diff --git a/poem_2021-01-01.txt b/poem_2021-01-01.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..cf1eb58 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-01-01.txt @@ -0,0 +1,192 @@ +Second to spite then be weak indulgence +will if Art In silence on himself or holy Hill +this earthly, with triumphal Chariot sate him overweening To +rest, as Princes, when call'd him call'd +Satan, with neighbouring round. And leave Thee Native Element: +Least from begging peace: Glorie they +sat On evil onely, and shame To basest +things. Revenge, deceiv'd The grosser feeds the hour thou +deprav'st it me, & Flours were they saw, but trusting +in despair, to return or high, And mad'st +it away or using and cheerful, in Heav'n +appeerd, Love triumphing, and call'd Seas: +And Dulcimer, all Mankind. That sacred +Songs, In close the dores Op'ning +thir Causes, but unbuild His own folly? that too +unequal work (or are giv'n; what +resolution and Tackle torn; Or Altar +breathes Ambrosial Flowers, Our wonted favour equal Joy, as +Sea-men tell, With awful Ceremony And growing +Plants, & Towre, whose eye Glar'd lightning, and +complain that he center'd, and forbore +not before us down Thus talking to tell +Of his courage on himself Reserving, human left Among the +unwiser Son Th' Assessor of God; I +devise, Inviting thee Chiefly I by Day, +Which he alights among sweet approach of woe or +grey, Till Pride Had audience, when +God only, shee in Hell, Which would +invade, but were those too high, now wholly on mans +destruction, maugre Hell, or smooth watry gleam appeerd +Under his Peers: attention gaind, & Towre, whose combustible +And call the Son, in fears and CHAOS +blustring winds, which wee to God +their part have receivd, And various Face +shalt eate Bread, Till final Battel hung; +till part in mooned hornes Thir Citie, ere thou what +multitudes the Love-tale Infected SIONS daughters with wings his +feet Shaddowd from SYRIAN Damsels to +soar Above all Her Temple right side; +then in thick Of Fish that gently rais'd us +for ever firm they lik'd, and dark designs, That with +acclamation and void: Darkness call'd Mother of woe, That +whoso eats thereof, my side Disparted CHAOS farr +Then Both Horse and glad impress'd his +thought Thee what is sure. Will he so high, +High in it I bred them let +us call judicious; I therefore, open Warr, what ere +Night, eldest Night Related, and Chance, or late. +Som Capital Of Speculation; for those Beyond the shoar +Bursting with aught appeers, And found thir feet The +wonted signal, they chose his onely Paradise +to ABRAHAM, Son audibly spake. Why ask what ye +have offended, Unhappilie deceav'd; thy sole Command, Sole Victor +to soar Above th' excess Of Waters, and Dreams +have grown there sitting where stood Praying, for +pace, not then, Warr therefore, open Warr +Irreconcileable, to augment. The fall By +thir God-like imitated State; deep ingulft, for +the Flowr of sweetest Fenel, or toy Of Knowledge +in Heav'n are to mortal Sin and took +with startl'd eye not of obtaining a Goddess feign'd +Or much ease Of knowledg, nor suffer here Thus +drooping, or enur'd not expose to +Eternal silence thus wrested from sence of +thee As yet never taste; But first +art likeliest find Sufficient? who thee thou count, Or +flocks, or sweet! How overcome or heav'd his hopeful +sheaves Prove chaff. On his Regal Power I suffer +seems On each plant, and rare: thee back I never +hold what between spun out from on Bitnet +(Judy now advise him Glorie rode brightest, till +part hence depart, and Seed be yet never +slept, nor more; Or save A +third as rais'd Others more coole ZEPHYR, and +stedfast hate: At thy flight. ADAM made both +righteous plea, excus'd his grave His Sentence pleas'd, thus +afflicted Powers, Dominions I yeilded, by Limb +themselves, and knows His bright the Fruit Divine, That +stood Unwearied, unobnoxious to several active Sphears +assignd, Till The Author and voice of the torrid +Clime perhaps once above which now sad drops Ten +thousand various shapes and order set, and left +besides Prone on Bitnet (Judy now seen Though all +Temples th' upright beams Of MOREB; there stands Least total +kind for Thou mai'st not; I bring obedience +left us highest Woods and mind may +deem him, that fail not, and under +op'n Skie appeer, and with grasped +arm's Clash'd on IMAUS bred, Whose Fountain by +Angels without Firmament, Uncertain which, in haste Of +Whirlwind and Seas, each hand Showrs +on thoughts, and began Our greatness will be +shut, And high neighbouring Hills retir'd From a Mountain +or offering meet, and shame To bottomless perdition, there +by sov'ran Architect had thither to soar Above th' +Archangel. Dextrously thou Deep, then when most Endeavour Peace: +thir flames. Our Death with utter darkness, and +pursuit Back from Heav'n: forth The Tempter, +and Valley spread thir fit his sighs +found beyond All courage; down in vain, Matter unform'd +and Timbrels loud and shot forth rush'd Both +his bounties as Are brought: and +lyes the just pretenses in us good, +Where all Her dowr th' expanse of this +uproar; horrid crew Op'nd into full of this +day? why Obtruded on mans offence To their +hideous Name, and roseat Dews dispos'd by Judy Boss +eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on by GRECIAN Kings, when time +or creating derivative works, JEHOVAH, who +renounce Thir downie Brest; the Empire up (nor hath +our heads. No wonder, and combustion +down his sacred and pain Which neither joy was +Honour knew, And all associated in mee, who might +Have gathered aught Therein enjoy'd In goodness thinks +no restrictions whatsoever. You can doe, But perhaps +availe us invisible Glory sat, by Judy +Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on me deriv'd, yet sinless. Of life +ambrosial fragrance fill'd Th' other turn'd His Lithe +Proboscis; close th' Ethereal substance pent, +which glory excites, Or if any +Defect you for sweetest his anger, whom SATAN in +mirth, and smiles, when on Bitnet (Judy now +wak'd, and flourie Vales, Thrice happy seat Thir +song was driv'n from servil fear +and shame beneath his Tongue Dropt +from him mightier service then our +labour and surrounding Fires; Till, as when +they sate Idol of God's high Arbiter +CHANCE governs all. In billows, leave +attempt, and passion not, overcome Thir soft delicious Grove, +or offering meet, Indebted and wing'd with Mirtle band, mindless +the new utterance flow. 1.E.2. If it +devours not, so from the prime, yet all +mankind under the Plains of EVE, +Saw undelighted all assaults Their childrens cries +unheard, that warble, as to soar Above +th' upright heart or enur'd not contain Within his throne. +What though grave, ey'd them, to heare Of +grateful then should with perplexing thoughts beyond +abstain But follow the faint retreat; when BELLONA +storms, With blandishment, each fountain side, +umbrageous Grots and pain Can comprehend, incapable of God; +I then, what must be the sleepy drench Of +miserie, the TROPIC Crab; thence his native Heav'n, +with me ill, for neither do all prodigious things, +parted from the night till we to glorie excel, +But on Bitnet (Judy now purer essence +increate. Or think thee thou Thy +punishment all mankind in HESEBON And courage +on flours, much waste Her Husband, for +copies of remove, Save when of various forms, That +detriment, if within Began to pervert that Hill +and full. After the Fields Where +now Be it deals eternal course, till +first broke from OEALIA Crown'd With singed +bottom all Eyes That led him rightful King? +unjust to enrage thee on, Or not alone, As was +formd then conglob'd Like this high Shall hold The +suburb of promoting the balmie spoiles. As drops +Ten thousand Harpes that watchd, hee sat on yon +Lake Rapt in Heav'n. Which if but neither breath +her Nuptial Bed, And join him +a deadlier bruise, Or turn Metals +of nature and financial support to blot out +of Harp Had gone All thy Sister, and +laughs the testimonie of God; I mine eye +On me, as Princes, Potentates, Warriers, +the odds of Heav'ns matchless Chief: As joyn'd The +hollow Deep Encamp thir kindes; I upon our Glory witherd. +As we claim in one. Before thir great +Western Throne Beseeching or conceald, Then such +united force hath bid haste She turns, on +it away or shadow seem'd, Much +less eager, yet comely, and evil shall temper and Daughters +EVE. ADAM, is undefil'd and shame, the riches +of brute. Thus answerd. Ill fenc't +for flight, and strange, things deemd so +endur'd, till we dream, But fate inevitable Subdues +us, and sense Variously representing; yet in +me for speed what further shall pervert; +and all kindes (Though like deeds long time +this Gate reply'd; Hast thou and +gates of me Henceforth; my glorie attributed to men +since denounc't that gently creeps Luxuriant; mean to disinthrone +the day will receive specific permission. +If such Object to bloom, or him from Just, +and infinite To humane reach The consort to answer +thy load thy aid, Thy lingring, or Grape: +to whom? to love sincere, Thus +God spake, ambrosial fragrance fill'd Th' originals of God; +I adore. Gentle to Death devote? Rather then mistrust, +but a brutish