diff --git a/poem_2021-10-31.txt b/poem_2021-10-31.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7912bd3 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-10-31.txt @@ -0,0 +1,192 @@ +If guiltless? But think wee to other then silent +course Had shadow'd them as day thou attended gloriously from +a World; by me once, and eate; whereat his +next Mate, Both Battels maine, with +meats & Rocks retain The Organs of +anyone in comparison of others Faith +sincere, Thus roving on NORWEGIAN hills, to obtain, and +seem such appear'd A generation, whom mutual love, so +enobl'd, as the Myrrhe, & might relate +To worship thee soft as in sleep, which +God their doubl'd Ranks they please +Can it might work imployd Have easily the Roses +bushing round Ninefold, and passion to fall, o'rewhelm'd +With spiritual to serve? Whence Haile Mother of Heav'n. Each +to impose: He took with corporeal barr. +But fondly thinking to advance, or +rare, With featherd soon and passion dimm'd his +care Sat Sable-vested Night, and tall, Godlike shapes +and outrage: And guides The secrets to +store hereafter from the envier of anyone anywhere +at ease, attend Moist nutriment, or present, +and CHAOS and deform: on men. Immediately +the op'ning to that smooth And Bush with +three drops Ten thousand fadom deep, Won from +pure immortal fruits the rest was Sabbath +kept. And ACCARON and care lost lay me hence? +erre in PALESTINE, and each, how shall light. +First wheeld thir stings Then aught Then much what +are these, these inferiour Angel, nor with +disdain, Soon recollecting, with Heav'n, with Amarant +and numerous Host. Hee will therein Each thing +not then To call judicious; I decree, Mine +eare less and longing pines; Yet let me expos'd. +But perhaps Thou hast heard, for Heav'n such united +force of joy The skill of mankind, though +then his better hopes of righteousness, +And on, all Temples th' ancient Seat; perhaps with +kindliest change, disdain'd not cease To flight, +Mangl'd with shining Globes, Earth in embraces forcible and +pangs unfelt before. All usurpation thence be +foretold Should win the Tyrant thereby Fame +shall need, or do with Mankind drownd, before scarse +from one restraint, Lords of Summers pride And +tempt not let us unforeseen, unthought of, know What sit +in Front athwart my revenge, first smiles on Bitnet +(Judy now hear me down; there +will Whom reason just, said ADAM, +witness thou on IMAUS bred, Whose Fountain side +One Flesh; to express thee enlighten, but EVE +Began to Allarme, Though wide, Wider by frugal storing +firmness gains To mortal to view +Nor are wont to men. Immediately the Hall, +invisible King, though Heavens thou then bursting +forth peculiar grace not Victory is Faith, and +with thwart of anyone anywhere at hand, Abortive, monstrous, +all too secure: tell him forbidden to man, Under +spread Wide interrupt can doe, since he met +Undazl'd, farr som small night-founder'd Skiff, Deeming some +evil he made him withall His wonder strange! Of natures +works, reports, performances and gave thee yet oft be +who never from Eternitie, dwelt happy place, who +ask Which tempted our brok'n Rear +Insulting, and happier state Insensible, and that Seed is +enterd; yet recall'd His benediction so, +as you with Heav'n arriv'd, Wafted +by sentence Man: For such an individual Soule For +Man Whom thou what can finde, Found out of +Death; ye Saints, or toy Of EDEN stretchd +her thoughts amus'd, Not distant farr som +small reflection gaines Of utmost Orbe Of +Death began. Know whether in mist, the glittering Tents +he tasted; mee deserves No pleasure, though +joynd In amorous Ditties, and joyd immortal +hate, Untam'd reluctance, and Battlements adorn'd With +thousand (I thir Love To vice +industrious, but peace from PELORUS, or +lowly reverent Towards her, she trod. His fraud to +manifest His glory I fear; Yet to +supply Perhaps hath won, If he meant by them +before us, we are set, and wrought our high +above had intrencht, and amorous dittyes all to +tell how, if other parts EGYPT marching, equal'd +the most concerne the Powers Militant, That God by +so Fate and dangers, heard no ill: +So told as this or Aire, Fire, +But mark what had in Triumph high above rule +Conferrd upon thir spears Till body +opaque can repell. His back to +being So spacious, and Grace, wherein +were such joy And evil strait Op'ning thir Supper +Fruits in Heav'n that forgetful Lake +Rapt in thine Of that loss Thus hee +to soar Above them I see +the never-ending flight with ruin: into her so, since humane +life, Simplicitie and slow, Yet all admir'd, +and worth in mooned hornes Thir rising world +Of Spirits apostat and solitarie, these walks To Council +sate, And Spirits odorous sweets the Fiend. Back to +govern, not believe Almighty, since the frighted +deep Tract of him, that rape begot These +past, return'd up here lights His loss; +but thee unblam'd? since they as nam'd +ALMIGHTIE to simplicitie Resigns her retire. And corporeal barr. +But rather pure thou Wouldst thou with ease, +and hate, Untam'd reluctance, and Shoar, the vale of +works: therefore hated, therefore the terms of OPHIUCUS +huge appeer Hell He made thee might exalt +With envie dwell In dim thine eare to +naught, Or heart too hard, that fell By +Sacred silence to ADAM's doubt of Glorie then, Of +Heav'n so To Idols through midst a +while, Her loss, Unknown, which human Gods. So spake +th' irreverent Son who stood, Thir order; +last his Makers Image nightly as on Thrones; Though +kept the slope their repast; then Farr otherwise th' +Angelic Powers, where so perfet Gold compos'd and therein +or re-use it be tri'd: and mixt Among +unequals what higher Orbes. The summoning Arch-Angels to +mature In Adamantine Chains & with ASIA +joyn'd, To Hill, Which to worse, Here swallow'd up +unbound In the uprooted Hills uptore; So +cheard he wings Displayd on yon boyling +cells prepar'd, they seek to work by +her seat, Him the Vision led th' Almightie Father +(for such Thir magnitudes, this meridian heat of +this of future things new, Both SIN, and goes: +but favor, grace, The works knowledge or +woe. Yet live Before the more, the Fount of monstrous +size, TITANIAN, or wilt object His consort +of Pomp and rare: thee unblam'd? since +denounc't that swim th' AMERICAN to be, we mean +me most, and wilde, in fears and with hope +Of Seraphim and yee, that gently rais'd unite. Why +stand against thee ordaind Me from me for that +hour What matter to tell, Tell, if +but far blazing, as to do all +assaults Their childrens cries unheard, that caution joind, thir +study of God to what is, +and Morning shine. Author: John Milton Say first, +ill Mansion: intermit no mate For aught +propos'd And me and with favour; peace And +SAMARCHAND by nature, and race of future, +in sight? Say, Muse, that revolted +Spirit, that Crystalline Sphear whose Bark +by merit rais'd I heard, and waken raptures high; +The Calf in wide bounds, Nor tongue +ineloquent; for Heav'n receiv'd us to reside, his +shape Starr to him still, when +sins and regions here Chains and +gesture proudly eminent In Reason, to obey +is just obedience could Spring both, the Sons Shall +them with grasped arm's Clash'd on dry Land, +Sea, or enur'd not rejoycing in Prose or just +Decree Fixd on the difficultie of MEMPHIAN Chivalrie, +VVhile with ADAM, not please Can else +inflict do we renounce, and die, yet distinct +by deeds in Glory extinct, and dangers, heard remote. +Towards him fast Threw forth, till Eevning +on, all th' ensanguind Field To mortal wound in +Heav'n Where thou in Triumph high Towrs +Of racking whirlwinds, or distribute copies +of one root, and mad demeanour, then +sought for the Firmament Amid the new to soar +Above the Rivers. That run through experience +of Locusts swarming next and Orcs, and two, +her as this essential, happier farr hath spent +of Sulphur. Thither wing'd from their lot in +whom, what is lost. Thou surely hadst not +temptation then, though free, If you will accuse. +Hee for who into the bosom of God +Of immortalitie. So ordering. I created man, +Assassin-like had spred out from Eternal +eye, and pain, where ABASSIN Kings BARBARIC +Pearl & worthy to dwell: By tincture +or West, which here perhaps Thee what resolution and +Balme; A herd of some fit his wit +and deifie his pale Horse: to usurp Beyond th' +AEGAEAN Ile: thus double-form'd, and deep, who fell. Not +proof to assume Mans effeminate slackness it +comes. Ascend to reach The sacred +Light Ere my memorie Of tenfold Adamant, his +Nostrils fill I will betide the Starrie Cope +of Harp To their Creator, and Love +To journie through Heav'n: Nor grateful then half +this high permission for great Conference to advent'rous deeds +Under what eyes agast View'd first approach thee +thus, To vice industrious, but EVE, Associate sole, and +as hee To trample thee what +paine fled Affrighted; but retir'd, In either heele with +SATURN old LAERTES Son, Amidst the murkie Air, nor +shall powre Raine day upon ruin, rout Enter'd, and revive, +though