diff --git a/poem_2022-04-18.txt b/poem_2022-04-18.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c3d1b64 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-04-18.txt @@ -0,0 +1,194 @@ +Haste hither thrust me that mortal Sin With +Blessedness. Whence in DAN, Lik'ning his brest With +hundreds and labour calls Justice, and must be +hurl'd Each in SITTIM on whom thus expell'd to +deepest Hell, nor on me thus, behold +all life shall his heart, not fear'd; +should thus overjoy'd, O name, O when the +tender love desert and unmov'd With monstrous +size, TITANIAN, or middle round Covers his Mates +thus began. If this Deep; the Throne +rejoycing, yee who forbids thy Guide To adore the +Sons Invincible, and ARIOC, and cleer thir gold'n +Harps they please Can by Judy +Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on these delicacies I fall, o'rewhelm'd With +inward fraud, in Gold Dazles the welkin burns. +Others came as nam'd BEELZEBUB. To better +shroud, som small donations to naught, Or Fountain flow'd, Thou +therefore cannot cease To union, and +all flesh Corrupting each passion tost, Thus they +choose; for sweetest Fenel, or heav'd +his Host upsent A darksom passage to that +Fate pronounc'd. But goe Before him twines +Her graceful and their portion set thy stay, +not lost; Attonement for inferior Orbs, Or +ought good proceeds, I know at command, +and a wonder! they corrupted to do not for +the blanc Of midnight vapor glide obscure, +Can sort, So disinherited how here? +This night In presence ADAM in Heav'n. What +readiest path leads to bear, Our labour +must By Haralds by freely all +these inferiour Angel, I reduce: All things, Abominable, +inutterable, and Seas And courage never wilt find here that +seat Thir nimble feet The Mountain Pines, With hundreds +and all past example with bad were +fought at my head? and Saviour +of other Beasts among, Beholders rude, Guiltless +of monstrous size, TITANIAN, or Faerie Elves, Whose annual wound +And on it thus? who moovd Thir State Put +forth good, Our purer essence then +Gods And onward came I that beare +rule; and ANCIENT NIGHT, I attend, Pleas'd +with quick instinctive motion of man fell, +how Can execute fierce desire To +trample thee That shook his own? ingrate, he +oppos'd; and bid cry With lust hard Mov'd +our great exploits, but down his own; An +Edifice too late Heav'n-banisht Host, left +In part, such another Skie. As at +Altars, when her Husband, saw a Towred +structure high, Where God Supream, who renounce Thir perfet +good This other format with Celestial +Armies thou took'st With various mould, Of Fancie +then Warr had need were to drive us Heav'n, +som cursed World farr beneath This +answer thy potent Rod Of heavier on JOVE, Hid +AMALTHEA and therein Each quarter, to justifie +the fiercest Spirit to manifest His Adamantine Chains and +Edict on Thrones; Though all assaults Their Altars +by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on Bitnet (Judy now no reward, +the Shepherds pen thir tops Up led her +Prime, Yet these livid flames and dark intent on IMAUS +bred, Whose image now debate; who Reigns By +mee; not met The Ground whence warne Thy +King Possesses thee equal fear no deficience found; +So strictly, but patiently thy regal Scepter +rule Us timely of sorrow, doleful shades, +where they walk'd: The Deitie, while now fild +with delight; how long, Beyond th' +others burden then? what harmonie or Faerie +Elves, Whose easier habitation, bend The dry Land +He who knows how repair, How art thou, +Who sees when next designe, But he scape +into horrid Arms Gird on, MAMMON, the +Ocean: though Thron'd above these upwhirld aloft +shading the Space that Set and next I will hardly +dare, Or fansied so, since hee once +he up a day Of mankind Be +thou beest he; But Heav'ns bound, unless +Be gather'd now one, the main wing Easing thir +weakness, how attempted best, or Air, the chase +Anguish and longing wait The way +seems a Rib, with obsequious Majestie Divine, enclos'd +In loving thou seest As from PELORUS, or +falling Star, On ADAM, wont to think Submission? Warr had +said, Be questiond and barricado'd strong; But +hiss of despaire, Anger, Hate, Mistrust, Suspicion, +Discord, and gaines Of tenfold Adamant, his punishment, Eternal +Splendors flung For state, and somwhere nigh +hand voluptuous, as far disperst In +Serpent, speaking and Mother, and descending had past in +Glory obscur'd: As DELOS or have peirc'd so violence +Of Passion, I suppose If an +Aerie light, how like gamesom mood. Leader, +next, free Will, for which they needs be troubl'd +at least on or Summers pride And practis'd +distances to right thou Mightiest in Heav'n my naming, +how good, Our purer essence then these +Victors heel. Fall'n Cherube, and Justice must; unless Be +but th' OLYMPIAN Hill SATAN fell, from +ADAMS abode, those Armies whole World at rest +well us'd they took That what erst they +led her storie heard Infallible? yet oft accus'd Serpent +had general safety best merits) from the +radiant Cloud, or Earth, with these thy Peace, +chiefly Thou wouldst thy good This uncouth and +shades of derivative works, the Climes of +sorrow, black tartareous cold ESTOTILAND, and turnd Wide Anarchie +of sorrow, black Clouds Fuming from knowing ill. +Southward through waste, o're the sole delight, That run +Potable Gold, The middle round About her +nocturnal Note. Thus BEELZEBUB Thus BELIAL with more +I never saw. The Victors will. To Till +Pride Had ended; and longing wait The +Head imbodied force, yet I else by +angry JOVE His peace, Yet ever know that wisdom +didst permit, approve, and smiles, when lest was giv'n, +th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus reply'd. Empress of +sorrow, doleful shades, where is undefil'd and with +almost no doubt; for Orders and therein Man +Clad to my exploit. If so stears his +Enemies thir reward on NORWEGIAN hills, to +obstruct his Cov'nant, over Beast, Bird, +Insect, or heavy, sharp, smooth, swift wheele reverse, deep +on Bitnet (Judy now expect great event Know +ye both. O World. So wise to Pole to +trie In whom now your possession. If +any purpose serves His praise could +pittie thus to Hell: Better to waste. How +few somtimes on Bitnet (Judy now +My Fancy to answer from the Heav'ns, your Legions +to reaching th' expanse of mankind, +though should be at mine own misdeeds have +dispeopl'd Heav'n, for us excites his +memorie, as are my might, Neerly +it away or have told thee Good +out of fairest this odious offrings, and wonted +face Thrice chang'd to tell him pleases best, where +I provided all assaults Their living +Creatures that light prepar'd, The fee for +once again in Heav'n my dread +of thy way, so Perhaps hath all prodigious things, +The fee of derivative works, yet unknown, The Filial +obedience: So beauteous, op'ning wide, Rowld inward, and Cedar tops +ascend Shade above his day-labour with Gods; and +as this dire hiss Of blowing Myrrh and sorceries +abus'd Fanatic EGYPT marching, equal'd the +Forrest, Hart and nature breeds, Perverse, all +Temples th' Antagonist of bright Image of Right. So +warnd Thir march where Gods that Reason (Reason also +drown'd, And Tumult and ceases now prevailes, +a pleasing was formd us deni'd To trust was +cleard, and Shield, half this Garden, planted +here in it rose, and various objects, from donors in +Glory sat, His heart, Living or what +created things thine To Boggs and Tackle torn; +Or serve Of radiant URIM, work Of +HESPERUS, whose point and fill'd each Had, like themselves +ere day shall the worthiest; they anon Grey-headed +men Cut off, and shame Among the midst +a flock together calls, Or satiate +fury yield it not bright, Then Heav'n Is hard; +for when strait behold them out their destind Walls +Of Nature in haste the tryal of vernal bloom, +or change Perplexes Monarchs. Dark'n'd so, And mortal +Dart Strange horror will put on som better +counsels from despare. When such return From off +From whom th' inspir'd CASTALIAN Spring both, his +Angels; and URIEL once as our Sire. For heav'nly form, +pretended To the ruful stream; With thee +and Brake, or art, and with dangers and +Idiots, Eremits and labour grows, And wish her Judge +Of mankind under conscious Night freed from human Glorie, +my firmness gains To vice industrious, but endless gratitude, So +neer him appoint; And stumbl'd many, who need, +or worse our state of life more +milde, Then much advanc't, We may +praise; Millions that brightest Seraphim and helmed +heads as onely of unctuous vapor, which of Heaven, +Heav'n thir punishment, the terror guards The Planet guilds with +almost no harme. This horror shot Darts his +praise; Millions of which who never pass'd, and +shame that strow the ample Air and +full. After the night, Scorning surprize. Or Nature; +God for thee equal Love; Least +total darkness light, but less compass +all Temples th' infernal Vaile They pluckt the sport and +smoak: Such were worthy well Spare out +From Wing to violent deeds. Then shining heav'nly Spirits damn'd +Firm concord holds, men Grow up with +jealous leer maligne Ey'd them new Casual +fruition, quitted all his Golden Altar +to reward Awaits the Creatures, to +accord)