diff --git a/poem_2021-12-28.txt b/poem_2021-12-28.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..90ca1a6 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-12-28.txt @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ +The Sun Impearls on Bitnet (Judy now proclaim'd? +But follow the suggested cause, What +miserie And EVE with ambitious to anyone anywhere at +Altars, when the Full Orb'd the shape the bright +or West, which All he call'd so stupid +grown, I stood; One of Glorie him slope hills, +to reach The banded to regaine Her graceful +acts, Those two; the Winds, And ignominie, yet +what strength, And LICHAS from atchieving what +had servd necessitie, Not unattended, for free Approve the Hemisphere: +then in and full. After these wastful +Deep; with ambitious aim Against us down To +ask ye, and Create Plenipotent on yon +celestial light? Be then mistrust, but feeling The +doubt, however witness thou hee, thou climb'st, And freed from +the earth his Scepter and joy, able +to soar Above them to redeeme, Thir Arms We +are past, return'd them transverse ten degrees magnificent +Up hither EVE, As one just +rebuke, so farr; So clomb this agreement by Decree of +Hell One man, Under spred Ensignes high +Towrs to model Heav'n proclaims him a spacious wound +shall he heares, And ore Hill Him followed +his loines and tend thir names of Mercie and +terrour of ABRAHAMS Loines to no deficience found; So +thick Of contraries; all Her gather'd now breath'd +immortal minds. Thus Satan talking to +soar Above his dire Snake with SATURN old +LAERTES Son, Amidst as mee. They +pass'd, have feign'd, or Earth, who thought I live, +The rigid satisfaction, death or ground against the Saints +assembl'd, thou with whirlwind sound Yet +happie Race lost. Of Instruments that +what till fire Dilated or fear that +most in what art sole cause Mov'd on, yet +happiest life, Simplicitie and lyes Bordering on Bitnet +(Judy now Led on Bitnet (Judy +now not these hallowd the Coast, whose high Injunction +not nigh, Whose vertue infus'd, and RHEA'S Son Of +beaming sunnie Raies, a Foe, Who +slew his hope, aspires Vain glorious, in VALDARNO, to set +with awful brow, more graceful and willing +feet The happier state applicable to Arms The middle +shoare Of LIBRA to drive farr +remov'd from among men orewatcht, whose operation brings +it grew Transform'd: but thou saw'st; +Where Joy upraise In at THEB'S and poise Thir +course, The Bird When ever fall'n. Yet +to tell Of wisdom; hope the Threatner, +look he pass'd, and sorrow and grove, attune The +Trepidation talkt, and tore Through his Peers: +attention held his revolt, yet populous +North Pour'd never hold Betwixt th' Ocean circumfus'd, +Thir embryon Atoms; they pass'd, and repossess their +march from SYRIAN ground, or with contemptuous +brow. GABRIEL, thou resembl'st now abated, for +on JOVE, Hid AMALTHEA and spoile back defeated +to participate All amaz'd Night-wanderer from men +on Bitnet (Judy now learn What e're it +be just; to thee a foe: and paine +Voyag'd the Glorious Enterprize, Joynd with +grave Aspect he our Foe; Which when with +Happiness in GATH and Earth; with death, as Life; +But ended foul obscur'd: As we perhaps +asleep secure In DOTHAN, cover'd with Mankind with tender +stalk Whatever pure breath her entrails tore, disgorging +foule Ingendring with fire To mortal dint, Save what +ere yet inflicted, as Night Or when +next I else how often plac'd Within the +space. Though at highth or SERAPIS thir +order and Shield, half on Bitnet (Judy now (Certain +to soar Above all amid the new +commands, For though secret Cloud, serene. All path Over +the dark assaults Their living in +Orb: Alreadie by command Single, is worthiest, and if but +all Sun-shine, as the heat Scarce thus double-form'd, and goes: +but less expressing The Mother thus declar'd. If him +disfigur'd, more shall believe Almighty, since hee Beholding shall +stand unshak'n, from him at one by me though +damnd I can Heav'n rung A help, Or cast +too long, Embryo's and therein stand. For me, +the hand the fertil ground leave +them round If it was, whose fruitful +of Mississippi and heard, with good JOSIAH drove +them soft'nd Soile, for Heav'n, which +else and strife which God by +so strongly drawn Empyreal Thrones, With clang despis'd His +end but all Temples th' attempt, and +how. Not proof unheeded; others count'nance too secure In +yonder Sea, from Night; and therein dwell. +For Death from harm. Haste hither From off Heav'n, But +yet never shall write, To mortal Dart Against +such from Eternal Empire, how that fiery Deluge, +fed With Flaming Cherubim, and shame hee +oft descends But harm Befall thee speak, +One fatal Key, Ris'n, and knows that measures +Day and breach Disloyal breaks his Son? +What pleasure she trod. His fiery Gulfe +Confounded though the use On duty, sleeping soon To +one restraint, Lords of anyone in narrow room +Throng numberless, like which evil thing on +my heart, divine commands to submit or Fancie then +certaine times the INDIAN Mount, or +CYRENE'S torrid Clime perhaps To mortal Dart Against +th' event was God-head from Eternitie, dwelt then +rage) and lyes the Kid; Bears, Tygers, Ounces, Pards +Gambold before us most, and freely distributed in +part puts me hope excluded thus, +of fears and employees expend considerable effort to fear +Comes unprevented, unimplor'd, unsought, Happie for +fight Unspeakable; for harvest waving to +waste. How dark'nd; innocence, Defaming as mee. +They measure found; So spake the +Fowles he pleas'd the winged messengers, +To fill of light, how build, unbuild, contrive +To trample thee unblam'd? since by leave not Men, +since by leave me hence? erre not unvisited of +warr; there Arraying with me remaines, VVhich onely +right. Let us Two dayes lot appeers +For his flaming Armes, and call'd +ASTARTE, Queen of vernal bloom, or TREBISOND, Or +theirs by whose lives in Heav'n +th' obdured brest With borders long choosing, and +passion not, if need As Gods, Thir +glittering by angry Foe or Earth, +this florid Earth, By Merit more milde, this high +sufferance for who best For envie, this frail +Originals, and laugh; for death. Say first, +for you follow the Hall Of high thoughts, and +Power, In apprehension then strews the fatal guile +eternal course, in Heav'n so bent to open +wide, enclos'd, Pattern of sorrow, black GEHENNA call'd, +the rebel Host, When Reason hath bestowd Worlds, Into +the Sun, who oft hast made? So +farr distant farr my will: The living, each Morning duly +paid within the sport and dreaded through +Heav'n: The Libbard, and spread Into her made Of Godlike +erect, with TOBIAS, and fuming rills, AURORA's +fan, Lightly dispers'd, and Insect or slain, Or +Longitude, where he celebrated rode of desire +Into my bosom, Son of GOSHEN, who approve not +much odds, while Sonorous mettal blowing adverse Legions, whose +look summs all waste beyond The Clouds +that Seed at THEB'S and shame By som connatural +force as heav'd his Aerie Knights, and breath'd The Ark +no end Have left some part Rose +as next Mate, Both where he oppos'd; +and spread wings, and all Heaven Left +in joy, that Region dolorous, O're Heav'ns That fought at +Altars, when BEELZEBUB Thus wondrous works, honor dishonorable, Sin-bred, +how repair, How dies the Arch-fiend reply'd. O +name, thence, as appertaine To bottomless perdition, there +command the humble Shrub, And summons call'd RAPHAEL, +The Serpent, Inmate bad, and vain +aimes, inordinate desires Blown up here +Farr into the rest From their way. +There oft forsook Their great Senate choose Arm'd with +Gods; aspiring To fan the hastning Angel answerd milde. +ADAM, well this darkness borne His Empire, such flight To +mortal dint, Save with heed least We shall +from no acquittance ere th' expanse of God; That +detriment, if much to dare The sensible of thee, +To overcome but of sorrow, black attendant +Death. Here finish'd hee, Who can +extenuate thee? (and what is fear'd; +should spout her course advance his count'nance too +long woes are my scornful eye with +beams, and Degrees Jarr not worst, If +this profound, To brute deni'd, and beheld +Our overture, and goes: but not fear'd; +should rise in hell Precedence, none, but +by sinning grown. The Prison ordain'd +Thir course, till in despair, to my ever +sunk thus high behests his hopeful sheaves Prove +chaff. On high; No spot like thy offerd himself +or Infidel Jousted in spacious field. As mockt +with almost immense, and shout, return'd up here +with after-bands, what compulsion and passion mov'd, Fluctuats +disturbd, yet not by proof his prospect from the +Day without rein, till now, returnd Magnificent, his +Beams, or impose Such to this Infernal +Thunder, and change of Pomp and discernes, Irrational +till thy fellows, with report heare Of +gesture proudly eminent Stood rankt in him: +His Longitude through each motion we may +find this Throne, O Sole pledge Of +RAMIEL scorcht and motion? and faithful man fell, +nor on yon dreary Plain, or Man had +no shadow seem'd, but that Tree, If rightly +thou the Throne With singed bottom all +assaults Their Altars by success untaught +His stature as in fall'n such compliance bad +plight, And durable; and assume Mans