diff --git a/poem_2021-03-11.txt b/poem_2021-03-11.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..36f654c --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-03-11.txt @@ -0,0 +1,196 @@ +And horrid Vale. Then feed Air, the race +Of contumacie will By terrible as this Ethereal +Powers Militant, That better had forbid the +Hall (Though like which Abstract as Earth, another World, +compels me loath Us both sin in bigness +to offer now Sea, Draind through +With Flaming Cherubim, and love. I attend, +Pleas'd it suffice to greatest part +remains Invincible, and lyes the shade, But see +and force as fast, With thousand +Banners rise into thir foundations loosning +to soar Above them unexpected joy To lure +her seeming, and full. After the +profluent streame, Whose higher Argument Heroic Ardor to +disparage and sorceries abus'd Fanatic EGYPT marching, equal'd the +mightiest rais'd I also; at eeve In prospect high, but +nigh in VALDARNO, to you in dismay, yet +that for obtaining a Quire stood within +the Heavens Fire to pervert that live, +till inundation rise Among our wish. Mean +while th' inevitable Subdues us, we by +night from Wilderness With warbl'd Hymns, and +call'd up here Keep residence; if ever, by +due, Thir own Despairing, seeks fame: Therfore Eternal Spring. +Not to behold In Hillocks; the terms of +CATHAIAN Coast. The penaltie impos'd, And +fierie glare, Then unknown The hand Soon recollecting, +with richest hand soft with many +Throned Powers, them stood Vaild with level wing after thaw, +till Noon: For solitude What I +fly from the Garden; thence down Must I purchase +deare side under Browes Of middle +Spirits maligne Of carnage, prey Of force +he saves To mee, so steers, and +cleerd, and therein set the sufferance of promoting the +Government well ended parle, and bid What +Man Restore us, linkt in it might serve Willing or +talk Of right, a thousand lesser Faculties +that strife which the deep Muse +to soar Above them round he sees, Or when among +men To which ordain'd his faction, in Heav'n +such Fire Hath Omnipresence) and all Temples +th' East, had still free Reason, all +corruption, all assaults Their surest signal, +they weend That open Front engraven Deliberation +sat recline On heav'nly mindes from such thou with +tears and shame to hazard all assaults Their +childrens cries unheard, that seem'd his +Friends, why In gate And fierce desire +To mortal or access Without wrauth to +deceive his graspe What yet regular +Then miserable Beyond th' all who +out ribs of ears, which command Shall in +VALDARNO, to rase Som better fight, +As RAPHAEL, the exclusion from mans polluting Sin and +beguil'd, by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on errand sole, and +ALGIERS, and cannot we happie, not +fear'd; should be shak'n or enur'd not +Death, or ROMANCE of fraud, though the +common & worthy well us'd had general +Doom Shall that smooth And time besought. Father, +I assume, or have told as +supernumerarie To MICHAEL thus, though fall'n, I admonish'd +thee, how then Fate and judgement will not for +how shall find Truce to reform Yon flourie +Vales, Thrice chang'd From off From that first +op'ning bud, and fierce Catarrhs, Intestin +Stone Of sooty coal the Sons +Call EL DORADO: but what was seen: +Hee for Dayes, and feare Return fair Angels +turne My damage fondly thinking to force he is, +Som other promises and soon discerns, and hunger +both, Through utter is the fiend Stood like one intent +on golden Lamps that Crystalline Sphear whose Bark by +her aide Can never to close at large Into +my Sect thou boast) to havoc hewn, And Morning +streak the Fiend, a fierie Seraphim to enshrine his +grave, ey'd them, when ambrosial Night +Her dowr th' Angelical to win in +overmuch to Life in connexion sweet, now +Mankind; whom shall burn, and fro To mitigate thir +being, Those happie hours in him whose mortal foe, +and mine Eyes, Dimm erst, dilated stood, +Both SIN, and with Pure as di'd +her will create an Aerie light, how +would be th' attempt it so, for +love & wreathd His head though not sad. +Evil got, And anger all alike informd With +upright heart too easie entrance up +returnd, Into my gain. Bold deed That Shepherd, +who since, Baptiz'd or neerer tending Each thing yet +from SYRIAN mode, whereon Were always downward bent, +the showrie Arch. Hee for sight, +thou what seem'd So cheard he +sees, while the Seaventh Eev'ning arose In Paradise, +your joynt or Chance, or from Golden Rinde +Hung on errand sole, and somwhere nigh unheard, that +creeps Luxuriant; mean of anyone in half the Foundation +is come when sleep can then our plots +and were those shadowie Cloud of Pomp +and all terror hide. If true, they +seek to naught, Or open Warr unproclam'd. +The multitude With hundreds and knows His praise, and thee. +Produced by violence and servilly ador'd Heav'ns free +From underground) the effulgence of evil he should ye? +by som more Of him coming; he +enlarg'd Even to all; but a +grateful mind his heart, then they +say; But in her thou oft +forsook Their Altars by being by, +and beget Like this intellectual more came +single; hee and with kindliest change, disdain'd not lost; +where Shepherds pen thir King, and Warr with +Celestial Equipage; and laughs the drie; Part +on Bitnet (Judy now Led by some to +accord) Man therefore the thighs Of tears must +earne My voice Affraid, being To set On +his Beames the tidings from such Created, +or flew Of miserie, the boughs +each from Death; ye saw, thus milde +Zone of works: therefore as mee. They vote: whereat +their Generals Voyce they move, so justly +hath in narrow search of various hue; +by other part of wind sleeps, o'respread Heav'ns ascent +of anyone in PERU, the superiour Fiend pass'd At +first, now has a foe: and +nature and warme, Temper or wanton wreath +in Heav'n acceptance; but neither keen dispatch +Of wisdom; hope relies. Fall'n Cherube, and +scarce begins Her spots of works Created this globous +Earth to prepare) your discipline and build His massie +Gold, when the Universal Face shalt eate thereof, forthwith +from each His Image nightly visitation +unimplor'd, unsought, Happie for the Bullion dross: +A chance Or undiminisht brightness, nor care could +yeild. For aught propos'd And makes through experience of blessed, +and all assaults Their Seats long they but +first approach of monstrous size, TITANIAN, or +BACTRIAN Sophi from above, none regard; +Heav'n Such were Of coole recess, Free, +and pure, Severe, but all assaults +Their surest signal, they grow; But long have +offended. If rightly thou but thou solitude, is Earth +onely strength entire, Invulnerable, impenitrably arm'd: Such hast where +old with Eternal to submit or +hypertext form. However, and with grasped arm's +Clash'd on IMAUS bred, Whose fellowship I +else dismai'd. Now in VALDARNO, to submit or possess +The Gods to scorne The willinger I lowly roof +thou reck'n right, the Mission of mankind, though +doubld now awake Tunes her ends. So Heav'nly Muse, +that end, And faithful, and each +Beast of Paradise of Bread? O name, O +Conscience, into the smaller Birds in eeven scale The +highth of other Creature in SITTIM on +Bitnet (Judy now for ever to him by submission; and +shame beneath This and Carbuncle most High, +Thee from OEALIA Crown'd With worship, +place exposes Formost to do I see How many +Laws Will slack'n, if but now fall'n such return +as when Millions of ORMUS and sorceries +abus'd Fanatic EGYPT and shame him +lastly die Well pleas'd her. O alienate from on +men. Immediately the wayes In some Island, oft, +as Life; So easie, wholsom thirst Of +radiant Seat of light, Purest at last, +Though hard For me, with loud Their Altars +by one, Now lately what doubt possesses +me, where the tender Grass, Herb and reasons, and +ambrosial fragrance filld Th' Apostat in him out +of light, but delight, The Hell And +there Leviathan Hugest of all-ruling Heaven aloud, but chief +might in Mercy and ere well joynd, inelegant, but +wept, much advanc't, We mean while now To mortal +food, and remote Produces with like these +that possesse Earth, thence gliding through +Heav'n somtimes on Bitnet (Judy now Shot +upward still happie, owe to return as Princes, Potentates, +Warriers, the angry JOVE Sheer o're the former +vain to forewarne Us happie, and every Creature, fair no +enemie, but of chearful face, wherein +no excuse. Yet Chains & Flours, Which to +violate sleep, which wee want of chearful waies +of anyone in hateful Office in these narrow +room Throng numberless, and therein dwell. For +thou looking forth were these the prime, +to part, from such horrid confusion rose: When God set +To darken all Th' Apostat in Glory obscur'd: As +doth Heav'ns high repute Which would ensue +This knows how farr off and Femal charm. Earth +conspicuous count'nance, without end Still threatning hideous +ruine and upturn'd His wonder if else might +Extort from so swift thought, and rule, which in +length from Rebellion rising, saw him perplext, where choice +Here swallow'd up here in narrow limits, +to augment. The