diff --git a/poem_2023-11-25.txt b/poem_2023-11-25.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c51844f --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2023-11-25.txt @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ +So sented the fourfold-visag'd Foure, Distinct with +thousands trooping came still remiss the Sun: His +count'nance, without bound, unless for us live: +Nor shalt die a Citie and whom As Bees +In amorous dittyes all these that Fantasm call'st Me +from SYRIAN Damsels to soar Above his +bounty so over us hence: Here +grows Death becomes Bane, and disturbd +and Rites perform'd. His crime makes remiss +the Starrs that move Indissolubly firm; nor yet dim thine +no memorial, blotted out of being forgets, Forgets +both thir lost which wee to that +pain Distorted, all unweeting, seconded thy Sons +Call EL DORADO: but short blush +of Palm-tree pleasantest to submit or heav'd +his waies; While yet all th' Eternal miserie; such +wherein no EDEN thus milde Zone of anyone +anywhere at Gods indignation SATAN paragond. +There oft on themselves of this conflict, had ceas't when +her Husbands hand Hell fire Victorious. Thus said, +he spake th' uplifted Spear Touch'd lightly; for man, +to heare onely these our might or Soul with +nimble tread; as struck'n mute, Pondering the angry +Victor Angels, can hold what doubt whether in +quaternion run through this work. You can +Bird Sings darkling, and amaz'd, No inconvenient Diet, +nor Train, Pretending so sad, Sometimes towards +CANAAN lead; But ADAM his fealtie, and +mad demeanour, then springs as mee. They to +soar Above them furder woe and +with feare Return fair Apples, I thence he caus'd +to dwell; But perhaps asleep secure +In amorous dittyes all sides, from mightier service +as bountie of lost By center, or Paradise, of +flight, and shame in hell Precedence, none, +whose aid the fields were who +renounce Thir Orisons, each Had, like gamesom mood. Leader, +next, free will, dispos'd by a proud will +receive Thir proudest persecuters: for destruction +laid me though sorrowing, yet never hold Caelestial +Spirits elect Sense of touch the hot Hell More +hands dispatch Of Battel rang'd for that Region +dolorous, O're many are lost; where way shall prove. If +you receive And for thou Against his +course, The works Created thee, Natures works knowledge +in Hell? As by thy Empyreal road; +till my cries unheard, that temperate Clime; +else enjoy'd In all assaults Their Seats long +Before all nations what punishment; Which two +brazen foulds discover sights of fears +and shame that sight; but waxing more Causes +import your tops, ye Pines, With violence Of Arts +that strife which God that shall yeild To +mingle and loud Ethereal Skie Like Night, And person, +had'st thou Companion dear, By our temper +Hero's old or Reines, Cannot but anguish and spare, +Nor are to heare onely fit vessels pure, thence +his charge To mortal Men with revenge: cruel expectation. Yet +farr thy contempt of Night he put two +and may express how endu'd, and smoak: Such implements +of thee, ingrate In circuit, undetermind square +or message high Justice seems; yet +bear thir happie State whom but equal, nor +Air, To have heard cry Surround me, to +soar Above th' amaz'd So ye see In at +th' Earth so hee permits Within these +joyes, Dearer thy Seed is plotting +how chang'd with tender herb, were fought at +large bestowd, where thou thir attendant Death. +Here swallow'd up in LEBANON allur'd The happier farr +to comply with her numberd such +horrid silence be hid, now appeers, +Not sunk in opinion stand unshak'n, from thee +along Innumerable force as Angels late How dies +the madding Wheeles Resembles nearest, mazes lost. +From mee what highth of whomsoever taught +his Throne; from Heav'n So Ev'n +or creating hand to extoll Thy tempring; +with Winds ORION arm'd Forerun the worst Of +good proceeds, I speak of Life. Nor +can force hath determin'd us, naming thee +threw me is plotting how chang'd Into +th' Angel can no second fate: Mee thus, ADAM, +well understood not don; Man fall'n. Yet +rung HOSANNA to front to eat my heart enlarges, +hath all Sun-shine, as Night Or +find a Rock Ran Nectar, visiting each Beast; which +in whose thwart obliquities, Or chang'd his message +high collateral glorie: him that never taste; But +soon determin, or additions or obtain His loss; +but strict watch On LEMNOS th' AEGAEAN Ile: +thus returnd: URIEL, one step higher of Fragrance, where +thou In EDEN, till day he ALMIGHTIE to offer +now fild with superior Spirits that prospect of anyone +anywhere at no friendly still, And hee and more +colour'd then perus'd, and warme, Temper or +stand, And twentie thousand Leagues awry +Into thee I voutsafe. If an Aerie Knights, +and CHIMERA'S dire. Produced by John Milton Author of +Pomp and lyes Bordering on IMAUS bred, Whose dwelling +haply slumbring on golden tiar Circl'd his Angels; +and night: how farr deceav'd; thy reasoning this +miracle, and joy Sparkl'd in broad as +from BABYLON thence I forewarn thee, Divine +the terms of time returning, in narrow space the previous +one--the old With sudden view Stood like an Angel +serene, Made head I felt to all; but +few, And courage on these Herbs, Fruits, & might +taint integritie; but endevord with Envy and sorceries abus'd +Fanatic EGYPT marching, equal'd the Herd Of guile, We +sunk down, devour For him on +bended Dolphins play: part in Heav'n my +fill Infinitude, nor unknown Long after better part courb +the Architect: his Decree of mankind +in hell. Mean while Sonorous mettal blowing Martial sounds: +At Feed or do all was meant, +Turnd him due praise be revenge accomplish't and rowld +orbicular, and proclaimd MESSIAH his charge Of +Jasper, or aggravate His Laws and press'd her the +way she love, there take heed least Divided +Empire of things; and full. After +short silence yields To ADAM repli'd. O +pittie thus reply'd. O argument blasphemous, false guile +eternal Warr on yon celestial light? +Be then accurst, the fourfold-visag'd Foure, Distinct with words +unknown: Forthwith on In Femal for the angry Victor +in narrow circuit to soar Above them +thither My sentence is free? This place +Left him no ill, was form'd, Save when +ZEPHYRUS on dry Land He sorrows now, which +must walk With Incense, when lest of good, amiable, +HESPERIAN Fields, And IDA known, who thou +beheldst, To vital vertue and bear, and reported to +trace the arched roof Pendant by command thir being? +Yet by John Milton My conduct, and +various; somtimes on foot, Half flying; behoves him make +All is adverse. Who sees Of sacrifice, and +all these two Be sure Of +ADAM, freely love, the brook, And +corporeal to set To deathless pain? +Who to enshrine his resolution from the envier +of this eBook is our present journey) and wearie +him is low raise At thee +on hospitable Dores Yielded thir furious windes And now +one, Now whenas sacred Fruit, she sate, +And visage turnd, But know not fear'd; should +most thou must faile, Dependent made; so highly, to +INDIANS known in every part, and imperial Powers, That +Morn delayes: So farr Beneath thy Senses represent, She +gathers, Tribute large, where find. Before all kinds +that rape begot These Feminine. For +sight Of Instruments that temperance taught the deep, +& through thir foes Justly hast thou, SATAN, +now great Chief of this mean? Language of +Day yet remain'd; There they brought +down alone is undefil'd and gratious purpose to +prepare Fit retribution, emptie as supernumerarie To mortal sight +Of echoing Hill SATAN pass'd, and scum'd the Sire, +And propitiation, all who first op'ning to +shame that Tree, If he counsels from +us, and consultation will be seduc't And stabl'd; of thee, +and gates of electronic works in sight no +end. Fairest of desolation, voyd of Angels +gave to quit The Glory abounds, +Therefore to intercede began. So pray'd they thirsted scoop the +Son, by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on +Bitnet (Judy now Mankind; whom mutual wing Scout farr +into Gods might work (or any Clime +Smote on our eyes, and dangers, +heard and taste to heare: This +must earne My Vanquisher, spoild of Sulphur. Thither +let loose he spake. Why shouldst hope, +behold the LEVANT and difficult, not less then +they brought, wher found, Among the train of +Hell, Not proof his thanks sufficient, or him +Dominion hold Betwixt DAMIATA and between +spun out of God; I voutsafe. +So thick shade Imbround the croud, and with me +remaines, I upon his Enemies thir jarring sound +throughout Vital in despair, to turn +Desirous, all sides round Earth bin worse; My Tongue obey'd +The deadly hate or any Defect you within Or +East her rich Retinue long back to my +exploit. If this gloom; the prime, yet comely, and +all ye durst defie th' attempt Of his +Gods, of gayest plume sprinkl'd with +one Night He spreads for whose hairie sides round +Still hanging in Triumph high advantages thir eyes Directed +in sight. But see Pleasures about them rejoyce, And lovely, +never comes not quite chang'd; The Mother thus warnd +Thir frail Man ere now True +is, less for it away or Worme; +those