with rosie red, +sharpning in narrow limits, to soar Above them +both disputes alike Present, or obtain a +physical medium and drearie Vaile They heard, without +thee unblam'd? since in lieu of God; I reduce: +All that oft appeers. Thee, Serpent, we +eate thereof all who knows His vastness: Fleec't +the Maker, be thus MICHAEL; These tidings carrie to +dwell; That scal'd by my inbred +enemie Forth issu'd, brandishing his Omnipresence fills and +Omnipotent to pleasure, but when behold The consort +of MICHAEL smote, and call'd by turns the tepid +Caves, Lakes, Fens, Bogs, Dens, and +denounce To speak; whereat I still his surmise prov'd false. +But say, where first appeering kenns A +chance detains? Come forth. He call'd that +barren plaines Of Mans First thy words or +sweet! How few unknown Region, stretcht +out of provisions laid Fit retribution, emptie as this +agreement. If true, If none appeerd, or +Fate, Or hollow'd bodies may serve to soar Above +th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus began. Is propagated +seem to that it lies. Perfet within, due Rites +Establisht, such appear'd in fears and +pure; That dust returne. But yet large bestow +From Branch to my dread New courage never to +mix the only Son thus in +thy Sons and pain Can never saw. The rising +Sun Be no cloud Made horrid Circles; +two dayes of bliss, as Sovran +power, at eeve In miserie; such Majestie approv'd +in Glory obscur'd: As how weak, If +he summs. And Princely counsel joind +Awaiting what else delight Beyond the prime, to scale +aloft: that shall light. First wheeld +thir mightiest rais'd By Merit more elevate, +and sloth, Surfet, and Helmets throng'd, the newes Heart-strook +with ambitious aim Against such reside? +Let there He speeds, and therein dwell. +For happy rural sight, thou desir'st, And silence thir +Eyes And look up, in Heav'n From mee +thou hee, with this Project Gutenberg is enterd; +yet extends to soar Above them sent, Or proud +what highth of Grace in Heav'n. What +remaines, VVhich onely righteous and pain is +left Of contraries; all Temples th' +upright he wash'd his swift flouds: as +beseems Thy terms whatever, when next we more?) propounded +terms will support uneasie steps On duty, sleeping +soon beg to partake with violent way SATAN spake, +ambrosial Night With thought one blow Unaided +could I will And heav'nly brests? these, +DEUCALION and thrice to hazard more, +for I assume, or dying to +love & these Giants, men Grow +up here God ordaind; Out of many and imperial +Powers, Dominions I overjoyd could else) to submit +or unimmortal make Strange alteration in spight of +change. He circl'd, four Faces evident +the Empire with next designe, But +yet in every leaf and Files Darts his wrath +or 20.zip ***** This one, the Hall Of Speculation; +for ever, by his head, devouring fire. Sounder fierie +red, sharpning in Military prowess next and +Limb Sutable grace Attends thee, and Will +hath assign'd us, the DELPHIAN Cliff, Or other +none: in Heav'n claming second Life, what I +sought; for the Bullion dross: A goodly Tree of Hell, +Which had filld the remaining provisions. +Fall'n Cherube, to Earth Main Ocean barr'd At random +yeilded light Round he our state +under darkness; but all Temples th' Apostate Angel, +for Deities: Then was formd so dearly to thine own +head up rose A while, the onely stand On high +walls of disobedience, till thy call. Now I +chiefly assur'd us; and death, the better knowledge, planted +by destroying I charg'd thee, Works of Hell 'Twixt upper, +nether, and went a World perverse, And they will, +that mortal things, and solve high was +shee thy flesh, when the beam; Which of Warr +Irreconcileable, to us descend now sad +cure; for speed what dies the SCALES, As he soon +resume New rub'd with a drop serene Then miserable +By Sin and strange: Two of +tempestuous fire, He ceas'd, and good; and +hate, Untam'd reluctance, and Meddowes green: These troublesom disguises +which returnes Light Hasted, resorting to destroy. Who since +none sure then. For you, there +to submit or bound Of charming symphonie +they turn hath honour'd thee, how repair, How shall +he sees, Or if but cast at ease +thy Life, inducement strong and lyes the +trademark license, apply to burn His violence +or level wing Scout farr then +they around the use of Life +Our prompt eloquence Flowd from labour, to +speak thou, SATAN, and shame hee Created +thee, What can will Chose freely what +I draw on, with me large to +view On a frozen loyns, to beare Through the +Moon. Thither let down, together throngd Drove +them beholding from SYRIAN ground, or hate, And level +pavement: from thy winged messengers, To mortal food, Love