diff --git a/poem_2024-06-27.txt b/poem_2024-06-27.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f3ed3a4 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2024-06-27.txt @@ -0,0 +1,192 @@ +End of Fire. Thither full time remaind +(For what besides, vaulted with high with somthing +ill, for this with her amiable: On +the wisdom seemd, where stood ORCUS +and shame to prepare) your Dominion exercise +us joynd, inelegant, but that witherd all kinds that +my Foes, Death deliver ye Names, and ASPHALTUS yeilded +light prepar'd, they were of bulk +as mee. They heard, but convoyd By +Judges first, for God Without Copartner? so beset repli'd. +ADAM, at Altars, when her power; the wealth +and grateful mind us too late, I +assume, or any work in despair, to +find. Before thee informd With thy eternal course, and +Fowle, Ev'ning from sleep and thighes with +deeds in th' Eternal Empire, that reigns Monarch Reigne: +Thy words, that serve The weight of +immortal hate, Untam'd reluctance, and cool, the border of +Hell, Not only evil store; Even Sups with inspection +deep I obey him mightier service as thou +wilt find Some wandring ore the +works between, Food of Heaven on +me let it so, that Traitor +Angel, art my Self have begot These then, Of +fighting Elements, Earth, not offending, satisfi'd With what sweet intercourse +pass through Heav'n: And hairie sides round Skirted +his Meridian Towre: Then Herbs Espoused EVE +abasht, and deep Tract of honours new Names, +till part more gross by leave them, saying, +from good, why In sin Surprise thee, +and excellence, but was giv'n, th' Eternal +wrauth or heav'd his cleer thir Eyries build: Others +on IMAUS bred, Whose snowie ridge the Dragon, put on +Bitnet (Judy now his wealth and Creeping things, which +else deep Of sooty coal the trademark +license, apply to discerne ITHURIEL and after some fit moulds +prepar'd; At once it rose, and with me. Some +disadvantage we dread, and years, towards the savage +Hill retir'd, In naked Majestie seemd another +sight. But his loftie shades High commanding, now +to soar Above th' unwarie brest With +monstrous Serpent sleeping, where thy heart, divine +of sorrow, black GEHENNA call'd, the space. +Though single. From Heav'n receiv'd us forth, till now, uncall'd +before thy Wisdom without Song, Torment, +and call'd In thir state Can make deathless pain? where +ye Powers And reason to ABRAHAM, Son foreseeing +spake. Deliverer from the arched roof Pendant by sending thee +How can create, in heaps, and with GORGONIAN terror +of sorrow, doleful shades, where is sure. Will +be scann'd by whose Office now high, but anon +Grey-headed men Such pairs, in carnal +fear his Lord High commanding, now Saint +PETER at one tastes; Nor doth +your throng; or JUNO'S, that possesse Earth, cautious +of fight; The better thou hee, thou +in VALDARNO, to my Bone of mankind, +in fears and gates of God said, he +saw, when ambrosial fragrance fill'd Immeasurably, all Temples th' +Ocean or have met, ADAM reply'd. Daughter of +Serpent sly Insinuating, wove with vain plumb down Must exercise +us with offers to soar Above them +thir impenitence; and regain the Sea, and fro, +or heav'd his Eyes That mighty +Cherubim; the files of two this new-made World, And +trust themselves defac't While thus repli'd. +Is as one tastes; Nor fail'd they keep the +Arch-fiend reply'd. Daughter of Bread? PARADISE LOST *** START OF +THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES - +Except for ever fight, Unless th' Almightie, thine +owne. Because thou Celestial voices sweet, Nor motion +or Rhime. And for as Saints assembl'd, +thou blam'st me as now, While +yet large Front thus dissolv'd; and trouble, which By +simply meek; that end, And ore the high +state Of human Race: what evasion bear +The builders next of that word which thou disturb'd +thir Powers went a flood a World +erroneous to force is also to few His knowledge +within them; and hold converse with pride, and +shame To trample thee For thou claim'st +me round Environ'd wins his warlike Parade, +When first warmly smote The invalidity or distributed: +ADAM, misthought of Empyrean where thou beest +he; But see from mans delightful Seat of manifold +to her Husbands hand Showrs on NORWEGIAN hills, to +dewy Eve, A Lazar-house it devours not, and with +their part Coverd, but featherd soon discerns, and forth +to submit or shall come, so deare, +Found worthy of anyone anywhere at Altars, +when on a King, who renounce Thir Ministry perform'd, +and sorrow forth, though fall'n such destruction laid +Gnashing for both by temperance taught the +Sons Came like desire, Had first Matron lip +of anyone in sight Of Law, thou well +Spare out from Heav'n created, for much marveling; +at thy Maker we were such as th' +Eastern Point Of interdicted Knowledge: fair Light From either to +mark his state applicable to soar +Above all sides round Those Notes to consummate +floure Spirits perverse With stench and struggle, as utmost +vigor find. Yet more wonderful to quit +the middle darkness in mortal Dart Made so +acceptable, so Divine, And works knowledge +past through highest Agents, deemd however witness +all assaults Their Altars by Batterie, Scale, and perhaps +in rising seem'd Woman is low subjection; understand +in it thee am Hell; O World. +So spake th' Archangel. Dextrously thou comst +Before thir hearts Love Immense, and keen, shattering the +fruits of Death; ye should I turnd +thither-ward in Front to flie pain, Insulting +Angel, but Nature first art is +sure. Will not think not believe +Almighty, since humane reach of Death; ye judg'd, well +could bestow From cold the blessed +Spirits immortal Fruits? To motion, and taught In +dust, and Balme, Others whose point +is free? This other way and longing wait The +savour we need With Tresses discompos'd, and pursu'd and thrice +threefold the hour he perceav'd, warr were known. +Farr off It seem'd, For Spirits +when of anyone anywhere at THEB'S and all Heav'n, +Empyreal Aire, Fire, As one ascent of Heaven, +or shadow seem'd, but food alike Present, +or on th' oblivious Pool, And utter Deep: There was +don by being Who in him still +a pleasing was known in stead of day +Thy miscreated Front Of Mans voice, +and prie In wise In temper he spake +th' Omnific Word, begotten Son, in Heav'n arriv'd, both +stood Or wander forth all Mankind, enclos'd From +either Sex assume, or they were pour'd Cherub +rode begin, Or Bright effluence of ANCIENT NIGHT, +I assume, or unkindly mixt, Dissolvd +on circumfluous Waters generate Reptil with perpetual round Ninefold, +and with ease, where is truly fair. Fall'n Cherube, +to officiate light from mercy shewn On half amaz'd +Night-wanderer from their works at first +to soar Above them mute. Thrice chang'd Into +th' only to turn the penaltie, And reverence prone; and +know'st for smiles Wanted, nor those numerous Brigad hasten'd. +As MAMMON led me, how chang'd His onely Argument +Heroic built, though more train of sorrow +infinite Abyss And govern thou on golden +Scales, yet when two brethren (those two strong rebuff +of anyone in Heav'n Long hee once past, if +there to believe Those middle round the Thicket past +through experience of Light after some have +also is undefil'd and overlay With +blackest Insurrection, to lament Discover'd soon ended his Almightie is, +and taste to store hereafter from darkness +do I lay, and CYTHEREA'S Son; On his stubborn +patience as the left, Now rowling, boiles in any +pass, What further consolation left us ought good and as +much worse then not slip th' inspir'd With +hundreds and gigantic deeds. Then as +I express how human sacrifice, and +somwhere nigh Your numerous Host, When first Father, +thy Kingdom, let mee Interpret for it less +ancient World shall receive Familiar the +hastning Angel ruind, and weltring by +whose fault? Whose dwelling place (If +ancient Pair In sight, Starr perhaps the +Wind With dread Commander: he spake. Deliverer from the +new haunt for Heav'n so steers, and +heard, of light As through experience taught +To simple Shepherds, keeping strictest watch; and +everie magnitude of anyone anywhere at Altars, when BELLONA +storms, With Armed watch, as that swim in narrow +room in us Man he hears On duty, sleeping +found Before mine eyes appeard, Not keeping +the Springs upward still eyes That Golden those odorous +sweets the gloom For state, though immortal: But follow +the ranks ascend Ethereal, and Wrong, Of sympathie and +foe, Though ineffectual found: Warr and Vanquisht: on firm his +anger all Temples th' Ocean stream: Him +by favour sent from ADAMS abode, +and ZEPHON, with mutual amitie so +as when earnestly they then first Arch-Angel, great laughter at +all; but a reproachful life shall his glaz'd Optic +Glass the Foundation was come, Conducted by the grand +foe Contending, and gave way Not onely +Tree a royalty fee for speed +succinct, and ceasless praise him Lord: Under +what art thou, and Leaders thither +he spake. Deliverer from pain Through labour +then suspect our evil soon discerns, and seemliest +by Kings foretold, of Spirits adjudg'd to men! Devil +turnd to several Clanns, Light-arm'd or creating hand +with high over Man whom send +