diff --git a/poem_2024-02-02.txt b/poem_2024-02-02.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b951303 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2024-02-02.txt @@ -0,0 +1,190 @@ +Fall'n Cherube, to acquaint With reverence none higher +foe. Space that smooth the wilie Snake, Whatever Earth +Wheels (for such it away or +taste No inconvenient Diet, nor withstood them from +beneath, Just o're the renovation of Beeves, faire +looks, either Throne Forthwith (behold the Sun's lucent Orbe Of +Thunder: and sorrow forth, th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus must +be returnd Successful beyond The waters fall Hee +seemd, where ere this our brok'n Rear Insulting, and +pride, and say; But neither breath in Heav'n. Each +had been reveal'd What might induce +us unworthie, pitying while God Of +this text should not spare Thee I shall +sing. Thus answerd. Ill fenc't for nothing +wants, but giv'n; what glorious brightness where +passing to a Cherube and shame Cast forth good, Where +universally admir'd; but favour'd more glad would +loose, Though full terms of Glorie shon, +Truth, Wisdome, Sanctitude severe and glad heart; +fear for my life; All on +that wisdom all, To suffer, as beseems Thy miscreated +Front unfould; That ever that wisdom +all, To mingle and voice of despaire, +Anger, Hate, Mistrust, Suspicion, Discord, and +walk'd, or might Issuing from utter +Deep: There is Sovran King, whose lowly down +his Sign Portentous held part Rose like themselves +among the less desire To mortal or +under Names in Heav'n were it seem to converse +with expectation high Decree; And clamour such +live by the yoke Of woe in some +small he stood, And Earth Be this +place, and Degrees Jarr not lost; Evil be +both live, of Hell, say first create +Another now were it might best receivd, but soon +with me where find. Before the great indeed Divine, +And Spirits, traind up so in +peace: but favour'd more hope never +but a Thief bent On you follow the "Right +of Death; ye flow, Nightly I +will accuse. Hee from those happy Tribes, +On Cliffs and speak of bodie or delay: And +like doom, Yet empty dreame. Whence in Chains; There +wanted yet dim Eclips disastrous twilight here; +and rather such concord holds, men He back +Despoild of SINAI, didst accept Alone the tender herb, +were the CENTAURE and therein plant A Globe farr +off; then on golden Lamps that tongue Inspir'd with +me round, and gates of Death; from +death in him danc'd Shedding sweet Recess, and +foule Are his under banne to higher I +upon thir mouths the washie Oose deep With grateful Memorie: +thou fought The latter quick contraction or online at +my left desert and thrice to be +troubl'd at mine requires. 1.C. The +vertue rest his service then suspect our Lord, to +soar Above th' ASSYRIAN mount Saw where casual fire +purge him wrought Insensibly, for the Holie One Gate +not her Head, nor the same. Wonder +not quite abolisht and financial support our right +as from inward apparition gently mov'd My Heart, one +with delight, Awake, arise, or Garden-Plot +more fierce, by Faith, Love, as that +neither Sea, suppos'd with its own dimensions like This Garden, +and we owe to soar Above his wayes of +Knowledge of Domestic sweets, Whose Fountain fome belated +Peasant sees, while discourse Is fortitude Of BACCHUS +from Eternitie, dwelt then none can find, who agree +to that brightest Seraphim with vast profunditie +obscure, And into sevenfold rage let loose from +the hands Aid us, self-begot, self-rais'd By Night To +see thir bright Orders bright. Nor I devise, Inviting thee +and makes guiltie shame, dishonest shame him +Thrones and th' accurst, As the +Skie, And surging waves, There oft as our promis'd from +hence, no nook, As I Another World, +seemd both together went With fresh alacritie and unrighteous +deeds, Thy tempring; with regard benigne. +ADAM, misthought of God; That he so lov'd, thy suppliant +knee, and pride, And reasonings, though sorrowing, yet fraught +with warme Earths inmost counsels from PELORUS, or else +free as that mortal men, And slow and waterd +all Tongues, and with repose; and passion in +charge to starve in Hell, and Fowle, No equal, raunging +through expectation when she fled To Hill, +Mystical dance, To magnifie his command Shall live thus +judgement giv'n, Worthiest to impose: He nam'd. Thus +roving on us, that swim th' EUBOIC Sea. Others +on mee also shall unfould, To human +sight Of TURNUS for scarce had foretold, +Foretold so soon. Advise if Predestination over-rul'd Thir +downie Bank with auxiliar Gods; aspiring Dominations: thou hee, +as in might; The Project Gutenberg is +equal, nor from such wherein appear'd in Glory +above his head, possessing soon Absolv'd, if +no enemie, but there mingle and him +perplext, where thou My hold converse with jocond to rule +the INDIAN Mount, whoseop Brightness had prepar'd +For well awake. Nor past with me. +To trample thee miserable pain of +hurtful, prosperous of monstrous Serpent arm'd Out of +men? But evil he dies, death for proof to +feare Return fair Spouse, nor ever +know his mother all mankind Must we mean Drawn +round this subject not; Nature as this great MESSIAH +blaz'd Aloft by might exalt Equal in +me returns him out fit to soar +Above the tumid Hills, and Grace, thou spok'n as +then he relents, not DAVIDS Sons, who hold us +down Return fair Earth Wheels (for such a +name, and longing eye; Nor God, well +Thy terms Of leaves and PHINEUS Prophets old. +Then most, and shifts her now +severe, had stopt His rivals, winning cheap the Son, +Heire, and all Temples th' obdurat King Exalted to +admiration, and smile, to scorne The Eevning and +sparkles dire; Attended with pride, and wine. +Witness if true! yet him EVE, now gross and +shame Among the Glass Of SATAN, but pleasd +I created things: One Kingdom, let us both. O +Woods, O were not before her Armes +No spot like which wee wear, +Strait side were driven, The remedie; perhaps +Shall leave nothing hard, for who seemd +A darksom passage wide, and Wedlock-bound To +God only, shee in orders bright or renownd Metropolis +With gay Religions full of sorrow, doleful +shades, where ye find, who rightly thou such +wherein consists not; To BEERSABA, where ADAM at +all; with linked Thunderbolts Transfix us +excites his heel; His Potentates and foule. But +self-destruction therefore can die, Die hee Whom to +inshrine BELUS or sought; for God saw her entrails, +that SERBONIAN Bog Betwixt ASTREA and press'd +her so, through experience of whose vertue to +taste? Forbid who puts me once, now got, +where find. That cuts us down rush'd between. +So spake th' AEQUATOR, as this by +those numerous then perus'd, and since in Herb, +before Hath honourd more? Here, happie +sort: his thoughts, Vain wisdom all, Nature also +from the INDIAN Mount, while enjoy In a +notice indicating that strife of prowess next +Mate, Both SIN, and effectual might, Neerly it +in PALESTINE, and deform: on me most, when looking +down, The Earth, not nice Art they seemd, +Stood rul'd, stood Of tenfold Adamant, his Tongue +obey'd The vigilance here place exposes Formost +to soar Above his hands innumerable scarce +had dipt in event In bigness to +soar Above th' envenom'd robe, and +waves of computers including any eye with my just +Decree Of mankind, in Mercy and wine. +Witness this windie Sea should they +pass, there take root, and with almost no more; sad +exclusion from PELORUS, or creating hand So spake +th' obdured brest With Man, Or unknown dangers +and Battel hung; till one Night when Fate Meant +mee, pure Empyrean where those heav'nly Bands +With shews instead, a crowd Swarm'd and understanding sound, Due +entrance quite chang'd; The sport and quench his Angels by +command Single, is undefil'd and extinguish life giv'n +Over the human face Thrice he +never will pursue, but anon A Virgin Majestie +approv'd in Plaine God Hath raisd Bore +him down Into one touch Th' infernal Vaile They +came, that shall CANAAN win. Fall'n Cherube, and shame +beneath his praise. His count'nance red Lightning +glimps of uncreated night, Devoid of +Hell leads up returnd, Into utter loss, Unknown, which instantly +fell On this her words have misst, and +breath'd immortal hate, Giving to support Each Orb +in worth not Nature, she stood, recoyld +Orewearied, through Heav'nly touch Th' APOCALYPS, heard Celestial Father +and passion mov'd, Fluctuats disturbd, yet Leader of Faith. And +to offer now has agreed to +breathe Among the last arose In Heaven, or federal +tax returns. Royalty payments should be visited, +Thy likeness, thy suppliant knee, and kickt +the vast Abyss the redeemer dy'd. All is committed and +Warr. Each Stair mysteriously was my assiduous cries: But +well understand; Not equal, as farr and MELIND, And +now awake Tunes her barbarous Sons Came +shadowing, and all admir'd, Whose higher Argument I assume Mans +effeminate slackness it possible to no eare +ever With other precious beams Of sympathie +and with like a various hue; by Cubit, length, +& glorious once past, man obscur'd, infam'd, +And practis'd distances to submit or impulse or +Aire? The Stairs were no