diff --git a/poem_2022-06-07.txt b/poem_2022-06-07.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2e2342c --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-06-07.txt @@ -0,0 +1,192 @@ +Descend from Heav'n, My bread; what means of +anyone in vain And courage and GAZA's frontier bounds. +Him whom mutual guilt the Beginning how faire, +Less excellent, as glowing Iron Globes, Earth +be henceforth most he so lov'd, thy Lord, to +chuse for scarce allay'd still But have transferr'd All +perfet miserie, the Adversary of Hell scarce had disincumberd +Heav'n, Empyreal Mansion thus our joynt or +timerous flock together went Into my Word, begotten +Son, and pain Through Spirits adjudg'd to accord) Man of +doubt and LAHOR of Mountains now have transfus'd, +that brightest Seraphim Approach not, and upturn'd His Offring +soon recompenc't with me expos'd. But all but with Terrestrial +Humor mixt Confus'dly, and yee behold the resonant +fugue. In power with thir Counsels vaine +Thou at all; with fury thus consulting, thus +MAMMON led her bestow'd Too mean Drawn +round About him thus the brute +human, rational, though perhaps no cloud Of Brick, +and Earth upheav'd His Eye That Man Whom thus +she needed Lute or entity to dewy Eve, A Citie +strong hold what it bin achievd +of anyone anywhere at Heav'ns chearful waies of thee, +safe with obdurate pride and eat my Head I +come Into their great Conquerours, Patrons of sorrow, +doleful shades, where we may for +speed gave him off From him, if but thou +in warlike sound throughout the Bullion dross: A Pillar +of talk Of guile, We sunk +with peril gone All Trees loaden with that out +From SUSA his Sanctuary it divide our +loss, Unknown, which op'nd from new Kingdom +and shame obnoxious, and said, Let us remote +Produces with transcendent brightnes didst depart, and dangers, heard We +sunk before her Saile; So spake th' +upright he sits Shrin'd in crystal Wall, +and Love thou but adoration pure digestion +bred, Whose annual wound Receive, no solution will +support Each thing not my Self have +grown above his highth, and taste of Arms, and +multiplie By Act of Warr, Nor in it +away or dying to fall Erroneous, there +Arraying with me let hang, as in her ears +Cannot but others note Singing thir +being? Yet willingly thou spok'n as Are ever dwells: +Hail horrours, hail Infernal world, whom they +thought one disarm'd, Of vertue to +that render all things, foreseen This ponder, that VVhich onely +two weights The works even ballance down he +so minded still; And ACCARON and ANCIENT NIGHT, I +beg, and not wonderd, ADAM, one of +Knowledge of Bulls and massie Ore, The Tawnie Lion, pawing +to detaine thee attempted, who not quite +consume us, nor turnd thither-ward in ADAMS room +The Eye To mortal tast Brought Death +must of Spirits could they bend From Beds +of God; I adore. Gentle to girt With +head, enclos'd With Sanctitie of Rock +or charges. If you may have ye see +and apprehended nothing lovelier can easily +transgress the more, What hither side Disparted CHAOS over +him no aide might rise Above them +ordain His Cattel and all Temples th' ORPHEAN +Lyre I see her faire his Wiles, More +wise, let me then paus'd, As thus created, nor +Man may compare Great triumph and +with genial Angel stand, a Reed Embattell'd in honour +to rase Som advantagious act Of blowing Martial sounds: +At once beheld Where Scepter'd Angels disarraid. +Back to death, Proclaiming Life began in +peace. Can equal anger saves To evils which The +ground for that Dominion like an hour stood unmindful +ABDIEL that no cloud in her shows; Made +vocal Worship wave. SATAN beheld From cold OLYMPUS +rul'd the circuit to smallest Magnitude close Thy inward +part Half sunk in Glory above her +amiable: On ADAM, rise, high Walls Of dauntless +courage, and Timbrels loud And now who +counsel in wisdom, and wrought In +song was askt. The storie heard +his bad no fall, and glad Of MICHAEL +from aspect Silent yet such of +easier shunnd? God created thee, Divine +not of light, Save on IMAUS bred, Whose vertue, for +with feare of Hell By me, or not; wherfore +all fast, With various colours, how that pure now +Shot down Thus measuring things so faire, Less +hardie as they outcast from SYRIAN ground, under +water flies All night tun'd her +bestial train, Forthwith the rest shall his +Tillage brought into thir course to +plague us? this miracle, and held part in danger lies, +yet on mans offence To found +Already known As we to corporeal substances +require More tuneable then human. Nor had filld +Th' invention all assaults Their Altars +by him surer barr His Armie, circumfus'd on +Bitnet (Judy now foretold his Trunck +spouts out from Earth, another world, and infinite +Abyss And worn with thousands trooping came from God +enthron'd, our libertie, confin'd Within the Birds; +pleasant the deed; Shee from Heav'n, with mutual Honour +clad Each at hand, to enrage +thee Chiefly by me, of immortal minds. Thus drooping, +or Penaltie? Here walk'd the mild +Judge Of guile, We overpower? Suppose he surveys, +and undon, hath our Grand Parents in +multitudes Were such Object to submit or danger +by us who thought himself untri'd. I well stor'd +with flours: The Angel, well pleas'd. I +Adore him, Towns, and apprehended nothing high: from the loud +misrule Of BACCHUS from the Goblin +full bliss. Him the perilous edge Of order, so +easie ascent, or entity that like befall +Spirit within kenn he sent from +blest MARIE, second Life, the worthiest; they sang +of which before them. But hiss for ever during Gates, +And girded on every part, and smoak: Such ambush +from dance about his Gilles Draws in, and +Conscience represented All these Beasts among, Beholders rude, +Guiltless of MOABS Sons, From Beds of +God Rais'd on thoughts, reforming what surmounts the brink +of public peace, both will put off, and nature +and wak'd SATAN, filld the bitterness of Hell +trembl'd at THEB'S and seem so small night-founder'd +Skiff, Deeming some say, to that opprobrious Hill, +Nor did thy call. Now I obey +is sure. Will rule; and play +In honour and eyes appeard, Not only sound Yet +half in behalf Patron or whether scorn, +Or whom mutual slaughter bent. Forthwith his +righteous Cause, And courage never did not lost; Evil +into terrour chang'd his heel. Haste hither +thrust me already lost, from Night; Light +Hasted, resorting to soar Above the arched roof Pendant +by freely what proof enough such rebuke, so on +dry Land hereafter from Councel thus MAMMON +led th' obdurat King of supernal Power. +Will once as that now, repents, and with pale, ire, +Or shall find Against the Sword of +Mankind, Mother of BABEL on Bitnet (Judy +now reignes Full to sway Brandisht aloft shading the chief; +among themselves The sacred song; but what reward +Of Natures works Created pure. But thir weakness, how found +Thir own Heroic name His famine should have still remember'd +The last, him danger or violent, when he +calls us too fast shut Excel'd her Judge +and wrought Insensibly, for in Hill Torn +from the earth Up to simplicitie Resigns her Will +slack'n, if SION also evidence, example +with me. To evangelize the Desert and Thrones, Dominations, +Princedoms, Vertues, Powers, Dominions I thence Had been +falling, had disincumberd Heav'n, we fled bellowing. +On duty, sleeping found Before all +Temples th' attempt, But bid cry With +liberal and ILIUM, on Thrones; Though distant farr, founded the +Aire: So dear pledge Of hazard in Spirit coming +of Paternal Deitie, while it down, and assume These Adamantine +Gates; three drops the sons of anyone anywhere at +rest shall we endur'd not, as mee. +They heard, without end; but rather +Mee who moovd Thir Nature, hold +his strength, Not incorruptible would loose, expell'd to +mention, through ways That excellence he so +prevaild, that uxorious King, though divinely brought, and +Joint-racking Rheums. Dire was but grace The +sport and interrupt his Errands in Triumph high praise, who +ask ye, and bid cry Surround me, +with revenge though the terms of Hell, not To +interrupt the dear life. So to animal, To my +experience, ADAM, earths hallowd feet, and all +monstrous, all Temples th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus advanc't, +Created evil, and upright and vines Yeild Nectar, +visiting each dayes of Land, and transgress the Pit +shall then Gods live Before thir +way; harder beset And shook Of Growth, +Sense, and as day mortal, and hostile din, +That such live Forever, to highth +began, and breath'd Heroic Song charms the Vision led +me long detain'd In whirlwind; Hell trembl'd at +eeve In Council sate, as some +Island, oft, as beseems Thy likeness, thy Associates, +ADAM, earths hallowd the madding Wheeles Of +subterranean wind To good have disobei'd; in Heav'n +Gate reply'd; Hast thou Out of lamentation +loud acclaim. Thence more Cease I wak'd, and +Golden Panoplie, refulgent Host, Easing thir +change, Though all Air his Mace petrific, +cold invirons round, Behind him wanton ringlets wav'd thir +sin, deserv'd to foul disorder; all mankind, though steep, +through experience of pure of Heaven, +or re-use it speak