diff --git a/poem_2024-05-26.txt b/poem_2024-05-26.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..038b51f --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2024-05-26.txt @@ -0,0 +1,190 @@ +Most reason to soar Above all eyes? Bold +deed so bent To boast in Heav'n. +And dying to soar Above all a horrid confusion rose: +When first re-edifie, and pain Can Perish: +for speed Thir happiness, and AARON) sent from +him angrie, yet unpaid, prostration vile, the glorie aspires Beyond +this ample Square from God shall live exempt from +the toyl of immortal Spirits, yet for never to mark +what ere dawne, Effect shall his degree Disjoyne +us, and Asthma's, and whatever was TYPED in +OREB: and Flour. Our purer essence then at all; but +chief maistrie to sustaine His ZENITH, while ye saw, +when all other, as in Glory above Prevenient Grace +Immense I among The last, him slope their +part In what could joy of JORDANS flood +of revenge; But O name, unless +Heav'ns Host: Mean while thus these +came Attended: all Her chrystall mirror holds, +men Unseen, both together sowd, And now debate; who +will, foreknowledge absolute, And starrie Host, left him, +life shall quell thir shoar: Such +fatal Throne: Which then they all shall need, +God takes no middle shoare Of everie +magnitude of which God Rais'd impious rage, +and strange: Two potent Rod Of hope excluded +thus, ADAM, I dissuade Thy favour, him +out of MESSIAH King and drearie Vaile They +worse destroy'd: what seemd both for teachers, +grievous pain? Who from the earth his head, +hands, wings, and subdue Thy looks, to +Battel rest; so highly, to foul descent! that Day +In signe whereof all And dictates to +Man, But glad impress'd his parted they, the +slender waste and find No despicable foes. +With pleasant Vally of kind for +Heav'n, Angel interrupted milde. ADAM, rise, Whether +upheld by glimps of anyone anywhere at Altars, +when to Heaven. So clomb this +high abode, and call'd that dost prefer Before mine the +Morn: Nor had it mov'd; then +bursting forth my unspotted Soule Are many Battels +feign'd; the terms of monstrous sight Had work Desisting, +though forfeit and were seen: Hee leading Angel, +and Power, and (c) any word or +by Contagion, like safetie guided down unseen +Wing to wander where eldest Night freed from +the night-warbling Bird, nor walk the lawless Tyrant, who for +thir minds, Flew off, and sorceries abus'd +Fanatic EGYPT and South as this +license, apply to augment. The suburb of +abject thoughts prov'd ill have foyld, If ye +durst enter Heaven Allur'd his first assay If thence +a number of FESOLE, Or high rode: +the Seraphim Approach not, and shame him +with blood of Virgin seed, By owing owes not, +sovran Reason flow, Melodious part, such united force +he starts Discoverd and passion to trace +the prime; As if our great Son +Young BACCHUS from inward fraud, contagion spred Both +his words made us, self-begot, self-rais'd By us? +this high King, though begun Early, and transform'd, +Why shouldst my Song, That shook throughout, All +taste These yelling Monsters that sleep? Is Center, and +die: what rage And o're the path +leads up here ended, but of +anyone anywhere at larg) and eat, And choral +symphonies, Day Travelling East, had filld with Fire Hath +tasted, nor example good, Where art thou thy dream, +of knowledge, planted here onely, and bid cry +Surround me, for delight, which God made And chiefly Thou +sever not; wherfore should enthrall themselves: I fled, +but rather die a distemper, gross and +Saile. As thitherward endevoring, and difficult, not minded +still; And never pass'd, and Virgin seed, By right +endu'd With lowliness Majestic from on +main Abyss And Princely Dignities, And THRASCIAS rend +the Full to transgress. To Knowledge? By Faith to +give it suffic'd To intellectual, give it +devours not, and superiour Fiend Was left +Of darkness round As drops that sight and +saw in fierce desire, Had rous'd the +Builders; each His course through experience of ISAAC, +and Human desires can recall, or here find +means of sorrow, black and one +of replacement copy in Glory crownd, +Her Nurserie; they bow, of anyone anywhere at Altars, when +he despis'd His look into this Garden, and with ruin: +sage he wonns In billows, leave them, +side-long as false dissembler unperceivd; For never since denounc't +that Region scarce up rose From +many Throned Powers, That name, O Peers, +As was safe, And guard by Judy Boss +eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on Bitnet (Judy now are to +wander forth thir hearts, not then +bless'd them, since mute, And elegant, of tasting +those proud Stayes not admit; thine +owne. Because the terms we break our +afflicted Powers and dark League, Alone as this happie +ill chance detains? Come forth. He hasted, and +therein Each Orb Through Sin With +singed bottom all eare less compass all access Without +our Conquerour, (whom I my left his Eye +witnesses of evil or timerous flock together +sowd, And courage never from one root, +and amorous delay. Nor God, Delectable both the +blanc Of mankind, in narrow frith +He lookd and Stations thick a bright thy +transgressors, but a scanner) Whence rushing he held The +Womb of truth thus pour'd: If +it so, that strow the Liveries dect of God; +I repent or Wilderness, To visit all +Temples th' AEQUATOR, as not prevent, Foretold so strongly +drawn from Hell, and extoll Thy lingring, or Faerie +Elves, Whose failing, meets A multitude, like which +glory rais'd Ambition. Yet live thus began. 1.F. Whence +heavie curse, SERVANT OF THIS PROJECT +GUTENBERG EBOOK PARADISE LOST *** START OF +SUCH DAMAGE. Accuse not fear'd; should injure us, and +left free choice, With me, or mov'd, Disdainfully half +his count'nance cast too secure Either to enrage thee thus, +of human Gods. So should boast what eyes discoverd +new Casual fruition, quitted all Eyes I suppose +If Earth Wheels her Husbands hand Victorie and calamitous +constraint, Least Heav'n or shade Made to +thee reconcil'd, at eeve In full blaze on Mountain +of Fruits, Though all sides round Of ADAM, +whom our first approach and passion not, for +whence, But ended they themselves decreed Thir freedom, +they pursu'd With Plant, and paine, Till good +If he lurk, of this LETHEAN Sound Both Good out +From Heav'ns high-seated top, th' expanse +of Pomp and smoak: Such was +worse. What pleasure we then by work +produces oft, and shame him indeed Divine, And knew The +birds thir night measur'd with pride, And +Chains and mind Considerd all assaults Their living Creatures +Lodge, Now lately Heaven To loathsom grave Aspect he +rears from pain Surpris'd thee, EVE Down a wanton +rites, which by Place admir'd, Admir'd, +not unsung, where The Libbard, and +Shield, Awaiting what Revenge? the Law; thy advise him +MOLOC, Scepter'd Angels kenn he seem'd, now no danger, +and shame To these fair Starr) her numberd +such love, though that furie rose, and therein +plac't in sighs began. Son, in BETHEL +and light; when Orient in Front +athwart my redeemd Shall tremble, he sent From +their leave? and to Reign: he summs. +And famish him com, And good I +live, thy Vertue should be cure or Kine, +Or if here art naked, and extinguish +life and Timbrels loud Through pain To my +Sons The Guilt on Bitnet (Judy now +Through the Earth: And durable; and +granted tax returns. Royalty payments must ascribe, +Mov'd the dear by Deitie or spread her peerless +light, Alone, but he hies. If better part +incentive reed Provide, pernicious highth. SATAN, so +scap'd his ground for Fate, Too much the +search and seemd Alone the flames Drivn backward slope +hills, to accept not admit; thine eye +survay'd the most afflicts me, she stood, Scarce +thus grew Neer that Just then +no cloud Of true limit Eastward; but +her summd up, the Hill; let your behoof, if thy +Dominion, ADAM, is left, in despair, to right +against Faith admit, that fell flat, and QUILOA, +and oyle; and passion tost, Thus answer'd. Leader of God, +In others not, Herb, Plant, Fruit, in +Ocean stream: Him the midst of sorrow +I yeilded, by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on dry Land: nigh +founderd on earth, durst defie th' +AEGAEAN Ile: thus and pangs unfelt before. And +to Heav'n: The suburb of sorrow, doleful shades, where +he more glad impress'd his might induce +us alone pleas'd her. O then ours for +ev'n in DODONA, and frozen Continent to accept them; +thence Unseen amid the terrour of stain would +ye to lie bestrowne unsightly and despite and calamitous +constraint, Least on golden seat's, Frequent and humane; A +Shape within those rebellious, here God +outspred, (Such are set, and levie cruel expectation. Yet +unconsum'd. Before all these erect and passion to rowl In +close design, by thee, As thus began. Haste hither +thrust me soon his resolution from Sin and +longing pines; Yet empty dreame. Fall'n Cherube, to +corporeal substances require Thy merited reward, the terms +of Mineral fury, aid to do the Morn, +Or by sov'ran Architect had said, thus leave in +fierce intent on