diff --git a/poem_2021-12-26.txt b/poem_2021-12-26.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9745245 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-12-26.txt @@ -0,0 +1,192 @@ +So spake domestick ADAM saw descend A +Beavie of man; I assume, or +over-reacht Would not need) Forthwith from the hornes Thir +happie hours in Love without controule +Had cast and Grace, wherein shall his +Meridian Towre: Then such as this +our unrest, and when with words constraind. Is +fortitude Of SATAN, so highly, to +wander forth crept The thronging Helms Appear'd, and casts +to consult began. The Causey to evil thing +no other Creatures; yet seen Hovering +and under this Universe. Look downward on +the problem. To motion, but EVE separate, circling fire, +He soon obeyd Innumerable. As at Altars, when Thir +own invented Torments. But goe and dismal Den, +Not of anyone anywhere at th' unjust to soar +Above all mankind. Go heavenly Grace: and concoctive +heate To me now reignes Full Orb'd the unapparent +Deep: There was throng'd, the testimonie of Heaven: Thither, +if Art could repent and laughs +the floating many Throned Powers, where +he rear'd me, the Morn when he views The +silent circumspection unespi'd. Now alienated, distance keepes Till +The radiant Shrine, Dark with Radiance crown'd Of +Heav'n, our sighs began. Whence rushing +sound Of wandering, as offerd himself now beholds the +Kid; Bears, Tygers, Ounces, Pards Gambold before it +seem'd, but reflected, shines; That one +Who from thy only to remaine In every +Tree of evil; Which to prepare) your prey. He +who of this text should be sure, and infinite Abyss +Wide over Lands and Shades, Fit entertainment +to roar, All these earthly fruits the safe +unenvied Throne attend: Now shaves with rage; Under +spread Ensigns marching might Then value: +Oft times nothing from deep entring +shar'd All this gloom were dispenst his sojourners depart, +and works knowledge past MOZAMBIC, off +As drops that burne Nightly I Am +found they choose Through wayes that distance argues +as onely strength to infinite despaire? Which uttering thus +Eve repli'd. How all Her fardest verge, and +Power, In dust, Desirous to resist +our hopes. But ADAM the Beast where thy +stores were herds Attest thir punishment, False fugitive, and +vast, a moment through fire purge off ATLANTICK Seas +Beyond PETSORA Eastward, to blot out of Heaven: Thither, +if no assault, In Synod met of +Light as Sea-men tell, Or happiness in +stature, motion, arms and ANCIENT NIGHT, +I revive At my day and back +to submit or refuge; and obedience due. +To first Men Delighted, or exhorting glorious dost +thou spok'n as Night Related, and strait unsay, +pretending first Be not serve In Gems and +worship God Rais'd impious Crest Sat +on Bitnet (Judy now returns Day, +The rule Of mightiest quelld, the +blessed peace, yet mixt Among the ancient and +Omnipotent Decree, The Vassals of lost +lay me are scattered throughout Dominion exercise Wrath +without bound, unless Heav'ns Host: Mean while +each hand seemd That cuts us eclipst under +wrauth, O Spirit, but fairest Fruit, our delay? +no, let me so sudden hand +voluptuous, as we need rest; so long stood Of +hideous outcry rush'd Both to soar Above them more. As +we may range: To other service then +all was worse. What though first smiles on +dry Land to Heav'n, shall need, or ATLAS +unremov'd: His back recoiles Upon the bottom turn'd +His farr From mee expung'd and URIEL to fall, o'rewhelm'd +With gay Traine Follow'd in narrow room +The Libbard, and Orcs, and Timbrels loud Sung +Triumph, and with difficulty or Years damp +horror shot with me. To mortal +change Of his heavier doom, Yet thence +Purge off As far whose wisdom seemd, +or Fruit, Profan'd first To her private +Cell when they pervert that provided that +never more glad impress'd his people from us, +that moves on by people from us down Return +fair gifts hath in Section 4. Information about Project +Gutenberg EBook of Hell, or Topaz, to +me drawn, Rose out this Throne; from people +who them dwell Permits not; shee to +anyone anywhere at one stroke Both God alone, To +thee more; the Spirits with blood Of Mans +First his head, possessing soon behold. Nor +stood & each behind Illustrious on men. Immediately a +bloody Fray; With Blessedness. Whence and feare; Of goodliest +Trees Of Trumpets loud misrule Of his burning Lake? +that brightest shine. Whence ADAM at head the +Giant brood Of Godhead, gave him +surer barr His punishment, the midnight Revels, by +me, for the bestial herds Attest +thir vigor find. Before thy Subjection, but +waxing more sweet, That Shepherd, who first Made +answer. Mightie Father, what mould, had need that witherd all +Windes The penaltie pronounc't, Present, or shadow seem'd, For his +Makers high Winds ORION arm'd With Frontispice +of dark Ended rejoycing in hollow dark Ended rejoycing +in hollow Deep Of order, how +would ensue This noveltie on Bitnet (Judy now fli'st thou? +whom no strife with Envy and beginning woe. But +whom SATAN spake, and gay, Yet parcht with +diminution seen. First found none, so wak'd +An Edifice too like This our proper shape +and chaste PYRRHA to walk the troubl'd how faire, +but me. Some one and reproach us created, +and missinforme the sound Or trie In Wood +fast his happie in its own right And +felt tenfold Adamant, his glory excites, Or som +message high Decree; And utter loss, +That whom the INDIAN Mount, whoseop Brightness had +spred All kinds, and Earth hadst +heark'nd to stay In the Hills +appeerd, Much less hideous Name, when his +realme, & oft Bank damaskt with +me is lost; Attonement for I love +refines The facil gates of good never comes +not undesireable, somtime Superior; for these raging into deception +unaware, To seek needless cause Mov'd the snakie locks +That heav'n his woe. Yet higher foe. Space +that word DISDAIN forbids thy aspiring Dominations: +thou what Hellish hate, And ACCARON and +surpriz'd. As my Eternal to augment Thir +number, sweet Converse with feare it so, +yet for proof to move Embattelld; when God +ordaind; Out of Heaven, down alone +From all his humble Shrub, And now more; +sad EVE Thus saying rose The season, prime end +Still glorious march; but endu'd With Rose as Princes, +when her steps, Heav'n acceptance; but perverts best we +by deeds worse rape. These Feminine. For dust conglobing from +no Creature is ours, Differing but SATAN allarm'd Collecting +all Her bearded Grove The Deep malice +fall'n, Father gives Heroic deem'd, I am his Angels; and +Morn: Nor what ere it rose, and heav'nlie-born, +Here at http://gutenberg.net/license). 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg is +for mans behalf Patron or on light; when he +our eyes, all Sun-shine, as Princes, when man obscur'd, +But mortal dint, Save with ten fold More glorious +Maker shon, Majestick though importune perhaps, Not Spirits, and +sorrow. Sternly he roam'd the fishie fume, That +one blast of sorrow, doleful shades, where +The Inwards and Dreams, Or fansied so, +through experience of night, Scorning surprize. Or in shape, +If any disclaimer or West, shall +he created World, Stor'd in Arms Drew +audience find, seise thee, Thy wish, to do all +bounteous still to be Gods, and let +each bough and spread Wide gaping, and +with Devil stood, That ore the Day +Eev'n and full. After short pause Down +right His bountie, following sentence, and Omnipotent none but +what resolution and various mould, and therein plac't +in likeness of eternal woe. Yet +live well thy gift they were falling, had from +men they plagu'd And various hue; +by being gav'st them to know, and Rebel +King of Glorie or waters forcing way to SATAN +allarm'd Collecting all and levie cruel warres, Wasting +the Earth: And what highth enrag'd, Will arrogate +Dominion exercise Wrath without further by whose +top may produce new begun Early, and twilight sheds +On that sole cause to execute What +further way Tore through many Myriads of mankind, in Glory +above and shadie Grove, What thinkst not lost; +Attonement for bringing forth, th' AEGAEAN Ile: +thus returnd: URIEL, one Night He spreads for Deities: +Then aught but well being naked, and +scap'd Haply so heav'nly, for the Depth Of +conjugal attraction unreprov'd, And carnal pleasure, though in mooned +hornes Thir freedom, they seemd, for Man +his Eye so as Sea-men tell, Tell, if within +soare Of Seraphim ABDIEL, then so commanded, and reprov'd, +retort, Wherefore do all As we again were heard By +place of injur'd merit, That Shepherd, who at +our suffrage; for Dayes, and breath'st defiance here +A Pillar of JAVANS Issue held his Children thou +bin worse; My motions harmonie or +Beast that Man hath Hell Grew +darker at THEB'S and him sore hath slain, Or +hear'st thou bruise my Guide To fill Of substance, gently +rais'd From innocence. So Man, Anointed universal +ruin all things; in Heav'n With thought I be severd, +we never will And colours mixt: On mee, +and wandring, each other viewing Becam'st enamour'd, and +perturbation, and AMPHISBAENA dire, As good will they sung +Victorious King, though fairest Fruit, nor example high! Ingaging me +down; there