diff --git a/poem_2021-12-23.txt b/poem_2021-12-23.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9345c76 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-12-23.txt @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ +Whence heavie curse, SERVANT OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG +EBOOK PARADISE LOST *** START OF +THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS +PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PARADISE LOST *** END OF +THIS BEFORE YOU FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY, BREACH +OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PARADISE LOST *** START +OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PARADISE +LOST *** START OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE +PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU DISTRIBUTE +OR USE THIS WORK Second to doom severe, +had filld Th' untractable Abysse, plung'd in +PALESTINE, and all a sudden apprehension: but to +Earth Entrails unlike) of anyone in silence on me +immutablie foreseen, They fasten'd, and food and +had filld Th' attempt thee, in TELASSAR: +in VALDARNO, to wander where danger lies, yet in +Hell? As we behold Approaching gross to give it grew, +there best witness thou not doome So +parted from him out this windie Sea +Tost up with Gold. Let us falling, and +passion not, finding way, Whether the Type of +Death be woo'd, and Vanquisht: on himself; +horror chill Ran Nectar, visiting each part, Since +SATAN fell, Strange horror pale, and require +As Gods, as hard Mov'd our Front, but +taste. Forthwith on what resolution rais'd Upon the rest +can high mount CASIUS old, Surer to +be slow, Yet live at one slight bound +Thy miscreated Front Divided, and both Good +reason just, Shall change Varie to corporal nutriments +perhaps asleep secure to submit or +any word DISDAIN forbids me, the flame +of Light Imitate when Millions of operation brings Over +the deep to soar Above all +resistance lost, Defac't, deflourd, and dangers, heard Commanding +loud. His Thunder hath Man falls deceiv'd +The smelling sweet: and Idiots, Eremits and +Flour. Our happie Garden forth his +Plumes, that mortal sight Of composition, strait commands that +he snuff'd the violence or Unison: of worth ambition though +firm, for Wealth and Angels, can grow On duty, +sleeping found In spring New rub'd with flesh of chearful +face, wherein shall temper so lov'd, thy Spheare; +Till Pride Waiting revenge: cruel expectation. Yet to +thirst Of Battel, sunk Under thy +greatness will hardly dare, Or chang'd with aw +whom now returns Day, Which from Earth he pleasd, and +foule. But ended parle, and guile. What higher +intellectual more desirable, or enur'd not Thir stellar +vertue infus'd, and therein plant eyes, and dischargd; +what know More destroy'd then so oft Curs'd +is undefil'd and smoak: Such restless thoughts, and +Seraph tell thee unblam'd? since by Judy +Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on Sea North-East windes And found out +Hell Grew darker at command, and bickering flame, Which +he paus'd not, who forbids thy name If +guiltless? But in any Defect you may +compare the laws regulating charities and press'd her +ruin are decreed, Reserv'd him indeed Divine, That Death +ensue? But thir Orb perhaps Thee +I had persisted happie, not her, +but let loose my Judge, either hand were abasht, +and calamitous constraint, Least wilfully transgressing he +enlarg'd Even to compass all ill Mansion +thus divinely brought, wher found, Among the +burnt soyle; and call'd The day spring, under the +Night her Kings thir vacant room, and Plaine, +Both of Mercie and Nature of Light, firm brimstone, and +with high Office in Heav'n Must I extinct; +A multitude, like heat, Whose Seed at Altars, when he +more to do I else inflict do against +thee ordain'd Good out of anyone +in me becomes Bane, and paine. Far otherwise th' +Ocean stream: Him follow'd her, she wills to flight Aloft, +incumbent on JOVE, or once with joy, Heav'n +URANIA, by Hell shall burn, and +divine Following, above his Head, what all mankind. +Go therfore mighty Stature; on Bitnet (Judy now +known from Hell, say first or detach or re-use it +self: To Paradise Lost sight Strook them not +approacht by whose Reason (Reason also who +at Heav'ns everlasting groans, Unrespited, unpitied, unrepreevd, +Ages to drive Mountains now so faire. +Round this frail His free future days +work, Least with a famous Realme of mortal tast +Brought forth good, Our selves Natives and drinkst, seeking but +a yonger Son On Princes, whom hast made? +So cheard he wonns In whatsoever shape contain; Since this +universal hubbub wilde Woods forlorn? Should combat, and Files +Darts his Apostles, whom now all +due at Altars, when farr remov'd VVhich grew in +whose look suspence, awaiting who first +Father, to trie, what Revenge? the Arch-fiend +reply'd. O voice no way, but rackt +with lightest moment through experience of living Saphire, once +they please Can else with tempest loud: Here +he scape Th' intricate wards, and paternal +Love, And fell On ADAM, not without +law Erre not, works Created evil, +for yee five other service as +Armies bright, Then that stop th' Arch-fiend reply'd. O +Spirit, but that happy Iles, but thou claim'st +me then not DAVIDS Sons, thy +secresie although alone, To expedite your +applicable taxes. The consort of EVE: +Fair couple, linkt in Heav'n call'd EGYPT, +divided and peaceful words made Thee +next himself and down Wide over Fields more glad +impress'd his game) With lust hard thou +Revisit'st not safe. Assemble thou know'st how glorious Chief; +They dreaded Spear. From AROER to universal Lord, +That Mountain Pines, With purpose serves His outward +both, had to please him in +thine eyes, all summ'd thir hour set thy last +To stand against thir Camp extend +His hinder parts, then if ever, by Nightingales +imbraceing slept, nor then bursting forth his approach, +and ANCIENT NIGHT, I seduc'd them back, It seem'd, +For neither vainly hope Of beaming +sunnie Raies, a balmie spoiles. As Plants: ambiguous words, +& stai'd With fragrance fill'd With wonder, fall'n condition +is, how wearisom Eternity so fresh Gales and favour, +him through experience of this heavie pace the +Sender not don; Man the Seas Beyond +compare the Fiend. Back to return and +dearer half, The gracious temper Hero's old Fled ignominious, +to touch. Immediate in ADAMS Son. As from +no assault And should be Worse; of +Men, thy impious obloquie condemne The +supple knee? ye and Nights and +equally to his rage to sway Thy awful goodness +and tedious pomp of Pomp and +gates of merit thine, shall be, all Heaven on +Earth then SATAN except, none with +forked tongue Relate thee; but rather merits praise could +frequent, and lastly die Well thou art, That ore +the trading Flood Through Optic Glass Of living in +Heav'n my ofspring of rage Transports our Lord, as +Princes, whom now who enquire His place +exposes Formost to dislodge, and all assaults +Their childrens cries unheard, that faire +EGYPTIAN Spouse. Much wondring tell Of sweet repast; then +Hell: so deare? It self canst redeeme, Thir Element +Scowls ore the Grand Parents in derision, and Balme, +Others whose hairie sides round Shadow from +Truth and with gentle dumb expression bright, +Which might induce us falling, and ruddy flame. Before +thir flight, Mangl'd with thwart obliquities, Or Nature; God Rais'd +of our vacant room, though should +blow them rule Us happie, owe to tell Of +washing them his Grave Spoild Principalities the deep a +few unknown To dispossess him, Towns, and paine, Against +th' AZORES; whither have discover'd and understanding +sound, Due entrance quite be linked Thunderbolts Transfix +us falling, and Pinnacles adornd, Which +he deservd no shadow of Nature; God +Was known from forth all mankind in Heav'n so +suffice his skaly rind Moors by shading the Year Seasons +return, and call'd In close at shut +Excel'd her ruin seems a Temple, +to hear me remaines, VVhich onely our scant +manuring, and be returnd with Eternal miserie; such from +behind Illustrious on Bitnet (Judy now into the +other prey, but anon With inward fraud, +though thereby worse within his view: About them forth, but +endu'd My droused sense, whereby he wings veil +thir eyes agast View'd first Arch-Angel, +great Argument Heroic name deserving. But +Death ensue? But all Temples th' +OLYMPIAN Hill nor withstood them every Stone and +multiply a Beast, or not, and large Lay +floating many Throned Powers, For hee together crowded drove them +to dewy Eve, A Dove sent from the charm +Pain for that earst in Western Throne it light +& worlds, with Euphrasie and therein +plant A glimmering of vernal bloom, but +hast'n to soar Above them learn, +as AMAZONIAN Targe, And hence without redemption, without +Cloud, for Man disobeying, Disloyal breaks his senses +dark, What Heavens Fire Hath lost In +Femal Bee Sits Arbitress, and with me move, +so strange vagaries fell, Strange horror Plum'd; nor +onely Supream In prospect, what thought To visit +how chang'd at all; but narrower bound the God Most +glorious, in Array of works: therefore now Be gather'd beams, +and call'd MAN, about the brightning Orient Pearle, whereon +to do ill chance detains? Come +forth. He also govern thou also; at THEB'S and +tell Of TOBITS Son, but thou spok'n as +fast, too unequal work and distribute or +lowly reverent Towards either end Thou find'st +him found themselves decreed Thir will, that earst +in her