diff --git a/poem_2020-10-03.txt b/poem_2020-10-03.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..604689c --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2020-10-03.txt @@ -0,0 +1,192 @@ +Silence, and suttle Magic many Myriads though +then stood Her gather'd now Saint +PETER at our afflicted Powers, If he calld The utmost +Orbe Of easie yoke Of EVE, For +heav'nly Thrones, Princedoms, Powers, Consult how Hee +in PALESTINE, and being forgets, Forgets both +for obtaining a whip of anyone in thine +owne. Because thou us who fill I labour +calls us oft be peace, Said hee, but henceforth +most excell, In Paradise, fast had new +created like which yonder blazing Cressets fed +With God, and mad demeanour, then +bursting forth her rural sound; If +once past, Two dayes, As after us remote From +your thrall, and with words made thee not, +though thereby to shew no satietie. All +are wont thir awe from one small partition, +and deform: on dry Land: nigh founderd on Bitnet +(Judy now his Brothers Offering found they +finish'd, and flaming Warriours, Arme He views The Heav'nly +love & might rise I pursue Vain wisdom +didst inspire That durst defie th' occasion +pass commodiously this text should be worse abhorr'd. SATAN +had descri'd, To entertain The Monster moving Fires As Flesh +to enure Our task and goes: but turns +Wisdom without Feminine, Her Temple right +we break our plots and so pleasant, his +place of stain would intermix Grateful digressions, and place foretold +Should be, who first wraught the Plaine, Both Harp +Had circl'd his Angel unpursu'd Through labour still longer +to be weak is his, or their +fears. Then feed Air, and call'd Satan, with vain +Covering if lawful to acknowledge whence warne him MOLOC, +Scepter'd Angels born, with deep Consider'd every Soule Are +ever to descrie Communicating Male he call'd Mother +of Night, Fierce as that strife +of vernal bloom, but that right +into my nether Empire, and make us invisible to +suffer and Thrones, but brings A race of Worshippers Holy +Rest; Heav'n perhaps, Not yet confest +later then The Monarch, and rising sweet, +Nor the gorgeous wings, and Mattin, when +BELLONA storms, With shuddring horror shot Darts +his ire, Or fansied so, for who enjoy +thee, Wondrous in foresight much more, is reason, and +receaves, As great Sire among the Wheels +her Bearth. If counsels different, or ridge +the Portress of Evening Cloud, Amidst the Potent +Victor in Heav'n so much less think Submission? Warr +Irreconcileable, to binde Volatil HERMES, and Stone, +Whereof hee Who having spilt much thir +pietie feign'd Or high repute Which gives Heroic deem'd, +I should they sat, by Hell +to descry new Counsels, and stay: forlorn and +Pure, and worth thy transgression due, Thir wandring +course he thereat Offended, worth not for +speed On all on the days work +Divine Imbu'd, bring forth among them in one +rising, saw Due search I seem At +least of upstart Creatures, universal shout Loud as mee. +They sat devising Death Inhumanly to pine Immovable, infixt, +and Plaine, whereon to part in Heav'n that thou where +your written Records now soild and Mirtle, and with +narrow vent appli'd To deathless pain? +where peace confound. Together both Bodie and obstacle +found Squat like themselves defac't While time To offend, +discount'nanc't both, from the spirited with me once, +now lament his Temple, on by restraint; +what we need feare, goe Before all +Farr otherwise th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus +consulting, thus much eas'd, Erwhile perplext All +these eyes, all Temples th' unwarie brest With +God, half in flocks Pasturing at +eeve In strictest watch; and with high +above Light, yet sinless. Of smallest Magnitude +close The fellows of monstrous size, TITANIAN, or +heav'd his wish, and with pomp Supream, And Life-blood +streaming to submit or arm the God +will trouble brought, wher found, How shall seldom chanc'd, +when in body, and drearie Vaile They pass'd, +and ambrosial frutage bear, Our walks To veile the +dark Flew divers, wandring thoughts, and +unrighteous deeds, Thy frailtie and Clouds +With dread of anyone anywhere at noon, +with wings a foe: and doubt distract His inmost +counsels from darkness visible Serv'd only +dreaded through hostile Arms not fear'd; should thus +bespake her thoughts and smoak: Such +disproportions, with our parting and don +by chance but thou thy example, but have my side, +the heart rebounds. Thus they walk'd: The Mother of +God; I else Superiour and lyes the op'ning to +find. Before thir King besmear'd with most or +Infidel Jousted in at command, and with hand alone +is choice) Useless and nobler Bodies first his +Peers: attention due. To such delay To vice industrious, +but retir'd, Victor and bear, Our purer +essence increate. Or satiate fury O thought To +dwell, As RAPHAEL, the ruful stream; With Frontispice +of incorrupt Corrupted. I re-visit now hear me thought, +and coast of Pomp and extoll Thy +merited reward, the Gentiles AMMON call them rising seem'd +Firm concord holds, unite thir fill all assaults Their childrens +cries unheard, that move or frustrate: in strength, +or proprietary form, pretended To Satan talking to +quell thir Matrons to soar Above th' +inviolable Saints assembl'd, thou bruise The last, Though Heav'n +he so the electronic work, in mooned +hornes Thir names Eternize here Beast, or liveless to +Death ready stands Least therefore so +soft oppression seis'd the gates of +Glorie in hatred, enmitie, and levie cruel +expectation. Yet unconsum'd. Before thy Law, and +neerer tending Each in Front Of all mist from +the rest From him, mee That fought at home, +While the Conquerour? who that tour'd +Fould above them not charge for the Giant Sons +of women EVE (for Night In Heav'n, this thou +took'st With Frontispice of courage and bliss, +condemn'd For in Aire aloud thus recall'd. +Whence true limit Eastward; but till +dewie locks That Shepherd, who fill'd With awful Monarch? +wherefore cease we hold Betwixt these +thy folly, and printed and renowne, Who +in foresight much advanc't, Came the total darkness by +EVE, now therefore hated, therefore hated, +therefore so on wing URIEL once as ere while +our Eevning on, with both disputes alike Victor; though +the Power I doe, yet never dwell, hope never shall +sink Beneath him out the sportful Herd +Of Spirit That slumberd, wakes the +hether side One over many Ages, and +those flames Casts pale course, both Skie, and rural +seat High eminent, blooming Ambrosial Odours and press'd her frozen +loyns, to tell Of tasting those Whose dwelling place. +Thrice chang'd in narrow room Throng numberless, and revenge +though earnd With Blessedness. Whence heavie pace the +cited dead in Thunder didst inspire That after him, +that celestial light? Be questiond and +find himself beginning knew? Desire with Spirit, but +peace And freed from the flowing haire In RHODOPE, +where stood as midnight Revels, by Limb +themselves, and Bowers, that what may least thou thy +victorious Bands With impetuous rage, Perhaps thou such resemblance +of God; That Shepherd, who enquire His +odious offspring whom imbracing, thus forewarnd the +pledge Of mankind Is fortitude Of difficulty +or highest design, by fiery Gulfe Confounded +though begun My Vanquisher, spoild of +Pipes that stuff this or timerous +flock together sowd, And joynd In +Labyrinth of joy Sole Victor in Heav'n. +What best prop so is best, What force +urg'd Main Ocean wave. SATAN except, none +would ye Heav'ns, though all Creatures of humane reach +or soon Absolv'd, if none I saw. +The works knowledge past that glittering Tents Of +richest hand he clad In sorrow stood, Thir stops and +warme, Temper or MAROCCO, or heav'd his curse Thir language +and Timbrels loud Heard farr distant farr Then of +change Of composition, strait the Field, In six wings dispense +Native East side the draff and lost, And +fell By pollicy, and soaring on dry Land, and +Plaine, Both of Sea should rest Ordain'd by +change more sweet dewes and with Mineral +fury, aid aspiring To mortal tast Brought Death Consort +with look denounc'd Desperate revenge, Accurst, and Soule, +Acknowledge him I never to impart; Both his +eyes more attentive minde Of watchful Senses +represent, She was In silence thus wrested from the +worse abhorr'd. SATAN spake, ambrosial smell of happiness +and with paragraph 1.E.8. You provide access Impregnable; +oft so dread of EDEN, shall die, Die +hee First Disobedience, and refin'd, more +illustrious made, and nigh. Neererhe drew, disdaining flight, and +valley rings. O spirit and passion +first awak't, and upon thir port Not emulous, +nor Man therefore whom JOHN saw also not long +have dreamd; Those have their Generals Voyce they assayd, +and sorceries abus'd Fanatic EGYPT marching, equal'd the +gracious was giv'n, Behold a Wood-Nymph light Shadowie sets +them breeding wings Wherewith to submit or for +in VALDARNO, to tears VVatering the LIBYAN JOVE, +BRIARIOS or paine. Far otherwise th' +offensive Mountain, built Magnificent this avenging Sword +of sin for they introduce Thir Table +was, but hast'n to drive as in Man May prove +thir meeting, and speed add wings, or Fate, Too +much of MOSES once have found Squat +like themselves ere th' Archangelic Power +prepar'd For onely our approaching heard Commanding +loud. Whence