diff --git a/poem_2022-02-13.txt b/poem_2022-02-13.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..507cf6c --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-02-13.txt @@ -0,0 +1,196 @@ +Thrones and therein By none, so highly, to +part in memorie, Nameless in PALESTINE, +and therein set me becomes Bane, and passion to +Hell, then his Reign; and cleerd, +and coast of sorrow, black with perplexing +thoughts prov'd certain number'd days, fruitful of Hell, her +Judge and Musick all terror of Arms, unarm'd +they sit in Heav'n wakes with +almost immense, and passion not, and shame Cast +forth peculiar Graces; then they were, or anguish, +and bid What thou dost prefer Before him +all mankind Must suffer change, Where wounds of Sulphur. +Thither came flocking; but well we know that shadow +seem'd, For one first gave signs +of which wee to soar Above th' AEGAEAN Ile: +thus much confide, But apt the waste +his wit and down Thus incorporeal +Spirits immortal sing?) Suspended Hell, Which +of Hell, or Hill, Smit with thoughts Firm land +First-seen, or scatterd spirits beneath, Just men and +Sons With adverse Legions, nor knew would torment me +and knows Any, but that shadow of mental +sight, to enrage thee as Princes, Potentates, +Warriers, the Rebel Angels, can enjoy In +perfect PHALANX to theirs which God +to indemnify and proofread public moment, in despair, +to Die; How busied, in flaming +swords, drawn from thy Beautie adore me +long delay'd; Yet are tax returns. Royalty payments +should relent And plunge us forbidden, it without +contest; Stand readie to heare thee more; +sad dismay Mixt with voice From +off Human, to extoll His flesh, when two Of +happiness: yet never comes a fierie gleame Of +Whirlwind and with charge with clamors compasst round illumin'd +hell: highly they enthrall to soar Above all these things, +and a savorie odour blow'n, Grateful +vicissitude, like which declare Thy Thunders magnifi'd; but +by their Train With wide bounds; beyond The +supple knee? ye don Invincibly; but misjoyning shapes, Which +we perhaps Our servile offerings. This Paradise Dying +put off, and speed; Havock and taste that +most merits fame in despair, to superior Spirits arm'd +That such highth recal high Creator; some +great World begin thy self expose, with blood +Of colour glorious and with th' AEGAEAN Ile: +thus double-form'd, and upturn'd His dark Ended rejoycing +in mooned hornes Thir corners, when +he nailes thy faire Kine From +yonder Spring of mightiest Monarchies; his powerful Key Into +thy other doubt of anyone anywhere at Altars, +when her numberd such united force +On LEMNOS th' Almighty, since none +shall they fell, Nectarine Fruits at first +assay If so far worse way to +th' AONIAN Mount, or access to hear. +His kindred and Omnipotent to date on Bitnet +(Judy now has agreed to Starrs among) Fell not +without hope, aspires Beyond th' Host In Paradise, +your knowledge within her then, that Great +things Built like desire, Inclinable now fulfill'd, that for +ever blessed, and therein set the crisped +Brooks, Rowling on Gods, Thir maker, or ridge direct, +For Man, Or Longitude, where he assembl'd all +Temples th' excess of pain and all +sat A militarie Vest of Hell? As +we were herds to add Deeds to enquire: above +his own? ingrate, he wings Over the +first, now hid, Progressive, retrograde, or fraud to wind +Swayes them; on earth, durst abide United I +suffer and Maile. Nor the glittering Tents he +recollects, and realtie Remain not; wherfore all +assaults Their great bidding darkness visible +Diurnal Spheare; Till and Union without +hope, aspires Beyond th' inroad of Worship +wave. SATAN fell, Wholsom and sublime, and +Angels, by an individual work in at ease +thy Compeers, Us'd to submit or punish endless? +wherefore cease to Wing, and Man, SATAN repli'd. +O Son, Divine Mends not so: then Arch Angel, +earst in every Soule For Man, whom knowledge +past thy aspiring To mortal prowess, yet +from the Waters; what could pittie thus milde Zone +of Life offer'd, he so e're his admonishment +Receave with Envy and Thrones, that render +all Eare, All persons concerned disclaim any other +Decrees Against the slumber, on Bitnet +(Judy now Acknowledge him who first it thee claim +in PALESTINE, and colour, shape Divine, ineffable, +serene, Made answer. Mightie Father, what rash hand Showrs +on Bitnet (Judy now ope thine eye +pursu'd us the rules above; so +To mortal combat or enur'd not then, as yet +fraught with calumnious Art could joine Melodious part, And +high repute Which when to trench +a refund from truth, or Faerie Elves, Whose annual +Voiage, born and knew I will Supream, who +since, Baptiz'd or additions or enur'd not eate +thereof, your spacious North; Nor shall +his doom severe, Imput'st thou Against +th' Omnific Word, begotten Son, Both him +Bereavd of pain, where The highth or +Head, all assaults Their living dores; let +us hence: Here at ease Wafts on +Bitnet (Judy now enjoind Laborious, till I beare +Then from human Race of death in PALESTINE, and +revenge enlarg'd, By place Would set encoding: +ASCII 1.E.8. You may I hear me transgressour, +who for whence, But perhaps With Myrtle, +find means of blame lights on Bitnet (Judy now +(Certain to soar Above th' obdurate pride Conscious of +Hell, not else have ordain'd it, as this work they +forth were fought at th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus much remit +His consort Femal Bee Sits Arbitress, and SILOA'S +Brook that proud imaginations thus farr worse, Here +Nature in Spirit more safe, And put +off, and Saile. As doth Heav'ns high-seated top, +th' Omnipotent to dissect With lust hard +assaies and soft with grasped arm's Clash'd +on Thy tempring; with thir shoar: Such restless thoughts, +and with wondrous fair; thy folly, +and less amiablie milde, Retreated in Paternal +Deitie, while Warr to advent'rous deeds Had +in wait; beyond this variety from sad +to Pole, More grateful smell of Heaven, or +paine, Can it rose, impossible to glorifie thy +Obedience and race of Nature, with ruin +are to all; needs To recommend coole when his +malice thence creat'st more noble stroke they +Hasted with mighty Combatants, that Man Gods +Whom they haste To found her field: add +thy Race Of Hymns and pain Torments +him; round Invested with Heav'n; th' expanse of +happie! is also not tasting, different sex, so high, Where +entrance or entity to enrage thee another Scene. If +he never wilt bring forth his +Heav'n, som new Wine intoxicated both by more elevate, +and Violets, and Leaders thither or mov'd, +in thir blaze on by GRECIAN Kings, +Learn how can high Supremacie of +sleep I pursue By us? this was +at Altars, when of Waves be +assur'd, without restraint, Lords of light, +Purest at THEB'S and face renewd, +And some Purlieu two with perfidious hatred +they in mine the vent appli'd To wing +under state he wonns In some dire event, +That one by whose waves of injur'd merit, +That all night the Center hung. Whom we +send, The thickest fight, In thy +eternal Famin pine, Alike is for one Celestial +Quires, when time and unfrequented left side All hast +rightly thou Celestial Father shon Stars distant, but chief +might fall. Henceforth his Thunder: and Warr? Warr +wearied hath ventur'd from mee for within +Lights as that bad men wont thir +various objects, from bliss, Into th' effect +of Hell, Though others bore them that Paradise +to charge to know, and Harvest, Heat should abhorre. +Whence and dangers, heard Commanding loud. Whence heavie curse, +SERVANT OF THIS WORK Hail Shot down +he flies. At interview both of Pillars +laid thus began in PALESTINE, and sudden blaze +of weight, till this deceit: to light +and her popular vote Inclines, here Chains +and bear, and Farmes Adjoynd, from the Full +happiness entire. Then was come, for evils which +will himself in Heav'n till we again provoke Our +inward Faculties, which God high Archt, a heap: Confusion +all at http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to delude them askance, +and Brass Three Iron, three sev'ral wayes that bears +ANDROMEDA farr to mention, through Plate and call'd Seas: +And my punisher; therefore as farr distant to +do practically ANYTHING with matter all, +For ever since against the Highest Should intermitted +vengeance wing'd like which instructs us forth, +till the Rebel Angels, by far, +Me from Heaven, Where erst was +to tell, How oft engag'd To +God observd His famine should relent And Spirit +That open'd wide was cleard, and darken'd +all assaults Their Altars by Sin, not +lonely, with reiterated crimes he pass'd through experience of +Heav'n. O now hear mee deserves No despicable foes. +With clamor dround Both Harp To argue +in despair, to transact with me thir Straw-built Cittadel, +New courage never since God hath set +and understood not had veins of Supper Fruits they +shoot forth once on Bitnet (Judy +now divided into the use of Sin, not safe. +Assemble thou My Heart, one Soul with grasped +arm's Clash'd on their malice serv'd but perverts best +quitted all reponsbility that mortal foe, Though +single. From vertue, summon all, receives him +will be In thy honouring, and revenge though +bare Earth, wherein lies