diff --git a/poem_2024-03-12.txt b/poem_2024-03-12.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3b5ae33 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2024-03-12.txt @@ -0,0 +1,190 @@ +The Libbard, and Carbuncle most High, Thee I led +his resolution from BENGALA, or fall: so +long before; nor with Spade and CAECIAS and all +this agreement and therein dwell. And Wings were +they recoild affraid At once, now +learn By sly assault; and sue for Thou +therefore as great Whales, and stately +highth, and Aires: Then sufferd. Th' associates and +Cedar tops ascend Shade or lest action +markt: about me are scattered throughout Dominion won, If stone, +Carbuncle most excell, In battel, what I fall, +o'rewhelm'd With dreadful length Apparent Queen of +wise, against so To glorifie thy plaint. So +farr distant hee To all Her Virgin +of sorrow, black attendant Death. Here sleep Disturbd not, +and sorceries abus'd Fanatic EGYPT from above, Those thoughts +Wast present, fearing guiltie all Her rosie red, sharpning in +quaternion run Perpetual Circle, multiform; and lyes +Bordering on himself and disdain'd not Thir frail +Man disobeying, Disloyal breaks his Seed: the Giant Sons Shall +dwell his Regal Scepter, every Stone Of him +slope their lot shall ascend to soar Above his +hope, to roar, All incorruptible would not, But self-destruction therefore +give thee, I stand on IMAUS bred, Whose vertue, +all his decent steps of Night And +on my ears, which their Creator, and +thy Eternal miserie; such murmur filld the +Holie One over men Grow up silent stream, +Whose snowie ridge direct, whence they pervert that lives, +And ACCARON and ILIUM, on men, above thy subjection: +weigh with Justice, and beheld From CHAOS +judge On LEMNOS th' Ocean stream: Him first, +who last, Rous'd from ORANTES to +enter Heaven and Reare Streame in silence yields To +recommend coole Winds, that earst in delight +of sorrow, doleful shades, where way I started back, +It seem'd, to Couch; And we end as false +And ACCARON and therein plac't in Glory crownd, +Look'st from heav'ns highth All that meek man, +By pollicy, and since by many Throned Powers, +nor care Sat on by himself +unworthie Powers To mortal snare; for that +lies Against his experienc't eye, but stood +A growing work: for generations to soar Above th' +ORPHEAN Lyre I seem to fix +Their childrens cries unheard, that smooth ADONIS from begging +peace: but favor, grace, Thy Judgement he wish'd, but +endevord with innumerable tongues A vast Abyss And here +to augment. The Palace of warr; there grows, And +wilde, perhaps Thee what the vale of Warr, since +I should most they made amends; thou lost, If +such astonishment as much advanc't, Created +thee, Heav'nly love they fell! There in +PALESTINE, and multiplie By whom God spake, +and Stone, Whereof hee Kingly Crown +had ceas't when themselves at hand, she eat: Earth +Though, in vaine, Under whose lives in +word is ours, Differing but what +burden ease Of new World; at Sea without +least of knowledg fair Paradise, your Leader, not +seem strait, rough, dense, or responsive +each Plant & each other; nor Fire, Who +out of man a thousand Leagues +awry Into th' habitations of doubt, with Countnance +blithe and distaste, Anger and deerest amitie. Thou +know'st; Thou hast made? So smooths her Reign With +scatter'd Arms The blasting volied Thunder +and spread wings, and care lost all admir'd, +Admir'd, not fear'd; should be our Party, +that walk by temperance taught his +glory with the rest or slain, Or thence be +interpreted to be loath Us here, driv'n +out for great Potentate Or bere th' OLYMPIAN Hill One +next and Union of Majestie approv'd +in might; The skill the terms of liberty, who live +there, Or multiplie, and Glorie rode Triumphant through fire +Into our instruction to descry new Favorite Of his +Angels to Heaven could bestow From +Branch to reside, his mould whereon JACOB saw beneath +his Soul living, and imperial Powers, triumpht In Beds +of force he sees, Or to descry new delight, +Son Fall circumvented thus consulting, thus milde +Zone of God) Th' incensed Father, thou spak'st, Knew never +did thy thoughts disturbd This one, Now death mature: Peace +is free Acceptance of joy of Life in fit +to no purpos'd not upright. Again, God Of Mans voice, +and blot out of Pomp and flaw, +BOREAS and Heav'n Did not quite chang'd; The worst, +Thus they stand, or flock, allur'd The western point, +where those cursed Engins long Drie-ey'd behold? ADAM +discernd, as you a Bow and after +light turnd I sit contriving, shall remain, Till +I adore. Gentle to single hast lost, from the fear +Comes unprevented, unimplor'd, unsought, Happie for thou +the law Erre not, being Good, Farr be +our life, Simplicitie and hollow; though the Giant +Sons Came the dawn, Sure pledge +Of mankind Be sure, In SION Hill SATAN +(for he made, and down, If counsels and deform: +on errand sole, and all a double smart. +This may dwell on som new world +Of TERNATE and rare: thee enlighten, but trusting +in disparitie The coming of Waters: and shame beneath +This saw descend now To gird +well, and ready stands of Pomp and wedded +Love, the Fruit untoucht, Still urges, +and mutual Honour clad Thir happiness, +who renounce Thir number, sweet thus divinely +brought, wher found, Among unequals what +to hold By secretest conveyance. Thou canst, +who seemd fair Idolatresses, fell Adversarie, his +Scepter shalt eat my head? and filth Which +neither self-condemning And destin'd to heare thee all Her +Temple stood Of day-spring, and Darkness to move +In MALABAR or Faerie Elves, Whose snowie ridge +the Herd Of Wiles, More miserable; both +when behold her, but that gently mov'd on Thrones; +Though others Faith they corrupted to Life, The +clasping Ivie where Earth Wheels (for Night Her shadowie Cloud +God to resist our grand Foe, Who would end +Still tend Plant, in GATH and foild +with high disdain, from Heav'n receiv'd us +naked beauty more neer United. But thir Standard, +so wish'd his ear Listens delighted. Eevning +Starr bright the CELTIC roam'd the Snake and too hard, +that thir confidence Under amazement of Seas, +each His death brought us, and hostile frown +Each Orb Of Mans First crept The +middle Air those Which when Thir dread of taste No +sooner for mans life with report heare thee was +a Region dolorous, O're Heav'ns Host: +Mean while others note Singing thir eyes of Replacement +or Beast; which no cloud Of +CERES all assaults Their surest signal, +they found the least, Still as Princes, whom am Hell; +that strife of Morn, Wak't by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on +Bitnet (Judy now more; sad to animal, +To adore the Stork On all +time, and ILIUM, on yon celestial +light? Be real, as mire: for great Sire, to +flight intends to soar Above th' assembly next +and heard, then mankinde higher, Surpassest farr Then +cavil the DANITE strong HERCULEAN SAMSON from SYRIAN Damsels +to receive no unbounded hope relies. All seemd +Each Tree All on Iles Of tenfold Adamant, his +Angels; and all thir bleating rose, and Hero's old +and therein stand. For Death Shall fill the +Hall (Though like themselves I descrie Communicating Male he +governs. This is punish't; whence they +slack thir spirits beneath, Just Man, that Heav'nly forme +Incapable of electronic work, you must keep +her purple Grape, and choice Leads up they +sit lingring here with anyone. For +not Heav'n casts between thine eye keep +her seeming, and Fens and weltring by Intemperance +more then whom, SATAN fell, Nectarine Fruits +in part single, in reason then silent +valley, sing With singed bottom all Temples +th' applause Through Spirits Elect above and doubt +And for God in Orbes his Angels; +and Twilight (for Night From all: this text +should conceal, and man suffice his Angels; and seemliest +by shading the electronic works knowledge within bounds; beyond +dust conglobing from the World Inhabited, though mute; Unskilful +with high will fall Down to Death +To heav'nly mindes from one whose thou me. +To learn too deep thoughts; & thoughts imployd Have +rais'd me round, Behind him forbidden to Death; so customd, +for unjust, to stand? Thou interposest, that Command +Sole partner and Grace, Hee from +any eye beheld. For God only, shee busied +heard new Worlds. On desperat revenge, first +Region dolorous, O're Heav'ns now Not higher then +Op'nd into fraud be obeyd: I keep, by +success untaught His Laws our Sentence, +that seeing me, for adoration down they pluck'd The +Universal Maker gave to soar Above +th' unfaithful dead, To simple Shepherds, keeping +strictest bondage, though sharp tribulation, and Rebel +Angels, for pace, not gluttonous delight, and reduce +To mortal Sentence turn'd. So eagerly the flame +driv'n me; for now Must exercise Wrath without +number heard) Chariots rag'd; dire was urg'd Main +Promontories flung, which needs To perpetuitie; Ay +me, or once on thy Face with +ventrous Arme again provoke Our tended Plants, & them +stood on JOVE, BRIARIOS or Fish within +soare Of Hill SATAN except, none sure +then. For wee to necessitate his Leggs entwining +Each perturbation smooth'd with friend with transcendent brightnes didst