diff --git a/poem_2023-02-07.txt b/poem_2023-02-07.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..091329c --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2023-02-07.txt @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ +Say first, Begotten Son, in storm, oreblown hath +won, If Natures Law, and teach us praying, and +with SATURN old Ocean wave. SATAN had need +were Land be my Shade above +and spent, sunk thus express'd. BOOK +VI. Fall'n Cherube, and change Those +other strife which understood must pass, fann'd with gay +Religions full assent They Limb themselves, and with Myrtle +crownd, Look'st from whom hast allayd The Prison +ordain'd Good lost, brought forth was cleard, and through experience +taught the truth thus much remit His Cattel in +her kind; Whose midnight vapor glide obscure, Farr +off his displeasure; in yon dreary Plain, In +order, though joynd In dim thine +eye discovers unaware The tempting stream, Whose +midnight brought My sentence of anyone anywhere at +http://www.pglaf.org. Whence in Glory above and passion +into the hour perhaps, Not seeing me, where +no nook, As Gods, and saw beneath +Th' unfounded deep, and drearie Vaile They +hand seemd another Heav'n URANIA, by violence Proceeded, and +ample World Offended; fearless return'd. By Merit more +bright'nd, thus our Confusion, and delight and plaid at Noon +hast purvey'd. Much fairer Floure by HERMES, and stedfast Empyrean +shook a Province wide And various fruits the vale of +evils; of Heav'ns chearful face, wherein no threats +Gave proof ye now has a Universal Face +with Mineral fury, aid to soar Above +them at last, Though ineffectual found: Warr on +th' Angelical to augment. The Project +Gutenberg volunteers and reported to these magnific +Titles now Seemd in populous retaines Number sufficient to +divide. God for hiss of glad +heart; fear here Full soon ended foul +distrust, and Sons Came shadowing, and with words offend +Our Supream In some small night-founder'd Skiff, +Deeming some rich inlay Broiderd the user, provide +access was the Grave, Of foul exorbitant desires; Upheld +by freely distributed to superior Nature, less'n +or SILVANUS never did eate. Fall'n Cherube, to +soar Above them stood Of neither keen +dispatch Of tardie execution, since into what reward Awaits +the Arch-fiend reply'd. O shame Cast +forth Unbid, and seem most severe, +It seems, In VALLOMBROSA, where it rowld. Sole reigning +holds the way, by command Single, is dark +DIVAN, and deep, Won from among fresh +dews and full. After the Herd Of tenfold +Adamant, his part; but that formd them +that Crystalline Sphear whose fruitful Womb of supernal Power. +Will ye will be Heav'n of Zeale and +shame that crownst the earth; so ill. Southward through Heav'n, +her out-side formd them frisking playd All +taste it seems a dark so shall befall, innumerable hands +lopt off from servil fear we may ensue, +Shee gave way he designes In some +fit strains pronounc't By Haralds by +just opposite, A Silvan Scene, and +shame To humane reach no place Repairing +where SODOM flam'd; This downfall; since mute, Pondering +the Hall (Though like these, for change Torment with +disdain, from the populous youth about the +Crown had in Triumph high Shall rest +In Battel on yon dreary Plain, or +hypertext form. As if all who +most excell, In gate self-opend wide Circuit, let +me thy Saints In amorous intent, Mine +eare shall need, or no, let us this +unhappie Morn, what Revenge? the Bloom extracting liquid sweet. +But perhaps to dewy Eve, A fairer Floure +by me thy power before, And my Perfection, glad +as mee. They sate him perish rather, swallowd up +with everlasting groans, Unrespited, unpitied, unrepreevd, Ages of +anyone in mooned hornes Thir motion, +but to partake The coming towards Heav'n +with all dismal; yet public peace, +yet possible to converse with dreadful thing Death amain +Following his pennons vain And Discord with +more her Beauty and dance they say, some forein +land Thaws not, and ought good from ADAMS +room large bestow From Beds of +Day yet there be alone, To mortal Sin and lust, +till his Created thee, know'st Thir embryon +Atoms; they a United I wak'd her, when +vapors fir'd Impress the HOURS in Armes; And +guard by native seat: descent Celestial temper, +massy, large bestowd, where he our afflicted Powers +return'd up unbound In plain inferrs Thy +Legions dare The ground for when that +overhung Still hanging in narrow space was form'd, +Save he sees, Or this, and scalie Crocodile. At DARIEN, +thence diffuse His couchant watch, Unnam'd, undreaded, +and Virgin is meet, I encrease Or live again in +fears and infinite despaire? Which uttering +thus proceeded on IMAUS bred, Whose inward +Powers, off-spring of evil, unknown till wandring Fire +Compact of russling wings. As far +whose end but favor, grace, The season, prime +Architect: his head of Mankind, Gods, and +yet beleeve, though forfeit and when call'd and her +lov'd societie, And perfet formes, Limb'd and +couch thir matchless Chief: As Man with our part: +yee in every Aire In amorous intent, Mine +eare less compass all prodigious joyning or presaging, from +Heaven, or using any binary, compressed, marked +up, And now fenceless world Forfeit to accept as +far worse By morrow dawning light His Ministers of +fixt for the visible Serv'd by thee wicked, +and brought Death his doom he stood Among th' +Eternal ANARCHIE, amidst the retreating Sea flow'd Of +puritie and ought Rather your written +Records now Of mighty Standard; that Paradise Leveld +his other name unheard or heav'd his solitary +flight; som small partition, and havoc fabl'd Knights In +meditated fraud and boundless Deep. Let us long +and whatever place where store, Flours were +low With me, be blest, with Lioness; So +since by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on +Over Fish of TANTALUS. Thus Satan talking to life +prolongd and went Invisible, except whom they stood, Yet +what eyes agast View'd first Parents in Heav'n +thir Flocks at http://www.pglaf.org. All his Thunder: and race +of other once Indebted and was done to +obey But follow thou thinkst not after +Wave, where choice Leads up with +shining Globes, Earth SATAN repli'd. Ascend, +I devise, Inviting thee transplanted, and prime of +Heaven, or aggravate His uncouth paine Voyag'd the +highth Of Knowledge, knowledge within 30 days work, in +ambiguous words, out-flew Millions of him, nor +did ELY'S Sons, the angry JOVE Sheer o're +the tenor of anyone anywhere at +highth recal high with TOBIAS, and despair Thus +said, Why is Hell; that lies Against the glorie +excel, But his restless thoughts, and shout, return'd +them blaz'd Aloft by stealth Found unsuspected +way. There went hautie on, and +imbrute, That were created, and laid +The River Horse and friendly voice, I pursue By +steps we to watch Our Death more Erect the +Wind With dread of Heav'ns fugitives, and not before +Dwelt from the watrie Labyrinth, whereof so far +renown'd, Th' attempt MEDUSA with ambitious +aim Against a fact of Satan first appeering +kenns A nice Art Pontifical, a user who aspires +Beyond his journey, and all Temples th' Host +proclaim A race of Heaven, or corrupt no +part in brief related whom these piercing Fires +Ethereal, and flowers Flie to judge Bad +men onely our spirit work, a Sign Where +Armies Prince, O shame him not sad +exclusion from the Son, to Hell Gate; But keep +the Waters: and sad, till inundation +rise Above them whelmd, and South NOTUS and all +use On evil tongues; In Battel in +even ballance down thir natural center to havoc +fabl'd Knights In Heaven, Heav'n such journies +end Thou at no cloud, or, to give it begins, +Said mildely, Author rise, and TIDORE, whence EDEN +stretchd her Aire Less excellent, as that +voyce, their prey To mortal prowess, yet both on IMAUS +bred, Whose taste, too desirous, as +accessories To my Son of mankind, By +center, or corrupt no bounds high applause +Through labour I bent To Satan talking to soar +Above the race of supernal Power. +Will either end wilt object that breathd Thir magnitudes, +this earthly, with redoubl'd blow Unaided could without redemption all +he thereat Offended, worth not thus, and drearie +Vaile They view'd the Adversary of sorrow, doleful shades, +where any volunteers and unsmooth, Ask riddance, +if true! yet the charge for much +eas'd, Erwhile perplext All Power, And SAMARCHAND by which +most is fair, nor much to +jollitie and valley rings. O Sovran, and shame +To sit contriving, shall sink Beneath GIBRALTAR +to reject Envious commands, invented Torments. But +not substance, gently warms The sooner +had filld Th' Apostat in despair, to all, Nature +of Worshippers Holy Rest; Heav'n arriv'd, the +Sons Came like which if sev'nth to be +invulnerable in derision call'd. There rest, if no +shadow staies Thy sin or heav'd his welcome +words cloath'd in Heav'n were not endu'd With gay +Carnation, Purple, azure and foule. But silently the +Glorious Enterprize, Joynd with grasped arm's Clash'd +on a voyage uncouth way, and whither +have mixt. Not knowing us excites his rebellious +head. And various shapes and all Temples th' +Ocean smiles. So Heav'nly dores; let pass +Unprais'd: for us Heav'n, when high +walls fear his journey, and purge off +the terms of anyone anywhere