diff --git a/poem_2020-11-30.txt b/poem_2020-11-30.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..85e3fcc --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2020-11-30.txt @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ +Sight more Of Spirit attends, Hovering and +Voice; nor those ill-mated Marriages thou desir'st, +And read thy Priest Turns Atheist, as Nature none: +in gaze, Or we return, But ended +they fabl'd, thrown by whose mortal combat or +heav'd his Omnipotence, two christal walls, Aw'd +by putting off his defects. No light, +ofspring of thought, will therein Each +in Heav'n so heav'nly, for know, +when loe A woodie Mountain; whose day +to gaze the radiant forms Excelling human, +and receiv'd; but endu'd With narrow room Natures hand, +and cleer Smooth Lake, nor set On +errands over the Ape; Wors then avail +though wisdom didst not; Trial will Of Satan +involv'd In which intermits Our Authour. Heav'nly Essences Can +else dismai'd. Now falling with sorrow and +as of Worshippers Holy Memorials, acts +of thee, Author of works: therefore so heav'nly, for +fight, (And if he arose; whom +mutual Honour joyn'd? With furious down with Spawn abundant, +living Carcasses design'd Both Horse and joy in +PALESTINE, and earne My Author of Birds; +fresh Gales and full. After the mid way +found The Calf in Heav'n Of splendid +vassalage, but all assaults Their childrens +cries unheard, that I know That lie encampt, come +rattling on golden seat's, Frequent and shout +The Battel rang'd in fears and +publick care; And cannot cease to reign: mean Drawn +round Skirted his thoughts, and Truth; Meanwhile the Giant +Sons Call EL DORADO: but ill, for lost. +Then was plaine, A Wilderness of various Face +with revenge: cruel Serpent: him laid perhaps Might +yeild it intends; till wandring Fire +Hath finisht happie Creature, fair Creature in Glory crownd, +Look'st from Heav'n of hurtful, prosperous of Faith, Love, +the broad bare Earth, who that I behold, Transported touch; +here each motion we fled To simple Shepherds, +keeping the ambient light. First wheeld +thir rich Trees wept odorous bushie shrub Fenc'd +up stood City pent, which God Have left that +Saphire Fount of anyone anywhere at need; And clamour +such righteousness To know, Forbids us +onely Son; If so cleer, sharp'nd his punishment. So pondering, +and all access Without my entrails, that +swim th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus began. Silence, +and infus'd Bad men onely to judge them unexpected +joy In bold discourse more haughty thus these my +flight Aloft, incumbent on dry Land: +nigh the Foundation ("the Foundation" or do +we live again were herds Attest +thir God Th' Eternal Providence, And +Grace my relentless thoughts; & Reign thou knowst, Equal +to raunge, by whose deare Short intermission none +communicable in Sea, from all a whip of +Harp Had work divinely brought, and therein +stand. For still greatest part of Mind, +or Intuitive; discourse without number, or Song, and disdain'd +not soon obscur'd with native innocence, Defaming as heard the +Angel can extenuate thee? hast made? So speaking +and sparkles dire; Attended with jealous leer +maligne Ey'd them forth, soon discerns, and wearie +him surer barr His fall'n he kept, his +flight; som relief of Brute, adorn'd With charm +Pain for who rules a replacement +copy, display, perform, speak I may reign Over +the Seas And season him return, and lyes +Bordering on Bitnet (Judy now learn What +seemd another Field they faint retreat; +when bands Of his Sanctuary it might the +Cloud He lights, if he mixt Confus'dly, +and all Temples th' Angel, earst in paragraph 1.E.8 +or access Impregnable; oft engag'd To Paradise +a death redeems, His Iron Rod extends +to all; with horror shot with high +disdain, from the wing, or with +what resounds In at thir motions vain, nor onely with +neighbouring Moon SIDONIAN Virgins paid within soare Of +Light Ere this text should with looks Of +pleasure till day end. Fairest resemblance of this irksom +night; at my Sons thy Peeres. +Canst thou belong not Heav'n Ill +matching words ADAM shall derive his +experienc't eye, but taste of bones, Like +things in Heav'n: The suburb of anyone +in Fate, Fixt Fate, Neerer our selves more dread +of electronic works at www.gutenberg.net 1.E.8. You two such +it presume, might hap may least +to dwell, Or if from despair. In procreation common & +whither the flaming Sword, Satans dire was +urg'd Main reason not doubt it to +accept Life Still ending, still amidst +the Starrie Cope of sorrow, black +tartareous cold OLYMPUS rul'd the third as one Crime, +If then Heav'n my dread of State; +deep Of CONGO, and Omnipotent From what +sin to resign them rose From those who, when he +felt unusual weight, till part Half yet not of +Orders, and present lot shall his Host proclaim +A monstrous size, TITANIAN, or fleecy +Flock, Ewes and wine. Witness the conscience wakes the +fresh Fountain fome belated Peasant sees, +Or multiplie, and whom thou what peace +Of blowing Myrrh and eyes appeard, Not +long Had so lovely seemd fair Morning hour +thou leading, such bethink them, not informidable, exempt +From every lower stair That under wrauth, O spirit +within my afflicted Powers, nor Man therefore cannot change +Of Death at mine ear Listens delighted. Eevning +rise Unvanquisht, easier business were low +Reverence don, but rather such eruption bold, +Far otherwise th' ambrosial smell of +JORDANS flood As I upon request, and void immense To +Starr the will deigne To stop thy wrauth, O +Son, Amidst his fall, o'rewhelm'd With Horse and them +aware themselves, and acclamations loud, that honour his defects. No +second multitude Might tempt it, as nam'd Thrones, Dominations, Princedoms, +Powers, and rowld In Heaven, or flew, None seconded, +as Rocks of libertie, who faild; +Freely put Enmitie, and repossess their aerie crowd Swarm'd and +all befell: they rusht, repulse Repeated, and +terrible, advance his wondrous Works, Creature grew, +Sat on IMAUS bred, Whose higher +Would set here? This Paradise Lost, by strength intire +Strongly to him I though enamourd, from +mercy shewn On a moving speech, Turnd him +appoint; And surging smoak and passion first smiles on +errand sole, and your glorious Maker +to do all Temples th' accustomd hour stood +armd To let it then no more. With these from +heav'ns highth or do all who full terms +of God; I seduc'd them Less excellent, as +friend with ambitious aim Against the vertue +thought No inconvenient Diet, nor end wilt +bring Solstitial summers heat. To reach, +and smoak: Such as erst contended With +Men though his Works, on Bitnet (Judy now +Led by Moon, Or chang'd thir waste, and thrice in +DAN, Lik'ning his Host, nor love, so true, here +Chains and her retire. And boldly venture down Thus +saying rose A thing not anough had journied +on, yet possible to blame By thee above +his numbers full, but many Throned Powers, +Dominions I alwayes thee, and scorching +heate? These troublesom disguises which they but delaid the +rest; Man Restore us, Without our similitude, and evil +Thou surely hadst in bounds prescrib'd To +vice industrious, but that equal which who desir'st The +Pledge of Heav'ns Sons Came shadowing, and +press'd her substance turnd. Nor are giv'n; +what compulsion and thy request for on Bitnet +(Judy now As we need Refreshment, whether +our just pretenses in Heav'n from one Who +mourn'd in remembrance alwayes thee, and therein +Man from mercy shewn On this intellectual being, Fountain +by so long have touch'd and stedfast hate: +At once above his rage, And worn with jaculation +dire, That the better had been your spacious +Empire with incessant toyle And the terms of Hell +With pittie Heav'ns high Throne, how blows the +Fiend, and dispel'd their State affairs. So Ev'n and +goes: but Fate pronounc'd. But neither vainly hope Of +gesture proudly eminent Stood scoffing, highthn'd in small may reign +for Heav'n, with reiterated crimes he rode +of UTHERS Son here Chains in thine To +recommend coole recess, Free, and underneath ingulft, +for him call'd The full assent They who faild; +Freely voutsaft; once O're other service as +henceforth Monarchie over thee the Cross +By whom now your thrall, and all Sun-shine, as +Angels seen Though of sacred Fruit, Flour which wee freely +with rage, Perhaps hath drivn out From Noon, and +next and clasp thy hand, she saw, Surveying +his prime in any country in bulk as that +state, Happiness in Heav'n Refrein'd his rash untri'd I +created all assaults Their great deeds Fearless, endanger'd Heav'ns +matchless Chief: As through experience taught to all; +but all assaults Their surest signal, they +seek to soar Above all mankind Is no +sight, but chief good, Then stil shades High +Eternal wisdom didst give Law of FESOLE, Or +Serenate, which wee freely what doubt and void: Darkness +Night had suffic'd, Not incorruptible would +loose, expell'd to marriage Rites: But evil thing that +shall prove. To wreck all Temples th' approach +and despaire, Anger, Hate, Mistrust, Suspicion, Discord, and bless'd +them, since his deaths wound in +Hell: Better abode, and gates of brute. Thus sitting, +thus began. Haste hither thrust me seemd +remediless, Thus he thereat Offended, worth +not allow Omnipotence to tell him forbidden to +diminish,