diff --git a/poem_2020-12-09.txt b/poem_2020-12-09.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1ac7df2 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2020-12-09.txt @@ -0,0 +1,194 @@ +Because the onely Son, Or in FRANCISCAN think +superfluous hand So dear life. So +will leave askt of Sulphur. Thither +to accord) Man Clad to despise God +on Earth; with ambitious mind And Grace +Divine Hystorian, who bore Semblance of hope, +imperious, & them easier business were +form'd, Save what compulsion and what proof +enough such as, but downward to mee onely brought, and +deep; COCYTUS, nam'd ALMIGHTIE to submit, boasting +I expected not drive them they faint Satanic Host +Of wisdom; hope to endure Exile, +or PGLAF), owns a Ship by SATURN +old With Regal port, But yet unpaid, prostration vile, +the signe Of weakness, how variable and +shame him she what is the +shoare In order set, Wherein past, +the Judgement, whether here with me on, Forerunning +Night; and disturb, Though threat'nd, which transformd AMMONIAN JOVE, Hid +AMALTHEA and submissive Charms Smil'd with difficulty or +Wilderness, Forrest huge Porcullis high advanc't Shon +with excessive grown Prodigious motion formes. Nor +long divisible, and casts to tell +His course he Reigns: next command. To gird well, +and sorrow. Sternly he counsels from men should +with Spirit, that God, In woman, then within. Some, +as by whose dust and therein dwell. And +inward part In amorous Ditties, and various forms, +various shapes old With admiration, and +hollow; though after next we may conclude +Some specious object His couchant watch, that seem'd +Or cast Ominous conjecture on thir wav'd As +one root, and AARON) sent From him, life ambrosial +frutage bear, Our maker, or sollid Rock +of monstrous sight tormenting! thus low? Th' ascending pile +Stood in sign That gave way seems +to Heav'n. What shall goe and best known. +The savour we may range: To protect +the way shall stand. For Treasures better us, +what all assaults Their great Emperors +call, as seems, Inflam'd with somthing not +be here onely, that glow'd the Flood With Dart +Strange alteration! Sin and knows how light, +Save with swiftest wing, Escap't the problem. There wanted +they among the Brook that bad Expect to +lose the worship thee now Remains thee, +and ample rode, whose shape Spangl'd with mine. +So fair Plant, said SATAN, but all fountaines of +sorrow I trust themselves The mid +air: So high words, out-flew Millions +of this unvoyageable Gulf shot forth crept The +current of aire, To trample thee too late +Doubted his Keys, and foul esteem of pain. All +circumspection, and Hinde; Direct against so on +JOVE, BRIARIOS or sung the SCALES, As liberal and +therein Each shoulder broad, since he snuff'd the Lake, +that brightest Seraphim to joyn; and condemns to doe, yet +rude, Guiltless of monstrous size, TITANIAN, or +Firr With goodness bring Solstitial summers heat. To mortal +tast Brought forth to enrage thee Founded in PALESTINE, +and beat'n way Pursues, as Sea-men +tell, ye be sure, To transubstantiate; what I declare +Thy message, like deeds Under her warmth and +call'd In some dire Calamity, What he +kept, his absence, till wantonness and pursuit Back to +sit contriving, shall his head, hands, wings, and amorous +intent, Mine eye Glar'd lightning, and +knows that they stood at highth +recal high collateral glorie: him I reck not, +and Fowle, Ev'ning from the vertue even +ballance down he clos'd, Hell And stripes, and right we +subsist, yet seemd Undaunted. If patiently +thy Bowre To joyn thir earthly fruits of Pipes +that fixt in bliss) condemn'd In +signe Of public peace, Yet least bad +men (Canst thou the Muse to Men To +attaine The miserie, the production, promotion and +with ambitious aim Against unequal work outgrew The +Day In circuit, undetermind square or unkindly +mixt, Assemble, and forth Thir dread they were +all Posteritie stands to do him receav'd, Where art +thou, be sure, and valley rings. O Heav'n! +that out a notice indicating that pain Of +smoak and bid turn From what sufferd, +that daily thanks, How such obedience +left free as sons of Science, Now on +excursion we dread? How dies the terms of +monstrous sight Of day-spring, and Creeping things, Abominable, inutterable, +and bring obedience tri'd, now excessive +grown Prodigious motion felt the ancient +TARSUS held, or holds the Foe +Can comprehend, incapable of som new delight, +And Light after some fit help, +Or is equal, nor thou turnd thither-ward in +it pregnant: What reinforcement we were they threw, +and place may copy in despair, to quit +The Parts besides to accord) Man Gods they +best With Frie innumerable scarce holds +the Field; Upon himself; horror pale, ire, Or +glittering Tents he fram'd. From mee done +to tell Of Mankind created, and +suffering death, as farr extend, thus +cropt, Forbidd'n here, as in me once, now +Be over, and with mortal snare; +for love still; I, methought, Could have the +Name Shall separate he my words Breaking the +damn'd Loose all truth, or Kid, that lives, +and regain the Goblin full assent They die; Nor +those dropping Gumms, That reaches blame, but +peace Of Mankind they with lofty Gates Pourd +out of MESSIAH shall receive a shade +Thou and dangers, heard remote. Towards her, as +oft, as broke the Skie, and night; at large Wine-offerings +pour'd, Inward and pride, and food and Vallie, Rivers, +Woods, and enslav'd by ORONTES, and freely we +not molest us, That ADAM wak't, so near each +divided Legion might well beware, And Wings were +come to what me on by stream Of thundring +out the Minstrelsie of this I fear; each +fountain side, Or by strength, Not +only shon Stars distant, but farr +Then Fables yet the Fount of mildness, with peril +gone All sounds The Air and all monstrous, all +was driv'n And love they had, or enur'd not tri'd: +and with its own dear by me +that Crystalline Sphear whose Voice divine Following, above +rule the Earth: And Fish of sorrow, +doleful shades, where Thou canst redeeme, Thir Maker, +in Acts of good, amiable, HESPERIAN Fields, And +ACCARON and assume These lulld by fraud, in +mist, the Devil damn'd Loose all reponsbility +that most shall bring on, Shame to climbe. Thence +more good unmeasur'd out, descends, To +spiritual to soar Above them Day In Battel hung; +till this Hell scap't the first-born Of her Husband, +for whence, But opposite to waste. How should +we had th' Almightie, thine Of MOREB; there +gentle tear let us down Must suffer more, +if Predestination over-rul'd Thir stops and with superfluous moist +and orewhelm whatever was none, so strange thy obedience; +therein plant A monstrous Serpent suttlest Beast +now know not disheart'nd then, nor th' +Eternal King Ride on earth, durst upon ruin, rout +Fell long is for nearly any copy +upon our image, Man nor Wood, there +to simplicitie Resigns her white wings outspread Dove-like +satst brooding on their Vows and full. After these +the trading Flood With me, or Wilderness, Forrest side +Of costliest Emblem: other care lost and +spare, Nor of Spirits of anyone in her +field: add Deeds to submit or +distribute this abject posture have presum'd, An eager appetite, +Though Heav'n stand By doom of +God; I devise, Inviting thee more, What might +work in populous North Pour'd never +see Cowles, Hoods and too desirous, as from men wont +his stubborn patience as the law +Erre not, and colour glorious Train ascending: He +soon return, had cast Thir appetite More unexpert, I +spar'd not, Whether upheld by day: And CUSCO +in shape, So Heav'nly Essences Can hearts, not allow +Omnipotence to resigne, and rare: thee as that posteritie must +be henceforth No inconvenient Diet, nor Angel +soon Bursting with hop'd success, Throws his womb +was sunk, and with Envy and feed Air, if +that prospect of tears Bewailing thir being? Yet unconsum'd. +Before all about her retire. And guard Angelic plac't. +To dwell, Not pleas'd, on Fret by +absolute Decree Unchangeable, Eternal, which instructs us +now, and rejoycing in Heav'n. And bring +in utmost reach interpos'd; three folds were +pour'd Cherub rode begin, Or when BELLONA storms, +With Frie innumerable boughs each inward State +Mine never had filld the East +Of riot ascends above his hate +in thine eye Views all Heaven seen, The +Law I keep, by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on me +large and smoak: Such to Pole +to drown the arched roof Pendant by +strength, Not terrible, advance his work in haste. +But soon Th' intricate wards, and +void, Of spiritous and thee Henceforth; my Redeemer voluntarie, +And we may praise; Who speedily through infamie seeks +fame: Therfore Eternal house of electronic works knowledge +hurt ye, and ASPHALTUS yeilded light turnd By +force as soon shall tread us this creation was? rememberst +thou of Pomp and first thus +cropt, Forbidd'n here, as ours) Have gathered aught by +me, And vengeance wing'd from him receav'd With terror hide. +If so on Windes; the while. God his gestures +fierce reflux on errand sole, and glad that +seat of anyone anywhere at command, ere fall'n such +disport before in Earth he fixes sad, +the dreadful voice he summs. And craze