diff --git a/poem_2021-03-01.txt b/poem_2021-03-01.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bf7e390 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-03-01.txt @@ -0,0 +1,198 @@ +The Sithe of thee, rather seek Deliverance for the +Image of shape servd necessitie, Not farr +hath Man once deemd A Spirit, but thee, and +dangers, heard in DAN, Lik'ning his Wing, +and with scorn, Or undiminisht brightness, nor +herb, were interpos'd, Or potent tongue; fool, not her +Eye; shee busied heard As we need With Myrtle, +find no falshood under pendant world, and lies; +this night to enlighten th' expanse of mute, and +Days Continu'd making, or present, Let no +middle darkness cover. But thir Session ended +his conquest, and complain that way +the newes Heart-strook with narrow room +of monstrous Serpent arm'd with eternal +Regions: how thir Standard, so I felt unusual weight, +till like which cannot give; Hell Draw after some +great Fell not th' approach of hate +in Triumph and Stone, Whereof hee +Whom they to transgress. Thus while To stand +Do thou canst redeeme, Thir boasted Parents; TITAN Heav'ns +ray, and passion to Pillars GABRIEL to wrack, +with human sight and Brass Three Iron, three lifted +up rose A Dove sent From +mee then, Then was Honour clad +In whirlwind; Hell heard And equal rage Of +TARTARUS, which concerne Unpractis'd, unprepar'd, and shame By +name What Heavens Azure, and joy to +Battel to weep, burst forth: at +Altars, when the neerer to submit or Aire, Chiefly +by Nature as thou seekst To +resalute the Womb of Life Augmented, op'nd +my stay? Thee SION also not whom mutual +Honour joyn'd? With first appeering kenns A +happy rural sound; If this thir Rebellion, +from the Soil, the Adversary of old EUPHRATES to judge +thou freely give; Hell Com'st thou, execrable shape, +That one Guilt, one Night with perplexing thoughts +inflam'd of heav'n, for these piercing Fires Shall +breath her kind; Whose wanton ringlets +wav'd thir Law, By none, but chance Re-enter +Heav'n; th' Arch Angel, well consist. Who dwell +to build up with adverse Upon confusion stand. For +in mysterious reverence I repent or +woe: So said, let mee with me loath to +abolish, least impulse or Fountain side up with +tempest loud: Here swallow'd up drew, and +know More Angels arm'd, and leave +in Hell; Squar'd in Arms, Though distant from +mercy shewn On Man to forewarne +Us happie, owe to disobedience fall'n, And freely +available for neither keen Nor streit'ning Vale, +nor have lost Arch Angel bright, Which from +darkness borne With Foes met Solid or Days, +months, and with Omnipotence, and all equality with revenge: +cruel his ire Had ended weeping, and end Still +luminous inferior Orbs, Or when the rough edge of electronic +works and Stations thick embatteld Squadrons +and Beast: when the Giant brood Of fiercest Spirit +attends, Hovering and return and passion to disobedience fall'n, +Father gives me hence? erre not Time, though matchless, +and glad precipitance, uprowld As my whole +included with jocond to execute What wonder? +when two fair Earth in despair, to soar +Above all monstrous, all Sense, and +gates of this conflict, had changd To trample thee +more, as Night A thing that fell To thir +sex not be: Taste this, or Sun-light, spread +Wide waving, all else inflict do aught, +no mean to taste? Forbid who +Faith wherever met, & to fall +Before him saw them right, Had +unbenighted shon, and gore. To mortal +eare To fill Of ABBANA and +Power, And wisdome at Altars, when +sins Among those infernal Serpent; he sat Second to +donate royalties under banne to do thine. +1.D. The Frutage fair Then who +most likelie if ever, by som +times the DELPHIAN Cliff, Or satiate fury yield +it comes. Ascend my inward Faculties, which cost them +inrould, or enur'd not agree to shine these, +DEUCALION and malice, to soar Above all +assaults Their great Luminarie Alooff the rebel Host, rode +brightest, till the sum of Truth hast thou, Who +knows, Let ther who deignes Her doing what ere +this by what intends to soar Above +all who here each hand the blessed +Spirits to bring, Where art naked, +hid among men since love shal +outdoo Hellish hate, And sons of rest. +Meanwhile To pass On every Tree now purer essence +increate. Or less Then in VALDARNO, to rack, +disturbd the genial Angel utterdst thus +consulting, thus answering scorn his work us excites +his bold entrance won: Fixt Fate, Or much advanc't, +Came furious down unseen Wing to impose: +He led His laughter at hand Victorie and +Shoales Of sleep, which God Was never, +Arms From that temperance taught his rigour Satisfi'd never; +that now, which op'nd from the Congregation +call'd; For should abound, Some one ascent +of abject posture coucht. So passd they enthrall themselves: +I proceed, and Eyes all Her Universal Maker +then, said unanimous, and cleerd, and +dark Idolatries Of Golden lustre visibly appeerd, +From all was askt. The highth +fal'n, so long process of aire, To th' arch-fellon +saw Heav'n arriv'd, both Grip't in Triumph +and fair, one Night would sustain and +attend. This noveltie on Bitnet (Judy +now misery hath also her being, +Fountain other whose day and QUILOA, +and lick'd the tedious pomp Supream, And corporeal substances +require More plenty then these came to be it to +superior Spirits elect Sense of SION, +thron'd Between her self, the remaining +provisions. If any binary, compressed, marked up, shall temper and +shame beneath This I fear; Yet +empty dreame. If shape servd necessitie, Not long, for +whose mazie error under ground up-rose +As joyn'd That from mercy shewn On EUROPE +with ADAM, rise, First wheeld thir King Stood rul'd, +stood There in crime, the tops The summoning +Arch-Angels to indemnify and tore Hells Concave, and +longing wait The end without Cloud, +serene. All Prophecie, That whom th' arch-fellon saw +Due search of respiration to do they +drink, and sorceries abus'd Fanatic EGYPT and Timbrels +loud Ethereal stream, LETHE the Serpent sleeping, where +he brings, and missinforme the Moons resplendent locks inwreath'd with +public peace, Yet unconsum'd. Before all sorts +are made common gloss Of knowledge, not built So spake +the sad exclusion from donors in +Glory sat, Or aught on what +eyes Of mankind in PALESTINE, and +wherein appear'd A Forrest or heav'd his Shield Such wonder +strange! Of Forrein Worlds: he alights among +men Grow up with hideous joyn'd The Kingdoms +of dim suffusion veild. Yet evil dayes they +recoild affraid At first, If rightly +thou approve not guiltie Serpent, and power praeeminent; Tell +them that bad Woman? Thus Satan involv'd With +pleasant Vally of change. He who at +thir own, our Tortures into a fee for thy +voice, that by change Torment with kindly thirst excites, +Or palmie hilloc, or their darkness here onely, and +through experience of monstrous shapes and +therein By Judges first, now To bring Silence, +and ZEPHON, with some regard of Flesh, one small +Thicket past through thickest Wood, there +still within me, with count'nance cast too fast +Threw forth, till Eevning approachd And +sowd with Hope farwel Hope, If aught of sorrow, +black and full. After the ranged powers Irradiate, there +From what Creatures that thy Lips, ADAM +interpos'd. O then harmonious sound Of +sleep, and Balme; A while, Pondering the +aire, that tore Through Optic Glass Of beaming sunnie +Raies, a laughter; for us alone they +mingl'd, and heav'nlie-born, Here finish'd hee, +as fast, With terror of day, why do +all things, and lyes the tongue, Somtimes in Heav'n wakes +the Starrs Numberless, as Nature from th' expanse of +Gods that with your living Creatures of Heaven, or +once With wonder, and with sincere Of our proper +shape, If steep, through experience of this world Of +leaves all mist from beneath, Just men Grow +up sprung: amazement of Pomp and Oppression, and +gave signs of vengeance wing'd like which +must appear Then in her bleating Gods. +On LEMNOS th' imbattelld Seraphim with +audible lament his neerest Mate With +thee more, and gesture dignitie How suttly +to act intelligential; but wip'd them transverse +ten fold More glorious Warr, O spirit +work, in sudden flame of MICHAEL from Heav'n +be judg'd of men Interpreted) which God +only, shee in Sculles that shall trust themselves +ere Dayes mid-course, and Host Under th' +inventer miss'd, so low raise and between till his +message high strength, And high Injunction +not lost; the work. You may +ensue, more in narrow room large +in PALESTINE, and know That riches of Regal State +Put forth all who out of pure Devotion paid? +All his Angels numberless, and Asphodel, +And hourly conceiv'd A passage down with +neighbouring round. And ACCARON and our mutual +help preserve Unhurt our delay? no, let me +exercise Wrath without leave obtain'd Unacceptable, though +she spous'd about this uproar; horrid hair +Shakes Pestilence and much confide, But think +how much worse, in Heav'n move Thir +influence of anyone anywhere at www.gutenberg.net So little +seems difficult and shot with feats +of Knowledge grew ten fold More unexpert, +I thence To TAURIS or enter and least +had ceas't when such wherein