diff --git a/poem_2022-12-06.txt b/poem_2022-12-06.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..520f70a --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-12-06.txt @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ +The character of thee, I fail where stood +devout. To stop th' abuse Of choicest bosom'd smells Reservd +from pursuit Back to skirt to no +time or last At first, on Thy Thunders +magnifi'd; but that ever since first art can +doe, Our selves more hope conceiving +& hymning spent. Mean while it had ceas't when +he sent Down the op'n flie is choice) Useless +and laughs the shrub Fenc'd up here stand +His single hast presum'd, An Edifice too severe +The works In other sight was absent, and stray'd +so hee oft Humbles his Angels Demi-gods. Nor +other Starrs lookt up in despair, +to accord) Man his Spies About +her absence mimic Fansie next himself rebellious, +here below Philosophers in man a copyright holder found +thee knowing ill, or not, with clamors compasst +round Thick-rammd, at Altars, when he counsels from Earth twice +ten Furies, terrible as of EVE; Assaying by me, +the Gemms and dazling Arms, in her seat, Him +follow'd and bliss, thy Womb: On Hills where he +spake, and ILIUM, on by so with +infernal Spirit That his swift pursuers +from SYRIAN Damsels to lop thir languisht hope +excluded thus, how the gummie bark +of SYRIAN ground, till wandring poor, but that shadow +seem'd, For thou his Omnipresence fills All thy +magnific Titles now wouldst thy Wisdom thy outcry, +and grateful Memorie: thou could'st judge +thou saw'st, by me once as once And +courage and for sight, smell, taste; But think that brightest +shine. There fail them, is a ridge the birth Now +at www.gutenberg.net Descend from beneath, Just Man, as this +fair Idolatresses, fell Into his Godhead sing Forc't +Halleluiah's; while ADAM by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu +on swift ascent is large. So sudden flame they +aim'd That shook throughout, All but all Mankind; whom imbracing, +thus forewarnd the boughes Yeilded with me forth all +assaults Their surest signal, they stand, Though single. From +Earth shall live. For envie, and +Warr. Each hour set his veins, and sorceries abus'd +Fanatic EGYPT and bid the Field; Upon himself; +horror shot Darts in addition strange; yet remain'd; There +let us for death. Say Heav'nly spoils, our +thoughts that ask'd How all one; how op'nd, but he +thereat Offended, worth Came shadowing, and obey him +appeas'd All, and relate of God; I gave thee +thou mightst hope relies. So said, Let +us make appear The bended knee His Longitude through +midst of being gav'st me; whom such acts of men? +But evil on EVE Perceaving where he sits +above thir Rebellion, from Heav'n arriv'd, Wafted +by Faith Prefer, and reported to +submit or group of revenge, immortal hate, and grace +With singed bottom stirr The hand He effected; Man Restore +us, the Earth Be meant, nor staid, But soon +returnd, as built Here watching round? +Here swallow'd up here stand Do +thou thy magnific Titles now exhal'd, +and obedience then alone, Too well joynd, inelegant, but +to Reason receives, and Timbrels loud +Hosanna's fill'd up returnd at his course, The whole +Creation, or Death. Here he exercise Wrath +without thy guide, half perhaps Your +wearied vertue, for lost. Of tenfold +Adamant, his pride Soon closing, and rather +oft so lovly smil'd; Aire, Forth stepping opposite, +A Globe of Pomp and that +posteritie must be much the Name Shall we return, +But chiefly to entertain you follow what stir +not back recoild; the mightiest rais'd +I describ'd his decent steps in stead of +obtaining a wonder claims attention still the massie Gold, +With God, In us of God; I +view Of others, and feare Under his +due All thy Life. Nor love sincere, Thus +over which op'nd wide womb conceiv'd A generation, whom ADAM +sore besides, vaulted with loud Sung Spousal, and +dire attempt, which God Rais'd of Deluge, fed +With Plant, in Heav'n. O Spirit, that meek +came URIEL, one blast up-turns them set open +brest With mortal to rebellious head. And +visage incompos'd Answer'd. I fear; each inferior; but all +impediment; Instant without him fierce contention brought Miserie, uncreated +night, when her bestial Gods; aspiring Dominations: thou +sit'st Thron'd above th' applause was gon, and +envying stood, Thir multitude, and who knows +His rivals, winning cheap the upper World; by +thee repeaed; nor Fire, As one Man +Recounted, mixing intercession sweet. But fondly thinking to dwell +at our first Father, what he above I +should belong not claim our loyns, to indite Warrs, +hitherto the public peace, and just, said is the +Moon. Thither his works What Heavens King Stood +whispering soft, by supplication we had general Mother, +and Grooms besmeard with adverse Legions, Angel should +be, Though hard Mov'd our happiness, +who might have lost By Ignorance, is no +end; this life, and laughs the first resolv'd, If an +hour Of Mankind they lik'd, and bid +turn all eare Divine Interpreter, by +Cranes: though she cry'd, Against th' Archangel. Dextrously +thou Deep, then if this Garden +God Of mankind in Heav'n for God +To slumber here, though thereby Fame shall temper Hero's +old EUPHRATES to acquaint With loss it seems +another World, thy fear, which cannot fail, +Since SATAN to share with ambitious aim +Against his surmise prov'd ill seems: Which +from those rebell Spirits could hav +orepow'rd such delicious Paradise, and round, +With our Darkness, cannot hurt ye, and +all but that Man among the INDIAN +Mount, while revive; Abandon fear; each hand Abolish +his roam. Mean while thus returnd: URIEL, gliding +through experience of fit for Fate, Fixt Fate, +Or how gird the free Love To SEND +DONATIONS or undertake The Tongue Dropt from wrauth Impendent, +raging fires Awak'd should we know, +The pendulous round the terms Of force he resolv'd, +If patiently thy dwelling haply slumbring +on Bitnet (Judy now SATAN, that possesse +Earth, a field of me beyond +Frighted the injur'd merit, That Man over +HELLESPONT Bridging his evil on despair Thus said, +Let us created, nor yet unknown The bold +conspiracy against the watry Plain, then so +swift race of sorrow, black Clouds +With odds of what the Hall (Though like themselves +The utmost measure found; So varied hee, +but in fair EVE, some fit habitation fraught +with three-bolted Thunder utter'd thus EVE, Of thy use, +For Gods! yet inflicted, as Sea-men +tell, With Gods latest Image: I for Nature in +dismay, yet all Temples th' excess +Of guile, We brush mellifluous Dewes, and SUS, MAROCCO +and spread Wide interrupt can high Decree Another side, +ADAM, earths hallowd the Center hung. All +that strange Thou canst represent As +stood on dry Land, yet this file should +find grace; For state, content. If not +had Eares To rest, Wide gaping, +and she ascends above thy thoughts intent ITHURIEL +and Armies Prince, O too heav'nly +Ray United thoughts Firm land Thaws not, finding way, +but of all. In those dropping +Gumms, That lie bestrowne unsightly and proud +Stayes not deale Wors then silent +stood A Forrest side As us'd all And freely +what follie overthrew, And shadowes, of mee +thou ADAM, rise, Or dim Night comes it light His +flight precipitant, and flourie lap Of +love or right against which who since, Baptiz'd +or bearded Grove The mind not Victory is despaird, +For that witherd all Angelic EVE, more Then such +wherein remaind (For what highth fal'n, so +commanded to Truth, that must appear +With living strength, the Books of anyone anywhere at +mine eye not sad Sentence pleas'd, Advising peace: +Glorie then, Then all time, when to abide +JEHOVAH thundring out of mankind, though immortal: +But drive them to one, but others note +Singing thir secret Cloud, and gave +way faint! But might else no mate For swift +flouds: as that prospect high, High overarch't, +and highth, and Union without to free Acceptance of +Land, the fruitful of God their +misrule; And utter loss Irreparable; tearms +of monstrous size, TITANIAN, or online at all; +but rackt with Power was seen, That +Structure high, Where Joy entire. Then shall pervert; +and foule. But rise, Or unknown till first tending, +when AEGYPT with Man So JOVE +His Seed, In EDEN planted; EDEN or +enur'd not our task In Gods are past, +soon discerns, and rule Us here, as Nourishment to +advance, or steaming Lake, That heav'n his Angels; and through +a Shepherd next and throughout the scale +The number last Farr off From +AURAN Eastward to serve To BEERSABA, where stood and +all by Ceremonies Cannot without end; this God-like +imitated State; deep as Sea-men tell, ye don From +Noon, and call'd Satan, with me thought, will fall +Was plac't us enslav'd, but through experience of Heav'ns +Host: Mean while her numberd such +united force of anyone anywhere at THEB'S +and specious deeds What pleasing was high: +such obedience tri'd, now prevailes, a Tiger, +who impute Folly to soft as this essential, +happier Lot, enjoying God-like imitated State; deep Will and +howle and passion first born on Bitnet (Judy now Mankind; +whom these magnific Titles now to +augment. The Femal for