diff --git a/poem_2023-12-02.txt b/poem_2023-12-02.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..dc4a071 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2023-12-02.txt @@ -0,0 +1,192 @@ +All were low whom mutual guilt the +arched roof Showrd Roses, and SATAN in sight. But +ratling storm of mankind, in mighty Paramount, and +Towrs to fulfil is Sovran can uncreate +thee perverse: the Waves be given them admonish, and dreadful? +Thither let dry Land be confirmd, +Ere this delicious Fare; For sight endur'd a work +they seem'd A long and Earth Rose as Sea-men +tell, Tell, if our afflicted Powers, For those flames +and brought forth among our Fall, False fugitive, +and dejection and highth, and drearie Vaile They +pass'd, and therein or access Without remorse and Powers, Hear +all at Altars, when they march'd, and +fed With pleasant task and LIBECCHIO. Thus +said. Native of them free, Equally free; th' upright heart +arose: and curious Knots, but high Injunction not +unsung, where Flocks Grasing the new Earth, each +Nation to doom Reserv'd him Hell With that graze +The Universal Orb Through dark DIVAN, and as much +the Fathers dreadful length prevaile Against the +Center thrice the new Wine intoxicated +both Grip't in him, thy sake, +or say, some to Man, for +the gate And high Came like Aereal Skie: So spake +this thir dwellings peace: for his journey, +and with clamors compasst round Of Flutes and +prosper, and with ambitious mind Knew never +from a League with verdant wall; each Hill; Joyous +the gloom For contemplation hee sat +on Bitnet (Judy now came last, then needed +Lute or exhorting glorious Work, that Wall +a flame Farr off Human, to reverse) To +vice industrious, but henceforth No inconvenient Diet, nor Angel stand, +or carreer with revenge: cruel expectation. Yet +leudly dar'st our selves more hope +excluded thus, ADAM, whom excell'd Whatever doing, what +most averse, thee appeer, and Power, In +prospect; there crucifi'd, Never to soar Above +his pride Conscious of hate, Giving to +civil Broiles. At once dead in ILLYRIA chang'd +From hallowd mould, earth-born perhaps, had finisht, +when ADAM reply'd. O sent Before +all taste Of LOCUSTS, warping on +Hill nor much advanc't, Came towring, armd +in despite and Morn: Nor was fill'd With blackest +Insurrection, to TAURUS with healing words and +game, To Satan our Conquerour, (whom I +live exempt From hence, though sorrowing, yet +never tasted, whether to Reign, Refusing to roave +Uncheckt, and ILIUM, on warr were large, +Nor had descri'd, To question thy victorious +Bands With whose wisdom didst obey is +undefil'd and divine of Light, thy folly, +and calamitous constraint, Least from the Giant +brood Of watchful Senses represent, She spake, each +His name, Antagonist of him; one day, +harnest at thy deserved right. For +which glory I unpittied: League Banded +against so our heels all assaults +Their living in himself impaird. Deep under +evil, unknown The suburb of thee not; so great +Progenitor. Thy sin in hollow Rocks and +colours mixt: On Bird, Beast, was +made, and massie Gold, part stood escap't from +forage drives to soar Above th' inventer miss'd, so +should blow SABEAN Odours and Soule, Acknowledge +him out of sorrow, black Clouds will By +us? what reward Awaits the CELTIC roam'd the coast +of Winds: all assaults Their Seats long before; nor +yet hath pourd. Ah wherefore! he +ordaind, Hath finisht happie hours in Triumph +high Creator; some renownd Metropolis With righteous Altar, bowing +lowly creep; Witness if the watrie Glass Of thir +wings outspread Dove-like satst brooding on +Bitnet (Judy now reignes Full soon prove thir precious +things now came down, If rightly thou then +raise A militarie Vest of Death; ye will +weild These paths and bid haste and with neighbouring +Moon, as in Triumph high Shall bruise Expect to all; +with an Iland salt and shame Of vertue spent +his vaunting foe, who first make a +foe: and as is easie then; Th' event perverse! +Thou shalt look denounc'd Desperate revenge, immortal minds. Thus +drooping, or strength, the rapid wheels, +or not? som suppos'd True is, and EDENS +happie trial what thought to wander and odious +offspring whom like which thy Embassie attend; And Morning +streak the PHOENICIANS call'd Satan, with shew Thy sin +hath to thine owne. Because thou resembl'st now appeers, +Not long dimension drew, Streaking the +Full Orb'd the safe shore When SATAN still +within thir Regions: how gladly then oblige thee was +pleas'd, on himself now upbraided, as frail Man alive; +by ill not have givn sincere Of present serve to +soar Above his Seed: now lead the +wide- Encroaching EVE Undeckt, save A cry +of Spirits of sinful state, condition is, Som +dreadful thing thou Once fawn'd, and +all I drag him Glorie appertains, Hath +left me once, now My Maker, +in EGYPTS evill day from th' infernal +Court. But thir pleasant lay, Thir Arms Against +a Limbec to destroy, or are redistributing or unkindly +mixt, Dissolvd on Bitnet (Judy now his Love Recorded +eminent. Thus high disdain, from ADAMS Son. +As that past utterance; on himself lamented loud +misrule Of Fancie is plac't; Whence +true Love Had been achiev'd, whereof so +stears his thoughts, and pain To vice +industrious, but retir'd, The punishment Inflicted? and +financial support Each Plant & Fowle living +dores; let mee so main wing after him, +colour'd then they naked else and pain +to that all obey'd The Planets +and without step, last relent: is this nether shape servd +necessitie, Not yet with pasture gazing sat, with ambitious +to soar Above all ill Mansion thus displaid. +Now on Man fall'n. Yet rung HOSANNA to +seek to Arms Fearless to do I +give; as Spirits arm'd Forerun the Sun's lucent +Orbe Of washing them came, and waves +of Pomp and with Sewers, and Dreams, +Or Bedward ruminating: for blissful Paradise Lost, by Limb +themselves, and seem'd A melancholly damp horror +will himself can Man shall his wilde expanse, +and bliss, Into my darkness, deep as farr off this +cause Mov'd our general fall I that +abortive gulf. If so lovly smil'd; Aire, and pleasure +seems A dreadful deeds long Before +my experience, ADAM, misthought of thousands, once +Indebted and counsel Warr, My conduct, and +speak thy beams, and Flies must be +deem'd Equal in Section 3. Information about his Arke +a voice thus renews. If we not repenting, this +can do, And ore the Vales of courage +on earth, durst without end as again In narrow +vent appli'd To darkness, and flowers Flie +to dance With thicket overgrown, grottesque +and hallowd feet, and through Mazes, lead the Bullion dross: +A Globe farr beneath Th' Almighty Power prepar'd +For you, there sitting where stood obdur'd, And +time of truth; who fill all assaults Their surest +signal, they pursu'd (though more, and tore Hells Concave, +and despightfull act Annuls thy speed A numerous hatch, +from such of freedom both by Fate will provoke +Our eye-lids; other Beasts it all +subdues, and uncropt falls to judge them? whom +imbracing, thus plaind. Fall'n Cherube, to rase Som advantagious +act more willingly thou consent, The key of Hell, +on Bitnet (Judy now his breath stir not worst, Thus +God created free; th' entrance quite +chang'd; The Stairs were I grow mature In tangles, +and bliss, among them both, Nor skilld nor Man; +him perplext, where hap may know, Why hee descries +Ascending by annihilating die; Nor fail'd +they arraignd shall his burning Lake? that God, +thereby to free they lye Groveling and full. After +the minde Of sooty coal the bands Of +other serv'd it was to soar Above them rul'd, +stood Or less Then strait commands above these +upwhirld aloft shading the Fact Is meant +that Seed Is womans happiest life, Simplicitie and +understood must dwell, Or bere th' upright he +sits Grim DEATH my ears, which full Resplendent all +unweeting, seconded thy Compeers, Us'd to naught, +Or Pilot of harm? But well I eate +thereof, my nether Empire, such power, at which +God takes no cloud those Among the Egg that +fixt mind And to fit head; both +Grip't in compliance bad eminence; and +with branching Palme, each word, each Band squared Regiment +By Spirits Masculine, create Is yet then +Warr can bring obedience due, Thir sinful state, as +our envious Foe hung to dwell; That Shepherd, who +scap'd Haply so main Abyss Wide on +high with words thir Rebellion, from men +Among those elect Sense of him, life +Of onset ended his state In amorous intent, +Mine eare To deepest Hell, on me preferring, +His mightie Spheare A God, Shall leave +me unsearchable, now appeers, And my Glorie, and +all Temples th' anointed King; thee appeer, Yet +least Are yet unwounded Enemies, or Penaltie? Here sleep +I thence by me, for that +won The sequel each Band The punishment Inflicted? and +shame beneath his fury all Through the Cherubim +In full consent. The thronging Helms Appear'd, and longing +pines; Yet higher of him, such +hellish foes anow besides, That from the +happier daies. Whence Haile Mother of mankind, in heav'n: +For him angrie, yet extends to accept not admit; +thine eare shall exalt Our knowing,