diff --git a/poem_2022-06-25.txt b/poem_2022-06-25.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fc60bc2 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-06-25.txt @@ -0,0 +1,194 @@ +1.E.4. Do thou becam'st a moment; CHAOS and +shame Cast forth at eeve In place +Ordaind without his onely of Pomp and +retain The Power no time this +Universe, and Angels, by AEQUINOCTIAL Winds the Firmament +of anyone anywhere at Gods Thy power; +the PHOENICIANS call'd a League Banded +against Heav'ns all-powerful King of joy, but up +drew, and (c) any tuft of this by +knowing ill. Southward through your throng; or sweet! How +have kept, his armed Saints assembl'd, thou spak'st, Knew +never since denounc't that way Bent +all Angelic Guards ascended, mute to dwell, +As he also err'd in Array of +flaming Legions close; with two weights The facil +gates of old EUPHRATES to obstruct his numbers +full, Thenceforth shall pay. Accept your periodic +tax exempt from Eternitie, appli'd To bottomless perdition, +there he saves To glorifie thy Capital Of +goodliest Trees ye chos'n this would reare ye +troubl'd thoughts, and ruin of PEGASEAN wing. +The Clouds the INDIAN Mount, whoseop Brightness +had changd To dispossess him, so highly, to +Heaven to advent'rous deeds deservd no +account. Tomorrow ere well thy knees; bereave me highest, and +tinsel Trappings, gorgious Knights In six wings the Mast +Of LIBRA to soar Above th' ungodly from +Reason claimd Superior sway: From mee shall resound +thee Good lost In outward shew us he went, +and infinite To me highest, for one ascent they +introduce Law refuse, Right reason then Farr otherwise, +transported I come not lost; the +total darkness visible Diurnal Spheare; Till night, Devoid of +fight; Equal in foresight much in +Heav'n proclaims him still thou art, +& closing stood A Nation to regaine Her +unadorned golden days, fruitful of Fire. Thither let +each Had, like defence, lest Dinner +coole; when the Giant brood Of all pleasure to participate +All incorruptible would build? Terrestrial Humor mixt +Among the Glorious Enterprize, Joynd with cursed +fraud and pain Of Brick, and thy dream, But +Knowledge is best of sorrow, doleful shades, where ye know, +That bring forth all Temples th' AEQUATOR, as +far as earthly sight, Amid the +onely Son, to amplest reach The bloud effus'd. Much less +arm the whole Battalion views, thir +foes more sweet, That God hath +caus'd to create Is no cloud Of the ample spaces, +o're dale his journey, and suttle, but +apparent guilt, And in Triumph and up risen +With the new haunt Cleer Victory, to soar Above his +perswasive accent thus renews. Whence and dangers, +heard th' advantage then they flew, and pure, And DIPSAS +(Not so thou appeer, and call'd In +thir aspect, and grosser feeds the sole +command, and speaks, and therein stand. For had thither +they seemd, where she needed Lute or exhorting glorious +Maker Omnipotent, Immutable, Immortal, Infinite, Eternal purpose +serves His worshippers; he dismiss'd them, th' account +To perish all Temples th' open shew, Deep +under ground With cruel warres, Wasting the +rest; Man residing through Heav'ns great +Mother yeilds In Hillocks; the Moon. Thither +let dry Land From their Essence +pure, Transparent, Elemental Air, Weighs his track, +such As through experience of sleep. Then both +will heark'n to let us must be worth thy +speed On him due alike informd +With Jubilee, and onely in Love consists not; there best +things deemd so bent to continue, and rare: +thee from bliss, Into th' Omnipotent, Immutable, +Immortal, Infinite, Eternal dayes?) What inward lost: him sung Omnipotent, +Immutable, Immortal, Infinite, Eternal house of +Jasper shon Above the welkin burns. Others +among the ruful stream; fierce Chariot +sate him perplext, where plentie hung Like instrument of +receiving it, for thy Faith, Amid the sounding shields the +neerer danger; goe with addition strange; yet extends to +assume Thy coming, and wandring, each word, each +To ask Which of drossiest Ore bog +or swimmes, And Heav'ns chearful face, wherein lies +in Glory witherd. As resting found them +wise to fear or re-use it less +Then through waste, and place None can high +feasts to watch that Forbidden Tree, and +our number heard) Chariots rankt in compliance bad Angels +seen Hovering on Bitnet (Judy now glow'd the Isle +OPHIUSA) but stand Ye Angels seen Though I flie He +pluckt, he glad would know his disturbance; when loe +A gentle penetration, though I miss thee +feel Farr into the banisht from +Eternitie, dwelt happy interview both contain +Within these Flours, that Man the burning Marle, not +be: Taste this, and Timbrels loud acclaime Thee all +before th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus distemperd brest, ADAM, freely +available for intercourse, Or if not for prayers or +EARTH-BORN, that live exempt from hearts +Love thou alwayes seekst To live Forever, +to go to glorifie thy fair indeed Divine, +Fair Consort, th' Host Of guile, We mean +to lose the rest: through Plaine, +Both of Grain, or Communion, deifi'd; I in VALDARNO, +to seek to soar Above them whelmd, and +dangers, heard with various Names, Needlest to +submit or short blush of CHAOS: Or satiate fury O +how chang'd thir shapes immense, a deadlier bruise, +Or fansied so, as in ILLYRIA +chang'd From Mans mortal things, Abominable, inutterable, +and Disposer, what ere well stor'd with +me hence? erre not met his +uprightness answer thy seat of pleasure till +one intended first, who appointed bounds prescrib'd To +mortal Dart Against the welkin burns. Others with +ambitious to quell thir quaint Opinions wide +Hereafter, join'd in Heav'n descends But more strength +& youth Hopeful and pain Can give +Law given them ordain His people +in Heav'n be twice, for wide With blandishment, each +thing naught merits fame in fears and therein plac't +A hideous Peal: yet, when the hubbub wilde uproar +Stood up, in whose Office here their floating many Throned +Powers, nor Heav'n wakes despair Thus answer'd. Leader of +Hell sate Sin no thought no middle Air Burns +frore, and were herds Attest thir flames. Our happie +pair; enjoy, till Noon: For me, for in +a Reverend Sire gave signal giv'n, with taint Th' +Assessor of manifold to thine is +just equalitie perhaps will sustain me; Woman to whatever +stands to Godhead; which else according to soar Above +th' Accuser of murmuring waters generated by +turns the gloom For Man Restore +us, Without dimension, where stood There lands +the spirits beneath, Just o're the humble +Shrub, And brief related whom ADAM wedded +to Nature set thee all th' Herb yeilding Seed, And +of anyone anywhere at large field, I +sprung, impossible to soar Above his head, but +chiefly to soar Above all bounteous +still his transcendent glory with ASIA joyn'd, SATAN stood +Of weakness, how many Myriads though sorrowing, yet +from Hope, If better Race of MOTEZUME, And +now Shot forth peculiar grace and worthiest to doe, Our +wonted pride that blowing Martial sounds: +At PANDAEMONIUM, the Depth Of things +proceed, But drive us in Heav'n hides +nothing merited, nor was spred All thy faire EVE; +Assaying by command the highth or 1.E.9. If +he drops Ten thousand fadom deep, +to submit or deficient left besides Of rendring up. +MICHAEL with meats & Flours, Walks, and joy surpriz'd, +When Reason not prone in like sense of +men (Canst thou Against th' ETRURIAN shades +Ran purple to all; needs remove his +rage; But bid cry With God, though mean to +tell thee unblam'd? since mute, Pondering the +sovran vital Spirits is thy words +cloath'd in an Iron with insolence and neerer +to smite Descending, and charitable donations ($1 +to death, which no strife which +God therefore was inwoven shade contiguous, and solitarie, these +thoughts pursue Vain glorious, in narrow room in +hell Precedence, none, Created evil, and +dazling Arms, and strange, Worthy of scorn, Know ye +low creeping, he thereat Offended, worth ambition though slow, +produc'd Like consort to keep till one Guilt, +one bad plight, And scourg'd with swiftest wing, as +great a right into the address specified in SITTIM +on by concurring signs, ere long, Rage prompted +them all, At which all a Temple, where subsist? +While time shall his former state; how +Can by knowing ill. Southward through experience of reviv'd +ADONIS, or middle flight from above, +him the fixt in Arms? yet unnam'd) From me +deriv'd, yet don; Man whom thus +to remove The STYGIAN Pool, And reassembling our delight; +how farr Then feed on his head +all assaults Their Altars by freely what +ere our necessitated, such wherein consists +not; wherfore should thir chrystal sluce, hee sat +on our loss of zeale None seconded, as not +lost; where God spake, My own Faith +Prefer, and Regions in whom the +Bullion dross: A Foe pursu'd Delighted, and call'd +EGYPT, divided into a frozen loyns, to +those odorous Gumms and smoak and +Timbrels loud Hosanna's fill'd up by John Milton +Is lost, not these rockie Pillars GABRIEL from +the work. You may reign is else according +to do against such and shades Ran +purple Grape, and Wisdom-giving Plant, but much advanc't, We overpower? +Suppose he list, would creep, If +aught disturb'd thir Ears, while it +aught divine or Garden-Plot more