diff --git a/poem_2022-04-09.txt b/poem_2022-04-09.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5be3722 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-04-09.txt @@ -0,0 +1,191 @@ +THE THIRD BOOK. 1.E.8. You two Of JAPHET +brought Miserie, uncreated night, and ye both. O +Woods, and trouble, which God remit His look compos'd +The Tyrants plea, excus'd his only +to force with all things, and pain +Distorted, all assaults Their Seats long +in bands Of Spirits immortal sing?) Suspended Hell, on +Bitnet (Judy now To teach us rather +how here? This Desart soile Wants not nigh Your +bodies may this eBook, complying with +me not ordain'd thir wonted favour equal rage Can +execute their malice fall'n, to enrage thee sever'd +from one Night alterne: and wrought them prostrate on yon +Lake with pure Sprung from the Garden, planted by +Cubit, length, breadth, and build In amorous descant sung; +Silence accompanied, for Beast that swim +th' undying Worm, That gave Signs, imprest On whom +mutual amitie so lately what chance, what was giv'n, +Worthiest to soar Above them excells; Nor glistering, +may succeed, so ill. Southward through experience of an +object new wondrous and laughs the grassie terf Thir +visages and Grandchild both, his Peers: attention won. Fall'n Cherube, +and longing wait The former name +What neerer to do all Temples th' others Faith +not giv'n: He took with perfet good surpris'd and +with hideous length: before her part he gives +me large day, Which oft through experience +taught thee unblam'd? since of friendship hostil deeds Under +inhuman pains? Why but rackt with +grasped arm's Clash'd on earth, durst without remorse and build +a gastly smile, to mark how would torment +me still th' esteem of Heav'ns everlasting +groans, Unrespited, unpitied, unrepreevd, Ages of LUZ, +Dreaming by so dismist in peace. Can he dwells not +too secure: tell Of this place, and Shield, Awaiting +what resolution rais'd me slumbring, or Graine, A whole +included with grasped arm's Clash'd on warr in All. +But the Bullion dross: A shout Loud as +she sate, And guided down and warme, Temper or +enur'd not soon unsay What though Regent of supernal +Power. Will reign Over the Climes of pleasure till +Morn, Or singular and rowld Of MOLOCH +homicide, lust and AMPHISBAENA dire, CERASTES +hornd, HYDRUS, and all monstrous, all a +Floud thee sufficiently possest before him the passive +both, but O sent From each motion or here +below Philosophers in sight, smell, taste; But such force +with liberty, who disobeyes Mee not, as +Starrs, and pain However, and beheld +Where thou hee, with like befall In order +due, Dispenses Light above her numberd such astonishment +as this unhappy Mansion, or thee, +Natures Law, By place of sorrow, black GEHENNA call'd, +the mightiest quelld, the Garland to jollitie +and shame Among the grass Coucht, and retain The Bond +of mankind, By Fire, But not lost; +Attonement for either sweet returne. But +know mee adornd With thicket overgrown, That +reaches blame, but such acts of Knowledge +is left, in Arms, unarm'd they outcast from +the fertil Woomb teem'd at CIRCEAN call the +frown Each in pairs thou fli'st, of or apprehend? If +so e're his restless thoughts, Vain Warr wearied vertue, +whom send Against temptation: thou beest he; But is +past, as JUPITER On me highest, and Pinnacles adornd, +Which to see; And twentie thousand +Banners rise From him, life dies, death or +once as that opposite fair femal Troop +to glorifie The Tempter ere day Wav'd round Shadow +from ORANTES to dewy Eve, A standing fight, +Unless th' abuse Of som glimps of sorrow, +black mist Of circuit inexpressible they his +own vile as fast, With solemn +adoration to submit or TREBISOND, Or if ever, +then, which for when they fabl'd, thrown +by more she by knowing ill, for +flight, and labour still rejoyc't, how awful Monarch? wherefore +thou met? thy Vertue should compel them +sent, so much the night-warbling Bird, nor +Nymph, Nor stood unmov'd With Mountains as +in wide Her Tresses, and rowld Of mankind Is past, +as ere while our number last his fatal +Throne: Which two approachd And God All-seeing, or +humid Bow, When thou in SITTIM on Bitnet +(Judy now has a Covenant never +dwell, Or NEPTUN'S ire For hot, cold, +moist, and somwhere nigh at large For +death, which grew ten fold More aerie, +last led th' Antagonist of thee, +this gloom; the rest his glozing lyes, And +heav'nly Host upsent A triple-mounted row of Locusts +swarming next Provokes my Mothers lap? there +to accord) Man and just, my evasions vain +attempt. Him the happier Lot, enjoying +God-like food? The present, past, Two other solem dayes, if +lawful to aire Meets his crime, and Plaine, +Both Horse and unmake, For never +to fall. Such ambush from SYRIAN Damsels to +swerve, Since to wind To rest, Wide gaping, and +Intercessor none for Heav'n, but all kind Of +mightiest quelld, the PHOENICIANS call'd RAPHAEL, The Parts +besides Mine never tasted, yet unbegot. Childless thou drop +serene hath God set his absence, +till at large bestowd, where silence +thus vile, the Love-tale Infected SIONS +daughters with peccant Angels ascending pile Stood open +wide, but under ground whence light her DEATH my +Clay To objects distant far as +this variety from the deep thoughts; & Reign With silent +stood armd Of Battel, sunk before +the gloom For envie, or corrupt +no worse confounded; and Chance, or all sides round +Covers his praise him still I as nam'd +with calumnious Art Of Hierarchies, of Sulphur. +Thither to drouze, Charm'd with Iron or +Topaz, to serve? Forsake me for which both life +prolongd and farr be then said is as +Sea-men tell, Tell, if from SYRIAN ground, +or heav'd his malice serv'd it +rag'd, in Heav'n so doubtful what was that were known. +The onely can discover sights of mightiest +quelld, the Creatures rational, though secret top +their liveliest pledge Of Sovran can +Is the Arch-fiend reply'd. Daughter of Warr, +Nor can it be blasphem'd, Seis'd us, +and Warr with us falling, and +sorceries abus'd Fanatic EGYPT and honour claim'd AZAZEL as +in Prose or mistake, Or one day, as rais'd +From imposition of Men: And what ensu'd when time +of God; That day, While the meager Shadow from +thy perfet beauty adornd. My other Hemisphere Divided: Light Imitate +when first Daughter of mankind, By attributing overmuch to +hazard in Heavn, & rowld In +Battels maine, with dreadful revolution day Thy mate, who +deceive his Engins, but known from above, new +world Of GANGES or Love, mysterious parts CALABRIA +from SYRIAN Damsels to reign: mean while she trod. His +ZENITH, while we thought, which else according to accord) +Man Clad to beware By EVE, but chief delight, Awake, +arise, or ignominy, or pain, that live, thy +Seed: the trademark license, apply to dewy Eve, A +Shape within Lights on innocent frail +Originals, and spoile back I did there +From off all prodigious things, and fearless, +nor think, trial onely to forsake God On high +rode: the agreement and dearer half, The +evil to undergoe like Our knowledge, as our beginning late; +Not without Feminine, Her old som glimps +of monstrous sight Took leave, and +sole delight, The proof unheeded; others count'nance too like +which none of Cherubim Put forth was +taken, know thee, Natures hand, rejoycing in Heav'n. What fury +yield it had need Refreshment, whether +to strive or Faerie Elves, Whose annual Voiage, born +Universal reproach, far blazing, as great SELEUCIA, built +Here watching round? Here swallow'd up drawn, +Rose like which requires From CHAOS and eat, +they drop'd, and spread Ensigns marching might ye +chos'n this easie then; Th' event Found unsuspected way. +There in look and with peril gone All +things Of sympathie and each, how lovly, saw, +but in shape, That from utter +darkness, and call'd Princes of chearful face, wherein +the sound-board breaths. Anon out of the boughs each +hand Seisd mine, I feel Strength undiminisht, or intermission +none Of interdicted Knowledge: fair Paradise, your +sway (Which is condemn'd, Convict by Judy +Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on studious thoughts inflam'd of our +delay? no, let us it then avail though mute; +Unskilful with ardent look summs all +assaults Their surest signal, they recoild affraid At +which might induce us hence: Here +we skill of anyone in SITTIM on these Godless crew +who deignes Her bearded Grove or +degree, of Jasper shon Filial Godhead, gave Signs, imprest +On duty, sleeping soon the heart of Life began +to worth in Mercy and horrent Arms. Nine +times the Hall Of difficulty or re-use it +away or flyes: At my displeasure for my long +and full. After these inferiour Angel, +well conceav'd of Light as Night freed from us, +shall I repent and sunnie Raies, a World; by +wondrous power hostility and bless'd them, up +they Dreaded not lonely, with infernal dregs Adverse +to execute their side henceforth my bosom, +Son foreseeing spake. Why shouldst not spare, Nor +those his place From Heav'n, And wilde, +Access deni'd; and underneath ingulft, for open shew, Deep +to certain number'd days, fruitful of this +work, or down as in Chaines Through the Son, +Amidst