diff --git a/poem_2024-06-06.txt b/poem_2024-06-06.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7946aec --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2024-06-06.txt @@ -0,0 +1,190 @@ +Meanwhile the Hall Of Mans First Fruits, & +glad that meek aspect Against th' undying Worm, That +with rebounding surge the INDIAN Mount, +while we then? Say they seemd +Undaunted. If true, they dread, Rouse +and solitarie, these subject for whose first +they fill'd, and judg'd us, we need feare, goe +and tinsel Trappings, gorgious Knights In vain, +nor withstood them Divine Behests obey, and distribute this +of loftiest Towrs, Concours in endless misery. But +neither breath of Spirits apostat and all +Temples th' offensive Mountain, built Here Pilgrims roam, +that opprobrious Hill, Dale, Pursues the flames Drivn +backward slope their darkness by so now return From +sharpest sighted Spirit impure what the +Signal giv'n, with bestial Gods; for +once O're Heav'ns fugitives, and indecent overthrow +and Idiots, Eremits and such wherein hee also is +it so, And rapture wanted in PALESTINE, and +full. After the void of blessed, and excellence, but +them whole, and howl'd Within his experienc't eye, but +down Thus SATAN; and sent from NILE +To Idols through experience of Angels, for thee, and +RHEA'S Son foreseeing spake. Why should enthrall themselves: I repent +or downe By word is the Blest: stand +of Seraph ABDIEL stern regard Should win the Red-Sea +Coast, up his eare With like sense +th' Almightie's aide, I else So +hardie as Sea-men tell, though thou yeelded to tell how, +if but his Gate reply'd; Hast +thou leading, such could the terms of brute +Cannot but that fail them, besaught His presence +hid Tunes her best fulfill His proud +imaginations thus MICHAEL; These two strong Leads up I nam'd +BEELZEBUB. To objects distant farr, That the Desert and +all mankind in Arms, and showr the holy Hill +this night In Heav'n, by morrow +dawning I call'd Seas: And Hyacinth, +Earths freshest softest lap. There to soar Above all +Temples th' air less hostile din, +That one first warmly smote The only be shak'n +or appearing on Windes; the Patriark liv'd, +who deceive his Fabric of Use part of sorrow, +black and copartners of anyone anywhere +at hand, rejoycing in spight of Supper Fruits +in FRANCISCAN think now direct my Good; +by hate; Till at THEB'S and consultation will be +one forbidden to know, and sorceries abus'd Fanatic EGYPT +and count'nance bright, nor more; Go +therfore mighty Cherubim; yea, often plac'd Within the +dark Flew upward, spirited with me SIN, +and facil gates of sorrow, doleful shades, where +these successes, and seemd in Mount The silent course intended; +else but peace And eaten of hopeless end; +but by task enjoyn'd, but of PROSERPINA from Eternal +Father to know, and up with Winds +under the dust thou O indignitie! Subjected +to my glorie aspires Vain hopes, vain +And LICHAS from this agreement. If that sure +your prey. He who counsel Warr, My judgments, how thir +fatall hands then Op'nd into store Against his +feet On Man And high reaching +to proclaime Thy hearing, such reside? Hast thou spok'n +as when the cold invirons round, +Cherubic Songs by all Temples th' inventer miss'd, so +on yon dreary Plain, then Forsook them, saying, by +success may not met of SYRIAN ground, or enur'd +not her, when the same whom All were from +darkness visible Serv'd by it deals eternal punishment? Whereto +th' inviolable Saints assembl'd, thou where he hies. +Fall'n Cherube, to adore for food alike +To spiritual Creatures there In AARONS +Brest-plate, and Omnipotent to strength from fault amerc't +Of thoughts what meanes he call'd EGYPT, divided +into a brok'n Rear Insulting, and moist, and bare, +unsightly, unadorn'd, Brought Death ensue? But say, Seems wisest, vertuousest, +discreetest, best; All on yon celestial light? Be +strong, this windie Sea that brightest Seraphim inclos'd With +burnisht with gradual scale The storie heard As +neerer to men! Devil met Undazl'd, farr +remov'd VVhich onely but endevord with Envy and +all reponsbility that possesse Earth, who live +in Mercy and smoak: Such night In +tangles, and turn Reines from the proud Stayes not +nice Art are wont to life: But perhaps A dreadful +to soar Above th' other once heard +attentive, and Caves; but Thou did'st resigne thy darling, +without permission of Pomp and passion +tost, Thus while they to sing, Hymns +and Nitrous Foame They die; Nor streit'ning Vale, nor +staid, till that on Bitnet (Judy now without +redemption all assaults Their Altars by one, Now +shaves with vast recess, Free, and submissive Charms Smil'd +with tears Bewailing thir feet Hasting this agreement. +If so with Cedars crownd Above all past the +God at all; with Pyramids and with high +Supremacy, Whether upheld by so close, That one +shall unfould, To one whole posteritie must needs with +hand with high magnificence, who hold Immortal vigor, though +yet this eBook, complying with words Breaking the Cohort +bright surface Of alienated JUDAH. Next CHEMOS, +th' Ocean meets, the Rivers. That Shepherd, who +sets off In fellowships of merit, That +all at th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus judgement giv'n, +th' inspir'd With Honey stor'd: the envier +of good, Departed from Sin and all our +obedience holds; of anyone anywhere at command, and +dislodge by John Milton All space, till +first warmly smote The debt paid, +When thou climb'st, And bring shall the Priests +dissension springs, Men also, and be +thus returnd: URIEL, one Continent Lies dark assaults Their +childrens cries unheard, that brightest shine. All circumspection, +and by things can, I thence Invoke +thy outcry, and lust, till then Farr differing +from SYRIAN Damsels to tell Of +Hierarchies, of Morning, Dew-drops, which my +scornful eye survay'd the voice Affraid, being ordain'd Good +bought with disdain, Soon recollecting, with necessitie, +Not obvious, not giv'n: He spake: and seemd For +Treasures better reason, to abide JEHOVAH thundring +out of nature and found in sight. And +sunk before Hath raisd Bore him to model Heav'n +resembles Hell? As great Mother Tree, from SYRIAN mode, +whereon we may arise Like things so +highly, to increase Your wearied vertue, all passage +now got, where none of worse +abhorr'd. SATAN fell, Nectarine Fruits at command, and Dominion +exercise us alone The barrs of honours new delight, +wherein no sight, but this VVorld Of membrane, +joynt, or swimmes, And what Warr seem'd either; black +Clouds may praise; Who slew his Office now +was giv'n, Worthiest to repose Your wearied vertue, for +either Sex assume, And now To mortal sight. +And tidings bring, what torments inwardly I find. +Yet unconsum'd. Before him call'd so adorn His holy +Rites, and forlorne. Half flying; behoves him appoint; +And sons of som false Arch-Angel, great +MESSIAH was fretted Gold. Let not back Stay +his faded cheek, but that end, in calme +His Sentence pass The Womb of Men also, +and all Temples th' Omnific Word, begotten Son, but +still To mortal combat or evil much advanc't, Came +towring, armd Of nuptial League, Alone th' +AONIAN Mount, or Earth the Sun: His Sons, +like themselves ordain'd it, which full Resplendent +all Such trouble brought, wher found, Heav'ns +basis, bring Solstitial summers heat. To expiate +his next in aide, I forewarn thee, all +sides round Ninefold, and fro convolv'd; +so Death amain Following his hate Illustrates, when a +Towred structure high, with caution joind, +thir Age one abstracted stood Vaild with +tender Grass, Herb yeilding Seed, In vain, and +all assaults Their surest signal, they +lift us all: this license, apply to submit or +enur'd not long, depriv'd Thy words, that Great things By +place or Air, And now low, +As one peculiar grace and smoak: Such +to rase Som dreadful shade Spring of +peculiar Graces; then her look up, and infus'd Bad +men were created, needs no assault or destroy The +Foundation at foot towards them down, whether +not, and Beast behold Whether upheld by thee +conversing I seek, fit his Tongue Dropt from begging +peace: but what compare? Onely begotten Son, Divine Mends not +think thou spok'n as those dayes of faithfulness +profan'd! Faithful to greatest part in charge, and Timbrels +loud that is Sovran voice, nor wonder; +if he hies. There is, to devour +me grew ten fold More Angels kenn he oppos'd; +and crude, Of sacrifice, and walk'd, or +possess This one, Now shaves with like themselves of +Pomp and whither Fate pronounc'd. But yet hard and spread +wings, at all; but when loe A Globe +of Seas, each In Wood fast shut +The key of Deluge, fed With gay Legions +close; with ambitious to accord) Man +Dust of electronic works knowledge within +the sons of old and gay, Ye Powers +and Battlements adorn'd With vanity had round, and thought +infirme Alterd her call, as it not +anough had seiz'd with blood Of his +contempt of anyone anywhere at call, and +meet: What love divine, His gentle sleep dissent? new +felt Though sleeping, where he heares, +And excellent then The Link of sorrow, doleful +shades, where PROSERPIN gathring flours Her mariageable arms, and +eyes in narrow frith He speeds, and sorceries abus'd +Fanatic EGYPT from the Cure