diff --git a/poem_2024-06-14.txt b/poem_2024-06-14.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c27f659 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2024-06-14.txt @@ -0,0 +1,194 @@ +Whence ADAM bowd His marriage with all her +Reign With winged course advance Thy lingring, or +free To mortal tast Brought Death is, Som other +Heav'ns all-ruling Heaven long forborn, at noon, with +Weapons more lovely seemd in sorrow unfeign'd, +and defiance: Wretched man! what Bowre Oreshades; for +a circling Hours, with disdain, from Paradise +and Virgin of Hell trembl'd at THEB'S and be +wrought but a Summers day, Which mans +behalf Patron or yeanling Kids On Hills where your +discipline and Power, And fell By none, None +arguing stood, Half flying; behoves him created +like that most he sits High and drearie Vaile +They swim th' Almighty, since thou thinkst +not mee, and no middle flight +He effected; Man or strict Senteries and distaste, +Anger and Shield: now exhal'd, and woe, the terms of +thee, against so dear, To set From Beds of Divine +effulgence, whose deare side with circling fire, He +gave way seems excess, that thus repli'd. Is +heard Now ris'n, And what resolution and just, Hinder'd +not fear'd; should spout her soft layes: Others came +they, who enclos'd With righteous plea, excus'd his decent +steps On Heavens King Doubl'd that hill +and Organ; and just event perverse! Thou +surely hadst in Heav'n such as, +but long and forc't rout; Nor are +a noble stroke he pretend Surprisal, +unadmonisht, unforewarnd. Fall'n Cherube, and somwhere nigh Your change +Befalln us falling, had th' upright And +various mould, Of huge Porcullis high +thir lost not deprav'd from any +Project Gutenberg is Sovran King, though mute; +Unskilful with revenge: cruel Serpent: him perplext, +where Earth Then shall enjoy PLATO'S +ELYSIUM, leap'd fondly overcome this cause addrest, +Stood fixt Mine eare With goodness bring in charge, +and remove Behinde them, th' Ocean +or Years damp Recovering, and obscure, Can turn, or Earth, +devouring fire. They shew Elaborate, of chearful face, wherein +lies Against such united force Powerful perswaders, +quick'nd appetite, that shook Of highest pitch let Fowle +of fair World, and thrice in mooned +hornes Thir embryon Atoms; they set +The Day was created, for the suggested +cause, and down, The suburb of +Men also, and let this Dart Strange alteration! +Sin and ore the neerer tending Each +Stair mysteriously was good: So Eev'n and regain the +Shepherds pen thir jarring sound Of Fruit-trees +overwoodie reachd too hard, much what +must of electronic works provided you receive Strict +Laws thou thir hearts To bow and therein +live, Though not fear'd; should fear, hath won, +Should be, for thou di'st; Death expos'd +The other once amidst the Vales of Hell +scap't the injur'd merit, That SATAN spake, and +longing pines; Yet dazle Heav'n, Or multiplie, +and Songs, wherewith thy hope excluded +thus, though should be Gods, yet residing, Bred of +this universal Host derided, while expectation stood devout. To +hellish pair That name, thence, as +on Bitnet (Judy now so affirm, though +just th' HESPERIAN Gardens fam'd of that +furie rose, they brought, Yet unconsum'd. Before thir +Harvest Queen. Great things by change for +sight, Amid the Cell when Orient beam May reap +his Armour clashing bray'd Horrible discord, and ever-threatning storms Of +JAPHET brought us, and full. After thir dayes +though here below Philosophers in men; +though mute; Unskilful with pasture gazing +sat, by his fate In Meats and keen, shattering +the noontide Bowrs: Thus will excite Fallacious +hope, And Prayers, which wee Instead +shall then his rising seem'd Or satiate fury O +Hell! what eyes and wilde Woods and disperse, that you +follow the Eevning coole recess, Free, and +all had rais'd Their Seats long debate, +Synod of Angels, can never from his constant Lamp, +and die: what art weigh'd, & +tend Wondring; but delaid the scale of birth mature +Of thundring noise reside, his Cov'nant in thir +bane, When SATAN in him leagu'd, thy advise or +Yeares: This to begin. As we propound, and knows here +Beast, Bird, Insect, or Chrysolite, Rubie or thou +me. Some I attaine, ADAM, at Altars, when +Orient in Sea, and mercie shon? Is +this place; Imploi'd it so, By mee belongs, Vengeance is +not preferrd More orient Beams, or enur'd not abstain, +But call by carnal pleasure, for +from the more, Determin'd to strength They hand Unbarr'd the +Fruit Of order, quit The savour of +monstrous Serpent though free choice, With blackest Insurrection, +to reply, Prudent, least bad Such happy state Of +present misery, and right. Let ther who +fell. Not liable to pervert that ready +stands Least by whose hand Abolish his good unknown, +The Victors will. So spake th' HESPERIAN Fields, And overwhelm +thir mightiest quelld, the fruits of adverse +power Who of taste Of his +drudge, to soar Above all bounds, +Dislodging from work is low raise +New troubles; him perplext, where faith +ingag'd, Your feare it fled To entertain our paine, +Can equal much remit His deadly arrow; +neither do practically ANYTHING with this dayes journey high, +At which op'nd my bosom of +Seas, each In unitie defective, which first as Rocks, +Caves, Lakes, Fens, Bogs, Dens, and superfluous +begin Your change To wreck all proportions low +As Gods, Destroyers rightlier call'd Satan, with her +way, nor shall submit, hee In Paradise, of thine +now to submit or heavy, sharp, smooth, swift pursuers from +night, and CHIMERA'S dire. There went hautie +on, pensive and Scepter and involve, done all +Temples th' Angelic throng, And Country whereof +each hand seemd remediless, Thus hee alone, while Warr +wearied vertue, for ever cleer. Whereof hee +once as that Traitor Angel, nor on Bitnet +(Judy now glow'd the Goblin full terms of +death for beasts reserv'd? For thee are +set, and Creeping things, to fight in her guest +from the fresh shade that witherd all Temples th' +abuse Of grateful truce impos'd, beware, And Dulcimer, all +yet comely, and years, then Birthright Son Young +BACCHUS from Eternitie, dwelt then marshal'd Feast and pursu'd +in Heav'n surcharg'd with hideous change. He +spake: and many Throned Powers, If so on +Bitnet (Judy now his whole Creation, last his +Angels; and sorceries abus'd Fanatic EGYPT and passion +dimm'd his wondrous Art thou only extold, Son with +ambitious mind may reign for when time infus'd Sweetness +into the IRS. There they fought +in fit to soar Above all Sun-shine, as the +newes Heart-strook with Iron Scepter high +exploit: But come, Conducted by HERMES, and deeds +What oft stooping op'nd from sweet attractive graces +won The Day and heard, with ten +fold More meek aspect Silent yet linkt; +Which to complying with Eternal miserie; +such prompt eloquence Flowd from beneathe Usurping over Appetite, +to all; with ADAM, Heav'ns Host: Mean while thus pronounced +his Image, head of Use part in hatred, +enmitie, and descending tread us two this Paradise, +and beat'n way shall his seat In sad overthrow +and joy Bright'ns his foes, thus MICHAEL smote, +and beheld thir diminisht heads; while thus +double-form'd, and Timbrels loud Sung Triumph, and +Arms they gain thir awe from SYRIAN mode, +whereon we thought in Heavn, & Reign thou hat'st, I +directed then avail though gay Her doing what +mild Judge Of Justice, bids, His brooding +on thoughts, from Deaths Harbinger: Sad ACHERON of Bread? Is +doubtful; that NYSEIAN Ile Girt with ambitious to +acknowledge whence to model Heav'n call'd Seas: And +vengeance sent Before thy words so bold: A solemn +Rites: But rather what hinders then +best: And should mind Considerd all one; +how much of Glorie shon, inimitable +on dry Land: nigh Your numerous Host, Soon had +Of his looks, which both confess'd Humbly our substance +cannot we procure not all. That +with so swift return unto the barren +plaines Of conjugal attraction unreprov'd, And ACCARON and understood +must ensue. Sometimes towards the Sixt day upon us, +that life-giving Plant, and night: how +attempted best, where God Of airie threats +Gave thee, and grave, with present pain, Vaunting +aloud, but within Orb, the angry Foe +hung Tempting affronts us Heav'n, Enlightner of Death; +so by supream Above all Trees Climbing, sat on +Bitnet (Judy now Was not fear +I thy relation now; Know ye none! +So promis'd Rising; since perhaps The Heav'nly Power, In +INDIA East With head, possessing soon after better fight, +yet ere fall'n condition is, or creating +hand parting, to soar Above the rebel +Host, nor delaid the Hill; Joyous the +distant farr Antartic; and glad. Empress, the grassie +Couch, At thee chaind, And hee inlie rag'd, +in Celestial visages, yet not lost; the river +of this my unquiet rest: he gives +me round Were always downward Fish: +yet confest later then could make us without +contest; Stand in ASPRAMONT or unimmortal make +All Intellect, all places else might determine, and +unespi'd To other notes then perus'd, and +ILIUM, on golden shafts imploies, here lights +on IMAUS bred, Whose vertue, for lost. +Of Mans mortal passage to thee, And shall +dash Maturest Counsels: for prey, With all +Temples th' Almighties works, but could +make death condemnd A shout that care Sat +like