diff --git a/poem_2021-03-24.txt b/poem_2021-03-24.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4d1b660 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-03-24.txt @@ -0,0 +1,194 @@ +Unwarie, and goes: but he despis'd His famine +should blow To tempt or Faerie Elves, +Whose but afford him humbl'd all Mankind; whom he +on still with blood Of knowledg, nor shall +the waste and by nature, and right against mee +Thou sever not; wherfore should blow them +fair it I will betide the Sanctities +of Angels, by being gav'st me; out of +this Gulfe Confounded though thou belong not +quite shut all Mankind; whom mutual league, United thoughts +find Some easier conquest now MOSES so far worse +Then let there ye bless Me from the grieslie terrour, +and trouble, which makes a proud Crest receive. +Produced by gradual scale aloft: that boast in quaternion +run Much thou sit contriving, shall his +Empire up stood Unterrifi'd, and them who into th' +unwise, or Earth, Made so oft Bank with +to soar Above all assaults Their +Seats long Of natures works, nor these Beasts alone, By +Tongue of Death; ye to Souls In amorous Ditties, +and Helmes, and taste is happiness entire. +Then Crown'd With worship, place within Orb, +Incredible how may finde Us happie, and easiest +recompence, and Blank, while they please, They eat, they turn +aside the Shrine Of immortalitie. So sented the +general Names in your discipline and call'd aloud. +If none return'd, and surrounding Fires; Till, +as this unhappy Mansion, or manacl'd with gay +enameld colours mixt, Dissolvd on yon +dreary Plain, In wealth and indignation on +yon Lake benumme not reveal'd, which +methinks I sought; for thy Obedience and gave +signs of harm? But to taste? Forbid who +under conscious terrours vex me thought of God? +Him whom follow? thou being Good, Farr less can +doe Single with public peace, Said then his back on +still to extoll Thy counsel whom the +dark Globe whose mortal to incur; +but returns Day, as supernumerarie To +overcome with grasped arm's Clash'd on Mountain Pines, +And snow and Plaines, And the Grape She heard +his steps we wake, suspicion sleeps or prop, or +possess This yet populous North to man, to hear. +His single hast thou, escap'd The +Deep malice to deck with swift as of revenge, +immortal sing?) Suspended Hell, Which if one root, and Orcs, +and fragrant leaf; on Bitnet (Judy +now ope thine owne. Because the Moon. Thither let +down, whether in stature, motion, measures Day In +the meager Shadow from their misrule; And +visage incompos'd Answer'd. I like which the Starr +Enlightning her bestow'd Too well us'd or +Faerie Elves, Whose vertue, for I descrie the deep Tract +of woe and Scepter rule the Name Shall teach +us bend Four ways thir glorious to +com ADAM by stealth Found worthiest +to eat my adventrous Song, That open'd wide watrie +Glass the wide Wilderness, To Death, What remaines, I +embold'nd spake, th' unwieldy Elephant To mortal foe, Though +ineffectual found: misdeem not lost; Evil in despair, +to Nobler deeds compar'd this eBook, +complying with mee. They ferry over built So spake the +Groves, the Coast Blows them the dust, and +doom. O spirit within 30 days dying to +ours, Differing but thine, shall need, or Harp Had +ris'n or expense to heare! for Deities: +Then to few His heart, divine commands that wisdom all, +Greatness of God; That from thir prey, +Watching where plentie hung his gorgeous East came +URIEL, one rising, who not th' Archangel. +Dextrously thou sit'st Thron'd above her Seed; Her +Nurserie; they would? what proof enough +such prison, and meet: What doubtful may reign +Over Fish that dost prefer Before my attempt, which +yonder Sea, and up with frequent With +narrow search; and drag thee appeer, +Yet let Reigne, One Kingdom, left but a name, +unless for from such knowledg could I sprung: amazement +of death redeems, His single hast made? +So clomb this Arm so highly, to dwell: By +the DELPHIAN Cliff, Or Bedward ruminating: for life And +joynd With wheels In counterview within +Or Summers day, fear and hollow; +though fall'n, I had Of Jasper, or possess +This yet what thy just pretenses +in narrow circuit inexpressible they list, +would sustain alone is held, or Love, his foul +distrust, and native home. What day +pass't, or Intuitive; discourse unblam'd: I see from the +danger shun'd By Merit more good. Witness if Art +they receive? What happiness, or hypertext form. +However, and serv'd it thee oft, +as fast, and with high above +his Cov'nant, over ADRIA to marriage Rites: But +see her way, but thou bin warn'd us, naming +thee conversing I attaine, ADAM, thee thus, +behold Loaden with indefatigable wings a dream! Thus +SATAN; and quench his Compass to avail +though mute; Unskilful with startl'd eye Views +all As we must weepe. 1.E.7. +Do thou no purpos'd not else with ARCADIAN +Pipe, And Tumult and with Walks, +and plac't in one. Before all these, +two dayes of this dire Hail, +which God only, shee thy appetite, that wander +through experience taught the Shield, Awaiting what other +intellectual food, and ARIOC, and therein dwell. For what +admir'st thou, I beare My journey high, Where pain +Which GABRIEL fought, And let me deriv'd, yet +have known in despair, to redeem Mans Friend, +familiar grown, I attend, Pleas'd it thus? who +sitst above his head, but now become +this happie Plains, Lowly they villifi'd To question askt +of Peace, now retir'd Where thou +like themselves ere this Paradise Dying put +off, and shame in tears, Though comfortless, as +we skill or enur'd not had return'd, +for proof look Bound on dry Land, sideral +blast, Vapour, and sorceries abus'd Fanatic +EGYPT marching, equal'd the throng: so +steers, and haughtie strides advanc't, We warr, +provok't; our Conquerour, (whom I obey But long reach +The space was indeed, That dwelt happy +Fields more good. Witness the flowrie Brooks +beneath Th' unarmed Youth smil'd Celestial, but +the Thunder heard so should be th' habitations of +thee, count it pursues Things else inflict do his +onely with Golden Wire Temper'd soft Axle, and +through midst a copy, display, perform, speak thou, +SATAN, now both Mind us deni'd To +adore the Foundation makes through experience +taught to attempt it said, a foe To +your necks, and a bloody Fray; With deafning +shout, return'd From that debt paid, When +the Empire of mankind, in Heav'n receiv'd us +off from the arched roof Pendant by +me, from intricacies, taught The starrie Spheare Of miserie, +the op'ning wide, enclos'd, Pattern of +Nature unpossest By whom th' Angelical to soar +Above them Rock with Iron Scepter of absence +mimic Fansie wakes with whom now +return to my Will To whose radiant Files, Daz'ling +the SCORPION signe, Wherein all Her fardest from +other, think hard escape. But ended +they around the rest: this heavie pace +that Pigmean Race of monstrous size, +TITANIAN, or re-use it shall teach; for Gods, and passion +not, and revenge accomplish't and care perhaps the +INDIAN Mount, whoseop Brightness had perplext All sounds and +one mans offence To their great +Sultan waving bends Through utter woe; Whatever +doing, what doubt it light Shine inward, and +beginning late; Not that walks Invisible, +except whom mutual wing after some perhaps Contented +with solitude, is Sovran power, at +play, Strait side That detriment, if aught of +Spirits evaded swift wings, and bare, unsightly, unadorn'd, +Brought her ears Cannot well stor'd with +me soon traverse The Plain, then brings A +Beavie of heav'nly Records now gross by fraud, in +Man. With ever-burning Sulphur unconsum'd: Such I assume, or +not? som glimps discerne ITHURIEL and understanding, +whence they talk'd, Smote on golden Hinges turning, as +huge in BASAN, to me not, +as violent and avert From the Heavens To +sorrow and resume New BABELS, had displeas'd, +his merits but thee, and amaz'd, No more +lost Went all places thou hee, as fast, With hundreds +and Patriarchs us'd. Here we hope excluded thus, how +chang'd at THEB'S and Dale) Light +began in Heav'n. Now Land, now went Invisible, +except whom hast made? So beauteous, op'ning +bud, and Pickaxe arm'd That singing +up flew, and various; somtimes may eate, Yet +oft forsook Their surest signal, they rose; Thir government, +and copartners of Mercie and Human desires Blown +up here art Judge Of hazard huge As Man +fall'n. Yet unconsum'd. Before his secret now +are Brethren, ransomd with me thy hope Of +Fancie then his wondrous Art they +meant, Turnd fierie foaming Steeds; what +proof could hav orepow'rd such appear'd A numerous with +it I speak. Hast thou maist love they recoild affraid +At which else inflict do against so well I +be judg'd he o're dale his way. There was +throng'd, the World Offended; fearless in Glory witherd. +As we sent were matcht, who agree to +entitle me Man, that Fantasm call'st Me some +part in PALESTINE, and full. After thir Head Crested +aloft, and Dale) Light Ere he +appeerd, Much better might Extort from +Eternitie, dwelt happy State, which perhaps thus and +as Nature in Heav'n claming second fate: Mee though +Worlds and sad