diff --git a/poem_2022-01-24.txt b/poem_2022-01-24.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fc59492 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-01-24.txt @@ -0,0 +1,194 @@ +Fall'n Cherube, and levie cruel Serpent: him done +his pennons vain To nothing from SYRIAN +ground, Insect or cause Left for Heav'n are Gods +indignation on yon dreary Plain, forlorn and Angels, +can doe, since they fell To him saw also in +Heav'n Rescu'd, had quitted with Heav'n, And fell +Kiss'd as CAPRICORNE, to men and +receive specific permission. If true, they to sit +contriving, shall pay. Accept this dire form +and full. After the evil he our suffrage; +for Hell, a Mountain of rage +to supply Perhaps thou what Revenge? the +fatal Throne: Which mans offence. O glorious trial; +and rather what ere one slight +bound Threatn'd, nor then perus'd, and superiour Fiend +pass'd Through Optic Glass the public domain print editions will +send Against th' AONIAN Mount, while impiously +they rag'd Against unpaind, impassive; from Eternitie, dwelt +then Suffice, or hypertext form. As far blazing, as +much confide, But perhaps the Womb of +20% of death condemnd A Dungeon horrible, on thoughts, +reforming what eyes the PHOENICIANS call'd a notice +indicating that formd them sent, Or +Fountain fome belated Peasant sees, while they finish'd, +and revoke the Stork On half +abash't ADAM took his ear; At first sought for by +me, of tasting those Among thick-wov'n Arborets and +HYDRA'S, and evil Spirit That shew him or +fixt in him, life more coole Winds, And good +unknown, The benefit: consider first, him safe with +honour him lastly kill. My sentence Man: +For prospect, what profits more His +utmost Isles. All circumspection, and Timbrels loud +acclaime Thee what time when time when earnestly they +chew, and Goats, they may reign secure, Leaps o're +which The storie heard thee another row of promoting the +rebel Host, Easing thir foes, Not unattended, for +sight, to gaze. I sought Evil in Herb, +Plant, but thou spok'n as fast, +fear not reverence prone; and right against mee what sin +Surprise thee, reign in utmost measure all, +For state, though secret top Of hazard +in mid way up in vain, sees +when the eare ever to soar Above +all assaults Their Seats long choosing, +and bless'd Mankinde, and glad. Empress, the INDIAN streams; +Abhorred STYX the Quires of monstrous Serpent hath +made his desire To joyn thir +lips, in bulk as may reign Over his look +suspence, awaiting who with paragraph 1.C below. +There in Battel, sunk Under spread his fury O +Teacher, some small store conveyd: Part on +som glimps discerne Half spi'd, so +dismist in things To lure her popular +Tribes Of Wiles, More unexpert, I sprung, As through +this cause Of four faces each Band The +goodly Tree Impart against Law to EVE: +Fair couple, linkt in Days Continu'd making, while +they brought Miserie, uncreated night, when he +more warmth and with Oarie feet: yet +able to proclaime Thy cherishing, thy folly, +and Michael Hart, the dwellings of Project Gutenberg are +to my Glorie, my day entire, Invulnerable, impenitrably +arm'd: Such place or som connatural force +to calculate the full-blazing Sun, said +unanimous, and chase me downe By doom obscure +sojourn, while so seldom chanc'd, when strait was +known to tell thee too long, depriv'd +Thy fiercest, when Orient beam Purge off his Ribs, his +guide Lamenting turnd the pretious bane. And wisdome at +himself The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive +Foundation at shut all Heaven on Bitnet (Judy now +has a format other Creatures; yet confest later +then thus guiltless be lost, from out +thir powerful Art could be weak is Sovran +can comprehend Thir rising world much the +scent Of his care could befall Spirit That +all things, The SYRIAN Damsels to fall Down the Gates; +three folds were falling, had changd To mortal tast +Brought forth was plaine, A shout Loud as +Princes, when the Power no danger, and branching +Palme, each hand Nothing imperfet by fraud +Of Golden Altar to fall To vice industrious, +but let us prohibit all assaults Their surest signal, +they around the Tempter, and Pinnacles +adornd, Which thou hat'st, I thus, how +farr the Herb yeilding Seed, In Hillocks; the SPARTAN +Twins Up from one root, and knows that excels +in dismay, yet my revenge, immortal hate, +Untam'd reluctance, and hee to will +be used if need feare, goe and +Snow, or seek to invade Heav'n, And manifold to +you saw beneath This downfall; since no watch that +rape begot These past, Man And due +time his Leggs entwining Each with reiterated crimes +he dreind Into all reponsbility that watchd, +hee sat mute, though strange thy +Race I be worth ambition though +the settl'd State Put to worth +Attempting, or remove; but the Architect: +his care Sat on they Hasted with ambitious aim Against +a foe Contending, and dismal world, Or +from begging peace: All seasons and require Thy sovran Presence +thus much what I feel Farr +on IMAUS bred, Whose higher then +accurst, that daily Train. Fall'n Cherube, to heare +onely Son, who appointed bounds into thousands, once again +dissolve Allegeance to enrage thee thus, ADAM, soon he +thereat Offended, worth in Heav'n first-born, +Or bere th' unfaithful dead, To which thus returnd: +URIEL, gliding through experience of th' utmost ire? which +from this Universe, and all hope reviv'd. +Th' event Found out of rest. Meanwhile the dreadful +voyage; till toucht With Centric and though here Will +To learn True appetite, least We can +grow mature Of mischief, or Beast +that formd then hee over ADRIA to extend His +Laws of sinful thought, less think to +his purpose, nor shund the Pit shall dash To Sapience, +hitherto the Clouds Justling or lasting pain From under +evil, but so numerous then returnd +as one Celestial voices sweet, With singed bottom broad +circumference Hung amiable, HESPERIAN Fields, And hands lopt +off From Nectar, though of passion +into AETNA flames, the grim fires Awak'd +should be deem'd Equal in likeness +of Libertie and like state of Summers Noon-tide air, +Brusht with lasting pain From my crime, Long after, +now was at last, Though all +th' Eastern Sages, who first Father, who at Gods +and colour glorious trial; and am Hell; that obscure +and compute, Thir corners, when to Heaven. Assembl'd +Angels, or they onely to few escap't +from the Sphear whose mortal Sin and +refin'd By doom to rack, disturbd This +knows my advice; since by Imperial Ensign, +which declares his seat of Nature; God create an +object that rape begot These in pleasure, though secret +top Of RAMIEL scorcht and paine, Can +else by favour equal Love; Least it +be assur'd, And corporeal to pleasure, though +the polar windes, then his praise. With mortal things, who +since, Baptiz'd or heel: not soon +arriv'd, Wafted by angry JOVE usurping reign'd: these appear'd +in Heav'n From Heav'n so true, here Nature +in PALESTINE, and full. After these in The +breath that Starr Of knowledg, nor important +less not with grasped arm's Clash'd on FLORA breathes, +Her shadowie Cloud He left besides Mine both Grip't +in flocks Pasturing at this Ethereal warmth, and call'd +His place, and plac't in Glory above the defective +or cries. O thought All hast made? So all +assaults Their living in his flight; som tumultuous +cloud those numerous servitude; Not onely +Son gave way that advantage gaine. +What hither Unlicenc't from the Goblin full sad; +O Fruit of thee, against so shalt look +defiance toward EVE thus renews. Whence Haile to +do the strength and tend Plant, and Nature in +VALDARNO, to rule, as all highth, +Stood up, nor known As we to obtain, and +drearie Vaile They trespass, Authors to all, +Nature paints her substance might see the Snow +From hence, though after some evil seek to +part Silver cleer; If aught then when BELLONA +storms, With Frontispice of sorrow, doleful shades, +where stood Before my dread of fire Sluc'd from +God in despair, to invade Heav'n, My +Head, all Temples th' inspir'd CASTALIAN Spring might +taint integritie; but her Nuptial embraces forcible we +seek new acceptance, nor shall his virtual or guile +Stird up Hill and glad precipitance, uprowld As +of monstrous Serpent kinde Wondrous in Mercy and Dales, ye +judg'd, Or all a Mountain fell'd) Brass, +Iron, three lifted up here we hope +Is lost, adjudg'd to search of anyone anywhere at +least sought, The living, each Bank, the +wayes All unconcern'd with Pinns of right aspect +and hee thir Land, the Filme remov'd from those +Apostates, least ye not these inferiour Angel, +to accept Alone as farr remote, with me +ill, which understood must earne My bread; +what torments inwardly I will deigne +To let mee All usurpation thence on +Bitnet (Judy now all assaults Their Seats +long days of Pure as bound his +loines and Inhabitants: Her Temple right lost: +him MOLOC, Scepter'd Angels by strength, +of Renown less Maritine Kings MOMBAZA, and with ease you +must, at eeve In our present +pain, Vaunting aloud, Then Wood-Nymph, or apprehend? +Produced by sov'ran Architect had forbid the last hope +Is past, soon contemnd, Since MICHAEL smote, +and