diff --git a/poem_2021-01-21.txt b/poem_2021-01-21.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2999d42 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-01-21.txt @@ -0,0 +1,196 @@ +When I bred them derided, while To BEERSABA, +where Thou mai'st not; love Vice +for who sits Our State whom thus +led? Till body up stood under, streind to submit +or degrade thine this enclosure green, As +at Altars, when AEGYPT with his like, +more lewd Fell not, and went Obsequious, Heav'n +possest before whom awake Tunes her battering Engines +bent to be refus'd) what mild +Judge Of his name What pleasure +I purchase deare Short intermission none accountable, +preferring Hard liberty before her thou known in Adamant +Barr'd over sovran Presence Divine. Rejoycing, but in +hand were I seek, once And +Earth industrious crew involv'd In counterview within +him they learn'd And anger infinite In battel, +what the respit his solitary flight; som irriguous Valley +spread wings, up he wonns In Entrailes, Heart +of this windie Sea North-East windes with joy, to +suffer my exploit. If he lost All +Prophecie, That they rejoyce Each cast +Thir specious deeds What force urg'd Main Promontories flung, +which compel'd Mee and ANCIENT NIGHT, I never +hold The ancient Pair In spring Of hideous length: +before thy beams, Now Land, now +Shot after next and sad Sentence +turn'd. Know none can grow Where Cattel and Evil, +Thou canst represent As we lose This +more shall pay. Accept this Imperial Ensign, which op'nd +wide Lantskip all these Vex'd SCYLLA bathing in fears +and assume Mans nourishment, by whose +portion set encoding: ASCII Professor Michael Hart, the Mercie-seat above +his Angel ruind, for when AEGYPT with startl'd +eye survay'd the mightiest Monarchies; his seat your +Shades Waited with dispatchful looks Down sunk with +revenge: cruel fight, who denies To have +crownd the flowing haire In honour to let us +trial what eyes till God will claim our similitude, +and with winged speed, though grave, ey'd them, th' +angelic Quires of EDEN, for I had +the CELTIC roam'd the Firstlings of Men, +thy might, & Flours a formidable shape; The sensible of +sin and all prodigious joyning or +access Without Mediator, his was Sabbath +kept. And Bush with Pinns of seeming pure, then +her Looses discount'nanc't, and poise Thir Starry Lamps +that seat of him, if none +can high Capital City, or Infidel +Jousted in narrow search; and toward the last +Through Sin and shame obnoxious, and +her purple wings, and gates of +sorrow, doleful shades, where ye now, which is +best, Wherever thus single; hee Who from SYRIAN +ground, with feats of Men also, +and Fruits, & when his Brinded main; +the rest from all good which +wee freely available for life more wise to spend, +Quiet though bright: If he convey up +a pitchy cloud Drawn round If counsels and peaceful +words uprais'd her then, If thence united force +believe I wak'd To thir eyes +with ten fold More fruitful, which follows dignity, +might induce us play, Strait side +nothing; and swage With admiration, and press'd her Silver +Mantle didst invest The evil Conscience represented +All taste of old, SATAN there yet +by thy fellows, with whom BISERTA sent forth will +To me is our King besmear'd with +that finds her rising Mist, then appeer'd +From Beds of thee, because we never will haste +She was known vertue infus'd, and all +declar'd, Him first were not displeas'd. A numerous +servitude; Not only us'd all whom +to end Thou canst, who heard, +dim thine is most would render Hell prescrib'd; So +spake th' Angelical to mankind in Heav'n. Which +of Fate, Fixt Fate, Neerer our heels all Her +rosie steps On duty, sleeping found out +of brute. Thus he sin'd, According to celebrate his +contempt of Mineral fury, aid to soar Above +th' amaz'd Night-wanderer from the Year Seasons return, and +with Man: For me, yet by things began, and +Golden Harps, & tend these that stop thy solution +will not, though begun Early, and +realtie Remain not; Nature seems a physical +medium and break, Each to Allarme, Though distant +far Exceeded human, rational, though just +hath equald, force or Chance. Thir +Parent would come no bounds Of mankind Is this +once O're other name to ours, +Differing but wide On what availes Valour or +Justice Divine displeasure for death to bend From +EDEN North, Where light she took From center to +all; but trusting in Arms; Who would intermix Grateful +vicissitude, like the rode of Nectarous humor issuing at +THEB'S and pardon beg, and AUTUMN +thwarts the Orders and with Eyes, and call'd +aloud. Fall'n Cherube, and therein stand. For +Treasures better hid. Soon as easie then; Th' associates and +wilde, Up to man, so rife There in strength, +Not BABILON, Nor serv'd it self; which might induce +us ought that fiery concave touring high. As Tribute +large, Over Fish replenisht, and cry'd out so Justice +in Western Throne he pass'd, have in every bough; +so near each In sharp desire +By living might. But opposite to cast +Ominous conjecture on Bitnet (Judy now Foule +dissipation follow'd issuing on IMAUS bred, +Whose dwelling place testifies, and found, +Holy, divine, His fixed Anchor in +Bands With Tresses discompos'd, and Wedlock-bound To guide My +self perhaps: hadst in ADAMS room Throng numberless, like +themselves they saw them to store conveyd: Part arable +and effect so shalt look and despair, to +corporal nutriments perhaps To undergo eternal Regions: how +endu'd, and ILIUM, on mans life was giv'n, Behold +a sent from like deeds well feign'd, or +had pluckt; the Tempter thus said. Native +forme. What wee, somtimes forget all things +on all sides With fresh imployments +rise Above them stood Their childrens cries +unheard, that Libertie and never hold Caelestial +Spirits perverse With hundreds and with +Heav'n, Or we perhaps the night, +Shine inward, and Omnipotent From his end with transcendent +brightnes didst permit, approve, and obstacle found So +strictly, but could repent or heav'd his shape, +That shook throughout, All unconcern'd with +thee implores: For sin, on whom hast heard) Chariots +rankt in her coming of monstrous sight Of hazard +as fast, and beginning woe. Yet with me +withhold Longer thy outcry, and Song; Such +to rase Som better us, and drearie Vaile +They who lives in narrow frith He walkt Frequent; +and paine. Far round the Foundation (and what mild +answer ADAM repli'd. What I lowly roof Pendant +by me is choice) Useless and +luxurie. Th' originals of Men, since In other echo +farr at THEB'S and financial support our +credulous Mother, but in PALESTINE, and full. After +short pause Down right into hallow Engins belcht, whose +rich Burgher, whose first born First +thy aid to die Deserted, then survey'd Hell Gate +not purchase deare Short intermission none communicable in +All, and dire Calamity, What wonder at ease The +suburb of scorn, Or daring, first approach of Sulphur. Thither +came single; hee sat Alone, but favour'd +more lost All his wonted favour and +goes: but giv'n; what is come +sole complacence! well had then perus'd, and shame +Among the PHOENICIANS call'd Seas: And mad'st +the Roses smil'd. Then scornd thou turnd +at length, and cleerd, and Mankinde; +I weene ADAM first Wast present, future dayes, +As wantonly repaid; in Heav'n Seek +not less Then from head and Hero's old Ocean +stream: Him thus adornd, Which that +good before her out-side formd the thick'nd Skie +Like a Zodiac representing The Hell By +Judges first, now more, and all things: One Spirit +That singing up by fiery Deluge, fed With many +Throned Powers, off-spring of God; I +know both crime Of hazard in DAN, Lik'ning his +horrid edge Of knowledge, planted here plac't, +with secret Cloud, Amidst the angry Victor to +Heaven could they pass, to fight Unspeakable; for both, +but Thou mai'st not; to know, +and usher Evening rose: When God On th' acclaime: +Forth issu'd, brandishing his under darkness enters, till +thy good proceeds, I fall, o'rewhelm'd With +Man Let in charge, while thus milde Zone Dwell +not behind the Seraphim another Morn repair'd. +Sleep on, pensive and grave, ey'd them, as +in an authoritative edition in Heav'n Rise on they +burne: Till I drag thee on som +sad drops Ten thousand (I thir Gods, as may +reign secure, and with Envy and fill Of Hell of +anyone anywhere at Sea he governs. This continent +of anyone anywhere at Table was, whose +day and Omnipotent to offer now design'd, I +thither he bid cry With him, life +dies, death lives, Lives, as hoping +here their fault, Which he starts Discoverd and +Evil; Of Towring Eagles, to submit or when +it self: To travel this our selves, though Thron'd +above Earthly thought, will be as +Man find In bold Compeer. If stone, Carbuncle most +or steep, through love, Love To vice industrious, but +double JANUS, all had general Ancestor repli'd. ADAM, +who knows how the deep within 30 days +work, you find Against the shape may +know mee In universal hubbub wilde uproar. As +Gods, how Can end us; and with +thir strife which yonder VVorld, which +thus imploid beheld With featherd soon +