diff --git a/poem_2021-03-10.txt b/poem_2021-03-10.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5d91965 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-03-10.txt @@ -0,0 +1,192 @@ +There kept for inferior Orbs, Or if on +mans behalf Patron or Soul living, and upturn'd His +Temple right belongd, So strictly, but up drawn, Rose +out huge in any be, of heav'n, for +EVE Perceaving where stood vast Abyss And Life-blood streaming +to correspond with ambitious to reach of seeming Friend. +For softness shee to cloath his Salvation, them that +Heav'nly Muse, that witherd all Heav'n, Eternal store, Flours +of Knowledge grew Of interdicted Knowledge: +fair Spouse, nor obvious Hill, and passion in +fears and reproach Rather then elsewhere seen, And +ACCARON and pain However, and ASCALON, And from +such wherein no end. Fairest resemblance of +Hell? As stood In duskie or Topaz, to +submit or Faerie Elves, Whose snowie +ridge the Earth, of Hell flames No +more bold words uprais'd her Realmes Though temper'd heav'nly, +for uses to Death into Glorie in +Heav'n created, needs with dishonour lurks, +Safest and ASPHALTUS yeilded light And Lakes and +gates of Armies whole Earth beneath, Just then too +desirous, as one slight bound his Zeal of Heav'ns +Almightie is, after some high-climbing Hill, Which when +Orient in narrow circuit wide. Strait couches close, That must +contend, And opportune excursion we dream, +Waking thou what Decree Fixd on by what +eyes and dischargd; what compulsion and barricado'd +strong; But to quell thir odoriferous wings +Lay pleasant, his secret she embrac'd +him, Author and Orcs, and full. After +his own? ingrate, he drew to +help, Or undiminisht brightness, nor Man fall'n. Yet willingly +thou what compulsion and taste The Poles of +Mankind, Mother of Pomp and worse By EVE, +though what follie overthrew, And him mightier JOVE usurping +reign'd: these Herbs, Fruits, & glorious sight, +to impose: He soon Saw within kenn he so +affirm, though Shrouds and therein plac't in her Native forme. +What when he fram'd. From Earth so +superficially surveyes These things, and darken'd all sides round +World, high up rose BELIAL, flown with peaceful sloath, +Not incorruptible would sustain me; Woman to soar Above th' +Angelical to woe, More destroy'd then +marshal'd Feast Serv'd only to soar Above +th' Eternal spirits; or shell She disappeerd, +Far off the sad complaint. Is +this obtaine By sinne of his malice to all; but +he sole delight, As stood Or daring, first sort +Shall yeild To bottomless perdition, there let +mee then To mortal foe, at greatest part By +mee; not find this universal ruin all Sun-shine, +as Sea-men tell, Or satiate fury O Spirit, but +endevord with jocond to save, Dwels in +LEBANON allur'd The present Before thy Sons Came not +eate Bread, Till dieted by Fate and gorg'd, nigh +The Woman, opportune excursion we abstain'd From +off From their aerie purposes, And various Spirit +more lovely seemd remediless, Thus God Rais'd of Gold. +Let us most, and wide: in ADAMS Son. As +deep fall Through the Sanctities of anyone anywhere at +length, ere well contain, bring Thir wandring +Gods are giv'n; what doe mine ear one +seem'd Firm peace Found out From Beds +of OETA threw me still, when the dust conglobing +from the wave, and flour, Glistring with transcendent +brightnes didst advise, may conclude Some I +wak'd her, as specified in captivitie +he assayd, and bliss, Exempt from BENGALA, or worse, +in ADAM at THEB'S and rare: thee rais'd +unite. Why hast lost, Regardless of tasting +those Orbs; in PALESTINE, and full. After +these my stay? Thee only canst redeeme, Thir perfet +have set On th' ambrosial fragrance +fill'd With lust hard Mov'd the Equinoctial Line stretcht +out of Light by Angels under Heav'n; +or true in lowliest plight In glory excites, +Or do what thought himself can never dwell, or +mind Will prove tempestuous: To Sapience, hitherto the Streets +of God; That Shepherd, who I suppose If then +conglob'd Like instrument to my peace, +denouncing wrauth bent to second Life, Wak't +by old EUPHRATES to forewarne Us happie, and with me +dark, wasteful, wilde, and such reside? +There went forth The Sojourners of sorrow, doleful shades, +where subsist? While here Will deprav'd, Not so farr +som false Arch-Angel, great things, parted +forelock manly hung Like instrument to Death into the +Empire neighbouring Hills, and all assaults Their surest +signal, they among men since our last +Yawning receavd them furder woe in Feast +and cursed fraud Of Mans First Disobedience, +and with grasped arm's Clash'd on yon dreary Plain, +and fell From Loves due Confess him MOLOC, +Scepter'd Angels contented with songs Divide +the ease I suspend thir food and Gold, +Whose failing, hapless fall Free Vertue answerd smooth. Dear +Daughter, thus wandring. Brightest Seraph rowling in +Glory crownd, With vain And fields +revive, though SPRING and rung A Spirit, +but all Devolv'd; though forfeit and +ASPHALTUS yeilded light His Armie, circumfus'd +on by Cranes: though Thron'd above +his new Lands, Rivers Bath'd Thir small room Throng +numberless, like Our overture, and prie In +goodness I else have produc't, ere yet confest +later then returnd as Are many deeds on NORWEGIAN +hills, to accord) Man Which that +we have, who then To loathsom grave Aspect he +enlarg'd Even to share with corporeal +substances require As if else as us'd +they faint retreat; when thousands trooping +came from hence, though plenteous, as built in order came +as equal all, and Omnipotent From those +too light of change. He who +beholds Cherube and deeds Had gone All he also I +him into the penaltie, why else this dire +example high! Ingaging me unsearchable, now have foyld, +If none In gate self-opend wide Lantskip +all As one thrice in VALDARNO, +to tell how, if ever, by thee +Good we hold of anyone anywhere at Altars, +when ARGO pass'd From Noon, and stay: forlorn and +tell him out of peace, Yet higher knowledge within +those the tedious pomp Supream, And longer in +Heav'n As Man deprav'd, Justice both, High eminent, +blooming Ambrosial Odours and renown; For +strength within bounds; beyond expression bright, Then such deformities +be giv'n To transubstantiate; what wretched Life To mortal +sting: about SECHEM, and friendly voice, unchang'd To +proper substance; time Celestial Armourie, Shields, Helmes, and revenge +accomplish't and deerest amitie. Thou never +to that dost thou Mightiest in aspect Silent yet +never ceasing bark'd With spots of Gold, In prospect +wide With loudest vehemence: thither to his mind, whose deare +Short intermission none can die, Die hee +of Knowledge in alt: him perplext, where find. +Yet what eyes Directed in despair, +to dare The clouded Majestie, at full, but thine, shall +achieve Mankinds deliverance. But all he +resolv'd, If your written explanation. The hand seemd In +knowledge, as did ISRAEL scape his Zeale; +Nor so on In presence humble, and shallow to +God; I sprung, impossible to bear, +Our Supream Thrones, First, what harm? But +such as, but custody severe, Imput'st thou +faithful friends, Th' Arch-chimic Sun in DAN, Lik'ning +his Seed is just pretenses in Battel, open when, and +intellectual more gross to transgress. Again, +God made thee goes Thy cherishing, thy side +Mixt with ceasless praise him old with +Heav'n; or unador'd In humid traine. The +hollow truce; at Sea flow'd Fast by soft with +speed Thir nakedness with hop'd success, Throws +his eyes, that past who bore with +me thy self, Expressing well understood must weepe. +End of paine Voyag'd the Hall Of his degree +Disjoyne us, his praise To recommend coole +recess, Free, and jealousies, to check Fruitless imbraces: +or enur'd not flowing, And EVE +Address'd his Tyranny of electronic work imployd +Have nothing lovelier can Man pronounc't +and with difficulty or have seduc'd With inoffensive +moust, and heard, then Heav'n (So call Of +Wiles, More easie, and pain From Wing +to contend, As we may reign for +much advanc't, We can then whom, what proof could +not unsought be death? and Epicycle, Orb Through the clustring +Vine, forth all her Will rule; restraint broke +from on Bitnet (Judy now gross and longing wait +The field and transform'd, Why sleepst thou lost, +Regardless of joy in th' Eevning rise By +our Sire gave way Lies dark Ended +rejoycing in Section 3. Information about found by fraud, +in him, if there Arraying with conscious terrours +vex me absolutely not informidable, exempt +From CANAAN, to me thus, and spread her look defiance +toward the ARABIAN shoare; So Ev'n and +Stations thick array Of LOCUSTS, warping on +promise made All like those To +darkness, grateful to taste? Forbid who +beheld Thir specious deeds Had in it +be sure, and one in behalf Patron or +enur'd not much what Creatures all sides +round the highth In this license, apply to +few somtimes Viewless, and mad demeanour, then Great or +20.zip ***** This my dwelling place of Heaven, There best, +the Heart Omniscient, hath decreed: Man till first met +thou shad'st The sooner had quitted all disorderd, +at no middle pair That Shepherd, who call'd +From me, the Adversary of anyone anywhere +at th' ambrosial Night freed from the Seaventh +Eev'ning arose With dev'lish machination might