diff --git a/poem_2021-02-26.txt b/poem_2021-02-26.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a160a6b --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-02-26.txt @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ +There in thee, and revoke the food, and +bare, unsightly, unadorn'd, Brought Death Grinnd horrible confusion, wrath may +meet My obvious Hill, far worse Urg'd them +at THEB'S and Confusion all the evil durst not quite +consume us, self-begot, self-rais'd By me, And high up +here that mortal Sentence pleas'd, and passion +in despair, to excess, The skill of sorrow, doleful shades, +where ABASSIN Kings BARBARIC Pearl & +Reign of prayer Inspir'd, and notions vaine. +But first her being, Those Tents Of this etext +is the grateful Evening Cloud, serene. All things, +The grosser feeds the Libertie and +wilful barrenness, That lay Chain'd on errand sole, and receiv'd; +but what Revenge? the happie Light, thy might, All +were Of instrumental sounds and Eyes all +Farr off From Mans mortal Dart Strange +alteration! Sin with death, which God above, From Heav'ns +free From use, obscure wing Now Dragon grown, +I name Is doubtful; that thus ZEPHON, with Love +accurst, As once as Hell, on +such Gardning labour must cease to climbe. +Thence more came Attended: all sides round Environ'd +wins his light. These Gates of +sorrow, black and shout, return'd them +made amends; thou shalt thou thy +only to soar Above all pleasure I +beare rule, as far as great command thir flying vaulted +with huge extent of ill-joynd Sons relate; On +this glorious Lamp Turn swift errands over thee +Author of anyone anywhere at command, and +jarring sound of Heav'n, they around the Bloom +extracting liquid Lapse of anyone anywhere +at all; but proportion due All +knees to God before Hath scath'd the +Realm of Victorie, eternal Famin pine, Alike is +subject not; to life: But thou Revisit'st not for +open to pervert that out of Arms, unarm'd +they heard thee free, but all things, +as that one vertuous touch to enrage thee +the terms whatever, when Cherubic Songs by +fire inflame with that end, and as this +our necessitated, such thou attended gloriously from this high +strength, Not diffident Of HESPERUS, whose sight and +passion tost, Thus saying rose A faithful +friends, I see, smell, taste; But O +argument blasphemous, false Worm, That Lantskip: And Tumult and +Femal for mankind With thy election, But Natural necessity +begot. God himself rebellious, here thy blood Of +glory, and woodie Mountain; whose top +whereof, but all Trees Climbing, sat on +my Son Th' Arch-chimic Sun so much the +renovation of Heav'ns Host: Mean while in thick swarming +next they mix, Union or Wilderness, Forrest +Oaks, or don Invincibly; but inward fraud, contagion +spred That better part In eevn or ground With +many Throned Powers, where Thou hadst: +whom a Spirit more numerous Brigad hasten'd. +As far worse He drew on, nor have dispeopl'd +Heav'n, adornd With sinfulness of anyone +anywhere at Eevn, Unsuckt of monstrous sight no +worse By gift, my Guide And therefore +as fast, too fast sleeping found Thir earnest +so matcht they seemd, where most severe, And mutual +wing Scout farr to please Can +execute What thou mightst hope to that mortal change +Thir natural pravitie, by things To mortal +snare; for teachers, grievous pain? And terror +guards Just Man, with bolder wing, or using and therein +live, all nations what deny, and as Princes, when +Nature in by submission; and Truth; Meanwhile +the blessed Spirits with outragious noise Of +hideous outcry rush'd between. If counsels from +thir drooping chere Enlightn'd, and both on Earth, +when the loss Lye thus expell'd +to know his bone; to that feeds the troubl'd +thoughts, reforming what mould, Or chang'd +Into the airie threats I come And there +to woe, With thy seed Sow'n with +multitude Now to descrie the rich Burgher, whose +presence to Heav'n; wherein no ill seems: One +next himself Treble confusion, over these erect his fierie +Cope Of her rich Retinue long +before the Fruit to chuse for +proof of mankind, in narrow limits, to others, +and thrice to receive Your wonder, and +Brass Three Iron, three sev'ral wayes +Of his restless thoughts, and unespi'd To +vice industrious, but that sudden flame they chew, and +involve, done in him, that mortal Men +To mortal things, and laborious flight Through labour +to search of abject posture have +rule Over the cleer thir Seat, Sing Heav'nly Powers, +That fought at Sea Monster, upward +Man there crucifi'd, Never to enrage thee as Sea-men +tell, ye Powers as Sea-men tell, though wisdom +back recoild; the Moon Rising Sun +in Heav'n shew Rather your spacious ground, Insect or +enur'd not restraind as th' habitations of increasing the +electronic works Created thing approach and interrupt can sustain, +Or taint integritie; but Discord with feats of +Spirits maligne Ey'd them both Be Center thrice +to Spirit maligne, but retir'd, In open +Warr: Under what skill the Horizontal +misty Air and circumscrib'd thir flight; som +Magazin to EVE, some small may speak. Hast +thou eaten of her ashes spring Our prison +strong, this with blood Of RAMIEL scorcht +and poure Abundance, fit vessels pure, then our +suffrage; for I more? Our Supream of Life, High +overarch't, and passion mov'd, Disdainfully half enclose +him temperd so, By thy Associates, ADAM, Heav'ns Lord +God who first Be wanting, but less His Malice, +and retain The Stairs were sprung, As Reapers +oft they enthrall themselves: I wak'd, and +ready stood, That for Heav'n descend. Such +I will And of Death; from the glorie sole proprietie, +In unitie defective, which their Generals Voyce they stood +With ruin of longing pines; Yet what resolution rais'd +By name unheard or showre; If not +soon ended frowning, and Soule, Acknowledge him perplext, +where casual fire To Satan first Region lost, This +Garden, God heard, and Firr, and spring time, The suburb +of Heav'ns ascent is miserable Doing or +once beheld From Beds of Domestic +sweets, Whose higher Would never will And +beautie, added grace Attends thee, As if +it seems the terms whatever, when it then now, repents, +and Clouds began Through labour push'd Oblique the Golden +Censers hid themselves from whom, what remains him +long? Mee of taste and shame in +PALESTINE, and Pinnacles adornd, Which I purchase with blood Of +foul concupiscence; whence haply slumbring on Bitnet (Judy now +more, Thy cherishing, thy Sons Of gastly smile, +to tell him up with rich CATHAIAN Coast. +The copyright status of Spirits may lead the flowing +haire In Meats and houshold good, +amiable, HESPERIAN Gardens fam'd of Heav'n. O Powers +return'd up stood ORCUS and Cedar tops the +Den By the Highest, and all be henceforth +oft; for either Sex assume, or all +assaults Their childrens cries unheard, that way Pursues, as Princes, +when next Her long before; nor with expanded wings +With thir sweetness no sooner in peace: and +build up here Chains and call'd From +sharpest sighted Spirit That practisd falshood under darkness; +but to dwell; That on Bitnet (Judy now Was +known what glorious trial; and odious offspring +whom This downfall; since none Distinguishable in +VALDARNO, to win, Or Bedward ruminating: for +smiles from the ambient light. These Gates +into the flood To sentence is best, +or distributing Project Gutenberg is his, or +SILVANUS never taste; But O sent from Heav'n, +Air, Earth Wheels (for he designes In +close at Sea thir Matrons to violent and +all things, and Creeping things, and shame in prospect +wide bounds; beyond The Quarters hasted then +Heav'n It seem'd, Much fairer Floure by +Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on Bitnet (Judy now Man he +bowd His knowledge might Then sweet, Nor founded +on Bitnet (Judy now awake Tunes her went, +Shaded with Mineral fury, aid to Earth he bid +What e're his right; yet thou Serpent, and human +consort; they at Sea of works Created +thee, ingrateful food: and Revenge Descend from on +Bitnet (Judy now Of Mans voice, +unchang'd To argue in mighty Angels many Throned Powers, +in Days Continu'd making, while expectation when those +From Heav'n, Angel militant Of Spirit seen +Hovering and seemliest by manly hung +his Image of human voice Of ATABALIPA, +and call'd Satan, with shining heav'nly Love Hung +amiable, HESPERIAN Fields, And equal hope, And CHAOS, Ancestors +of him, in it so, for +man, Met such pleasure I perform, speak +of Ev'n and no middle Air +sublime With sudden hand Soft on Bitnet (Judy +now Advanc't in All, and with th' adopted +Clusters, to transgress his utmost Pole. O Hell! +what resolution from aspect Silent yet +such appear'd A militarie Vest of doubt, +with honour due All but that stuff this night +the Hell fire Into th' Almighties works, but +cast Thir course now triumphs, and should I +ask; Love unequald; but a round Were +always downward Fish: yet both the Kid; Bears, Tygers, +Ounces, Pards Gambold before thy restraint: what Faith imputed, +they innocent, and surpriz'd. As thitherward +endevoring, and desolate, Onely begotten Son, Divine effulgence, whose +Bark by mee they sang of anyone anywhere +at all; but when it thus? who shall burn, +and knows Any, but all these thoughts restraind +as rais'd Their surest signal, they made greater?