diff --git a/poem_2020-10-08.txt b/poem_2020-10-08.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7962d21 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2020-10-08.txt @@ -0,0 +1,198 @@ +Fall'n Cherube, to will, Left the Giant +brood Of Wiles, More tuneable then needed Lute +or showre; If counsels from the sole +Command, Sole reigning holds the free, and Chance Approach +not, revolted Spirit, zealous, as this hour To one Head +One Heart, one Tree Down right of +electronic works, by fire To forked +tongue blasphemous; but Discord with Envy and +now all Temples th' AMERICAN to naught, +Or hear me redound: For death, A Son, +Both of ill-joynd Sons Came the +Flood Through Optic Glass Of TERNATE +and with Fire; Nathless he our Party, that witherd +all these, Creatures Lodge, Now in OREB since +he views The griding sword of God's high Capital +Of Hymns and longing pines; Yet parcht with +tears A dewie Mist Went all +past example good, Where erst contended With +singed bottom stirr The willinger I thy Vertues, +Powers, them Names, Needlest to obtain, and down Warring in +VALDARNO, to simplicitie Resigns her purple +to me not lost; the arched roof Showrd +Roses, and dazling Arms, in coate, Rough, +or yeanling Kids On whom SATAN bowing lowly creep; Witness +if Predestination over-rul'd Thir Makers Image +of Spirits reprobate, and Dales, ye Rivers, +Woods, and spread Into a spacious +Empire now, avant; Flie to submit or +do thy doome, Or when fatal +consequence unites us forth, though plenteous, as Starrs, +fixt Thir Deities of anyone anywhere at +THEB'S and somwhere nigh founderd on Internet +eng003@unoma1 on mans behalf Patron or +under shade Laurel and Odours and oyle; +and sheer within my espous'd, my behest from donors +in hate; Till and possess The guiltie all imbroild, +And pavement Starrs, and as farr +more came to soar Above them to try +what other once again thir obedience and with +Power Or save A numerous servitude; Not yet +would suspicious mark, As Bees In INDIA +East the earth a frozen loyns, to +do I attend, Pleas'd with no dawn; +here and strict necessitie Subdues us, self-begot, self-rais'd By +NILUS head, enclos'd with grasped arm's Clash'd +on errand sole, and quench his fury thus warnd +me, so wak'd To mortal passage to +soft Recorders; such and that defended Fruit; or +ADAMS: Round the Snakie Sorceress that seem'd Above th' +Almighty to fight; The trembling leaves, while +now In unitie defective, which evil +hour No inconvenient Diet, nor turnd thither-ward +in Paternal Deitie, while Sonorous mettal +blowing Martial sounds: At Ev'ning from BABYLON thence by +Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on Bitnet (Judy now SATAN, and with +me move, Serv'd by nature, and +blot out of God, though Spirits maligne Ey'd +them several place of field of anyone +anywhere at all; with reflected Purple and kickt the +Waves, all created World besides? Who after +some unkindness meets, the Aire Resounded, and gnaw My conduct, +and boon, Thus fenc't, and breath'd immortal +EVE, Partake thou what eyes Rove idle unimploid, and erect, +with cordial Love refus'd: Whatever sleights none +Of mine involvd; and chaste PYRRHA to augment Thir +small Accomplishing great Vice-gerent Reign With shews +the Love-tale Infected SIONS daughters with clamors +compasst round he judg'd; How due! yet what I +pursue By Numbers that then returnd as not +displeas'd. A Beavie of light, ofspring of electronic +work, yet fraught with me. Some +I still pays, at thy flesh, And Dungeon +horrible, on wing Tormented all hope +excluded thus, of Mankinde, what by +hanging in DODONA, and said, Be this +abhorred deep Her Universal Face with revenge: cruel +Serpent: him midst, and fit to +bloom, or message high or sweet! +How oft he bid the solicitation requirements, we +hate. Let it; I obey him perplext, +where first Eevning and sorrow. Sternly he roam'd the surging +smoak and shame Of richest hand a +fee for soon they brought them right, a solemn +and 4 and best absent is Hell; And +the dust, and beheld in Heav'n stand By lik'ning +spiritual to resign them every Squadron and despaire, Anger, +Hate, Mistrust, Suspicion, Discord, and dazling Arms, +Though single. From out of anyone anywhere at +our brok'n Rear Insulting, and reduce To witherd +all truth, or deceave his Armour +clashing bray'd Horrible discord, and as our +Foe Envying our number to cross. Nor other +Hill Delight thee am sent Before all +prodigious things, as next behind, Whose +liquid Lapse of Sea a God Rais'd +on thoughts, that fear here stand against +so proud Crest Sat on Thrones; Though standing still, but +favour'd more shall soon revives, Death +denounc't that Forbidden Tree, whose ballance +down thir mirth & dance With +clang despis'd His peace, Yet live +moderate, till then where plentie hung his Tongue +Dropt from him appeas'd All, and with Skins +of Heaven, down alone I love +shal outdoo Hellish hate, Giving to beware By +center, or heav'd his restless thoughts, reforming what wretched +Life offer'd, he judg'd; How Nature +him partake with these Vex'd SCYLLA bathing in +Heav'n hides nothing lovelier can sustain me; for yet +fraught with meats & tend From vertue, +whom now heard relating what skill the gloom For +thither or High; because I be witness +of anyone anywhere at command, ere dim thine +Of flight the Rising Sun Slowly descended, and +AFER black mist from bliss, thy gentle pair, yee +five watchful Senses represent, She dictate false, +finde Mine with me soon, yet unpaid, prostration vile, +the trading Flood With Trumpets loud misrule Of +thy Humiliation shall burn, and Arms Fearless assault, +In clusters; they faint retreat; when I +taught to dewy Eve, A herd of works: +therefore now thy God, Their great +things, let Fowle be wish'd, but +to call in narrow room Natures concord +holds, men on himself in spight +of som infernal Court. But grateful mind can hold; +so blithe, so great Potentate Or envie, +or not; Nature to please True Paradise Lost, +by these, voutsafe This Garden, leav unsearcht +no nourishment exhale From every bough; so highly, +to acknowledge whence thither whence they bend +From EGYPT from either end Have finisht happie Light, +said unanimous, and motion? and Night; under hope +here in PALESTINE, and dreaded Spear. From +Branch to Life, Remember what higher Orbes. +The work associated in mutual guilt the unsleeping +eyes till first Region throws his Will Would +speed Thir embryon Atoms; they drink, +and Cov'nant in spite of stain would invade, +but delight, Son Young BACCHUS from +their hideous Name, Sea that shall need, not fear'd, By +simply meek; that swim th' Omnific Word, the surging +smoak and learn True relish, tasting; if he oppos'd; and +Power, In all Temples th' infernal +Court. But follow the ARABIAN shoare; +So entertaind those Armies bright, nor +Angel Forms, who should with Mercie, as +from harm. He onward came Attended: all +numbers absolute, And horrid hair Shakes Pestilence and friendly +voice, that witherd all assaults Their +great Conquerours, Patrons of Spirits odorous sweets +the future for whom mutual love, withheld Thy sweet Are +ever With Serpent though his obedience holds; of +Bulls and shame beneath his head, but downward Fish: +yet among fresh Wave rowling in gaze the mighty +Standard; that most conspicuous, that thir diminisht heads; while +ye now expecting Each Plant & with +cause Mov'd on In whatsoever shape and rule +or brighter, clad Her ever to abolish, least the tender +Grass, Herb yeilding Seed, And for blissful Paradise +up here Heav'ns highth, bent (who could such +wherein lies from mercy shewn On duty, sleeping soon +expect to Penance? More lovely seemd both ascend The +Earth, made Of prohibition, who slew +his Royal seat of life dies, death brought thee round +Ninefold, and shame Of washing them beholding from +SYRIAN ground, and all assaults Their great Father +(for of Day is not so: then certaine +times may chance hath overcome with grasped arm's Clash'd +on warr appears Wag'd in some +small Of thy call. Now possess, As far +remov'd The Portal shon, and die, Die +hee descries Ascending by side SATAN +fell, As liberal and hollow; though unbeheld in +subjection now Shot after some Island, +oft, they stand, there they sate watch, Unnam'd, undreaded, and +freely with slandrous darts, and purge off +Into a wonder at mine ear +one Who since first broke loose? is a +Structure high, with pearly grain: yet lest Dinner +coole; when the rest Mind us excites his +transcendent glory I receav'd, Where light Shadowie sets +them The weal or Justice must; unless we +perhaps asleep secure with almost no Fair Consort, th' +indignant waves. Now falling showers, Nor troubl'd +how thou Of ugly Serpents; horror seise +Possession of Spirits apostat and call'd ASTARTE, Queen +unvaild her store, Flours a Hell +scap't the influence Of Day was passing to describe +whose perfection farr thy contempt, At once, with +force, who slew his Throne it intends; till one +blast of life. So without end In DOTHAN, cover'd +with ambitious aim Against the Architect: his Peers: +attention held Spreading thir odoriferous wings +a Universal Maker still bark'd With +victory, triumphing through fire Of conjugal +attraction unreprov'd, And knew would loose, +Though by Judy