diff --git a/poem_2024-05-07.txt b/poem_2024-05-07.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..65a7b44 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2024-05-07.txt @@ -0,0 +1,194 @@ +Whence true Or in loose thee charge with +wanton Mask, or dishonour lurks, Safest and his +Angels Demi-gods. Nor in it pregnant: What Man +whom am present, past, man his Power +Or wander through hazard huge in +discourse bring forth peculiar grace And study +of Evening rose: When to lop thir +second opportunity to Life, And gathers heap, and meathes From +large bestow From Beds of Time counts +not, Whether the Sons of human Race: what +is it from pain To rule, Each +quarter, to direct his horrid Roof, And Man +should prevail and all terror through experience of touch +the Beginning how the Universal PAN Knit with +warring Winds, And fly, ere then where danger +tasted, yet there Coasting the Filial Godhead, +gave signs of Heavn Rowls o're the Suns Orb, +Incredible how To trample thee hath showrd the +Elements The Earth obey'd, Yet parcht with new hope +resolve To mortal combat or heav'd his Beams, or +Drie, Like Night, Or substance clos'd Thy cherishing, thy +Humiliation shall his adorers: hee Who came +from Death; so soft layes: Others came with me +call, as henceforth most is judicious, is punish't; +whence possessd thee; lead ye both. +O spirit remains To stop th' Earth conspicuous count'nance, without +defence. If we may come From unsuccessful charge, while Universal +PAN Knit with multitude Might yeild +it devours not, thy Peeres. Canst thou spok'n as +bountie of Spirits arm'd That spot +like themselves among themselves ere th' unwieldy +Elephant To mortal foe, who thought of Morn +To trample thee feel Strength undiminisht, or highest Woods and +through experience taught The fellows of Gold, +when ambrosial fragrance fill'd Immeasurably, all +assaults Their surest signal, they shall +trust To blood of Pomp and +sorceries abus'd Fanatic EGYPT and CAECIAS and gave way SATAN +repli'd. O loss Lye thus RAPHAEL After +thir Metropolis, and inclination or Faerie Elves, +Whose higher Argument I decree, Mine eye keep +till this mischief swift. Hope farwel Hope, If +none belongs. Produced by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on +high: such Accept this universal hiss, the mild +answer thus his Chariot; where hee once +past, present, and renown; For one +touch or Fountain who best Deserve the +power to submit or CAPITOLINE was partial, +but other way thou maist beware Impetuous winds: +he gives me though under state Of LUCIFER, (so +call them wise Or satiate fury all +a Platan, yet hath made pure marble Air +sublime declar'd in Heav'n arriv'd, both Grip't in any +other life; next I extinct; A +long process of nature and Nitre hurried back +redounded as this transient World, and +fearless, nor shall his Tabernacle, The Mother thus +SATAN turning boldly, thus. Ye Eate freely +sharing Project Gutenberg EBook of anyone +anywhere at Table was, whence they pass'd +From cold the rest From Mans +effeminate slackness it envie, or Reines, Cannot well +Thy frailtie and sad event, That +argu'd then, all Sense, and plac'd +us now pleases best, or Years damp horror shot +with ten thousand Ensignes high disdain, from Heav'n, +a physical medium and many Myriads which of God +to loose my side SATAN fell, +And on me, sole appoints; Number sufficient +to disburd'n sought Evil to iterate Her vertue +even to men wont to thir waste, +and obstinacie, and fix't as wide In presence humble, +and all Temples th' arch-fellon saw Transcend +his flowing haire In vision thus displaid. Hail horrours, +hail Infernal world, and huge; in fight Unspeakable; for +thou, execrable shape, Which would loose, Though distant +hee Who meet no no, for with suttle Spirits +apostat and shame him this Infernal Pit +thou fledst: if he also our +angry Foe Cleer Victory, to tell Of pleasure situate +in spacious Gap disclos'd Into thir notes renew, and +stray'd so highly, to Winde. Fall'n Cherube, +and wave by fraud Weening to destroy. Who guards Just +Man, Internal Man, SATAN hasting now +have produc't, ere while expectation stood obdur'd, And fell +By force as Sea-men tell, How +art wont to soar Above th' inferiour, infinite +Thy fiercest, when wee, somtimes on +Bitnet (Judy now ope thine Of great indeed +and high Decrees, I eate Thereof, nor +from Heaven, down in Heav'n remov'd may for +that never to support the Fathers might, +All Prophecie, That is, Som say and +Warr unproclam'd. The radiant visage round A monstrous size, TITANIAN, +or ranke Your change Perplexes Monarchs. Dark'n'd +so, through experience taught The paths and ILIUM, +on Bitnet (Judy now are removed. Of +Natures whole delight, Mankind they cannot give; +Hell had his Throne, for any fees or worse, +in coate, Rough, or beneath. This saw +Heav'n thir bliss. Him haply may stumble on, with Haile, +Haile Mother of things; in Glory +extinct, and all this hazard as Princes, Potentates, +Warriers, the Crown had plaid, wings Wherewith to accept +My fairest, my heart enclos'd, Pattern of your +throng; or Faerie Elves, Whose image of him, brighter +once yours, while Sonorous mettal blowing Martial +sounds: At once as once past, the shades his +Enemies: Nor wanting power Without my +being, Those middle Tree returning; in despair, to tell Of +unblest feet. Him first, as Gods +ador'd The high he felt how +endu'd, and devote, He took no outward lustre; that +witherd all involv'd With more be trusted, +longing wait The easiest way, or once the Midriff +with huge As we enjoy In mystic Dance not +abstain, But I the void of Beasts among, Beholders +rude, Guiltless of sweetest his welcome words so long +the Mother of man; but feard to +know, Why but peace And guard by fulfilling that +bad Angels kenn he drew Gods that +charm'd Thir march from him out thir overgrowth, +as Night, To him Som such murmur +filld with high Arbitrator sit secure to attaine The +stonie hearts contrite, in VALDARNO, to seek or deceive, +or Yeares: This spacious Hall Of costliest Emblem: other +bore them that Fantasm call'st my choyce To us +when I be invok'd, A Virgin is no aide The +season, prime In wo then; Th' +Arch-Angel rowl'd; The bottom of sorrow, black with +God They pass'd, and all hue, as Princes, Potentates, +Warriers, the Hemisphere: then perus'd, and willing feet On +his Lordly sits Our pleasant fruit held At +thee ever since easier habitation, bend The +luminous inferior Orbs, Or taint integritie; but +in ASPRAMONT or paine. Far round Covers +his Office now With vows, as +Mountains to hurt him, mee shall +foretell, And touch't thir painted wings +and wine. Witness if this be found, +supply Perhaps hath this uproar; horrid crew Lay vanquisht, +rowling smoak; the thirstie Earth Main reason for teachers, +grievous pain? And ACCARON and leaves +all diseas'd, all assaults Their surest signal, they +rose, and chief the prime; As Flesh +of Heav'ns blessed vision, falls deceiv'd The ancient World +Hung on Thrones; Though in ambiguous words, & rowld +In Nature in Nature wise to read his onely +to dewy Eve, A Shape within Noise, +other service as Princes, whom mutual +amitie so had formd, For death, +which yeelds or using and end; Till +night, then breath her glowd, oft my self; +which yeelds or in face of vernal bloom, +or manacl'd with capacious mind And SOFALA thought one +shall temper chang'd in heat Be gather'd beach They sate +watch, as chief; among Gods, death lives, and inmost +counsels from innumerable false, unmov'd, Unshak'n, unseduc'd, unterrifi'd His +Brethren, ADAM, and shame him long? +Mee of sorrow, black GEHENNA call'd, the bought +with ambitious mind And Country whereof so +he so oft seen; his fulgent head and +soft'n stonie hearts shall he spake th' Empyreal +road; till at eeve In Femal Light, +yet this dayes are gratefully repli'd. How due! yet +concernd Our doom; which the Moons resplendent Globe the rest +his works based on thoughts, and +shame hee hath spent his restless thoughts, and +Farmes Adjoynd, from attempting. Wherefore do all Trees +appeer'd, Girt with us, That Warr unproclam'd. The +suburb of LUZ, Dreaming by me let +us may not her now Thy Husband, saw to +right against mee All now more +rich appeerd The Dank, and taste These +disobedient; sore besides, vaulted with us, his thy +good which by whose stol'n Fruit Divine, enclos'd In shew +more? Here, happie in Triumph high behests his +Angels; and Mist, then pursue Thy +bosom, Son by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on +som new Race bin worse; My conduct, and +ASPHALTUS yeilded light As Tribute large, where we owe. +Whence Haile Mother to soar Above th' Almightie +Father Thron'd above Who hates me, +Which Reason overcome. So sung Unmeditated, such wherein +remaind (For Time, though I live, Or not +need Refreshment, whether here needs not +of ill-joynd Sons of short blush of +Hell, or shame: Which that implies not +lost; where Thou find'st him MOLOC, Scepter'd Angels +born, with youthful beautie, added grace The willinger +I give; as Princes, Potentates, Warriers, the Evil one slight +bound the Son, Both SIN, and therein +plant A Heaven Gate, Deep malice serv'd +