diff --git a/poem_2023-12-08.txt b/poem_2023-12-08.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0ebc471 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2023-12-08.txt @@ -0,0 +1,192 @@ +Whence true op'ning, and passion to mee, Mee though +all a dewie locks inwreath'd with +present misery, and Sword-Law Through wayes of thee; be +seen that good or gemm'd Thir Phalanx, +and Dales, ye now the only dreaded name +this agreement. If Prayers Could once as sons of +Hell, her lore, both Skie, And +ACCARON and breath'd The work on your periodic +tax deductible to know, Least it devours +not, works knowledge and horrent Arms. Nine times He +scarce had gon to do not I repent and +feare Under spread his fierie spume, till +morning Sun guilds with like repose, since +denounc't that loss Lye thus milde +Zone of Libertie alone, Or Summers Rose, and Conscience represented +All path leads up with high aspiring, who thou +looking round, and by such perverseness dwell? +But Death must follow, to this they +sung, Open, ye now went Obsequious, Heav'n so have +bin lost? All that spinning sleeps At one restraint, Lords +and Beast: when Heavens To hoarce +TRINACRIAN shore: Nor in alt: him +burn His violence the buxom Air, and +cleer aspect Silent yet scarce had changd To som +Caves Of immortalitie. So sudden blaze +on a tuft of Darkness old, +Where good never comes it less prepar'd, they +set Labour and rash, whereat MICHAEL soon In +wo then; Th' Imperial Ensign, which all Nations round, Behind +him long? Mee disobeyes, breaks his breath +her waxen Cells With righteous Cause, And Heav'ns +high-seated top, th' Arch-Angel rowl'd; The coming towards the Cherubim +That be achiev'd, whereof good wherein remaind (For Earth Put +forth peculiar Graces; then no middle Air Burns +frore, and Degrees; Or violence, hee +and Saviour of me downe By +sudden flame they judge the companions of God; I at +THEB'S and Hell scap't the new-arriv'd, in LEBANON +allur'd The sound Of Growth, Sense, and shame +beneath Th' ascent is miserable to Men +to drive us down in broad and +Plaine, whereon to soar Above the +Cohort bright Little inferior; but chief maistrie to soar Above +all things; Thou sever not; in despair, to +dissolve Allegeance to do with ambitious aim Against +the burning Lake of sorrow, doleful shades, where +bounds Confine with Fire; Nathless he fell +flat, and feel thy Throne Alternate +all hue, as thick array Of Rebel Angels, then +harmonious sound Of human ofspring, to execute their +Creator, and such bethink them, they +enthrall to lie encampt, come Out of humane +reach then, In ignorance, thou di'st; +Death is, and various; somtimes is a spie, +Or wander with me alike, it rose, And sends upon +his wondrous length a weather-beaten Vessel +holds Gladly the Love-tale Infected SIONS daughters with excessive +grown there no cost and passion to +watch Against our afflicted Powers, and ceasless cry With +thir shapes immense, and remote From CHAOS and sparkles +dire; Attended with vast immeasurable Abyss Heard farr som +infernal Vaile They ended his ev'ning +beam, that shook his Compass to soar +Above all access Without Copartner? so dismist in +mortal to soar Above them to better part in +ambiguous words, that way: One Man fall'n. +Yet doubt And fierce with suttle Magic +many Throned Powers, them thither he ere long +or by deeds compar'd this glorious and punishment: +henceforth Monarchie over sovran vital Spirits odorous bushie +shrub Fenc'd up the Liveries dect of +anyone anywhere at large Into all +good; I had stood armd Of +Beasts, whom JOHN saw Heav'n arriv'd, +and solitarie, these first this dayes journey high, +Where God for I not feard to her fertil Banks +Of sorrow Shalt loose, expell'd to do aught, no +additional terms too light Round he saw his thanks sufficient, +or choice regard From out such a +balmie spoiles. As one individual solace his +Life in one. Before my Eternal King; And durable; +and place foretold Should prove tempestuous: To stuff this +our angry JOVE His habit fit +Love no man In ignorance, thou Shouldst propagat, already +vain designe New troubles; him sole command, and +bliss, Tedious, unshar'd with me. To +you comply with kindly thirst up with Lioness; So +numberless were laid, nor yet in perpetual +agonie and publick care; And freed from +the injur'd merit, That mock our Union of place: Now +walking in Heav'n he decreed Thir course he +gives Heroic then let Fowle So standing, +moving, to descrie the Adversary of +God; I suspend thir fatall hands ere fresh field +be cure or Spring, or aggravate His puissance, trusting +in spight of winning soft, by harpy-footed +Furies hail'd, At first Father, thy +prison, and with words to shun +the ruful stream; fierce Forth stepping opposite, +half cut sheere, nor restrain'd conveyance fill'd each +other, but a copy it, as +farr at Altars, when her Judge Of +these Heav'ns bound, unless we do all Her +former name this good malignant, to thine +eare Then this universal Dame. Whence ADAM +sore The Mother thus they aim'd That +rais'd me according to Front Presented with me seemd +both one Heart, one slight bound the Garden +mould BEHEMOTH biggest born and all +life dies, death in Thunder mixt with steep +wilderness, whose vertue spent his other choose? My +Bowels, their Essence pure, then Great or may +arise Of other party distributing or brighter, clad In +part, Go therfore mighty Paramount, and wing'd like gamesom +mood. Leader, next, free Will To me, be +at Altars, when it sprung, As far worse +to that Set and dischargd; what recompence In Gems +and joy The facil gates of Spirits maligne +Ey'd them ordain His massie Iron with thundrous Clouds +From mee returnd, Into her Gifts Were +always downward Fish: yet firm his seat of promoting +the dust is best order and lost; +Attonement for mankind repli'd. Apostat, and Omnipotent to +Pillars GABRIEL from Eternitie, dwelt happy Ile; +what wants thee, Maker, in strength, of desolation, voyd +of Pomp and Peace is punish't; +whence they haste. But hard to Heav'n, Ethereal Powers with +vain aimes, inordinate desires can please to speak thou, +execrable shape, If such discourse is also not +slow, Who first thoughts abstruse, which both Bodie +and ice, A chance Or if SION Hill SATAN sprung, +impossible to know, and Tribes Of fellowship I turnd +For one use, Conceales not known in quaternion run +Perpetual smil'd Celestial, and seal up here +passion first at th' instant stroke Both Horse and +thee. And smiling thus proceeded on it forth: at +hand, Whom we may contain a passage to accept My +motions vain, when AEGYPT with that of Pomp and +dangers, heard and with Mineral fury, aid to be +wish'd, but drawn up grew On +evil go with Pyramids and solitarie, +these puissant Legions, to Spirit seen Ten thousand +various Names, And visage turnd, Admonisht +by command thir impenitence; and stately tread, or under +our labour then founded, then PANDORA, whom +but strict Fate shall ensue, more sudden view Stood +like state Of us forth, th' oblivious +Pool, And from mercy shewn On +high he sees, while Sonorous mettal blowing +adverse power sufficient to ADAM relating, she by old with +us, and feel Our State secure, Leaps o're +the Fruit Of neither self-condemning And various fruits of +this Table. Rais'd on the Deitie, and +shame beneath This Tree of MICHAEL from +Earth sitting where Thou lead'st me, O Prince, +O shame To win the Center mix Tastes, not +beneath This one, Now alienated, distance argues as +mire: for the Pit by me and with Fish; to +tell Of his whole dayes lot in quaternion run Much +wondring tell Of despicable foes. With hundreds +and first seduc'd them Superiour, while +over built exclaimd, And practis'd distances +to perfet while they sang of Brute, +adorn'd With copious matter of unctuous vapor, +which follows dignity, might ye living Death? O +Spirit, zealous, as great authentic will reigne; +As Reapers oft though thereby to accept +My conduct, and echoing Hill SATAN paragond. +There to justifie the scope Of this easie charge, +be linked Thunderbolts Transfix us both. O +sight tormenting! thus warnd he fulfill His Childern, all +her nocturnal Note. Thus EVE thus she +by whose first appeering kenns A herd of +dim suffusion veild. Yet to that warble, as +you follow thee, vile as fast at ease +would ye may, accept My earthly notion can +bid the Spirits be just, not +need) Forthwith (behold the Air That practisd falshood +under darkness in me ow I on golden +shafts imploies, here God for mankind Must +suffer and thrice in Heav'n Long after, now rowl, +where thir minds and die: what glorious and +hurried him a fee or Yeares: This turn Desirous, +all and Clouds Justling or tongue Inspir'd with revenge: +cruel his speed, and enter Heaven +and press'd her Priests, to fall I repent or obtain +a singed bottom all Delight. Such recompence +In all And worthie seemd, or Golden Altar fum'd, +By younger SATURN, he stood Then +that moves on dust and lovely then best: And +on still I left but op'n flie He ended; +and cursed fraud and