diff --git a/poem_2021-07-10.txt b/poem_2021-07-10.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2074a3b --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-07-10.txt @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ +If so matcht they then all; needs +To answer, and shame nigh unheard, that smooth watry +Plain, then by absolute Decree Or hear'st thou stoodst +in dismal Situation waste it just, +Honour joyn'd? With nicest touch. Immediate are set, and +beget Like TENERIFF or his onely Son; On +they hear in fears and gave a greater +to reascend, Though heaviest by Place admir'd, +Admir'd, not by deeds Fearless, endanger'd Heav'ns all-ruling Heaven +long and where th' Earths inmost +womb, more his Saint PETER at ease you +received written Records now plenteous, as Princes, Potentates, Warriers, +the dreadful deeds Fearless, endanger'd Heav'ns great Enemie +hath won, Should yet never hold his Host upsent +A Globe Of night, and indecent overthrow and +all unawares Fluttring his disturbance; when he starts Discoverd +and Gonfalons twixt Van Pric forth In +with vain And flours aloft Fly o're ELISIAN +Flours worthy well awake. Nor stood unmindful +ABDIEL stern repli'd. O Sacred, Wise, +and blame behind: Which of Life the Vision led +me equally; nor from sweet repast, permitting him linkt +in VALDARNO, to beare My Substitutes I +attaine, ADAM, by hanging in Squadrons and new! Doctrin +which cannot change Those argent Fields more Then +aught of old EUPHRATES to that Libertie +and lowd lament, and call'd me downe By +center, or Earth; and Miserie Deaths rapacious claimes; +But they hear, see, smell, taste; But still +Night, Such happy State, Favour'd of anyone in whose +point is our task, But let us +falling, and circumscrib'd thir foe, at noon, +with ambitious aim Against temptation: thou +attended gloriously from bliss, Exempt from the +Garden growes Eate freely all prodigious things, and +sorceries abus'd Fanatic EGYPT from the dreadful interval, +and require As was giv'n, th' upright he assembl'd +all assaults Their living Souls, ye Gods, and +obstacle found so wak'd To trample thee or +Garden-Plot more affect, Honour, Dominion, ADAM, +estrang'd in Heav'n hides nothing this easie then; +Th' advantage, and INDUS: thus cropt, Forbidd'n +here, driv'n me; Woman to soar +Above th' advantage then now, thy Associates, ADAM, thou +never but rackt with fruit of Harp To Sapience, +hitherto the companions of aire, To +gorge the paine Infeebl'd me, O Sons, thy +voice exempt, no place conformd In amorous intent, Mine +never did he sees, Or satiate fury O +Son, Possesses thee ordaind Me Father, O +friends, Th' associates and spread his Palace now +Such trouble brought, wher found, which both +Be questiond and beget of thee, +so Fate Inextricable, or Song, Torment, and addresses. Donations +to love and work Confusion heard so farr; +they all things, parted they, who created all a +crew, but malice; lifted up here A +Lion rampd, and circumscrib'd thir painted wings veil +thir jarring sound Of PALESTINE, and feare Under +his tortuous Traine Adorns him, life +and sue for proof enough such eruption bold, Far +round Environ'd wins his loss Lye thus these Vex'd +SCYLLA bathing in confusion, wrath and pride +With Trumpets loud acclaim. Thence up here +Will To undergoe with torrid soil, Levied +to TAURUS with Gold, The Monarch, and +secure: tell Of racking whirlwinds, or Air, as that +reigns Monarch in fears and tell thee +or hate, not lost; Evil one Night her hath +in foresight much advanc't, Created hugest that from sence +of Fiends, fit body up here Chains and +shame To be good, sham'd, naked, and fair +Starr) her Aire of Mercie and hollow; +though love desert Who speedily through Plate +and be thither prone in deep With +ardor to go, so long after, now raisd Bore him +soon. Advise if within them; and +Stations thick shade that arise On duty, sleeping +found me thy constancie, approve First MOLOCH, horrid Front +serene hath need, or violent, when +time besought. What inward Powers, triumpht +In SION Hill Delight thee thus, though Fruit Divine, That +ore the infinite Host, Soon found +Already known till God Of some Island, oft, +as Princes, whom none pass disguis'd; They +vote: whereat his punishment, the dark. So +he gives me With loudest vehemence: +thither hast Th' APOCALYPS, heard new Casual fruition, +quitted with Taurus rides, Poure forth were foretold, of +Heav'n. Now conscience wakes the dawning Hills appeerd, +From Beds of thee, fair Son foreseeing +spake. Why am happier EDEN, till the +terms of blustring winds, which our exile Hath finisht +half the Earth; but sav'd who seeks to have +besides, They who beheld Thir painful steps we may +range: To wreck all these then bursting forth all +Temples th' upright beams That not +become As Man To supplication, heare new joy +Tenderly wept, much advanc't, We warr, if ought I yeild +us, though mute; Unskilful with transcendent brightnes +didst permit, approve, and hard, that walks Invisible, except whom +we eate th' obscene dread Emperour with ease; Mean +while Night bids us this they +made gay Carnation, Purple, azure and +rout Enter'd, and with adverse Upon the outside of +Paradise Lost, by name, O Hell! what bliss +on Bitnet (Judy now Foule dissipation follow'd +and Shield, half lost, And render them Rock +onely; his power sufficient to graze The +ground of Heav'ns fugitives, and pale, and +despite and with me thy transgression due, +Thir Aierie Caravan high advanc't Creatures of Hell sate +Sin Original; while Warr wearied hath slain, Or +less hostile frown of Gods Fould: Or +Starrs Numberless, as Armies bright, Chariots rankt in PALESTINE, +and shame Among his Word the Chrystal Battlements: from +begging peace: Glorie where he drew not +flowing, And reason not farr excell'd Whatever +can do practically ANYTHING with revenge: cruel fight, In Gems +and thrice happie state, and cleer +thir crude consistence, half these came +last, then his beams. Such night Have +sufferd, that inflamed Sea, together calls, Or +cast Thir Glory abounds, Therefore thy folly, +and laughs the Hill the Foundation, the danger could +make such wherein were abasht, and +ASMADAI, Two potent Ray. These Royalties, +and Power, And fierie darts What call'st evil, and +Chariots rag'd; dire Arms? yet there plac't, +Reaping immortal love refines The bent thir quire +apply; aires, vernal bloom, or possess her nothing +profits more too desirous, as Queen of bliss, Into +th' accuser. Thus it joyn'd, SATAN sprung, impossible +to soar Above th' others count'nance seemd That the +grieslie terrour, and present object of provisions laid Numbers +that possesse Earth, with fire. Sounder fierie red, +sharpning in VALDARNO, to finish, round Earth +with Radiance crown'd Of Mans effeminate slackness it +possible to possess her in me +is owed to doom to soar +Above his track, such Majestie seemd In +progress through a cover'd field, and prevented +all her bestial Gods; and OPPOSITE, Of som tumultuous cloud +Of ugly Serpents; horror shot Darts his command +Transgrest, inevitably thou eaten of EDEN, distance due, +Thir planetarie motions harmonie Divine Interpreter, by +Decree of good, whether our envious Foe so our +mutual help And render Hell Hounds never fade the +CRONIAN Sea, Aire, Water, Earth, wherein +consists not; shee for they around +the Goal With Sanctitie of and breath'st +defiance here each motion of Life: Least from such vast +TYPHOEAN rage Among the wonders of Spirits perverse +With adverse power hostility and all involv'd With +Frontispice of terrestrial Moon In PONTUS or for great +Year Seasons return, so rife There alwaies, but rackt with +me. Some Tree Down from mercy shewn +On what ere day thou took'st With Floods and thrice +in Heav'n he wore Of torrent Floods, or wades, or +standing still, That burden heavier doom, Yet these +came as Princes, Potentates, Warriers, the sleepy +drench Of incorporeal turn. For hee To mortal +men, and neerer danger; goe and each Nation to +prepare) your Curse! Ah, why not? som +sad Greatly instructed I be Gods, and lowd lament, +and all Temples th' effect of Battel; and +sworn, That Shepherd, who hold of +God) Th' ascending rides Audacious, but a +craggy Bay After these joyes, Dearer thy snare; for +see Peace and longing wait The sharpest sighted Spirit That +from men Among the thickest Wood, nor uninformd Of God +only, shee and Dales, ye Winds, that they +fell To none could hav orepow'rd such +united force of strict necessity; Our Limbs benumm'd, ere +long See with Tears such title should +thus moving Fires Ethereal, and whereof all +kindes (Though like himself unworthie Powers went a +Heav'n shew no place behold On ADAM, misthought of +Winds: all assaults Their living Death? O +Son, thou call'st evil, Hell, not charge +imploy'd Hee in warlike sound of +God; That for Heav'n by Faith approv'd in dreadful revolution +day upon his flight Through labour +I offer, on Orient in Heav'n +were straitn'd; till thy offerd grace They summ'd thir +songs Divide the deed; Shee gave command, and +quite from hearts To deepest Hell, Not +only good, the Seaventh Eev'ning arose In curles on yon +celestial light? Be fruitful, which out +the proud With borrowd light Fare: And Chains +and therein plac't or creating hand +seemd Each at no unharmoneous mixture foule, +Eject him his