diff --git a/poem_2022-08-02.txt b/poem_2022-08-02.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b4f68c9 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-08-02.txt @@ -0,0 +1,194 @@ +Fall'n Cherube, and sacred Songs, In factious +opposition, till first approach thee unblam'd? since the World, +and am to transform Oft to enrage thee thy presum'd +So Man, and ZEPHON, with pale. But +first Wise to delight Both Heav'n it +thine now sat Second to Hell. Next +CHEMOS, th' Equinoctial Line stretcht out DEATH; Hell prescrib'd; +So sang of CHAOS: Or from the Tempter: on this +would either Wing, and dash Maturest +Counsels: for whence, But Heav'ns last +of Man till one seem'd his +head, but store conveyd: Part on Thrones; Though kept the +onely Paradise Dying put to participate All amaz'd +So spacious, and passion not, much of monstrous size, +TITANIAN, or under op'n flie above compare, And various: wondring +Eyes that tongue of Arms, and complain that +charm'd Thir penance, laden with shaddowing Squadrons Deep, +because we serve. Because thou hast, though wondrous he +sat; and Timbrels loud Their Altars by +decision more good dry Land From Heav'n, +Empyreal Heav'n, And Life-blood streaming to shun the +method you paid To HARAN, after showers, Nor +great MESSIAH was plaine, A mightie Bone, Flesh +of Right. So both perhaps the ruful stream; fierce +encountring Angels met thou didst advise, and +Ages of God; That were come +Into thee sufficiently possest before the Snowy top Of +SARRA, worn with joy Sparkl'd in +accordance with incessant toyle And inextinguishable rage; +Under this agreement, you for us +two Polar Winds Blow moist consumes: +But first appeering kenns A gulf can +bid dwell In shape To AGRA and drearie +Vaile They pass Without wrauth Impendent, +raging fires Awak'd should conceal, and +Torneament; then Death comes That I repent +or enter Heaven and pain, as by things canst redeeme, +Thir own works In wealth of +Angels, can measure what shall force Of +contraries; all equality with joy in store. What when +farr Antartic; and one use, For +him hung to evince Thir corners, +when such wherein remaind Stupidly good, why do they +sung they, by night In order set, and +Snow, or Faerie Elves, Whose higher in +Mercy and peaceful sloath, Not instant, but gathers +heap, and beginning woe. Yet thence on som +glimps of Light shon, Majestick though sinless, +with our first Parents, yet in Heav'n As a +number heard) Chariots rankt in sin derive Corruption to +plague us? who first were created, and +Creeping things, or computer virus, or +heav'd his people from SYRIAN ground, as in destroying +I suffer worse? is low Reverence don, +but all about the Muse to others, and +somwhere nigh hand Soon had suffic'd, Not instant, but +op'n Firmament compar'd this Infernal world, if +ever, by command To expiate his steps On duty, +sleeping found less could befall Spirit maligne, but +shalt goe, nor blame entire: Not Words interwove with +so oft In outward aid to soar Above them +that now, foretasted Fruit, in zeale None of Paradise +He with me forth Infinite goodness, grace They +eat, And flatter'd out of Men: And +now voutsaf't, other name unheard or falling, and +Armies bright, Which to reside, his Throne. So sented +the starv'd Lover sings To wing Came +like deeds Had shadow'd them in Heav'n +Err not) another World Of nuptial Sanctitie of +fight; The stonie hearts shall temper Hero's old +som new haunt Cleer Victory, to taste +is excelld by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on Of future evil +seek His bountie, following sentence, that honour +him wanton growth: Those thousand Banners rise From +Father made ease More plenty then wander +forth was cleard, and call'd RAPHAEL, said +hee, with obsequious Majestie of anyone in hollow Abyss +And liquid sweet. But perhaps A +Pillar of Birds; pleasant dwelling place. Thrice +happie ill Mansion: intermit no ill, for +the wound, and markt his Wing, and +ILIUM, on Bitnet (Judy now severe, +had formd, For Gods! yet unwounded Enemies, That +comes to do all past who am +wont, of Mississippi and all assaults +Their childrens cries unheard, that witherd all +thy new broiles: Be then thy +Saviour, shall to trace the deep, and deadly arrow; +neither Man Whom fli'st thou? whom hast made? So +easie, wholsom thirst Of ending this Night, eldest Night +freed from the paine Voyag'd the Son, by angry +Victor and with various hue; by +experience of thee, offerd peace: and know our happie +Garden plac't, Reaping immortal hate, To boast +in delight Both Harp thy doom, +Yet envied; against his thralls By thee, +dim thine eyes Directed in Heav'n Long were joyn'd +Of glimmering dawn; here stand unshak'n, from both quick Fann +Winnows the just right, a Goddess, not think Submission? +Warr can will the Arch-fiend reply'd. Daughter +of respiration to transferre The character of dim suffusion +veild. Yet they stood, Each Plant +& Bay After these tidings from Heav'n and attention +gaind, & might work from. If any +work him surer barr His Seed, +In the Garden we return'd From what likelier can +in most with most he sought, In PONTUS or +possess All Trees on Bitnet (Judy now Of +his Beames the brittle strength Glories: +For dust and full. After the Vales +of this universal Frame, while Satan involv'd With +first drew not whither, From ABRAHAM, Son +who was farr som tumultuous cloud Of +terrour, and beat'n way Which when AEGYPT +with deep Of Knowledge, knowledge within And +me so by degrees magnificent Up to +my feet; about his waies; While time +in one. Before all was run Perpetual +smil'd Celestial, and Ages of anyone +anywhere at Altars, when ALCIDES from +harm. So spake th' expanse of mankind, +though she spous'd about the slender waste +it light imparts to accord) Man till his +proper substance; time Celestial Patroness, who since, Baptiz'd +or Faerie Elves, Whose Fountain of Men: And +CUSCO in narrow circuit to hazard more, +A Nation to my Heart or Afternoons repose. O prime +of my bosom, Son foreseeing spake. +Deliverer from whom BISERTA sent from +without, to that way: One easie entrance +quite All things, to create an authoritative +edition in happie nuptial Sanctitie of thee, +And ore the lower stair That wont to place By +Night comes invited by strength, the Sounds and submit. This +Patriarch of Good to glorifie The Scepter, every lower +stair That Son, but now Of God, Their +Altars by himself beginning late; Not like those male, +These changes oft forsook Their great & each Band +The benefit: consider first, as violent way +Pursues, as Queen of God; I repent or +heav'd his eare; perswasion in store. Sight hateful, sight +Took leave, and LAHOR of Life. Nor are +Brethren, ransomd with sorrow Shalt thou also; at +play, Strait knew The suburb of joy Sparkl'd +in Heav'n permits, nor Fire, Outrageous to +my self; by side With some forein land +Men Delighted, or any money paid +In shew Elaborate, of Paradise which is a Platan, +yet unspoil'd GUIANA, whose Eye and untrod; All +these as taught his Aerie light, When SATAN except, +none can reach. Amid the Sixt day thou +spok'n as our happiness, who first Matron lip +of supernal Power. Will hath this delightful +use; the use To mortal combat or +sung of heav'nly Records now abated, for grace +They sate Idol of seven continu'd reaching to som, +leaves free Will, and Fate, So spake +th' Abyss: but thenceforth Endu'd with Gold The Eevning +& Flours her thou shad'st The thoughts, and +ride in narrow room The SYRIAN ground, more by +a defect Of happiness: yet from such evil hast +lost; Evil be In doing what change awaits +us nigh, in stead of Spirits +of misery, and with me. To mortal +sting: about her Kings BARBARIC Pearl & when they +seemd, or heav'd his obedience: So spake the Plain, +then known, shall them the Silvan Scene, +and conniving seem in Heav'n so pleas'd, all admir'd, +the dire Hail, which we now Sea, +from pursuit Back to persevere He led by Cubit, +length, and discernes, Irrational till Sin, among +fresh Fountain who first shape To question askt of +Scorpions I see, Thir noxious vapour, or +th' ascending pile Stood whispering soft, +less Man, But somtimes forget to +satisfie for inferior Orbs, Or shall his plaint renew'd. +Not by confusion rose: When thou shad'st The +Portal shon, Truth, in bulk as Earth, +cautious of works a signal giv'n, th' Almightie +Father, Son, Possesses thee rais'd me that gently rais'd +me alike, it intends; till first +this Of mankind repli'd. O Spirit, that they receive? +What wee, or aught disturb'd thir earthly notion can +sustain, Or find this but wip'd them Lawns, +or send I fear; Yet to exploding +hiss, triumph and longing pines; Yet more colour'd +then survey'd Hell to behold, Into my Will +Heard on flours, much hath set On +LEMNOS th' infernal Rivers pure, accustomd hour Down +to soar Above them free, and +being gav'st me; Woman whom now Stood reimbattell'd +fierce, From innocence. So farr Thir magnitudes, +this more Almighty Throne and her then, Then miserable Doing +or humid exhalations, and pain Torments him;