Robo poem for 2024-05-12
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***** This was this frail His people,
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who without leave not eat? Produced by whose fault? Whose
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Seed is low subjection; understand the Seas
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Beyond thus single; hee sat recline On either
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Host upsent A Creature form'd within
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Noise, other Creatures; yet all dismaid, And
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fewel'd entrals thence the arched roof Showrd
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Roses, and pride, and passion to man, Met such
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compliance bad plight, And famish him repli'd. Was not;
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wherfore should enthrall themselves: I Sing Heav'nly love
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shal outdoo Hellish hate, of night, when it
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gives Heroic then mankinde higher, Surpassest farr Down
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from Heav'n, if this Imperial Sov'ranty,
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adorn'd With lust and with deeds
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Had lively shines In the voice but that excels
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in Power, and fixt Thir happie end. Fairest of
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TANTALUS. Thus said. Native Element: Least on excursion we
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endur'd a numerous Brigad hasten'd. As
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we know I Should combat, and
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empties to Project Gutenberg is dark Ended rejoycing in
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PALESTINE, and expire. What fear To punish endless?
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wherefore let mee with delusive Light, said MICHAEL,
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this woe, she assay'd: But come, for
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I saw. The Tongue of Creatures, but mee
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they First lighted from Heav'n upright wing Scout
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farr other copies of our Power is, and am
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alone against the Sun: His Eye so have givn
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sincere Of SERVITUDE to wander with me are
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scattered throughout Dominion undeserv'd Over the
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Year Seasons return, But ADAM repli'd. O thought
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No second stock proceed. Much thou only shon Filial
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obedience: So willingly thou thy revolt, Unnam'd in ruin: into
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her fertil growth, and fed With
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terrors and speed add Deeds to submit or degree,
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of Fate, Neerer to wander forth
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without measure all, advis'd: That not lost; Evil one
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anothers arms and press'd her Heav'nly forme
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Angelic, but thine, and all imbroild, And
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more successful hope the third as fierce
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Effusion rowld In Fables name What there From
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mee returnd, Pleas'd with ambitious aim Against the DELPHIAN Cliff,
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Or not back resounded DEATH. I perceave Strange horror
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chil'd At thir memorie His barren leaves. Them
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thus MAMMON spake. Why hast lost; where th'
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Arch-Enemy, And overwhelm thir jaws VVith wonder, and fear
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his fair Morn To sentence Man: For envie,
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this thou Centring receav'st from PELORUS, or smell
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of Virgin of themselves decreed Thir pamperd boughes, and
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dismal house of instrumental sounds and weltring by fiery
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Gulfe Confounded though but rather die Deserted, then from
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one intended first, for Thou sever
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not; love shal outdoo Hellish hate, of Spirits when
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BELLONA storms, With him leagu'd, thy vertue
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thought Of Angels plac'd) Thir nimble tread;
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as this dire attack Of knowledge within
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himself ingross't All that fair Earth
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the yoak, draw'st his proper motion
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we may reign for Truths sake
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exempt? Here grows Death with Tears such prompt
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eloquence Flowd from such danger lies,
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yet that Fruit, Blossoms and therein plant
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eyes, Sunk down Thus when it might though far
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blazing, as ere while Warr then, In punisht in Glory
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above Who meet is, and therein Each Plant & made
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me up rose as when time when least
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We sunk before the sea, Earth
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to hope conceiving Fire, as some Island, oft, and
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thrice to Hell. With nicest touch. Immediate are my Father,
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thy Son whose sight Of AMARANTIN Shade, Fountain
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flow'd, Thou canst, who deceive his
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Kingdom and taught The circuit wide. Strait couches
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close, That rowld Of radiant Sun Was left His
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place, who last, him appoint; And wrought our
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evils, with Forrest huge extent of seeming Friend.
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For dignity compos'd The powers Could have thir wayes;
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hee Kingly Palace now concernes us this
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easie then; Th' ascent of solid might the
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ambient light. These past, return'd up here thou Mightiest
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in squadron joind Awaiting what words here Varied his sighs
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found not endu'd My Maker, and strength conceal'd, Which if
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no Leader, next, free Reason, Loyal, Just,
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and Dale) Light Exhaling first Hath lost
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happiness in other life; All on earth, durst defie th'
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Angelical to abstain But follow what I held
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Spreading thir Glory. His Word, the arched roof Pendant
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by absolute Decree Another now unpeopl'd, and bid sound Or
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not, for mans offence To human thoughts disturbd
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and wide: in PALESTINE, and incorporate both,
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his utmost force, hath eat'n and fair,
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fit audience and wine. Witness the Heav'ns fugitives,
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and all assaults Their surest signal, they
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lift us his head, hands, wings, or condens't, bright
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Pavement that Glory, whom mutual help And plunge
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us forth, th' Angelical to thir fatall hands Of knowledg,
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nor wider farr som relief of thee, when her
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bestial Gods; for thou wert created) we are bold
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Compeer. So dearly I found. Sated at
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her shows; Made flesh, when sleep Affects me once,
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now lost, should by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu
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on golden seat's, Frequent and full. After short
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silence holy rapture wanted in VALDARNO, to
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save, Dwels in prospect wide remote From Hill SATAN
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except, Who came URIEL, one seem'd Firm land
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Men as great Visitant approachd, thus these
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various colours, how spred Among the terms will fall By
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attributing overmuch to quell thir doings God
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to soar Above his Rod Of Coral
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stray, or unenforceability of God; That
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self Can else inflict do thine. Fall'n Cherube, and
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after when sleep can containe; Beyond thus advanc't,
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We may seem; yet faithfull how chang'd his sight
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More lovely seemd other able, and
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licensed works Created hugest that Just men
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since easier shunnd? God only, shee
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and usher Evening mild, nor of anyone anywhere at th'
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ETRURIAN shades of God; I thence distinct by
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Decree Another part hence into the
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wicked, and dire attack Of Guardians bright,
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when Millions of infant blood, to soar Above
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all had shewn, and shame in Hell: Better
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to impose: He brings, and Shield, Awaiting what highth
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recal high Came shadowing, and valley rings.
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O spirit remains him still, That with hideous
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change. He swerve not impossibly may seem; yet
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many deeds Might yeild To mortal dint,
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Save what wretched Life Tri'd in mist,
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the odious dinn of their Creator, and blessed peace,
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Yet unconsum'd. Before all sides round If ye
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and Habits with deeds Under whose
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sovran Mistress, if God so high, insatiate
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to accept Alone as fast, and
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longing eye; Nor shall yeeld him,
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life Of blowing Myrrh and Eyes I never
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hold them arms and thrice threefold the deep: So
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neer United. But yet so true, they but
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despair: His Stature, and by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on
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Bitnet (Judy now his Saints: Him by
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their aerie purposes, And now seems fulfilld All
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these that caution giv'n To waste Eternal
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miserie; such appear'd Less then Our two black GEHENNA
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call'd, whose verdure clad Thir influence foment and
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excellence, but rackt with revenge: cruel his
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utmost skirts with wandring this one
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whose hither Unlicenc't from begging peace: and Chariots
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of matchless Chief: As they, or Faerie Elves,
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Whose midnight march, and thrice happie pair;
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enjoy, and press'd her numberd such cruelties With
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him they turnd at Altars, when she pluck'd, she
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learne, That ever plotting how frail World; by
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flight, Thou also not please him with
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wingd speed add what was seen Death?
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O pittie thus these various plaint, Thence
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up drawn, Rose as perhaps Hereafter, join'd
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in her Light issues forth, till we then? Say Heav'nly
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dores; let dry Land, now Of immortalitie.
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So Man, accepted so, And season him lastly
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die Deserted, then I created thee, safe Through
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dark assaults Their surest signal, they
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mix, Union without him MULCIBER; and
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foule Ingendring with these three folds were known. Farr
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off From innocence. So dear pledge Of BELIAL,
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flown with accent thus he roam'd the reaking
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moisture fed. Strait side As far whose
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Voice divine of small, If you but Nature boon
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Powrd forth profuse on her through experience of
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Beauties powerful Destiny ordaind thy stay, Rose, Or
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less vext the Prince of this eBook,
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complying with ambitious aim Against God resides, and
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all Sun-shine, as those seav'n Who seekes To
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vital Lamp; but SATAN went Obsequious, Heav'n (So
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call by hate; Till by doom
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alienated, distance due, And bended knee His lapsed powers,
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Terror of somthing not eate, Yet
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these corrosive Fires As my Guide
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And all Temples th' Air encounterd
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Hills Aereal vapours flew Of amplitude almost
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no sight, thou then To wed her
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Cheek distemper the rest was known from those
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rebellious, here in Earth Wheels (for
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he stood unmindful ABDIEL faithful side They
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sate watch, as Gods, Knowing both for by
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name, unless we now Stream, and perpetual round
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With blackest Insurrection, to repose Your fill
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all things else set here? This to Eternal
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Father, t' whom now fild with obsequious Majestie
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approv'd in despite and speak I to
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soar Above all a Camp extend His
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head up they ran, they choose Dilated or
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ignominy, or shame; O Spirit, that as built
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Here in proportion due alike My Bow and rejoycing
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in Festivals of Regal Power arriv'd, both life more milde,
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this dire Arms? yet well, in
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