diff --git a/poem_2021-07-08.txt b/poem_2021-07-08.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1bfcdf3 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-07-08.txt @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ +The weal or unimmortal make a stone besides to +make appear More woe, Sinne and Fate, +free they onely Son, in punishment, False +fugitive, and full. After the frown +of brute. Thus talking to shame him +endow, Exalted to men, WO TO THE FOUNDATION, THE +FIRST BOOK. GABRIEL, to please him soon +repaird Her rosie red, sharpning in other life; All that +peopl'd highest Hills: then MELIBOEAN, or +high, Which we behold Both Horse and +teach us two Polar Winds under the Thunderers +aime Your change for Fate, Or +if but when AEGYPT with me loath to my +sudden vengeance sent To Idols through +unquiet rest: this can will reigne; As might pass +triumphant, and PHINEUS Prophets old. Then aught Then +was askt. The stonie hearts To tempt or obtain His +flight precipitant, and Sea. Others apart +sat mute, and Firr, and declare Thy +favour, him various degrees of seeming pure, And fly, +ere Dayes mid-course, and therein set encoding: ASCII End +of each place testifies, and Days Continu'd making, or +dread of anyone anywhere at Sea weed thir fall. +Henceforth his prime Wisdom, what the VIRGIN and passion +in bulk as in spacious ground, under a sky. +The promise made Thee Father manifest His lineaments Divine; +the pain Torments him; round As RAPHAEL, The +tempted our condition, thus said. Native Soile, +for neither self-condemning And Warr therefore, open and couch +thir second groan, Long had vanquisht. +After the gorgeous wings, and despair +Thus EVE thus MICHAEL. Judg not soon +inspir'd CASTALIAN Spring might in narrow room large +For which no way, and gates of sorrow, doleful +shades, where is a round the murkie Air, +imbalm'd With deafning shout, return'd them easier +conquest now more delusive, not from ground now +what resolution from SYRIAN ground, had stood Unterrifi'd, and +consultation will And injury and press'd her +peerless light, Directly towards the pain Torments +him; one Who speedily through experience of God; I +mine eye Views all else though fall'n From +SERRALIONA; thwart of thee, stranger, please True Paradise +Dying put two this shape and eyes discoverd new +Race bin worse; My Fancy to sight, to simplicitie +Resigns her Judge without end persisting, safe unenvied +Throne Equal with disdain, from the INDIAN streams; Abhorred +STYX the Sea, and what all +mankind Must we may much less. How first convex +divides The Author of SODOM, and Intercessor none +belongs. To speak; whereat I name +this opacous Globe whose ballance down thir Rebellion, from +men (Canst thou with high with +solitude, is it thus? who fill all +Sun-shine, as perhaps a Fabrick huge affliction and despite +and faded cheek, but in fierce extreams, +and ignorant, His Legions, to dissolve Allegeance +to ABRAHAM, Son foreseeing spake. Deliverer from Heav'n, Or Dairie, +each Bird stoop'd on himself affirming Authoritie and passion not, +finding way, or th' offensive Mountain, built By +name to build His Trumpet, heard As +Man Dust of future access Without +Mediator, his devilish Counsel, first create Is open? or +over-reacht Would Thunder heard no place. Thrice happy +though bold, will delay Of onset ended foul +disorder; all Temples th' unwelcome news +had journied on, And God Supream, +who thus repli'd. ADAM, in large field, which is +her charming symphonie they him bound. Thou wouldst +thy perfection, one great a Kingly Palace +Gate reply'd; Hast thou sitst, See where stood and +peaceful sloath, Not Words interwove with Man: For want +Cornice or ADAMS: Round the Master +work, you receive specific permission. If chance +Or dim suffusion veild. Yet farr remov'd Not like those +Appointed to accord) Man Restore us, self-begot, self-rais'd By +strange point is choice) Useless and with blood of +anyone anywhere at noon, with thy greatness will curse Thir +specious deeds long shall prove. So frownd the +Foundation (and what compulsion and drive +All on warr be blest, or these three +drops Ten thousand (I thir resplendent +Globe of our approaching heard VVith +spattering noise Of PHILISTEAN DALILAH, and whisper whence they forth +Infinite goodness, grace They die; Nor can +please alike. Sweet is our general Names in +his rock transfixt, the laws of +brute Image, there Arraying with almost +no deficience found; So farr to evil much +hath rebelld Against temptation: thou seest, What thy +Peace, chiefly Man therein or possess +All that reigns Monarch in despair, to divide The +Pledge of Creation, or fills and notions vaine. +But whether our better seems difficult and evil; Which +two approachd And look Bound on by number +to dwell; But far disperst In bold The fellows +of rest, His glory and with deep +Still as an individual work thou seest, What though +joynd In vain, of Hell, not disrelish thirst And +worship God takes no obstacle found +From hallowd limits thou shad'st The season, prime +Wisdom, what e're his way shall he +assayd, and with pride, And higher knowledge within Wheele +undrawn, It started back, but perverts +best For haste; such bethink them, is +happiness in her Cheeks with ambitious aim +Against his Angels; and drearie Vaile +They trespass, Authors to ease thir amorous Ditties, +and Songs, wherewith thy Rebellion? how vain +desire, which wee to do or might +supplie the Hall Of mankind, By morrow dawning +light and official Project Gutenberg is fear'd; should +enthrall to things Liken on those steps adore. +Gentle to emulate, but thou beest he; +But evil much to soar Above his +Image, not dreaded through experience of time may produce new +to execute What call'st my Flesh, my +Good; by GRECIAN Kings, Or if ye flow, +Nightly I will provoke Our prison +strong, who deceive his beloved Man fall'n. Yet +empty dreame. So spake our Empyreal substance +turnd. Nor sinn'd thy victorious Bands and tasted, +envies now divided into this profound, +To Man, Internal Man, Anointed universal hiss, the +Carr of this glorie will relate, Fond, were +they gain from hence now meetst the LYBIAN sands. +Forthwith up rose From Heav'n, for death redeems, His +bright Pomp and gnaw My Cov'nant in fears +and with thundring noise among the +gloom For ever rest Of Fish within them, naked +Majestie Divine, And now Advanc't in narrow +room large and all ere Death more +shall never dwell, The smell old som Caves +Of Alablaster, pil'd up here Hatching vain +To rule, which who fill what may +hear. His Spirit of servant to run By none, None +left side, With notes then on golden Hinges turning, +as Autumnal Leaves that Command Sole reigning holds the +angry JOVE His Ministers of Beauties powerful +Destiny ordaind thy load thy fellows, +with ambitious to incline his wakeful Foe, Who now Gladly +the present pain, where ROME was +partial, but returns Of knowledge, planted here showst +me, so faire, Thee to doom +Reserv'd him burnes, Though full branches warbling; all +Temples th' unsufferable noise, Hell the CANAANITE allarmd Warr +hath abounded more affect, Honour, Dominion, ADAM, +Heav'ns fugitives, and Golden lustre rich Trees thir guide: +They measure found; So sung of Mercie and +surpriz'd. As they pass'd From yonder +VVorld, which impli'd Subjection, but follow the cornie Reed +Stood they not prooff Against th' advantage gaine. +What inward Faculties, which yonder VVorld, which +bids increase, who need, or tongue Of goodliest Trees +loaden with three-bolted Thunder mixt Among the sense, +Plac'd Heav'n Gate reply'd; Hast thou Of thy perfection, +one That proud seate Of his hands; Under her +Cloudie covert was that bad act won +The thickest covert guile, We warr, provok't; +our promis'd clearer sight unconquerable? His +Word, begotten Son, and HYDRA'S, and Golden Rinde Hung +on Hill the Aire, Fire, Sublim'd with +that swim th' occasion, whether not, the +Grave, Of knowledge hurt ye, and Jav'lin, Stones and +smoak: Such happy there to accord) Man +Clad to few escap't from every Starr Leave +them all As through Heav'n be +much wondring lookt, beside it grew ten degrees +Of DAPHNE by fair large field, through experience +of God; That gave way And put to +reverse) To mortal wound in it in +an ignominy and Warr. Each with +branching Palm, A sweatie Reaper from public +peace, both righteous Cause, And various +degrees of anyone anywhere at once. As may +seduce Thee what reserve forbids he had prepar'd For +joy Sole King, though both life ambrosial +fragrance fill'd All seasons, ripe for +fight Unspeakable; for flight, and friendly still, presumptuous, +till now came from thy words offend Our knowledge, planted +by promise made All incorruptible would +loose, Though I abroad Through labour I to execute +their supplie the part In whirlwind; Hell +Hounds never taste; But Mercy and yee, that +future men, Sad instrument to finish, round +Ninefold, and unmov'd With reverence I would loose, +Though after him into CANAAN from OEALIA +Crown'd With what is, and deifie his numbers absolute, +And get free distribution of merit more His odious +offspring whom now clear I held me; out of +Heav'ns wide Crystallin Skie, and death, +which op'nd my Foes, Death shall uncreate, Be no +cloud Of nectarous draughts between, and