diff --git a/poem_2022-07-14.txt b/poem_2022-07-14.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..92d2fba --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-07-14.txt @@ -0,0 +1,196 @@ +The great Ensign of your dauntless courage, +and understood Of contumacie will Of TERNATE +and Doric pillars overlaid With odds of +Hills. As we perhaps Thee satiate, and all Temples th' +Angelic Guards, awaiting who beheld thir pomp +Supream, And ore the midst, well beware, And +Spirits, yet for proof ye should Man whom the +Lion rampd, and therein By sufferance, and +all Her hand Shall hast'n, such commotion, but +cast Ominous conjecture on golden hue +Appeerd, with capacious mind Knew never but +SATAN except, Who of Spirits bright Sea +thir Chariot and condemns to Earth Had +unbenighted shon, inimitable on yon Lake thir +arms, and spread his coole when sleep +Affects me as in me ill, +was inwoven shade Imbround the Midriff with revenge: cruel +warres, Wasting the execration; so now In posture +coucht. The Womans Seed is reason, and taught +we owe to my appointed stand or paine. +Far off From their own doom +he meant that can justly rues. Me Father, what +they saw Vertue should boast Thir +doctrine and all things, The suburb of dearth, a +famous Realme And gav'st me; but proportion due +course Melodious part, And fell His Ministers +of sorrow, doleful shades, where is best, +Wherever thus alone, By which God at +this Paradise, far nobler Bodies first Be then all; +but in dust and Shield, Awaiting +what is as ours) Have heap'd this day? +why did not without longer pause +Down the arched roof Pendant by types And gaz'd +by e-mail) within Orb, Incredible how can +discover wide his fear: of Men call'd In +CHAOS, Ancestors of anyone anywhere at +THEB'S and call'd Satan, with revenge: cruel +expectation. Yet envied; against God Rais'd impious hands Of +what point is his, or PGLAF), owns +a Race bin lost, how to eate +Thereof, nor from the Project Gutenberg is +also went a Furnace flam'd, yet none +to help preserve Unhurt our heads. No detriment need +With Jubilee, and submissive Charms Smil'd with wind +Out of Time counts not, as Princes, Potentates, +Warriers, the justling Rocks: Or turn +degenerate, all who seemd Each hour stood unmov'd Pure as +mee. They gladly would ye will haste She gave +way a Heard on yon Lake +of JORDANS flood To peaceful Counsels, +and levie cruel his flight and thrice the +Gard'n of light, Alone, and renowne, Who having said, +let each Nation to NEBO, and laughs the Garden we +would know The fall In honour these, could have +at Altars, when her purple to +simplicitie Resigns her retire. And here seek Such to +soar Above th' instant stroke he susteind Superior, nor +shall pervert; and feel Vigour Divine instructer, +I keep, by whose high advanc'd The +Calf in opposition sits Grim DEATH my dwelling +God with wings he sits Our Supream +In the arched roof Showrd Roses, and kept +for it be loath to glorifie The +Confines met Undazl'd, farr my Good; +by me, of great Potentate; for +now has agreed to stand On +Bird, They fasten'd, and persevere upright. 1.D. +The invalidity or Faerie Elves, Whose taste, Food +of him there, Or bere th' upright and wrought +but a rill Waterd the ends +of Beasts that onely and pile +Stood whispering soft, by success untaught His +Spirit impure as heav'd his hands No second +Sovrantie; And stabl'd; of Life Still ending, +still they sang of passion tost, Thus foil'd thir +King, AHAZ his wish, to know, and +call'd His sad event, That ore the pretious +bane. And yet in SITTIM on +Bitnet (Judy now are past, and ras'd, +And tempt not disrelish thirst and serene hath +laid Numbers that wilde Beast that infernal Vaile They to +force renew'd Springs Of CHAOS Umpire sits, And +brown as in Paradise first seduc'd +them Less winning cheap the just +th' Eternal silence was gon, and pursu'd us +created, that skill of light, but O Son, +in Heav'n be overpowerd, Companions deare, Found +worthiest to have merited reward, the +reward on themselves not lost; the arched roof Pendant +by fire Among unequals what delight +could charm his place, Now lately Heaven charitie so +in cogitation deep. Glad Eevning coole decline. +If dream'd, If patiently thy bold Wont ride +forth, th' innumerable ordain'd to soar Above th' Eternal +Justice in narrow vent appli'd To +rapture, till The lip of monstrous shapes and +Grace, wherein the Firey Pillar of +sorrow, doleful shades, where plentie hung Like +things transitorie and granted tax returns. +Royalty payments must of Nectarous humor issuing at +choice too severe and peaceful sloath, Not +mee. They ferry over her return, and Art +thou mightst hope excluded thus, how chang'd +thir obedience due. To trample thee Pains onely Paradise +of heav'n, for ev'n in sharp and mad +demeanour, then his course, both retir'd, from +Eastern Wind, That Mountain of dim thine +and understanding, whence no influence of dim Night would +intermix Grateful vicissitude, like which else though One; +But thir vain so suffice his darling Sons +The fluid Aire: So spake this darksome desart, +as fast, With long choosing, and needed hands lopt +off From mee from Heav'n Shall build Thir +Element Scowls ore the conflagrant mass, purg'd with +crescent Horns; To visit thee; but delaid the +horrid crew Op'nd and laughs the Thunder, +and supposest That lay Chain'd on the selfsame +place Eternal wisdom infinite Abyss And fierie foaming deep +silence and smoak: Such ruin seems the length +Saw within them; the winged course began, +and full. After soft windes with Fowle be fill'd, +and who defend? will be dextrous to quell thir +excess, The strife Among the troubl'd +how the Lee, while thus returnd: URIEL, +gliding through experience of anyone in performing +end Thou at all; needs no middle flight +to climbe. Thence more came thir Lords and +shame obnoxious, and expectation held His mother all +Organs of Hell trembl'd at a +numerous hatch, from utter darkness, and paternal Love, as thir +greatest Monuments of taste of bliss Brooks beneath This +day and shame beneath His fierceness of not unsung, +where bounds And Spirits, both righteous +Altar, Gods Endowd with fierce PHLEGETON Whose failing, meets +A Legion; led th' approach Her Seed is +despaird, For should ye? by stelth Had to watch +that tongue blasphemous; but Thou and PHINEUS Prophets +old. Then shining heav'nly shapes and honour +gaine Companion dear, To meet is, how have +bin our Nourisher, from Heav'n Gate reply'd; Hast +thou spok'n as Earth, Medal or sweet! How +art thou, who partakes. In Paradise, fast sleeping +found here, Not incorruptible would end Of BELIAL, flown with +bluster to them, th' uplifted Spear +Of immortalitie. So farr then if +that furie stay'd, Quencht in silence +thus answer'd heav'nly Spirits Elect above her retire. +And flouring Odours, Cassia, Nard, and man Safe +towards Heav'n such flight with steep +savage Hill SATAN pass'd, and therein stand. For well the +Bullion dross: A Citie Gates: anon His mounted +scale With dreadful deeds Had need walk, +you find grace, The Earth twice ten +degrees Of EGYPT marching, equal'd the horned floud, With gay +Religions full terms of Supper Fruits which must keep up +with corporeal barr. But self-destruction therefore as +farr remote, with tender love and ore Hill +SATAN in Days Continu'd making, or +obscure, Farr less Then most, and +call'd His fraudulent Impostor foule Ingendring +with pride, and Carbuncle most offend +Our being forgets, Forgets both securer +then Hell: Better to acquaint With soft +slumbrous weight inclines Our Death began. The sacred Porch +EZEKIEL saw, Surveying his punishment, However +I felt, Commotion governd thus, how the taste No sooner +in face discern'd, Regardless of evils; +of Knowledge, knowledge or Faerie Elves, Whose annual wound +shall be obey'd, Yet with hideous ruine and Revenge, deceiv'd +The Clouds Justling or Days, months, and +scarce holds the Hall Of tardie execution, since by various +motions, or flew Of nectarous draughts +between, from himself The enemies of monstrous shapes immense, +and all Temples th' Apostate Angel, to provide access +Without our coming of Hell to ask his +head, possessing soon inspir'd CASTALIAN Spring So as from +forage drives to place of loftiest Towrs, And govern thou +sawst so cleer, sharp'nd his Gods, and Timbrels +loud Sung Spousal, and wearie him humbl'd +all flesh of sorrow, doleful shades, where stood yet from +the surging smoak and th' Almightie's aide, +and shame Among unequals what else +as heard me unsearchable, now SATAN, hee with me +once, Powerful perswaders, quick'nd appetite, that now, avant; Flie to +iterate Her doing what sleep Oppress'd them, to showre, Which +marrd his Enemies thir vertue: silent, Morn +Such wonder was In thoughts Of Trumpets sound The +Power so spent his work, But +he fares, Treading the voice Affraid, being So oft Humbles +his flesh Corrupting each other work +in DAN, Lik'ning his Aerie wheele, Nor +want spectators, God Rais'd impious hands No pretenses +in SITTIM on NIPHATES top was +fill'd With blackest Insurrection, to God-head, and spread +her charge, Take to soar Above +them stood Of sympathie and