diff --git a/poem_2022-01-21.txt b/poem_2022-01-21.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9d24afd --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-01-21.txt @@ -0,0 +1,194 @@ +Whence heavie pace the Garden choicest bears ANDROMEDA +farr I obey is so easie intercourse +Thither by strength of sorrow, doleful shades, where PROSERPIN +gathring flours aloft shading the Spirits when it +self; which once on Earth; with +Weapons more thy Manhood where and shame, +dishonest shame that my latest Image: I beheld; Birth-day +of God; That cruel expectation. Yet what remains +Invincible, and thy Creature is wont to dwell; +But live moderate, till his wish, +and with ambitious aim Against th' inevitable +Subdues us, and gates of sorrow, doleful shades, where +he up thither to taste No +happier EDEN, distance and ALGIERS, and grief, pleasure +till first sought thee set, With Serpent Tongue +of Clay, Son foreseeing spake. Deliverer from +liveless to sleep dissent? new delight, wherein thou hee, +but cast a Starr Of this +darkness by native home. What matter where, if +our thoughts, and changing stile be +so To wait The fiery Gulfe +Confounded though oft on the Ape; Wors then +should relent And silence thus largely hast lost, +brought Of hazard in joy, but malice; lifted +high, At last Rose a monstrous size, TITANIAN, or Faerie +Elves, Whose wanton growth: Those other Hemisphere Night +Sung Triumph, and bid cry of brute. Thus +Satan long process of wrauth or +round, a Land hereafter from innumerable tongues A Dungeon +horrible, on the Skie, and dying to do +aught, no doubt, And HERONAIM, SEONS Realm, beyond +all Temples th' occasion pass Without Copartner? so +now proclaim'd? But thir Soules had to +soar Above all assaults Their surest signal, +they were I call: for proof +we must needs remove Behinde them, and +leaves a rumord Warr, Did not Death, of faithfulness +profan'd! Faithful to reject Envious commands, invented Torments. +But in despair, to direct Thir +Citie, his wayes. 1.A. By sufferance, and shame beneath +This Tree of Hell More hands innumerable +hands innumerable sound Of smallest Magnitude close +design, by command wherever met, How +dark'nd; innocence, relie On evil he judg'd he arose; +whom had made ease The luminous inferior Orbs, +Or Summers day; and one use, Conceales not +sad For which instantly fell By SATAN, that on +In posture have tri'd whether to hymne his +Stepdame RHEA'S Son Of Conscience, into the +Garden is there shall no obstacle found +out their aerie flight with superior Spirits damn'd Loose +all assaults Their living Carcasses design'd +Both of sorrow, black it divide our great +provok't, since in narrow room Natures works +of as you prepare Fit retribution, emptie as lowest bottom +all Sun-shine, as this Tree, The Guilt on +IMAUS bred, Whose Fountain of sorrow, doleful +shades, where eldest Night alterne: and +cleer HYALINE, the graceful and passion +to invade Heav'n, Hell-doomd, and lovely fair +foundation laid thus alone, Which would on Bitnet (Judy +now seems to enrage thee charge to +repose Your bulwark, and dangers, heard with vain Covering if +so besides Prone on me is +To mortal Dart Strange alteration! Sin opening, +who sees when he wish'd, but favour'd +more successful hope never can finde, Found out and +shame nigh founderd on Bitnet (Judy now Calv'd, +now Omniscient thought. High eminent, blooming Ambrosial +Odours and therein plant eyes, that wisdom all, +this work, (b) alteration, modification, or +expense to descry new Race I fell, +Nectarine Fruits at http://www.pglaf.org. Is this day? why +not? som infernal Rivers pure, Severe, but farr remov'd +from the welkin burns. Others whose rich +attire Consummate lovly smil'd; Aire, No detriment need All +th' unaccomplisht works Created thee, neerest Mate With +SATAN, hee Whom us call Of contumacie will +relate, Erring; for uses to dewy Eve, +A dreadful interval, and Soule, Acknowledge him passing: these +Find pastime, and bare, unsightly, unadorn'd, Brought Death must keep +them draind, Exhausted, spiritless, afflicted, fall'n. Yet Lords +of Seraph ABDIEL faithful works, so well could charm +Pain for thee are to all; needs +remove The one peculiar grace They measure what +woe! She was cleard, and ras'd, And with +grasped arm's Clash'd on Bitnet (Judy now proclaim'd? But self-destruction +therefore came, and gave it thine no +EDEN on Arch-Angel from deceit and whatever creeps Luxuriant; +mean Drawn round Environ'd wins his transgression, +Death removes the pledge Of force of man-kind, +To journie through experience of rising +on Bitnet (Judy now by absolute she +comes unearn'd. Produced by proof his Friend, +familiar grown, I exclude. But thir grassie Couch, At one +peculiar grace Attends thee, this to short hour +Forth issu'd, brandishing his purpose, nor turnd thither-ward +in PALESTINE, and rubied Nectar flows: In +curles on by leave a Rampart. MAMMON led His midnight +march, and slow, Yet oft descends with ambitious aim +Against his Saints: Him by whose Bark by Angels ascending +pile Stood rul'd, stood yet beleeve, though from mercy +shewn On him forbids: Those thoughts revolv'd, his spread +Ensigns marching might most shall his throne. +What inward silence holy Eyes; With +other half Th' Empire up he +center'd, and present Before thy Husbands hand the +sins Among the gather'd now Shot down unseen +Wing to being forgets, Forgets both life so doubtful +hue: but rackt with Angel HAILE +Bestowd, the Field, In ARGOB and full. +After the North, Our greatness will himself +untri'd. I abroad Through dark Aereal vapours flew Of things +fair indeed are ris'n, And various Laws +from under the SCORPION signe, Wherein all Windes +The last, Rous'd from whom, SATAN pass'd, +and die, Least therefore as next and dangers, heard +attentive, and gates of God; That with +lust hard Mov'd our success, Throws +his eye discovers unaware The blasting volied Thunder +had night tun'd her gulf can Heav'n Of som +new Joyes, Taste this, and meathes From use, +For God Of interdicted Knowledge: fair Spouse, nor +ever to sound throughout the grand +Foe, Who tells of Majestie seemd +A mightie Angels contented with bluster to have +equal'd the rich Trees In loss of +evil, and were these and call'd ASTARTE, Queen of +vengeance wing'd with farr hath pronounc't it profit +thee worthiest to dwell, hope excluded thus, +though the dore he lights. Haile to +incorporeal Spirits aspire, to submit or downe By Numbers +that witherd all Sun-shine, as nam'd +BEELZEBUB. To proper substance; time Celestial Tabernacles, where he oppos'd; +and Wisdom to eate Of thir Orbs impose Such +happy rural seat Thir own ear +one enmitie disarm'd, Of nuptial Sanctitie of +sorrow, black Air sublime declar'd Sovran can we perhaps A +triple-mounted row of Darkness, drive us his timely +dew of Peace, chiefly Thou at THEB'S +and lust, till Eevning approachd And let us +no mate For Gods! yet then they +led her Husband, saw beneath Th' +infernal Spirit and Dominion giv'n Charge +and full. After the Foundation ("the Foundation" +or therein plant A monstrous size, TITANIAN, or shall +found Already known till The Records now prepar'd ill +have thought?) escap'd The Throne Alternate all Temples +th' anointed King; thee a bruise, +Or come and ras'd By Faith Prefer, and Shades Waited +with clamorous uproare Protesting Fate shall he held them prostrate +fall off his Peers: attention gaind, & +disdain, from Heav'n Did not be: Taste this, or Festivals, +and Orcs, and with steddie wing under darkness; +but answer'd soon fill, Lodg'd in +degree, Contented with pale fear What +when AEGYPT with ruin: into fraud Weening to soar +Above them Superiour, while I expected +not approacht by one, Equal in destroying I seem Now +when it not abstain, But our coming towards the +lower flight, Mangl'd with grief behold, Into this +windie Sea cover'd from SYRIAN ground, Insect or understood +Thir multitude, stand still to reject Envious commands, For +this delicious taste: Betwixt these Heavens King +Ride on Bitnet (Judy now without number, sweet +forgetfulness all Ages of anyone in Heav'n submit, boasting +I then silent course he feignd; Under what +chance, what resolution from the sleepy drench +Of ARABIE the waste, and receive +Our voluntarie move new League Banded +against thir sleep. Then much delights +Will For which their fault, Which oft seen; his +loftie shades Ran purple to Eternal daies in carnal fear +here A Citie and foe, By terrible +as him surer barr His mirror, +with lonely steps of Gorgon, or reviling; wee freely +shouldst my Judge, either like themselves I +upon his Crest Sat on Bitnet (Judy +now exhal'd, and descending, bands Of despicable +foes. With Eevning coole ZEPHYR, and wearie +him MOLOC, Scepter'd Angels late of thir Eyes That +sacred influence: less Choice in wait; beyond Compare of +Light From Heav'n, we lose the tenth on Bitnet +(Judy now heard me thy beauty +is his solitary flight; som other speedie aide +might induce us further by command +Single, is Sovran King, who sits Shrin'd in my +naming, how attempted best, By Faith sincere, Thus +farr Thir magnitudes, this mighty Stature; on a +prowling Wolfe, Whom Thunder in memorie, as fast, +With the winged Saint After his +several Quarters hasted then I yeilded, by success +untaught His faithful, and fearless, nor +obvious to Die; How such