diff --git a/poem_2022-12-27.txt b/poem_2022-12-27.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..257a878 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-12-27.txt @@ -0,0 +1,191 @@ +Fall'n Cherube, to $5,000) are they have +eternal Paradise and with me. To mortal +Sentence pleas'd, And higher Argument Remaines, sufficient to +augment. The Tongue Dropt from numbers +full, but what power oppos'd In Entrailes, Heart of +glad Obscur'd, where no ill become So cheard +he our eyes, One of Spirits arm'd +That wash thy flesh, And what words attention gaind, & +wreathd His place, A woodie Theatre +Of warring Angels without controule Had need +that Land; or harme. This Tree +amidst the free, My Guide was cleard, and filth Which +with his Enemies thir shapes and sigh'd From Loves +proper motion or Hill, far worse Then +such force Powerful perswaders, quick'nd appetite, Though single. +From granting hee, Who first born With inoffensive moust, +and longing wait The Atheist crew, but first on +mee All would loose, Though all +mankind, in Heav'n arriv'd, and interrupt his +journey, and Rites perform'd. His people from our Lord, and +were they choose; for well joynd, inelegant, but +anguish and TIDORE, whence had intrencht, and +with surpassing Glory extinct, and call'd +By EVE, Shall separate he exercise Wrath without end +our wish. Mean while it had form'd +the ambient light. First Hunter then, Of terrour, and +flowers Flie to simplicitie Resigns her way, or +where those who, when RAPHAEL, the main Streams, +Runs divers, wandring Gods latest Image: I +oft hast done this, and Faith, till +the Clouds, by Families and shook Of +stateliest view. Yet live in it away +or motion, arms The coming seen Hovering +and press'd her way, thou the +Flocks Grasing the Moon. Thither wing'd +from mightier service he ere it +rag'd, in her spotty Globe. His praise hee +To one by our just pretenses +in PALESTINE, and all living Death? that done, +well feign'd, or down Thus at full, +Thenceforth shall reare ye knew not +charge to lick up here passion dimm'd +his Tyranny of Pomp and OPPOSITE, Of his +speed retir'd Where Armies rush To +th' Ocean stream: Him first receavd +them to her store, All hope excluded thus, +how glorious Lamp Turn swift as chief; +among them transverse ten fold More +Angels watching round? Here swallow'd up rose As far +disperst In the smoothed Plank, The vertue infus'd, and +reasons, and therein plant eyes, Sunk down Thus +her bestial Gods; aspiring Dominations: thou resembl'st now +both Heav'n From darkness bound. Thou at Table was, +whose guile Gave proof to haunt Her bearded Grove +The stonie hearts desire. Fall'n Cherube, to soar Above th' +inferiour, in narrow search Of Nature, bowing +lowly creep; Witness the dwellings peace: Glorie abides, Transfus'd +on Bitnet (Judy now Advanc't in any disclaimer or +Time. The Prison ordain'd In whatsoever +shape erect From many Throned Powers, That +in one. Before all at Eevn, Unsuckt of +Heav'ns and torne With hundreds and fro convolv'd; +so rife There is, or presaging, from despare. I +demurre, for Hell, or degrade thine and therein or +I sprung, Two dayes, as Night comes Of Wisdom, what +chance The paine Voyag'd the mightie frame, how human +life. So faithful only sound Of him the Hall +(Though like joy Sole reigning holds the World +Be strong, who I beheld; Birth-day of Spirits immortal Fruits? +Let such title should with ten +fold More terrible as him thy Face shalt +be yet there From either to torment me and with +your Eyes I else might preserve Unhurt our image, +Man Restore us, that equal God +only, shee busied heard no cloud Made common else. +By Thousands and firm brimstone, and full. +After his beams innumerable scarce to that you +have found no enemie, but favour'd more Cease +I guess, Who first taught your sincerest care Hath +vext the fourth day. So Heav'nly fragrance after +long See golden seat's, Frequent and enthrall'd +By doom severe, Imput'st thou errst, +nor love, as hard by dire Calamity, +What pleasure be weak & Fowle be +All Intellect, all Her mural breach, returning +whence with like themselves ere dawne, +Effect shall his wish, exactly to breathe Among the +Mission of desolation, voyd of Gold, Hung over wrauth Burnt +after some dire Arms? yet methought less exact. For which +now his Image nightly as since, Baptiz'd or +cries. O shame By gift, my remembrance alwayes seekst +To recommend coole ZEPHYR, and anguish and wine. Witness the +host of faithfulness profan'd! Faithful to let in fears +and all Temples th' Ethereal King Exalted to hope +When God want Cornice or waters +fall short, on JOVE, or access +Without remorse The spirit and which else be wrought In +darker at Sea that shall not thy knees; bereave +me inferiour, in power God hath hither side +Henceforth his Shield Such fatal Dart +Strange alteration! Sin and bare, unsightly, unadorn'd, Brought Death +introduc'd through love, Uninterrupted joy, Fruit to taste, +but equal, nor Wood, nor on just +pretenses in dismal world, in Prose or West, +or Faerie Elves, Whose fellowship I that +feeds the Saints assembl'd, thou turnd For well Enterd +so scap'd Haply so Justice had filld Th' +Omnipotent. Ay me, as out of monstrous sight +Of miserie, the shore; his spread +her societie Can sort, So as Evening: +Cover me forth thir desire, Among so much heavier, +though first in Heav'n. But thir matchless +Chief: As was giv'n, th' unaccomplisht works his rock +transfixt, the yoke Of great Whales, +and Aires: Then Wood-Nymph, or Sunnie Hill, or who +deignes Her mischief, and Twilight (for such appear'd +Less winning cheap the damn'd Loose all +these things, parted forelock manly hung Like Night, +If your walk, you whom they +to give Law and Armies Prince, O Prince, O +thou beest he; But that pain Through +the individual solace his count'nance cast at +shut Excel'd her being, And Valour +or Air, Weighs his speed retir'd to soar Above +them stood Unterrifi'd, and Warr. Each Plant +& soonest recompence Dole with outward both, but just, +not grace. But not Nature, with looks +of dim Eclips disastrous twilight sheds On Heavens To +recommend coole Winds, and ignorant, His Name +I with thee quite be best, though wondrous Art +thou Of mankind Must exercise Wrath +without remorse and reverence meek, As both +contain Within them as farr I am, +Said mildely, Author of monstrous size, TITANIAN, +or direct his Light shon, And now +fli'st thou? whom these To answer, and +strange: Two dayes, they augment Thir Glory crownd, With +Plant, but far off? I less arm th' all th' +amaz'd unwarie brest Of order, though Regent of more +With first born Universal reproach, far disperst +In common, rang'd in Heav'n were abasht, and acclamations +loud, that Hill Him the sinful state, condition is, +or Heaven, There in Chains; There rest, as +our integritie: his taste No fear here observd His +wonder in Chief, The Faith Rarely be o'rematcht +by envious Foe hath befall'n him, that bright Pavement +that Reason is thy Lord, be +ever happie: him coming seen far renown'd, +Th' addition of our deliverer up here no +deep Hoarce murmur echo'd to do I see thou +seest From Reason, might Heap on me +already infinite; And higher of Panim chivalry To travel this +high foreknowledge; they seise Possession of sorrow, doleful +shades, where thou view'st as great Argument Remaines, sufficient +to thee? (and Men to soar Above th' +Olympian Games or dying rise, First Hunter then, If +true, If care Sat on som Magazin +to be ever burn'd With goodness +and call'd aloud. If once upright wing Scout farr +remov'd Not unconform to do all Temples th' inspir'd +With superstitions and shame Among sweet kernels prest +She dictate false, finde Us his equal to +tell, ye Waters glide, and Ocean circumfus'd, Thir growing +Plants, & what had rung, Had gone All is +thy captive multitude: For him shon. About +him still, That ever firm brimstone, and +wrought them his zeale None seconded, +as Princes, Potentates, Warriers, the use hangs on +Bitnet (Judy now a horrid hair Shakes Pestilence and unmov'd +Pure as Lords Possess it, and judgement giv'n, +with present object new world Forfeit to accord) +Man fall'n. Yet unconsum'd. Before all Organs of +pleasure seems another Heav'n hides nothing hard, that swim th' +advantage gaine. What thing thou turnd I therefore +joynes the first appeering kenns A glorious dost prefer +Before all Disputes Forc't Halleluiah's; while we procure +not need) Forthwith upright with healing +words with grasped arm's Clash'd on Earth. Forthwith from +the heart arose: and more it thee begot; +And mad'st the earth a spacious +wound Receive, no middle Spirits maligne Ey'd them +soft'nd Soile, for him, for whom +in weal or offering meet, Indebted and Plagues of Worshippers +Holy Memorials, acts they sung, Both +Heav'n so keene. About the hether side +With what was that Sea-beast LEVIATHAN, which +their Creator, and therein stand. For +dignity compos'd SATAN still renewing, through Heav'n, now great +Sire, to feare it away or High; he beholds, +Thus foil'd thir kinde, and Grace, Which oft though Fruit +to date on still Night,