Robo poem for 2022-09-03
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So numberless were long Assist us: But thir Head
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up-lift above Who from these happie in
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ADAM his Eternal miserie; such danger or Beast; which
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thus MICHAEL Wrought still I else set The
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likeness of Men: And for within Lights on earth, durst
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upon me, the Cherubim Forth issuing on high: from
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SYRIAN mode, whereon JACOB saw Heav'n his,
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or since none communicable in Glory sat, by Judy
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Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on IMAUS bred, Whose fellowship
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I pleas'd, declarst thy request, and
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shame Of Cattel pastur'd late, or creating
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hand provok't, since no excess of sorrow, black and
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thighes with outragious noise reside, his baleful eyes
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agast View'd first Father, I voutsafe. The
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hands Were Tents behold them askance, and confer Thir
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Phalanx, and amorous delay. Nor are to
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store hereafter from one World where stood as far
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with Amarant and rare: thee appeer, Back to shelter
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us? what ow I to destruction doom'd. How
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dark'nd; innocence, Defaming as Evening: Cover
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me once, with taint Th' untractable Abysse, plung'd in
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Mercy and mild, nor yet but in
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Prose or som small night-founder'd Skiff, Deeming some
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regard of Heaven, Heav'n with thee
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Henceforth; my unspotted Soule For sight Of mankind
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repli'd. What neerer to Hell. Next CHEMOS,
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th' Empyreal Host Of shrubs and ILIUM,
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on errand sole, and indecent overthrow and
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fair Angelic Squadron and therein plant
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A glimmering of Arms, and passion
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first appeering kenns A standing fight, the Tyranny of
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prowess next command. To Cattel grazing: others, who
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ought I mockt with grasped arm's Clash'd on Bitnet
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(Judy now exhal'd, and envying stood,
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Both Good we never dwell, hope relies. Whence Haile
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Mother Tree, whose radiant Shrine, Dark with capacious
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mind thou hat'st, I fell, from Just, and
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Death ensue? But us for God in gaze,
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as he so superficially surveyes These Feminine. For each
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thir doom to soar Above th' upright with whom
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mutual love, the Garden; thence Had circl'd his fall,
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o'rewhelm'd With singed bottom all monstrous, all else in Triumph
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high Tree in Arms, fierce Ensignes
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pierc'd the deep Muse to climbe. Thence more
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Communicated, more Causes import your tops, ye to
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ascend, Bear on yon celestial Sign Portentous
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held me; for ever to receive
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Irrevocable, that thir mutual guilt the
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Spirits foule, Eject him a Rampart.
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MAMMON led th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus
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alone; her nether Empire, that earst in
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FRANCISCAN think hard be moovd Thir Starry Lamps that
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shall from the only dreaded name
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best Whom to soar Above all
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Sun-shine, as that opprobrious Hill, or enur'd not Victory
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is Sovran can tell, Or bere th' HESPERIAN
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Fields, And hands to sight, If
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Natures desire, Had rounded still to flight or
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detach or Intuitive; discourse they anon His
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famine should I assume, or threats Of BACCHUS from
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ESAU fled we to judge it
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were it thus? who for the
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cornie Reed Stood they seemd, Deign to glorifie The
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rest and with perplexing thoughts and
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final remedie, and submissive Charms Smil'd with outragious
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noise among them to think the
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Cherubim; yea, often plac'd Within me
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drawn, Rose as from whom, SATAN there Arraying
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with high repute Which had his thy folly,
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and anguish and CHIMERA'S dire. Fall'n
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Cherube, and hollow; though joynd In Paradise,
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your thrall, and were crownd, Her ever power had
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form'd within thee O fair Paradise, the Scepter
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and grief, pleasure and Sword upon my intended
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first, now now, While the world; nor the crested
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Cock whose delightful Seat he is, Som
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safer resolution, which God Without dimension, where rashness
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leads where silence thus reduc't becomes, His hand his breath
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stir not eate, Yet Innocence and paine
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Infeebl'd me, from SYRIAN ground, or thought no
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Fair couple, linkt in troop Came flying, and
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subdue The golden Scales, yet be modified and all
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from one blow SABEAN Odours and th' AONIAN Mount,
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while over many signes of God; I
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keep, by Batterie, Scale, and shame By center, or
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Faerie Elves, Whose image now Stood up, shall his fear:
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of weight, till then I was found. O
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For aught disturb'd thir Flocks are threatn'd, but cast Ominous
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conjecture on His blessed Spirits be woo'd,
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and with wound, But follow me, of
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God; That practisd falshood under me once,
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Powerful perswaders, quick'nd appetite, and scorching heate? These
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then, what Revenge? the shade, But neither
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Man should be trusted, longing eye; Nor
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those Among thick-wov'n Arborets and rubied Nectar flows: In
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INDIA East his alimental recompence Of
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splendid vassalage, but bring obedience could hope
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no ill, was giv'n, with ambitious aim Against revolted
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multitudes Were such wherein no further knows.
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For bliss, thy deserved right. Let us falling,
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had thought Was death releast Some
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Tree of Rebellion rising, saw unseen: At Loopholes cut
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sheere, nor stood Unwearied, unobnoxious to rack, disturbd the
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TARTAR bounds, Dislodging from darkness in best
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Whom he judg'd Sufficient to explore or blame
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behind: Which to force as that shall
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faile to subdue By Merit more wrath; for
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our just pretenses in things Thou art my left
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to that by various shapes and freedom
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us'd Long had thither doomd? Thou canst, who
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overcomes By FONTARABBIA. Thus with EURYNOME, the
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horned floud, With shiverd armour strow'n, and vigour soon drew
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Gods live without Thorn the Den By
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doom is, and flourie herb I turnd I
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found her nether Empire, and smiles, when he
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seems difficult and lyes the Priests dissension
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springs, Men also, and verdant Gold, And feare
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it not bright, Compar'd with tender herb, tree,
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fruit, and flaming Legions dare The same fruit
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Mans First Disobedience, and shoares Thir course, in
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thick and undon, hath won, If
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chance but what proof of Men as
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unclean. There went Obsequious, Heav'n somtimes may
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copy it, man will reigne A faithful Leader,
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next, free Will save A triple-mounted row
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Of goodliest Trees ye have th' effect so smooth,
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swift destruction seek to describe whose mortal voice, that
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warr'd on in event In VALLOMBROSA, where
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stood yet from begging peace: Glorie
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where stood under, streind to heare
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Of airie threats To respit his MESSIAH.
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On every side Of King MESSIAH, who
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all temptations arm'd. Hadst thou profoundest Hell that
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Hell bounds On whom MICHAEL from the
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circuit walles this windie Sea flow'd Fast by whose
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conspicuous count'nance, without leave Thy Husband, saw
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in Arms; Who to naught, Or hear'st thou
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what strength, and with pure Intelligential substances
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require Thy Rebels, or morrows next Mate, Both
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where Earth shall need, God alone, By us their lot
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Anough is undefil'd and sigh'd From
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prone, nor wanted they seemd, POMONA when Millions that
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at noon, with matter of Heav'ns Almightie spake:
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and wine. Witness the Hymenaean sung, What next Wide gaping,
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and sometimes went, Shaded with Gold, The sequel each
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tender herb, were crownd, With Head
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Crested aloft, and pain, professing next
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and official Project Gutenberg is meet, who
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renounce Thir sinful thought, which no part in Glory sat,
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by types And perfet sight, Amid the
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Poole MAEOTIS, up here stand of taste is
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ours, Differing but I him Enthron'd Sat
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on Bitnet (Judy now has a
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Harp Thir doctrine and deep, Won from the
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Space that my sentence, that bad eminence; and therein
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plant A World from above: him through
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his Grove The likeness of mankind, in
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Triumph high exaltation; suddenly My Vanquisher,
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spoild of wondrous length prodigious things, ev'n in
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PALESTINE, and they judge the Author not
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hast'n to impose: He soon ended they fierce
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demeanour forth peculiar grace Attends thee, and therein or
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carreer with bold words and wilde,
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and all Heav'n, or enur'd not Realms of Fame, And
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while horror will claim in Child-bearing were low Reverence
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don, as nam'd ALMIGHTIE to hope excluded
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thus, how good, created what doe mine
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eyes could commit Such prohibitions binde
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Volatil HERMES, and obscure, Can turn, or conceal'd, Which
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they stood With supple knee? ye to Hell.
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As through fire Dilated or talk
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of Hell, And shame, Vain hopes, vain designes
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In ATHENS or sung of Morning, Dew-drops,
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which none would require More justly, Seat
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the terms whatever, when contrary to forget to
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accept Alone th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus to
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soar Above the less need rest; so farr, winding
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with Arched neck Between her being, stil
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shades his illustrous Guest besought: She turns, on
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main wing after showers, Nor God,
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pronounc't and Femal Bee Sits Arbitress, and
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sorrow infinite Thy presence, agonie and all Temples th'
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OLYMPIAN Hill SATAN allarm'd Collecting all kindes (Though like
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those infernal States, and spie This Universe,
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and beget Like gentle penetration, though
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Shrouds and wrought our vacant room, though the Sun: His
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swift Then had general safety best receivd,
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And puissant Legions, Angel can finde, Found unsuspected way. There
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stood & found deadly; he might devise Like
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TENERIFF or refund of Mankind, Mother of monstrous
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Serpent kinde Wondrous in might; The hollow
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nook, As stood Praying, for open now fild with
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suttle Magic many Throned Powers, Consult how
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long process of shame him MOLOC, Scepter'd
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Angels without shoar; and Love
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