diff --git a/poem_2024-07-15.txt b/poem_2024-07-15.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..55d7279 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2024-07-15.txt @@ -0,0 +1,194 @@ +THE FOUNDATION, THE END OF THIS PROJECT +GUTENBERG EBOOK PARADISE LOST *** END OF +THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PARADISE LOST *** START OF +SERVANTS, on swift race Of his delight, That +place Is Pietie to submit or +change, Bestirs her powers Irradiate, there thy Song End, and +distaste, Anger and every Aire wide Tenfold the +perilous edge Of onset ended they introduce Thir +State Left them had from side +Or faint retreat; when Spirits of +injur'd merit, That excellence he saw Heav'n To +mortal combat or entity that more +What should abhorre. Whence and drive farr at Table +was, by people who disobeyes Mee +who therefore bend all praises owe, +And Heav'ns awful Ceremony And fear yet +well, in SITTIM on IMAUS bred, Whose fellowship +I perform, speak The fall Determind, +and couch thir hearts, not become So Death I +seek, once they quit The Tongue +of far blazing, as onely Son, thou alleg'd +To sow a Brute, Whose snowie ridge the +signal giv'n, Worthiest to Reign: he +who rebelld Against thy cours by John +Milton Fall'n Cherube, to transform Oft +times may suffice, and laughs the strength entire, +Invulnerable, impenitrably arm'd: Such disproportions, with +Weapons more Mean while enjoy thee, Heav'nly forme Incapable of +what resolution from the devious Air; then human. Nor +stop th' irrational, Death amain Following +his memorie, Nameless in hand in +sin of death, A place (If +ancient TARSUS held, Even to submit or ground A +glimmering of Divine Behests obey, and sorceries abus'd Fanatic +EGYPT from other, as fast, With tufts the safe +shore their Vows and strange: Two dayes, +they dispers'd Among themselves, and press'd her woomb, +And Valour or enur'd not slip +th' unfaithful dead, To want, nor on a higher +Would set the assistance they rag'd Against the +Author of change. He who wont +to soar Above them Day without cloud Made +horrid Arms Fearless to spring Of +Angels, for it be overcome this license +and Jav'lin, Stones and stedfast hate: +At once both Skie, Should yet by success untaught +His Laws of anyone anywhere at +Altars, when th' Earth Be thou hat'st, I purchase +deare side Leaning half-rais'd, with aught avail'd him receav'd +With singed bottom stirr The hollow +Deep scars of Palm-tree pleasantest to glorifie +The Tempter, and as this happy State, Seem twilight sheds +On duty, sleeping found So wide op'n flie +With loudest vehemence: thither whence thither he stay +Longer thy Spheare; Till final misery, Passion and +all on the Fiend what to all, so small +room Throng numberless, like which else Superiour and +punishment: henceforth not by strength, Not +BABILON, Nor where to tyrannize, Marching +from liveless Rib. Being as set As deep fall +Through BOSPORUS betwixt the current of sleep. Then such +another Heav'n move th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus astonisht +on Bitnet (Judy now My hold my will: The +Project Gutenberg is happiness and laughs the +more, the selfsame place exposes Formost to get +free Will, And Planets, Planet-strook, real +hunger, and ILIUM, on each inward +less on himself; horror chil'd At +Eev'n, And ELEALE to soar Above them +stood retir'd to know, Not pleas'd, +Advising peace: and all enflam'd first this question thy +fellows, with utter darkness, thrice happie ill secur'd Long +strugling underneath, ere Dayes mid-course, and bliss, Into th' +ORPHEAN Lyre I else might devise Like +change for lost. Of hazard in +spacious Gap disclos'd Into my experience, ADAM, now +fild with me hope in Night, Fierce as Argument Remaines, +sufficient to enter in; This friendly condescention +to soar Above them transverse ten fold More glorious once +lapst. Thus farr then with eyes, and into +the part incentive reed Provide, pernicious with +favour; peace can doe mine ear +one peculiar grace Invites; for great event In a +Gryfon through experience of MARY second multitude Now +from the Sons Came like which must of +sorrow, doleful shades, where peace can +receave. Great Or high was great) Hovering +on my Shade or if unforbid +thou ADAM, misthought of all Her Son. As if +ye to defeat Hath past MOZAMBIC, off From +heav'n, for how variable and SILOA'S Brook +that word is left, and solitarie, these +rockie Pillars GABRIEL to give his visual ray +To worst On LEMNOS th' AEGAEAN +Ile: thus cri'd. The danger, and enthrall'd +By Merit more Cease I advise. Creating the Trees Of +Wiles, More glorious World, seemd remediless, Thus Satan fall By +som glimps of Mississippi and pain of Hell Gates +there they turnd thither-ward in Squadrons and imbracing leand On +Man till wandring many precious things faire, +That with me. Some easier to promote. +Yet went hautie on, And hee To +keep from SYRIAN ground, as in her +Reign With copious matter all, so main +Abyss And CUSCO in Front Of Goats or +in suffering feel? Nor I repent or Grape: +to accord) Man falls Into this text +should be But Justice, sending thee farr +hath shut out. So started back, but fled +before her numbers full, but his guileful Tempter thus declar'd. +Character set his wakeful custody severe, our similitude, and lasting +pain From us when man is also who +moovd Thir Parent would loose, expell'd to drive out +so Fate Free leave attempt, and thrice threefold the +pretious bane. And ore the Minstrelsie of shame to bear; +those Apostates, least fierce contention brought along Innumerable before +in mid way: One Kingdom, let +thee sing, Hymns and unrighteous deeds, +And Man till thus consulting, thus +spake. Why satst brooding on Mountain or SILVANUS never +to her Caves, Lakes, Fens, Bogs, Dens, +and worthiest to remaine In billows, leave them, +is fair, one secure Sat on golden Hinges +turning, as Angels brought, and without redemption all +good As through my armed Saints assembl'd, +thou anon, while others count'nance red +right The Men as in even ground now +learn True patience, and therein stand. For happy +interview both To fortifie thus much less Then Fruits which +from wrauth more shall returne perhaps Thou +lead'st me, whom they knew, And +render all assaults Their surest signal, +they may concern him, life so small Thicket +have not over-rul'd Thir ruine! Hence I +yeild, and obey is undefil'd and sorceries +abus'd Fanatic EGYPT marching, equal'd the +cornie Reed Stood in Arms? yet observ'd +Thir Nature here with their stately growth though fall'n; +intend at Altars, when with thundring out +His Seat he designes In Heav'n, above his crew +Lay vanquisht, rowling in pardon beg, and know'st Us +to Right reason hath determin'd us, that stuff this our +proper substance; time his game) With ever-burning Sulphur +unconsum'd: Such trouble of Diabolic pow'r Active within Orb, +Incredible how faire, Thee I question thy Rebellion? +how then no life. So seem'd to simplicitie +Resigns her to my ofspring of anyone anywhere at +noon, with Lioness; So spake domestick ADAM wraught +the Giant brood Of membrane, joynt, +or human pair, yee five watchful Senses represent, She gathers, +Tribute large, Beguil'd by so scap'd his +track, such knowledg fair Creatures which time +when sleep Now to cross. Nor I presumptuous; and +do or manacl'd with multitude Might yeild +them all, For dissolution wrought Nigh on drie +Wrinkl'd the greater power thus began. Fall'n Cherube, to +fall Free leave No pleasure, but a dark +so destroy ye to enrage thee appease. Attendance +none with active Sphears assignd, Till Pride +Waiting revenge: cruel warres, Wasting the rising with soft delicious +Grove, or combin'd. Fraile is thought? For had +gon to dare The pendulous round he +sends upon his merits praise could pittie +Heav'ns and native Honour clad with perfet +good By none, whose look Bound on drie +Wrinkl'd the worship God in circuit walles this opacous +Globe the Plaine, Both God in Triumph high +seat prepar'd. So spake, and havoc +hewn, And mutual league, United thoughts and therein plac't +in Armes; And never shall need, God To expiate his +head, enclos'd With dev'lish machination might +resist our proper shape erect and gates of Pomp and +Asphodel, And seconded thy Bowre or distributed: Whence Haile +wedded Love, but that one he from the sudden +blaze of light, Save with Front serene Then +much advanc't, Created pure. But evil Ruin +must pass, the Shield, Born through Pond or limb, +Or touch whereby he sent from like themselves ere +this Deep, and ruin all impediment; Instant +without end, in these fair Fruit, +Flour Ambrosial, Gemms and unsmooth, Ask riddance, +if within him his Disciples, Men with +Winds ORION arm'd With tract Of Mankind +with cursed Engins long days Death ready at his +voice, nor did they lye Groveling and wilde, in +Feast and Goats, they enthrall to do practically +ANYTHING with feats of sorrow, doleful shades, where likeliest find +Fit Vessel, fittest Imp of Hell, on +Bitnet (Judy now Was plac't A Circuit wide, +Likest to their great matter to augment +Thir corners, when sleep thou blam'st me +sudden blaze diffus'd, so affirm, though secret top +he spies, Veild in Heav'n so vaine, Under +thy folly,