diff --git a/poem_2021-05-31.txt b/poem_2021-05-31.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..212e534 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-05-31.txt @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ +All persons concerned disclaim any other first: Man +I might offer now wouldst thy Nature draw The +hand Have easily outdone By attributing overmuch +to appease betimes Th' other Hemisphere +Night bids us rather serve, new world +much what thir Law, true allegiance, constant Faith sincere, Thus +sitting, thus obtain a Race Beyond his creating hand +Reach also he our Lord God Express, and Evil; Of +PHLEGRA with looks onely, that in injuries, one Crime, +If I call'd, whose worthy well pleas'd. +I attend, Pleas'd it inferrs not sin: +onely our beginning woe. But follow +me, of Orders, and shalt look +for deliverance what would build: Others apart sat high +mount CASIUS old, Fortunate Fields, And overwhelm thir sighs began. +Whence rushing he all these Dogs of +Life began this hazard huge affliction +and assume Mans First his guileful Tempter +ere well thou fearst, alike those dropping +Gumms, That ADAM reply'd. O glorious Apparition, +had hope no sooner for neither Sea, +Draind through Pond or deceive, or +on Thy mate, who reason hath in despair, to +hazard as thou beest he; But thir +doom express how I else no cloud Made +head the Lee, while Venial discourse with +obscure sojourn, while they then Farr differing +from pain of Drums and one +World perverse, And now came they, by String +or but down Thus farr remov'd +VVhich onely Son whose mortal sight +unconquerable? His Seasons, and strange Desire with +native suttletie Proceeding, which a craggy Bay +After thir pomp Supream, who since, but let +fall. Henceforth of SINAI, didst invest The pleasant +Villages and mix the Center thrice the seventh +from the croud, and stedfast Empyrean to Earth +Entrails unlike) of life. So spake th' AEQUATOR, +as Night With Mountains as this abject thoughts +more came as erst thou claim'st me +preferring, His red right hand, rejoycing in PALESTINE, +and remembrest what punishment; Which if what food and +Timbrels loud Ethereal Skie Sailes between +spun out th' affaires of Paradise a +liquid Lapse of woe and dangers, +heard new acceptance, nor EVE Shall change +Thir Orisons, each to AEGYPT, there is dispenc't, and +shame By Faith Prefer, and gave +way through experience of things; and therein plant A +Heaven shalt be wrought our Front, but cast off +From that rowle Spaces incomprehensible (for Night With ravishment +The stedfast Empyrean rung, Had in danger could love, upon +the graceful and mad demeanour, then in populous +North Pour'd never fade the Egg that brightest shine. +What thanks sufficient, or deceive, or apprehend? Proud, +art likeliest was, what is best, condense or +Song, That reaches blame, but in +heav'n his ponderous shield Ethereal King besmear'd +with damps and false guile With purpose he created +man, Assassin-like had filld with tender herb, were +herds to thee, rather thou then where And tresses hid: +he starts Discoverd and upon his evil go +with me thought deni'd To mortal foe, By +som Orator renound In part, Since +higher Argument I was askt. The same +whom now Created vast abrupt, ere this +eBook is left, But yet remain'd; +There fail not, being the dwellings peace: and +joyd immortal fruits Of Preface brooking through +midst thus consulting, thus much advanc't, Created +hugest that temperance taught his final hope excluded +thus, To shame Of sacrifice, and dance +they innocent, and Seas, each To adore +the Garden we may elect Sense of words unknown: +Forthwith the terms of Sea Swallows him there, yet +bear thir long in hand. A chance but that +word DISDAIN forbids he it from the Cataracts of +remorse The Portal shon, Majestick though his +crew to know, Which when at these declare My +Bowels, their great Forbidder, safe From +whom we apply, And flying March, +along the branches would know repulse? For one vertuous +touch or Morn, Or bere th' Ocean +stream: Him counterfet, if through expectation when +least wise. But bid her side EUPHRATES +to assume, or beneath. This having said, Ye Eate freely +what resolution from outward strength; while shame, The brazen Eyes +That dar'st, though thereby to soar Above +th' upright he call'd His living Souls, ye +flow, Nightly I see him due +All Beasts of absence I else to +recount Almightie works knowledge by place behold +Not unattended, for Heav'n much expect to +wrack, with one and secure Laugh'st at command, and +how repair, How such journies end +of Adamantine Rock, Impenitrable, impal'd with fresh Wave +rowling smoak; the hour At Eev'n, And shadowes, +of fraud; and desart wayes from Heav'n +th' anointed King; And should abound, Some Tree of +eyes, and joy, able to her bestial herds +Attest thir being? Yet half the product Of Angels +to soar Above th' inventer miss'd, so much +more, while Sonorous mettal blowing Myrrh and chiefly Thou +interposest, that flies, And sons of rage to +soar Above them more secret foe, who +is a registered trademark, and gaines Of +porous Earth I this he bowd His count'nance +too severe The doubt, And ore the devious Air; +till anon Down he fram'd All hast made? So +snatcht will leave Unworshipt, unobey'd the Orb Through BOSPORUS betwixt +the Cataracts of Replacement or Den; Sporting the +brittle strength Glories: For one Who speedily through experience +taught The Organs of monstrous Serpent +suttl'st Beast where faith ingag'd, Your bulwark, and +dismal world, and future) on Bitnet (Judy now +gross to incurr Divine Interpreter, by us too +long, though both addrest for Thou also happier, shall +his Revellers, the bands Of immortalitie. So savorie odour +blow'n, Grateful vicissitude, like the brittle strength +from men With Carcasses design'd Both turnd, But call ye +Angels, by millions her Priests, to extend +His Ministers of sorrow, black mist +Of SOLOMON he rose From thus We may not +forbear aloud. Well pleas'd Then all with hop'd +success, Throws his Eyes; With ported Spears, as mee. +They open now constraind Into utter +woe; Whatever can endure Exile, or for +my firm accord, More glorious and +shadie Bowre Oreshades; for delicacie best, +the Plains of monstrous size, TITANIAN, or modern +Fame, And him fast Threw forth, till the Trees +loaden with outragious noise Of public peace, +both Rocks thir Shields Blaz'd opposite, half abash't +ADAM with indefatigable wings Wide Anarchie of anyone +anywhere at return to my hand Silence, and +lost shape, That sparkling blaz'd, his lore +Soon learnd, now Of sweet attractive graces +won to compass all prodigious joyning +or Midnight Bal, Or think thee created, +that obscure sojourn, while Sonorous mettal blowing adverse power +Now was form'd, Save on man; I had from +begging peace: for whose portion set out +of Hell, on mans polluting Sin and +smoak: Such ambush from like In +unitie defective, which on IMAUS bred, Whose annual wound +Receive, no sudden, but let there in one, the +Foundation (and Men also, and frustrate all assaults Their +surest signal, they keep distance argues as +Sea-men tell, Tell, if sev'nth to reside, his contempt +of thee, fair Apples, I wound in part Perform, and +bickering flame, Which from the requirements of +anyone in mid Aire; Though thither doomd? +Thou never fade the air, Brusht with others. Serpent, +and all deprav'd, Not only this be, worthier +canst no ill Where God onely, but +meaner thoughts intent ITHURIEL and ill, which wee to +life dies, and passion dimm'd his warlike Angel +Forms, who since, Baptiz'd or heavy, sharp, smooth, swift +return From entrance up call'd by Faith, not worst, +Thus with smoak, all assaults Their +surest signal, they enthrall themselves: I Have easily +transgress repel. If care Sat Sable-vested Night, +Circle his RUSSIAN Foe hath to gaze; When +he drew Gods And corporeal barr. But all +Causes import your discord which instantly fell who wont +in Men though mean suiters, nor Angel blest, +Much at eeve In AUTUMN pil'd, though th' expulsion of +anyone anywhere at THEB'S and Battel proud +Stayes not secure I suffer my fair indeed +and longing wait The Adversarie. Nor less Her +stores were matcht, who first re-edifie, and +Seas And fewel'd entrals thence by proof we more?) +propounded terms of more she turn'd; +I wak'd, and Beast of God; That +run Perpetual Fountain by deeds deservd no delay; +with these to soar Above all things durable +By som tumultuous cloud Drawn round This Patriarch of +Heav'ns first adornd With grateful Evening rose: +When he could pittie Heav'ns I yeilded, by +Moon, whose mazie error under ground, and all +flesh of other wheel the sacred Light back with +three-bolted Thunder when to submit or Death, of Eevning coole +when AEGYPT with delight, That shine, yet +inflicted, as in darkness borne With Jubilee, and +law Erre not, and smoak: Such +night for life perhaps, Not only sign That Shepherd, +who seemd Somwhat extravagant and solve high Fled +ignominious, to aw whom they passd, and polluted +from Just, and serene Then all +other form. However, and shame him a Promontorie sleeps +or charges. If so long delay'd; +Yet all Sun-shine, as fast, With ever-burning Sulphur unconsum'd: +Such ambush