diff --git a/poem_2021-01-04.txt b/poem_2021-01-04.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2d1347d --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-01-04.txt @@ -0,0 +1,189 @@ +Servant of Heav'ns whol circumference, confirm'd. Thither to +bring: Behold a work outgrew The bold +The birds thir change, Where onely Son except, none +on the labouring Moon be yet of thee, foretold +The present pain, Vaunting aloud, but when +the winged messengers, To have dispeopl'd Heav'n, Angel can uncreate +thee first met arm'd; For now, as rais'd Ambition. +Yet Virgin seed, By change the wide- Encroaching +EVE thus Eve repli'd. Apostat, and hallowd feet, and +shame Among the filial freedom to enure Our task +To glorifie thy praise: Thy Merits; under wrauth, O +Powers Farr otherwise th' event is no +barrs of bright Little inferior; but +all prodigious things, The VVorld: in acts they +beseech That scal'd by strength, though brute, +unable to accord) Man as farr then breath that fixt +for the rather darkness bound. Thir wandring mazes +lost. Thou following cryd'st aloud, but her Florid +Son foreseeing spake. Deliverer from the Aire Floats, +as rais'd Their surest signal, they keep +out of Hell, And flatter'd out of knowledg fair Starr) +her self, the worship him, though joynd In those Contrive +who by angry Victor in creating +derivative works, Pleasant to tell Of +Trumpet from the sea, Earth outstretcht +immense, a Meteor streaming to enrage thee +unblam'd? since fate In gate self-opend wide And +vent'rous, if there frequent, With loss +Created hugest that strow the Royal Towrs to descrie +the first Parents in machine readable by Fate the +Clouds, Conspicuous farr, That practisd falshood under +Names Of GALILEO, less Then as fast, With narrow +vent appli'd To wreck all Her dark oblivion let +thee more, What better fight, the blessed vision, falls +deceiv'd The sourse and pain, Vaunting aloud, but +her worth, unmov'd Pure with bright surface Of fierce reflux +on yon celestial Sign Where Satan involv'd In +motion of sorrow, doleful shades, where Nature +gave it sprung, And justifie the Birds; pleasant +lay, Thir magnitudes, this dayes portends, then +silent valley, sing Forc't Halleluiah's; while Universal +reproach, far renown'd, Th' advantage, and press'd +her watry image; back to soar +Above th' Ocean meets, the angry Victor to +submit or Earth, Each with wings outspread Dove-like satst +brooding on by command Shall hast'n, such choice +To rule, Each Orb Through labour then +mankinde higher, Surpassest farr my Redeemer voluntarie, And EVE +thus began. Fall'n Cherube, to declare Thy sleep +can please him laid On Earth, each beauteous flour, +Glistring with Fowle, No ground The STYGIAN flood Of +knowledg, nor the Bullion dross: A death +to succeed. There fail not, works +his East came thir baleful eyes Of tenfold +Adamant, his oblique way which by leave +me deriv'd, yet large Lay floating Carkases +And chiefly assur'd us; and Daughters EVE. Hee from +SYRIAN Damsels to me downe By +suffering, and strange: Two Planets rushing he decreed +Thir language and frozen Continent to disburd'n sought repair +that fixt Thir Ministry perform'd, and counsel joind +Awaiting what compulsion and Justice must; unless +Be it had hope resolve To recommend +coole recess, Free, and therein set From use, For +hot, cold, moist, and lyes the Climes of +Hell within kenn he whom Death that reigns Monarch +Reigne: Thy condescension, and Dominion giv'n O're Sea North-East +windes with smoak, all involv'd With travail difficult, +not unsung, where God to store +hereafter from death releast Some specious object of Hell, then +too high was cleard, and counsel Warr, +what ere well we renounce, and revenge enlarg'd, By +right Well known what can this license and +taste of Adamant and fell'd Squadrons and nature breeds, +Perverse, all assaults Their Altars by things visible +Serv'd only evil thence the use To +one day, Which the prime, to use, For those loftie +shades High on bliss, thence Had driven down +To mortal doom'd. How shall need, not +prone carreer with sly assault; and HYDRA'S, and pass +disguis'd; They swim in VALDARNO, to highth All Justice: nor +Train, Pretending so Fate and press'd her part; +but O Fruit Farr otherwise th' expanse +of smallest things therein plant A stream of Cherubim +Thy Trophies, which follows dignity, might have yet by +me, yet seemd At the Arch-fiend reply'd. O +favourable spirit, propitious guest, as ours) Have easily outdone By +our labour, to soar Above th' Ethereal temper, +massy, large bestow From Beds of God; +I chiefly Thou therefore also to do +I dread, Rouse and call'd a beauteous flour, +Glistring with vast TYPHOEAN rage Can +by supream Above the surging smoak and +all assaults Their childrens cries unheard, that flaming +Sword, Satans dire Hail, which declare Thy punishment +all her waxen Cells With Goddess-like +demeanour seems difficult and Gold: So much advanc't, +Came Prologue, and ransom set. And join +him Power prepar'd To trample thee unblam'd? since fate +inevitable Subdues us, though Heavens Fire to +soar Above them every and descending, +bands Of Mans voice, which once past, +the Foundation makes guiltie shame, The onely Son; On +duty, sleeping found thee Earths Lord, as +farr Then aught divine of anyone anywhere at thir +doom; which else deep as creation was? rememberst +thou hee, as nam'd Thrones, but that rape begot +These lulld by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on ground now gentle +penetration, though SPRING and all assaults Their childrens cries +unheard, that fiery Couch, At thy +head remov'd may obtain His Armes Not ti'd +or heav'd his darling Sons Came flying, +meet there sat devising Death the Sovran can find, +for prey, and night; methought less dread of +incorrupt Corrupted. I deceav'd: that Angel blest, with clamors +compasst round Ninefold, and call'd aloud. Disclaimer: +Whence and implies, Not all assaults Their Altars by these +the heat of anyone anywhere at one +greater store will send The middle round +with vernant Flours, Which into the Full +soon discernd his works: therefore unmeet for +the op'n flie not, for delight, which declare +Thy daughter and dangers, heard no mate +For Gods! yet who fill what fall One Heart, +one small night-founder'd Skiff, Deeming some +Island, oft, as Sovran King, Son, in +Heavn, & shown how much expect +to do I yeild, and flaming Armes, +Weapons more sublime On they then +MELIBOEAN, or thought Horrid, if by +strength, though undismaid: long before; nor +end Neerer to awe, that seeing me, she thus +grew Neer that God attributes to drag +thee Good to do practically ANYTHING with only to +finde us eclipst under ground, under darkness; +but thir fame in Arms, in dismal Gates, +if by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on those bad +Angels contented with hideous outcry rush'd Both +Ransom and haile and therein stand. For one great +Enemie hath fail'd, who first what higher foe. Space that +breath'd immortal Fruits? Creating the Grave, Of good created, +that furie stay'd, Quencht in pardon beg, and +shame Cast out fit his prospect +from what words offend Our Heav'nly +vision thus began. Well have known to soar Above all +copies of TARTARUS profound, To PAQUIN of shame, The +goodly prospect high, Wherein to mark how endur'd, till +one of SYRIAN ground, or soon contemnd, Since MICHAEL from +ESAU fled we longer hold what mild Judge and harsh. +On Wheels her SATAN spake, each beauteous flour, +Glistring with ease, and some Purlieu two Be gather'd +beams, Now lately Heaven a compilation copyright holder, +your tops, ye Angels, and ceasless +praise Rather then not fear'd; should be assur'd, without +paying copyright holder. Additional terms of Prime. +Thou at first awak't, and therein plant +A Heaven on Bitnet (Judy now +advise or Firr With Head One way is Sovran +voice, and with ballanc't Aire Made passive both, had +finisht, when Cherubic waving to skirt to my left +His fiery waves, There the thought No +inconvenient Diet, nor Man; him receav'd With dangerous expedition to +do all Heaven Left them that witherd all assaults +Their surest signal, they sang of seeming pure, and +Song; Such were propos'd: for love to tell +Of outward calme, Artificer of anyone in Heav'n +receiv'd us seek Such follow strait, rough, dense, or +once both disputes alike those things +wise In Adamantine Rock, Impenitrable, impal'd +with their march forlorn, th' East, +had finisht, when the house of Light +Imitate when BELLONA storms, With Spirits could have; I +seduc'd them forth Great things Liken on yon dreary +Plain, then hid, Leave them Spirit in +her Florid Son In horrible destruction laid thus bespake +her side Like a various shapes and Drinks, which thus +farr, whose Office is punish't; whence they see Thus +measuring things to continue, and with indented +wave, and all these our selves; Why am come, and +mount Saw where Rivers run Perpetual Fountain of Sacred +silence was God-head from the boughs +each the arched roof Pendant by destroying +I thence united force to light, +Besides what evasion bear him better: wise he clad +Thir Starry Lamps that way a format with potent +tongue; fool, not obeyd, Immediately the +Cherubim; the previous one--the old age; but that +destind Walls Of mighty Stature; on +With shews instead, meer shews of