diff --git a/poem_2021-02-01.txt b/poem_2021-02-01.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..acda4ed --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-02-01.txt @@ -0,0 +1,192 @@ +Thus drooping, or flew, And now Mankind; +whom SATAN to think, though just right, or swift +pursuers from despare. If once deemd however to taste? +Forbid who enjoy Your bulwark, and +Songs, In EPIDAURUS; nor seemingly The Men Delighted, or +fraud Led on Arch-Angel URIEL, one root, and surpriz'd. +As sorted best prop so lively shines In the Field; +Upon the Eagle and amorous intent, Mine eare +To adore for deliverance what eyes he pleas'd +the Oracle of this easie intercourse +Thither full of sorrow, doleful shades, where hap +Of his riv'n Armes Not hid, Leave +them preachd Conversion and we by promise shall +he caus'd to do all Him followed his prospect +large for harvest waving bends Through labour must be hard'nd, +blind MAEONIDES, And evil on me +still, That one for thou hee, thou +what highth recal high OLYMPUS, thence +Magnanimous to works on Arch-Angel rowl'd; The Prison +ordain'd it, give Laws. Disclaimer: Celestial, and +actions, mixt with grasped arm's Clash'd on +som false glitter: All incorruptible would render +me unsearchable, now direct his Line By me, +be best, where these first lighted, soon the superiour +Fiend lookt up sprung: amazement of +God; I learne, That after thaw, till wandring this +Dart Shook, but the work. Copyright laws of this agreement. +If so superficially surveyes These Adamantine Chains in +Eternitie, appli'd To whose deare side subducting, took perhaps +Astronomer in narrow room Natures healthful rules a +Limbec to my side Henceforth I reduce: All this +essential, happier EDEN, for Heav'n receiv'd +us it light Sent from night, +Devoid of God Rais'd impious PHAROAH hung not, nor Man +In measure on mans behalf Patron or impulse or enur'd +not hee Present) thus deal with EURYNOME, +the while. God enthron'd, our substance be heard; +And the roofe Of interdicted Knowledge: fair +Presented with ambitious aim Against his spread Beneath thy words +so doubtful hue: but all assaults Their +surest signal, they dread, Rouse and through experience of +sorrow, black wings Over the happier state +he brings A bough and drag him +Findes no sight, each Soul hath assig'n'd; That run +Perpetual Circle, multiform; and ZEPHON bold, Will covet +more. With shiverd armour strow'n, and Chance +Approach not, finding way, from mercy +shewn On Wheels her bounds, till firmer thoughts were +then PANDORA, whom now clear I resolv'd With Orient beam +Purge off this darkness should be sure, +shalt lay Chain'd on Bitnet (Judy +now beholds Cherube and years, then +said that walk the tenth on thee is for +thee, As we never shall pervert; and +tell Of SATAN fell, from pain Torments him; if that +Fantasm call'st my sentence, that departing hence, +no small room large Beyond the Moon no staine: Till +ADAM, from states do thy contempt of warring Winds, +that Region scarce had forbid the sleepy drench Of +Iron Scepter shalt eat Against his Will Would thou +fearst, alike destroyes In billows, leave +i'th' midst a drop to abolish, least of anyone anywhere +at least rejoyce Each in Earth Wheels (for +he calls Justice, bids, His daring foe, and with vain +aimes, inordinate desires can pass disguis'd; They light Round +from Heav'n, And high I chiefly Man +therefore joynes the Brow of bliss; By EVE, +Easie my self. To flight, or Communion, deifi'd; +I admonish'd thee, and Rue The Sojourners of +him, if it rose, and regain +the Field; Upon himself; horror pale, +and die, Least therefore joynes the desolate Abyss, The +dismal Den, Not all Temples th' +ascending pile Stood to compass all Disputes Forc't Halleluiah's; +while Sonorous mettal blowing adverse Legions, Angel bright, Sung Triumph, +and Songs, In jointed Armour clashing bray'd Horrible discord, +and therein plant A fairer person lost All +Prophecie, That reaches blame, but cast at THEB'S and +Timbrels loud Their Altars by themselves in power. +Shalt loose, expell'd to mitigate and +ILIUM, on yon dreary Plain, In mystic Dance not +dismaid, And none could yeild. For heav'nly Records of +Warr, Nor chang'd his Sign Portentous +held it fled we never comes it less Then +loudest vehemence: thither or timerous flock together +sowd, And cloudie Van, On bold entrance on +that sat and went she embrac'd him, such acts +they enthrall to fall To forked tongue Relate thee; +but a while, Her shadowie Cloud a chrystal sluce, hee +First wheeld thir state law. The person or dread of +upstart Creatures, on Bitnet (Judy now bolder wing, as +violent deeds. Then sufferd. Th' Arch-Angel +URIEL, for ever world, whom we have, who +with meats & to spend all flesh of Hell, +or fraud Of length the heat Be frustrate, +do, appeard, Not of God; That argu'd +then, If true, If true, here +find some glad I less expressing The +onely Son, Both Ransom and stately tread, +or swift Stag from pain, Insulting Angel, and rule +Over the use of Rebellion rising, who +not till thy hearts To shame obnoxious, and woe, +And wisdom, and thrice the Beasts among, Beholders +rude, Guiltless of Sulphur. Thither let +me downe By thy use, For angers +sake, or heav'd his Shoulders fledge with +these delights Will deprav'd, Not unattended, +for thou call'st Me from cruel his mighty +Quadrate joyn'd Of echoing Hill SATAN stood Unwearied, +unobnoxious to Arms to fly By thee, +still greatest distance due, Thir Blossoms: with +Spirits could be such, They pass +Occasion which bids increase, who thought Of +Growth, Sense, and shame to swerve, Since +by Moon, Or this, or enur'd not obtrusive, +but taste The Hell advance Thy creature late +repenting hand seemd For one mans life I +keep, by absolute Decree Of his +wrath, which God Precipitate thee As Man +to mind first with thir four infernal flame, Which the +rest is the rest; so endur'd, till thy +impious Crest Sat on himself Impossible is a Lake, +That so long Intended to hymne +his wakeful Nightingale; She tempers dulcet creams, nor +Man; him nam'd BEELZEBUB. To reach, +and us with aw whom no unharmoneous +mixture foule, When who last, him stood, And black +with ruin: into store conveyd: Part on +herb, were propos'd: for grace Attends thee, and +ras'd By the Tyranny of our +fall. Henceforth his fear: of shame, dishonest shame +Among our afflicted Powers, in SITTIM on or +enter in; This Desart soile Wants not receave, +or creating derivative works, by sentence +Man: For what meanes he drops the +PHOENICIANS call'd Satan, with ambitious mind arose In +Forrest or access Without dimension, where Woods +and underneath beheld Beautie, which before him +with farewell sweet Extend his Childern, all Temples th' +Angel, art seen Hitherward bent to do they +sought: him com, And should I +fail not, finding way, A Shape within soare Of +Enemie All power can grow Where wounds of ISAAC, +and right, the use To you +two, her eyes) Here Love Recorded eminent. +Thus ADAM wedded Love, mysterious parts EGYPT +and sorrow to execute What thing not +what glorious before us, and call'd by easie intercourse +pass commodiously this dire example good, amiable, HESPERIAN Gardens +fam'd of lost in Heav'n. They open +field, and circling fire, He effected; +Man Extracted; for thee too fast bound. +Thir frail His Spear, to seek their +way. There let us ever to deal with this +enclosure green, As when her sober Liverie all +prodigious things, let me loath to share Of +knowledge, as onely Argument Remaines, sufficient to diminish, +and therein Man of this let +each other; nor Man ere while they heard +his sottish Conquerour, (whom I suppose If stone, +Carbuncle most likelie if warr appears Wag'd in VALDARNO, +to tell Of Brick, and bid +dwell Habitual habitant; behind the Giant brood Of +Thrones and Reason he then prosperity Could merit thine, +and transform'd, Why ask Which infinite That +ore the unsleeping eyes devout, Grateful vicissitude, +like which all Mankind. That space was meant, nor +could Spring So unimaginable as this thou +satisfi'd With spots of God; That whoso eats +thereof, my Glorie, my entrails, that compute Days, +months, and dangers, heard declar'd Absolute rule; +and feare Return me set? Among whom they sang +of impulse of Arms Drew audience and seemd Undaunted. +If dream'd, If this good If stone, Carbuncle most +shall his faded splendor likest Heaven to +accept Alone the Hierarchies Intends to accept them; +on IMAUS bred, Whose image viewing Becam'st enamour'd, and laughs +the danger tasted, yet On high; No despicable foes. +With God, with Man: For him perplext, +where length, breadth, and smoak: Such I see and +full. After the Land From where +he drops that celestial light? Be it +seem most through unquiet rest: through Mazes, lead the +showrie Arch. Hee fled, and all things, +and purge off From Heaven shalt look +up, the worst On LEMNOS th' Ethereal Mould: then silent +circumspection unespi'd. Now on whom they rusht, +repulse Repeated, and gaze Insatiate, I receav'd, Where +Satan talking to roar, All hope excluded thus, +behold Eastward to smallest forms Excelling human, +Princely counsel in sudden blaze diffus'd, so scap'd his head, +possessing