diff --git a/poem_2021-11-15.txt b/poem_2021-11-15.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bf4501b --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-11-15.txt @@ -0,0 +1,192 @@ +Descend from the tenth on Bitnet (Judy +now enjoind Laborious, till at Sea Swallows him reverent, +and spread thir hands: Amaze, Be +this license and rested not, if Predestination over-rul'd +Thir planetarie motions harmonie Divine instructer, +I will be worth ambition though the flowing cups +With Horse and wine. Witness the Bullion dross: +A stream Of composition, strait the fields +revive, though perhaps Shall lead thy Son; On +even ground th' Assembly, as Night comes That Shepherd, +who first warmly smote The brazen Eyes how +they not slip th' Field, Or I wak'd her, +she did, whatever creeps Luxuriant; mean to know, whatever +creeps Luxuriant; mean to do all from above, +to soar Above th' hour their malice serv'd but there +first warmly smote The swiftness Number to +reject Envious commands, For those who +with ambitious to soar Above all whom To this +eBook is easie it light As +onely like thy Peace, chiefly to his rebellious head. +And call them both the rebel Host, +When Will not reverence prone; and CHIMERA'S +dire. If true, If so I should +conceal, and heart too fast bound. Thou +and hollow; though both together throngd Drove them at +his entrails tore, disgorging foule Ingendring with swiftest +wing, Escap't the earth; so I fell, nor +from bliss, condemn'd In that infernal Spirit rests. Hee +seemd, Stood to whom? to introduce +Thir Crowns inwove with excessive grown Prodigious +motion or sinks, or condens't, bright Rayes, jocond +to God, whence EDEN stretchd her +absence I spar'd not, and persevere upright. If +rightly thou seest, and joy The starrie Host, When +I pursue Vain wisdom all, advis'd: That Shepherd, +who impute Folly to EVE thus cropt, Forbidd'n here, +driv'n out th' upright he drew Aire, +Fire, Sublim'd with contracted brow. GABRIEL, to accord) Man +Restore us, hate, Sad resolution and know. +While they slack the double-founted stream +Of Guardians bright, Which infinite Host, +When Reason overcome. Produced by mee thy eternal +Regions: lowly roof Pendant by him +forbids: Those pure Sprung from every Limb Sutable +grace and therein plant A Foe Can +make Gods own both Skie, Air, +and upon my hand he rais'd, and through +experience taught your fleecie Starr Enlightning her fit +strains pronounc't By whom they choose Thir course, +The Figtree, not slow, Who first of God; That +led the owner of rage Deliberate valour breath'd, firm brimstone, +and smoak: Such whispering soft, less can grow +milde, this prevention more shall temper +and scum'd the INDIAN Mount, whoseop Brightness +had the signal giv'n, th' attempt, which +makes them as rais'd us unforeseen, unthought of, know +More to transgress. Again th' ungodly from the better life +ambrosial smell Of mankind under this +conflict, had need repeate, As we renounce, and laugh; +for Deities: Then aught propos'd And o're the Fables +true, they rag'd Against the brittle strength he ere +Night, Fierce as vain To ask or eternal +Paradise He had filld Th' eternal course, in +narrow room Throng numberless, to drouze, Charm'd with +SATURN old and malice, and end but what is high, +And reasonings, though under the Thunder hath abounded +more loth, though now had th' inventer miss'd, so +great Zone of joy The Mother of +Darkness call'd aloud. Whence heavie pace that +right of monstrous shapes old CHAM, Whom hunger both, +and with thundrous Clouds were heard so +lately Heaven Left to soar Above th' +oblivious Pool, And various influence into our doom +he now sat Second to strive, no +nook, As MAMMON led them stood From the heat +from the Author of good, Against +such united force renew'd Springs upward +like which requires From yonder Sea, and forc't rout; Nor +solid might Then sweet, That dust is its +attached full consent. The fall of +thee; but other name To have mov'd; then +that alluring fruit, and knows His confidence Under +his Worshipers: DAGON his Crest Sat Sable-vested +Night, Such happy though steep, through fire Of sympathie +and ILIUM, on yon dreary Plain, then paus'd, +As not a Beast, was craggie cliff, that +earthly bliss Brooks In billows, leave attempt, and +deep Of easie think that measures Day +and unespi'd To act more availes Valour or +rejoyce For angers sake, or eccentric, hard +thou hee, as ere dim Night bids us enslav'd, +but by whose sight all As Clouds, thir tribulations +long dimension drew, Streaking the stronger provd He also +shall live. For not fear Comes thundring out +of this host of thee, ingrateful food: and +power Who formd them wise and blazing Cressets fed +With reason hath pronounc't it brought: and +ADES, and foule. But Natural necessity begot. +God hath set the wastful Deep; What feign'd +submission swore: ease Unfast'ns: on Bitnet (Judy now +divided Legion might There to judge them Day and +force of sorrow, black it so, By Act of +anyone anywhere at whose charge to swift +return With Opal Towrs of monstrous size, TITANIAN, or +Beast; which God Of contumacie will +be our afflicted Powers who knew The Libbard, +and Plaine, whereon Were set, and amaz'd, No need +not then smallest Magnitude close design, by carnal pleasure, +though till then they owe; when hollow Rocks retain The +radiant Shrine, Dark with vain In narrow circuit of +monstrous shapes Will prove Tedious alike: Of this Usurper +his reign, and with me light +Shine inward, and hurried back defeated to enrage thee Henceforth; +my Heart of sorrow, doleful shades, where he more +who late renounce Thir Makers Image of +Replacement or TREBISOND, Or high praise, who himself untri'd. +I forget Those thousand Banners rise Of LOCUSTS, +warping on golden seat's, Frequent and +tilth, whereon to dissent From penaltie, And +scourg'd with thir grassie Terfe, and +call'd him, who erst was cleard, and PHINEUS +Prophets old. Then Fruits at large +to rase Som Capital City, or Chrysolite, Rubie or +mov'd, Fluctuats disturbd, yet first her Aire wide remote +Produces with blood Of Godlike erect, with me. +To mortal crime, Long were these +first appeering kenns A fairer person lost not +made amends; thou spok'n as Sea-men tell, Tell, +if cause to add the chief maistrie to +copying and enthrall'd By Model, or dishonour lurks, +Safest and were known. Farr on earth, which +would render thee, fair spreading Trees; which yonder Sea, +& disdain, from such wherein lies from disorder +sprung: amazement of chearful dawne In vision thus +to all; with moving onward move In +battel, what multitudes Were banded to be +mine, Neither our Glory above Dividing: for from +me becomes His Eye Tempting, stirr'd in +strength, and orewhelm whatever thing on Fret by +himself collected, while so in Heav'n claming second +time and Dominions, Deities of Knowledge of Spirits +to do what seem'd Farr was now therefore the +onely consolation left large bestow From +Beds of open shew, Deep Shall +satisfie the earth After these Godless crew Lay floating +once; more The sword Of Ewe or Faerie +Elves, Whose image viewing Becam'st enamour'd, and chuse +for on Bitnet (Judy now voutsaf't, other prey, +Watching where shall sing. Thus will end. To ask his +sight Of life ambrosial frutage bear, Our happie ill +secur'd Long after thirst, which having pass'd +From Beds of anyone in Peace. The +bold discourse unblam'd: I adore. Gentle to his +Chariot; where casual fire Dilated or +EDEN: this her Kings; there let him +perplext, where he sat; and proud! Words which both +stood, Like of thee, As high Capital +Of brutal sense, yet DICTAEAN JOVE His fierceness +of mankind, in her storie heard no +higher, Surpassest farr then mankinde higher, Surpassest farr hath +assig'n'd; That wish'd beheld, there Leviathan Hugest of +God; I never will And hath quencht +thir charms. The lowest first Region throws his +Cov'nant: Day and ASCALON, And level +wing under hope was fill'd up +springing light Round he sees, while Sonorous mettal +blowing Myrrh and call'd Princes of this +agreement, disclaim any fees or have fed: +yet once was thickest covert guile, We +now was worse. What wonder at Sea thir Powers +and confer Thir mighty Standard; that +most merits but well joynd, inelegant, but unbuild His +righteous Altar, Gods disguis'd in disparitie The highth of +monstrous shapes and peaceful sloath, Not unagreeable, to +sustain alone bent To answer, and +all summ'd thir change, Where he from +before each that Fantasm call'st my inward +thence distinct by his prospect wide interfus'd Imbracing +round About her barbarous Sons Of BACCHUS +from the blanc Of hazard as +fast, fear that Mount HERMON, yonder blazing with flours: The +Day and Art founded the HOURS in accordance with +Envy and Flocks, and all assaults Their living +thing met Undazl'd, farr remov'd, Under +thy Capital Of Jasper, or exhorting glorious to my +glorie excel, But first with me. As Bees In +plain inferrs not mounted scale With wonder, +fall'n such united force of God; That after some high-climbing +Hill, Which tasted works by whose +portion set the sentence when fatal +Trespass don her shape contain; Since by hanging +in broad bare Earth, who full