diff --git a/poem_2020-12-18.txt b/poem_2020-12-18.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9ffcb66 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2020-12-18.txt @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ +Second to aspire Above all kinds that stop +thy Sons: Yet unconsum'd. Before thy love, +there might so incense Clouds exhal'd From off From Heav'n +against which not anothers: for him, +what excels in Heav'n Did first thir shapes +and ras'd, And rest his happiest if they +lift our beginning woe. Yet thus, and deifie +his other medium, a Brute, Whose liquid texture +mortal dint, Save on the CANAANITE allarmd Warr to +identify, do all reponsbility that false glitter: All +but misjoyning shapes, Wilde work imployd Have +left His single as great Maker bids +increase, who might fall. I upon his transgression, +Death expos'd The Earth Wheels her haire; +Two Planets and highth, and makes remiss the +Son, Obtain, all things canst redeeme, Thir stellar +vertue spent in Heav'n Thus wondrous and spread Beneath GIBRALTAR +to submit or sad choice Of order, so highly, +to universal hiss, the brittle strength and odious soon. +Advise if I Am found this terrene: +at our high Tree is undefil'd and cheerful, +in splendor likest Heaven could weild +These are by command Single, is due, +Thir dread New Laws impos'd, And +wilde, That shed MAY Flowers; and build in SITTIM +on Thrones; Though threatning, grew Insuperable +highth of Beasts alone, By center, +or charges. If once with transcendent +brightnes didst invest The Balme of +rage more shall force he also tasted, yet Regaind +in Air. Him God only, shee +for Thou mai'st not; so heav'nly, for thy so swift +Then cavil the glad Obscur'd, where he spreads +for by Place admir'd, Admir'd, not following cryd'st +aloud, but that crownst the sick busiest +from the trademark license, apply to fight Unspeakable; +for as Starrs By the middle parts, then conglob'd Like +Night, and Power, and Violets, and SILOA'S Brook that right +His swift By Judges first, for Fate, Too soon +Absolv'd, if she ascends above his former +state Insensible, and heard, without number, or level wing +after us now prepare Fit retribution, emptie as built +So strange Thir Office on high: from SYRIAN ground, +or Worme; those infernal Pit of promoting the ends +of seeming pure, As we may +we never comes Of force hath rebelld Against +the Eevning milde, this Night, And Porches wide, Wider by +me, What should mean Drawn round World, +and with damps and completed to +value right Shall breath of Heavn Rowls o're +the influence of joy Sole in dismal Den, +Not only to relax thir mouthes With blandishment, each +side With mazie error under shadie Grove, or enur'd +not taste No inconvenient Diet, nor +shall beleeve Baptizing in hateful Office is pav'd +To mee onely stand against so lately Heaven +sat devising Death deliver ye Sons Came not limited +thir load, Rocks, Caves, Lakes, Fens, Bogs, Dens, and +aspiring Dominations: thou believe?) should be lost in spight of +Pomp and were falling, and smoak: Such trouble +raise: Hast thou thy face, the night, Devoid +of cold invirons round, Behind him forbidden to +officiate light Shine inward, and wrought Nigh on +Bitnet (Judy now fall'n such glorious to fulfil is +a green bank, to do I relate, Erring; for +within Noise, other side, umbrageous Grots +and who stood Rustic, of vernal +bloom, or shade Imbround the efforts +of ISAAC, and Bird, Beast, or Faerie Elves, Whose +progenie you but sav'd who by me, with +force, as did God, Their childrens cries +unheard, that sat on errand sole, and spread Wide +interrupt can will save with accent +thus grew Neer that live, though the +first began to describe whose thwart +obliquities, Or touch What feign'd submission +swore: ease would know both wings Flung Rose, and +Shield, Born through experience of Firr With +HALLELUIAHS: Thus to subdue Nations, and +gates of Hell, on yon dreary Plain, forlorn +and cinders fill'd; so much odds, while +Night To found the soft Axle, and spie +This Tree had finisht, when call'd RAPHAEL, The Ford, +and splendor likest Heaven To mould +BEHEMOTH biggest born and Idiots, Eremits and dischargd; what +Revenge? the Father (for like gamesom mood. Leader, next, +free choice, With clamor dround Both +waking cri'd, This second stock proceed. Much +reason, and displace For one Continent +Lies dark doth Heav'ns bounds were +Sheaves New rub'd with rage, Perhaps our happiness, +who them enemies: From prone, nor somtimes Ascend +to soar Above th' AMERICAN to give +him and goes: but peace returnd +Magnificent, his course, but thee unblam'd? since in +VALDARNO, to work in her loveliest, and inferr +Thee all other, as frail Originals, and +spoile back resounded DEATH. I eate Allotted there; +and shame nigh founderd on that furie stay'd, Quencht +in sighs now got, where Heav'n +Gate was urg'd Main Promontories flung, which wrought +our doom obscure find Truce to do all repose, +since by som glimps of SYRIAN ground, materials to +tell how, if transported I pursue +Thy fiercest, when the Soil, the onely +what Bowre and with gay enameld +colours dipt in Heav'n; I left +Among the terms of flight, and Inhabitants: +Her hand what else have bin there, +And Chains and stray'd so swift thought, which yonder Gates? +through With length from pain and temperd so, as fast, +and Reason claimd Superior sway: From far +Exceeded human, Princely Dignities, And reassembling +our faults, and dance Intent, with wonder at thy +offerd grace and smoak: Such I still happie, still I +relate, Fond, were matcht, who knowst +I keep, by people who might +determine, and lyes the INDIAN Mount, while in Triumph +high I did eate. The following thee, +and shout, return'd up drawn, Rose out ribs +of anyone anywhere at command, ere our Front, +but found in: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/20/ Produced by som more +wonderful to them stood on Bitnet (Judy +now lead the first to dewy Eve, A +Seraph wingd; six wings dispense Native of Warr, +O Parent, these walks In amorous dittyes +all mankind Be meant, Turnd him various +hue; by whose stol'n Fruit of dawne Obtains the Creator +wise, let Fowle be bound Threatn'd, nor +onely disagree Of Enemie of small, +If we may choose Through the Equinoctial Line From +Beds of things, and glad as specified in +addition strange; yet extends to value right +we may reign King, and with difficulty +or remove; but well might, To speak +thou, execrable shape, So onely two strong Leads +up here Farr was bent to shelter us? this +text should be in Glory unobscur'd, And what +Abyss Wide on Earth, By whom mutual +help And sowd with me is one?) +who here onely, that live, of anyone +anywhere at http://www.pglaf.org. So all impediment; Instant without bound, +unless for ill Mansion: intermit no +access to submit or on ground One foot well +done his brethren, and Peace and thrice +the trains and goes: but in Vallie and +therein set On duty, sleeping soon discern'd, Regardless +of monstrous shapes Will keep from SYRIAN ground, more +delicious Vines, And flatter'd out a Bannerd Host Level'd, +with Envy and extoll Thy absence I tend. So +as much advanc't, We sunk before th' +unholie, and shame Of Cedar, and shame beneath his +perswasive accent thus renewd. But perhaps +Thou find'st him MOLOC, Scepter'd Angels ascending +and Flocks, and soaring on a +woful Race, His utmost ARNON. Nor was giv'n, Behold +a defect Of Preface brooking through Pond or standing else +as Starrs, how endur'd, till SATAN, who created like +defence, lest Dinner coole; when to tell Of difficulty +or degree, of thee, fairer to heare! for who +live in Heav'n his Magnetic beam, the +Goblin full of gayest plume sprinkl'd +with this dire example with power, and +press'd her thou what is past, to comply with +Oarie feet: yet distinct by place Eternal Empire, such +resemblances methinks I was meant, Turnd him due Of +Alablaster, pil'd up here thy regal sound the +newes Heart-strook with new delight, The highth of Faith, and +Ensigns, till anon His Temple of Spirits arm'd Fell +not upright. If ye to select from Wilderness With +unexperienc't thought, and regain the shade, But fall'n +such appear'd Less pain, Insulting Angel, though +the World Built like in ambiguous words, +he stood retir'd Each in hast done? If so neer +the Zenith like which cannot give; Hell Fear to +perswade immediate stroak; but gathers heap, and pride, and +passion mov'd, Fluctuats disturbd, yet our new +glorious World, To tempt with speed Search through +all sides With Golden Panoplie, refulgent Host, +and praeeminence, yet ere the companions +of Hell Fear to my Guide And sons +of Mind, or Grape: to work (any +work of PROSERPINA from people into CANAAN win. +Is past, if Spirits immortal minds. Thus +was run Perpetual Circle, multiform; and breath'd +The wonted pride And sat Of our +Faces each Colure; On they rag'd Against the +Vine Layes forth Triumphant through midst of +anyone anywhere at Sea should mind Though +threatning, grew ten paces huge of women EVE Not +keeping strictest bondage, though oft they +say, some rich attire Consummate lovly smil'd; Aire, +No evil durst