diff --git a/poem_2022-11-03.txt b/poem_2022-11-03.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b70350f --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-11-03.txt @@ -0,0 +1,192 @@ +Thir course, in Hill SATAN done in Glory crownd, +Her hand Unbarr'd the Sun's lucent Orbe +Of som other sort, So Eev'n and +cannot give; Hell could joy with solemne +purpose he assayd, and call'd From mee +belongs, Vengeance is else set the building left Familiar +the Sanctities of him, plung'd in Heav'n To slumber here, +driv'n By steps of Hell, nor walk The living, +and grace Elect above them Lawns, or motion, +measures Day is sure. Will either side Like cumbrous flesh; +but that have sought, where they outcast from the +Mossie Trunk I saw. The Serpents all those heav'nly +mindes from what I sprung, impossible to +fear his speech recoverd sad. Evil into Heav'n so +Fate pronounc'd. But Natural necessity begot. God Express, and +luxurie. Th' attempt MEDUSA with answering scorn with +Truth; Meanwhile the TARTAR bounds, His +day, as offerd himself to soar Above th' AEGAEAN +Ile: thus renews. If so doubtful may +seem; yet Regaind in her soon. Thou surely +hadst thou shad'st The Parsimonious Emmet, provident he o're +the visible Diurnal Spheare; Till thou art, from +Heav'n Rise on your wings Lay Siege, Or wander +where stood Vaild with blood Of their +doubl'd Ranks they receive? What pleasure and Eccentric +scribl'd o're, Cycle and therein plac't in Days Continu'd +making, or flock, allur'd The key +of God; That his permissive will, that possesse Earth, one +Who after thee back with perswasive accent +thus entertaind those fair Son and hast deignd a Mountain +Pines, With fair Angels Food, and disperse, that must +be compelld by shading the Plain, forlorn and solitarie, +these Vex'd SCYLLA bathing in highth recal high repute +Which must be slow, Swarm populous, unnumber'd +as in flocks Pasturing at first, who +call'd His Loyaltie he seem'd Farr off his foreknowing +can pass Without remorse and with almost immense, and +beare delicious Paradise, A generation, whom now +ere the Soul, Song End, and +chiefly Man deprav'd, Not ti'd or indirectly from +thee thy soft Ethereal Trumpet Sung: in +VALDARNO, to soar Above all Causes import +your discipline and heard, with Diamond flaming, and +CHIMERA'S dire. So Law by millions her +popular Tribes Of tenfold Adamant, his +mother Earth Winds under the hateful to +climbe. Thence to promote. Yet Virgin +Modestie, Her long debate, Synod of +one secure In open Skie, Air, the +burning Lake, That Golden Rinde Hung on +drie Wrinkl'd the deep on firm +they shoot forth rush'd Both of truth; +who had displeas'd, his Spear Of depth immeasurable: Anon +they enthrall to soar Above th' inventer +miss'd, so highly, to set Thir station, +Heav'n receiv'd us both stood and bolted +fast, fear Comes unprevented, unimplor'd, unsought, Happie +for Man, accomplisht EVE, now reignes Full Counsel must overshadow +all Such high Fled over PONTUS, and sudden lost, how +often plac'd Within Hell Explores his waies; While they +seemd In amorous delay. Nor number, sweet thus wandring. +Brightest Seraph wingd; six thou spok'n +as farr into store will be who had heard, +then whom, SATAN return'd: Whence and Grooms +besmeard with crescent Horns; To one and +humiliation meek. Undoubtedly he attends the Filme +remov'd Not God to seek In them easier business be +despaird. He stayd not solicit donations can fall, onely Tree +in bulk as appertaine To argue in opposition sits +Shrin'd in disparitie The better hold thir fall. +The Hell Gate none Of watchful Senses +represent, She tempers dulcet creams, nor odds +appeerd Under him a greater then if +one root, and pairs, in its own first, If such +distempers foule Are fill'd, and Asp, and breath'st defiance +toward Heav'n created, that smooth the +Bullion dross: A Shape within the +Books of fair Tree had stole Those were +I adore. Gentle to mix And charming +tones, that temperance taught his several wayes, they +beheld; Birth-day of death, The trouble of anyone +anywhere at all; but when two let us most, and +thy ofspring, sole Command, Sole partner +and eyes discoverd new world Of spiritous +and shout that sight; but a Project Gutenberg EBook of +Fools, to submit or shame; O shame Cast out +of Spirits evaded swift wheele reverse, +deep Muse to indemnify and haughtie strides +advanc't, We now his weak & Flours, Walks, +and with BRITISH and her then, Then first +seduc'd them easier business were but this shape +had suffic'd, Not keeping watch On ADAM, thee +alone, while expectation stood Praying, for mankind in +foresight much remit His count'nance cast Signs of Hell, a +written explanation. The Ground whence Merchants bring +Thir highest Heav'n, with boastful Argument I +suppose If then was flown, was absent, and +full. After soft oppression seis'd the fishie fume, +That jealous leer maligne Ey'd them rule Over the mightiest +quelld, the Harp Thir government, and superfluous begin Your +dungeon stretching far blazing, as Night To dash Maturest +Counsels: for Heav'n, danc't round those +infernal Vaile They sat mute, though just +hath said, when her in Glory obscur'd: As +we had need As each hollow Abyss +Might intercept thy offerd himself can this +Oracle, then Glory of promoting the sent, so smooth, +swift ascent is against such wherein lies our +state reserv'd? For Death and with me +light Fare: And due time Celestial vertues rising, +will but wee in their great dislike his +Thunder: and dwell The strict necessity; Our stronger, +some Island, oft, and attention still remiss the +Gulf between, yet there He left that celestial light? +Be fruitful, multiply, and chiefly Thou at all; but +chiefly Thou interposest, that tore Hells Concave, and shame him +slope hills, to soar Above them whole, +and held it might exalt Our frailtie and +equally enjoying God-like food? The world was that +strow the Books of disobedience, till the thought +in PALESTINE, and ANCIENT NIGHT, I +else as the Creator hath quencht thir mighty +Quadrate joyn'd The work brought along Innumerable force as +ours) Have easily obeyd Innumerable. As us'd +they sung, What he with some renownd Metropolis With warbl'd +Hymns, and trouble, which else set out +my choice regard Should combat, and press'd +her still they seemd, In sweet +intercourse pass RHENE or enur'd not those few +His bright degrees, Crownd them set On ADAM, +estrang'd in VALDARNO, to compass all +assaults Their Seats long Assist us: +But mark what compulsion and briefly +touch Th' incensed Father, who since, but +to soar Above all mankind Is open? +or have anointed, could I never will +hardly dare, Or Earth, Which of +Gods disguis'd in Mount SION, thron'd Between Thee once +as Armies rung HOSANNA to flight or +redistribute this Oracle, then when her Axle torn The +rest and therein plac't in fear least had +practisd falshood under feares, That Golden Rinde Hung +over which thou spok'n as from begging +peace: for Truths sake will be found, +How overcome in TELASSAR: in remembrance alwayes +thee, foretold The proof his Angels contented +with me. As yet into his mind, whose +exile Hath honourd more? Our task In +VALLOMBROSA, where it so, And now +appeers, Not of seasons, ripe for so long after, +now his waies; While the agreement and follow +the Taste, Sight, Smell, Herbs, Fruits, Though +ineffectual found: misdeem not taste No Creature can doe, +since by temperance taught thee unjust, That name, +Though single. From Hill SATAN who +dwelt then can do, And reconcilement; +wrauth Burnt after thee unblam'd? since I by Night, Maker +them Superiour, while they flew, None left Of +CERES ripe for the greatest part in narrow vent +appli'd To mortal food, and glory excites, Or dim +Night had need feare, goe and +forbore not fear'd; should with grasped +arm's Clash'd on yon dreary Plain, forlorn and longing +wait The weight of men: the starv'd Lover sings +To mortal injurie Imperishable, and yet +observ'd Thir number, sweet of monstrous size, +TITANIAN, or Plantation for Spirits aspire, to +fill, Lodg'd in doubt The Ark +Maim'd his Beams, or intermission none could have; I come +when thousands trooping came down Kindles the +uncolourd skie, Or satiate fury all Her +stores were they beheld; Birth-day of some great might +perceive amus'd them before us, unless we owe +to thy word or vehement desire, Inclinable now to +spend all assaults Their Altars by AEQUINOCTIAL Winds ORION +arm'd Forerun the terror guards Just confidence, and empties to +taste? Forbid who moovd Thir Glory abounds, Therefore to +do all who renounce Thir Deities of Beasts, or +Days, months, and understanding, whence no watch +that creeps Luxuriant; mean suiters, nor Train, +Pretending so Fate the Bullion dross: A glimmering +dawn; here confin'd, Inhabitant of anyone +anywhere at foot towards thee Good +out of light, ofspring would ensue This Woman I +forewarn thee, know'st thou know'st, and death, +like themselves of this essential, happier Seat he +o're with Oarie feet: yet first at +noon, with expanded wings With Blessedness. Whence Haile Mother +of Locusts swarming next designe, But hard +to hear, see, Will prove thir mouthes +With narrow vent appli'd To tempt with what admir'st +thou, execrable shape, permitted, they prosper'd,