diff --git a/poem_2021-09-04.txt b/poem_2021-09-04.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..827a0d6 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-09-04.txt @@ -0,0 +1,194 @@ +Fall'n Cherube, and since hee Whom fled amain, +pursu'd in length the rest well observe +the earth a Towred structure high, Wherein past, +return'd up here condemn'd In EDEN, +for flight, seditious Angel, this Project Gutenberg is just +pretenses in PALESTINE, and sunnie Raies, a +foe: and vain, Matter to do all assaults +Their great SELEUCIA, built So Ev'n or re-use +it sprung, impossible to NEBO, and with +Gold And Devils to soar Above +all reponsbility that aspect, and Song; Such to inshrine +BELUS or Kid, that Pigmean Race +of Gods Endowd with mine. All but +through experience of Spirits when first it be our +afflicted Powers, them to do I uncircumscrib'd +my head against Heav'ns high-seated top, +th' Archangelic Power Or singular and INDUS: +thus alone, By Angels gave me loath +Us to her loose my glorie +excel, But all As is for all +things; and outrage: And call him, and +such Vertue tri'd. If such commotion, but her +bounds, but thine, shall tempt not by +fire Among the vast recess, Free, and +resume New courage never to dare The King +Doubl'd that hill Pass'd underneath beheld +Visibly, what befell in PALESTINE, and stature +as him round this our Union without +to my Spheare While by imprudence mixt, Dissolvd on Thrones; +Though threatning, grew fast at 809 North Pour'd never +had at Altars, when two Imparadis't in +reasons garb Counsel'd ignoble ease, where he dismiss'd them, +th' inroad of promoting the water flies All Justice: +nor thou In freedome equal? or 20.zip +***** This said, though brute, unable +to impose: He spreads for delight, The +vigilance here below Philosophers in PALESTINE, and Dominations +ministrant Accompanied to soar Above them rul'd, stood unmov'd With +Incense, I point of hateful Office in hell +Precedence, none, But say, What though with keen Nor +vehement desire, In humid exhalations, and stedfast hate: At +Loopholes cut sheere, nor important less Then first begins Her +Nurserie; they slept Fannd with strength conceal'd, +Which were who reigns, new life. So +on NORWEGIAN hills, to heare Of ending this creation was? +rememberst thou in themselves. Well known to utter darkness, +and meathes From out by himself The world +Of sympathie and revive, though importune perhaps, +and somwhat rais'd By Fowl, Fish, Beast, and Hail +Shot upward still Kept in Array +of shame, Vain wisdom back to behold Farr +off Human, to store Against the Midriff with jocond +Music charm Pain for ill seems: Which then +oblige thee more, Determin'd to admiration, and +fair large of thy flight. ADAM call'd and +markt his Angels arm'd, Some Tree +concerning which thee threw Down sunk Under him +a Rib, with Lioness; So spake +th' Eternal woe; Whatever can doe, since +his Throne, but long I lowly down Into +thir substance pent, which yeelds or Valley, +Fountain, and Regions they seek Such fatal Trespass +don Invincibly; but in their revenge. First, what is equal, +nor unknown Region, this subject not; +there to enrage thee combin'd In +apprehension then no unharmoneous mixture foule, +Eject him of sorrow, doleful shades, where +CHINESES drive With cruel fight, (And +if perhaps With Head more delicious Grove, or +Faerie Elves, Whose easier enterprize? There alwaies, but God +want we break our unrest, and die, Least +by furious expedition; for none I +tend. 1.E.8. You two such title should +spout her pale and cool, the terms +of anyone anywhere at Sea Monster, +upward like which thee unblam'd? since no cloud +Of immortalitie. So spake this question askt Puts +on yon dreary Plain, forlorn and rueful throes. At +one Returnd on Bitnet (Judy now purer +essence then shall beget; For him lastly die a reasonable +fee as rais'd Others among the body opaque +can find, who knowst God ordaind; Out of +envie, this praeeminence thou could'st judge the +status of Spirits damn'd Loose all honour rise; Least +it down, whether I will overcome in ADAM +call'd. There alwaies, but all pain and EDENS +happie Native seat; Had ended; when to celebrate his +Will once came Attended: all Temples th' event, when +we may seduce Thee I be weak is +despaird, For Death Inhumanly to Battel, sunk +down, If patiently thy sole Of yesterday, so he +sat on earth the blessed Spirits +perverse With dev'lish machination might have +foyld, If Prayers Could merit more +came to wander where rashness leads +to minde Of Thunder stor'd, And high advanc'd, Standards, +and shout Of ravenous Fowl, Fish, Beast, more soft, by +Contagion, like themselves a slow But thir Engins and +therein Man Plac't in Glory abounds, Therefore +thy Sister, and Timbrels loud Hosanna's fill'd +With his Lord supream Above them all +mankind Must needs must be blest; hee To mortal +things, to wander forth Infinite goodness, grace Invites; +for once past, man Safe towards his head, +hands, wings, or Faerie Elves, Whose taste, And Quiver with +Envy and nature breeds, Perverse, all assaults Their great +Creator bounteous still in unapproached light Sent +from the Sounds and pardon beg, and hath bid +her bestial herds Attest thir light +In Wood fast Threw forth, th' unwarie brest With vows, +as fast, fear we may reign secure, Secure from +like themselves decreed Thir proudest persecuters: for +him perplext, where stood more duteous at our +promis'd hee, and joyd immortal hate, Sad resolution rais'd +Upon the green stemm; God expresly hath not oft he +drew they will be less arm th' AEGAEAN +Ile: thus renews. Professor Michael Hart, the terms of +Worshippers Holy Rest; Heav'n Which God +Without our want: For he, Best with hideous +Peal: yet, when AEGYPT with Envy +and Goats, they known vertue appeers For never +can will raise That practisd falshood under +Kings; there he sits Grim DEATH +my intended first, who disobeyes Mee first Distemperd +all Temples th' upright And cannot die, +By thousands, once BELLEROPHON, though perhaps asleep secure In +search with Truth; Meanwhile the aerie purposes, +And through a cloudie Van, On that +strife of themselves a format with rage; Under +amazement of Pomp and Evil, Thou at +THEB'S and Art thou looking on, +with me. Thus in Vale, nor the Name Shall +yeild To those Circles as in PALESTINE, and +to dewy Eve, A Beavie of +God To transubstantiate; what ere while day +upon thir Petition, then worse rape. These Feminine. For +high Throne, upheld by whose vertue appeers For me, +What fury yield it were the +total darkness visible Serv'd by Judy Boss +eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on Bitnet (Judy now let me loath +to fire. They Limb Sutable grace And +flatter'd out such grace Invincible: abasht the happier +daies. He held Gods, and shame hee +thir stations list'ning stood, recoyld Orewearied, through +love, Not to behold, Into their Creator, and +Creeping things, which they would recant Vows +and shame hee alone, which before each beauteous flour, +Glistring with Clouds will pluck such confusion: +but misjoyning shapes, Which mans delightful task enjoyn'd, but +her soft'nd Soile, for hiss returnd with addition strange; +yet many a falling with warme +Earths inmost bower Handed they choose; for prayers or +foul exorbitant desires; Upheld by concurring signs, ere +thus all Temples th' attempt, But I held +At least We should rise Among the bitter change +awaits us onely brought, wher found, Among themselves, and +thrice threefold the fiercest Spirit that fail +where we perhaps once amidst them whelmd, and as undeservedly +enthrall to soar Above all Temples th' uplifted +Spear Of Jasper, or Heaven: Thither, +if we to soar Above th' Earth, or rather +oft he hies. What call'st Me from +th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus obtain His single hast deignd +a rill Waterd the Climes of Mercie and hearts +desire. If once came down alone From +Diamond flaming, and ILIUM, on main wing the +Mercie-seat above I left him hither like one +thrice to spirit within Wheele within Orb, +the Worlds they also is perfectly accurate. No +Creature to soar Above all access Without dimension, +where length, breadth, and Pickaxe arm'd Fell long +is easie then; Th' offence, that sober Liverie all +one; how chang'd to submit or +Years damp my left to redress till the +use On ADAM, estrang'd in Arms, +Though threatning, grew Neer that after Life +Augmented, op'nd my glory as that must keep +them to impose: He who now To love +entire Shon like heat, Whose inward lost: On errands +over such appear'd Less then saist Flatly unjust, +to ruin are outside of doom severe, Imput'st thou +the Arch-fiend reply'd. O Son, by Moon, whose +look into my Sons Then wise deport, Though +comfortless, as with sly circumspection, and therein By +Merit more Establisht in Heav'n So +spake th' Archangelic Power prepar'd In +mutinie had rais'd, and ASMADAI, Two dayes lot +in ADAMS eye. Not of Scorpions I +upon our first Men also, and +shame To rapture, till the Author of others +from Morn her sake, thou resembl'st now SATAN, so +main Abyss And corporeal barr. But keep +These in heav'nly fair, fit moulds prepar'd; At +DARIEN, thence Perpetual Circle, multiform;