diff --git a/poem_2021-04-22.txt b/poem_2021-04-22.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d10048e --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-04-22.txt @@ -0,0 +1,190 @@ +Such to destruction laid The Stairs were +foretold, of God; That witness'd huge of 20% +of Scorpions I adore. Gentle to found repose; +and Rocks and all Windes The penaltie impos'd, +to move, But infinite Thy way the change, Though ineffectual +found: misdeem not quite abolisht and all at +Altars, when Nature and wine. Witness if Predestination over-rul'd +Thir course, in PALESTINE, and passion first Pausing a +fierie spume, till rais'd From out of chearful +dawne Obtains the flowing haire In prospect; there +From off These cowring low Down drop'd, and +infuriate shall he impregns the welkin burns. +Others on earth, which fame in sighs began. They +dreaded worse deeds Fearless, endanger'd Heav'ns ray, and hoary +Frost Shall teach us most, and +food Gave them to officiate light imparts to +transferre The open sight Strook them +they little which follows dignity, might preserve Unhurt +our Fall, For Seasons, and throughout Dominion won, +Should favour equal anger infinite Host, rode sublime +declar'd in hell Precedence, none, but he held +it with shame hee incenst at +www.gutenberg.net Is this Universe, And Country whereof +in gloomiest shade, a Hell Roaming to +flight with expectation held it so, +An Earthlie Guest, and feel When to soar +Above th' inventer miss'd, so huge affliction and +ceases now Gladly into Raggs, then Death devote? Rather +your sway Of Fancie is free, but +that brightest shine. *** START OF ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER +THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PARADISE LOST *** START +OF THIS BEFORE YOU FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY, +BREACH OF HOPE, and Regions of Spirits bright the +surging smoak and low, then SATAN had And twentie +thousand Saints, or degrade thine own likeness: up +with Lioness; So he formd flesh Regenerat grow About +them proceeds, I mine involvd; and +all ye will By conquering this ill +in leveld West was wont to or +tongue of God in Heav'n Thus +hee once thir hinges great might see +him, colour'd then Remaind still pays, at eeve +In the World where thou saw'st Intended to soar +Above th' AONIAN Mount, while Universal Maker +to submit or talk Of old +EUPHRATES to joyn; and know. And season judg'd, Or +satiate fury thus advanc't, Created vast survey Useless +and perhaps Your message, like Day and +I through experience taught his Mediator, his kinde; And +shelterd round, Periods of anyone anywhere +at large in face I still receivd, And +Warr he governs. This my default, or +heav'd his humble Shrub, And Lakes +and willing feet I though mean to Death becomes +Bane, and glad Son in mighty +Cherubim; the aerie purposes, And overwhelm thir +shoar: Such disproportions, with clamors compasst round +he our dignitie How dark'nd; innocence, Defaming +as Princes, whom mutual league, United I attend, +Pleas'd highly they choose Through labour and Warr. Each +Orb perhaps Your numerous Orbs impose Such grace And +flouring Odours, Cassia, Nard, and divine Following, above them +better worse would full branches overgrown, grottesque and +remov'd may dwell in even to +woe, More easie, wholsom thirst I give his Bill An +Olive leafe he came, Led on warr appears Wag'd +in squadron joind Awaiting what best Whom we must be +invulnerable in Heav'n so e're his ponderous shield +Ethereal Sons. Our pleasant soile Wants not To honour +thou with me slumbring, or drink, and if +SION Hill nor care Hath toucht +With kisses pure: aside the vision beatific: +by Nature as in Waters generate Reptil with +rage. Farr off all Temples th' AEGAEAN Ile: +thus returnd: URIEL, one stroke To mortal change +Hateful to retaine Her Tresses, and therein plant A +place by break our Sanctuarie, our +Lord, be witness of Life. Nor past through Plate +and gain'd a registered trademark, and +longing pines; Yet fell; confounded CHAOS judge Bad +men Among whom hast made? So snatcht +will raise another Field They eat, they +onely right. Let us when at Altars, when AEGYPT +with hellish foes anow besides, They trespass, +Authors to reach or wades, or additions +or don against his Salvation, them loud Hosanna's +fill'd each other, as now, though divided and with me +up here in bulk as Head Crested +aloft, and two, her powers Disband, +and wilde Among the broad circumference Hung +over these corrosive Fires As present, and disturb His benediction +so, since by me hope no strife of rage more +your knowledge both Not to tell, ye Powers +as Rocks, Waters, Woods, and all to +accord) Man finally be wish'd, but nigh +the Bullion dross: A Mercie-seat above which op'nd +wide Territorie spred Among the suggested cause, +and every living Death? O Parent, +these then if much advanc't, Came towring, armd +To tempt with coole recess, Free, and right. For +since thine Of pleasure, though far worse +By Act of electronic work in sin, +till like which thus MAMMON led me, of God; +I shun, And now With ardor to all; +needs not reveal'd, which no unharmoneous mixture +foule, When CHARLEMAIN with after-bands, what if that +fiery concave touring high. As many Throned Powers, For +well thou eat'st thereof, forthwith spake, and shame +Of contumacie will pursue, but what +happiness and golden shafts imploies, here Full Counsel +must exasperate Th' Image nightly visitation +unimplor'd, unsought, Happie for Fate, Or down Th' Assembly, +as Sea-men tell, With blackest Insurrection, to boast, Begins +his Angels; and evil go This downfall; +since they villifi'd To punish endless? wherefore thou boast) +to joyn; and with transcendent glory excites, Or +fansied so, By LEO and involve, done his Quest, where +shall soon resume New rub'd with tender +herb, tree, fruit, and wonderful indeed all Temples +th' Angelic EVE, Those rare and beginning late; Not +obvious, not worst, Thus said. Native East came +still bark'd With his view Nor multitude, stand In +mutinie had heard, of things, let +us onely Son; On this Dart Strange horror +shot with dreadful gloom, Which uttering thus much +worse deeds Thou O then they shoot forth to +mark what stir not visible, when Nature and +staind, And worn with featherd maile Skie-tinctur'd grain. Like +Night, eldest Night Darkens the maine. Two dayes, As +we in bigness to light And I +keep, by stelth Had ris'n or humid exhalations, +and Reason joyning or undertake The Throne and drive +All knees to bring: Behold a heap +of power had first inflam'd of +SATAN alighted walks: a Race of happie! is also is +punish't; whence it brought: and breath'd immortal EVE, who +since, but favor, grace, The black mist Of Day +was seen Ten thousand Leagues awry Into his +Angels; and wine. Witness the Groves, the hight +of bliss; By sin to submit or +Earth, That run through agitation to bruise and +friendly still, That reaches blame, but I +Another part huge He to give his timely dew +of loftiest Towrs, And finde The western point, +where God not fear'd; should conceal, and +gently rais'd Ambition. Yet let us down unseen Wing +to som infernal States, we found, How didst inspire That +mighty Stature; on yon Lake thir shapes and RHEA'S +Son so thou shad'st The worst, If +care Hath raisd Bore him round he +spake. Why then prosperity Could have tri'd +whether our sighs began. If he pass'd, and soaring +on foot, Half wheeling to do practically ANYTHING +with Diamond and smoak: Such of light, but strict necessity; +Our purer essence then mankinde higher, Surpassest farr +thy contempt of Arms, In Courts +and swifter far, Me from sin hath +here seek Som advantagious act intelligential; but its +original lapse, true vertu void; Who from +SYRIAN mode, whereon MESSIAH King besmear'd with dispatchful +looks and thrice happie places thou boast) +to his voice, true delight? Which tempted +our Grand Parents in The Deep malice into +strange fire, He soon fill, Lodg'd in All. But of +Light. Aire, Fire, Against unpaind, impassive; from Eternal Father, thy +self; which wee wear, Strait side As Bees In DOTHAN, +cover'd field, I perhaps more graceful +acts, Those rare and ZEPHON, with rebounding surge +the tread Th' infernal Rivers mouth Cast forth +all sides round Were banded to till God +Rais'd impious rage, Perhaps thou profoundest Hell debas'd, and yawning +GRAVE at all; needs remove his decent +steps we may do thy hearts desire. If true, here +Chains in Heav'n. They light prepar'd, +The rest to save, Dwels in Orb: +Alreadie by command we must earne My word, +my Decree: But her Prime, Yet Chains and +willing feet submissive Charms Smil'd with outward lustre; +that equal Love; Least it rag'd, in +any country in thick entwin'd, As we resist. If +true, If then projecting Peace and protects. The multitude +of thee, As through experience of God; +That Man Recounted, mixing intercession sweet. But +still his Beams, or Mountain as in +despair, to dwell; That shew Elaborate, of +Spirits evaded swift wings, Reigns And scourg'd +with bad eminence; and drearie Vaile They +saw, with thee: Retire, or wanton passions in +opinion stand Before all involv'd With SATAN, hee +soon contemnd, Since through fire To argue in narrow