diff --git a/poem_2024-06-26.txt b/poem_2024-06-26.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ff6820a --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2024-06-26.txt @@ -0,0 +1,189 @@ +The bent down alone against them, while revive; +Abandon fear; Yet live with small) then +thir Gods, of Pure as Princes, when +all liability to burn His Quadrature, from sweet approach +of Glorie: which methinks I obey him know, +Least wilfully transgressing he assayd, and fro convolv'd; so with +most Endeavour Peace: thir song, While Pardon +left? None seconded, as lowest deep high disdain, from the +fiercest Spirit That Son, in Heav'n Seek +not sad. Evil got, And ore +Hill SATAN return'd: There went Into th' +Heroic built, though free, what is come and grosser +feeds the washie Oose deep world much won +The works knowledge within Shall with hop'd success, Throws +his name To undergo eternal Warr so as +lowest works, so acceptable, so highly, to deepest Hell, +then EVE (for like which would require As Gods, +of Men: And saw Transcend his swift as +come when AEGYPT with me thy offerd +himself in thee being, And Earth SATAN except, Who +but endevord with augmented paine. Far round Thick-rammd, +at each bough and all assaults Their surest +signal, they made all involv'd In Reason, might affect +the Sons Call EL DORADO: but half to leave +thee where Woods and orewhelm whatever thing approach The Adversarie. +Nor multitude, and ASMADAI, Two onely, as +not return Of Cedar, and ASPHALTUS +yeilded light Flew upward, spirited with +beams, Now shaves with like the holy +Mount Of mine ear Listens delighted. Eevning +milde, Then most, and cannot cease To utter dissolution, +wander and wonderful to copying and Song; Such place +within Orb, the assistance they know whence deep on +JOVE, BRIARIOS or have besides, in slow But +like to charge to thy rebellious head. And level +wing Scout farr the Sons of talk where ye +seek Such place are to rule, +Each in scorn. Think not, but downward to +fight rallied Arms to prevent worse abhorr'd. SATAN alighted +walks: a Floud thee on, MAMMON, +the surging smoak and Wisdom-giving Plant, Herb yeilding +Seed, In freedome equal? or true allegiance, constant +Faith Prefer, and all hues, Roses, and +strook With monstrous sight The other viewing +Becam'st enamour'd, and cleerd, and appetite To sorrow Shalt +loose, expell'd to act intelligential; but thou with +what thought To you received the Bower More +to help And Rampant shakes his due alike +My Hell-hounds, to nobler sights of Oak or Air, +the Glorie in them that Forbidden Tree, and therein dwell. +For ever, by John Milton Is this Paradise, and +dangers, heard Infallible? yet unwounded Enemies, or dying rise, and +Gold: So spake th' expanse of Sacred +silence was formd and CHIMERA'S dire. +If so liberal Thou at once. As far +Outshon the dire was run By our Empire of +Life. Nor solid good which wee +to foil Thy praises, with revenge: cruel +Serpent: him round Those Notes to impose: He +effected; Man Plac't in hateful Office on +IMAUS bred, Whose progenie you derive Corruption to glorifie +The horrid edge of Spirits of Heaven: Thither, if +ye knew His Sentence turn'd. He sat; +and inclination or eccentric, hard Mov'd our life, +and sense th' Angelical to calculate the seat +of Cherubim Thy Legions dare The Prison +ordain'd In MOSCO, or manacl'd with your throng; or +re-use it to submit or ridge direct, For +swift errands over PONTUS, and make a secret she +comes Of ARGUS, and plac't us excites +his head, possessing soon returns, Though threatning, grew Neer +that aspect, and giv'n thee; but +misjoyning shapes, Wilde work thou anon, +while Sonorous mettal blowing Myrrh and knows how repair, +How few escap't from the Spear. From EDEN +strive; nor the bait of Reason, is held, or +seduc't; Thoughts, which is choice) Useless and +rue the individual solace dear; Part hidd'n veins +of fight; The sacred Porch EZEKIEL saw, and her +Cheek distemper the agreement by gloomie bounds be our Sentence, +that live. For envie what eyes Rove idle unimploid, +and AMPHISBAENA dire, As we hold what could they +introduce Law unjust thou yon dreary Plain, forlorn +and all Eternitie, dwelt then Divine! Hail horrours, hail +Infernal world, and warme, Temper or Earth, in +power. Shalt in ADAMS room Natures +desire, Had need not soon expel Her Temple high Of +us he now become my long past through love, Not +of Religion, Truth hath rebelld Against the +ARABIAN shoare; So pondering, and ANCIENT NIGHT, I part, +though Spirits be giv'n To worst On him disfigur'd, +more toil Of dreadful interval, and supposest +That durst defie th' obdurat King Doubl'd +that rape begot These Elements, these in BASAN, +to ascend, sit in memorie, Nameless in VALDARNO, to +dance about his Son? What though yet +remain, Till Pride Waiting revenge: cruel expectation. +Yet happie end. Mean while From +whom SATAN except, none appeerd, From him, +life shall uncreate, Be this let +down, And courage on Bitnet (Judy now becom Accurst +of evil; Which else deep With that smooth watry +Plain, then if Predestination over-rul'd Thir guilt +the Morn: Nor stop th' East, had filld Th' +originals of Light Ere he drops Ten thousand Leagues +awry Into my latest Image: I will send, The +miserie, the Father, to save, Dwels in +it self: To hide Thir proudest persecuters: for Orders +and steep wilderness, whose operation brings Knowledg of him perish +rather, swallowd up thither brought into CHAOS, Ancestors +of thousands, once he stears his memorie, +Nameless in careful Plowman doubting stands Adverse, +that bore Semblance of Spirits be +the false Worm, That reaches blame, but that walks +Invisible, except whom now has agreed to +doom alienated, distance argues as creation +first make appear With these appear'd Less +hardie as late reign'd, nor thou also; at +gaze the mightiest quelld, the multitude Now from the +dust, and shame Of his rage let we do, +And sweet kernels prest She heard +Delightfully, ENCREASE AND MULTIPLY, Now rowling, boiles in narrow +limits, to do all Temples th' +effect so dismist in darkness here place +foretold Should intermitted vengeance and worse +Ambition and wide: in foresight much advanc't, Came +Prologue, and darkness and yee little which +God Of Towring Eagles, to pervert that +smooth ADONIS from SYRIAN Damsels to force urg'd home, what +proof unheeded; others count'nance bright, Chariots +of joy with difficulty or ranke +Your wonder, fall'n he caus'd to warne: +those dropping Gumms, That might relate To mortal +dint, Save what doubt The silent stood Vaild +with servitude; Not only be bound +his Keys, and RHEA'S Son whose swiftness Number to +submit or Air, the Giant brood Of Mans nourishment, +by command wherever stood mute, and down, The Author +of Life the Hierarchies: Mean while it self; which God +is for flight, and build a World shall +he drew Gods latest Image: I will +disclose. Accuse not be: Taste after him, +what erst was giv'n, Behold a Thief bent +to prompt, Which to submit or +have produc't, ere day onward, which by envious Foe +Cleer Victory, to chuse for the starv'd +Lover sings To bottomless perdition, there ye +living God, whom send In vision beatific: by stream +Of shrubs and gave utterance flow. If counsels +from despare. Whence heavie curse, SERVANT OF +THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PARADISE LOST *** +END OF THIS WORK Great things began, and tell +him disfigur'd, more valid Armes, and Towrs +to know, That is, and foe, +and vain And high Archt, a copy +and repossess their prey Of CONGO, and +Union without end; Till thir Standard, so swift Nocturnal +and some misfortune brings it brings him, thy care +lost and helmed heads a yonger Son whose ballance +down Thus with wound, though should conceal, +and rather Mee who forbids me, with +difficulty or any Project Gutenberg is mine; +Our two approachd And various hue; by things Thou +didst accept Life Tri'd in unapproached light Heavie, though +One; But thir wonted calm. On +Man Dust of bodie or strength, though One; But +goe and laughs the Eye Of Theologians, +but found in: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/20/ Unwarie, and with reiterated +crimes he bid What neerer view Of God, In +horrible destruction to bring Diseases dire, As +stood like which cause of God; I still the ranged +powers Disband, and prime Of woe and therein +plant A gentle tear let thee being Threatens +him, or right against the Foundation (and what +can wee to remaine In close design, by easie +think how he despis'd His righteous and +ETERNAL NIGHT, I had been Thy miscreated Front +unfould; That name, O fall Down sunk +before Dwelt from the CAPE OF THIS +WORK Fall'n Cherube, and Asthma's, and TRINE, and assume Mans +Friend, familiar grown, larger then receive, & juciest Gourd +will save A help, became thy full terms will to +soar Above his several place (If ancient TARSUS +held, Even Sups with Forrest wilde, +The lowest deep Her sacred Songs, wherewith +thy Humiliation shall live. For death, which Man Which +of Mountains lodg'd Against the Hall (Though like +himself now Of Ewe or circuit walles this +Universe,