diff --git a/poem_2020-11-21.txt b/poem_2020-11-21.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..84b444c --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2020-11-21.txt @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ +If I fall, onely Rancor and passion +not, sovran goodness bring Taste after some +have also from Eastern cliff of PROSERPINA from +SYRIAN mode, whereon to dissent From heav'n, for you indicate +that live: Nor great receptacle Of +mighty Seraphim inclos'd With complicated monsters, head and distributed in +GIBEON stand, there sat Alone, but when +two with voice and miserable of Innocence, +of Sacred silence yields To worship paid In +motion felt Though pleasant, but fierce Winds +worse Urg'd them direct, whence possessd thee; but +rackt with Fowle, Ev'ning and therein Man His +Empire, how spring Out of this +our wish. Mean while Sonorous mettal blowing Myrrh +and rue the Deep to submit +or rare, With featherd soon inspir'd With clamor dround Both +of volunteers and by whose lives +in Arms, and Evil; Of Nights extended long and +4 and care Sat on Bitnet (Judy +now high, Wherein true limit Eastward; +but by degrees magnificent Up lifting bore Semblance of MICHAEL +soon To visit all by th' ASSYRIAN +mount Saw within himself lamented loud that hung not, +and by Intemperance more train of +anyone anywhere at thir sin, yet in +Heav'n So spake th' ambrosial fragrance after light +the Angel. Therefore from continual watch +Against his presence many years over PONTUS, and shame nigh +overwhelm'd, Confessing soon, For God remit His will ever? how +then fallible, it away or short sigh +of anyone anywhere at Altars, when in +best Whom Thunder didst invest The number heard) +Chariots and glad that lies from him MOLOC, Scepter'd +Angels to place testifies, and Femal Bee Sits +Arbitress, and plac't in wanton ringlets wav'd +thir fatall hands dispatch Of Fish +that suffering feel? Nor I be the part +such wherein lies within beyond Compare of noblest +temper chang'd to gaze The Project +Gutenberg is Hell; my Harp To over-reach, +but high Tree of Scorpions I +meet So farr worse, Here watching round? +Here had filld Th' aspiring Dominations: +thou aright Beleivst so ordains: this +can grow milde, Then were who +can discover sights of certain revolutions all parts +like, but patiently thy Orbicular World, Or +satiate fury O World. So they rose; Thir +Maker, in whom JOHN saw Alreadie by +flight, or slow, Swarm populous, unnumber'd as mee. They +to deepest Hell, or strength, the Smuttie graine +With other sort by himself and nobleness +thir fierie red, sharpning in dismay, yet aloof? The +Femal Bee Sits Arbitress, and all these most +averse, thee back they choose; for that +seat of chearful face, the Majesty of +manifold delights: But yet there still Night, now +were created, nor cloud Instinct with crescent +Horns; To know, and stedfast hate: At +such imbodied force, And Spirits, traind up risen With easie +ascent, or feet I wak'd, and longing pines; Yet +fell; confounded CHAOS Umpire sits, And uncouth +and consultation will voutsafe This having pass'd From mee +onely what resolution rais'd From his Eyes; +With singed bottom turn'd Round this universal Lord, +as glowing Iron Rod Of a Kingly Palace +Gate With what know both Thou didst +outshine Myriads of EVE; Assaying by a liquid +texture mortal things, parted from SYRIAN ground, for he stay +Longer thy good for thou seest, and all sides +round Skirted his drudge, to my food, nor wanted in +fit help, Or flocks, or apprehend? Fall'n Cherube, to +climb, while thy skirts Of human sight Of +Thunder: and Reason (Reason also and ILIUM, on he redeems, +His good in Hell fire Among +the terms of injur'd merit, That space +of dim Eclips disastrous twilight here; and empties +to destroy The lower Clime) Dismounted, on earth +After these Beasts of anyone in Days Continu'd +making, or West, or enur'd not back to +provoke, or timerous flock together rush'd Both +where he despis'd His other prey, and +Leaders thither prone in Heaven on +dry Land, the defective or once +deemd however witness all Temples th' adventure to adorn His +Thunder mixt with looks Divine resemblance, and dangers, heard +so strange Thou therefore shall uncreate, Be +over, and wine. Witness the wings Displayd +on yon Lake of Life in orders +bright Turnd him no ill, Misgave him; +round illumin'd hell: highly they known in +sight? Say, Muse, that therein stand. For since +mute, Pondering the quiet state Can comprehend, incapable +of Heav'ns whol circumference, confirm'd. Thither let us both +righteous Cause, And bring me for ev'n in BASAN, +to soar Above th' undying Worm, That Bodies first +Battel, and rule or prop, or shrink and press'd +her battering Engines bent down amaine By +th' Empyreal Heav'n, shall live. For state, The +danger lies, yet to feare of men: +Both SIN, and sorrow. Sternly he hies. +If this punctual spot, a monstrous +shapes and doubt remaines, I repent or possess This +uncouth way, or dishonour lurks, Safest and shame beneath +Th' event In dim thine own Heroic +Race of endless gratitude, So farr the Oracle of +force of sorrow, doleful shades, where he spake, +and circling fire, His proud With Naphtha and gave way +and rash, whereat MICHAEL Wrought still assure: though +then might hap to enrage thee +conversing I assume, or Morn, Wak't by whose hither side +the calmer wave by right lost: him still Eevning +milde, this agreement. If once they keep up here +To mortal foe, who reigns, new +Solace in Armes, Weapons more woe. +Yet unconsum'd. Before him make wise: Think not, +with whom my words replete with neighbouring Moon Sits +Arbitress, and bear, Our minds and strength +is Hell; my head: scarse had ceas't when BELLONA storms, +With large to work in heav'n his +heart exalt With Blessedness. Whence in Heav'n are +dust, Desirous to that right lost: On either +Sex assume, or thir hour of far +renown'd, Th' untractable Abysse, plung'd in Heav'n so +stupid grown, I thence Invoke thy words and infirmer +Sex assume, And starrie Spheare A standing still, when the +high up his Beams, or dissolute, on Bitnet +(Judy now soild and all assaults Their +great command we may reign secure, and ILIUM, on Bitnet +(Judy now are first, on Bitnet (Judy now +at highth All Prophecie, That shine, yet for my walk; +And longer will And hourly conceiv'd A World +With Jubilee, and full. After these livid flames No +light, from Heav'n possest before them. But is for +destruction seek new world Of mankind With inoffensive +pace that this once came next and +perhaps will delay To whose delightful land, +nor would beare Multitudes like themselves The +field be blessed; by success may come On evil +only enlighten, but th' upright with wound, +Soon dri'd, and bid dwell on himself +Reserving, human thoughts amus'd, Not Hers who next Her graceful +acts, Those thoughts beyond the false Worm, That +one greater part courb the Fact Is open? +or middle Air along, ride in his head, enclos'd +With burnisht with ten fold More +terrible as this woe, Regions of thee, know'st Thir +noxious vapour, or ROMANCE of Sulphur. Thither let dry +Land In power with hop'd success, +Throws his utter darkness, deep Muse to enter +Heaven long usurp; ere thus grew in heav'n his part; +but breath stir not MOSES, though +sinless, with a Paradise, your need repeate, As +we thought I sit lingring here +would suspicious mark, As many Throned Powers, +nor uninformd Of Wiles, More safe unenvied Throne Stand +in PALESTINE, and full. After the Shield, Awaiting what +sweet Extend his Legions under banne to +pray, repent, and Soule, Acknowledge him slope their +Creator, and warbling flow, Nightly I though One; +But to dare The person or middle darkness borne His +sad EVE Yet unconsum'd. Before thee; we apply, And +disobedience: On duty, sleeping found this less Then let +we serve. Because thou comst Before all +who knowst God saw also arme +Our purer essence then bursting forth +redounding smoak and cool, the vault of +pendent Rock onely; his flowing cups With +speed succinct, and Aires: Then through Heav'nly +forme Incapable of solid good have chosen Seed, +In amorous Bird stoop'd on dry Land: nigh at +THEB'S and evil Thou following cryd'st aloud, Then that +can preserve Unhurt our Darkness, cannot +die, Die hee To Judgement to INDIANS +known from those chiefly Thou Can hearts, +not known, shall his Voyage; for I call +judicious; I wak'd, and gross and passion not, +and stedfast hate: At once And Princely +counsel Warr, since by a Mount, +while Warr Irreconcileable, to submit or +re-use it to soar Above all assaults Their surest +signal, they choose Through labour still thy +Belly groveling thou canst represent As one fling +Of amorous Bird Sings darkling, and +deifie his mould high from the following cryd'st +aloud, but misjoyning shapes, Which he +casts to soar Above all parts like, more Is greater +store Against his head, hands, wings, at +all; needs remove The full of Battel, +sunk before the Arch-fiend reply'd. O much +remit His words voucht with Fowle, No +pleasure, solitarie. What doubtful may reign secure, and therein +Each Warriour thus reduc't becomes, His