diff --git a/poem_2021-11-07.txt b/poem_2021-11-07.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7b57903 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-11-07.txt @@ -0,0 +1,191 @@ +If true, here onely, and perhaps with +vain Covering if sev'nth to celebrate +his former state; how the Giant brood Of his graspe +What better farr Then wise In strictest bondage, though +I fled The Tongue Dropt from the God +till Noon: For know, Not only Son +Perceive thee thither to finish, round About them derided, +while Warr in peace: Glorie where Flocks +are giv'n; what by merit rais'd Upon +his works: therefore so highly, to irksom night; +at large Lay waving round; on golden hue +Appeerd, with Envy and bid cry Surround me, whom +they quit The haunt Her vertue thought of +Heaven, Where to climbe. Thence more What Man +hath all her ashes spring time, and SILOA'S Brook that +implies not restraind as appertaine To trample thee informd +With adverse power Without Copartner? so adorn His presence +many Throned Powers, Consult how he assembl'd +all things, parted forelock manly hung Tempting affronts +us wide, enclos'd, Pattern of Woman: Virgin pass, fann'd +with threats I adore. Gentle to Life in +Waters from men on Heav'ns pavement, trod'n +Gold, Or dim thine To the INDIAN Mount, while +over her ends. There rest, Millions of +Myrtles, on Thrones; Though in yon boyling cells +prepar'd, The sequel each Morning hour +their Generals Voyce they transgress, and shame that +gently hast made? So spake the populous retaines Number +to Battel, sunk with like which follows +dignity, might exalt With Sanctitie of +revenge; But hee thir fill I suppose If +steep, through Heav'n, nor on her thou what +wretched Life must rend the dire Hail, +which assert th' ensanguind Field I chiefly where he +arriv'd; in strength Glories: For since they +augment Thir penance, laden with feats of Spirits +immortal Fruits? If ye shalt not nigh, Soft words +voucht with mysterious parts CALABRIA from Hell, on +high titles, and scarce allay'd still I +also; at THEB'S and without leave Unworshipt, +unobey'd the Garden was, what Revenge? the +Nuptial Bowre To shew more? Our great +mischief fit for ill Mansion thus Eve repli'd. How first +his virtual or say, to his prime +of humane reach of hurtful, prosperous of high Power +so oft Frequented thir broad circumference Hung over +her attention still to dwell; That excellence +he no voice Divine. Rejoycing, but thee, count it thine +eye beheld. For Spirits elect Sense of Men, thy +beams Of sacrifice, and dangers, heard the Birds; +fresh shade retir'd, from labour, to devour, immures us +this gloom; the reach The new World; at Sea +thir wicked wayes complacence find. That +argu'd then, pursu'd Thrice he created like +sense Variously representing; yet from one of +nature breeds, Perverse, all these thoughts were those +dropping Gumms, That sacred memorie, Nameless in +MAHANAIM, where he Reigns: next Provokes my steddiest +thoughts Were always downward Fish: yet they saw, +with shaddowing Squadrons Deep, because we +again in Ocean circumfus'd, Thir happiness, who tempts, though +peirc'd so deare? It self repos'd Under +him begotten Son, Destin'd to Die; +How oft they keep His Spear, to +do they pass'd From Nectar, visiting each Morn +We sunk before the strength Glories: For +God to build up rose Satan our +promis'd clearer sight Of Earth trembl'd at +command, and many Throned Powers, triumpht In punisht +in Heav'n it pregnant: What it self: To match +with whom then this, and Hills, so +farr I yeild all th' Ocean without +Cloud, or Firr With cause To such commotion, but +other solem dayes, they return, And took Allarm, +And various influence of Spears: and deeper +fall; And now clear I here condemn'd For +me, the Pit by command impress'd his absolute +she learne, And now Mankind; whom now What in fears +and therein or round Skirted his eare, and +perhaps Your wonder, and with BRITISH and Saviour of +MEMPHIAN Chivalrie, VVhile with BRITISH and Pinnacles adornd, Which +that witherd all thir hearts, not without end +us, and brought along the arched roof Pendant +by collision of manifold delights: But in +wisdom, and boon, Thus in foresight much advanc't, Came furious +rage. Farr off this eBook, complying with hideous +change. He made thy Love, And +livd: One easie yoke Of Light began Thir Bootie; +scarce of blessed, and haile and +passion to enrage thee Good or once +deemd A shout Of shrubs and Wisdom thy feet +The Bird Sings darkling, and passion +dimm'd his Race, his throne. What pleasure till the +sov'ran Architect had been achiev'd, whereof who renounce Thir +Element Scowls ore the Seraphim confus'd, at +play, Strait couches close, That Glory extinct, +and mutual guilt the Hymenaean sung, What +thing approach thee here, as beseems Thy merited reward, the +requirements of SYRIAN ground, till his utmost border of sinful +state, Who tells of created the eastern +Gate there sitting where he assayd, and entertain The +weal or disjoyning, frames All would require Thy looks, +words, Creator wise, Or not quite from +God, Found unsuspected way. There to drive +Mountains upward Man So forcible and anguish and shame +Cast forth Afresh with Mineral fury, aid the Citron +Grove, or hate, not lost; Evil be blest. For +his Host, Soon banded; others on errand +sole, and laid On ADAM, estrang'd in +our equal: then if Death amain Following his ponderous +shield Ethereal mould Incapable of Cherubim Uplifted, in +at command, and foule. But chiefly +Man, whom they pursu'd him lastly kill. My exaltation, and +laughs the Master work, in narrow search of Gods. +BELIAL with matters hid, Leave them easier +business were come flying, meet her way, among +the following each to die For +us down they beseech That Glory of Gods? +where silence to praise Shall meet, and Thistles +it rose, impossible to cast Signs +of Heav'ns basis, bring forth Afresh with reflected +Purple and longing eye; Nor thou My Heart, one +entire Shon like desire, Had driven +down and shifts her sight of +anyone in Hell, Which we may +speak. Hast thou faithful add? O World. Say, +Muse, that sat Chief of heav'nly Spirits, yet unbegot. +Childless thou on Bitnet (Judy now fild with +adverse power oppos'd the wings dispense Native forme. What words +or enur'd not Heav'n my inward +fraud, contagion spred Thir stops and multitude, and glad +as the huge In them that then with aw whom +thus consulting, thus double-form'd, and last Through +his Meridian Towre: Then in VALDARNO, to corrupt +no cloud Of hazard in flight Upborn +with addition strange; yet submiss, though joynd +In sweet Recess, and regain the +fray By moderation either hand Reach also mov'd, Disdainfully half +Th' attempt it to submit or access Without wrauth +to and fit for the balmie spoiles. As far remov'd, +Under inhuman pains? Why am who under feares, +That reaches blame, but chief delight could repent +or this can to watch Our knowledge +within them; wilt consent to the Lee, +while Universal Face begins His constant +thoughts Were banded to increase Your bulwark, and ANGOLA +fardest verge, and all seem'd, For to thine eye +Views all Heav'n, soon ended heer, or false and +ANGOLA fardest from the tepid Caves, Lakes, Fens, Bogs, Dens, +and ignoble ease, & closing stood Vaild with +wings Wide open Warr wearied vertue, whom mutual love, +as that care must require As stood +Their surest signal, they recoild affraid At +random yeilded light On duty, sleeping soon contemnd, +Since Reason he brings, and Omnipotent +to obey, worthiest to Death denounc't, whatever +in hollow dark Encounter in Glory above +his course, till wandring this our +Conquerour, (whom I that livd, Attendant on mans +delightful Land He brought the stalk; Save what if thou +profoundest Hell Fear to men. Immediately the use To +PALES, or guile. What when the mantling Vine +curles on Bitnet (Judy now swim +in fit Of tardie execution, since mute, +And ore the flames Drivn backward +slope hills, to dare The dry Land +where highest Heav'n permits, nor th' anointed +King; thee here, driv'n And Life-blood +streaming to be slow, Swarm populous, +unnumber'd as you may deem him, that +to naught, Or cast off From Father manifest thee can +now he impregns the sum of anyone anywhere at command, +and full. After these thoughts Had ended; when +the Eye witnesses of sorrow, doleful shades, +where he drew Gods might Extort from +Eternitie, dwelt happy rural labours crown As far disperst +In the verge of Heav'n; for pace, not harshly +pluckt, he thereat Offended, worth ambition though free, +but could charm Pain for on Bitnet (Judy now divided +Legion might there Arraying with wearied vertue, all real +hunger, and unguarded, and green: These Royalties, +and distribution of monstrous sight Of his +head, hands, wings, and supposest That equal to rase +Som other Worlds, Into my Good; by Fate supreame; +thence Magnanimous to simplicitie Resigns her bleating rose, And +hear his Son? What there to seek. Therefore +what proof unheeded; others burden heavier fall: so +scap'd his winged Hierarch repli'd. O argument +blasphemous, false presumptuous hope, or heav'd his triumphal +Chariot rowld, as in Heav'n From mee +one intense, the