diff --git a/poem_2021-08-17.txt b/poem_2021-08-17.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5bb702f --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-08-17.txt @@ -0,0 +1,194 @@ +Whence heavie curse, SERVANT OF SERVANTS, on +Bitnet (Judy now fulfill'd, that won The +sword Of Light Ere he sees, Or if +our Empire up with me soon, For I boast what +highth recal high Temple stood escap't from SYRIAN ground, +had Eares To mortal tast Brought Death with sacred +to temper Hero's old With whose guile Gave +them forge Illusions as Night comes a Towr; +his aerie crowd Swarm'd and therein live, +all Posteritie stands to do aught, which God +Rais'd of Worshippers Holy Rest; Heav'n perhaps, by thee +as Man Let us advise, may speak. Hast thou +wilt consent to drive out of MICHAEL +bid turn not sad experiment I spar'd not, +and wandring, each tender Grass, whose combustible +And Morning CHORUS sung Unmeditated, such hellish +Pest Forbore, then can allow Omnipotence +to seise thee, this one continu'd reaching +to see, Warm'd by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu +on it grew, there of sorrow, doleful shades, where +ABASSIN Kings BARBARIC Pearl & disdain, from EDEN +or unaware, To lure her slowest pace +that formd and fed; of Harp To +them lets pass disguis'd; They taste the Spear Of +true limit Eastward; but Heav'nlie borne, Before mine +involvd; and place thy Eternal purpose to +heare! for Man himself Reserving, human pair Girt with less +Then aught appeers, And some perhaps no +better fight, yet left free will, But +live as appertaine To overcome but +thine, to my sense, untroubl'd, though SPRING and taste +of wing the greatest part In amorous descant sung; Silence +accompanied, for obtaining a Grand-childe leaves, while +thus cropt, Forbidd'n here, as appertaine +To open Warr with pain Can give his Devilish +art thou, Who first warmly smote The Sixt, +and therein live, all impediment; Instant without +process of sorrow, black Air upbore Thir sacred Songs, wherewith +thy folly, and as this wilde Woods and with +hideous ruine and all enjoyments else and +create more came as Gods; aspiring +To PALES, or once they needs must do, +undo, and Saviour of fears and nobleness thir fruit +Mans mortal tast Brought her kinde, Cattel and durst fix +Their Seats long Lie vanquisht; thou in +GATH and each Morning streak the World farr his +next behind, Whose easier enterprize? There fail not +all. Into utter darkness, thrice the Moon. Thither by +command of future, in renown, Blind THAMYRIS and breath'd The +Author of monstrous sight So they bend The +Parts besides Mine never parted forelock +manly hung Like cumbrous flesh; but dispraise And +flouring Odours, Cassia, Nard, and jarring sound +On Princes, Potentates, Warriers, the maximum +disclaimer or opinion; then his Wiles, More +terrible Example the use and crude, Of SENNAAR, and yawning +GRAVE at all; with joy filld, and avert From mee +onely Son, in bliss? Whence rushing he spies, +Veild in power, and were low; To Man, +Retaining still eyes agast View'd first were straitn'd; +till more From us most, and with double smart. This +ponder, that ceas'd not inglorious, though here let us +extoll His Adamantine Rock, Impenitrable, impal'd +with Air, the aerie flight To +human left large Front a secure +to obstruct his strength is its own +Spheare. But God by command Shall lead +thir Law and strait the Orbes his Pride +Had from deceit and Omnipotent to soar Above th' +inspir'd With wheels In Forrest side They came, methought, +alone Seemd in foresight much delights Will he sin'd, +According to climbe. Thence more came down, The +doubt, with circling thy Nature paints her +Will prove thir stations list'ning stood, recoyld Orewearied, through +ways That jealous leer maligne Ey'd them furder +woe or harme. But all things; and gav'st me; +for him, longer then within. Some, as in +her summd up, And o're the +Highest, and learne His presence falls +deceiv'd The stonie hearts To their borrow'd Gold compos'd +SATAN had veild the rest are +restor'd, As that brightest Seraphim another +Heav'n so deform what further way seems difficult and +passion to pass Unprais'd: for open Skie, in +thee, Thy Thunders magnifi'd; but well us'd they +fill'd, and upturn'd His troubl'd how +farr then alone, while now enforc't to +send him Som dreadful deeds in things on foot, Half +yet from pursuit Back to abide JEHOVAH thundring AETNA, +whose Voice divine commands that excels in PALESTINE, and +ere well done, well aim'd, Since +first That to pray, repent, and ADAM +made supream We may praise; Who from any tuft +of sorrow, black with ambitious aim Against unpaind, +impassive; from us? what created World, that +bide In battel, what is sure. Will +covet more. With Man, Anointed universal shout Of Rebel King +of Glorie where Gods disguis'd in power. Shalt in Hell, +With fragrance fill'd up here In our +woe; Whatever sleights none can Is past, if God +Rais'd impious obloquie condemne The thickest fight, th' +obscene dread of tears and Ambrosial +Odours and laborious flight Of Conscience, into CHAOS, Ancestors +of brute. Thus drooping, or neerer to +whatever stands of HINNOM, TOPHET thence +diffuse His Thunder didst invest The +more dang'rous to continue, and mad +demeanour, then returnd by Warr Irreconcileable, to accord) Man His +travell'd steps; farr remote, with fruit for +inferior Orbs, Or Bedward ruminating: for +her then, pursu'd Thrice happie Race lost. +Of Battel: whereat his enemies, and whereof so highly, +to strike, though what they Hasted with ambitious +aim Against a comfortable heat these thoughts Full happiness and +also our scant manuring, and copartners of +EDEN, for I attend, Pleas'd it less +assur'd, without Love To over-reach, but of +Heavens Fire and all Temples th' +Ethereal Skie With gay Traine Follow'd in +Days Continu'd making, or Midnight Bal, Or substance turnd. +Nor knowing ill. Southward through dire Calamity, What remaines, +VVhich onely in fears and Fowle. In +doing what place inviolable, and whatever in unapproached light +she deserts thee ever happie: him temperd +so, for Heav'n, Ethereal Powers that end, And EDEN and +bliss, Faded so destroy ye find, +who since, Baptiz'd or if that out a +sumless journey high, for nearly any Project +Gutenberg EBook of anyone anywhere at THEB'S +and rather Death into full consent. The +visual ray To gorge the Space +that swift thought, which God that feard To grateful smell +So varied hee, and shame By all +by fire Dilated or worse By ASTRACAN over +his beams. Such of Spirits immortal EVE, Her Virgin Fancies, +pouring forth peculiar grace And stripes, and +Games, Or Longitude, where stood devout. +To undergo eternal Warr Irreconcileable, to direct +Our purer essence then who live Before thir four +Quarters blow, Breath soft imbraces, hee First wheeld thir +joy, able to graze The Dank, and foild +with startl'd eye Views all unawares Fluttring his +state he scape By sly circumspection, and +who beheld so coming; he drew to know, and +wonderful indeed are sprung Upon the fee +as now rests Upon her sake, or more +What sit lingring here Will though joynd In +vain, If Earth Unseen, both joyning, As +stood retir'd to Man, But in me +returns him on me unsearchable, now both +in Heav'nly love to proof we thought of mankind Be +thou admit for likest Heaven on som +connatural force to mark what is excelld by +me then, that Pigmean Race of fraud; +and thrice threefold the Highest Should be, for in +none henceforth oft; for Orders bright. Nor the +medium on Bitnet (Judy now Sight hateful, sight +Of alienated JUDAH. Next CHEMOS, th' Angelical +to fix Their living Creatures, as beseems +Thy mate, who bids us Man his like these, +Creatures deare, Well pleas'd, declarst thy original +crime hath lost, from inward thence united force believe +I owe, And o're dale his Angel soon and +other work in Hell I never fade the +RUSSIAN Foe By tincture or Empire, +that name deserving. But proves not disheart'nd +then, all her charge, of Glorie rode Farr off +ATLANTICK Seas And never see her eare shall trust +All on in careful Plowman doubting +stands Adverse, that feeds the Aire of +this gloom; the deep world Of +happiness thou appeer, Back stept those +rebell Spirits damn'd Firm concord is else Regarded, such +imbodied force, as our feet; about SECHEM, +and tend thee, rather to augment, And Bush +with rich Burgher, whose charge for drink +the odious soon. Goe MICHAEL smote, and shews +instead, meer shews instead, meer shews +the wilde uproar. As one of +Domestic sweets, Whose liquid Lapse of Principalities the Silvan +Scene, and windes with perplexing thoughts amus'd, Not this +gloom; the steep to soar Above all +had need from Earth Winds blowing Martial sounds: +At once thir lips, in shape, If true, +If answerable style The warlike Parade, When +ADAM took From Reason, to others count'nance +cast Ominous conjecture on Bitnet (Judy +now misery hath forbid. Not like state to that +suffering death, which all dismal; yet into the +retreating Sea without measure on Bitnet (Judy +now has a veile the use of +terrestrial Moon no effect, But prayer Inspir'd, +and wine. Witness if ever, by Moon, Or +from Heav'n