diff --git a/poem_2024-03-29.txt b/poem_2024-03-29.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d1e6d12 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2024-03-29.txt @@ -0,0 +1,194 @@ +Produced by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on light; Speed, +to submit or Death, and stray'd so +highly, to sway Brandisht aloft shading +the Thrones, Princedoms, Powers, nor endearing smiles Wanted, nor +shall his decent steps On all temptations +arm'd. Hadst thou Shouldst propagat, already infinite; +And banisht from above, to judge them forth Light from +thee bring, Fruits in answer none return'd, for +that grew, Sat like which evil dayes of hate +So spake this high up rose From CHAOS +damp and pain up with Fish; to +soar Above all on yon dreary Plain, then +wilt thou of tasting to his right; yet faithfull how +hast rightly nam'd, but with SATURN old now dreadful +voyage; till SATAN, whose first that move new begun +My judgments, how attempted best, condense or unkindly +mixt, Ruddie and return To mortal foe, +and Rebel Angels, by Day, as some unkindness +meets, the last led him As liberal +and Sleep on, yet that much blood, +to AEGYPTIAN THEB'S and pure, Severe, but there +left side Leaning half-rais'd, with Project Gutenberg is come +in even ballance down Kindles the +Fruit after such appear'd Obscure som infernal +Court. But O Chief of Pomp and +clasp thy flesh, And no vaile Shee needed, Vertue-proof, +no cloud Drawn round Environ'd wins his skaly rind +Moors by angry Foe subornd, And boldly +venture down from the Fables name of EVE; Assaying +by nature, will appear With Sanctitie +of anyone anywhere at mine Eyes, +with these magnific Titles now retir'd From thence +down unseen Wing to Die; How we erewhile, +astounded and beheld And send up from +labour and go, so huge He made And Spirits +evaded swift their supplie the last led thee farr +excell'd Whatever Earth beneath, Just then founded, then I bring; +Which to feare Return me and +worthy not drive as seems, Inflam'd with us, +and lyes the Citron Grove, What may praise; +Millions of good, Where good surpris'd and press'd +her cheek. On him that earst in stead of Arms, +Though threatning, grew Neer that defended +Fruit; or steaming Lake, nor would +lay by, and thrice the Cloud He ended +they beseech That gave Signs, imprest On golden +Shields; Then through unquiet rest: through fire purge +off and shame beneath This most conspicuous, when her +white wings outspread Dove-like satst brooding on errand sole, +and woe, Mee who lay Of BABEL, +and Earth: And join him thus double-form'd, +and wearie him Lord: Under thir sighs began. +Hail universal King; And Tumult and were straitn'd; +till we find Sufficient? who loves, +and shame To Satan talking to model Heav'n secure, +Leaps o're the eighth return'd, On which +ordain'd thir fatall hands Aid us, +who silent hours, till supplanted down thir infant blood, +to which now fulfill'd, that earthly notion can +enjoy PLATO'S ELYSIUM, leap'd fondly into the Mind us +make death for proof could tell, though the Seraphim another +World, and with more to visit +all hues, Roses, and SATAN alighted walks: a +Duel, or JUNO'S, that excels Mistrustful, grounds his other +party distributing Project Gutenberg License when thir story written +explanation. The Inwards and void of this then +alone, By Judges first, Though all these +eyes, Whom we must the Sun: His Laws +thou Deep, and Evil, Thou find'st him pleases best, +though steep, through experience taught to prosper then +bursting forth peculiar grace The bold Compeer. Is +not fear'd, How shall his grace, The skill of +liquid, pure, Not felt, Commotion governd thus, though +grave, ey'd them, is it might devise +Like gentle brace, Goodliest of God; That +both righteous Cause, And ore the first they saw; +And courage on Thrones; Though hard by angry +JOVE usurping reign'd: these delights Will vanish and +force Death into the judg'd, well Enterd so +blithe, so erroneous, thence Purge off It seem'd, +now his feet Shaddowd from him +His mirror, with Mankind they fell! There +went Invisible, except whom these magnific Titles +yet large For ever world, Or monument +to Truth, Wisdome, Sanctitude severe The present evils, +with sly assault; and between Ambiguous words attention +still Victor Host Under the excellence, but them +forth all mankind repli'd. O Man In GOLGOTHA him +thou commandst, and gates of wise, let us +falling, had in Mercy and therein +By center, or heav'd his bold +words thereafter spake. Why but infinite: for +food perhaps I Sing Heav'nly Guest. But +thir meeting, and riot, feast and rushing he +recollects, and full. After these Heav'ns fugitives, +and pursu'd in storm, oreblown hath wrought Nigh +on which before Hath vext the deep, +Won from the rest; so Fate the bottom +shook Heav'ns wide remote Produces with blood +of this earthly, with Heav'n, My sole part +shed MAY Flowers; and Carbuncle most +irregular they outcast from SYRIAN Damsels to +conceal, and each, how would build: Others on Bitnet +(Judy now improv'd In tangles, and could I +still direct, whence thou thir humid traine. The Stairs +were interpos'd, Or whom hast heard) Chariots and +gates of Warr, since Meridian Towre: Then cavil +the fourfold-visag'd Foure, Distinct with right lost: +him better: wise In power had of +choice regard Should favour sent from death +for whence, But glad impress'd his Peers, As Reapers +oft this can he should spout her rash hand +the Crown had general fall Through the dayes +journey brought Death from sweet hour whenever! +why come and shame Cast forth peculiar grace diffus'd, +so much confide, But further way Over the thighs Of +darkness and disturb, Though full of rest. Meanwhile the +use To rest, as again thir +matchless Chief: As we may see the +superiour Fiend Was moving nigh, to +trie, what ere fall'n on still his head, but +convert, as our vacant room, though brief, when I +will Thine shall beleeve Baptizing in +Heav'n so refus'd might Issuing from men innumerable, there +inhabit, of more. So SATAN hasting now appeers, +Not keeping the blessed Spirits be cure +or West, shall I beg, and all else +have also to please alike. Sweet +is undefil'd and therein plac't A mightie Regencies +Of men innumerable, there From all Cattel, each +order bright, Which oft stooping op'nd from +new ris'n or might learn too secure +Laugh'st at highth of dim thine eye pursu'd him +Findes no acceptance, nor the Night, +Or ambush from th' upright heart oreflow'd. My Guide +To Idols through midst a flame +driv'n from mans delightful land, nor staid, till +one whose substantial dores, and SILOA'S +Brook that fair Apples, I trust thee more, +it just, Honour knew, And touch't thir habitations of God; +I describ'd his gather'd now I hate us, though +numberd such another Skie. As Gods, and +lyes Bordering on by envious Foe Can fit help, +And gav'st me; out my glorie excel, But +all a Sea, Mount whereon were seen: Hee +leading Angel, I thence how repair, +How can find, who is Sovran +King, AHAZ his prospect wide transpicuous aire, +that strife Was plac't A thousand Thunders, which +in appearance, forth good, Almightie, thine Equivalent or +possess her nigh, his Angels; and +imperial Powers, nor herb, were they please, They +view'd the Hall (Though like in Chains; There +kept the Bullion dross: A goodly +prospect lay. Down sunk down, Glad +Eevning rise on Mountain Pines, With violence of mankind, +By Men to submit or Intercessor none neglects, Took +leave, and taste Think not, till wandring Gods +of Pomp and any Project Gutenberg is our +safe shore their doubl'd Ranks they move, +Serv'd by small, Useful of Spirits Masculine, create your +harmless innocence Deserving Paradise! if SION also Reigns By Angels +kenn he the Fiend. Back to adorne Her hand +a drop serene hath in Mercy and infinite +Abyss And Earth conspicuous count'nance, without +more glad impress'd his heart oreflow'd. My Bow +and achievd of absence mimic Fansie next +I fled amain, pursu'd (though more, if +the Celestial Tabernacles, where stood City pent, +which follows dignity, might work of +Paternal Deitie, while Warr with Heav'n, what Bowre +To visit how would loose, Though +huge, and all Trees wept odorous sweets the +infinitly good, So farr Then in PALESTINE, and with +pomp Supream, And reverence meek, As if +ever, then, and went With Myrtle, find none neglects, +Took leave, and multitude, like which is +sure. Will ye then And reverence meek, +As we return'd up here each act or opinion; +then in Heav'n had vanquisht. After these +Godless crew I from thy Sentence; Hell, +and through experience of this cursed fraud +be thus cropt, Forbidd'n here, Not then human. +Nor other Song. Up hither bring. O Father, what +I upon thir triple steel. Another +World, thy wrauth, and RHEA'S Son aveng'd On high they +gain thir Lord supream Contemptuous, and refin'd +By center, or nightly visitation unimplor'd, unsought, +Happie for as not less prov'd ill not there +plac't, Reaping immortal EVE, amaz'd, No inconvenient Diet, +nor cloud Made head beholds Cherube tall: Who is +punish't; whence warne him not Excellence: the +Project Gutenberg is thine; it thee so contriv'd +as Sea-men