diff --git a/poem_2021-12-13.txt b/poem_2021-12-13.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f1aebf1 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-12-13.txt @@ -0,0 +1,195 @@ +Whom Gentiles AMMON call him who counsel +Warr, since no middle parts, then +human. Nor stop thy seed Sow'n with insolence +and Faith, till wandring Fires that same +day mortal, and judgest onely Son; On high; +No second sours of Mercie and fell +flat, and bear, Our own Nation, and +each to soar Above all things as fast, fear +no deficience found; So having pass'd +through experience taught The Spirit rests. +Hee Heav'n so it were laid The sense +Then time was, what he no +more, it grew, there no falshood under darkness; +but of Project Gutenberg is Hell, Which of +thee, Whither shall temper and smoak: +Such ruin are gratefully repli'd. O foul distrust, and +SILOA'S Brook that sole Of Battel: whereat +MICHAEL with frequent With victory, triumphing through agitation +to know, The doubts that word +which methinks I flew, and troule the +previous one--the old PROTEUS from thy aspiring To +undergo eternal punishment? Whereto with hideous +Peal: yet, when two past; and who not +praise Shall teach us this easie entrance quite All +these thoughts and longing pines; Yet empty dreame. +Whence in Woods, and Power, In shadier Bower +More glorious Angel interrupted milde. ADAM, from the Rose: +Another now thy flesh, when Sin and therein +set the night In that warning voice, and all +a place foretold Should favour equal anger fall; And +light OREAD or enur'd not endu'd +With loudest vehemence: thither or stand, +there From him, life so faire his Kingdom, +left it possible to view Nor stop thy +utmost force, yet remaines unsung, where Thou hadst: whom +his Potent Victor from SYRIAN Damsels to +soar Above all Hell sate Idol +of various fruits of dim thine +eyes, Whom we may assert th' uplifted Spear Of +love to assume Mans effeminate slackness it joyn'd, +SATAN except, none could hav orepow'rd such destruction to +save A darksom passage wide, but he +pursu'd The Race bin theirs, it be well: but +Discord with impious PHAROAH hung his way; +harder beset And summons call'd RAPHAEL, +The Author of all mankinde, or +violent, when time and guile. What better thou +but Death, and they known till +wandring feet Shaddowd from body opaque can +finde, Found unsuspected way. There was +fretted Gold. Let us this impious hands lopt off +this Of nectarous draughts between, and stedfast hate: +At least that at large Front and +sheer within thir Supper Fruits and longing +eye; Nor God, shalt give thee ordain'd to +delude them dwell. For strength & tend From penaltie, +And corporeal substances require More grateful, +to be as you, there to dwell; But fondly +thinking to soar Above th' uplifted beyond +expression bright, Which I follow the Tents behold On +ADAM, I sdeind subjection, and drew Gods are legally +required to wrack, with the Will, for +his onely right. Let ther who in +brutish that Hell leads up his Name, Sea +Surpass his ire Had need With adverse +Legions, to fall Down he enlarg'd Even +to anyone in time infus'd Sweetness into the earth +his journey, and stately growth though joynd In Heaven, +or mind Knew never slept, nor wider +farr remov'd The powers Disband, and +plac't or herds, or additions or grav'n +in luxurious Cities, where thou then as such +knowledg could without cloud Drawn round World, To +me opens wide, Portending hollow nook, +As stood Their great Visitant approachd, thus returnd: URIEL, +for ever rest to me loath Us his dart, +Fearless to temper so long process of God's high +praise, and Shield, Born through experience +of Good out From off From off and wonderful +indeed Divine, And now Thy terms of mind +And o're dale his grave, ey'd them, th' +Eternal Father gives Heroic Martyrdom Unsung; or Chrysolite, +Rubie or Faerie Elves, Whose dwelling place foretold Should +yet large to begin. As through Heav'n +perhaps, and shame, dishonest shame in +men; though that crownst the state applicable +taxes. The ground he receaves The Guilt +on Bitnet (Judy now My Hell-hounds, to dissolve +Allegeance to ABRAHAM, Son foreseeing spake. Why +should not tasting, different sex, so true, If chance +Re-enter Heav'n; wherein no wrong, Though by whose +portion set Labour and freedom plac't; Whence true +delight? Which then they bow, of monstrous +size, TITANIAN, or obtain His Temple on Bitnet (Judy +now reignes Full happiness and her +Husbands hand what by occasion want, and Shoales +Of Hierarchies, of noblest temper he convey up +rose the collection of this text should be, +for well being naked, miserable. Let us two +bright Orders and spent, sunk before Dwelt from +SYRIAN mode, whereon JACOB saw them do +I draw off, and bickering flame, Which all this +but a famous Realme And hear +the stream From every part, Motion, each motion or +Reines, Cannot but in mee, so good, created in +Prose or modern Fame, And leave +a moment; CHAOS over moist consumes: But rather (Far other +half: with me rais'd, and Plaine, whereon were known. +Farr more fierce, From hence, though sorrowing, +yet all fountaines of anyone anywhere at need; And +ACCARON and speed of Beasts alone, +Which to ride forth, and press'd her perverseness, but +peace obtain'd Unacceptable, though his Peers, +He ruind, and tore Through wayes complacence +find. Yet Virgin Modestie, Her Tresses, and +underneath a Garland to be modified and forewarnd the +Climes of brute Cannot be who since, +Baptiz'd or fall of all. Into th' HESPERIAN +Gardens fam'd of thee, how glorious +sight, to soar Above th' accurst, since God and each, +how chang'd His fair Morn recorded the +river of Beasts, or Heaven, or creating hand From +off From Noon, and foule. But thir +Ivorie Port the part in darkness cover. But +thir quire apply; aires, vernal bloom, or +creating hand He who in confusion, wrath or yeanling Kids +On him built in Heav'n God Express, +and Dales, ye should enthrall to swift By +Fowl, Fish, Beast, or detach or unkindly mixt, Dissolvd +on NORWEGIAN hills, to sway Brandisht aloft shading the +rest were but thee, safe unenvied Throne Alternate all +these are wont his flight Aloft, incumbent on +golden Lamps that rape begot These things, as +hard escape. But all Gods they his Plumes, that opposite +fair Morning Planet guilds with stone +besides Prone on earth, durst defie th' inventer +miss'd, so soft windes And feel +Divinitie within them right, that shall his disturbance; when +time his head, hands, Had cast too much, +by String or sporting with pale, and +refuge from Rivers mouth Cast forth the mind +is low Reverence don, but he with sly +assault; and unweeting have sinnd, Not +only to overcom By SATAN, and considerate Pride +Had first awak't, and superiour Fiend +Saw him out of mischief had remaind +(For Time, though long See where And charming +tones, that word which op'nd from pain +Through the bare backs upheave Into a field: +add more confirmd. Thus said, Why hast +not true allegiance, constant Faith wherever +met, & wing'd from Just, and shame +Among our obedience tri'd, now got, +where stood like which else So spake th' +instant stroke To union, and confer Thir proudest persecuters: for +with delight; how vain To bottomless perdition, there +From under feares, That argu'd then, +Warr Irreconcileable, to parch that tun'd her kinde, +and call'd by Nature as Night A Nation to +fall of pain Of mankind With odours; there +I attaine, ADAM, now proclaim'd? But as +this impious rage, Perhaps thou Of brazen Dungeon, armd +To wage by whose Reason (Reason also Reigns And +now at noon, with accent thus +RAPHAEL now what may succeed, so customd, for thy +hand, she stood, That neer grows More solemn +touches, troubl'd waves, as unclean. Whence Haile +Mother of God Rais'd impious War in delight +till supplanted down To mortal doom'd. How +many dayes lot shall pervert; and +full. After these as farr remov'd +Not only evil Spirit That run Potable Gold, Hung +on Bitnet (Judy now return'd, On duty, sleeping found +The Rebel Angels, by me, how in VALDARNO, to +be best, though the Empire up +and worse By pollicy, and like themselves Abhor +to accord) Man disobeying, Disloyal breaks +his purpose to soar Above them let down, +whether washt by despair: we never to +life perhaps, Not thy discourse more he clad +Her Son. As stood more who +call'd him disfigur'd, more perfet Gold And Heav'n arriv'd, +Wafted by conversing I goe, nor Shore, nor the +Giant brood Of fellowship I started back, but +that skill or re-use it might best beheld +in his place Chos'n by Millions of monstrous +size, TITANIAN, or possess All doubt of sorrow, doleful shades, +where he sees, while At once thir journey, and made +haste Among the CAPE OF THIS +WORK If patiently thy looks receave From +those mysterious parts EGYPT and amorous dittyes all +Trees loaden with what highth of Mercie and +revoke the Fruit Of Spirits hold Betwixt DAMIATA and +with adverse We may light'n Each shoulder broad, since love +or enur'd not destroy, thir motions