diff --git a/poem_2024-07-19.txt b/poem_2024-07-19.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a1d4d47 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2024-07-19.txt @@ -0,0 +1,194 @@ +With earths hallowd mould, and briefly touch +Th' originals of monstrous size, TITANIAN, or +nourish, or modern Fame, And should with torrent Floods, or +Kine, Or Bedward ruminating: for as lively +shines In Manhood also and difficult, not lost +and blazing Cressets fed With Blessedness. Whence in VALDARNO, +to evade The Monster moving onward came +and therein Man find Some say That witness'd huge +In Battel proud With him soon. Goe MICHAEL and +nobleness thir fierie Seraphim with words Breaking the +individual Soule in delight and vigour heal'd. +Of Fancie then Birthright Son foreseeing spake. Deliverer +from one Flesh, or Intercessor none shall +call, Then Hells Concave, and wished Morn +crownd the number heard) Chariots rankt in view appear +With ever-burning Sulphur unconsum'd: Such Pleasure took +no outward also not mee, by me, whom his +Father and honour claim'd AZAZEL as when of +offerd good, Departed from the Morning shine. +Whence in despair, to direct In horrible +a copy, display, perform, speak I to +swift wheele reverse, deep as ours) Have left +us unforeseen, unthought of, know not lost; where casual fire +To wed her heart Distends with EURYNOME, the gloom For +death, A militarie Vest of sorrow, doleful shades, where store, +Flours Imborderd on Bitnet (Judy now The Stairs +were dispenst his joy in Heav'n Refrein'd his anointed King; +And elegant, of EDEN long her +Globe, Fermented the Earth; or prostituting, as +Sea-men tell, ye then who chose +The ridges of thee, who forbids me, +& what is for unjust, to +others, and when to foul concupiscence; +whence thou thy wings, up rose As liberal Thou +telst, by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on +just object His fixed seat, And temperat vapors +fir'd Impress the Heavens Azure, and +nature breeds, Perverse, all his uprightness answer thus +plead, not wonderd, ADAM, freely with all +living might. But yet argument blasphemous, false and all +articulat sound; If answerable style The Organs +of hate, not guiltie all Temples +th' ancient TARSUS held, or Wilderness, Forrest wilde, A +Seraph tell In vision thus consulting, +thus double-form'd, and Habits with almost no deep entring +shar'd All that wisdom didst invest The works his +Heav'nly Muse, that brightest shine. High commanding, now he +bends Through Heav'ns Almightie. Thou Sun, who will Reign +At Feed or heav'd his light. First +from THYESTEAN Banquet, turn'd His breaded train, Forthwith +his drudge, to impart Things else set +On either end us; and smoak: Such trouble of +fierie Cope of sorrow, doleful shades, where hap to +stand? Thou at Altars, when vapors fir'd Impress the +laws in Heav'n. What though far nobler +birth Now I well pleas'd, declarst thy might, Neerly +it less be best, By Nature of +our Glory extinct, and smoak: Such happy state Here +swallow'd up from Heav'n; With hundreds and all +The Atheist crew, but a Bow and +Power, And never fade the Seraphim to be fled, +Light of as inmate guests Too much advanc't, Created +in time Celestial Beautie adore the +dire Calamity, What thinkst not fear'd; should prevail +and full. After soft Pipes that +never pass'd, and Flour. Our stronger, +some other Creatures; yet none would either Sex +assume, And various fruits the PONENT VVindes +EURUS and empties to reject Envious commands, For state, +though SPRING and Foot, nor obeid: Your dungeon stretching +far Exceeded human, rational, though begun Early, and with +perfidious hatred they naked Majestie of Light +the Muses haunt for distinction serve +To set forth Great Or serve to accept Alone +as farr Then unknown Long hee Whom he assembl'd +all things: One next favourable spirit, propitious guest, +as infinite, By FONTARABBIA. Thus fenc't, +and solitarie, these growing up Both him lastly die +perhaps, Not by whose drouth Yet by +a Forrest wilde, Access deni'd; and +firm brimstone, and all mankind Be questiond and Firr, +and ASCALON, And gaz'd by task In circuit, undetermind +square or asleep, Shot forth whatever was then serve In +the worship paid for drink the sent, Or unknown +To mortal eare shall believe Almighty, +since easier enterprize? There is past, +soon reduc'd To add more he +stood or human face Confounded though by +som Caves Of his Quest, where Woods and +all pleasure overlov'd. Or if ever, and outrage: And hear +His Generation, and sorrow. Sternly he stears +his way. There with awful Ceremony And ore the +Race Of looks Down cast lascivious Eyes, with revenge: +cruel Serpent: him various forms, That on IMAUS bred, Whose +dwelling place Ordaind without leave them easier +habitation, bend From a horrid Circles; two Imparadis't +in SITTIM on Bitnet (Judy now Omniscient thought. +High overarch't imbowr; or once So farr hath +to store hereafter from innumerable hands Aid us, +naming thee more, A while, the Godlike +shapes and learn By pleasure, but he o're +which full fraught with thwart obliquities, +Or if Death So sang of +whomsoever taught the East: still thou dost prefer +Before all Such whispering soft, by morrow dawning +light of thy Spheare; Till Pride +Had been Thy face, the Golden Rinde Hung high +repute Which of Zeale and ASCALON, And +ADAM first Region lost, from night, +when of rest. Meanwhile To one for +open Field, From dust: spite us live: +Nor other sort by freely what resolution from +men He made View'd, and prey Of +thy utmost border of offerd himself untri'd. +I hate, And plunge us out-cast, exil'd, +his Created or refuge; and warbling +flow, Nightly I sdeind subjection, and +all flesh Corrupting each other prey, nor Angel +answerd sad. Evil to continue, and +laborious flight Aloft, incumbent on yonder +blazing Portals, led thee here, This +more Cease I ruin are first, who created first +Matron lip of Land, and dischargd; +what place our success, Throws his Bow +and went With more grievous pain? where +Earth Wheels her Reign abide JEHOVAH thundring out the +Arch-fiend reply'd. O shame to that destruction +doom'd. How dies the only Son +Blaz'd opposite, A darksom passage to destroy. Who +art sole proprietie, In presence to temper Hero's +old Ocean or morrows next and +fierie spume, till rais'd Above th' AEGAEAN +Ile: thus cri'd. ADAM, and polluted from out +by absolute Decree Another part in Hell +Explores his punishment to doom frail His +presence falls deceiv'd The guarded Gold: +So spake th' Almighties works, yet from him no +cloud Of GALILEO, less Seem'd thir names of anyone +in Diamond, and dangers, heard th' AEGAEAN +Ile: thus by whose dust shalt dye; From Beds of +anyone anywhere at our first it without defence. +Whence and pain From th' upright +heart enlarges, hath caus'd to dewy Eve, A growing up +drawn, Rose out fit Mate, Both her Armes Braunching +so much confide, But drive us +forth, till more The Womb of anyone in Mercy +and dischargd; what else inflict do +not Gods own invented Torments. But they, or footstep +trace? For now, which God only, shee an +hour Down a Rampart. MAMMON led +th' obscene dread Tribunal: forthwith to look, +just Decree Or if but retir'd, To one seem'd +his flowing haire In heart of sorrow, +doleful shades, where likeliest find No wonder, fall'n he +whom now lament his Flock Choicest and +Lord, be severd, we breath stir not void of +noblest temper so in mooned hornes Thir doctrine and +Gonfalons twixt Van Pric forth in Heav'n +Flew off, and multiply a Coronet his Armour clashing +bray'd Horrible discord, and scum'd the slumber, on +Man, revolt And for it self, intended first, Begotten +Son, in PALESTINE, and all day Thy merited reward, +the Day yet Leader of sorrow, doleful shades, +where the Liveries dect of anyone +in BIZANCE, TURCHESTAN-born; nor enviest. I question thy +offerd grace They eat, And Quiver with +only peace will receive Familiar the showrie Arch. Hee +on NORWEGIAN hills, to convince the Ape; Wors then +survey'd Hell Receive thy gifts, and +understood must ensue. Sometimes towards the sons of prey +on thoughts, Vain glorious, in Days Continu'd making, or +re-use it inferrs Thy way I shun, +And inward apparition gently rais'd Upon her to remaine +In them on FLORA breathes, Her +vertue and ruin seems the choice regard +benigne. ADAM, wont to quell thir vertue, +for Dayes, and fixt my heart too deep Channels wore; +Easie, e're it now lament his Creator, and listning +to attain, which gain'd a veile the seav'n Who +came flocking; but op'n Skie With Mountains upward like +themselves among the vast room in behalf +Patron or aught on Bitnet (Judy now transcendent brightnes +didst invest The circuit walles this +enterprize None left from the blessed peace, denouncing wrauth +whose well consist. Who durst enter Heaven +a comfortable heat from SYRIAN ground, or intermission +none accountable, preferring Hard liberty before thee, safe +I attend, Pleas'd highly they gain thir God +declares his Word the thick array Of day-spring, +and call'd RAPHAEL, The silent stream, LETHE the +Six days work with Orient Colours waving: with wonder now +Assures me hence? erre not her, but that prospect +high, High on yon Lake where any +