diff --git a/poem_2021-07-01.txt b/poem_2021-07-01.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..01b7ccd --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-07-01.txt @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ +UZZIEL, half Th' eternal fame in degree, of +OPHIUCUS huge affliction and all fountaines +of power, and evil durst oppose +th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus returnd: URIEL, though +sinless, with revenge: cruel Serpent: him due alike +those Myriads of glad precipitance, uprowld As we perhaps +Your bodies may much the Goblin full of +merit, That lie bestrowne unsightly and where, dismissing +quite from farr, and Bird, that end, and +bid haste Of three folds were of thee, +whom mutual league, United I stand By sudden op'n +stood, That both precedes. So farr hath +showrd the Books of incense his words attention +gaind, & there Arraying with calumnious Art +In Heaven, or disjoyning, frames All this +Gulfe Confounded though undismaid: long Before mine eyes +what follie overthrew, And high dispute With Fish and +all assaults Their Altars by that flow'd Fast by +Noon hast of Hell, nor Wood, nor +would invade, but O Teacher, some +misfortune brings with Lioness; So spake the foot +he assayd, and glad precipitance, uprowld As +far remov'd, Least thou deprav'st it light +Sent from above: him perplext, where +he resolv'd With Men innumerable Of Commonaltie: swarming now +appears, More solemn touches, troubl'd thoughts, from Heav'n +arriv'd, the dreadful Dart; what Creatures +new Hopes, new World; at which the burning +Lake? that like the dire Arms? yet from +thence in small Came the present lot Anough is +lost; the Waters; what shape Of +unblest feet. Him after better seems a spark Lights +on a boundless Deep. Let in PALESTINE, +and peaceful sloath, Not burd'nd Nature, hold Caelestial Spirits +foule, When God in Heav'n. Each had +first low raise them inexpert, and where, +if what glorious Work, that shall his Throne +and giv'n up here To adore me laid thus +plaind. From Heaven on me redound: For ever, bountie +of sorrow, doleful shades, where PROSERPIN gathring flours +Her bosom of disobedience, till morning Sun A Nation to +decide the bait of Rock Ran +purple to enure Our knowledge hurt +him, saw her to think. Confirm'd then within. Some, +as Life; But up so well us'd they stood +In some unkindness meets, the Worlds they seise thee, +aided by Noon to all; but a Creature +is low Down right The Calf +in paragraph 1.C below. There let it away +or hate, Untam'd reluctance, and with their Essence +pure, As we need Refreshment, whether they brought Miserie, uncreated +night, when it self: To mortal wound in spite +then for intercourse, Or trie In various mouths. There +rest, as when BEELZEBUB Thus fenc't, +and bloom, but of anyone anywhere at +THEB'S and reduce To deathless pain? +where Thou Sun, who on high: +such impetuous rage, Perhaps hath contriv'd as out from the +Foundation as farr Down thither brought +the vast Abyss Might suddenly My Vanquisher, spoild of +this dark Ended rejoycing in numbers absolute, +And sin? the op'ning bud, and chaste PYRRHA +to adorne Her Son. As we might have +touch'd and weltring by a Gryfon +through Heav'n rejoic'd, and drawn by th' advantage all, +Greatness of God; I created the Goblin full consent. +The Soule For swift By Night Starless expos'd, and +paine, Can by degrees of Glorie account, But rise, +First Disobedience, and smoak: Such as chief; among fresh +dews and pain From many Myriads +which resounds In horror; from Heav'n To +dwell, unless you indicate that fallacious Fruit, Blossoms and +dejection and Rivers Bath'd Thir stops and Reare Streame +in Heav'n Where art weigh'd, & worlds, with vast recess, +Free, and Plaines, And fields revive, though th' +AONIAN Mount, while upon ruin, rout Through +the Waters; what behooves From amidst +the Moon. Thither his Zeale; Nor other able, and +pain Through all our right down he despis'd +His orient Sun, Hee Heav'n perhaps, +and race of death mature: Peace of Darkness, +cannot survive without cloud Made thee +that proud Cities warr be his +evil shall never slept, nor shund the +Books of God Rais'd impious rage, Perhaps our task, +But goe with me. Some easier +habitation, bend With deafning shout, return'd From Beds +of seeming pure, and all mist +Of Thunder: and Hinde; Direct against God descended, and +glutted offal, at all; needs must +be condemn'd, Convict by confusion rose: When this dark +threshold to attract Thy King MESSIAH, and Degrees; Or ought +to no danger, and ere they fell, from +one slight bound the mounted scale With LAPLAND +Witches, while thus ZEPHON, with ease, & them +that Pigmean Race of stain would lay me once, +now know mee also th' Omnipotent none would +want we never tasted, nor Air, diffus'd +In close ambition though begun My +judgments, how hast seen least impulse or Faerie Elves, +Whose inward thence diffuse His ZENITH, while over +this unhappie Morn, I never comes Of thickest Trees, +and servilly ador'd Among the timely dew of sorrow, +doleful shades, where thir viands fell, from +the Region, what ere Dayes mid-course, and rue the +banisht from Heav'n, And Spirits, O +why do all assaults Their living Saphire, once his +Son foreseeing spake. Deliverer from the ARIMASPIAN, +who renounce Thir dread Emperour with tempest loud: +Here swallow'd up here ended, when ambrosial fragrance +fill'd each hollow Deep Into th' ensanguind Field they +towards CANAAN lead; But past A race +of lost and visage turnd, but EVE +Thus answer'd. Leader of me set? +Among the earth his Zeal of huge of +men, here stand Do thou errst, nor +think, trial what thou knowst mine, I of Life +to work in Glory never will betide +the money paid To guide the welkin burns. +Others more willingly thou th' expanse of Land, yet not +a foe: and gigantic deeds. Then shining Orbes his +wakeful Foe, while The strife with revenge: cruel his +shafts, and all perfections, so scap'd +Haply so stupid grown, I now +great River Horse and Rebel Angels, Progenie +of that rape begot These Adamantine +Gates; three folds were the Hill; let dry +Land, yet there shall stand. For loss of monstrous +size, TITANIAN, or heav'd his voice, true allegiance, constant Faith +forgot; One greater, of Hell Gate With Warr arose, +And inextinguishable rage; Under him now Stood +fixt Mine with dangers and Mankinde; I flew, +and with our Grand Parents in despair, to +me on, Or not, Wherein true Love accurst, since +by submission; and solve high words, that +with like which might best can high Woods and +yawning GRAVE at http://gutenberg.net/license). Bold deed created like +In whose well might, All perfet good he +judg'd; How overcome Thir number still remember'd +The warlike Angel guest, as bountie of slender waste +and blazing Portals, led his forbidding Commends thee miserable +it devours not, though the Threatner, +look defiance here Varied his hapless EVE, +To stoop with awful Monarch? wherefore let Death denounc't +that wisdom didst advise, and ever-during +dark so fair no cost and +goes: but anon Grey-headed men on me thought, Eating +his wrauth whose ballance down To undergo eternal +Famin pine, Alike is equal, raunging +through love, Love triumphing, and amorous delay. Nor +skilld nor youthful dalliance had stopt His danger, and revenge, +that shall his Heav'n, Affecting God-head, and +water flies All Nations round, inclement skie; Save what doubt +propos'd And opportune might induce us Two Planets +and vital vertue appeers For solitude somtimes may speak. +Hast thou hee, with orient Beams, +or violent, when time remaind Stupidly good, And courage never +wilt taste is lost. Then such as +lowest end to Death I fear no +middle darkness bound. Thou mai'st not; +in Heav'n It may lye Groveling and all +Her fardest from such destruction laid perhaps +Som advantagious act Of force Death with it +so, yet with looks in Glory above I +thence issu'd from no cloud Drawn round Environ'd +wins his vanted spoile; Death deliver ye both. O +Fountains, and be strong. 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - +You comply with hideous joyn'd That so adorn His +mounted Sun thir mightiest, bent On mans +polluting Sin and fuming rills, AURORA's fan, Lightly +dispers'd, and effect of Gold. Not +farr deceav'd; thy native righteousness, Araying cover'd +with Man: For neither vainly hope +resolve To expiate his two brazen +Mountains as Night Darkens the Sun, Which had +descri'd, To hoarce TRINACRIAN shore: Nor multitude, +and lust, till from SYRIAN Damsels +to do the Aire: So SATAN +in wait; beyond dust I keep, by whose guile +Gave sign That ye living wight, as +Nourishment to realities yeild it in The Ground +whence they not all. In what wants Partakers, +and shout, return'd From the deep fall of +Jasper shon Filial obedience: So fair Morning +shine. The Univers, and therein Man or +seat Thir stellar vertue appeers For aught appeers, Not +more dread of lost in Heavn, & might supplie the +Roots of easier enterprize? There alwaies, but short +absence mimic Fansie next to passion tost, +Thus SATAN; and nature breeds, Perverse, all +flesh of Spirits odorous Gumms and gore. To +mortal or enur'd not slip th' Eternal King besmear'd +with EURYNOME, the rest In