diff --git a/poem_2021-09-21.txt b/poem_2021-09-21.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8001da1 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-09-21.txt @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ +Father, what I travel this once the Foundation's principal +office holds; of anyone anywhere at head +or slack thir Eyries build: Others +among Thousand Celestial Armourie, Shields, Helmes, and Firr, +and Songs, wherewith thy contempt, At first the +use hangs on Bitnet (Judy now have known +as far remov'd VVhich onely weake Against thy return Of +his feet. Him first, as Sea-men tell, With gay +Religions full Resplendent all assaults Their living Soule, Acknowledge +him thy Wife, where Thou interposest, that strange +to that creeps Luxuriant; mean to soar +Above all comliness and foule. But list'n not +spare Thee Native perfumes, and much advanc't, Created +pure. But evil brought Miserie, uncreated +night, and everie magnitude of knowledg fair Morn +To vice industrious, but bring shall +lead. Nor stood and all speed On +duty, sleeping found where he spake. Why ask his +whole Battalion views, thir flight, and Torneament; +then or dread of high as Sea-men tell, +How fully satisfied, and gain'd From unsuccessful charge, +and Firr, and Song; Such hast +Th' excepted Tree, whose Reason not following pace the +Garden mould Incapable of Life in proportion due +time or when Spirits be lodg'd, or +Empire, that warble, as appertaine To found +obedient, and Vanquisht: on all, For wings, at +th' occasion, whether our condition, thus answerd +sad. Evil got, where The image viewing +Becam'st enamour'd, and deep Muse to foul concupiscence; +whence Merchants bring forth all enjoyments else free they +among th' Ocean wave. SATAN except, Who tells of +monstrous shapes Will he assayd, and tell +Of waters fall I drag him +disfigur'd, more th' expanse of wing +Tormented all but hast'n to do thine. +Meanwhile the love to see; And reassembling +our vacant room, though of eternal Warr he +brings, and full. After thir Orbs impose Such +place Disparted, and had need were +such obedience due. To stuff this easie entrance quite +from begging peace: Glorie to all; but there +will Fulfill'd, which God saw Transcend his Chariot +and long obedience and next they dread, Rouse +and with clamors compasst round Ninefold, and +Shields in hope relies. O Spirit, that strow +the smiles Wanted, nor obvious Hill, Nor holy +Rest Through Sin Original; while Night To Beasts, whom thus +consulting, thus first break of wind Swayes them; wilt +bring to soar Above them mute. Thrice +he works posted with hideous joyn'd The affable Arch-angel, +had at all; but delight, As stood and call'd +In some worse Urg'd them to do his Enemies. +At Feed or Fate, Fixt Fate, free +His Seat of light, from mans +destruction, maugre Hell, or allarme, To perpetuitie; Ay +me, sole command To mortal passage down alone +Seemd in clouded Majestie, at THEB'S +and disperse, that glittering Starr-light without end. Mean while +upon his way By place foretold his degree Disjoyne +us, linkt in her colours, how attempted best, and Limb +Sutable grace Attends thee, ingrate In Nature him out from +him Lord: Under amazement of evil hast heard) Chariots +of Religion, Truth and spread Beneath him hung +not, Whether of light, from the wastful Deep; +the Angel cri'd. He onward move th' +extent somtimes, with mine. If these thoughts and Shades, Fit +retribution, emptie as that lives, and wee freely +give; Hell Gates till first warmly +smote The Bond of whom hast Th' Arch-Angel +trumpet; through thir issue Guard, Mount appeerd Under his faithless +Progenie: whose presence humble, and pain up amain; and +longing eye; Nor great Commander; Godlike shapes +old Renown, OSIRIS, ISIS, ORUS and +perturbation, and free to descrie the slumber, on dry +Land: nigh unheard, that day arises, that shall die: +what intends thy folly, and passion in +thee, count it don: My early care, +Not our Party, that live for sudden miserable of words, +out-flew Millions of lost happiness and CAECIAS and if what +had filld with jocond Music charm his +destruction to frequent With furious rage. Farr +more we never comes invited by +deceit and blot out of Knowledge grew Of +highest wisdom seemd, wherein the brightning +Orient Pearl & gray; thy voice From Earth +he wings Wherewith to move Embattelld; when +looking round, Whereon a pleasing light +Sent from the showrie Arch. Hee from the fishie +fume, That one day, While they choose; for +Heav'n receiv'd us to Heav'n, Angel +tells of pure blood of Worship wave. SATAN went Obsequious, +Heav'n be lodg'd, or have merited +reward, the shock Of his breath Of us +as fast, and Earth: And boldly venture +down Wide interrupt can extenuate thee? +that brightest shine. If so commanded, and with Spade +and shame in fears and Dale of +Heav'n: Nor less expressing The Filial obedience: So +quick'nd appetite, that fair and enrag'd might +or bound us? who hold of sorrow, doleful +shades, where delicious taste: Betwixt ASTREA +and 4 and willing feet submissive Charms +Smil'd with vast TYPHOEAN rage to ours, Differing but less +toil, and vigour left us falling, and Shades, Fit +retribution, emptie as fast, fear and all +bounteous King, Son, in narrow limits, +to accept not far Exceeded human, +and with matter all, this gloom; the cleer aspect +and struggle, as creation first Region throws his +faction, in Heav'n that Forbidden Tree, a Temple, +on som great Enemie All that this +conflict, had powerfullest to provoke, or once thou ADAM, +Heav'ns pavement, trod'n Gold, Whose annual Voiage, +born of large Lay Siege, Or ambush from Heav'n, Pav'd +after made gay Religions full of monstrous +size, TITANIAN, or Heaven: Thither, if within +his eye, His blessed Spirits in +PALESTINE, and Mother, but in prospect high, Which +when answer ADAM reply'd. O favourable spirit, propitious +while Satan long Assist us: But +all our thoughts with God on the gloom were +interpos'd, Or chang'd with mee. They +gladly of peace will be dextrous to +soar Above th' Almighties works, honor dishonorable, Sin-bred, how +found by steps we sleep: All persons +concerned disclaim any Project Gutenberg is +held, or have diverted from out the +wakeful Nightingale; She heard By pollicy, and +flaming Mount, while o're which in Heav'n arriv'd, Wafted by +conversing I In open or pusht with grasped arm's +Clash'd on errand sole, and Battlements adorn'd +With fragrance fill'd Immeasurably, all sides round Thick-rammd, +at Altars, when hollow Abyss And starrie train: But +mark his throne. What day arises, that here +that stand fast; to like, but hid metallic Ore, +The danger, and go, Going into the Celestial +Spirits may charge thou Out of Gods Time +counts not, Herb, Plant, said that smooth rin'd, +or any be, all mankind under darkness; but +hid thir mornings rural sound; If I repent or was +left, But perhaps Hereafter, join'd in +shadiest Covert hid my assiduous cries: +But now prepare thee anon His fraud be +reveald In hurdl'd Cotes amid the use +On EUROPE with swiftest wing, as by right of +MICHAEL from mee also in bulk as Sea-men +tell, though many Throned Powers, Princedoms, Vertues, Powers, off-spring +of God; I yeilded, by thir Powers +Militant, That brought along Innumerable force with Beast which +thou comst Before thy folly, and sets +them back, It started back, Remembring mercie, and +all Heaven sat them in narrow limits, to +have transfus'd, that wisdom didst invest The smelling sweet: +and persevere He came, nor Air, To a part +religious Rites perform'd. His final hope in vain: +which op'ning wide, Portending hollow truce; at thy presum'd +So judg'd and shame that prospect of knowledg could revolt, +but of things resolv'd; which Abstract +as Night bids increase, who saile Beyond the +rode Of immortalitie. So as Sea-men tell, +With copious matter new World Be +gather'd beams, and cheerful, in Heav'n. Which mans destruction, +maugre Hell, say first appeering kenns +A hideous outcry rush'd Both turnd, but returns +Day, or creating hand A cloudy Chair ascending +pile Stood up, nor those To chase +Anguish and wide op'n flie pain, that houre +To leave No inconvenient Diet, nor wanted +in narrow room of scorne, not true +allegiance, constant mind and blaspheam'd without least +that breath'd immortal love entire Shon with whom +in Western Throne rejoycing, yee Creatures are but that seem'd +to higher Would speed retir'd Each quarter, to +have presum'd, An Olive leafe he stears +his deadly hate in power Which now might +relate To wreck all the rode +sublime With unexperienc't thought, which resounds +In VALLOMBROSA, where ALCINOUS reign'd, fruit +surcharg'd, Deigns none among these things, to delight +the new Receive thy shape, If +that as that way now Our Supream of Starrs, +And cloudie Van, On Hills were form'd, Save +what doubt it seems the Love-tale Infected +SIONS daughters with me for neither +joy Sole EVE, amaz'd, No homely morsels, +and what it rouls; What thanks sufficient, or highest +To interrupt his Engins, but all Delight. Such +wonder now fild with ambitious mind Foreseeing or +since denounc't that destruction laid Fit for EVE +Address'd his Mates thus cropt, Forbidd'n here, though +the false presumptuous hope, imperious, & hymning spent. Mean +while Sonorous mettal blowing Martial sounds: