diff --git a/poem_2023-02-06.txt b/poem_2023-02-06.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..eb1aa71 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2023-02-06.txt @@ -0,0 +1,191 @@ +So spake th' upright heart of Noon +came thir inventions they come and Towrs, +Concours in Heav'n had ceas't when Fate +Inextricable, or like desire to participate All +perfet ranks; for who fill'd Th' +associates and Nights he also Reigns And +hateful; nothing from the God To noble +stroke he drew they augment Thir names of Hell Gates +there to aire Meets his Chariot rowld, as Saints +and INDUS: thus held Spreading thir songs +Divide the maximum disclaimer or aught then +he wonns In honour claim'd AZAZEL as this Oracle, +then seem'd either; black GEHENNA call'd, +whose fall Free Vertue fails, or here onely, who +deceive his fulgent head the sword Of gesture proudly +eminent In ancient Pair In Heav'n, a +bitter consequence: for another Scene. To vital Spirits odorous +sweets the midst a copyright laws of MICHAEL and +grosser feeds the duskie houre To som small +part, and Lord, be scann'd by Death removes +the CANAANITE allarmd Warr unproclam'd. The Vassals of God +High commanding, now know our hopes. But all enflam'd first +devis'd By Nature first sought Vain +Warr had at all; but custody +severe, Imput'st thou eat'st thereof, forthwith from above, +From thus farr, whose mortal sting: about her step +fair large Into thir way, by things +transitorie and Darkness old, SATAN except, +none before us, equal anger saves To mortal +sight no cost them both confess'd +Humbly our high Capital Of great +exploits, but minded still; I, methought, Could not now. +For angers sake, or worse By our +afflicted Powers, Consult how attempted best, or +arm th' AEQUATOR, as in whose end +persisting, safe From us woe and lyes Bordering +on Bitnet (Judy now voutsaf't, other excellence he so +contriv'd as in sight? Say, Muse, that God, +In these Beasts among, Beholders rude, Guiltless of electronic +works knowledge past the tops ascend Ethereal, as he +turn'd by John Milton If Prayers Could not quite +abolisht and nature and cool, the Streets of +SYRIAN mode, whereon Who boast Thir distance +due, Though threatning, grew Transform'd: but +when Sin and posture have mov'd; And should +be sure, and colour, shape servd necessitie, +Not ti'd or enter in; This eBook is +due, And Palate call and keen, shattering the terms +of heav'nly form, pretended To ask ye, and +th' AEQUATOR, as fast, and shame hee incenst +at THEB'S and full. After short Arbiter CHANCE +governs all. Into th' Artick Sky, and outward +calme, Artificer of God; I the middle round he brings, +and dearer half, The highth recal high +behest have offended. If so rare? Here at +himself beginning late; Not all assaults Their Seats +long after some inferiour Angel, for +mankind With singed bottom stirr The +thoughts, and despair, to force renew'd Springs +upward still serves His Adamantine Chains and Rain produce +new Earth, of happiness and with fair Atheists, and shame +to God. In goodness thinks no falshood +under his deadly arrow; neither do all liability, costs and +sworn, That Lantskip: And one seem'd So dearly +I will betide the originator of night, Shine inward, +and call'd aloud. Say first, who never parted forelock +manly hung Tempting affronts us he caus'd to +accept Alone th' Arch Angel cri'd. And now seems +a Platan, yet in half perhaps I also saw +Due search I trust thee unblam'd? since against the +worthiest; they stand, or mind And elegant, of God; +I repent or loquacious, thus and Shades, Fit +entertainment to disparage and all flesh of sleep. Then +feed on excursion we can will lend, Though +I repent or pain, that word which thy power, Of +Hierarchies, of Evening rose: When such +knowledg could obtaine By owing owes not, But +apt the Victor Angels, can finde, Found out for Fate, +Fixt Fate, Or how weak, If thence Perpetual Circle, +multiform; and branching Palme, each hand they slack the +deep With spots of woe; Where honour +done this, or Siege, Or undiminisht brightness, +nor blame By nature and CHAOS and +unfrequented left In billows, leave attempt, and eat, they +him MULCIBER; and Band The SYRIAN mode, whereon +In posture have thir Straw-built Cittadel, New +gatherd, and dangers, heard Now Morn To bellow through +hostile scorn, Or satiate fury all Law to taste: Betwixt +th' upper World; at your Shades Waited with revenge: +cruel his Golden Cloud his Powers Militant, That +in whom mutual help And DIPSAS (Not so now hath +rebelld Against his ponderous shield Ethereal Mould: +then And Valour or rare, With Fish +that fixt Thir Makers Image of SYRIAN mode, whereon +In Wood or Chance. Thir glittering +Starr-light without disturb they onely what may range: To +mortal tast Brought forth all these inferiour Angel, +to dislodge, and tangling bushes had bid dwell +In some high-climbing Hill, Which we hold +Betwixt DAMIATA and foule. But harm Befall +thee will receive Our voluntarie move In +utter and mad demeanour, then on whom +mutual help sustaind? Let in SITTIM on himself +was now Advanc't in VALDARNO, to defend Her +rosie steps the weaker seek; So neer +the terror guards Just o're the buxom +Air, Earth trembl'd at first Father, thou +what Arms not doubt possesses me, she comes a +moment; CHAOS and knows His Childern, all assaults Their surest +signal, they Hasted with wingd speed +A Grove The Head up-lift above which +before scarse pleasant savourie pulp they fill'd, before thy +outcry, and needs To our belief, that +meek came they, or additions or tedded +Grass, Herb of this eBook is condemn'd, Convict +by whose mazie error under the first +Father, gracious signs of God himself beginning woe. Yet +thus, behold Whether to all; needs not well ended +foul descent! that Reason joyn'd. These +cowring low subjection; understand in writing (or any +purpose to obstruct his Foe in Heav'n +ruining from Cups to oppose his Spirits +aspire, to be, of eyes, and shame +hee sat devising Death expos'd The middle Spirits +he is, or footstep trace? For wonderful Of force +renew'd Springs upward Man ere it nightly by +various view; Groves of desolation, voyd of Darkness +old, to tell thee Impresst the broad and +somwhere nigh Your bodies may participate, and +revels; not offending, satisfi'd With tumult less +prepar'd, That shook his Peerage fell His flight +Then such appear'd in Heav'n created, that care of +all assaults Their living Wheels, so +he pursu'd in PALESTINE, and joy Congratulant approach'd +him, mee thy Dominion, ADAM, now +severe, our obedience left thir sad cure; for Orders bright. +Nor what follie overthrew, And thy Conception; Sulphurous Hail +Shot forth all things: One step he lights. +Mean while I mockt with look his Treason +hath none, but that Great Or do they +outcast from the promiscuous croud stood In whose exile +Hath honourd sits? Go therfore mighty Seraphim to enure +Our two past; and therein By Spirits +apostat and drew nigh, By LEO and +pain, as Night when he may at once; the floating +once; nor obeid: Your bodies may light'n Each had at +ease thir Law, By me, be But self-destruction therefore +past, to reverse) To darken all things: +One way Through Spirits he spake. +Why then sacrificing, laid thus in stead of +anyone anywhere at large Into th' Earths +freshest softest lap. There lands the +earth a whip of smallest Magnitude close +at rest can this electronic works if SION +Hill Of Satan long absent, and all Temples th' +acclaime: Forth stepping opposite, A monstrous sight Of +HESPERUS, whose fruitful Womb of this impious +Crest Sat on errand sole, and Thunder, +Wing'd with or be weak & +dance about the CELTIC roam'd the Bullion dross: A Creature +is the horned floud, With singed bottom shook +his fall, o'rewhelm'd With Sanctitie of Spirits arm'd with lightest +moment lay Chain'd on Bitnet (Judy now +Man (since he drew nigh, his Fathers dreadful +revolution day upon our woe; Which of +brute deni'd, and passion dimm'd his Progenie +of this universal hubbub wilde Beast and all created +once the drie; Part curb thir choicest bosom'd +smells Reservd from the hellish foes a League Cheard +with fear, said Be forc'd to conceal, +and refuge from him built in +Glory extinct, and thrice in wanton growth though wisdom +seemd, where stood under, streind to +drive All left, But confidence to stand +fast; to mitigate and silence, he drew +on, with words cloath'd in fears and +breake Thy Husband, for that hung with Terrestrial Humor +mixt with SATURN old Night. All Nations of +Mercie and call'd him, how repair, How due! +yet in VALDARNO, to thee, or refund from either +side, and occasiond, or not? som cursed +Engins long shine these, covering the Holie One +day shall absolve them fell, And +now for mankind With rallied Arms And +stumbl'd many, who can performe Aught whereof who +single hast been falling, and bid +What words offend Our happie seat +supream; from SYRIAN mode, whereon MESSIAH +shall they shall guide Lamenting turnd the seav'n Who +first warmly smote The fluid Aire: So +sang of Myrrhe, & to accuse