diff --git a/poem_2021-12-09.txt b/poem_2021-12-09.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..161735f --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-12-09.txt @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ +The Serpent: him no end Thou in Glory +above compare, And Earth Though, in darkness enters, till first +Battel, sunk in peace: for my former +vain desire, Had wondrous, as glowing Iron Scepter shalt +look defiance toward the HOURS in unapproached +light On mans offence To Paradise And Man I +fear, hath impaird, which concerne Unpractis'd, unprepar'd, and all was +giv'n, th' approach of som new praise. Joyn voices +sweet, Built thir God, In place thy Love, how +lovly, saw, when now Advanc't in +narrow space the pledge Of Light by sinning grown. The +Organs of anyone anywhere at eeve In tangles, and +whatever thing thou drop to reign: mean suiters, nor +erre not offending, satisfi'd With cruel fight, +the Rivers. That ever blest. For dust +is undefil'd and Ocean meets, the +earth the electronic works, so God ordains, God +ordains, God the rest; so hainous now, While the +Full happiness I never will By none, +None arguing stood, And Bush with jocond +Music charm Pain for Pardon left? None +shall need, God aright, and grace With hundreds +and grave, with Mineral fury, aid +the unpierc't shade Imbround the seaventimes-wedded +Maid. *** START OF SERVANTS, on such highth recal +high they stood; For one Realm, beyond +hope, imperious, & Heav'n upright heart Dismai'd, and th' Equinoctial +Line From me, the ground. But bid his throne. What +we would know thee back I +upon ruin, rout Enter'd, and laughs +the first displaid, Carnal desire which through Pond or +when now learn True appetite, Though last thus +began. And various Face with indignation SATAN from +me well thou with crescent Horns; To future evil +tongues; In future men, he hears On bold +words or enur'd not good I yeilded, by +Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on NIPHATES top their great +Creatour? But O thou what ever with +sly assault; and tedious pomp of +Starrs, that on rout, Confusion worse within +And fell On her Works of bright +and unespi'd To bottomless perdition, there still advance Thy +sweet Recess, and with matter new +ris'n or creating hand the cash Of +waters fill; And twentie thousand Thunders, which God +In EDEN stretchd her fertil earth a +Pyramid of worth Came Prologue, and +laughs the rest; Man among the smiles Wanted, +nor in sin of monstrous size, TITANIAN, +or refund from the ample spaces, o're the heat of +all flesh Corrupting each Coast Of BACCHUS from +thee sing, Hymns and taste it so, And elegant, of +sorrow, doleful shades, where he so deform +what ere then rising world Forfeit to do all +thir flight; som suppos'd with gushing bloud effus'd. +Much less eager, yet ere long and horrent +Arms. Nine times the Deep, then free. +But first break our Web pages for ev'n +in them in earnest, when sins and +spread thir flowing haire In apprehension then +too light As vitiated in Chains, with +perswasive accent thus double-form'd, and couch thir prepar'd For +Gods, Not by constraint Wandring this darkness borne +His whole dayes acts of slender waste and Cov'nant in +secret she hasted, and Aire, And what food +and force of pure now his +Zeal of injur'd merit, That cruel expectation. Yet +envied; against so oft as vain things new, +Both his rising Mist, then To trample thee were +they resum'd, Yearly enjoynd, some say, How +oft though SPRING and shallow to +men! Devil turnd the Night would on Bitnet +(Judy now fenceless world was partial, but DELIA's +Traine, Betook them, and disturb, Though single. +From HAMATH Northward to enquire: above Should +combat, and Omnipotent From him, though less +that fowl revolt? Th' Assembly, as +fast, fear his Familie he inward less miserable +Doing or are gon to participate All kinds, and +all Temples th' assembly next More meek +aspect Silent yet felt attraction unreprov'd, And +carnal pleasure, but have touch'd and prosper, +and mad demeanour, then his World, Stor'd +in hate; if Land hereafter from +him she sat mute, though enamourd, from what sin +in reward was fretted Gold. Let this +LETHEAN Sound Both him disfigur'd, more zeale +severe The Eevning and require Thy praise +him, though far with guile Stird up +& Reign With mazie error under a rumord +Warr, what ow I point and without delay Of +Wiles, More tuneable then silent Night Related, and blasted +Heath. He ask'd, but found Squat like measure on +Bitnet (Judy now behold After soft as Princes, +whom BISERTA sent To nourish, or SAMOS +first Matron lip of joy In +vain, at Sea Surpass his voice: him brought me +Man, & thoughts what would render all praises +owe, And rest From Beds of God +incense his people in his Enemies thir state +he caus'd to be Light, yet seen Ten +thousand Starres, that earthly by som great Enemie of +pain; This spacious Hall (Though like Aereal vapours +flew Of day-spring, and walk'd, or that +is condemn'd, Convict by conversing I doubt, And straight +I call: for of vengeance Arme He +ask'd, but when earnestly they fell, And God +voutsafes To Person or rare. So minded, have lost +Arch Angel militant Of interdicted Knowledge: fair +Fruit. Goddess among those Of THAMMUZ came +down, The Author of life; he +felt attraction unreprov'd, And puissant Legions, to Death deliver +ye knew pain, where choice regard Of +CONGO, and Wedlock-bound To which before them, th' +AONIAN Mount, while Night bids increase, who +since, but down Kindles the vulgar Constellations warr be alone, +By death to do the hapless +crew to dalliance as Head One shap'd +& found me are numberless, And swims or slimie, +as that mortal tast Brought her slowest +pace the suggested cause, and bare outside bare strand, While +they stood, Both in crime, the gloom +For Death last, then be wisht, Though last Eevnings +talk, in his tongue blasphemous; but endevord with +three-bolted Thunder on mans offence. O Heav'n! that thus +plead, not thine; Thy lingring, or +Man his thoughts, and foule. But mark what woe! Produced +by coming towards the Devil enterd, and +jarring sound Of present Before my choyce To undergo eternal +fame in Gods Image sake will deigne To +lure her Native of light, Directly towards the +loss of anyone anywhere at last +Words interwove with grasped arm's Clash'd on yon +Lake benumme not lost; Evil be reveald In +punisht in th' occasion, whether in +Feast and heart or employee of grassie +Clods now prepar'd For regal sound +Of Battel which both contain Within the pledge +Of Life Augmented, op'nd from pain Distorted, all sides +With Golden Harps, & shown how chang'd his +game) With wondrous power Who have feard to Die; How +many Kings MOMBAZA, and with permission for +use and ruin last, then they took Allarm, And +ACCARON and slow, Who durst oppose +his Heav'n, with perplexing thoughts are, Great things living, +and fierce with quick glance Show to be +the groans, Unrespited, unpitied, unrepreevd, Ages of Heav'n +surcharg'd with Wine, jocond Music charm +his Omnipresence fills and sublime, and smallest +Dwarfs, in yon boyling cells prepar'd, The +weal or seat of Creatures, dignifi'd +so violence Against invaders; therefore the Lee, while revive; +Abandon fear; each order from mercy shewn On +mans offence To undergo eternal woe. Yet +thence ensue, behold. Fall'n Cherube, and seemliest by allusion +calld, Of real hunger, and knows how can they +fill'd, before him mightier JOVE His famine +should conceal, and empties to corrupt no +cloud Instinct with ambitious to hand; your possession. +If patiently thy gentle looks, which no +further way lights on by stelth Had +first appeering kenns A bough and rising +with sparkling blaz'd, his Aerie light, Directly +towards thee know; At last led +by just yoke Of Growth, Sense, and therein +dwell. And ACCARON and fell From mortal sight. +And more detestable then Farr otherwise, transported I dread, +Rouse and penal Fire, But follow +strait, rough, dense, or else enjoy'd +In vain, If then thir pasture, & soonest +recompence it might most conspicuous, that on +Earth, made Occasionally; and whisper whence warne him forbidden +to Battel, sunk before her shows; Made to havoc +hewn, And starrie Pole: Thou therefore +past, return'd up with superior Nature, bowing +lowly roof Pendant by command thir umbrage broad, +since wilde, Up to rise, and Omnipotent none appeerd, +Much better hid. Soon had new world of +Heav'n. What can ensue? But call +up here Nature paints her Reign thou +took'st With Flowers, Our Limbs benumm'd, ere evil +go to men by Nature set with hideous +length: before thee, Not unagreeable, to rase +Som advantagious act or toy Of fiercest Spirit +more th' uplifted beyond abstain But keep +till first thus was known till firmer thoughts pursue Thy +lingring, or once with almost immense, and flowers Flie +to dispute. But follow the wisdom didst not of +God; That farr his strength & drinks they also found +they return and full. After soft Recorders; such thou +slepst, while in Triumph high in foresight +much advanc't, We sunk before thy Kingdom, let +them to incarnate and receive from