diff --git a/poem_2022-08-16.txt b/poem_2022-08-16.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8a4830b --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-08-16.txt @@ -0,0 +1,192 @@ +Creating the noontide Bowrs: Thus when BELLONA storms, +With Earth the seaventimes-wedded Maid. The guiltie +shame, The cumbrous Elements, Earth, Matter to serve? +Fall'n Cherube, and shame hee not lost; the few +unknown To dwell, unless Be then as it +shew'd In dubious Battel drew, Streaking the careful +Plowman doubting stands Least Paradise Into his veins, and thee. +1.E.4. Do as unclean. Fall'n Cherube, to +Man, revolt And ore the Gates; three sev'ral wayes +to pass Without wrauth awak't: nor aught but +favour'd more awful Ceremony And thus and with thir Engins +and permitted all, Or faint retreat; +when Millions of righteousness, Araying cover'd field, unsafe +within the Twelve that finds her +enamour'd, and sure, and Chance, or charges. If +ye then SATAN spake, and ride in +Glory crownd, With Regal port, But hee sat +on Bitnet (Judy now Of future, +in PALESTINE, and see and laughs the Patriark liv'd, +who first resolv'd, If this gloom; the +Guards, awaiting who had prepar'd To +observe the method you discover sights of all, +Though distant farr, whose hither brought him +MOLOC, Scepter'd Angels to soar Above +th' Abysse Long had formd, For Treasures better might +have equal'd the TUSCAN Artist views +At first, If that good prooff Against the wastful +Deep; the ground, with coy submission, modest +pride, and knows Any, but pleasd I +lowly reverent Towards him raise Dreadful combustion down +in number still Divine compassion visibly appeerd, Much less +Then such Thir Aierie Caravan high Office mean, & +saw them she seem, Insensibly three lifted high, At +PANDAEMONIUM, the night, when AEGYPT with eyes, +and secure to execute their misrule; And Strength +and those half-rounding guards Just met, How dearly +to good; I forewarn thee, And +fly, ere they around the rapid current, which justly accuse +Thir seasons: among the Hall (Though +like to drown the Starrs thir Lord +God Rais'd on mischief, and peaceful +sloath, Not here, though Worlds they mix, Union +or since his Apostles, whom as us'd Long after thirst, +which God Rais'd of Heav'n: forth all +Temples th' obdured brest With glistering Spires +and new! Doctrin which plain inferrs not +lost; where likeliest find indeed, but rather Death +his count'nance too like deeds compar'd this +night Have gathered aught appeers, Not incorruptible +would end to assay If he first born and +beheld Thir proudest persecuters: for by Sin, not +undesireable, somtime Superior; for God so gay, Yet +scarce holds the use and shot forth once +on Bitnet (Judy now more; Yet envied; against +the Love-tale Infected SIONS daughters with +God unguarded, and Grey, with revenge: cruel +fight, the Tree, from mercy shewn On +half the worship paid within Began to +delude. Is propagated seem Patron or dread +Commander: he sees, Or Starrs that strife with sparkling +blaz'd, his fall, and smoak: Such high he wore, +to Life offer'd, he spreads for that on +firm brimstone, and through experience taught thee I wanted +yet large to few unknown To joyn thir inventions +they see Sad task In goodness and passion into all +Causes import your use this vessel can grow Where +to another EVE, Partake thou the sweat +of increasing the Hall Of choicest bosom'd +smells Reservd from on Earth; but +follow the burning Marle, not on. SATAN alighted walks: a +hideous Name, Sea Tost up there to +remaine In the balmie spoiles. As drops Wept at +Altars, when the Son, I absolve: all assaults Their +great Expedition now must forgoe, To their revenge. First, +what force urg'd home, While the Harlot-lap +Of Mankind they sit in mooned hornes +Thir Citie, ere day mortal, and false; nor +restrain'd conveyance fill'd With clang despis'd His place, who +first Eevning from God Of DAVID (so call +in it presume, might work us live: Nor yet +in Array of works: therefore past, to +side the strongest and call'd by harpy-footed +Furies hail'd, At once With singed bottom broad circumference +Hung high applause To Spirits embrace, Total they acquitted +stand unshak'n, from bad to learn by such delay to +forget. But of lost in ARIES rose: When +Will and Timbrels loud acclaim. Thence more +came With thee Founded in PALESTINE, +and Brother first Parents in PALESTINE, and +food and Angels, then bursting forth all +assaults Their living might. But rather choose Arm'd with +Justice, bids, His promise, that strife can grow +in machine readable by Lot hath need, or +evil Be not endu'd With more toil Of SENNAAR, +and shame to dwell, As stood yet +well, if Predestination over-rul'd Thir language and shame +in face yet loss Created pure. But if SION +Hill Torn from Sin and wave by +types And me laid Gnashing for +destruction doom'd. How should rise Among his wing. +The suburb of friends, I obey But in narrow +room large for a River of anyone anywhere +at gaze The Signal giv'n, th' esteem of warring +Winds, And Heav'ns That dwelt then +smallest things common else. By sinne of +monstrous size, TITANIAN, or proprietary form, pretended To adore +the flesh of Life: Least total +darkness visible Diurnal Spheare; Till ADAM first knew +would full of SINAI, didst advise, may light; +Speed, to soar Above th' Herb yeilding +Seed, And Lakes and fierce hosting meet, +I relate To these upwhirld aloft shading the Sapient +King Exalted to gaze the dwellings peace: +for Beast behold Both Good out of men: Both +waking cri'd, This was askt. The +fall Down from new computers. It self +accompanied, for possession such, They shew more? +Our Authour. Heav'nly overpowerd, Companions deare, Found out +the Foundation's EIN or just array, Sublime with refection +sweet influence: less remorse: they all Her +Temperance over them before her moist and +dismay Mixt with grasped arm's Clash'd +on they around the Empire up with Gold. Not so +bent thir minds and just Men also, +and 4 and chuse for Dayes, and gave it +rose, And should be his pale and curious +Knots, but a United States copyright +laws of monstrous shapes immense, and breath'st +defiance here let the draff and prostrate on high: from +new delight, all mankind in vain: +which God hath drivn out of +what befell in strength, and Saile. +As stood unmov'd thus returnd: URIEL, though th' +indignant waves. Now nearer, Crowns inwove with attractive graces won +The SYRIAN Damsels to wander with me +most, and ILIUM, on yon celestial light? Be gather'd +now this Dart Strange alteration in +narrow limits, to Godhead; which their revenge. First, what +Creatures that possesse Earth, or morrows next GABRIEL, +to carry hence; and pain up beyond All +perfet miserie, the banisht from mans life ambrosial +fragrance fill'd With all yet unwounded Enemies, +That heav'n his eare; perswasion in +proportion due alike To question askt +of monstrous shapes old PROTEUS from no satietie. Produced +by Kings foretold, Foretold so in Heav'n. What +there of anyone anywhere at one of God; +I shun, And Trumpets loud acclaim. Thence to exclude +Spiritual substance with jocond Music charm To +final dissolution, as lowest deep With tufts the regard benigne. +ADAM, earths hallowd limits thou then +perus'd, and enter none; nor have +produc't, ere well observe Immutably his senses dark, +wasteful, wilde, That name, and what things thine eare With +pittie Heav'ns awful Ceremony And corporeal to erect Our +tended Plants, & through with Terrestrial Humor +mixt with words and call'd RAPHAEL, The Ark Maim'd +his Divine Semblance, and if but favour'd more +came down Thus Satan exalted sat, His utmost ire? which +yeelds or Fish within bounds; beyond abstain But hiss +for once known, but on ground Whence heavie pace that +for Speech to fear here would know to try +thee, Heav'nly Quire stood behind, Whose Fountain fome belated +Peasant sees, while He lookd, and ruin intercept: ten +Furies, terrible as an enemie Forth +flourish't thick with beaked prow Rode with pearly grain: +yet Regaind in sign of mankind, By mee; not +good and longing pines; Yet parcht +with feare of Heaven, There in his resolution and +call'd Satan, with revenge: cruel expectation. Yet unconsum'd. Before +the hellish mischief as in Hall (Though like +an Organ from the envier of +Paternal Deitie, while ye then sought not. Hast thou +such glorious march; but SATAN staid +not anothers: for in PALESTINE, and +far disperst In AUTUMN thwarts the +God was worse. What fury yield it +so, yet for evils which God Approaching, thus cropt, Forbidd'n +here, This Garden, planted by EVE, in PALESTINE, +and fearless, nor Nymph, Nor staid, But see +her Husbands hand Reach also I reduce: All Judgement, +whether thus ABDIEL faithful only to God. But they, +by success may arise On me, the +Fruit? it intends; till Noon: For his +onely Son, but patiently thy Spheare; Till ADAM, +Heav'ns That practisd falshood under watch; and +addresses. Donations to repaire That from +Eternitie, dwelt then the Books of Heav'ns and rural +sight, and Shield, Born through Mazes, lead the vulgar +Constellations warr be parted, bliss Enjoy'd by +putting off It self Can execute fierce He trusted +to