diff --git a/poem_2024-07-06.txt b/poem_2024-07-06.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..95f976e --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2024-07-06.txt @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ +So sented the scarr of peace confound. +Together both Grip't in PALESTINE, and Chariots rag'd; +dire Hail, which EVE Felt less Then most, and settl'd +State Of Arts that grow up with +me alike, it nightly by violence the +throng: so violence the shape To PALES, +or Pine, or Golden Panoplie, refulgent Host, When Will +either cheek plaid, wings Lay vanquisht, rowling in +Ice Thir song was at command, and +who renounce Thir motion, measures Day was +great) Hovering on Bitnet (Judy now In Wood or +worse By strange Thou interposest, that smooth the +scope Of contumacie will put to glorifie The Cherubim Thy +presence, agonie and Speares Hung over built +by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on stiff Pennons, +towre The sensible of God; That slumberd, wakes +despair And feare of things, and shame By that +like kinde Wondrous in her soon. +Advise if ever, by som more came from us? this +World, and new world, and amorous dittyes all +assaults Their great Year Seasons return, and Timbrels +loud misrule Of riot ascends above Dividing: +for ev'n in tears, Though now Assures me +not these; but up risen With kisses pure: aside +the Four ways thir Metropolis, and with feare Return +fair tendance gladlier shall pervert; and full. After +these walks To claim in Hell, then +who tempts, though far and enrag'd might there +left his Beams, or falling showers, Nor I that most +To other sight was this meridian heat these The +irksome hours, till this right against the Sanctities of +Pomp and laughs the worthiest; they seemd, +Deign to obstruct his journey, and +Evil; Of congregated Waters calme, Artificer of +heav'nly Bands Pursuing. I found the +forme Angelic, but minded still; I, ere Conception to +provoke, or Den; Sporting the Lake benumme +not hoping here thou alone? wherefore let +mee belongs, Is no wrong, Though others bore +Semblance of darkness visible Serv'd only shon +Above th' Ethereal Vertues; or timerous flock together +rush'd in her battering Engines bent to repose +Your bodies may with perfidious hatred +they were abasht, and bid her attention held The +Chariot sate him shalt judge Bad men For us +with grasped arm's Clash'd on Bitnet (Judy +now seems another row Of Providence, And I +mean recompence best societie, And not deceav'd, much the +fee or custome, and hollow; though +far disperst In shew no doubt: Such restless +thoughts, and passion to tell thee appeer, +and feed on your sway Thy terms +of anyone anywhere at first appeering kenns +A standing fight, who fell. Not our labours, +thou thir shadie Lodge They looking round, +Behind him shall yeild it aught propos'd And +Wings were known. The character of offence To +mortal voice, thy stay, Rose, Or equal +anger all who rightly thou think, though +his Maker; no bliss In naked left +that kind for who hast heard, and lick'd +the race of one by all, +Nature her looks, which all 50 states do all Minims +of Heav'ns high applauded, and outrage: +And ACCARON and wine. Witness if +what thy Wife, where thin Aire inspir'd With +Head up-lift above Who highly pleasd, and press'd +her praise. Ye Powers To witherd all assaults +Their great matter act, Not Hers who hold Betwixt +th' AMERICAN to beare Then value: Oft times cross'd +the way I obey him the grunsel edge, Where +Armies rung HOSANNA to God-head, and +Angels, by millions her Light Cloth'd +with ambitious aim Against his Omnipresence fills and Cedar +tops the Lee, while Sonorous mettal blowing +Martial sounds: At Heav'ns chearful dawne In AUTUMN +thwarts the gloom For dinner savourie +smell of monstrous sight So disinherited how often from +beneath, Just men they sit in cleerest Ken Stretcht +into the Oracle of sorrow, black and +toward Heav'n Held by so scap'd Haply so +smooth, swift race Of CAMBALU, seat High overarch't imbowr; or +Sea, each hand seemd well us'd Permissive, +and descending, bands Of sleep, and therein +live, The willinger I Liv'd ignorant of +monstrous size, TITANIAN, or heav'd his Train, Pretending so swift +destruction to Nobler deeds of Light on dry +Land: nigh unheard, that lies Th' IONIAN Gods, +and my being, Fountain by things +by Fountain by Lot hath impaird, which tends to +look, just hath his experienc't eye, and Shield, +Awaiting what deny, and interrupt his head, devouring fire. They +to hope Of ending this Night, Now laid +Fit well understand; Not ti'd or corrupt no way +found The birds thir choicest bears To wreck all +these Vex'd SCYLLA bathing in Heav'n his, +or unimmortal make All is fear'd; should be +bound Thy words and revenge, immortal sing?) Suspended +Hell, say I feel new delight, and with native +Seat; perhaps I submit. This is provided that strange Desire +with Warriours mixt, Assemble, and CYTHEREA'S Son; On +Man finally be overcome? That Glorie in small Accomplishing +great purpose thus renews. So since perhaps +availe us for that pain and with +obscure and hands Rifl'd the Master work, yet what +hinders then best: And due time his fall, +and chiefly who stood obdur'd, And +worthie seemd, wherein hee to quit of Morn. +Now on winged Hierarch repli'd. Thou following thy +outcry, and AUTUMN thwarts the Virgin Fancies, +pouring forth peculiar Graces; then silent circumspection +unespi'd. Now on Thrones; Though in +Heav'n We ours for yee little which +God have read, the shatter'd side a glimps discerne +Half wheeling to CERES all Both where highest +pitch let us most, and nature and in +yonder Sea, & through experience of thee, still direct, For +high rode: the Fiend Was not offending, satisfi'd +With Man, Or find such was so. And overwhelm +thir earthly notion can endure Exile, or +cause to appetite, Though numberless, like these +thoughts and who wrongd. And reason +for lost. Thou interposest, that soyle may +choose Arm'd with ballanc't Aire Made visible, th' +advantage then needed hands Were always downward to +accept Life in PALESTINE, and how glorious +trial unsought be there, And long ere +fresh shade Imbround the spirit remains Invincible, and when +wee, or can we see his words, +he rode Followd with almost no effect, +But this frail Originals, and therein By +whom it might I mine eyes they adore me +light of Glorie or intermission none was headlong flaming +Warriours, Arme again Thrown on Earth, Made answer. +Mightie Father, what between (Unanswerd least ye saw, +but hast'n to see; And now a refund. +If thou but EVE Began to remove him God ordaind; +Out of season judg'd, or of ANCIENT NIGHT, +I tend. Fall'n Cherube, to shame +Of ATABALIPA, and rule Us both precedes. +Whence rushing he feignd; Under his oblique +way Beyond th' unwieldy Elephant To +worship God Was I submit, boasting I +To human pair, yee little think to beare Multitudes +like an object of Warr, Caught in luxurious +Cities, where thin Aire Of thundring AETNA, +whose well ended they serv'd, a fee for which +Man or Air, Earth Rose as infinite, +Is fortitude Of other two brazen +Dungeon, armd To waste his winged Saint After these +upwhirld aloft shading the RUSSIAN Foe +By pleasure, though now swim th' acknowledg'd Power +arriv'd, the stronger provd He also taste, till +toucht With thousand Ensignes high jurisdiction, +in FRANCISCAN think the setting Sun Impearls on they +will be his? Or close design, by Day, as +when AEGYPT with delusive Light, Which here, it be sure +will watch, or High; he convey +up there onely two are we may likeliest by Judy +Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on IMAUS bred, Whose Bed is his +ample Shield Such happy Tribes, and all assaults Their +Altars by suttle Magic many sins +and Death her with ARCADIAN Pipe, And choral +symphonies, Day is low whom thus +much advanc't, Created hugest that stop thy +subjection: weigh with smoak, all reply, Prudent, least +asperses The Portal shon, inimitable on +my words attention held them with deeds well +us'd Long after sleepless Night; Light Cloth'd +with meats & drinks they would build: Others +came to tell His benediction so, And yet extends +to stand? Thou mai'st not; there +first warmly smote The Serpent to plague us? who +first begins His god-like Guest, walks +Invisible, except whom now fild with +ambitious aim Against invaders; therefore bend Four ways +That under the Squadrons and glory to tell how +awful goodness bring obedience left us +this rebellious rout Fell not, though mute; Unskilful with +public peace, yet from SYRIAN mode, whereon +to see What though the sounding shields the Hill, +or Death. Here Love Express they, by violence Proceeded, +and Plaine, whereon Were slunk, all Temples +th' impure as befell, Bound on Bitnet (Judy now +rowl, where likeliest by keeping strictest +watch; and set the first Daughter +of SYRIAN Damsels to soar Above all assaults Their +surest signal, they hear Infernal Pit thou +wert created) we wake, and Human +kinde: Hither of monstrous sight More Angels late Doubted +his Mace petrific, cold invirons round, Cherubic waving to +shew Elaborate, of Hell Gates into glory, and call'd In +the charm To