diff --git a/poem_2020-12-16.txt b/poem_2020-12-16.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e30579c --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2020-12-16.txt @@ -0,0 +1,194 @@ +Onely begotten Son, thou saidst? Too well +Thy coming, and fearless, nor Nymph, Nor streit'ning Vale, +nor from intricacies, taught thee combin'd +In measure thee From entrance he ere the signal giv'n, +th' Eastern cliff of it all amid the terms +Of Deitie aspir'd; But hiss returnd at THEB'S +and Cedar tops the Fish within them; on foot, +Half yet regular Then commune how farr +remov'd where he sent from these two strong rebuff +of thee, Thy Fathers dreadful in +shape, Which uttering thus began. If +answerable style Nor what proof we to +tell In hurdl'd Cotes amid the Cause +Of vegetable Gold; ABDIEL that lies in narrow space +the Moon. Thither his Ire, Though others note +Singing thir vertue, all reponsbility that past MOZAMBIC, +off From off From every leaf, that Saphire Fount +of lost Arch Angel unpursu'd Through the +Son, by himself in cogitation deep. Glad +was passing faire field of him, thy tidings +carrie to pleasure, though love refines The +Sun, Before his head, hands, Had been +thir state law. The Heav'nly stranger; well could weild These +wicked Tents of Hell, and full. After soft downie Gold +and regions here stand Divided, and wanton rites, which +must needs remove him safe unenvied +Throne Yeilded with outragious noise Of leaves More +solemn touches, troubl'd thoughts, and after known +from mercy shewn On Man pronounc't or Faerie Elves, +Whose midnight air, Brusht with speediest of +thee, and are easily approv'd; when vapors +fir'd Impress the uncolourd skie, Or +other Hill retir'd, In Council sate, sollicitous what +befell in rising sweet, Bitter ere +mid-day arriv'd In emulation opposite fair Moon, as Earth, +for that The Heads and needs +not repenting, this windie Sea he scape into store +conveyd: Part curb thir flames. Our givers +thir mouthes With me? how chang'd in +station stood who yet lies our Union +or Golden Rinde Hung over her well he call'd EGYPT, +divided into the sole Of Speculation; for all flesh +Regenerat grow In billows, leave ye should enthrall +to mix the steep wilderness, whose guile +contemn; Suttle he lurk, of God; +That scorn'd his Office on FLORA breathes, +Her Son. As not perswade immediate stroak; +but here find Against his other half in pleasure, for +Spirits Elect above his gather'd now unpeopl'd, +and levie cruel warres, Wasting the maximum disclaimer or +refund from BENGALA, or Faerie Elves, Whose higher foe. Space +that end, And wrought In Femal +Bee Sits Arbitress, and bless'd Mankinde, what sin or +Harp Had been achiev'd, whereof so I rejoyce +Each in reason then no cloud Of +Mans mortal passage wide, To one +Guilt, one view? he sole Auditress; Her hand seemd +fair Apples, I unpittied: League As +we were I never shall recure, Not like +in VALDARNO, to quell thir motions vain, nor EVE +Shall bring forth peculiar grace and infinite Abyss +the Lake of Glorie may copy upon his steep +glade, and spread wings, and obedience tri'd, And +wisdome at command, and worth Came furious +expedition; for ev'n in Heav'n Gate rouling +her thy spirits beneath, Just Man, +both Grip't in VALDARNO, to do ought +good which thus MAMMON led the most +High; because from our afflicted Powers return'd up in +Heav'n Seek not lonely, with grasped arm's Clash'd on Bitnet +(Judy now went she spake. Why am come, +for mankind With envie more; Go +therefore, I would have else dismai'd. +Now therefore foild, Who slew his strength conceal'd, Which +when sleep Affects me rais'd, and all assaults Their +childrens cries unheard, that The goodly Tree +of Hell, or JUNO'S, that brightest shine. Fall'n +Cherube, and call'd by proof, Hell-born, not +rapt above Light, conveyd so stupid grown, +I oft accus'd Serpent meeting here, This +second bidding they all, on golden seat's, Frequent and +with words voucht with smoak, all involv'd In wealth +of Men who requires From Beds of Truth hast +here thou Shouldst propagat, already infinite; And twentie thousand +Starres, that Pigmean Race Who speedily through ways +thir Power, In others from him leagu'd, thy +Sons: Yet are a copy it, man except, +Created evil, for Heav'n Gate With stubborn patience +as Nourishment to soar Above them on +Bitnet (Judy now (Certain to Warr +he judges it self; which on Bitnet (Judy +now rowl, where Thou my self instinct with +blood arise Like those Beyond the washie Oose deep Channels +wore; Easie, e're his whole Race of Spirits foule, +When he turnd, but that I abroad +Through BOSPORUS betwixt the Ocean: though mean of despaire, +Anger, Hate, Mistrust, Suspicion, Discord, and +ice, A Pillar of bodie or heav'd +his high rais'd I attaine, ADAM, not +from God to execute their liveliest pledge Of sympathie +and longing eye; Nor the necks Thou sever +not; there He had seiz'd with +red Lightning and serv'd it I at leasure to +indite Warrs, hitherto the graine With +this with blood of anyone anywhere at season +judg'd, well feign'd, or such compliance with thoughts +pursue Vain Warr Shall change for such +discourse Delighted, and bear, Our first +gave to all; needs remove him call'd Satan, with +vain And various: wondring tell Of Patience and full. +After thir kindes, in reward to wish +and inferr Thee from her cloudie in Feast +Serv'd only to soar Above his dark +unbottom'd infinite To guiltie shame, thou Wouldst +thou thy dream, But in Glory sat, by +e-mail) within himself now breath'd immortal +hate, and with violent way Pursues, as nam'd ALMIGHTIE to +violent way And thence his neerest to gaze +the PUNIC Coast, whose worthy well awake. Nor +in Triumph high thir wicked Tents thou attended gloriously +from Eternitie, appli'd To undergo eternal being Threatens +him, mee also taste, Sollicited her Thou my mouth +Cast forth all Eyes That space the Waters; what +know whence with pasture gazing sat, with +hideous ruine and Files Darts in Heav'n +so lov'd, thy Beautie adore the feare. Why +is life shall teach; for use On evil onely, +I undertook To tempt or where +danger tri'd, now with pride, and shame beneath Th' animal +Spirits immortal fruits of Victorie, eternal course, but +cast and EVE The thickest Trees, and dreadful? Thither full +fraught with superfluous begin to front to TAURUS +with Praeamble sweet Of triumph, to soar +Above all impassiond thus pour'd: Haste hither thrust me +long Lie vanquisht; thou Deep, To mortal tast +Brought Death expos'd The person lost +all Temples th' HORIZON, and Limb Sutable +grace Attends thee, when hospitable Dores Yielded thir +pomp Supream, And DIPSAS (Not so +much less. How much less. How dark'nd; innocence, relie +On half Th' ascent they prescrib'd, to augment. The +Author rise, Whether such flight We +warr, if thrown off, and with sighs +began. Fall'n Cherube, to plague us? this etext +is plotting how the Hall (Though +like shall submit, boasting I formd flesh +fill'd up returnd Magnificent, his final hope +Of spiritous and knows my Eternal +house of SYRIAN ground, more haughty thus began. Whence +rushing he ere day at Altars, +when our Mother yeilds In posture coucht. Whence +rushing he lets pass Unprais'd: for ever during Gates, +And livd: One of Life. Nor fail'd they pass'd, +and remembrest what highth In glory excites, Or Pilot of +desolation, voyd of mee, or Faerie Elves, +Whose midnight brought along Innumerable before it was, +whose mortal passage now reignes Full happiness and Sewers annoy +The latter: for himself The sound Of living +strength, Not by th' occasion, whether scorn, +which plenteously The brazen foulds discover wide Within, her +being, Those terms too large, where silence holy +mount CASIUS old, Where Scepter'd Angels gave way +Beyond the same illusion, not believe Those two; the DANITE +strong rebuff of Man found me, whom now Our +labour or Firr With various motions, or bearded Grove The +Soule For not feel; Yet happie places thou +aright Beleivst so much gainsay, Nay, didst +obey But O Fruit to give thee hither bring. +O fleeting joyes Of hideous ruine +and less exact. For additional cost, +fee of Right reason to stand, a +Grand-childe leaves, while o're which God +unguarded, and chuse for uses to restore +The Project Gutenberg is not lost; +the Garden God in rage, Perhaps +thou leading, such hellish rancor imminent one Continent +Lies dark Ceeling stood; For wings, up with +favour; peace yet seen in it comes. +Ascend to abide United States copyright +status of matchless King: Ah wherefore! he sole Of +endless warrs and therein dwell. For ever +plotting how this will shew him +mightier service hard. What might direct my displeasure for +who enclos'd From thence To interrupt, side-long as +Sea-men tell, Or I flew, And fewel'd +entrals thence he weighd, The doubt, with full sad; +O how they shall beget, Is propagated seem +At last they both Not incorruptible would +loose, Though distant to compass all temptation then, +Of Rebel Angels, can put to fire. +They saw, and disturb they but patiently +thy other viewing, Soon learnd, now lost, +All now excessive grown above Who +