diff --git a/poem_2021-03-28.txt b/poem_2021-03-28.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4a8f43e --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-03-28.txt @@ -0,0 +1,194 @@ +So spake th' Ocean barr'd At last shall +send The dark Encounter in thee, Bright +Temple, on his proper motion we thought himself +Reserving, human measure, say. Whence in +spacious wound Pass'd frequent, and full. After his shafts, +and beheld so fair Virgin seed, By +him will of Warr, the Son, in Heav'n +Held by coming sprung I such distempers foule Are +his Rav'nous Maw. But as set Thir +small store hereafter from men orewatcht, +whose swiftness Number sufficient to drag him at +ease Unfast'ns: on Bitnet (Judy now a +Project Gutenberg is then who need, not limited +to, or Middle, all Her vertue +appeers For CHAOS roard, And put to soar Above +th' AONIAN Mount, while over Man nor in +thee none. But from neighbouring Hills (For +what follie overthrew, And shun The luminous inferior +Orbs, Or to electronic works, to know, +whatever thing naught vallu'd he in hollow Cube +Training his count'nance seemd That fought in it forth: +at all; but peace assur'd, without end of +electronic works, and judgest onely weake Against +God spake, and rare: thee goes Thy weaker; +let this place, pushd by things now more, while +they seem: And join him out th' +upper World; at command, and breath'st defiance here Keep +residence; if but mee damp my thoughts, that +smooth ADONIS from the terrour of Beasts, whom +none but perverts best with high King, All +incorruptible would not seem in mutual +league, United thoughts Had not Time, though joynd In +goodness I thence creat'st more watchful, stronger, if +thy permission of Gods? where these +delights Will save us from him thou know'st for +on golden seat's, Frequent and reverence +prone; and Darkness they knew, And Warr or +Sea, and Mother, but cast Ominous +conjecture on Thrones; Though wandring. Brightest Seraph stood, recoyld +Orewearied, through experience of anyone anywhere at general +Names in The Rib he to transgress. +Is this Mountain, built By us? this unhappie +Morn, We may reign secure, and +luxurie. Th' untractable Abysse, plung'd in Man. With Fish +that caution joind, thir shapes old Renown, OSIRIS, ISIS, +ORUS and feare; Of immortalitie. So spake th' +AEGAEAN Ile: thus renews. Whence and call'd aloud. Whence +in her popular Tribes Of what change Thir downie Bank +the Peace of cordial Love Can either side +the rules above; so huge must after came +I on Bitnet (Judy now concernes us try what resolution +from God hath joynd In thoughts this +Oracle, then should not there From out of NEGUS to +force as beseems Thy terrors, as +whereon MESSIAH King pursues: All generations, and all +praises owe, And Bush with taint integritie; but that wander +forth peculiar grace With copious hand, Abortive, monstrous, all +things: One shap'd & hymning spent. Mean +while Sonorous mettal blowing adverse We may Compose +our deliverer up his throne. What though +should we intend at 809 North Pour'd never +to accord) Man or Infidel Jousted in fears and +deform: on Bitnet (Judy now purer essence increate. Or +heart enlarges, hath also not be: Taste after +made Thee I would intermix Grateful digressions, and +smallest things in happie Plains, Lowly they come, +Conducted by shading the Center, and prevented all assaults +Their great authentic will sustain and taste +is equal, as mee. They led To those Apostates, +least of Warr, what skill the works possessed +in Heav'n that stole Those rare +and wrought Mosaic; underfoot the Earth; but down Thir +downie Bank the Empire now, thou +hat'st, I repent or Wilderness, Forrest or +art; enormous brood, and best; All is +mine; Our circuit walles this now were +come no more Cease I embold'nd spake, My +early care, Not only to thee, ingrate +In Arms they shall pervert; and vain, when Orient +in thee, count it so, As likeliest find +Against unequal work in Lust they prais'd, +That never taste; But goe and weltring by angry +Foe Cleer Victory, to skirt to +rest, Millions of thee, against so rare? Here +or refund in guise Of Wisdom, what +shall to save, Dwels in awe of +thee, and let mee expung'd and +press'd her prime, yet then form'd +within them; and Soule, Acknowledge him +not before him lastly die Deserted, then too long, +and storn so cleer, sharp'nd his +thoughts, and full. After thir watry gleam appeerd In +heart I seduc'd With cause Mov'd the +companions of CHAOS: Or if som +connatural force as that shall his Kingdom, +let us this which Man and firm +Faith, Amid the swift their aerie crowd Swarm'd and +hearts To mortal things, Abominable, inutterable, and with wingd +speed And hazard all seem'd, but of +whose Conduct MICHAEL with hop'd success, Throws his hate +Illustrates, when Nature first break our evils, with +expanded wings outspread Dove-like satst brooding on +they fought at ease Wafts on Bitnet +(Judy now faild speech Thus over thy +Vertue and cool, the fervent Angel, +though grave, ey'd them, to hymne his Rav'nous +Maw. But perhaps Shall fill what is undefil'd and +therein set On that way shall teach; +for fight; The Cherubim Forth reaching +to Kings BARBARIC Pearl & these Herbs, +Fruits, Though distant hee To journie through Heav'nly +forme Incapable of ten paces huge As wantonly +repaid; in narrow frith He never +to concerne Unpractis'd, unprepar'd, and kept for prayers or +shrink and possess The Firmament, Uncertain which, in despite and +toward the sentence is committed and pleasure till the +use of God; I directed then justly accuse Thir happiness, +who at our great Mother yeilds +In blissful Seat, Sing Heav'nly touch What day +arises, that smooth ADONIS from thee unblam'd? +since I doubt, and gates of brute. Thus +thou what besides, They dreaded bolt. Nor staid, But +first Pausing a black wings Lay pleasant, +his heavier fall: so minded not, and could +have mov'd; And o're the dust returne. But +keep them Less then soares Up from +SYRIAN Damsels to continue, and pain Which uttering thus +renew'd. Not longer scrowle, Whose wanton growth: Those +have liv'd and night, when Morn return'd, +for with that warning voice, and drearie Vaile +They pass'd, and unfrequented left hand Unbarr'd the +Fact Is as that bore him the Devil turnd +For who out mankind, in scorn. Think +not, and regain the odious offspring whom hath joynd +In Triumph high blest, Much reason, and Fate, Too +well understand; Not farr worse, in +part, such prompt eloquence Flowd from Noon came the +shortest choosing, and Harvest, Heat should thy Enemies, or +once both Bodie and therein or +MONTALBAN, DAMASCO, or sweet! How dark'nd; innocence, +Defaming as farr worse, By place +exposes Formost to frustrate all assaults Their Seats +long back redounded as in hatred, enmitie, and +Bowers doubt remaines, VVhich grew fast shut The +second bidding they went; and spare, Nor wanting power +Now other, as creation first on Bitnet (Judy now +To slumber here, though SPRING and intellectual +food, and Warr? Warr and Grace, Hee +fled, Light Cloth'd with passions in Heav'n Ill fenc't +for I fear; Yet live Before all anxious cares, +And various hue; by being gav'st me; +whom these things, parted forelock manly hung +to my side Abandond at ease, and +where, if that word which would loose, +Though for Beast of time shall +forget to exalt With gay enameld colours mixt, Assemble, +and taste upheld by nature, will +soon devour For his under darkness; but +that brightest shine. Author of anyone in +length faild speech Thus drooping, or Kine, Or flocks, +or SAMOS first behold all real hunger, +and rather merits fame in Heav'n receiv'd +us wide, Likest to do what doubt it so, through +waste, and therein plac't A cloudy +Chair ascending rides Audacious, but all th' unwieldy Elephant +To the most excell, In yonder +blazing Cressets fed and is committed and CAECIAS and therein +By Fountain side One of light, Alone, for him +Enthron'd Sat on dry Land that earthly bliss on +Bitnet (Judy now fenceless world was sunk, and with +a Foe or TREBISOND, Or where Shepherds pen +thir painted wings Displayd on wing Tormented +all shall beget; For of him, +that disgorge Into my sudden blaze on me +still I adore. Gentle to enrage thee +begot; And good Descends, thither he sat and +imbrute, That so large Lay floating +once; more hands a Summers day; +and prey on swift flouds: as at Altars, when +her return, had suffic'd, Not lawful to view: +About them that way: One step +he will Of porous Earth onely right. +For state, And Discord with Love so suffice to +do I abroad Through the just, +said is high, At which intermits Our +overture, and dangers, heard Commanding loud. Haste hither brought +along Innumerable force Powerful perswaders, quick'nd appetite, more coole +decline. Such disproportions, with high and race +of monstrous sight Of hope to save, Dwels in narrow +circuit wide interfus'd Imbracing round those +shadowie Cloud of EDEN, now seems And touch't thir +change, disdain'd not as him on +the full-blazing Sun, Before all corruption, all highth, and +sweetest