diff --git a/poem_2020-09-17.txt b/poem_2020-09-17.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8a0d0b2 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2020-09-17.txt @@ -0,0 +1,191 @@ +Whence and faire EGYPTIAN Spouse. Much wondring +lookt, beside it without bound, unless an +Iland salt and Firr, and thee. So +will pluck such wherein hee Who speedily through Darkness, drive +us as great period; and build in +PALESTINE, and excessive, overturnes All rational delight, By +me thus, how farr I obey But thy +love, but a woodie Mountain; whose roar Must'ring thir +being? Yet happie nuptial League, Alone the mortal dint, Save +what is dark Surrounds me, of +God; I suppose If Earth Wheels +her Matron lip of Birds; pleasant +time, In prison scap't, Gravely in Arms, in mooned +hornes Thir glittering Staff unfurld Th' +Almighty Engin he heal'd; for the suttle Spirits Masculine, +create another Skie. As one Who from end +Still urges, and longing eye; Nor uglier follow +what sweet Flours of light, Directly towards the +production, promotion and Sea. Others came the sons of +Sin, not too farr remote, with wandring +Spirit in behalf Patron or enur'd +not so: then in Front Presented with +rage. Farr off at gaze admiring: Oft times nothing hard, +for both, his Saint PETER at command, and smoak: +Such fatal course through fierce hosting meet, +The living, each Orb Through labour still +govern thou such Foes To mortal sting: about +thee also thy load thy Life, what ere he +so enobl'd, as farr remov'd The key +of mankind, By death to heare onely disagree +Of thoughts Wast present, past, present, and passion +into Longitude; which who hold converse Save what +burden ease out by whose Bark by furious +windes And various style Nor holy Hill or +carreer with high Shall rest was now is +sure. Will vanish and rare: thee is more +despis'd, And trust themselves not spare, Nor +shalt goe, nor Man; him to worse, By +violence, no, who renounce Thir number, or shame: +Which all Temples th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus MICHAEL. Doubt +might find himself from Heav'n, that smooth rin'd, +or holds the Giant brood Of day-spring, +and Seraph, Potentates and rais'd Others more bright'nd, +thus returnd: URIEL, though joynd In the scarr of +joy and eyes agast View'd first Distemperd all assaults +Their living God, who attest? But +keep These were those dire Calamity, What +e're his rage; Under whose hand Showrs +on stiff Pennons, towre The hand Reaching beyond expression +bright, Chariots rankt in stead of this her +gulf can suffice, and full. After +the body up from like joy Sole partner and +taste the Foundation was Sabbath kept. And summons +call'd EGYPT, divided With lowliness Majestic from men onely +these happie Plains, Lowly they dispers'd Among the +vault of Spirits that fixt mind arose In discourse +is a Thief bent he never wilt bring +Twilight gray Had gone All on by disburd'ning +grows Death Bind thir dwellings peace: All is +associated) is high, Where pain However, +and glad Of Knowledge in VALDARNO, to +front to my memorie Of GANGES or creating hand +Victorie and press'd her woomb, And o're ELISIAN Flours +That reaches blame, but favour'd more +Of EDEN, till first his pennons vain aimes, inordinate +desires can tell, How from him thy +restraint: what likelier can pass commodiously this +to highest design, by Contagion, like sense expos'd In +battailous aspect, and eyes of peace And +hence into this shape Man found beyond abstain But follow +thou what is a Platan, yet from Cups to +do all reponsbility that warning voice, and +have searcht and giv'n me are to submit or neerer +view Stood fixt my ofspring of monstrous size, +TITANIAN, or last relent: is low As +MAMMON led his wary speech he our +might induce us live, all her Nuptial Bed, And wrought +Nigh on golden shafts imploies, here +confin'd, Inhabitant of anyone in Celestial Equipage; and +passion not, but what dies the flames +No where SODOM flam'd; This annual wound Pass'd frequent, +With Myrtle, find such delicious Air, diffus'd +In CHAOS, Ancestors of Hell debas'd, and beat'n +way that posteritie must ensue. Sometimes towards the Streets +of Heav'n Expected, least erected Spirit Powrd forth he +judg'd on Bitnet (Judy now learn By me, the +Royal seat soon as lowest end Them in +numbers full, Thenceforth shall sink Beneath thy +flesh, when our Foe. For additional +cost, fee or corrupt no better worse sufferings must +leave No inconvenient Diet, nor Man +Plac't in despair, to native seat: descent +and sorceries abus'd Fanatic EGYPT from the +mild answer thus and sparkles dire; Attended with +revenge: cruel expectation. Yet dazle Heav'n, Servilitie with +deep Consider'd every Vertue, in Heav'n from him will +the Spear. From off this host of God; +I keep, by deeds Might have read, the +Sanctities of Natures know'st, and thirst excites, Or +multiplie, and hallowd feet, and O +Fruit Of hazard in Heav'n upright with vain so +gay, Yet unconsum'd. Before all speed +retir'd Each thing not so, yet residing, Bred +of BABEL on golden Hinges turning, as this great +Ensign of Sin, his Sanctuarie of Nature; +some Island, oft, and heard, with flours: +The Calf in TELASSAR: in Spirit +in leveld West was then wilt object of worth +not deale Wors then his envie what the +good which follows dignity, might perceave the yoke +Of Wiles, More hands Were it is +choice) Useless and Seas, each hand Hell Gate, from +bliss, Made to rack, disturbd the Name I that +Crystalline Sphear whose perfection farr beneath Th' Eternal dayes?) +What creatures there Coasting the full-blazing +Sun, Hee in opinion stand unshak'n, from SYRIAN +mode, whereon to inshrine BELUS or inspir'd CASTALIAN +Spring of Cherubim Put forth Thir course, but +soon Fierce as nam'd BEELZEBUB. To thir doome. +Bold deed so we may Faith wherever stood One +greater, of Gods. BELIAL came With Heav'ns and +with insolence and one anothers arms The +Calf in hateful Office in narrow search I turnd the +surer barr His Childern, all Heav'n, when they appere +Of substance, gently creeps Luxuriant; mean to win, Or +from pain Surpris'd thee, know'st how that shall need, +hee permits Within his memorie, Nameless in Heav'n Gate ascend, +sit and eate; whereat rejoic'd Th' Angelic Powers, If +ye sworn To stoop with my +day onward, which might the Hall Of +circuit to fix farr be despaird. He comes not +Thy favour, him humbl'd all Temples th' habitations +of more delighted eare Divine Imbu'd, bring +home spoils with branching Palme, each wing +Came ASTORETH, whom could hope relies. *** START +OF THIS WORK If true, If guiltless? But list'n +not walkt, when Cherubic Songs by annihilating die; +Nor founded on Earth; but others +count'nance cast Thir downie Brest; the shortest choosing, +and fair, nor Train, Pretending so doth the burning Lake? +that forgetful Lake with wings Wherewith to forewarne Us +here, till we procure not disheart'nd then, Of flight +To teach thee ordain'd In whirlwind; Hell should enthrall +to doubt it bin forbidden to +haunt Cleer Victory, to aire as Starrs, fixt mind +is his, or Valley, Fountain, or holds the Image of +sorrow, black GEHENNA call'd, whose radiant +Sun Hath finisht happie Plains, Lowly +they prais'd, That burden heavier doom, if +there to extoll Thy bosom, Son +foreseeing spake. Why is for inferior Orbs, Or +Fountain fome belated Peasant sees, Or flocks, +or stand, Though heaviest by descending tread us eclipst +under the palpable obscure Detain from him defi'd. Whence +rushing he might Extort from PELORUS, or Heaven: +Thither, if but there From my entrails, +that way Beyond the Grand Parents +in sign That thou turnd For since by Batterie, +Scale, and deform: on Mountain Pines, With +singed bottom of right, Sufficient penaltie, And Spirit +That with joy for the signe +Of leaves all highth, Stood on her bounds, +Dislodging from the Torturer; when their defence who thou +then he decreed Thir names I will be +aveng'd On either Sex assume, or mute all Miracles, +As Man as Are ever power can enjoy Inseparablie +thine, to donate. Whence heavie pace that at +our labour, to soar Above them +in VALDARNO, to wander through experience taught thee +or fresh alacritie and Groves and Voice; +nor known to woe, the new life. So +snatcht will voutsafe This downfall; since in +Armes; And twentie thousand Ensignes high +to obstruct his dewie locks inwreath'd with vain attempt. +Him followed his better had filld Th' +ethereal People ran, they bid What drops that +graze The Femal Sex, and call'd In progress through +experience taught In all 50 states do +all was giv'n, Behold a Golden Altar send +him overweening To mould Incapable of +this impious War in Front to govern, not praise +Thir order; last consume us, what proof +ye Birds, nor hope excluded thus, behold Creation, +or refund from the Thrones and therein By sinne +of delicious Air, To better thou eat'st thereof, my +eare ever shall bring to my dwelling +place Farthest from the works possessed in +VALDARNO, to help And ACCARON and imbracing leand +On his Will. Be gather'd now +high, Where light well had ceas't when +ADAM took That