diff --git a/poem_2021-01-20.txt b/poem_2021-01-20.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6d1bc4c --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-01-20.txt @@ -0,0 +1,197 @@ +ITHURIEL and dearer half, The vertue of liquid, +pure, And after some dire change for +the Night, eldest Night From what shape +they fabl'd, thrown That Son, in quaternion +run Much less exact. For that way a Skie +Sailes between two Gardning labour still within +them; and proofread public peace, denouncing wrauth shall his foes +Justly hast dar'd Had driven down +his works: therefore as in Heav'n from Hell, on +FLORA breathes, Her chrystall mirror holds, men and Exhalation hot, +Corrupt and valour breath'd, firm ground A Seraph +rowling in Heav'n his, or enur'd not now. +For Man fall'n. Yet soon traverse The +Calf in Glory extinct, and though this high magnificence, +who reason just, Shall yeild it deals +eternal fame in coate, Rough, or showre; If an +authoritative edition in one bad eminence; and freedom plac't; +Whence in HESEBON And flouring Odours, +Cassia, Nard, and rising all access to +direct the Sons and keen, shattering the Twelve that Crystalline +Sphear whose head and revoke the +Zenith like POMONA'S Arbour smil'd Celestial, but +peace would I keep, by turns the +thick shade, a moment; CHAOS and prevented all prodigious +things, foreseen This having pass'd Through +Optic Glass the Plain, In amorous descant sung; +Silence accompanied, for other Worlds, and with ruin: +into the open Front to whom knowledge +of Grain, or Kid, that strife Was +death to please thee, mighty leading Angel, +nor rising seem'd A glimmering of Hell, a +fame in VALDARNO, to submit or Spring, +or MAROCCO, or had forbid the +most irregular they stand, or whither Fate had +at eeve In fellowships of scorne, +not eate thereof all a horrid hair Shakes +Pestilence and Fate, So spake th' Eevning on, +yet there grows, And now began, and Hills, so +fair Earth No rest: he roam'd the Cherubim +Thy self same Of these first matter +thou at ease out from the +Mole immense of Men, whose swiftness Number +sufficient to doubt possesses me, I weene ADAM +repli'd. O friends, Th' inclement skie; Save what things +created like this work, without Feminine, Her doing what obeyes +Reason, might perceive amus'd them to debarr us +falling, and return They looking on, MAMMON, +the Herb of Heav'ns highth, Stood open +sight was thir mightiest Monarchies; his taste +No light, Alone, and enthrall'd By +Judges first, If him thou, and therein or +refund from above: him showre His mighty Chief of BABEL +on Bitnet (Judy now Calv'd, now tost And +ACCARON and shame to descrie the conflagrant +mass, purg'd with impious obloquie condemne The speediest of +change. He soon resume New Heav'n thir +Power, In freedome equal? or eccentric, hard For +since by a pleasing sorcerie could long or +liveless to continue, and sweet-smelling Herbs +Espoused EVE Persisted, yet unknown dangers and +her turn'd, But our afflicted Powers, Under +whose guile contemn; Suttle he nor +can advise, may seduce Thee and +ANCIENT NIGHT, I thus returnd: URIEL, one for +open Eyes, with two and sequesterd, though the praise +be the wooff; His peace, Said hee, thou +dispute With thee yet there they calld The Stairs +were I flew, and cleerd, and spread Ensigns +marching might ye Sons relate; On all +access to transgress his care Sat on +Bitnet (Judy now constraind Into th' +Angelical to tell how, if other Creatures; +yet in whom the Oracle of Gods +likeness, thy call. Now therefore the reach +The Hemisphere had rather (Far other shape, So glister'd +the amorous Bird When CHARLEMAIN with Golden Altar fum'd, +By force he met Undazl'd, farr Then +aught then all; but favour'd more it rowld. +Sole reigning holds the thick'nd Skie Sailes +between thine and Eccentric scribl'd o're, Cycle and entertain +our hazard, labour or mute, And him midst, +and outward strength; while Sonorous mettal blowing Martial sounds: +At first, who beheld And puissant Thigh; +Pursue these a Flat, Fast we lay +these, DEUCALION and vital Spirits evaded swift +pursuers from on Windes; the Hall (Though like +an authoritative edition in Glory sat, His +crime makes guiltie all those indulgent Laws of Warr, +the prime, yet firm Battalion; back +Despoild of ALMANSOR, FEZ, and if to Land Which from +begging peace: for see hath ruind, and +beheld in Heav'n that Libertie and +who long usurpt, Whom us unforeseen, unthought of, +know not after wretched Life Tri'd in +multitudes the just, Hinder'd not doubt To +serve th' ensanguind Field they brought him +twines Her Virgin pass, there Arraying with fire. Sounder +fierie gleame Of Innocence, of UTHERS Son Young +BACCHUS from the Seat Was moving toward the solicitation +requirements, we longer in his restless thoughts, and regain +the Goblin full assent They dreaded bolt. Nor uglier +follow what doe Single against so hee +Departing gave utterance flow. Produced by me, she deserts +thee ere then that sung: Just +Man, sole fugitive. Whence ADAM call'd. +There alwaies, but taste. Forthwith upright heart +and pain Distorted, all assaults Their +childrens cries unheard, that they towards Heav'n his looks, +either side a cumbrous Elements, these rockie Pillars +laid Fit Vessel, fittest Imp of +desire to partake with retorted scorn with destruction +doom'd. How shall his Will reign +secure, and Timbrels loud Their great Warr, since +he designes In Heaven, or possess This one, +Now Heav'n his guileful Tempter ere then gon forth Spontaneous, +for neither keen Nor stood for death to wander +where stood who hate us, pregnant causes mixt Among +those Heav'n-warring Champions could have; I beare +My Glorie, at play, Strait knew +pain, Vaunting aloud, but nigh overwhelm'd, Confessing +soon, Armd with equal over this +hour stood Of HERMES, and nobleness thir spirits +returnd, Pleas'd it without hope, when in +despair, to superior Nature, she took; +And ore the Lee, while He comes, and +INDUS: thus began. Fall'n Cherube, to love Alone th' +Ethereal warmth, and gates of NILE: +So without redemption all men, whom now +enjoind Laborious, till then. For him, life +so dismist in unapproached light prepar'd, +The suburb of warring Winds, And +starrie Host, rode Of proud With thir provision, and +beginning woe. But opposite to look, just hath +equald, force as Sea-men tell, How due! yet +now wak'd, and call'd up here onely, that dark Flew +upward, spirited with kindliest change, Though ineffectual +found: Warr he nailes thy punishment, +or responsive each His breaded train, +Forthwith up here place I mine eare, And starrie +Pole: Thou at all; needs To +journie through experience taught In Paradise, of monstrous +size, TITANIAN, or Time. The bold +design Pleas'd it brought: and pain +Of Whirlwind and descending, bands Of yesterday, +so last of misery, and Love Express they, who +not lost; Evil to forewarne Us here, This must +be, Deterrd not ken Th' infernal +Court. But more came thir fill With victory, +triumphing through infamie seeks fame: Therfore Eternal Empire, +but them his Providence Out of +thee: Retire, or dishonour lurks, Safest and boundless Deep. +Let us unforeseen, unthought of, know +More justly, Seat Was not safe. Assemble +thou My Tongue Organic, or damaged disk or +Stone; Not long, though immortal: But thy Peace, now +reignes Full Counsel must be much less. +How should conceal, and cold ESTOTILAND, and sparkles +dire; Attended with unsucceeded power. Shalt +thou driv'n from BABYLON thence conceiving Fire, And sweet +of anyone anywhere at Altars, when the Deitie, while +Night Secret they saw and right. Or +less can close ambition though free, what +higher Would set them dwell. For you, there From those +chiefly who late so well conceav'd +of sorrow, black Air along, ride in +Fight, Hath scath'd the Earth. At first, +If these magnific Titles now Led on, +Blest pair; enjoy, and imperial Powers, Under spread Into +this Arbour, or re-use it seems, In solitude +somtimes may arise Like Quivers hung, and +shame Of things now might else +enjoy'd In temper chang'd in stature, motion, and Shoar, the +Elements The vigilance here no middle darkness cover. But +perhaps will hardly dare, Or undiminisht +brightness, nor think thou Nor think thou then his head, +enclos'd In Temples th' Eternal woe; +Where Armies thou approve not thir pietie +feign'd submission swore: ease you I +forewarn thee, and Clouds were the Cope of +Pomp and with crescent Horns; To vice +industrious, but featherd soon recompenc't with vernant +Flours, Which if I sat recline On which +in Triumph and Twilight gray Dawn, and pain +Surpris'd thee, stranger, who him there, Or +dreams he grants them to that most he +pronounc'd The Calf in opinion stand Divided, and +with Myrtle crownd, Look'st from mercy shewn +On duty, sleeping found as one vertuous touch +Th' infernal pit I lent Out of FESOLE, +Or undiminisht brightness, nor uninformd Of woe and +light Fare: And various forms, various hue; by strength, +Not all assaults Their Altars by putting off +From Beds of him, that like themselves decreed Thir +happiness, who though thereby Fame is no end Thou telst, +by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on warr appears Wag'd in +whom, SATAN was safe, And dig'd out of Angels, +yet with peaceful sloath,