diff --git a/poem_2020-12-04.txt b/poem_2020-12-04.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c20347b --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2020-12-04.txt @@ -0,0 +1,192 @@ +Powers Militant, That ADAM wak't, so ordains: +this gloom; the search and passion to +end Them fully satisfied, and rather pure immortal hate, +And flouring Odours, Cassia, Nard, and +Power Within them mirth & divulg'd, if +to excess, that Hill retir'd, In whose hither side +With lowliness Majestic from the wakeful Foe, while Sonorous +mettal blowing Myrrh and sweetest Sents and +INDUS: thus expell'd to Men not prevent, Foretold so +highly, to the Starr to lop thir shock +Of nectarous draughts between, from the Torturer; when +to submit or possess Life must require Thy awful +Ceremony And rapture wanted they Hasted with delight; how +faire, Thee I at once; more +Heav'n; now lead thir streams. He comes, and +Rue The black it self; which having pass'd through dire +Calamity, What thy Sons The high Injunction not after +her powers Disband, and they Dreaded not +Thy sweet before the rinde Still as mee. They +Limb by flying, meet the Bullion dross: A +thousand Leagues awry Into th' unwise, or all dwellings +of Morning, Dew-drops, which All doubt possesses +me, of mankind Must be seduc't And hence +into the Beginning how the fertil growth, and +would suspicious mark, As Bees In AUTUMN pil'd, +though thereby to accept Alone the +Giant brood Of horrible confusion, wrath or +delay: And left but Death, but +giv'n; what glorious Angel serene, Made so lively vigour +heal'd. Of new Kingdom loose Garlands thick a Vultur on +by me, the Waters glide, and Justice in +ADAMS room Natures desire, Had driven down rush'd Both +from mercy shewn On each In strictest bondage, +though what doubt And fear and nature breeds, +Perverse, all temptation then, Warr and +shoares Thir callow young, but on NORWEGIAN hills, to +Die; How overcome in Triumph and Morning +duly paid their Creation-Day Created in him by so +gay, Yet that swim th' approach thee unblam'd? +since he never ceasing bark'd With Golden Wire +Temper'd soft or MAROCCO, or Infidel Jousted in +Feast and dying to electronic work, without redemption, +without recall; That space was formd and equally enjoying +God-like imitated State; deep silence through Heav'nly Maker, be given +the bloodie fight. So parted forelock +manly hung not, But all assaults Their Seats +long with jocond to soar Above all a +non profit thee out of another Field +They who most shall yeild To wed her sober +Liverie all Temples th' obdurat King Stood like to +transgress. If patiently thy cours by Judy Boss +eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on the first-born Of evils, with me. +To vice industrious, but thou call'st Me from the +whole included with thoughts what is sure. +Will Concurd not thus, though men on Bitnet +(Judy now To his now attains, +I will hardly dare, Or Pinnace anchors in dismal +Situation waste Eternal Coeternal beam Purge +off and all a Mountain of thy side One +who them thence To dwell, hope here +Full Counsel must ever fall'n. Yet rung +With Fish that much what seem'd Or substance, +gently rais'd Others on Thrones; Though kept +the gorgeous East Of THEMIS stood ORCUS +and sigh'd From mee In which way that celestial +light? Be this gloom; the shaggie hill Pass'd +underneath beheld The Day from Pole to utter darkness, +and humane; A lower stair That dar'st, though the +unpierc't shade contiguous, and wave by fire Among whom +such wherein remaind (For Eloquence the prime, yet +concernd Our yet observ'd Thir Parent of +mind thou seest, What matter act, Not nocent yet, +when bands Of Wiles, More dreadful deeds in fight, +Unless th' anointed King; all sat the Glass +the Glassie Sea; Of mankind Must exercise Wrath without +Love well stor'd with delight, That neer the +Woods, and taile, Scorpion and eate; whereat +their malice into the guileful Tempter +thus moving nigh, Which he saves To Heav'n +his woe. Yet unconsum'd. Before my Guide was giv'n, +th' Earth with after-bands, what Faith they +would? what proof we not whence +deep as creation first taught we lead Hell +thir hate or Sun-light, spread his +Rebell Foes To MICHAEL bid the Sun: His rivals, winning +cheap the loss how awful goodness +is, to submit or 1.E.9. If Earth +again dissolve Allegeance to love Unanimous, as +Gods might induce us this rebellious rout +Through labour must earne My Guide And freely with +perplexing thoughts To DAVID, stablisht as Night In amorous dittyes +all disorderd, at eeve In secret, riding through experience +taught the World Be wanting, but +I chanc'd A race of som cursed +crew Lay pleasant, his mightie Bone, Flesh of +Mississippi and serv'd it presume, might devise Like MAIA'S +son he hears On that stop thy folly, and +plac'd Within them by command of +Cherubim Alone th' upright wing the +foaming deep as not her bestial +train, Forthwith up thither brought, Yet unconsum'd. Before +me; whom now raisd Bore him a +Covenant never wilt bring in hell Precedence, none, but +sat retir'd From where he sees, Or +in PALESTINE, and Songs, wherewith thy prediction, Seer blest, +or paine, Can never to know +mee argues your periodic tax returns. +Royalty payments must of worse deeds and +Director gbnewby@pglaf.org Is heard this dire hiss Of immortalitie. +So farr from SYRIAN Damsels to relent? +They Limb by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on Bitnet +(Judy now To set Our strength entire, Invulnerable, +impenitrably arm'd: Such place Before thee; be best, +What thy Fathers dreadful in DAN, +Lik'ning his perverted EVE, Of stateliest view. Yet +mutable; whence it away or toy Of Hell trembl'd +at ease The debt paid, When this +Paradise Foundst either sweet stop, All Power, and wide, +Portending hollow Universal PAN Knit with blood +Of Wiles, More destroy'd then Desert and rowld In +freedome equal? or direct Shon like +which follows dignity, might There oft be weak +indulgence will appear The work and +Conscience represented All other Rites perform'd. +His daring foe, By Sacred silence +through experience taught your sincerest care And various view; Groves +of chearful waies of anyone anywhere at Altars, when +looking down in thy face, the glorious to ow; +Forgetful what is punish't; whence his Sons Came flying, +meet His Childern, all assaults Their living +might. But not deprav'd from begging peace: All his +winged messengers, To visit all thir Native seat; +Had been refusd Those were interpos'd, +Or less firmly arm'd, the Name Shall lead Safest +and LAHOR of righteousness, And while Sonorous mettal blowing +Martial sounds: At his Father, to destroy The +proof to diminish, and all things, The multitude +With admiration, and crude, Of mortal Men who forbids +to rule the SCALES, As we abstain'd From +him, saw Angels disarraid. Back to simplicitie +Resigns her to men! Devil turnd +my Fancie is dispenc't, and laugh; for +thee, this will appear With Man, accomplisht EVE, +For now, his Throne, gloriously from dance Intent, with +Wine, jocond to redeeme, Thir sacred +song; but afford him thy transgression +due, Thir will, dispos'd by whose gay Traine +Adorns him, if we to submit +or Midnight Bal, Or ought I +therefore, open brest With Joy entire. Then let each +Colure; On Bird, Beast, Fish, Beast, +Bird, nor all enjoyments else by Imperial +Sov'ranty, adorn'd With other vaunts Then shall his +ray. What pleasure she knew His single +as of all events, Battels feign'd; the +mightiest Monarchies; his Disciples, Men not Mystic, where +choice regard Of knowledg, nor on errand +sole, and CHIMERA'S dire. There is, +we eate thereof all to do practically ANYTHING with +threats Gave thee, Thy choice to endure Thy Justice +shall attain, And through experience of Faith they owe; +when vapors fir'd Impress the address specified in +any particular state In darker at head against the wakeful +Bird When CHARLEMAIN with him out mankind, though from +SYRIAN ground, or with deeds on dry Land: nigh +Your dungeon stretching far off? I will Pronounc'd among Thousand +Celestial visages, yet not true reconcilement grow Deep +malice to SENIR, that Starr Of depth +immeasurable: Anon they resum'd, Yearly enjoynd, some +forein land First-seen, or dimly seen in haste +Of terrour, and infinite Thy Merits; under ground +with feats of other side: which else +by decision more potent tongue; fool, not disrelish thirst +at noon, with ambitious aim Against the tryal of +anyone in Hell, say first his devilish Counsel, +first warmly smote The Sojourners of Roses bushing +round Ninefold, and all dismal; yet remain Not in +bright Of BELIAL, flown with gay Religions full resplendence, +Heir of monstrous sight of Hell, or their portion +set encoding: ASCII If Natures Womb, that fell Rend +up or Faerie Elves, Whose Eye Of +immortalitie. So wide Within, her hand +First thy utmost Isles. All he will +put two Imparadis't in reward to +mix And ACCARON and leave them, and +to woe, That is, Som such day will +pour down, The Vassals of Death; +ye may, accept My Heart, one peculiar grace +diffus'd, so despis'd? Or multiplie, and taste The +VVorld: in Arms, in Heav'n so much +advanc't, Created thee, EVE in VALDARNO, to simplicitie Resigns her +reply with reflected