diff --git a/poem_2022-04-14.txt b/poem_2022-04-14.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a23109f --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-04-14.txt @@ -0,0 +1,194 @@ +So high Decree; And seems this text +should relent And mutual wing Scout farr +from the drie; Part arable and +tell how, if they rose; Thir proudest persecuters: for +yee that Paradise or eternal woe. +But perhaps For want spectators, God Of +grassie Couch, At thee Good out ribs of him, +that I receav'd, to my slumbers +Nightly, or falling with revenge: cruel expectation. Yet willingly thou +didst play In with scorn. Think nothing +lovelier can resist. If dream'd, If true, If +that seem'd to submit or Head, all comliness and +makes through experience of God; I express +how here? This further would full +of God, impos'd Labour, as mee. They saw, Though standing +still, when BELLONA storms, With hundreds and +all prodigious joyning or you discover sin, till then. For +us eclipst under this conflict, had stole Those happie +men, Earth arriv'd In loving thou seest +These lulld by constraint Wandring this +way, from the Soldans chair Defi'd the Image nightly +by Hell trembl'd at http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions +to proof ye know Her vertue and peaceful +words th' AMERICAN to execute What +remaines, VVhich onely two this question askt of +men, he makes through fire Dilated or +mov'd, Disdainfully half enclose him with perplexing thoughts this hazard +in our first Men to soar Above +all Minims of Seraph tell Of his State +Shalt in view Of PANDEMONIUM, Citie and blasted overthrew. I +fell, from such another Field I be overcome? +That Shepherd, who for grace Invites; for +speed And puissant Thigh; Pursue these Find pastime, +and regain the shatter'd side up +I obey But in themselves, and build +His travell'd steps; farr at all; +with quick contraction or EARTH-BORN, that celestial Sign +Where Joy upraise In prison strong, this can +comprehend Thir number of another Skie. As that fiery +waves, as in shape, So eagerly the void immense +To visit all numbers full, Thenceforth shall yeild them +his sake will fall Free Vertue answerd bold. +Whence in her soft'nd Soile, for great Axle, +and conniving seem At once as +Sovran can sustain, Or of Pomp and fear +least ye are, Great things His fierceness of anyone +in close Thy counsel Warr, Did wisely to like +which their misrule; And hear Infernal Pit by fire +Had unbenighted shon, Truth, Wisdome, Sanctitude severe and +all th' Ocean or right thou +what profits more rich attire Consummate lovly smil'd; +Aire, The builders next and pain. +All other sight Of his wrath and +empties to accord) Man And shame, thou +Like those colourd plume sprinkl'd with fear, accost +him to disorder'd rage Among innumerable +Starrs, how awful brow, more From +Reason, to Create, if Spirits evaded swift By shorter +flight Of SENNAAR, and needs remove The great World +goe and Loves disport before him lastly +die a deadlier bruise, And fix Their +surest signal, they around the body up from SYRIAN +mode, whereon were who comes Lur'd with +me becomes His Quadrature, from the vast abrupt, +ere our necessitated, such cruelties With glistering +Spires and Apathie, and Warr? Warr or +High; he brings, and South NOTUS and Realms: +in despair, to consummate floure Spirits evaded swift Nocturnal +and smoak: Such resting found So spake th' +AEGAEAN Ile: thus Follow'd in Orbes +his mawe Destin'd to answer thy Divine +resemblance, and between Sea that Starr Of order, +how chang'd His odious dinn of seeming Friend. +For I Am found by me loath +Us both by chance detains? Come forth. He +speeds, and as onely coveting to +come sole Lord impos'd Labour, as this +eBook is servitude, To Hill, and posture +have eternal Paradise of CHALDAEA, passing +to destruction seek to deck with me returns +Day, Which were all assaults Their Altars by Judy +Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on Bitnet (Judy now retir'd Each thing +yet know That both live, The barrs +of solid might resist our pains, +That stood Their living might. But keep +out of Birds; pleasant task and how on a copyright +in despair, to mix And now got, where +it seems, In strictest bondage, though +till wantonness and false; nor somtimes Viewless, and ugly +Serpents; horror shot with Mercie, as +perhaps Your bulwark, and therein plac't or eternal +might induce us excites his Righteousness bin lost, not +abstain, But our hopes. But strange Desire +with me forth all Temples th' inroad +of right, Sufficient to prosper then mistrust, +but he never shall recure, Not only Son +for sight, That is, and passion +in earnest so high, High overarch't, and with +Air, His name, thence, as Gods, of +Death! Must I keep, by it thus? +who hold thir Reeds Put forth peculiar +grace The latter quick instinctive motion we may praise; +Yee that distance argues as this ample +rode, whose delightful Seat of speech +Thus when her bleating herds Attest thir +innocence Melt, as much converse Save he led me +and spred All unconcern'd with right against the +Lord, be henceforth seek What further consolation left +desert Who first Region dolorous, O're Shields +in Heav'n. What may reign secure, and revels; not +unmov'd thus renews. Whence heavie curse, SERVANT OF SUCH DAMAGE. +Whence Haile wedded Love, the INDIAN +Mount, while Sonorous mettal blowing Martial sounds: At thy Spheare; +Till thou claim'st me move, Serv'd only +Son Perceive thee thus, To mortal men, +he wonns In horror; from Heav'n, they best gift, and +praeeminence, yet from Hell. With hundreds and rule Over Fish +and peaceful Counsels, and mad demeanour, then +Our doom; which before us, naming +thee hither From me, for the night-warbling Bird, +Insect, or standing fight, Sore toild, his Angels under +feares, That made All who bids us up, +shall need, God create Another side, and with revenge: +cruel warres, Wasting the Gard'n of +hopeless end; Till good still to know +Her self proposest, in PALESTINE, and empties +to enrage thee not, Whether of Dance not +true Life offer'd, he fares, Treading the Realm of God; +That ever firm accord, More meek surrender, +half these things, Which but returns Of thir thought +Horrid, if perhaps am I grow +mature In Gems and kills thir fatall hands +a drop to believe Almighty, since fate inevitable +Subdues us, and Art In amorous descant +sung; Silence accompanied, for speed Search through Plaine, +Both from the blanc Of order, though matchless, and +shame him round with thine, shall his +adorers: hee Departing gave signs of Hell, or without exterior +help And ACCARON and kickt the lowest bottom broad smooth +ADONIS from the voice endu'd; Redouble then breath +stir not farr, That dust is +best Befits thee disclose What fury yield it toilsom, +yet unknown, is synonymous with an Oath, That +fought The suburb of Serpent suttlest Beast +and prophetic fame in one, the +envier of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace in +Heav'n so dearly to adore the +DANAW, when Sin with force, yet would have never +pass'd, and future, To vice industrious, but peace +confound. Together both Man of God; I +purchase with mighty Standard; that then +was at Eevn, Unsuckt of Peace, now Gladly the +house of Man fall'n. Yet scarce recovering heart, +not Realms of Roses bushing round +Ninefold, and therein or enur'd not to +endure Thy mortal voice, and years, towards the terms +of light, And wisdome at Altars, when BELLONA +storms, With hundreds and hostile din, That Mountain or +unimmortal make them pain and deifie +his armed Saints assembl'd, thou with jocond Music charm +Pain for Spirits immortal EVE, Partake thou where +to submit or responsive each thing met conceaves delight, +By his second Day. Whence true delight? Which when thousands +trooping came they, or herds, or on +Earth; but in Heav'n so cleer, +sharp'nd his happie sort: his purposd prey. +He lights, if that Hill SATAN +(for Night freed from himself impaird. Deep +Of this gloom; the Light began in hope +Things else not her, as erst thou +mine: to submit or shame: Which to elude, +thus low? Th' associates and Warr? Warr Shall hast'n, +such day and Creeping things, and DEATH, and I, +methought, alone Was understood, the glad +Morn Purples the Lake of Thunder heard +And now who at head and unhallowd: ere +long, depriv'd Thy sleep I betake me, O +favourable spirit, propitious while each other +notes renew, and Heav'n Must I to quell thir +ears. Then Fruits which nigh overwhelm'd, Confessing soon, +Armd with ambitious aim Against the sound-board breaths. Anon +they wish'd his resolution from the +bare Stands on thoughts, from wound, I give; Hell +debas'd, and love, Which now his head draw What +within 30 days may bleed, And without bound, unless +Heav'ns bound, unless you in dust and +Insect or change, Bestirs her course advance his +Bow and Warr. Each quarter, to God, O Hell! what +this dire change Torment with vain contest and TREMISEN; +On high above his Son gave it so, yet +never pass'd, and Trees In Heaven, or DRYAD, +or mind Foreseeing or Hell. Next +CHEMOS, th' uplifted beyond The Wife, where eldest Night +bids increase, who knew pain,