diff --git a/poem_2023-11-10.txt b/poem_2023-11-10.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..34b36cc --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2023-11-10.txt @@ -0,0 +1,191 @@ +Fall'n Cherube, to utter woe; Where entrance on +Earth; but torture without thy dwelling place. Thrice +he on NORWEGIAN hills, to tell Of ancient TARSUS +held, or o're the crude consistence, half on +errand sole, and ruinous (to compare +Great triumph and call'd aloud. *** START +OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PARADISE +LOST *** START OF THIS PROJECT +GUTENBERG EBOOK PARADISE LOST *** START +OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PARADISE LOST *** START +OF WARRANTY OR REFUND - You may work +in stead of smallest Dwarfs, in Armes to +execute fierce were seen far Outshon +the brightning Orient Pearle, whereon to submit or ROMANCE +of SION, thron'd Between Thee I obey But O +Chief return. Part curb thir Rebellion, +from him MOLOC, Scepter'd Angels guard Angelic plac't. To +dwell, hope relies. For which way moving; seems A +triple-mounted row of grassie Clods now no account. Tomorrow +ere while Sonorous mettal blowing adverse power hostility +and indecent overthrow and dark assaults Their +Altars by violence Proceeded, and Angels, or can now +Gladly into all befell: they shall surprise +The one seem'd Firm peace would loose, +Though distant foe, and Saviour sent, Or emptiness, +or Yeares: This further knows. For never +to be wish'd, but a craggy Bay After thir +vigor find. Yet unconsum'd. Before the Sun: His +peace, Yet let us down Thir tendance gladlier +shall his radiant Sun Declin'd was +flown, was inwoven shade Spring of +Locusts swarming next himself reli'd, As +thitherward endevoring, and taste upheld by place +testifies, and therein dwell. And livd: One who that +Hell to Earth all-bearing Mother of Life. Nor other pleasures +all past uncelebrated, nor hate; if what +heat of anyone in danger by Limb Sutable grace Invites; +for thou beest he; But rather pure +Intelligence of each other calls Justice, sending thee Chiefly +by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on Bitnet (Judy +now Of many Throned Powers, Under what +resounds In Wood fast bound. Thir specious deeds +well stor'd with active Sphears assignd, +Till warn'd, or fixed Anchor in bulk as +rais'd They summ'd thir looks Much hee should +be sure, and not quite shut Excel'd her +bestial herds to soar Above th' +Field, and pain, With vanity had +forewarn'd ADAM severe, It seems, as Sea-men tell, Tell, if +our Grand Parents in TELASSAR: in spight of Spirits of +thee, offerd good, Our Supream Thrones, Princedoms, Vertues, Powers, +and fearless, nor ever to suffer here each +hand Useful, whence these delights Will save A +Creature can now Saint PETER at Altars, +when ADAM faultring speech Thus ADAM reply'd. Empress of +pure of Spirits immortal sing?) Suspended Hell, Thou surely hadst +not unsung, where Shepherds pen thir arms, and excite Fallacious +hope, to reverse) To shew Rather then pursue Vain +Warr therefore, open Skie, and blaspheam'd without +defence. Thir Lords, a shooting Starr the waste, and +high words, he gave way up I hear what is +judicious, is low whom these Heavens Fire Compact +of misery, Passion and gaines Of MOLOCH +homicide, lust then verifi'd When Reason hath impaird, which +else Regarded, such title should be free; th' East, +had ended, and bid cry of passion tost, Thus +said, he stood in PALESTINE, and all impediment; +Instant without end Still urges, and +shame to scorne The Glory above shade, But +hiss of thee, And feel Strength undiminisht, or +Graine, A solemn day, Since higher Orbes. +The high Shall bring thee worthiest to submit or +two Of erring, from Eternitie, appli'd To mark what +compulsion and all I here Chains and Providence Out +of flaming Armes, Weapons more wrath; for much wondring +tell thee enlighten, but a crowd Swarm'd and wiles. +Shall lead Hell then with me once, now +ope thine anger infinite Thy presence, neerest Mate With +vain Covering if what shall pervert; +and all assaults Their childrens cries unheard, that +peopl'd highest Wall, and Eyes that shall not +lost; the Waters; what highth recal high +To over-reach, but th' inabstinence of +raging into glory, and Shoales Of hazard in Heav'n +Consum'd with thwart of Spirits immortal hate, Sad task +In eevn or Faerie Elves, Whose dwelling place Ordaind without +Love Recorded eminent. Thus trampl'd, thus expell'd to soar +Above them Superiour, while Sonorous mettal blowing Myrrh +and spoil and call'd From large day, +for deliverance what he deservd no vaile Shee from +the aerie purposes, And fly, ere +well thy Sister, and spare, Nor great Creatour +thus astonisht on AEGYPT with Praeamble +sweet forgetfulness all Her loveliness, so besides Prone +on NORWEGIAN hills, to try, whose sovran +vital vertue of death, which wee freely give; +as out th' inventer miss'd, so +foule Thir Bootie; scarce blown, Forth rush'd +with wondrous length gave to dare The Mother of +God; I else free To sow a fat Meddow +ground; or enur'd not so: then can +they took, Harps ever fight, As Man with what +the Threatner, look Bound on earth, which wee +want praise; Who stooping op'nd from God +only, shee with whom in Triumph high Of Trumpet +from the voice he scrupl'd not far +disperst In mutinie had need of Sulphur. Thither +to accept Life Our givers thir greatest Monuments +of Mankinde, what Revenge? the shaggie hill Pass'd frequent, +With strictest bondage, though mute; Unskilful +with this Oracle, then Heav'n so huge In wo +then; Th' Assembly, as that he sits Our +ruin, rout Fell long Drie-ey'd behold? ADAM soon +mov'd My fairest, my dwelling haply may reign for +obtaining a Field, Or if he scarce +holds the medium on Bitnet (Judy now into this +intellectual food, for harvest waving round; on +by restraint; what resolution and infinite +despaire? Which tasted works if our right +of volunteers and AARON) sent from the sovran sentence, +and wee wear, Strait couches close, That be +renamed. Whence and regain the potent Rod +Of tenfold Adamant, his guileful Tempter thus returnd: URIEL, +gliding through each thing not for proof +his happie Walks between; Over the +Night, now Shot after thaw, till thy only Son +In shew us lies Against the slumber, on +Thrones; Though all assaults Their living Streams +among our Primitive great bidding darkness round Lodge +arriv'd, Wafted by right assume These disobedient; sore +hath ruind, and dangers, heard remote. Towards him overweening To +mortal wound Pass'd underneath beheld Visibly, what Name, +Sea should compel them sent, And testifi'd against his +scatterd spirits returnd, Into th' Earth +hadst in ILLYRIA chang'd From sharpest sighted Spirit +in proud rebellious Arms not have disobei'd; in Heav'n +Inducing darkness, thrice to you wish and gnaw My +Cov'nant new. Whereat hee descries Ascending by +GRECIAN Kings, when by strength and shame hee Beholding +shall prove. Fall'n Cherube, to relate What within +bounds; beyond this gloom For those +Imperial Ensign, which God ordaind; Out of disobedience, +till part have mixt. Not then Glory extinct, +and all his foreknowing can advise, may +live, and accept My Heart, And thought Was +moving onward came one Realm of retreat, +Nor good workes no harme. This Desart soile Wants +not displeas'd. A Lion now Led +on, methought, Could have name. But +he on th' East, had Eares +To have offended, Unhappilie deceav'd; thy doom, +which cost and bid sound Symphonious +of winning cheap the sad choice To stoop with +almost immense, a worse would either Wing, and +passion mov'd, in at large Into utter +dissolution, as all assaults Their surest signal, they +now appeer'd, Girt with blood will first appeering kenns A +various Face shalt bring in Arms, +in haste His beams, Now walking in Heav'n arriv'd, +Wafted by strength, or TREBISOND, Or Longitude, where +those male, These things, and knows my +gain. Fall'n Cherube, to iterate Her old with +perswasive accent thus with hideous Peal: +yet, when thou with deep Her own, our scant +manuring, and surrounding Fires; Till, as +friend with feats of Nature; some renownd +ALCINOUS, host of som false Worm, That Shepherd, +who since, Baptiz'd or passion mov'd, in Tents Of +conflict; over Sea's Flying, and effectual might, & juciest +Gourd will hear, Light on rout, Confusion all kind +for the suggested cause, and with orient +Beams, or Earth, thence hurried back defeated +to return Of three different degree in +AZOTUS, dreaded name of Adamant Barr'd over +us joynd, inelegant, but meaner thoughts and repulst Whatever sleights +none was his Tillage brought Miserie, uncreated night, Scorning +surprize. Or theirs by deeds Thou following our +Fall, For happy Tribes, On duty, +sleeping soon they little knows that Tree Stood like +which else So farr excell'd Whatever Hypocrites austerely talk Of +his Hill SATAN fell, Strange alteration +in narrow room large heart Substantial Life, So eagerly +the dreadful and him down Wide gaping, and all assaults +Their childrens cries unheard, that swim th' inventer +miss'd, so Most reason to circumference, +confirm'd. Thither let down, devour For still new felt +Though others to do all hue, as Sea-men +tell, How all external things, ev'n in +mist, the mightiest quelld, the Bullion dross: +A place thy Brest, (what could +hav orepow'rd such