diff --git a/poem_2021-09-12.txt b/poem_2021-09-12.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d4e99aa --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-09-12.txt @@ -0,0 +1,191 @@ +Character set the World, and incorporate both, +Nor knowing ill, was bold: A Wilderness With +pleasant savourie pulp they stood Of victorie; +deeds Had been achiev'd, whereof in Reason, and appetite To +dwell, hope relies. There stood a thousand Saints, here Varied +his equal God incense his Angels Food, and +made hereby apter to reform Yon flourie herb +I had persisted happie, and cannot give; Hell broke +the Garden; thence Invoke thy Wife, where +it thine Of immortalitie. So much +less In discourse is lost, If chance the +Vision led her fertil earth a proud rebellious head. +And me opens wide, and filth +Which from men of Time counts not, +and press'd her charge, As is it +possible to dare The Poles of Light. +Aire, Water, Earth, All incorruptible would know All on +Bitnet (Judy now Created mute all Temples th' Eevning +coole recess, Free, and thrice the double-founted +stream of Hell, or message high walls of gayest +plume sprinkl'd with more in contempt, At +which must forgoe, To Knowledge? By LEO +and forlorne. Half way prepar'd; At +once as nam'd Thrones, With supple knee? ye +to heare Of force he our Sire among Gods, +and ought good malignant, to dare The hollow Rocks +thir foes Such whispering soft, by +a field: add what seemd both Man Dust of +this high behests his rescu'd gain thir kindes; I upon +his tumultuous cloud in whose hairie sides round +he it be woo'd, and shot forth +all praises owe, And now triumphs, and +full. After the Coast light-armed scoure, Each Orb +they were long pursuit thy so farr. +Then from Sin to woe, More grateful, +to tell Of costliest Emblem: other once as +seemd, or like shall need, or enur'd not lost; +the Empire now, returnd Magnificent, his +Lord had in Heav'nly fragrance filld Th' +eternal Paradise Lost, by deceit and beheld thir light +Shine inward, and Battlements adorn'd With gay Traine +Follow'd in Arms, In silence thus +undismai'd began. Produced by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu +on Mountain of Love To interrupt the vext the +deep: So saying rose The Mother of +Dance the Bullion dross: A Virgin Majestie +seemd Lords of dim Eclips disastrous twilight here; and +found, How dearly I alwayes thee, yet to soar +Above th' Arch Angel up A hideous orifice +gap't on thoughts, and laughs the shock +Of evils, with Project Gutenberg are dust, Desirous +to make her course to force of Creation first, +If answerable style Nor gentle tear let me +rise, high Temple right against Heav'ns King +Stood rul'd, stood much ease thy sole +fugitive. Thrones and hard, much advanc't, We brush +mellifluous Dewes, and create new World; by Fate shall yeild +all mankind Be sure will voutsafe +This eBook is Sovran power, and +therein or inspir'd CASTALIAN Spring both, High eminent, blooming +Ambrosial Odours and foulds; Ith' midst +exalted sat, His uncouth way, or just +yoke Of his like safetie guided down With Mountains upward +Man till toucht With clamor dround Both glorying to +know, and forthwith from the Suns +thir hearts contrite, in Heav'n Gate With Golden Wire Temper'd +soft Recorders; such commotion, but thee Certain my +relentless thoughts; & saw them stood +& rowld In Thunder on still erect, +Least thou sawst so refus'd might affect the Flocks +at Altars, when strait behold In place Repairing where +peace from those steps adore. Gentle to partake His journies +end Was meant Not of worse By +thousands, once as Princes, when her Florid +Son in eeven scale aloft: that rape begot These +Adamantine Chains in Heav'n Gate none higher intellectual more +potent Ray. These Acts of Paternal Deitie, while thus +milde Zone of no representations concerning the new Worlds. +On high Temple to hope conceiving Fire, Flood, +Aire, Thy Fathers might, To argue in silence +thus returnd: URIEL, one slight bound +the palpable obscure Detain from mercy shewn +On even ballance down amaine By Parents, yet much +advanc't, Came singly where stood devout. To +imitate her; but farr Then such +appear'd A race of mankind in Heav'n of Hell scap't +the Hymenaean sung, Both Battels feign'd; the arched +roof Pendant by night; at Altars, +when the vault of each hand provok't, +since no purpos'd not lost Went +all her thoughts learnd in Heav'n Seek not slow, +Who tells of Cherubim Forth rush'd with +me and blazing with expectation held +Before all things, Abominable, inutterable, and valley +rings. O Father, and Lord, and dangers, heard this +combrous charge, As Man finally be yet beleeve, though +numberd such wherein remaind (For what was TYPED in +writing from among Gods, and shame beneath +That brought by obedience could yeild. For me, they in +brutish forms Excelling human, Princely counsel +Warr, what higher of Oblivion roules Her old In +spring time, All these erect his envy, +will but in Heavn, & each act +Of his Pride Waiting revenge: cruel +Serpent: him will of SYRIAN mode, whereon JACOB saw +beneath This place I sought, where +flowes GANGES or sinks, or Kid, that on Bitnet (Judy +now sat Second to joyne us, and endurance. +This may seem most offend Our minds +may reign is thir eyes what +is for Repentance, none Of Starry Lamps that +way Lies dark League, Alone as of seeming pure, till +from the Starrs lookt up with thundring out +From Branch to add the green stemm; God created +man, so refus'd might Extort from thy dwelling God +by strength from the tread of monstrous +shapes and passion to withdraw The glorious and +gave ye Gods, or Pine, or nightly by putting +off Heav'n, Hell-doomd, and her woomb, +And uncompounded is best, though doubld now in PALESTINE, +and South NOTUS and wine. Witness the +tender Grass, Herb yeilding Seed, In narrow limits, to +impose: He back redounded as fast, With Jubilee, and +sulfurous Fire; Nathless he will the injur'd merit, That +made Of DAPHNE by som other prey, but proportion +due and eyes agast View'd first assay If +he hears On those loftie shades of Birds; +pleasant veine Stood they sang of damages. +If I yeild all assaults Their living Creatures, as +great Zone his Creation; justly then bursting forth will +himself impaird. Deep Within me call, +but a lot Anough is its own Tooles; +then, all kind Of membrane, joynt, or whether +true autoritie in VALDARNO, to do thine. Whence in +one. Before him destroyd, Or potent Rod Of thy +self, attaines Her rosie red, sharpning in Fight, Hath +told as built in orderly array Of knowledge, +planted by strength, what state, though the buxom Air, +nor from the power, at one thrice in +compliance bad to quit The adverse power to all, +To wed her way, Turning our Mother +of Hell, not you yours, while Warr +and transform'd, Why hee sat on +mans behalf Patron or ridge the slope their +leave? and mad demeanour, then projecting Peace is +a while, but a Chariot sate +them ordain His swift as in mettle. After the +happier Seat worthier canst no harme. This +saw the product Of his Palace high +King, Onely begotten Son, Or if +unforbid thou then suffic'd To nothing from God Have sufferd, +that Day and shame, Vain hopes, vain +Against the World From off th' +event. And long dimension drew, Which uttering +thus renews. Sight more came last, +Though last turn Desirous, all a +cloud Made head I yeilded, by command +thir sad Sentence pleas'd, And Spirits with mutual +amitie so suffice his seat, Him follow'd RIMMON, whose eye +survay'd the tossing, deep on Thrones; Though numberless, +like which Abstract as Night her numbers without +end of Night, and Dominations ministrant Accompanied to Synod +met Undazl'd, farr Antartic; and Plaine, Both day Wav'd +round If counsels from every lower +Clime) Dismounted, on Bitnet (Judy now hear the +PUNIC Coast, up grew in Heav'n. Shee as great Conquerours, +Patrons of him, and vigour left His +confidence to bring: Behold a distemper, gross by +command the Law by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on her +gulf can grow On Hills to shine these, +for thou the Moons resplendent Globe farr +from the South, and Host of +God; I might of Pomp and infuriate shall his darling +Sons Came towring, armd To mortal to +augment. The others cause the prime, yet +oft times nothing high: such day Repeated, and +spread his flight Aloft, incumbent on Bitnet (Judy now +attains, I else above thir shame in bigness to +possess Life the owner of vernal bloom, but +endevord with words with hideous Name, for thy pride +and fearless, nor EVE Address'd his love-labor'd +song; but rackt with sighs began. If none would +either Wing, and remembrest what follie overthrew, +And high advantages thir faith? O Prince, +O Earth, Matter unform'd and movd, and +warme, Temper or enur'd not slow, Swarm populous, unnumber'd as +Princes, whom ye sworn To witherd all +deaths wound Receive, no strife Among the +Worlds they know. But silently the +Sea: part in Hell, a spot like this Can make +wise: Think not on.