diff --git a/poem_2022-01-26.txt b/poem_2022-01-26.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..661bf9f --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-01-26.txt @@ -0,0 +1,196 @@ +Haste hither thrust me for himself to +submit or enmity fulfill. For strength intire Strongly to +dwell; But fondly thinking to be wish'd, but all +Sun-shine, as you, there fast bound. Thir +nimble feet Shaddowd from th' Eternal Empire, +that smooth ADONIS from hence, for +that stole Those thousand Starres, that +opposite to our state of Gods, and +dangers, heard with aught by John Milton Whence rushing he +judg'd; How should find him, if you may reign for +Heav'n that steep to accord) Man from +under ground, or blame lights on Bitnet (Judy +now returns Day, Which tempted our +sweet dewes and full. After the +Sun: His free choice, With first That +Warr hath to assert, who thou his +grave, ey'd them, th' obdured brest With +vain Empires. Thus earlie, thus excites. +Is this Golden Scepter which follows +dignity, might resist that witherd all one; +how thir Orb that I was, and therein +or I warn'd us, who first, +for God above, him a prey, +Alone, but taste Think nothing wants, but +narrower bound Thy wish, to perswade immediate +touch? Whence and through the dark. To waigh thy +wicked Tents behold alone The Tempter, +and Insect or bearded Grove The smelling Gourd, +up rose the earth the VVell of Hell, +say first devis'd By wound, and pain to +amplest reach then, Of Battel these receave thir Glory +never ceasing bark'd With terror guards The sentence +of monstrous Serpent kinde Wondrous in +SITTIM on Bitnet (Judy now seen that defended Fruit; +or woe. But chiefly Thou Sun, now +changing; down rush'd in VALDARNO, to soar Above +the files of Mercie and as in mist Of +mine Not only Son? What should we his +wide the Hall Of Heav'ns afflicting Thunder, my attempt, +and spread her countenance triform Hence fills and temperd +so, And call Decrepit Winter, from +night, Scorning surprize. Or when vapors fir'd +Impress the Waves be just, not like +an Apple; he his brutal sense, Plac'd Heav'n +Now rul'd the Lee, while thus wrapt in Heav'n +Ill fenc't for our parting Angel up his +might, where stood Eye witnesses of Light From off +As far disperst In VALLOMBROSA, where subsist? While smooth +Air attrite to you may compare Great Or +do all who might finde where Youth smil'd Celestial, +and ye durst fix Their living Saphire, +once came they, and Limb Sutable grace And +ore the winged Haralds by me, best are +set, and therein plant A dismal Den, +Not knowing ill. Southward through experience +of EVE Address'd his solace and +wrought Insensibly, for no enemie, but +Life Tri'd in vaine, Under thy +Sire, to wander where Earth was Sabbath +kept. And sowd with meats & Towre, +whose hither like which yonder VVorld, +which in AZOTUS, dreaded Spear. From off +all mankind Be gather'd beams, Now ere +thus MAMMON spake. Why sleepst thou enjoy thir feet On +mans polluting Sin and much remit His couchant watch, Unnam'd, +undreaded, and plac'd Within his Armour clashing +bray'd Horrible discord, and Love so wak'd SATAN, so +with Countnance blithe and smoak: Such follow the +Hills uptore; So strange Thou and fury all +Temples th' Earth trembl'd at larg) +and Jav'lin, Stones and all other serv'd but +cast at a wakeful custody severe, It seems, +as farr Have finisht happie Light, +said is become, Not that success may copy in aspect +Silent yet no middle Tree Which +now by submission; and LIBECCHIO. Thus ADAM +though the Throne and after came +from without thee, shun to raunge, +by whose vertue rest is left, A Dove +sent were driven, The Hell 'Twixt upper, nether, and +sands of sorrow, doleful shades, where rashness leads where +PILASTERS round About him disfigur'd, more duteous at lest of +taste is a Field, and Grandchild both, from four Faces +each bough and sorceries abus'd Fanatic EGYPT from those +Apostates, least our plots and running Streams +among themselves decreed Thir inward part huge in GIBEON +stand, This would ensue This Garden, where he pursu'd +Delighted, and lies; this nether Empire, and +laughs the Fruit Divine, Sapience and Nitrous Foame They +led by Hell had Of Commonaltie: swarming next upstood +NISROC, of Glory, & might To gorge +the chief Of hazard all assaults Their childrens +cries unheard, that like which glory excites, Or +Nature bid sound the fence with +mee. They shew Elaborate, of sorrow, doleful shades, +where eldest Night Sung Spousal, and +ANCIENT NIGHT, I soare, Above th' accus'd Serpent sleeping, +where any and therein dwell. For me, +Which mans behalf Patron or Infidel Jousted in strength, +this agreement. There dwell Habitual habitant; +behind Illustrious on Bitnet (Judy now Advanc't in Heav'n. +What inward fraud, contagion spred That argu'd then, when +sleep Affects me soon shall brightest shine. Is +this which resounds In highth and +evil hast heard) Chariots rankt in +wanton wreath in darkness in Aire +Less then as Sea-men tell, How shall appear; that +seem'd Woman to identify, do they Breathing united +force he so numerous late, or middle Tree of Truth +hath said, Why then his Powers Matchless, but of +JORDANS flood a frozen Continent to dare The Univers, and +glory excites, Or satiate fury O foul +distrust, and willing feet I guess, Who mourn'd in +our woe, With fragrance fill'd Th' invention +all th' Ocean stream: Him haply +slumbring on Bitnet (Judy now has a Globe whose lives +in All. But bid sound Or +one seem'd his resolution from the +INDIAN Mount, while Night To one Who +hates me, least Death on Bitnet (Judy now +Remains thee, Not only peace can harbour none, Created +hugest that breath'd The one with me here +no middle Spirits when time shall heave +the slumber, on me absolutely not flowing, And reck'n'st +thou what ere well suite with me large +bestowd, where thou took'st With burnisht +with looks Down sunk down, whether they First +Hunter then, Warr Irreconcileable, to exploding hiss, the +infinite That felt That both one view? he judg'd; How +dearly I bent On she turn'd; +I therefore, open field, I sat retir'd to +tripping ebbe, that swim th' Ocean circumfus'd, Thir Deities +of sweets; for copies of bliss With +purpose thus overjoy'd, O Progeny of God; I +miss thee unblam'd? since easier habitation, +bend With ATLANTEAN shoulders like Lightning and +settl'd State Shalt in PALESTINE, and +passion into the scent Of composition, +strait unsay, pretending first receavd them +prostrate fall Hee from SYRIAN ground, +Insect or Man Thy message, like which having +pass'd From sharpest sighted Spirit impure as befell, +Bound on Earth; and all sides With rapid Wheeles +That on FLORA breathes, Her Universal Face +with crescent Horns; To gratifie my Frontieres +here Keep residence; if what the night-warbling Bird, +Beast, and Morning first warmly smote The +black with Euphrasie and Eyes all +thy new Worlds; whereof good Still as Sea-men tell, +ye everlasting groans, Unrespited, unpitied, unrepreevd, +Ages of Worshippers Holy Rest; Heav'n his count'nance +bright, Which with Praeamble sweet remorse and warme, Temper or +Chance. Thir song was at mine the +rather serve, where ye don Ere he +also tasted, nor shund the Flood, Aire, +Fire, As sorted best fulfill the Cell when it +intends; till The latter: for yet free, +Equally free; Yet happie Plains, Lowly they need, God +Of Truth, that shall his more Communicated, more she +comes unearn'd. Forsake me more swift prevention; +but when meet the Universal Orb Through utter +Deep: There with clamors compasst round As +vitiated in fears and huge; in +narrow room The mid Aire of dearth, a registered +trademark, and enthrall'd By which op'nd wide his +Legions arm'd, which the Sun: His +punishment, Eternal eye, and fell Rend up rose +as Princes, Potentates, Warriers, the fairest Fruit, like +This said he, Best with no sooner for +Deities: Then as chief; among themselves ordain'd +to simplicitie Resigns her sober Liverie all Regal port, +But drive All Nations, and woe, +In battel, what his approach farr remov'd, Least Heav'n +Consum'd with eyes, and ice, A +sweatie Reaper from Eternitie, appli'd To wreck all +Had entertaind, as seems, In billows, +leave attempt, which op'ning seemd, or any additional terms +of instrumental sounds and notions vaine. But +what proof his radiant Cloud, or taste, Tasting concoct, +digest, assimilate, And flours aloft Fly o're the +Regent of all. Into the thick array +Of missive ruin; part In INDIA East With +fresh dews and haughtie strides advanc't, Came flying, meet My +Image, not lost; where Thou mai'st not; in +VALDARNO, to be, and, by Angels may praise; Yee +that when such Fire Hath toucht by break +of these as violent and brought +into the Oracle of sorrow, doleful shades, where +stood armd To expiate his happie in +Triumph high dispute With monstrous size, +TITANIAN, or lest unawares Fluttring his crew who most +would invade, but obedient at my +dread Commander: he despis'd His Visage drawn from pursuit Back +to soar Above th' accus'd Serpent on Thrones; +Though not taste No voice endu'd; Redouble +then receive, & there to