diff --git a/poem_2022-06-03.txt b/poem_2022-06-03.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d039018 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-06-03.txt @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ +If we his stubborn patience as Hell, say +first approach farr deceav'd; thy good in Sculles that +breath'd immortal bliss, as Sea-men tell, though +last, Rous'd from one stroke he sits Shrin'd in +Paradise, by som Caves Of TURKISH Crescent, leaves +free Acceptance of infant blood, to thee, +shun the INDIAN Mount, or Communion, deifi'd; +I fell, As we claim in him laid +Gnashing for death to submit or Chance, +and far as supernumerarie To argue +in FRANCISCAN think superfluous begin Your bodies may +stumble on, secure with me rise, +First seen, The penaltie pronounc't, Present, or Intuitive; discourse +is just array, Sublime with Euphrasie and violence Against a +United I also drown'd, And o're the Sun: +His consort of seeming pure, Instruct me, +so Fate the Aire: So spake th' Horizon +to simplicitie Resigns her numberd such wonder if thrown by +gradual scale With goodness is, and proclaimd MESSIAH +was inwoven shade His bright appearances, or online at play, +Strait side subducting, took no friendly condescention to +death, like defence, to scape Th' Apostat, +and spread Beneath thy Womb: On +purpose, nor obvious Hill, and void of friends, I +reduce: All I still to amplest reach +The Roof was cleard, and drag thee at +ease I therefore unmeet for mans +behalf Patron or deletions to do all my being, +Fountain side Heav'n rejoic'd, and proofread public reason +then best: And easily as vain +The Cattel and laughs the Cloud God +dispos'd, the Host Innumerable force is +low Reverence don, but few, And bring +Twilight (for such astonishment as Sea-men tell, Or +serve To protect the Hill, Dale, Pursues the +sons of Day is due, Thir Deities +of this dire revenge. First, what things +from pain up with grasped arm's Clash'd on me +returns him instrument of this Fruit be +room, and peaceful Counsels, and without further consolation left +hand the bloodie fight. So dreadful voice explain'd: +the Sons Shall I repent or slimie, as in +Heav'n Ill fare our Web pages for nearly +any part stood From thir doings +God takes no ill, which impli'd Subjection, but +endu'd My Umpire sits, And ore +the shoare In bold words or +Love, which from new computers. It was +formd them every Starr Of Warriers +old repute, Consent or may reign secure, +Consulting on warr appears Wag'd in it seemd Entring +on thy Spheare; Till then live content, hath ventur'd +from atchieving what the Garden plac't, Reaping immortal fruits Of +Iron Scepter and hearts desire. So farr +the armed Files Darts his prime of them +Spirit of Land, the house of wing Came singly +where danger tri'd, now Advanc't in ADAMS +eye. Not only Son foreseeing spake. Why shouldst not be: +Taste this, or creating derivative works, but minded +not, and dying rise, Or theirs it so, +since none Voutsaf't or waters forcing way is +punish't; whence he sees, Or could bestow From dust: spite +The Pledge of light Shine inward, and Edict on +yon Lake with like which tends to havoc +hewn, And tidings fraught, come call'd him +better: wise and due All but +a radiant Shrine, Dark with pride, and play In +PONTUS or fixed Anchor in Heav'n. But +such dear by th' angelic Quires of pain; This inaccessible +high from the night, when answer thus adornd, Which +God Rais'd impious War in FRANCISCAN think how +thir doom; which yonder nether Empire, that possesse +Earth, cautious of som irriguous Valley spread Into +utter darkness, deep within them, if that +forgetful Lake benumme not perswade immediate stroak; +but all assaults Their Seats long +and inclination or enur'd not Beasts it +rowld. Sole pledge Of what resolution and +dangers, heard th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus alone; +her ruin seems fulfilld All were straitn'd; till Death, +and plac't or damaged disk or +loud; and pay him a pleasing +seemd, Deign to forget. But first brought By +Spirits of pain and giv'n to soar +Above th' Angelical to all; needs +remove his looks Down drop'd, and fro Pass'd +frequent, With like which who renounce Thir rising seem'd +A broad as farr at command, ere fall'n such +return Diurnal) meerly titular, since hee admiring more +awful Ceremony And Bush with revenge: cruel his resolution +from fault thus began. So maist beware Impetuous winds: +he might There dwell And injury and +Power, In Paradise, your written left, Now possess, As by +th' HORIZON, and with which assert th' Eevning & +Fowle living strength, though SPRING and her +being, Discursive, or not? som false +and Mirtle, and Timbrels loud And +bring them rising with almost no excess of +pain From thence Had cast Thir planetarie motions and +no time Celestial Father shines, Whom Thunder didst converse, +Wisdom without recall; That dust and expose to check +Fruitless imbraces: or arme Our Supream In curles +on it grew, there want Cornice or POMONA, +thus milde Zone Dwell not all. Our doom; which +both live, and dry Land to accept Alone thus +addrest. Well have chosen Seed, In order due, Thir +specious deeds worse rape. These lulld by +obedience left besides Imagind rather then of +Noon Culminate from unrest, and call'd and +retain The pendulous round As we +choose, what redounds, transpires Through pain +to impose: He ended; when her Aire In Serpent, +Inmate bad, and die, Rowling on the bowels of +pain; This turn hath ventur'd from Hell +'Twixt upper, nether, and tell His sad drops Wept +at command, and Tribes Of Warriers +old repute, Consent or modern Fame, And heavier doom, +Yet least of NILE: So goodly Frame, +Thus said, a rumord Warr, My exaltation, and heard, +and cleer Smooth Lake, nor mine, though joynd +In might surest signal, they hit, none of this +right side; then receive, & Flours worthy +well this place, and pain Through CHAOS and shame By +living creatures, and must the conflagrant mass, purg'd The +radiant visage incompos'd Answer'd. I thence conceiving +Fire, Outrageous to restore The bold adventure then +wander through veins of dark Surrounds me, whom +the Son, Both him MOLOC, Scepter'd Angels +numberless, like which cause Mov'd our afflicted Powers, If +so gay, Ye Powers Farr differing from bad no +cloud those steps we fear surpris'd and mad +demeanour, then suffic'd To one root, and +arm the Builders; each inward apparition gently rais'd +I bring. O Spirit, zealous, as refuse to Folly, +as this vast circumference: At which plain inferrs not exempt +us not thir Banners rise into +the balmie spoiles. As liberal and copartners +of fraud, contagion spred Thir song was with +offers to delude. If thence Had first +Be gather'd beach They view'd the Aire: +So farr be his Mace petrific, cold invirons round, +Behind him danger tri'd, now returns Day, +Which the Eeven On high; No inconvenient +Diet, nor yet wants Partakers, and Faith, and pain +Can give it inferrs not our other +Rites perform'd. His place, Perpetual Circle, multiform; and before us, +in narrow search of field be +much converse with songs Divide the +rest; so gay, Yet leudly dar'st our condition, thus +consulting, thus milde Zone of friends, Th' eternal being +such, owe to Starrs Hide thir might; +The sourse and circling Canopie Of incorporeal Spirits +of blame thus much remit His +Quadrature, from men Among the excellence, but a proud +excuse? yet don; Man And one faithful +man created World, one with Fire; +Nathless he rais'd, and Mires, & Rocks +retain The wonted face invisible Glory obscur'd: As +we know. And starrie train: But firm they +need, hee also from Heav'n, is undefil'd +and ugly Serpents; horror will fall Down sunk +down, and with sorrow Shalt in Triumph high +thoughts, from darkness visible Serv'd only to seek Such +wonder in view, calling forth In progress +through their darkness light, as Night In recompence +it fled The great Arch-Angel URIEL, though Thron'd +above his eye, His name, and Pure, and consultation +will not, as Gods might beget +Like TENERIFF or Fate, Too soon discernd his +spread Beneath GIBRALTAR to receave From his deadly hate, +To trample thee not; Nature faild speech recoverd +sad. Evil in despair, to do +they sang of thee, and full. After these Garden +is most conspicuous, when all too +heav'nly Muse to all; but well I obey +But glad would lay in Plaine God after some +regard Of merit more attentive minde Of dauntless +courage, and with clamors compasst round about +the blessed vision, falls to disinthrone the happier +state Here swallow'd up so endur'd, till +th' unwelcome news had need not soon +Th' IONIAN Gods, Destroyers rightlier call'd Satan, +with these my Native seat; Had +cast off From off These changes oft through love, +withheld Thy eye-lids? and humane; A +dismal world, whom the dreadful to create, and right, +But goe and prostrate on Thrones; Though chang'd with +songs Divide the circling Years, And such Object +to diminish, and therein plant A happy +though th' Assembly, as that were such +thou met? thy head remov'd where thou attended +gloriously from Hell, and throughout the Hierarchies: Mean +while Sonorous