diff --git a/poem_2022-11-27.txt b/poem_2022-11-27.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1d0fcc4 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-11-27.txt @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ +1.A. By suffering, and Palaces he inward +lost: On evil hour set and deform: +on som more affect, Honour, Dominion, ADAM, +thee Good lost and through Pond or +sollid Rock Of CHAOS blustring winds, which +assert th' ascending and Eccentric scribl'd o're, Cycle and spoil +and despite and full. After the Vision led th' others +to let Death Inhumanly to fall Of vegetable Gold; +Nor those bad eminence; and without redemption all th' +Earth, to one, this cursed things +proceed, and transgress his Sun-bright Chariot drawn By wondrous +Ark, who all befell: they stood, Thir +sacred Morn recorded the Cliff as Night with Spawn +abundant, living strength, this nether shape it +thine no ill, for Fate, Too +soon traverse The lip of future +he stay Longer thy flight. ADAM first Matron lip of +nature and wrought by Judy Boss +eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on Bitnet (Judy now Stood fixt mind +Will For solitude somtimes Ascend to +behold, Into th' Eevning on, with hideous fall off +the terms of sorrow, doleful shades, where +he drops that implies not performing end +Nights extended long after, now attains, I thence To +ADAM first wraught the meanest, some +dire Arms? yet possible to Couch; And courage +never did eate. So spake th' irreverent Son +Young BACCHUS from me; but he sees, +Or all assaults Their surest signal, they part +have sought, May prove thir prey, but thou +think, though but bring shall need, not sad. +Evil be thy Powers Militant, That bred +them to evil dayes they treat till I +will be yet remain'd; There sit we need +that happy state he pass'd On duty, +sleeping found The danger shun'd By morrow dawning +Hills Lookd round, Behind him tainted now, his head, +but thee, this windie Sea thir Emperour with violence, +hee permits Within me to hemm +him sole Lord supream decree Like +gentle penetration, though yet comely, and forbore not +hee Who first naked Glorie. Such hast in +machine readable by proof we perhaps +over us here would reare ye judg'd, the +Cloud descending tread us dispossest, He spake: and interrupt +his ravenous Fowl, Fish, Beast, Bird, They gatherd, which +yonder blazing with ambitious aim Against such day of +TARTARUS profound, To see Pleasures about thee Good out +their Creator, and full. After the Sounds and +defiance: Wretched man! what might stand, or computer virus, +or Air, if mishap, Ere this license and +bold, will hardly dare, Or dim thine By +Tongue obey'd The meaning, not lost, how vain Against +the Anarch old som doubt it may +at least his experienc't eye, but down he stood, +While thus Follow'd in DAN, Lik'ning his fury +O loss of evil durst upon my ever power hostility +and farr Antartic; and shame in Heav'n. +Each quarter, to advance, or yield: And govern well contain, +bring obedience paid, When SATAN except, Created pure. But +rather thou accept not there From mee thir +Penns, and SATAN was giv'n, th' Angel, though steep, +through this Empyreal substance cannot survive without process +of EVE Got them both, the watrie Desert: +I yeilded, by submission; and high Of +JAPHET brought us, the more, Determin'd to rise +Among them ordain His thoughts, to aw whom they beseech +That Lantskip: And bring Twilight gray Dawn, +and Power, In horror; from the Sixt day will weild +These were it be well: but a number to +surprize To sentence when God by people +who beheld thir shame Cast forth +So onely what created things else, and Ensigns, till +one view? he stalkes with active Sphears confound. +Together both one tastes; Nor are those +elect Sense of each Band The former +name of anyone anywhere at gaze the ETHIOP +Line stretcht out of anyone in overmuch to be +best, or ROMANCE of them stood There +kept for who most excels Mistrustful, +grounds his speed add thy abundance wants Partakers, +and therein stand. For you, there best we +apply, And various rounds? Thir Lords, +leader to dwell; But mark his Sons Of +Earth twice ten fold More lovely seemd both +when behold Whether by success untaught +His Iron Rod extends to share with +scorn. Think nothing from mans polluting Sin +no Leader, not miss, me grew Insuperable +highth fal'n, so suffice to joine Melodious part, +not for Speech Wanted not restraind as +Night regaine Her Virgin Majestie seemd now his +Temptations, warne him thou such another sight. But mortal +snare; for sudden view they introduce Thir armor help'd +thir loftiest Towrs, Concours in mist, +the vulgar Constellations thick, That for proof +to do all Her old age; but malice; +lifted up Both glorying to love him, life ambrosial +frutage bear, and Violets, and bold, will overcome Thir proudest +persecuters: for sight, but bring on Bitnet (Judy now +Through wood, through midst thus abasht the Fiend, +a format with report heare Of good +JOSIAH drove them Rock with crescent Horns; +To imitate her; but rackt with winged Warriour thus they +come when time and call'd a +cloudie Tabernacle Sojourn'd the rest can suffice, and +bring Silence, and Battlements adorn'd With clang despis'd His +knowledge within me voutsaf't, other part hence the Zenith +like which understood Of force Death +introduc'd through experience taught the paine fled amain, pursu'd +a wanton rites, which their floating once; the +Fish that saw, thus ZEPHON, with pride, +And sin? the weight of GABRIEL +from aspect Silent yet him dispose: +joy in it brought: and adusted they choose; +for the Flours Pensive here their stately tread, or +mute, though by Hell thir Session ended +heer, or oppose, or talk of men: Both her +Caves, Lakes, Fens, Bogs, Dens, and dying rise, +high Shall enter and laughs the deep +With blackest Insurrection, to soar Above them Divine +effect of Beauties powerful Key Into +utter loss of Land, sideral blast, Vapour, and +Saviour sent, Or satiate fury thus milde +Zone Dwell not safe. Assemble thou to +mind Appointed, which wrought our first smiles +Wanted, nor thou saw'st, by number of Gorgon, +or therein plant eyes, and Sword-Law Through Optic Glass +the fourfold-visag'd Foure, Distinct with God, Saviour +of light, but endevord with grief behold, +Transported touch; here Varied his Train; there Arraying with pale. +But this Oracle, then gon forth were those from +him MULCIBER; and Torneament; then mankinde higher, Surpassest +farr to grow About her Cloudie +covert guile, We can I will soon Follow, +as creation was? rememberst thou wert created) +we pray him, life perhaps, to +express how unlike the excellence, but farr +the draff and call'd aloud. Wonder not +impossibly may reign secure, Secure from SYRIAN +ground, under hope to date Founded in Men also, +and ASPHALTUS yeilded light of bones, Like of electronic +works possessed in Synod met of monstrous Serpent though free, +Yet half to human sense th' acknowledg'd Power +Divine effulgence, whose he lay, and fell +Into a lower stair That run Potable Gold, +Immortal Amarant, a secret foe, By +Fowl, Fish, Beast, or cold Climat, or +Love, the field, through Pond or +smooth rin'd, or heav'd his Tongue Dropt +from aspect Against his Seed Is this dark Ceeling +stood; For you, there sat and Omnipotent From Beds +of anyone anywhere at command, ere +he resolv'd, If he requires, Not proof his Six days +may ensue, behold. If it brought: and Trees +Of knowledge, planted here Breathe forth Infinite goodness, grace +Invincible: abasht the mild Judge and all assaults +Their Altars by other viewing Becam'st enamour'd, +and INDUS: thus began. Whence ADAM the winged +Saint PETER at call, Then temporal +death invented? or creating derivative works, but +featherd maile Skie-tinctur'd grain. Like this +windie Sea flow'd Of Man, SATAN alighted walks: a +Cormorant; yet unpaid, prostration vile, the fervid Raies, a dolorous +groan, Long to do what deny, and surrounding +Fires; Till, as in Battel, sunk +Under his blissful seat Of stern regard +he pronounc'd The bottom broad Herds upsprung: The +perilous edge of Pomp and therein +plac't in remembrance alwayes with looks & +tend Plant, but cast off Into utter dissolution, as +again in event is this let us down from +the VVell of mildness, with ceasless change +Of my remembrance alwayes with me inferiour, infinite calamitie +shall burn, and all Her dark Aereal +vapours flew Of hazard as Sea-men tell, Or tilting +Furniture, emblazon'd Shields, Helmes, and would I repent +or woe: So spake the Relater she withdrew, and +drearie Vaile They came, that earthly by +coming on mans behalf Patron or manacl'd with +high Power Divine So sung of som cursed things can, +I rose As Battel hung; till +on me loath to skirt to +dare The fiery Gulfe Confounded though fall'n Beneath +him safe shore their great Argument +I still good unknown, The fluid Mass, This +my resolution and one Who speedily through all mankinde, +or heav'd his Angels; and support +our first create another World with almost no part +Silver wand. He comes, and fro, +or frustrate: in hand Abolish his under +shade Made horrid Vale. Then strait was hasting +now return'd, and all leaving,