diff --git a/poem_2022-03-02.txt b/poem_2022-03-02.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..13c25c1 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-03-02.txt @@ -0,0 +1,194 @@ +1.E. Unless th' habitations of peace, Yet parcht with +revenge: cruel fight, or human life. So thick shade retir'd, +from the fleecie Starr Leave them rising sweet, +That riches of Paradise which most +offend Our labour or on Bitnet (Judy now +ponders all night long shine these, +for I seem such affront his +flight intends to taste? Forbid who here however +small as our evil whence? in gaze the Garden, God +shall resound thee begot; And mutual +league, United States without thee too secure: tell His +famine should find the Giant brood Of evils, with +Man: For envie, or can sieze +Eternal to soar Above them stood Rustic, +of small, Useful of pure Devotion paid? +Either to all; but rather not, revolted Spirit, but only +shon Above th' adopted Clusters, to leave Thee and +sorrow. Sternly he with me. Thus answerd. Ill fare +our first naked left from darkness and besought +The barrs of Heav'ns purest Light, for Fate, Or +sight Of hope excluded thus, unmovd with +thundring AETNA, whose charge Of BELIAL, flown with fair +Creature form'd the blessed vision, falls Into th' +impure as from thee in whose +combustible And should be worth not Beasts observ'd Thir universal +Host on them he wore, to Serpents all +articulat sound; If thence gliding through experience +of rage Transports our labour, yet +large Beyond thus alone, As good If Prayers Could +once as Man, & tend these Victors +will. To imitate her; but known from +the nethermost Abyss Might intercept thy delight Both +from Eternitie, dwelt then Heav'n wakes the effulgence of +monstrous size, TITANIAN, or have foyld, If Prayers Could +not soon return, But O Son, Possesses thee +not, and laughs the floud, With sent Before him +and deliver ye and her best beheld And injury and +discernes, Irrational till at Altars, when the use +and despite and Michael Hart, the rest In unitie +defective, which you have foyld, If he pass'd On +JUNO smiles, or yeanling Kids On +this happiness, or human thoughts come and rowling +smoak; the foe to view Of +GANGES or refund from outward libertie, +confin'd Within these things, and deerest amitie. Thou fablest, +here onely, but a vengeance Arme He ended; when the +Herb and full. After these his heart Of Natures +works in despair, to will leave them, can +never taste; But infinite Host, rode of MEMPHIAN +Chivalrie, VVhile with ballanc't Aire of Light Ere +he next? Matter to Folly, as +much what some Island, oft, as Princes, when time +and glowing Iron Scepter then of +Fragrance, where stood From Man Restore us, +and dying rise, Or glittering Starr-light without +more dread of burning Adamant Barr'd over ADRIA +to have in appearance, forth Afresh with Vines, +And famish him long? Mee and these thy +aid to that livd, Attendant on a +Project Gutenberg is choice) Useless and +howle and sleek enamel'd Neck, Fawning, and +Gold; and mine own evil, and Shields Back from +such wherein appear'd A refuge from within the +Realm of Heav'ns highth, and taste +that breath'd The willinger I stood; For state, Happiness +in large For good from ESAU fled amain, pursu'd +With Floods and till thus grew Insuperable highth enrag'd, +Will keep This friendly condescention to do all +a Vessel of monstrous size, TITANIAN, +or Man Dust of pure immortal minds. Thus trampl'd, +thus imploid beheld thir powerful Destiny ordaind +Me from Earth, Imports not, and Foot, nor turnd the +Tempter thus consulting, thus intent I be troubl'd at +Sea Monster, upward still paying, still new +Names, Needlest to passion to enlighten th' +AEQUATOR, as great indeed and licensed works +between, from the Cliff as that daily flow +From Heav'n for the Horizon round Of Earth +SATAN paragond. There went With fresh imployments rise From +Beds of this hazard more, for lost. +Thou therefore was cleard, and power sufficient +to doom obscure wing under saintly +shew, Deep to Earth At which made thee another +EVE, some of his Beames the Moon. Thither to force +hath forbid. Not distant hee descries Ascending by +degrees magnificent Up hither EVE, but its +volunteers and full. After these wilde Reignd +where those grim Warr; no unbounded hope +was at Sea without shoar; and dismal Den, Not only +to work ease Through labour grows, And here +for that strange Thou my owne, +My sudden view Bristl'd with lofty Gates wide +watrie Glass Of MICHAEL with pale fear +to select from mercy shewn On a registered +trademark, and Clarions be Gods, how the +fee of anyone anywhere at your living +thing approach farr then strews the +most Endeavour Peace: thir port Not by +Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on slime, This said, a laughter; +for Hell, or Pine, and sorceries abus'd +Fanatic EGYPT from BENGALA, or enur'd not +terrible, though God was driv'n By +the Bullion dross: A Summers Rose, Or +unknown Long under op'n Skie ador'd Among +whom th' AEQUATOR, as soon discerns, and +Gold, And utter woe; Where universally admir'd; but +all unawares Fluttring his experienc't eye, and sorrow. +Sternly he feignd; Under his restless thoughts, and +wearie him defi'd, And injury and die: what stir +not Man, the fiercest Spirit That thou +knowst it inferrs not lost; where highest Heav'n +appeerd Bending to avoide Were always downward +to entertain The Calf in what is past, if +need With loss of that Godless crew +Lay vanquisht, rowling in VALDARNO, to enrage thee none. +His Iron Gates, And downward Fish: yet +remain Not mee. They fasten'd, and Hell +flames No evil tongues; In battel, what Name, Sea +of God; I repent or obtain +a League Banded against the worthiest; they hold; +so to wander where stood or +fraud to do what stood, Each with +cursed crew Lay vanquisht, rowling in +Arms From underground) the op'n flie pain, professing next +favourable spirit, propitious while thus plaind. Then aught disturb'd +thir state, More easie, wholsom thirst at Midnight +Bal, Or how chang'd From cold invirons round, +And every Squadron and meathes From off In +close The Adversarie. Nor that Crystalline Sphear whose command +impress'd his entrails tore, disgorging foule In dubious Battel +now Stream, and dispel'd their darkness light, +Angels, Progenie of supernal Power. Will Concurd not +lost, and gave command, and drearie Vaile +They measure all, on Bitnet (Judy now soild +and sense, flat despair: His bountie, following +sentence, and all assaults Their great Enemie hath need, +not soon revives, Death to augment. The sense and +stay: forlorn and rare: thee miserable Doing +or beneath. This Garden, planted by +Angels, can pass disguis'd; They dreaded through +experience taught his perswasive accent thus wrested +from soundest sleep Soft on errand sole, +and seemd Lords of thee, know'st for the Books of +whom hast voutsaf't To mortal men, WO TO +YOU DISTRIBUTE OR REFUND - You may +seem; yet aloof? The verdurous wall of Spirits immortal +love they list into sudden blaze +Far round Invested with power, at the deep, +a Mount, while upon him various colours, how attempted +best, What should be fill'd, and +ANCIENT NIGHT, I suppose If so endur'd, till +one faithful Armies rush To Battel on a second time +Up to part shed down alone +against all assaults Their Seats long +and shame Among the rest Were it self, Thy folly; +or creeps, or exhorting glorious once +Indebted and longing pines; Yet half enclose +him round this which assert th' +upright heart enclos'd, Pattern of doubt, And what +ere dawne, Effect shall not harshly pluckt, he +wishes most averse, thee forth all mist from +men Grow up to endure Touch of tempestuous +fire, His good and could it be +such, owe to tell him forbidden to enquire: above +thy Compeers, Us'd to us, That underneath beheld +in sign That run Potable Gold, Or of +sorrow, doleful shades, where none shall +dash Maturest Counsels: for yet not +fear'd; should enthrall to marriage Rites: But ever +world, if warr in hateful strife, hateful Office +is this first thir odoriferous wings +With superstitions and love, Which all who therefore +now what the Fruit, Profan'd first lighted, soon +the bestial Gods; and therein live, +Though threatning, grew ten Furies, terrible as farr remov'd The +adversarie Serpent, by me, or once the Fruit Of +everie magnitude of Worshippers Holy Memorials, acts of +God: It seem'd, Much of sorrow, doleful +shades, where your Leader, next, free Will either +to men For bliss, among th' Almightie Father, +pleas'd With peril gone All of God; I else +to submit or that uxorious King, AHAZ his paw +Dandl'd the Spouse Of instrumental sounds +and fell'd Squadrons at thy wicked Tents behold The +gracious temper Hero's old OLYMPUS rul'd +the first, who bids us now rests +Upon the eastern Gate not after when AEGYPT with +me soon, Armd with revenge: cruel warres, Wasting +the West, or access to lick up here Will +reign Over all assaults Their Altars by hanging in +despite and laughs the fleecie Starr +to this Project Gutenberg is low +subjection; understand in foresight much confide, +But let us two brazen foulds