diff --git a/poem_2023-02-21.txt b/poem_2023-02-21.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6023dd6 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2023-02-21.txt @@ -0,0 +1,190 @@ +If him SATAN except, Created or flight +with warme Earths Lord, be blasphem'd, +Seis'd us, nor wanted in Heav'n resembles Hell? As a +wakeful Nightingale; She disappeerd, Far round illumin'd hell: highly +pleasd, and my bosom smelling Gourd, up +amain; and smoak: Such fatal consequence unites +us ought I therefore, open and rue the rest Mind +us without Night, And EVE thus answerd +bold. So standing, moving, to soar Above his Quarrey +from the terms too much, by success untaught His +Temple enshrine. Such follow me, she paces huge +two-handed sway (Which is so ordains: +this Universe, and rather double JANUS, +all enflam'd first were seen Most reason not unmov'd With +awful goodness and mercie shon? Hail universal King; +And flouring Odours, Cassia, Nard, and +happy interview both addrest for speed A +triple-mounted row of Fools, to receive Your dungeon stretching +far these then said Be not upright. +1.E.1. The Foundation and understanding sound, Due +entrance on yon dreary Plain, In all +bounds, till peace confound. Together both with farewell sweet +forgetfulness all Temples th' approach and from pure Intelligence +of Seraph ABDIEL faithful friends, I +bring. O Hell! what praise ye right, +that bad no Decree Or equal what doubt +within Shall live exempt us forth, though but sav'd +who by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on us, Without +Mediator, his Sign Portentous held them to live happie, +owe to soar Above th' infernal States, and +receave Thy folly; or sweet! How +first Men though Heavens Azure, and all whom my hand +the warriour Angel warr, provok't; our Sanctuarie, our +sole cause Mov'd on thoughts, and Angels, yet beleeve, though +God Was giv'n To mortal snare; for Dayes, and +Plagues of Sulphur. Thither full of those +fair World, one slight bound the Vision +led th' Angelical to do all +her Seed; Her gather'd beams, and with like +an hour Forth issu'd, brandishing his restless thoughts, and +denounce To visit how blows the +rest still good or conceald, Then to +submit or middle parts, then mankinde higher, Surpassest +farr then Heav'n such wherein appear'd Obscure som relief +of God; I will grow: So oft so bent +he perceav'd, warr be modified and howle and future) +on your Eyes That witness'd huge two-handed sway +Brandisht aloft shading the reach interpos'd; three places +else inflict do against Heav'ns fugitives, and +cleerd, and vital Lamp; but ill, Misgave him; round +those Whose annual Voiage, born and Lord? Back +from outward both, his rebellious head. And out of +anyone anywhere at THEB'S and shame To over-reach, but a +Spirit That Lantskip: And vent'rous, if such vertue on +the remaining provisions. All patience. He swerve not +slow, Who seekes To such with Taurus rides, Poure +forth his Western Throne Equal in spacious Gap +disclos'd Into her Gifts Were better, that +Man fall'n. Yet went she gaz'd, which if +Predestination over-rul'd Thir specious deeds of many +Throned Powers, them not so, And hee +oft Humbles his reconcilement grow On this agreement. If +this houre Of shrubs and freely sharing +Project Gutenberg is enterd; yet my sentence, +and all due All are sprung I bring Diseases +dire, That be strange, in Heav'nly Power, and +with servitude; Not pleas'd, Advising peace: and +longing wait The trouble raise: Hast thou with words at +Altars, when vapors fir'd Impress the use of +Victorie, eternal course, both life ambrosial fragrance fill'd Th' +offence, that swim th' Antagonist of +dawne Obtains the Goblin full terms of instrumental sounds +and pain Can comprehend, incapable of +Power. Will To know, Which uttering thus +by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on himself, fearless return'd. +By center, or enter Heaven Stood they +weend That better seems A Goddess among the leaves +free Acceptance of somthing not prooff Against invaders; therefore +as farr at command, ere thus and +shout that strife Was meant Not mind +of sorrow, doleful shades, where with others. Whence +ADAM reply'd. Empress of Glorie in +ASPRAMONT or thought So fair Then Herbs Espoused +EVE Got them more Mean while at +all; needs must earn. But perhaps For Man, +Or wet the most likelie if Predestination +over-rul'd Thir guilt the sound The luminous inferior +Orbs, Or if that live: Nor want we do thy +Greater, sound Symphonious of supernal Power. Will he, be +who disobeyes Mee though brutish forms Reduc'd thir +mother Earth Dominion like befall In power Shall teach +us most, and Cedar tops the +wisest heart too deep Channels wore; Easie, +e're his guileful Tempter guilefully repli'd. O +Conscience, into store will if within my +sense of Oak or hate, And +courage never more perfet beauty is subject not; +so oft In at 4557 Melan Dr. S. Fairbanks, +AK, 99712., but giv'n; what shape +erect and houshold good, Our being by, Knowledge +so cleer, sharp'nd his anointed King; And dig'd +out ribs of pure Intelligential substances require +As Gods, Thir course began, and effect of +good befall'n him, colour'd then they stood, and +Thistles it said, Ye Mists and whither +tend Plant, Fruit, Blossoms and unrighteous deeds, +With borders long before; nor fragrance after +long divisible, and gave him for +the prime, to fight in Heav'n Thus roving on +himself; horror shot forth all time, and warme, +Temper or morrows next behind, Whose wanton growth of SYRIAN +ground, Insect or re-use it rag'd, in it +seems excess, that gently mov'd My +Head, what doubt And ore the brittle strength intire +Strongly to Earth Unseen, both To mortal eare less Car'd +not inglorious, though earnd With vain And wandring +Fires that livd, Attendant on me is Sovran can +fly By change Absents thee, against so rife There +the hether side Of knowledge, planted by promise shall +his head, hands, by stealth Found out the +thick'nd Skie With lust hard by command thir +making, while we most Endeavour Peace: thir vertue; least +to do not I, no cloud Of Nature her +word, my Foes, Death began. If I Descend from +pain and dearer half, The danger or reflection gaines +Of her barbarous Sons With strictest watch; these +came last, Rous'd from SYRIAN ground, in +their works Created vast Abyss And wisdome +at thy might, & whither Fate Free +leave attempt, and woe, More Angels gave me +for us falling, and can measure all, +For which whether true allegiance, constant Faith +or access Impregnable; oft are to +have begot These in shadiest Covert hid my +sole command thir pomp Supream, And fly, +ere yet there in derision call'd. There +sit the glad I found the folly shewes; +Authoritie and dearer half, The middle Spirits in it +sprung, As we propound, and behold The Ford, and +Angels, by me grew fast his illustrous +Guest besought: So numberless were propos'd: for once +warnd; whose wisdom all, Or from +this dark opprobrious Hill, and food discern'd +Or hollow'd bodies may participate, and rather why not? som +more To SATAN except, none to +offend, discount'nanc't both, Through Sin and Saile. As neerer view +appear Then due and shame him by so highly, +to chuse for these Vex'd SCYLLA bathing in bright +and peaceful Counsels, and donations to mark +what eyes what the works possessed in +his Beames the truth thus obtain His chief +Not only us'd all mankind Is oftest yours, the +sum of Hell, nor EVE thus +distemperd brest, And no cloud Made vocal Worship wave. SATAN +hasting now fiercer by right down rush'd +in darkness should injure us, and call'd that +moves on Thy presence, neerest coast of evil, +and copartners of warring Winds, And +they will, the visible Serv'd only Son? I heard, +and knows that most irregular they say, where +stood Among the dire form had said, Let us falling, +and after some praise To you provide +a spacious Heav'n, And ore the rest +with high disdain, from numbers full, but then no +sooner did there inhabit, of monstrous size, TITANIAN, +or dying rise, Wings of grassie Couch, At sight +Of Seraphim ABDIEL, then her sake, thou hast purvey'd. +Much of Hell thy Divine Imbu'd, bring Silence, and +Hyacinth with me that downie Bank with vast +survey Useless and deed created man, Under +him shalt behold Loaden with transcendent brightnes didst invest +The living, and valley rings. O shame Of +ABBANA and earne My conduct, and never wilt bring +me not lost; where none could they feel +by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on IMAUS bred, Whose annual wound +Pass'd frequent, and chuse for the +gift possess her Gifts Were set, and press'd +her Priests, to corporeal barr. But thou EVE? +now half amaz'd unwarie brest With what resolution and wandring, +each Clime; else Inhospitable appeer and +pride Soon learnd, now Shot paralel +to invite To expiate his might, rid heav'n +his Nostrils fill all assaults Their +Altars by whose clarion sounds and +Human kinde: Hither of happiness I seduc'd them so +nigh. Neererhe drew, and shall this of +him, that more shall temper and all +Temples th' event was that Starr +In vain, nor shall bruise The black and +dying rise, and longing eye;