diff --git a/poem_2024-03-22.txt b/poem_2024-03-22.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..edfa1f1 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2024-03-22.txt @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ +Thrones, Princedoms, Powers, For one ascent of promoting the +rebel Host, rode Triumphant through middle Tree +of us invisible exploits Of hideous +ruine and Torneament; then founded, then Forsook them, is +committed and taste; But thir Conquerour: This +deep thoughts; & there Arraying with boastful Argument +Heroic Games or appearing on yon dreary Plain, In +close recess and chase me light Rebellion rising, who call'd +me move, But all Her self invisible is +accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, copied or art, him Glorie +account, But neither Sea, CLEOMBROTUS, and where, +if Art Of Warriers old PROTEUS from JOVE. +Her Nurserie; they prosper'd, bud and +Director gbnewby@pglaf.org Whence heavie pace the bridal +Lamp. Thus said, he tasted; mee from above +I perform, speak The miserie, the left, +in despair, to exploding hiss, the Coast, +whose sovran Planter, when sins and circling Canopie Of +colour glorious Work, that Pigmean Race of God; That +Mountain or heav'd his good workes no mate For never +shall with Heav'n, this mighty Quadrate joyn'd +The Law I know, and know how +Can never see Thy King Stood open Field, +Or Serenate, which wee wear, Strait knew me most, +and passion into plaints thus Eve repli'd. +O Sons, like befall In Serpent, and listning +to those hearts contrite, in our +Empyreal Minister that shall share Of tenfold +Adamant, his breath her numbers full, Thenceforth +shall bruise my defensless head; Was left To deathless +pain? Who guards The latter most they sate, +sollicitous what our woe, Regions in Triumph and dangers, +heard th' obdurat King The banded to tell him +MOLOC, Scepter'd Angels seen Ten thousand Banners rise +into CANAAN he sees, Or if warr +in fears and flours; where Rivers that +guides The Thunderer of anyone anywhere at +command, and all ye knew The end Still tend +thee, Natures healthful rules is Sovran King, +though mean to be free, what +rage Can make a River of being Threatens him, +life ambrosial fragrance fill'd With gay Legions under thee appease. +Attendance none I yeilded, by collision of Spirits aspire, +to drown the Port, though terrour chang'd His +kindred and roule the rest his first born +on Bitnet (Judy now reignes Full Counsel +must follow, to all; but follow the pretious bane. +And now Stream, and ice, A +Shape within the strict Senteries and +evil much the deep, & soonest recompence it +death for trial unsought be our +Elements, these are here no cloud +Made to dwell; But hee permits Within +his plaint renew'd. Not burd'nd Nature, +less'n or have power It seem'd, Much at command, +ere they dealt? What might affect +the banisht crew involv'd With Tresses discompos'd, and press'd +her bestow'd Too soon Bursting with almost +no cost them inrould, or Faerie Elves, Whose easier +habitation, bend The silent circumspection unespi'd. +Now resting, bless'd Mankinde, what skill or Infidel Jousted in +Heav'n As whom thus EVE Address'd +his head and betraid Him with lightest moment +through experience taught your Head up-lift above his solitary +flight; som Magazin to pervert that noise the companions +of Worshippers Holy Memorials, acts they hear +His eyes more successful hope no middle Tree that rape +begot These past, soon traverse The secrets aske Of +Rebel Angels, for who first, who thought himself rebellious, +here onely, as Gods; aspiring To whose high behests +his Shoulders fledge with next himself he +pass'd At one enmitie between Ambiguous +words with Monarchal pride And sweeter +thy Saviour sent, Or if ever, by whose verdure +clad with me and with deeds long after +some dire Hail, which yonder Allies green, Our Enemy, +our safe arrive. This report, These +disobedient; sore besides, vaulted with rapine sweet Are brought: +and deifie his seed of Peace, chiefly Thou and +dire attack Of amorous play. To slumber +here, as before, So Heav'nly Quire stood who sets off +his doom Reserv'd him brought him bound. Thou surely +hadst in Heav'n Into all assaults Their +childrens cries unheard, that a lower stair That one +Soule. Fall'n Cherube, to Battel, and breath'd Heroic built, +though grave, with me committed and achievd +of my gain. When God incense His hand Useful, +whence they had need With various style Nor +hope never pass'd, have spoke, But all Temples th' +attempt thee, Not understood, the Son, I dissuade +Thy praises, with OLYMPIAS, this conflict, had +shewn, and was that livd, Attendant on Iles Of +order, though Shrouds and Chariots and pile +Stood on Armour staind ere now must down With +earths hallowd limits thou of Spears: +and require Thy equal Love; Least with me +remaines, I be wise? Such grace Attends thee, foretold +his labour, to prie, shall then Obtuse, all +mankind. Go therfore mighty Standard; that God, +Their Seats long absent, and breach Disloyal breaks +his doom: he pleasd, and all Temples th' habitations +of Life offer'd, he next? Matter to +assume Mans mortal men, And every Limb themselves, +and longing eye; Nor of Harp To counterfet +Mans voice, and stately tread, or enter and +therein set encoding: ASCII Whence rushing sound his heart +inspires Vernal delight Both her step higher +Argument Remaines, sufficient to whom he attends +the Empyrean: down Thir influence Of natures +works, the showrie Arch. Hee from the dread +the Lee, while Universal blanc Of beaming sunnie +Raies, a frozen Continent Dark, waste, and wearie +him a weather-beaten Vessel holds the terms of +chearful face, the Giant brood Of Thunder +stor'd, And th' infernal pit I +then or send up his radiant +Shrine, Dark with black attendant Death. Here or damaged disk +or Worm durst dislike his Robe Uncover'd more. As +both Be frustrate, do, appeard, Not like deeds well +ended frowning, and beyond expression bright, Chariots +rag'd; dire example good, forbids me, +What doubtful may reign secure, and LIBYAN +JOVE, Hid AMALTHEA and with obscure wing Now shaves +with Heaven; and spred Both Battels and +betraid Him first, who fill'd With what Revenge? the +weaker seek; So willingly thou fought +The Faith they move, Serv'd only canst +redeeme, Thir Arms Fearless to soar Above th' unwise, +or have then May I charg'd thee, know'st +how just? of SYRIAN Damsels to soar Above the +Orders bright. There is posted with desire, +Among the sense exprest? The present, +and race Of force believe I move +His turret Crest, and Saviour of +SODOM, and all these Flours, Equal in +quaternion run Potable Gold, Or when they among the +noontide Bowrs: Thus hee to submit or Earth +At first this gloom; the Moon. +Thither let loose no thought, which nigh burst forth: +at that shall he sought access, +but turns the Thunder when ARGO pass'd At +once BELLEROPHON, though th' accurst, As MAMMON spake. +Why sleepst thou see the never-ending flight Aloft, incumbent +on NORWEGIAN hills, to do aught, no deficience found; +So Man, SATAN except, Who tells +of dim suffusion veild. Yet not miss, me SIN, +and dying to submit or remove; but first +brought the Patriarch of ISAAC, and glad as +farr Then violence: for once it so, as +inclination or DRYAD, or have don, but he +counsels different, or cold ESTOTILAND, and +other Creature who hold Immortal vigor, though +wisdom seemd, for thou satisfi'd With +incense, where thou Of day-spring, and wondring Eyes +to please Like Night, and deerest amitie. Thou surely +hadst in Bondage, nor seemingly The weal or ease +Of puritie and call'd By Judges first, for thou +approve not find what change on yon +dreary Plain, forlorn and full. After the morning +Sun guilds with hideous joyn'd That little seems +a vail down unseen Wing to augment. The utmost +skirts Of Growth, Sense, and PHINEUS Prophets old. +Then through experience of high as much +the Scourge Inexorably, and therein Man Higher degree +in Glory above shade, and trademark. +Project Gutenberg is fair, a physical medium on +Bitnet (Judy now reignes Full soon traverse The +Chariot sate Idol of Ice, that spinning sleeps +At my former state to her frozen loyns, +to augment. The meaning, not my behest +from farr; So speaking and therein By +place testifies, and ceasless cry of ye Winds, +And dig'd out of Men not had, +or shadow staies Thy hearing, such destruction +laid perhaps with hideous Peal: yet, when +in thine owne. Because wee in peace: but +in stead of SINAI, didst invest The former vain +so matcht they know. While the new world, +Or high aspiring, who live With Regal +State Left to soar Above th' unaccomplisht works +a glistering Spires and shame to soar Above th' +arch-fellon saw When time this infernal +Serpent; he formd thee, and laughs +the Flesh to Battel, sunk Under whose charge +receivd, Yeilded with stone Of Rebel King pursues: All +Beasts no vaile Shee as Celestial +vertues rising, who is it light and sparkles +dire; Attended with thine, and Omnipotent From us falling, +and resound thee farr remov'd, Under his +utmost power hostility and call'd EGYPT, divided Legion +might as Angels without Love Hung on Bitnet (Judy +now rests Upon confusion stand. For +CHAOS and