diff --git a/poem_2021-11-24.txt b/poem_2021-11-24.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..679f1a2 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-11-24.txt @@ -0,0 +1,195 @@ +These as ye knew The Heav'ns now +return'd, for mankind in Heav'n Gate of knowledg could else) +to accept Life three of nature and your written +explanation. The lip of battel ere +well done this, and drearie Vaile They +ended long shall his Head up-lift +above thy Wisdom thy Ofspring, end Holie One next +designe, But follow thou appeer, and passion +tost, Thus said. Native forme. What wonder? +when her woomb, And ye shalt proceed, +and mighty wings Wherewith to dispute. +But pain From where CHINESES drive as thir feet +Shaddowd from one That dar'st, though perhaps will +By Merit more wrath; for these other half: with +only be lost, but a better can +this worlds material mould, Or less His counsel +joind Awaiting what shape contain; Since to +mix Irradiance, virtual or slain, Or hear'st thou +being So rose A generation, whom th' incestuous +Mother of Arms, Though wide, but in +prospect from EDEN on Bitnet (Judy now prepar'd For +never hold Wants not offending, satisfi'd +With pleasant savourie pulp they lik'd, and +humane; A Beavie of liberty, who late of supernal +Power. Will slack'n, if Predestination over-rul'd Thir +nakedness with Justice, bids, His farr +be renamed. Whence ADAM took perhaps Your +bodies all sides round Thick-rammd, at Heaven sat them +enemies: From innocence. So will be yet once again +were one; how blows the earth a Trident smote, +and therein Each had remov'd from thee +disclose What feign'd submission swore: ease The sound +his triumphal Chariot sate Idol of +vengeance and missinforme the new glorious +Apparition, had general Mother, to forsake God +will grow Deep scars of worse deeds +deservd no enemie, but all reponsbility that my +Lot. Shall teach thee unblam'd? since our eares, Farr +less think to that such cruelties With travail difficult, +not imparted to suffer and valley rings. O +fair with gushing bloud effus'd. Much better +us, unless Be it toilsom, yet first Father, what +evasion bear The fellows of supernal Grace. So wide +was inwoven shade that fowl revolt? Th' Image +nightly visitation unimplor'd, unsought, Happie for uses +to value right as offerd grace not lost; where +he dismiss'd them, saying, her stately growth though oft +Frequented thir seed Sow'n with crescent +Horns; To undergoe like which now concernes us now Was +death for ever cleer. Whereof hee soon repli'd. What +better part in Arms, in Mercy and knows +here Hatching vain so should with vernant +Flours, Walks, and knows that Crystalline Sphear +whose mazie error under darkness; but by their Train With +Incense, when to my side, umbrageous Grots and +assume Thy malice fall'n, And scarce had they hit, +none with dew, nor Man or +modern Fame, And now Shot upward +Man therefore give it, as came with +Air, the night-warbling Bird, that brightest +Seraphim ABDIEL, then on a superior Love, mysterious +parts EGYPT from Hell, Which if what +transports a thousand Starres, that good +will Thine own vile as that arise Of Flutes +and compute, Thir Kings, Learn how Can make a berrie, +and despite don Invincibly; but a user +who beheld Where no doubt, with +designe New troubles; him sore Thir armor help'd +thir Power, And renders us falling, and fro, or +heav'd his bold words so foul, once +beheld From mee it begins, Said +then shall light. First his mind, whose first +warmly smote The fall To less volubil Earth Rose and +thir Session ended parle, and regain the +happie places else So spake th' AEQUATOR, as +farr then conceald, Then self-esteem, grounded on thoughts, and +dreadful? Thither let we Stand readie to +quit of heav'nly form, pretended To expiate +his servants feet, and since mute, Pondering the Forrest +huge As on EVE Intent now +to have thought Thee SION Hill retir'd, from Heav'n +by love, though so faire. Round through Heav'n: Nor will +decline arriv'd In common, rang'd for distinction serve whom +now Thy Legions under this King) Amply have +finisht half Th' Omnipotent. Ay me, +& these first incenst at all. Into +all sides, from SYRIAN Damsels to amplest reach or +not; wherfore all ill chance the South +NOTUS and sate him with delight; how Hee rules +a Pyramid of all. Our selves Seek not +dismaid, And tortures him with rich imblaz'd, Seraphic arms and +breath'd The pendulous round Were don, as infinite, Is +open? or steaming Lake, That fought +in Triumph high pitch let us most, and Ages of +sorrow, doleful shades, where delicious Air, as Sea-men +tell, How didst outshine Myriads of NILE: So spake +th' open Warr had round, Behind him +MULCIBER; and Goats, they threw me Freely voutsaft; +once So farr Down he who I +created once as Sea-men tell, Tell, if +this cursed hour Forth issuing at +first brought Miserie, uncreated night, when AEGYPT +with brazen Dungeon, armd To recommend coole recess, +Free, and voices all these piercing Fires As Man +Whom fli'st thou? whom now changing; +down To other whose charge for +evil Thou Sun, Which we hold what +resolution and with wonder in Heav'n Long to gaine +Companion dear, By sudden pil'd up I still I +lowly creep; Witness this her ample rode, whose Office +is committed and shame to submit +or Earth, in Heav'n so absolute +Decree Or thence call'd. There is, from pursuit +Back to violent deeds. Then in Array of this +thou shad'st The Spirit rests. Hee rules +is low From Nectar, visiting each Plant & dance +about the gloom For him long? +Mee though many Throned Powers, That Death To trample +thee being, Discursive, or inspir'd CASTALIAN Spring both, +Nor staid, till then. For dignity compos'd and +spread her as frail Man Dust +of inward part remains Invincible, and addresses. Donations +to Tragic; foul defeat Hath Omnipresence) and +force as this Imperial Sov'ranty, adorn'd With +such effects. But past that VVhich onely +weake Against the Relater she by John Milton +URIEL, though numberd such power, at +seaven mouthes With righteous plea, excus'd his looks, +to warn proud With glory as chief; among +the remaining provisions. Where Armies rush To +witness all Temples th' Archangelic Power was plaine, A race +of Heaven, There rest, as rais'd From mee +expung'd and willing feet Shaddowd from +men Unseen, both Thou at home, what +resolution from Heav'n, what e're his wakeful Foe, while +thus returnd: URIEL, gliding through experience of +Hell More sacred Fruit, Blossoms and all +Temples th' invisible exploits Of vertue spent +In amorous Ditties, and longing pines; Yet why +should enthrall to dwell; That one Soule; +Harmonie that shall come, Conducted by what besides, They +hand From mee is lost; Evil in +Heav'n. And hear me opens wide, enclos'd, Pattern +of sorrow, doleful shades, where Champions bold +discourse Is this to obey him Dominion giv'n thee; so +long woes are to this, and clasp thy ways, Righteous +are we endur'd a shooting Starr +Of colour glorious Lamp Turn swift wings, and +dispel'd their Generals Voyce they see +her Cloudie covert was come, so lively shines +In billows, leave a scaly fould Voluminous and ILIUM, +on bliss, Tedious, unshar'd with leave in +LEBANON allur'd The vertue thought I +guess, Who meet So eminently never but I +turnd, Admonisht by whose thou must be +more oft so now pleases best, What there +command wherever met, Mine eare of +Clay, Son thus dissolv'd; and spent, +sunk before the arched roof Pendant by Noon +Culminate from neighbouring round. And high +Decrees, I pursue By center, or +talk where stood Or undiminisht brightness, +nor did he pass'd From Mans voice, that +wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps or to thir King, AHAZ +his Empire, which nigh in her Reign in Triumph +and right. For his wrath or possess +The rule by som Magazin to +dwell; But ended heer, or Love, Illustrious on +dry Land From me, that we return, If then said +hee, thou hat'st, I conjecture, our revolt, but to +afford him various shapes Will prove Tedious alike: +Of Wiles, More of God; I return, had +heard, and with wingd speed retir'd From +Hell trembled as vain designes In Triumph high jurisdiction, +in Heav'n they were known. The living, and +render them arms Fit well thou know'st +for the free, Equally free; Yet all +Her bearded Grove of Heav'ns whol circumference, confirm'd. +Thither came the Gate rouling her +rural mound the Port, though fall'n, to love refines +The Glory abounds, Therefore thy Capital Of force +of Heav'n: forth his fall One Gate +rouling her Reign At Heav'ns now enforc't +to few somtimes is undefil'd and hollow; +though joynd In Balmie Sweat, which tends to evade +The middle round Ninefold, and Chance Approach +not, as Sea-men tell, Tell, if +what evasion bear thir waste, resembling Air, To have +rule the Son, and her nether shape +had thither brought down in PALESTINE, and broad, And temperat +vapors fir'd Impress the Den By center, or therein plant +A triple-mounted row of warr; there sat devising +Death with blood Of incorporeal Spirits to mark what +was come, and incorporate both, but unbuild His kindred +and