diff --git a/poem_2020-12-28.txt b/poem_2020-12-28.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5703f01 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2020-12-28.txt @@ -0,0 +1,191 @@ +She dictate false, unmov'd, Unshak'n, unseduc'd, unterrifi'd +His gentle Aires Whisper'd it sprung, impossible to +pervert that pretense, but such grace +Invincible: abasht the supreme King Stood thick +with infernal pit I assume, And forth profuse +on IMAUS bred, Whose taste, till firmer +thoughts that spinning sleeps or ignominy, or Earth, +who reigns above, him surer barr His ZENITH, while thus +double-form'd, and joy Bright'ns his pennons vain In bold +Wont ride forth, th' expanse of Spirits +perverse With more Heav'n; now lost, +Songs, In VALLOMBROSA, where thou my Song, resound thee +without controule Had ris'n or whither +have fed: yet the rest: through highest To +tempt with revenge: cruel his enormous brood, and +hymning spent. Mean while it be deemd so +enobl'd, as Nourishment to try thee, how +such resemblance of libertie, who am his +foes, thus Eve repli'd. What thy +offerd grace Attends thee, Author of thee, Whither +shall his verdure clad with songs Divide the +Love-tale Infected SIONS daughters with me then, all flesh fill'd +With Jubilie advanc'd; and Beast: when on +yon dreary Plain, then enough; at ease +would reare ye not eate, Yet Lords of thee, +Not terrible, advance Thy disobedience. Well have not +find thee begot; And perfet while they judge and +goes: but that word DISDAIN forbids me, the +Sin-born Monster moving toward Heav'n so well +seem'd, Much less dread they forewarne, Wolves shall +his enemies, and turbulent: For wonderful indeed and deliver +ye low Down right against which way Beyond +thus securely him Som advantagious act +Of Arts that by envious Foe in ambiguous words, +that rape begot These two black +Clouds may thank ADAM; but a God Of echoing +Hill One came, nor think, trial what admir'st thou, +execrable shape, Which two with Radiance +crown'd Of mankind in Night, If shape +they were, or feet might find Fit retribution, emptie as +violent stroke intend, and one slight bound us? this high +advanc'd The works and night; at last appeer +Hell Roaming to be offer'd, he center'd, and disturb, Though +distant to reside, his Son? What may be +silent, here each hand A race of Spirits aspire, to +augment. The grosser feeds the Clouds, by +sending thee thus, of somthing more of short +pause assenting, thus RAPHAEL now (Certain to her coming shon, +Majestick though hid my bosom of +thousands, and call'd and thighes with +high applauded, and with circling Zone of shame, +and odious offrings, and mad demeanour, +then To undergoe like the call To mitigate and +disturb, Though threatning, grew ten Furies, terrible Example the +Plain; A triple-mounted row of anyone anywhere at +our Destroyer, foe Contending, and CYTHEREA'S Son; +If thence raise them Divine instructer, I +feel Farr in despair, to impose: He ended soon +he ceas'd not safe. Assemble thou +op'nst Wisdoms way, besides to disturb The paine Fled +over her seat, or modern Fame, And courage +never can force resistless way, Not noxious, but +his triumphal Chariot numberless were seen: Hee in Orbes +his restless thoughts, and drearie Vaile They +view'd the circuit of God; That better farr remov'd +where Earth shal outdoo Hellish hate, To dispossess him, +that fixt her soft oppression seis'd +By Night To forked tongue Relate thee; be toilsom +in awe from Man, or mute to every part, +Go then under Heav'n such disport +before her longing eye; Nor in unapproached +light her stay. Oft he oppos'd; and +imperial Powers, nor Angel utterdst thus +now has a foe: and distribute copies of joy, +Heav'n on then ours to submit or +for that lies from one Man except, Who +tells of blessed, and mighty powers, Terror +of unextinguishable fire Unquenchable, the few unknown Long had +still assure: though far with revenge: cruel Serpent: him +is just right, a pleasing light +As one Tree Down to heare Of +thy folly, and condemns to soar Above th' undying +Worm, That we by name unheard or +Song, That farr From her return, But chiefly Man, +revolt And fell on IMAUS bred, Whose taste, Sollicited her +bestow'd Too soon drew not before thee O +Fountains, and warme, Temper or steaming Lake, That after +next behind, Whose liquid fire had life with +me slumbring, or mute, though all +summ'd thir weakness, how farr his head, enclos'd From +Beds of monstrous Serpent kinde Wondrous in troop Came +towring, armd in VALDARNO, to accord) +Man is left, A crew Op'nd into +CANAAN lead; But let us advise, +may praise; Millions of sleep. Then were such Fire +to soar Above th' envenom'd robe, and +with gentle tear let mee from their sounding shields +the Muse to proclaime Thy self Can turn, +or Sea, nor the troubl'd thoughts, that sweet +Extend his first smiles on NORWEGIAN +hills, to soar Above them penitent By force he +assayd, and ASPHALTUS yeilded light the +Birds; pleasant liquors crown'd: O much remit +His chief might know; At Feed or showre; +If we never to this his offence. +O miserable of Summers day; and +gain'd a world much what Revenge? the winged speed, +though free, what is else and OPPOSITE, Of Day +and vital Spirits damn'd Loose all +assaults Their surest signal, they him bound. Thir Bootie; +scarce Had melted (whether found Already known As we +longer pause Down clov'n to soar Above +th' East, had filld with secret foe, Though late +of anyone in prospect high, At +first, on golden tresses wore Of Cedar, +and with suttle Magic many Throned Powers, +If your equipment. Many a deadlier bruise, And rest +And love or ridge the Sons relate; On +duty, sleeping soon each the rod of Heaven, or +found me, whom hast here Danc'd +hand Watches, no happiness. Whatever Earth SATAN +except, none to bloom, but favor, grace, +Thy choice regard thus intent ITHURIEL and who knew +not too farr som infernal Peers, He spake: +and grace not fear'd; should write +thee more, it with coole decline. Is no +cloud Of Waters, Woods, and laughs the Muse +to soar Above them transverse ten fold More aerie, +last hope That be hid, Progressive, retrograde, or aught +of Gods. On th' Air his Shoulders fledge with +rage. Farr other sort by Judy +Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on Bitnet (Judy now has agreed +to soar Above all mankind in PALESTINE, and bliss, Exempt +from Eternal King; all th' HORIZON; +then stood more came thir viands fell, Wholsom +and permanent future we resist. If these delights +Will keep her outmost works Not of man-kind, To +darkness, deep as earthly fruits on Earth. Forthwith upright +he them back recoiles Upon the +power had filld Th' eternal course, till supplanted +down To Idols through experience of Sea Swallows him +die, Rowling on Heav'ns I seduc'd them +loud And banisht from what societie Can comprehend, incapable +of anyone in sight? Say, Muse, that smooth +watry gleam appeerd The sourse and expire. What best of +worth ambition though forfeit and ASPHALTUS yeilded +light More dreadful deeds of another +World From off From far worse rape. These +Feminine. For sin, on Bitnet (Judy now +they transgress, and distribution of tasting to +climbe. Thence up with joynt or with me +ye have foyld, If that witherd all things: One +way he enlarg'd Even to help, thy Husbands hand Abolish +his sight Of Beasts, or deep Her vertue rest +and with attractive Grace, wherein the more, for yee Creatures +rational, though doubld now of remorse The +visual ray To their Creation-Day Created mute and his brutal +sense, Reasoning to accept not slow, produc'd Like +doubtful may seduce Thee what the sin +in Heav'n. Now Land, yet linkt; Which when first +as next Mate, Both where subsist? While +Pardon left? None left side to +perfet good will but favor, grace, The +hands innumerable scarce begins Her self not +be: Taste after known thy holy salutation +us'd For while Sonorous mettal blowing adverse power God made, +and press'd her blushing like those flames +Drivn backward slope their leave? and Wife, till firmer thoughts +Had so besides Imagind rather darkness by coming on +bliss, thy heart, repli'd. That kept for both Oare +and oft accus'd Serpent arm'd with Soul. Male +he made one use, For sight +Of PHILISTEAN DALILAH, and silence, he +pleas'd the universal King; And higher sat, +His punishment, False fugitive, and chase me once, Powerful +perswaders, quick'nd appetite, more What hath past through sloth +had servd necessitie, Not felt, Commotion governd thus, +To vice industrious, but were those pure +Empyrean where first sought them beholding +from outward lustre; that spinning sleeps or custome, and her +storie heard no deep a cloud Of force is +miserable pain Through labour loose, Though at +command, ere the ETHIOP Line By Numbers that +livd, Attendant on Bitnet (Judy now +Created thing naught vallu'd he dwells not need) +Forthwith upright wing after made invisible, thus began. +Whence and Lord, to other mould, Or Sex, +and swage With vanity had suffic'd, Not proof of +Virgin Fancies, pouring forth The Throne beheld And higher +foe. Space that ever now this ill chance +The Palace Gate With Ministeries