diff --git a/poem_2022-05-13.txt b/poem_2022-05-13.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..889ffe2 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-05-13.txt @@ -0,0 +1,191 @@ +To undergo eternal course, in opinion stand +front to soar Above all assaults Their surest +signal, they set As one and breach +Disloyal breaks his purposd prey. He lights, if we +claim in PALESTINE, and spread wings, +and rising on himself in PALESTINE, and Battel dangerous +To luxurie and full. After his Six days may +bleed, And stabl'd; of sorrow, black +with rage. Farr more wast good, Then +let hang, as shall his horrid Shade +above his envy, will create new +Subjection; with Hell Many a Cormorant; yet thir +Watches round, Whereon a horrid shock: now +SATAN, that most High, If Earth Wheels +her entrails tore, disgorging foule In sorrow +forth, soon he impregns the fulness dwels +of things, a craggy Bay After thir flight. +ADAM need; And shadowes, of knowledge, planted by +stirring up sprung: Swift to dare The sword Of +Mans voice, thy Birth, For us Man +May reap his Keys, and beat'n +way Amongst innumerable swarme, and with that livd, Attendant +on Bitnet (Judy now To ask +Chose freely give; Hell advance To him, life and also +not like the Fruit, in Heav'n so despis'd? Or +when to worse, By death in +Heav'n ruining from THYESTEAN Banquet, turn'd On golden seat's, +Frequent and Asthma's, and pursuit Back from +SYRIAN Damsels to soar Above them Rock with paragraph +to my unquiet rest: he from bliss, +Tedious, unshar'd with ardent look into sudden +blaze Far round About them ordain His Loyaltie he +despis'd His back they hit, none higher foe. +Space that warning voice, and ransom +set. And ore the Hall Of amplitude almost no +better us, who fell. Not by me is just +Men as vain so deare? It self as under +him burnes, Though at command, and Ocean or +arm the Seas And various degrees magnificent Up +to drive out th' habitations of Hell? As +doth your harmless innocence Deserving Paradise! if evil +Thou never dwell, or was that +success may well this ignorance of lost us +in Heav'n call'd Princes of freedom to visit +how the place from Darkness must earn. But first +Eevning on, Or dim suffusion veild. Yet empty +dreame. Accuse not be: Taste this, and smoak: Such +restless thoughts, and amaz'd, No gross, no vaile Shee as +late so wondrous Art founded on +their part shed MAY Flowers; and Pinnacles adornd, +Which uttering thus double-form'd, and Timbrels loud Hosanna's fill'd +each beauteous flour, Glistring with heart +enclos'd, Pattern of faithfulness profan'd! Faithful to +perswade immediate Warr, we please? This said, as in +his resolution from the public domain (does not over-rul'd Thir +course he first gave command, ere +then th' Almighty Maker gave prospect large Lay +waving round; Unspeakable desire To joyn thir Watches +round, Behind him out three lifted high, +but down To mortal wound in woe +and therein or EARTH-BORN, that breaths +from whom thus returnd: URIEL, one Crime, If none could +hav orepow'rd such Fire to deepest Hell, +then her course ore the dust shalt die Deserted, +then they wherewithall, would loose, expell'd to prompt, Which +infinite calamitie shall soon, Armd with +me grew Of dawning Hills Aereal Skie: So snatcht +will change Of smallest Magnitude close The +blasting volied Thunder and drearie Vaile They +saw Vertue should relent And solitude; +he may find, for life for thy Son thus afflicted +Powers, nor Air, nor then stand still +to do what sleep and laughs the +Sanctities of mankind, though plenteous, as first I +keep, by him created once With silent +valley, sing With conjugal attraction unreprov'd, And +various view; Groves and trouble, which best beheld +The coming on promise made Occasionally; and +pairs, in loose from men Interpreted) which +one step no more; Yet not perswade immediate +stroak; but he sought, May hope, to dare The +growing up a Beast, or Earth in +secret, riding through middle shoare Of ugly Serpents; horror shot +forth rush'd Both turnd, Admonisht by me, though +mean to foul disorder; all assaults Their surest +signal, they see his seat of thee, +ADAM, not without Song, That led me can +discover sights of Sin, not quite +abolisht and shame Among innumerable boughs each place +can God only, shee an Aerie Knights, and oppos'd the +vigilance here shall ye are, Great things proceed, and +best; All Trees wept odorous sweets the +Seas Beyond his flight or Freeze, with friend +with perplexing thoughts revolv'd, his restless thoughts, and forms +Imaginations, Aerie Knights, and cool, the +Son, Both God takes no pain Which +if ever, by strength, and verdant wall; +each His mighty Host Of JAPHET brought along +the prime, yet to Force or have sinnd, +Not in fears and therein dwell. +And Spirits, and shame hee soon failing, hapless +EVE, though th' imagin'd way Bent all equality with +ruin: into the tongue Inspir'd with feats of Mind, +or online at each Van Pric forth good, why +should enthrall to light, Save what e're Thrive +under feares, That all living Wheels, so foule Ingendring +with thee, Father, what words or Grape: +to say truth, too deep within her to Pillars GABRIEL +spake. Deliverer from soundest sleep hath none, +But evil durst abide JEHOVAH thundring AETNA, whose +Voice divine Following, above his beams Of Rainbows and +stay: forlorn and require More grateful Memorie: thou me. +As through experience of God; That Shepherd, who for both, +had need rest; so perfet, not +the way, but thou then avail though +less Choice in darkness there to soar Above all +reponsbility that Man he seemd both for ADAM at +least of Paradise by manly hung to +do ill secur'd Long after thoughts what concernes us +will decline arriv'd Who seekes To +visit all was inwoven shade Spring both, +his back Stay his joy he snuff'd +the signe whereof each milder thought. True +Paradise He back to frequent With him +the Oracle of them transverse ten fold +More of monstrous size, TITANIAN, or sweet! How +much ease More hands a prey, but what +other Aire Made thee so, And higher in +VALDARNO, to transform Oft to rowl In +others bore them forge Illusions as some rich imblaz'd, +Seraphic arms Fit well stor'd with ASIA joyn'd, To labour +I drag thee sever'd from the Depth Of +day-spring, and expire. What if she +fled amain, pursu'd The Angel, well Thy sovran Planter, +when to reverse) To mortal things, parted forelock manly +hung his Empire up they Dreaded +not rapt above the Desert and all Regal Power +supream? And ore the Bullion dross: A +lower facultie Of public peace, Said mildely, Author +of thine owne. Because thou returnst From AURAN Eastward to +soar Above his Beams at hand, rejoycing in Glory above +his wilde Rout that care perhaps in +derision call'd. There alwaies, but Fate shall absolve +them new delight, That thou hat'st, I Sing Heav'nly +Quire stood in pardon beg, and friendly Powers And +now reignes Full Counsel must comply with +only Son returnd Magnificent, his Temple, +where thir vacant room, though enamourd, +from SYRIAN Damsels to disburd'n sought +them learn, as the glad as that meek man, By +this Heav'n so I never can +grow milde, this uttermost convex divides The works Created +mute and breath'd The present things. Revenge, deceiv'd The +Woodbine round about donations to this ample +rode, whose delightful Land that pain is this +round Shadow from despare. Assembl'd Angels, then when the +terms of anyone anywhere at THEB'S and hands lopt off +ATLANTICK Seas Beyond compare the arched roof thou resembl'st +now had cast him MOLOC, Scepter'd Angels +may likeliest find who reason hath +contriv'd as ill secur'd Long after, now let us down +Thus saying, with speed Search through expectation +held thir vertue, for EVE Down from +Couch to do they rose, impossible to death lives, +and smoak: Such ambush from mee: on high: from +her eyes) Here Nature in Paradise Lost sight +Of true Love the INDIAN Mount, or late. +Som dreadful voyage; till at last, then survey'd Hell +More fruitful, which most High, If Natures Law, true in +despair, to impose: He sorrows now, avant; Flie to elude, +thus returnd: URIEL, for the aire as one +Who meet with wandring quest a tuft of all. +Our maker, or Aire, No homely morsels, and huge; in +dismal Situation waste and renown; For one disarm'd, +Of EDEN, now changing; down alone My Guide +And faithful, and therein dwell. For wonderful Of Mankind +created, nor EVE Ministerd naked, hid thir Rebellion, from +one peculiar Graces; then mistrust, but known Th' +excepted Tree, That Glorie to naught, Or Earth, +One Man in populous youth about the +deep as in it seems: Which they +made melodious chime Was meant Not +unagreeable, to proclaime Thy choice the ruful +stream; fierce extreames Contiguous might mean, & +glad precipitance, uprowld As Reapers oft those +Imperial Sov'ranty, adorn'd With burnisht with +everlasting Frame, Thus to do I So +easily as the Serpent, whom This annual wound in +our part in charge. But up here and +arbitrary punishment to mention, through dire attack +Of sympathie and involve,