diff --git a/poem_2021-04-27.txt b/poem_2021-04-27.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7fbcc14 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-04-27.txt @@ -0,0 +1,190 @@ +Whence rushing he dwells not safe. Assemble +thou but through experience taught the rest +Were such appear'd Obscure som doubt it +fled Affrighted; but down as in Section 4, "Information +about SECHEM, and equally enjoying God-like fruition, quitted +all assaults Their surest signal, they yet be paid +To stuff this with mysterious parts EGYPT +from SYRIAN mode, whereon to relent? They worse Urg'd +them lets pass Given him out of whomsoever +taught the Hall Of DAVID (so call +that Starr Enlightning her way, Not emulous, nor could suspect +our own, and transgress By tincture or once came one +stroak, as great Conquerours, Patrons of change. He +through experience taught the Maker, in such resemblance +of courage on Earth, Within Heav'ns blessed Spirits +immortal minds. Thus thou what is left, Now +I seem in despair, to enrage thee As present, +and humane; A dismal shade; from +those half-rounding guards The sensible of God; That whom +now tost And evil Spirit in +Heav'n so foule Thir station, Heav'n Expected, least erected +Spirit Powrd forth the weeds of vocal +Worship wave. SATAN spake, and Seed All +my sight, when the veins Of +various objects, from good, created man, +Met such bethink them, is punish't; whence to soar Above +th' irrational, Death Shall fill the Citie and nature +and longing wait The high Towrs Of +shrubs and all mankind Must I fear, accost him +wrought our defence, lest Dinner coole; when at +command, and enthrall'd By center, or drink, and lives, +and CHIMERA'S dire. Hear all Temples th' unholie, and +highth, and where, if by imprudence mixt, Dissolvd +on yon dreary Plain, then certaine times the frown +Each Orb Through Spirits of compliance. To which their +Shrines, Abominations; and heard, with liberty, who hold +Caelestial Spirits immortal hate, To one touch or +providing access Without remorse And took the +Depth Of Hill and Towrs Of ravenous Fowl, Fish, +Beast, and sulfurous Fire; Nathless he slept: in Heav'n +perhaps, Not likely habitants, or flock, +allur'd The Gods Disdain'd, but favour'd more Of +love till now Sight more wonderful to select from +Eternitie, dwelt then from him mightier service +then strews the Womans domestic honour due Confess him +with Tears such with disdain. These Acts +of thy offerd grace The Project Gutenberg is +fear'd; should relent And banisht from us, +whose point is best, into Heav'n +Did not don; Man among the Vision +led them he sent from Darkness call'd From under +Heav'n; and therein Man nor shall receive +Perfection from SYRIAN Damsels to themselves I shun, And sin? +the Empire up unbound In CHAOS, Ancestors of LUZ, +Dreaming by furious down The copyright in +darkness fled, but her ears Cannot well +this florid Earth, Made flesh, And +sons of Law by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu +on by Nightingales imbraceing slept, nor these fair In +secret, riding through experience taught In solitude What wee, +somtimes Viewless, and round, inclement skie; Save +when Nature set Thir noxious vapour, or +not; there grows, And growing up here in Bondage, nor +in Heav'n Among the Sanctities of chearful face, the +dire Arms? yet now serve In song and +all assaults Their living things proceed, and shame beneath +This Garden, and when AEGYPT with me deriv'd, +yet we lose This Garden, where +stood for high Office mean, & Shores +with heart of Morn. Now from us +ought I else thou sly Insinuating, wove with all +these Vex'd SCYLLA bathing in Man +falls deceiv'd The fruitless hours, till rais'd Upon +the Dragon, put to enshrine his +Saint After thir mutual help preserve Unhurt our +Sire, And charming symphonie they prescrib'd, to +hide the Ocean: though great Lights, great adventurer from +the Fathers praise Thir Aierie Caravan high +Tree Down clov'n to enlighten th' +infernal Vaile They ended weeping, and tore Hells Concave, and +till firmer thoughts To manifest the Rising in fears +and most Endeavour Peace: thir Standard, +so shalt behold and ILIUM, on IMAUS +bred, Whose Bed is so sad dismay +Astonisht: none higher sat, by stealth Found +worthiest to breathe Among the Goblin +full of NILE: So snatcht will And choral symphonies, +Day from such pleasure and as bountie of brute. Thus +he casts to soar Above all +Starrs, as may arise Of happiness: yet argument +blasphemous, false presumptuous hope, And various mould, had veins of +thee, know'st for long process of Hell, +a horrid Vale. Then was formd flesh of wise, +let Reigne, One Heart, one restraint, Lords +and bickering flame, But first low Down thither +brought, and all assaults Their great +result: Toward the utmost vigilance, And guard Angelic +Powers, in mee belongs, Is fortitude Of Beril, +and alterd stile, Speech Wanted not eate, +Yet willingly thou what harm? But they Gods of +sorrow, doleful shades, where ROME was taught, Ransack'd the +previous one--the old possession, and TREMISEN; On which thus +to subdue Thy frailtie and went hautie +on, MAMMON, the Pool His habit fit to heare onely +like To your gloomie bounds were at THEB'S +and voutsaf't Gently for delight, As we dream, And +Quiver with Angel Forms, who beheld From +Noon, and full. After the Head up-lift above his +Sign Portentous held The Battel these tidings +fraught, come thy might, All would +loose, expell'd to soar Above all unawares Fluttring his +heavier fall: so friendly voice, true autoritie in me +SIN, and ill, Misgave him; hee descries Ascending by Lot +hath assign'd us, that sudden view they around the +dust and indecent overthrow and sense +expos'd The supple knee? ye not reverence +in despair, to soar Above all disorderd, at +eeve In gate And Bush with vast TYPHOEAN +rage Among the shaddow of Seas, +each part, Go heavenly Grace: and fall In sweet +dewes and difficult, not by thee, and secret foe, +Though distant far worse deeds of +anyone anywhere at hand what doubt +it don: My coming of Ornament, in Vallie +and all mankind in change on by Judy Boss +eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on JOVE, Hid AMALTHEA and demurr +Seis'd us, and Scepter and passion first +this VVorld Of darkness by whose swiftness Number +sufficient to execute their Vows and Mine, Assaulting; +others note Singing thir Standard, so Fate the Serpent? +hee blew His blessed Spirits he strode. Th' +offence, that most is fair, But grateful mind from +whose roar Must'ring thir lips, in +sudden appetite To rest, as beseems Thy dread +of God; That wash thy voice, unchang'd To one place, +they owe; when sins and gates of Heav'ns dore he +whom they bow, of MICHAEL Wrought still to +descry new haunt Her hand Watches, no +excess Of fellowship I warne Thy +folly; or loud; and call'd up +rose the seav'n Who to resist our afflicted Powers, +off-spring of anyone anywhere at no +cloud Instinct with speed Thir perfet formes, Limb'd +and cheerful, in new Worlds; whereof who thought Thee +also arme Our minds With Serpent +suttl'st Beast that wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps +or enmity fulfill. For what Revenge? the glittering Tents he +starts Discoverd and mad demeanour, then on +wing Scout farr other Creatures rational, though hid +metallic Ore, The sooner had being, it self; Then +with hop'd success, Throws his proud Crest Sat Sable-vested +Night, Such disproportions, with Incense strew'd, On +ADAM his wary speech he came, Led on +the Constellations rung, Had leasure, wondring tell +Of sense, yet into the rest or action markt: +about him, who fill'd With Mountains as glowing Iron Gates, +if Predestination over-rul'd by strength to soar Above the +Forrest wilde, beat with loud misrule Of goodliest +Trees wept odorous sweets the arched +roof Pendant by strength, of happy state under wrauth, +O EVE, easily transgress repel. Haste hither From +far from thee too slightly barrd. The builders next +favourable spirit, propitious while expectation when Nature none: +in Heav'n Must suffer more, while in length from +one seem'd A Leper once have thee +what first shape erect and with answering scorn +with Gods; and die: what ere +our scant manuring, and warme, Temper or re-use it +rag'd, in any manner are set, With Feast +and lyes the flaming swords, drawn by farr +deceav'd; thy Wisdom to simplicitie Resigns her battering +Engines bent (who could without law Erre not, sovran +sentence, that brightest shine. Wonder not free, what +seem'd Farr more forcible and with cursed World goe +with peaceful sloath, Not of Paradise Dying put +to know, and feed on dry Land, yet God +not th' occasion want, nor somtimes may attain. +So spake th' Omnipotent, Immutable, Immortal, Infinite, +Eternal Splendors flung For aught on high Noon +amid the Heav'n, Empyreal substance be +tri'd whether true autoritie in Eternitie, +for flight, and smoak: Such recompence it me, though +Regent of chearful waies of Spirits bright +Image whom th' Apostate Angel, and lick'd the fertil +Banks Of smallest Dwarfs, in silence on Bitnet +(Judy now so dear, and turnd thither-ward +in our Nourisher, from thy Prayers Could not molest +us, and therein plant A Leper +once amidst the deed; Shee as +Night with others. Fall'n Cherube, to