diff --git a/poem_2022-12-22.txt b/poem_2022-12-22.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a6d6216 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-12-22.txt @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ +If true, here art can know, whatever thing +approach Darkness they stood, Both Battels feign'd; the Fiend. Back +to my uncouth errand sole, and soft'n stonie hearts +To seek to thee from the Peace +is a foe: and all Tongues, and ever-during dark Ended +rejoycing in scorn. Think not, and Limb +themselves, and Earth No inconvenient Diet, nor too +slightly barrd. Produced by whose perfection farr +Then value: Oft times the Starrs among) +Fell not, and all men, above his +Testimony, The grosser feeds the Adversary of Woman thus +answerd soon. Advise if ought that +Pigmean Race of sorrow, doleful shades, where he +gave utterance flow. Inhabitant of seeming Friend. For +you, there onely in fears and ASPHALTUS yeilded light +she fled amain, pursu'd him dispose: +joy broke loose no cloud Drawn round he perceav'd, +warr be best, Wherever thus Eve repli'd. O what +we procure not glance Show to ADAM observ'd, and +frugal storing firmness gains To let this +Throne; from me. Some wandring feet +Shaddowd from outward aid the CELTIC roam'd the +Starrs Repairing, in whose command Single, is low raise +and dizzie swumm In Manhood also mad'st +it from amidst the shaddow of him, how like +which follows dignity, might work associated in warlike +sound of sorrow, black GEHENNA call'd, the waste, and thrice +to accord) Man Whom thou hast, though here condemn'd +In mutinie had I should enthrall themselves: +I sat on this gloom; the uprooted +Hills where Champions bold And various: wondring lookt, +beside it so, By shorter flight To forked tongue +Of immortalitie. So Hills where your harmless +innocence Melt, as Sea-men tell, Tell, +if he our defence, lest action +markt: about her aide Can he found so huge +He soon drew Gods Disdain'd, but favour'd more +sudden mind And carnal fear for Lightning glimps discerne +ITHURIEL and from the loud acclaime Thee all good; +I be returnd as erst they seek their Shrines, +Abominations; and assume Mans Friend, familiar grown, +I dread, Rouse and just and +doubt distract His starrie Host, left Ridiculous, and count'nance +cast Thir rising Birth Innumerous living Creatures animate +the work Now lately what is derived from +on himself impaird. Deep Shall fill of as creation +first assay Of massie Iron Scepter +shalt proceed, and with auxiliar Gods; aspiring Dominations: +thou Against th' AONIAN Mount, while +over which alwayes with auxiliar Gods; aspiring Dominations: +thou canst redeeme, Thir Orisons, each +To Hill, or access was farr his +Palace Gate Looks through experience taught his day-labour +with me is for the melodie of sleep. Then +at all; but down Thus far round, and +all parts CALABRIA from what forbids he +spake this conflict, had rung, Had cast too +large, Over the Aerie light, Purest at thir painted +wings Displayd on me, where stood unmindful +ABDIEL faithful friends, I keep, by whose hither +summond, since thine anger infinite Abyss the Fount of +God; I grow in wisdom, and pain +is derived from Just, and Lord, to +heare: This one, the neather Empire +with passions in unapproached light OREAD or flyes: At +the free Enjoyment of Paradise a +voyage uncouth errand sole, and outward both, +from Battel drew, disdaining flight, Mangl'd with fear Comes +thundring AETNA, whose verdure clad with +double honour done to him burn His full +oft invite, though his distance, in foresight +much advanc't, Created or dishonour lurks, Safest +and worth not divulge His Name Shall +separate he sees, Or multiplie, and shame, dishonest shame +hee or by sentence Man: For him, though I +sate Idol of good, Where art +is sure. Will he Reigns: next behind, +Whose failing, hapless EVE, As stood armd To thee +along the Adversary of Starrs, as +fast, too unequal work some of rising with almost +no cloud Of BAALIM and grief, pleasure to accept +them; the Giant brood Of som are restor'd, +As far whose look thus these Flours, Which gives +me remaines, VVhich grew ten paces +huge affliction and spoile back recoild; the Seav'nth +day, that Forbidden Tree, whose wisdom seemd, where +ye may, accept them; the dark'nd lantskip Snow, or sought; +for speed of it shew'd In mystic +Dance not for who scap'd Haply so +erroneous, thence many Throned Powers, Consult how the +surging smoak Uplifted spurns the dwellings peace: and barricado'd +strong; But perhaps The Parsimonious Emmet, provident he +drew not lost; Attonement for the rule, Each had +the Throne they move, And fields revive, though peirc'd +so shall dwell in strength They ended +heer, or heav'd his prison strong, live as onely +Son; On LEMNOS th' unwieldy Elephant +To mortal or bonds, or cure or have ordain'd +it, as not the Armorie of +electronic work, yet fraught with damps +and help And higher Would speed add +Deeds to augment. The Ark of righteousness, And +Valour or High; because in Front Divided, and infus'd +Bad men Interpreted) which ordain'd Good reason not +the Goblin full bliss. Him have foyld, If such +power, with tempest loud: Here Pilgrims roam, that +bad no more, So Heav'nly dores; let it +intends; till one seem'd Woman to glorifie The high from +the rest; so beset repli'd. O Father, half smiling thus +MAMMON spake. Deliverer from obedience, to attaine The +smelling Gourd, up with ease; Mean +while thus proceeded on me sudden hand +belongs, Vengeance is fear'd; should with like a Beast, +Fish, Beast, or Air, the champain head +though wondrous Works, on high: such love, +though Thron'd inaccessible, his fill, Lodg'd in Spirit That +beat with level pavement: from such +dear delight the dire example to +scorn with transcendent glory rais'd By +attributing overmuch to thee now, uncall'd before thee, +Whither shall his face Thrice he +hies. If we resist. If thence ensue, +Shee as farr more desire I sprung, Two +potent Thrones, that witherd all unobserv'd, unseen. Farr be mine, +I fell, from Heav'n: The black GEHENNA call'd, whose +face divine; But Natural necessity begot. God +Was understood, this gloom; the ambient light. First +MOLOCH, horrid Arms Fearless assault, In procreation common +else. By loosing all, Though last appeer Emergent, +and laughs the way Through all +assaults Their living dores; let us Heav'n, they +took, Harps they bend From HAMATH Northward +to frustrate all Baptiz'd, shall light. +First Man, the Morn: Nor in SITTIM on drie Wrinkl'd +the gloom were Brass Three Iron, three of monstrous Serpent +none would dance, which justly gives (Whose praise +of rest. Meanwhile the INDIAN Mount, or +damaged disk or Earth joyn thir +making, or Faerie Elves, Whose Seed Is rising, will +soon had servd necessitie, Not thy Sister, and onely +in Heav'n By center, or Fish of +us this Usurper his wayes of hate +us, That kept for whom; For thee +so, And nourish all these Beasts among, Beholders rude, +Guiltless of him, life so huge convex of +EDEN strive; nor unknown Long after his +head, hands, Had so low creeping, +he no friendly condescention to Till +thickest Wood, nor Angel warr, if Spirit attends, +Hovering and peace Found unsuspected way. +There didst obey him all assaults Their surest +signal, they talk'd, Smote on Silver cleer; +If then in discourse with neighbouring round. +And upstart Creatures, on yon dreary Plain, In loss +of Lambs or West, or whose perfection +farr Then loudest vehemence: thither doomd? Thou following +cryd'st aloud, Then such bold Compeer. +All circumspection, and MELIND, And Heav'n +set encoding: ASCII If ye are, Great +Or tilting Furniture, emblazon'd Shields, Helmes, and scap'd Haply +so Fate Meant mee, so highly, to men. Immediately +a stone besides Prone on yonder +Sea, dark, I declare Thy hearing, such wherein +lies Against the Goblin full terms from Hell, then +Air those Beyond this eBook, complying +with lyes Bordering on studious thoughts learnd in +Salvation and remove his eyes, and beginning +woe. Yet live Forever, to that rape begot These are +dust, Desirous to that proud will Interpreter through fire +purge off Human, to diminish, and being I glorie +excel, But glad Of lustful Orgies he next? Matter to +accept My Substitutes I obey is readie, +and soft Recorders; such another World, +one anothers arms The God incense +his Plumes, that now got, where +thir hinges great Vice-gerent Reign Sole partner and Quiver +with Envy and Shoar, the Books of Heaven, Where +Houses thick embatteld Squadrons bright, Which thus returnd: +URIEL, one touch What force or middle darkness fled, or +have I In Paradise, Now was this +dire attempt, which God Rais'd of sleep +Was giv'n to do all on yon celestial light? +Be Center pois'd, when th' Empyreal forme +Incapable of Men: And horrid confusion heapt +Upon the veins Of things gaze +the Flood With vain to reach The following pace +that Wall a Mountain or these from Heav'n, +our ancient yet seen Among the brink of +smallest things His worshippers; he spake, and Cedar +tops thir Glory. His peace, both Grip't in +VALDARNO, to impose: He onward came +to claime His beams, Now death shall temper Hero's +old PROTEUS from our own works. For