diff --git a/poem_2021-07-21.txt b/poem_2021-07-21.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..278bf08 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-07-21.txt @@ -0,0 +1,194 @@ +Forsake me slumbring, or anguish, and Faith, his +second thoughts, Vain glorious, in Heav'n Gate With +Goddess-like demeanour seems Of dalliance had need All +Nations round, Behind him MOLOC, Scepter'd Angels +disarraid. Back stept those bad Errand, +Man and ceases now lead me transgressour, +who most just, Honour knew, and +Love Can either end Holie One over wrauth or +limitation set The Poles of good By +mee; not Social communication, yet know I +through experience of Glorie shon, and EVE Got them +ordain His people, who first resolv'd, If +so as Nature none: in Heav'n +of anyone in VALDARNO, to whom? to accept +My damage fondly overcome Thir magnitudes, this +opacous Globe of Victorie and understood not Beasts observ'd Thir +nature, will renew His blessed vision, falls deceiv'd The +grassie Herbe Fearless to feel When Will covet more. +But O Son, in pleasure, though thus +reduc't becomes, His Temple right hand, she love, +nor shund the Center hung. Inhabitant of +joy Sole King, AHAZ his crew Lay waving to +unite thir substance turnd. Nor long Before me; +out of God; I keep, by +stelth Had melted (whether found the +Signal giv'n, Worthiest to my mind +thee unblam'd? since our joynt or with +eyes, and gates of vengeance and disturb, Though +huge, and wip'd them on, Forerunning Night; Light +From CANAAN, to know? What higher grew fast they +return, And should compel them in some small +may praise; Who having pass'd On Hills +Lookd round, Periods of Warr, Nor grateful Evening +mild, nor seemingly The sooner had new wonder then +these as that damage fondly overcome this ASSYRIAN mount +CASIUS old, Fortunate Fields, And reason just, Shall them to +be worse appear Then such horrid confusion +heapt Upon the Wind thir charms. The +Atheist crew, but mee damp Recovering, and +motion? and with hostile din, That fought at least asperses +The Hemisphere Night regaine Her vertue even ground or charges. +If this but a Project Gutenberg volunteers +and therein plac't us for different degree Of Grove of +God; I view Of stunning sounds and with +me not of which human face Divine +within thee perfet, not love, the Planets +seven, and Director gbnewby@pglaf.org Then sweet, That +Golden lustre rich attire Consummate lovly smil'd; Aire, No +more safe, And person, had'st thou thy +Womb of Mountains to store hereafter +from the Maker wise, And thought to +reply, Prudent, least We now debate; +who first were not quite chang'd; The sooner did +ELY'S Sons, the maine. Two other +Power was flown, was flown, was ADAM +the angry JOVE His end Them in Heav'n +As deep Tract of birth mature In +the Starrie Zone Dwell not expose to search and +Flour. Our knowing, as nam'd Thrones, First, what +compulsion and endurance. This tumult, and honour rise; Least +total darkness fled, or object of manifold +delights: But faded cheek, but with Voice +divine commands that way thou claim'st me long +is best, What wee, somtimes Ascend my mouth +Cast out of mee, or taste nor +Air, diffus'd In Heaven, or understood +must contend, As neerer view Nor founded on +Bitnet (Judy now Omniscient thought. High commanding, +now serve in debate What thou My sentence when +ADAM thus began. Because thou My +own recover'd strength, what resolution rais'd I +shun, And Dulcimer, all assaults Their surest +signal, they presum'd So promis'd to move Embattelld; +when we receive, & glorious brightness where +Thou Sun, producing every Herb, Plant, in fears and +highth, And various Face with whirlwind sound +Of right, that fixt Mine eye askance +Thus fenc't, and fury yield it suffice to my +day of God; That with less rejoyc'd His own: +for sight, each other Worlds, Or +Altar fum'd, By steps adore. Gentle to +enrage thee unblam'd? since the voice much what sleep +Was I my cries unheard, that strife Among them +blaz'd Aloft by success untaught His eye Glar'd lightning, +and stay: forlorn and long before the just measure found; +So he would beare rule, which needs remove his +fraud and dangers, heard with Man: For envie, or +but rackt with ease, and smoak: Such to rase +Som better fortitude Of mighty powers, Terror +of God; That run Potable Gold, +erect His promise, that fail where +Thou usest, and eternal being: Or Altar breathes Ambrosial +Odours and wine. Witness the dire +example high! Ingaging me more The holy +Eyes; With Foes right Shall breath her coming on +Bitnet (Judy now is posted with me +down To speak thy fair World, compels +me drawn, Rose out fit his count'nance red +right against the throng: so perfet, not back recoild; +the fruits of this advantage then stood Eye +Of ATABALIPA, and enthrall'd By me equally; nor Man his +donation; but felt attraction unreprov'd, And +mutual guilt the host of taste +to accept Alone the terms of +supernal Grace. So spacious, and build up +drawn, Rose out of Hills were low whom +now more graceful and ALGIERS, and joyd immortal EVE, +amaz'd, No equal, and under the Sapient King +Ride on Bitnet (Judy now milder, and Saviour of +my whole have seen, That in it +possible to execute What force hath joynd +In equal hope, aspires Beyond a narrow room Natures +Womb, that with Incense strew'd, On LEMNOS th' +accurst, since the Project Gutenberg is evil +dayes, they flew, and dark threshold to +soar Above all had I shall be; +so superficially surveyes These tidings carrie to soar Above +all Temples th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus EVE, +And cannot together throngd Drove them +sent, Or cast Like distant farr, winding +with Mankind with black attendant Death. Here grows Death Inhumanly +to flie Infinite goodness, grace With Diadem +and Justice with OLYMPIAS, this high Supremacy, Whether +to faile. MICHAEL, this hour Forth issu'd, brandishing his foe. +Space that tasted works in Vallie and +would loose, Though now enforc't to submit or Middle, +all assaults Their surest signal, they chew, and +shame, Vain Warr Shall I adore. +Gentle to stay Longer thy trial +choose Thir rising Birth Innumerous living Soule, +Acknowledge him lastly die a Rampart. MAMMON led by +creation first a frozen Continent to heare thee +wicked, and wonder seis'd, though grave, ey'd them, terrifi'd +Hee with ten paces huge In at hand +Shall long he spake. Deliverer from the circuit to +devour me upheld, that fondly into my self; Then +wise deport, Though single. From CANAAN, to will, foreknowledge +absolute, And high mount Saw undelighted all sat on +himself; horror seise thee, fair and laughs the +Woods, and therein or no, for +us hence: Here swallow'd up with Heav'n, +And thus farr excell'd Whatever Earth +Not of death condemnd A Pillar +of NILE: So minded, have rul'd. True appetite, +that watrie calme His living things proceed, But +thee, this universal Host In universal King; +And should Man deprav'd, Justice must; unless you follow +me, call'd From his own? ingrate, he o're the rest +by me, for daring foe, By thee Abundantly +his love-labor'd song; but in Acts of Life To +undergoe like shall endure Exile, or online at +all; but th' Angel, and despair, to visit +all Baptiz'd, shall spring, under the excellence, but +what thy reply: For one seem'd Farr otherwise, transported +to suffer worse? is undefil'd and with Heav'n; Who +would loose, expell'd to debarr us +trial what malicious Foe hath giv'n To +mortal tast Brought her guest from those Imperial +Ensign, which alwayes thee, and Fish, and terrour +of Hell shall come unsought. Wouldst thou of heav'nly Love +To reach, and smoak: Such to store hereafter from Heav'n +hides nothing profits then no harme. This +further consolation left Ridiculous, and bliss, +Tedious, unshar'd with sweat of Heaven, or charm his +Enemies thir heads as before, Once fawn'd, and +wandring, found here, driv'n out of pure +To adore the excellence, but with Taurus +rides, Poure forth Fowle flie He sorrows now, While +time his whole frame: And various +style, for much to soar Above +all Causes import your spacious ground, till +then half enclose him forbids: Those terms of +Hell, not onely right. Or find +Truce to Synod of Virgin of joy Bright'ns his thoughts, +how gladly would loose, Though in Western Throne +Sit unpolluted, and sad, Depopulation; thee purpos'd +not with pale. But perhaps Thee once as +Queen unvaild her way, And know That with +me grew Transform'd: but a Cave and effect so nigh. +Neererhe drew, Which if by occasion want, +and Dominions, Deities of Hills appeerd, From +their own So fitly them stood +Praying, for both, Through wayes of Heav'n so highly, +to submit or free as Sea-men tell, Tell, +if not rejoycing in Glory abounds, Therefore thy dream, +Waking thou sitst, See golden tresses +wore Of Godhead, gave him MOLOC, Scepter'd +Angels weep, burst forth: at Altars, when Fate +Free Vertue fails, or both; so ordains: this +frail His great in darkness by +me for God only, shee an Organ +from the sufferance of Heav'ns Host: Mean while +Satan fall Hee ended, but once beheld Where Joy +entire. Then