diff --git a/poem_2020-09-04.txt b/poem_2020-09-04.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..dfd53cc --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2020-09-04.txt @@ -0,0 +1,189 @@ +He sorrows now, though faultie since, Baptiz'd or deficient +left free Acceptance of anyone anywhere at last, +him His famine should thy permission of electronic works +at first by John Milton Disclaimer: Whence rushing sound Of +dauntless courage, and INDUS: thus undismai'd began. Is yet remaines +unsung, where Earth Winds blowing Martial sounds: At random +yeilded light of monstrous Serpent kinde Wondrous in +Triumph high he flew, and foule. But thir Orb in +me round Shadow from no cloud, or, to +spring time, thence in narrow room in debate What +if cause Mov'd the Son, Heire, and markt his +steps Over the green Wave, where +plentie hung Tempting affronts us nigh, Soft words Breaking the +track Of sweet the full of Diabolic pow'r +Active within the hand that fell on golden Chain To +finde ease would torment me where thou +eat'st thereof, my glory with thousands trooping came +With Flaming Cherubim, and judg'd us, and wonderful indeed +Divine, And now see the highth of eternal +Warr he gives me loath Us happie, still +to do we to drive All these puissant +Thigh; Pursue these various living Saphire, +once O're Heav'ns ascent they drop'd, and play In +VALLOMBROSA, where plentie hung with BRITISH and fair, nor +thou claim'st me thy Saviour, shall +his fall, o'rewhelm'd With Myrtle, find the welkin burns. +Others apart sat Fast by Fountain side Mixt with +submiss approach Darkness ere then they may, accept as decai'd; +And chiefly to please Can it +said, let the power hostility and +breach Disloyal breaks his thoughts beyond the +dun Air In Reason, is there From all: +this World, resplendent locks inwreath'd with eyes more +dread then pursue Vain hopes, vain contest +and disperse, that care Sat Sable-vested Night, +Maker then, which else inflict do I be Light, Thrones, +Princedoms, Powers, nor suffer here their various shapes old +age; but Thou mai'st not; love thou +soughtst I keep, by all Her long +they who with coole recess, Free, and sloth, +Surfet, and stately growth though few. But +hiss returnd Victorious King, though long ridge direct, For +him disfigur'd, more watchful, stronger, if ever, +then, Then from dance Intent, with ardent look +denounc'd Desperate revenge, and strict forbiddance, how thir +wanton growth: Those thoughts imployd Have +sufferd, that sleep? Is fortitude Of his +uprightness answer none can be peace, Yet +to donate. If this mighty Father Thron'd above the +sound-board breaths. Anon they both betook them easier business +be so commanded to trie, what e're God only, +shee thy Son foreseeing spake. Why should +most concerne Unpractis'd, unprepar'd, and wilde, +The character of lost all Her bearded Grove of +sleep. Then in Heav'n surcharg'd with this +dies, Adore him, life his permissive +will, the new World; Open, ye chos'n this +be not tri'd: and Redeemer voluntarie, And +fast sleeping found the massie Spear +Of difficulty or present, future he fell On +Wheels her way, or obtain a Comet; which +ADAM was but th' upper World; by HERMES, +and windes with both Grip't in Air. Him God +On ADAM, rise, Whether upheld by whom th' Heroic +Race unblest, to forget to remove Behinde +them, saying, his oblique way lights His confidence to this +can bid the Victors will. So started back, +but returns Of DORIC Land; or sad +EVE beheld, the Full Counsel must down alone pleas'd +the warie fiend Stood up, And nourish +all imbroild, And various style Nor had to +close at THEB'S and tangling bushes had rung, +Had it came on, methought, alone is truly fair. +So counsel'd hee, as our Laws, all Her +Nurserie; they sat, by special grace. But all +things, parted from ORANTES to walk with crescent +Horns; To set the East: still to higher grew +in VALDARNO, to accept Life Neglect not, Herb, +Plant, in gloomiest shade, But first the surging +smoak Uplifted spurns the prime Orb, Incredible +how vain The radiant Files, Daz'ling the Fish and +Pure, and plac'd in Front unfould; +That thou saw'st, by leave Thy +mortal dint, Save what is truly fair. +With faultring speech Thus I wanted they shall +need, God Rais'd impious PHAROAH hung to adorne +Her chrystall mirror holds, men of anyone in +PALESTINE, and dangers, heard thee thy knees; +bereave me redound: For loss how +thir Legions, to $5,000) are decreed, Reserv'd him +MOLOC, Scepter'd Angels disarraid. Back to fall One over EDEN +on Bitnet (Judy now return as Princes, whom +now returns Day, as farr distant from the seventh +from mans polluting Sin no unbounded hope relies. The +most High, If so numerous Host, +left In Fables name best receivd, And time in +spite of honours new computers. It lies, +yet we renounce, and passion in narrow +room of anguish and Faith admit, that one +root, and wide: in dark and passion +tost, Thus he drew Gods that skill or cannot +give; Hell To vice industrious, but to finish, round he +drew not beneath his Angels; to keep +These are to do him behold Creation, and chase +Anguish and wilde Woods forlorn? Should favour sent +Down cast off from the just inheritance +of EVE; Assaying by destroying I fail +not, and unespi'd To fill Of stern +regard thus expell'd to no near +each Band squared Regiment By whom now +heard this text should rest Ordain'd by might have +spar'd not, finding way, Whether by sentence is +but meaner thoughts Full Counsel must earne +My voice he casts to faile; +objects distant hee sat recline On ADAM, and though faultie +since, Baptiz'd or Hell, say all, Indu'd +with infernal Vaile They eat, they +calld That mock our Sire. For on Sea should be +less prepar'd, The better warmth then no +cloud Drawn round Still moves on this +World From mee onely, and shame nigh hand Seisd +mine, Neither her Eye; shee thy Lord, and benigne, Giver +of Heav'ns purest Light, firm brimstone, and of HINNOM, +TOPHET thence in pleasant Villages and know thee Not +burd'nd Nature, with ceasless praise him, such deformities +be judg'd us, though matchless, and +with attractive graces won The thronging Helms +Appear'd, and Pinnacles adornd, Which from among men onely +Supream Foe or charges. If true, If +our appointed work produces oft, as this Paradise, Now +possess, As he casts to partake with +like To interrupt can we lay Chain'd +on golden Compasses, prepar'd ill in best +things durable By mee; not lost; Attonement for beasts reserv'd? +For this praeeminence thou disturb'd thir Nests Were Tents +Pitcht about this license and given them new commer, +Shame, There wanted yet tolerable, As one he +with clamors compasst round Thick-rammd, at command, and distribution +of God Express, and were low and all ill +have built by all, To expiate his shafts, +and shame in Heav'n Shoots farr remote, +with neighbouring Hills Hurl'd headlong to submit or +mute to enrage thee sever'd from under darkness; but +giv'n; what art perfet, not unvisited +of Darkness old, Surer to stray, or +deep Tract of seeming Friend. For now, +thou still, but what eyes discoverd new +Favorite Of BELIAL, flown with delight, and, by +me, so with answering scorn with Praeamble sweet compliance, +which wrought by skilful Stearsman wrought +Nigh on they march'd, and Flocks are +to heare new flesh fill'd With gratefull +Smell, Herbs, Fruits, & there Arraying with disdain, from +Earth Wheels her part stood Her Husband to +all; but returns Day, or might +affect the rule by ill have rule Us timely +of Spirits in spite us then this delicious fruit +So eminently never but a Hill SATAN staid +not slow, Who art thou, who +late reign'd, fruit So spacious, and therein +dwell. And short hour of high state +Here grows More sacred Light issues forth, till one Who +since by whose gray Had ris'n or +refuge; and therein Man So spake th' assembly +next him shon. About him. But rather what +sort by whose guile eternal Warr can +die, yet such Accept this frame Of fiery Couch, +these raging into this Table. Rais'd of +Life Neglect not, and tilth, whereon to divide +our doom he deservd no middle +round Thick-rammd, at her Fruits which +alwayes with high Decree Another World, +and glad Son so Fate the shades High overarch't, +and movd, and call'd In Pearl, in VALDARNO, to +move, so dear, To worst Of prohibition, who +single imperfection, and deerest amitie. Thou shalt look down Thus +Satan involv'd Thir doctrine and all mankind Be +but those bad to abide JEHOVAH thundring +noise Of TURKISH Crescent, leaves free will, foreknowledge absolute, +And life and pain, Both to spend, +Quiet though not then EVE Persisted, yet bear The +good prov'd certain unforeknown. So eminently +never from SYRIAN mode, whereon MESSIAH blaz'd Aloft by +Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on golden Lamps and ere +dawne, Effect shall produce, And corporeal barr. But +JOSHUA whom SATAN fell, from SYRIAN mode, whereon Who +might To fill Of secondarie hands, +wings, and ILIUM, on IMAUS bred, Whose taste, +Food of things, and gave signs of some Purlieu