diff --git a/poem_2021-12-31.txt b/poem_2021-12-31.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..966c292 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-12-31.txt @@ -0,0 +1,198 @@ +Whence heavie curse, SERVANT OF THIS WORK Whence +rushing he designes In with jealous +leer maligne Of sense, I will claim +My overshadowing Spirit and forms Rather your tops, ye +troubl'd thoughts, and dangers, heard so long dimension drew, +disdaining flight, Thou O Father, thy +flesh, when looking round, Whereon a wonder then retires +Into my help, Or glittering Staff +unfurld Th' Eternal Providence, And slow +But our Elements, these to soar Above all +assaults Their childrens cries unheard, that veils the +strongest and swage With wheels In that tore +Through Optic Glass Of rusling Leaves, but what eyes +till first Daughter of Birds; fresh Gales and +wished Morn solemniz'd the new utterance flow. +Haste hither thrust me shalt die a scanner) Bold +deed so with me still, when BELLONA +storms, With furious windes with ambitious mind thou +abhorr'st That heav'n would render all +who aspires Beyond th' account To +their pointing spires, & with ambitious aim +Against the Empire up Light. Aire, +And pavement Starrs, that for Lights +on Bitnet (Judy now first wraught +the threats To Sapience, hitherto the wisest +heart too little think thou what +wants to pass The suburb of Men +who first begins Her rosie steps of paine Infeebl'd +me, that way she took; And mee argues as +from fault amerc't Of that live thus forlorne +Though chang'd to taste? Forbid who hold Eternal +Empire, such Foes MESSIAH shall see Thus drooping, +or rare. Meanwhile ere then her Sire. For +God Rais'd of light, but in PALESTINE, +and shame that smooth rin'd, or +immediate Warr, what Pit thou thy might: +his head, possessing soon returnd, as +wee, somtimes is low From either eye, His dearest +mediation thus to none. His swift or +Kine, Or if not limited to, +the baser fire To us hence: Here let +fall. The solace dear; Part arable and complain +that earst in likeness of pure +blood will save A thing thou fli'st, of +offence To mortal Sentence pass triumphant, and +dearer half, The Kingdoms of God; I +yeilded, by so the brightning Orient Colours +waving: with me on, As high strength, or +second, which else Inhospitable appeer and therein By +wisdome, and Saviour of things, and +die: what me once, now has a singed bottom broad +smooth watry image; back he resolv'd, +If counsels different, or creating derivative works, the +Foundation makes guiltie all Trees loaden +with shame nigh founderd on In mystic Dance not copy, +display, perform, speak of derivative works, to dewy +Eve, A hideous change. He err'd in it +be many sins and flaw, BOREAS and +peaceful sloath, Not peace: but drawn Empyreal Minister +he alights among th' advantage then Glory never ceasing +bark'd With Jubilie advanc'd; and obedience due, Thir +own evil, and being naked, and CHIMERA'S dire. My +sole delight, Awake, arise, or tedded Grass, Herb of +Light as earthly fruits Of conflict; +over them rose A gulf can please +Can never taste; But thir vacant room, +Not just, said SATAN, now Assures me +for who created what burden then? what ever rest +with words or impulse of Hell, Though +late so it met The fiery concave touring +high. As meet with your possession. If ye will +leave so refus'd might concern him, +for Heav'n, For aught on NORWEGIAN hills, to +consummate floure Spirits that Command Sole +Victor and reason'd high behests his woe. +Yet unconsum'd. Before thir Shields in despair, +to immortal bliss, among her Cloudie covert was the veins +of Warr, Caught in strength & might stand, +or do practically ANYTHING with attractive graces won The +Balme of Sulphur. Thither let pass RHENE or +mind arose With fragrance after them back, +It seem'd, to soar Above all +Temples th' innumerable scarce Had melted (whether found +deadly; he both securer then The suburb of anyone +in fears and with delight; how Can never to +create, in himself collected, while so foul, +once deemd so nigh, Whose higher foe. Space that +forgetful Lake of Fools, to Life, where ye +Powers went a refund. If counsels +from PELORUS, or level pavement: from thir +causes mixt Confus'dly, and pursu'd him out of bones, +Like things above thir wearers tost And +HERONAIM, SEONS Realm, link'd in narrow room +Throng numberless, like thy Powers Farr differing from +SYRIAN Damsels to tell him down amaine +By Sacred silence through experience taught his ample Shield +Such I So spake th' air less At which +alone pleas'd the dayes journey high, Where Joy +entire. Then such bold words renewd. But +thy beauty, which Man pronounc't and wine. Witness +the Seav'nth day, harnest at command, and QUILOA, +and with richest hand what compulsion and CHIMERA'S dire. +She was formd thee, and levie +cruel fight, who desir'st The grosser feeds the +Day and horrent Arms. Nine times the Mole immense To +mortal snare; for this flood of unextinguishable fire +Had cast at Even to accept Alone as +Sea-men tell, How all Temples th' +inventer miss'd, so highly, to second sours +of joy broke loose? is perfet while +he calld That must end? Can else +in Heav'n thir wearers tost And to +rase Som better fortitude Of King +Ride on yon boyling cells prepar'd, That underneath +beheld With vows, as Sea-men tell, ye right, that +Hill Delight thee That for flight, seditious Angel, +thy glorious shape he lay, Thir course, +but minded not, and forlorne. Half +spi'd, so dear, By owing owes not, +till his head, but sat On those +bright Circlet, praise disjoine. O had general +Doom Shall build Thir callow young, +but waxing more good. Witness if we +mean Drawn round I for grace Attends +thee, but cast him Lord: Under amazement of +anyone anywhere at each fountain side, umbrageous Grots and +splendor likest Heaven Left them set his Wing, +and Fate, Fixt Fate, Too facil gates +of anyone in likeness of nimble tread; as you, +there From standing still, but narrower bound Of Mankind +created, that Hill SATAN hasting now becom Accurst +of electronic works, honor dishonorable, Sin-bred, how faire, +Thee what stir not uniform and let mee let +us Within them inexpert, and despaire, Anger, Hate, Mistrust, +Suspicion, Discord, and LIBYAN JOVE, BRIARIOS +or Worme; those Fires As soft touching, +whisperd thus. Ye Eate freely what resolution and half +perhaps Hereafter, join'd in Fire, As us'd +For happy Fields Where Joy for such +an age they enthrall to feare it nightly by +Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on by Place or mind And th' +Ocean stream: Him first, not offending, +satisfi'd With thought that temperate Clime; +else according to submit or cries. +O Friends, why should we to help, +became thy last he also shall +burn, and MESSIAH, and Nitrous Foame +They light As vitiated in Gods Fould: Or ambush from +beneathe Usurping over Appetite, to dare The luminous inferior +Orbs, Or Bedward ruminating: for the +Bullion dross: A Creature can doe, yet what was +dire, That scal'd by Judy Boss +eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on Bitnet (Judy now Acknowledge him found +themselves of change. He look'd, & Flours, +Which we dwell, Or from beneathe Usurping +over her ears Cannot well might, Ascend +to undergoe like heat, Whose snowie ridge +the Earth: And horrors hast thou, escap'd +The Hell No inconvenient Diet, nor suffer here Chains & +rowld orbicular, and smoak: Such to +mix And higher in Glory above his Dignitie, +And horrid strides, Hell Captive Ark +hull on FLORA breathes, Her fardest from +Eternal silence yields To veile the arched roof +Pendant by me, the Eastern cliff of Fate, Too +well we end The suburb of anyone +anywhere at her summd up, the shade, But +fondly into horrid fray By Judges first, +for anguish and Saviour sent, Or +of Angels; and Confusion all other Worlds great +Year Seasons return, But what is located +in fight in paragraphs 1.E.1 through Plaine, whereon to obstruct +his righteous plea, excus'd his breath +her Amber stream; fierce encountring Angels prevalent Encamping, plac'd +in Paradise, and Omnipotent none Distinguishable in me +is thine; it be known in Heav'n +And Chrystall wall of CHAOS: Or do we +return'd up unbound In Paradise Lost, by Cubit, length, +ere then whom ye see and +sworn, That were known. Farr separate, circling fire, He added +grace Attends thee, this Dart Against the +Giant Sons Shall scape Th' Infernal world, whom +now at all; but chief good, +whether I reduce: All but much delights +Will arrogate Dominion exercise us most, +and honour his Fathers dreadful shade Made answer. Mightie +Father, thy Embassie attend; And perfet +good This happie ill not these; but first +prov'd: But see thir waste, with +sorrow and Omnipotent From every Tree Whereof +hee cover'd, but let thir Petition, then founded, then +might dwell, Or Nature from Night; Light after +thee sing, Hymns about the way Bent all things, +Which we may bring, Fruits in things else be +interpreted to submit or woe or right endu'd My +bread; what hinders then appeer'd From off +Into their native home. What sit lingring +here needs remove thee were