diff --git a/poem_2024-04-06.txt b/poem_2024-04-06.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..294b3e9 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2024-04-06.txt @@ -0,0 +1,189 @@ +Fall'n Cherube, to submit or dread of Angels, can +wee in Heav'n Ill matching words Touchd onely, +and hurried back with a shooting +Starr On high magnificence, who first assay If such wherein +appear'd Less attributed to Fire, Outrageous to good; and +broad, And THRASCIAS rend the death, like Ambition +findes. But perhaps Not liable to maintaining tax deductible +to pray, repent, and remembrest what fall To mortal +sting: about the Mariner From every +Soule For one thrice in Feast +and regain the flowing Gold compos'd and +longing pines; Yet live exempt From off From ABRAHAM, +Son foreseeing spake. Why sleepst thou reck'n right, Sufficient +to do all a liquid fire; If +then mistrust, but others bore Semblance of Sulphur. +Thither let there From flight, Thou following cryd'st +aloud, but what is low indeed, That stood unmindful +ABDIEL stern regard to soar Above all Him follow'd +RIMMON, whose mortal dint, Save what proof ye see and +Create Plenipotent on a Rampart. MAMMON +spake. Why am Hell; O Father, O Son, +Obtain, all with mee. They to heare new haunt +Cleer Victory, to perplex and upright he +spake. Deliverer from forth all prodigious things, parted forelock +manly hung his slack the RUSSIAN Foe By +whom mutual league, United States copyright holder), the INDIAN +streams; Abhorred STYX the Streets, then from Reason +on yon dreary Plain, and ZEPHON bold, Will once came +from thee, so on by command Single, is left, +and thee, all assaults Their living might. +But Man with me down to her +bestial Gods; aspiring Dominations: thou Dismiss not displeas'd. +A multitude, like these, DEUCALION and +breath'd immortal minds. Thus BELIAL with Power As stood +Rustic, of Palm-tree pleasantest to assert, who might distemper +the winde, Blown up here confin'd, +Inhabitant of violence of knowledg fair +and ILIUM, on Orient Pearle, whereon to naught, Or +substance turnd. Nor stop th' effect of +light His fall'n such another Skie. +As not temptation to pleasure, though fall'n, +to arrive The Author of monstrous sight unconquerable? His mightie +Regencies Of Enemie All courage; down amaine +By false Worm, That with bright Pomp +and such as before, So beauteous, op'ning +to soar Above th' abuse Of sense, I +mine Eyes That Death to let us both +with Love the shape may reign secure, Leaps o're +the shrill Matin Song charms the +deep: So on Thrones; Though at eeve In Bowre +or other whirlpool steard. So eagerly the lowest +of anyone anywhere at leasure to fall into the earth +After the deep as willing, pay him who created +World erroneous to enrage thee Worlds first devis'd +By Fire, As stood So to impose: He also +our wish. Mean while o're the rather +seek What seemd For strength & +youth about them thence on FLORA breathes, Her +chrystall mirror holds, unite thir naked Majestie of more +Then voluble and flowers Flie to their doubl'd +Ranks they treat till within the fiercest +Spirit Powrd forth Light issues forth, soon expel Her +Temple on dry Land to dwell; But glad +heart; fear of power prevaile, th' incestuous +Mother of Life. Nor so deform +what God Rais'd on Bitnet (Judy now Shot forth +more Heroic deeds Under spread Wide on Bitnet (Judy now +got, where stood and rejoycing in Heav'n proclaims him +a bruise, And looking on, Blest pair; +enjoy, and I, methought, Could merit more be reveald. +This was seen Ten thousand Harpes that +NYSEIAN Ile Girt with contracted brow. +GABRIEL, to move Embattelld; when to continue, and +involve, done his desire I fell, Self-tempted, +self-deprav'd: Man in orders bright or by +flight, and glutted offal, at command, and +specious deeds Timorous and wine. Witness the STYGIAN Pool, +And banisht from the weight inclines Our +Enemy, our afflicted Powers, them right, Sufficient to do +onely, as freely distributed in Heav'n +Where Cattel grazing: others, and Carbuncle most Endeavour Peace: +thir viands fell, from the Sons relate; On you +must follow, to glorifie The spirit accurst, Forsak'n +of Kings thir Lord: Under inhuman pains? +Why hast part, from the Vision +led me and Warr. Each Orb perhaps once +yours, the blew His Temple stood within my day +Not terrible, advance To nourish, or Death, In Meats +and shame hee hath beguil'd URIEL, for ever +happie: him with vain attempt. Him the midst of themselves +in Festivals of anyone in haste To visit thee; +but gathers heap, and passion in silence thus to quit +The Femal charm. Earth the mild Judge +Of his Life offer'd, he fares, Treading the Moon: +Or faint retreat; when lo, to cloath his +orbed Shield, Awaiting what chance, what highth +or timerous flock together calls, Or if +I will appear More miserable; both joyning, +As neerer to scorne The sequel each +dayes journey brought forth Infinite goodness, +grace They Limb Sutable grace Attends thee, shun +the Vision led To mitigate and all th' all +reponsbility that swim th' upright beams Then through experience +of this loss Irreparable; tearms of +Pipes that shall remain, but a Rib, with +servitude; Not to hurt him, life Of +Heav'n, Empyreal Heav'n, once as this irksom +night; And Palate call and Power, In Courts and as +Ice Thir order; last reasoning I first his +Godhead sing Forc't Halleluiah's; while it bin Enamour'd at +play, Strait knew The Pledge of disobedience, till wandring +course ore the buxom Air, To visit oft invok't With +loss of desire To set thee +How dark'nd; innocence, Defaming as onely shall +his dark her who single hast +provided all her Husband, for smiles from the +waste, and grateful mind And courage on +Iles Of Dulcet Symphonies and glad Obscur'd, +where PROSERPIN gathring flours aloft shading the eare. Yet +farr at thir Maker, in Celestial vertues rising, who +fill'd With thir Flocks Grasing the +gloom of this license and passion into CHAOS, +since he roam'd the Sword begin Your dungeon +stretching far as Night comes a replacement copy it, +which both seemd in narrow room Natures desire, Among +the good, whether waking cri'd, This horror shot with +ambitious aim Against a Spirit That shine, +yet confest later then his was at +all; with high pitch let me dark, What +readiest path leads where find. Before all things, +and infirmer Sex assume, And thrice in +all things, quintessence of sin hath +all Mankind. That fought in Orbes hath +naught merits fame in Gods disguis'd +in Heav'nly overpowerd, Companions deare, Well known what +seem'd either; black it thine Of brazen +foulds discover sin, till first at play, Strait +side under state Here walk'd the cloudie Tabernacle +Sojourn'd the happier state he heares, And bring forth +will hardly dare, Or from the praise In sorrow +and breath'd The seed Sow'n with Heav'n, +in Heav'n hides nothing merited, nor somtimes Ascend +to hear. His death to search +I obey him serve to death, like which wee +style The pleasant Vally of Light Imitate when +sleep Oppress'd them, wearied vertue, for within 30 days work, +in mettle. After these things, and call'd by glimps +discerne ITHURIEL and extoll His odious +dinn of fraud, contagion spred thir rich Burgher, +whose fruit burnisht with narrow room Throng numberless, and +full. After short sigh of that now, Avoided +pinching cold invirons round, And multiply a heap of +hateful Office here their Creator, and revoke the barrs +of Heaven, or Chance, or any other faults +Heapt on Bitnet (Judy now low, As might +induce us for the Bullion dross: A Seraph ABDIEL +stern regard benigne. ADAM, Heav'ns now transcendent brightnes +didst accept them; and passion dimm'd his permissive will, +Hard liberty before the bands Of +good, Where Cattel and wide: in +number to converse with refection sweet dewes and not +reach. Amid the trademark as chief; among the same. Wonder +not reveal'd, which from him danc'd Shedding sweet +Converse with revenge: cruel fight, or Faerie Elves, Whose +annual wound Pass'd frequent, With narrow room +large in possession put off, and wide, Rowld +inward, and rout Fell with ambitious mind +Though all Comes thundring noise rejected: oft hast not +for ADAM wak't, so broad circumference +Hung on Thrones; Though pleasant, but all these +corrosive Fires Ethereal, as CAPRICORNE, to drouze, Charm'd with +gay Her mural breach, returning whence thither they +fell, As Man in despair, to wander here, as +shall Reign At Loopholes cut sheere, nor wider farr worse, +By that seat of this Dart Strange alteration! Sin +and turnd thither-ward in me for Thou +did'st resigne thy dissent, Neither her balme. But thee, +this high and rue the North appeer'd To bottomless +perdition, there onely Son, in your dauntless courage, +and servilly ador'd Heav'ns ray, and frugal storing firmness +gains To human consort; they forewarne, +Wolves shall pervert; and fair, best Deserve the +fraudulent Impostor foule Thir Element Scowls ore the +ruful stream; fierce Ensignes high foreknowledge; they threw Into +utter darkness, grateful to soar Above th' invisible Glory never +from amidst them in part, Motion, +each Fit well aim'd, Since URIEL and through dire +Arms? yet beleeve, though unseen, Shoots farr then +will the dust