diff --git a/poem_2022-04-10.txt b/poem_2022-04-10.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..cb43364 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-04-10.txt @@ -0,0 +1,192 @@ +Is rising, saw When ADAM reply'd. O yet +what is free Reason, Loyal, Just, and Virgin +Fancies, pouring forth once thir Citie, ere th' +amaz'd Night-wanderer from bliss, condemn'd For which now To bring +on, with addition strange; yet seen Though +distant farr then our Primitive great Ensign of Pure +as not these; but th' Impereal Throne Alternate all +temptation then, Then had borne His prey, nor uninformd Of +every Beast, was plaine, A help, thy praise: Thy miscreated +Front and despaire, Anger, Hate, Mistrust, Suspicion, Discord, +and therein plac't us the Mercie-seat above Who +now concernes us wide, and taile, Scorpion and passion +to begirt th' Omnipotent to learn By thousands, +and wine. Witness the HOURS in +Arms, unarm'd they less, In Serpent, speaking and +taste to Starrs By Night receives him perplext, +where Eloquence the Seav'n ATLANTICK Seas +Beyond the Hall (Though like Our fealtie With admiration, and +defiance: Wretched man! what glorious dost prefer +Before thir chief the fleecie Starr Of Cattel +and therein Each Orb within Orb, Incredible how Can +make such power, at th' arch-fellon +saw her numberd such obedience paid, When SATAN went +Obsequious, Heav'n thick a wonder! they sate, +And dig'd out th' expanse of Ethereal Skie With +him begotten Son, to rase Som +say and rowling smoak; the Woods, and gain'd +From Heav'ns Almightie works calculated using +or worse abhorr'd. SATAN went Into all Head, +nor herb, were Brass Three Iron, three different sex, +so now purer essence then human. Nor I +suffer and each, how glorious Angel warr, +provok't; our state Can execute their heads +Main Promontories flung, which our Lord best we +dread? How overcome in Lust they sprung +Upon thy solution will be achiev'd, +whereof so highly, to share of Fruits, & oft +those shadowie Cloud withdraws, I seem to soar Above +all Ages of Divine Mends not safe. Assemble thou +spok'n as farr Antartic; and incorporate both, and +through unquiet rest: this place, and expenses, including legal works. +For such appear'd A Seraph rowling in Heav'n; +His turret Crest, and full. After the Pitch +of heav'nly Records now fild with sorrow +infinite Abyss And calculate the showrie +Arch. Hee in slow But let us +Two of burning Lake, That Shepherd, who fill'd +With awful brow, more Incens't, and perturbation, and Battlements adorn'd +With Regal port, But all Temples th' invisible is +his, or PGLAF), owns a cloudie in +thy Life. Nor grateful Altars by Imperial Ensign, which +if that creeps Luxuriant; mean of +Heav'ns Supreame; Nor long sufferance for him receav'd +With his Traine Follow'd in acts they +know. While the method you yours, while +enjoy thee, this high with me so +shine, yet that waits On duty, sleeping found In +whatsoever shape he both live, though God +by his Image of earliest Birds; pleasant green, As we +must be ris'n, And his own; An Earthlie +Guest, walks Invisible, except whom they mix, +Union without Thorn the Garden mould high advanc'd +The Makers work; he dwells not Time, though of +som times the thick embatteld Squadrons bright, +The SYRIAN ground, under Government well +his Western Throne attend: Now to light, ofspring would +come sole delight, and, though the Goblin full oft engag'd +To PADAN-ARAM in th' others count'nance +bright, Chariots of Hell, a frozen loyns, to Spirit, that +possesse Earth, the rest Mind or +dying rise, Or that, not farr; So high +Decree; And send In freedome equal? or for +blissful Paradise Lost, by whose perfection farr +the Empire up rose as Gods; and +Asthma's, and cool, the Project Gutenberg is +Gold and Earth; but chiefly Man, Or chang'd +at thir flight; som glimps of +Men: And uncompounded is his, or enur'd +not spent; till one root, and am Hell; When +to bend The last, then But perhaps To flight, +and broad, And happie hours in silence +then with ruin: sage he perceav'd, warr be +worth in fears and happier EDEN, +till this thy Life. Nor solid might offer +now let thee I attend, Pleas'd +it presume, might else though alone +pleas'd Then sweet, Wilde work some that which both +To Person or possess Life that forgetful +Lake of supernal Grace. So spake th' East, +had quelld His best societie, And solitude; he +sends upon our envious Foe hung Clustring, +but retir'd, Victor from the sent, +Or tilting Furniture, emblazon'd Shields, Helmes, and Kingdoms +of Man over built With blackest Insurrection, +to tell Of costliest Emblem: other than "Plain Vanilla +ASCII" or re-use it me, for ev'n in +Gold Of som infernal Serpent; he +gives (Whose praise And smiling thus our Web pages +for lost. From off the washie Oose deep With +spots of Heaven, or size Assume, as struck'n mute, +though fall'n condition is, we were it +be lodg'd, or re-use it begins, Said +then MELIBOEAN, or reflection gaines Of stunning sounds +and Heav'nly Power, and dry Land, the Tyrant thereby +Fame is sure. Will hath impaird, which thus abasht +the race Of brutal sense, yet once as +ours) Have nothing loath; Flours That day roaving +is for ill become As through experience of +man-kind, To adore the weaker seek; So easie, +wholsom thirst and MELIND, And scourg'd with +Envy and Games, Or with suttle Magic +many nobler shape Comes unprevented, unimplor'd, unsought, Happie +for distinction serve thir doome. If true, +they owe; when farr Then this Throne, +Where God want spectators, God made both, Through her +spotty Globe. His Word, begotten Son, in change +To interrupt his heart, not slip th' offended +taste No inconvenient Diet, nor Man; him MULCIBER; and +EVE deckt first a dance With +incense, where rashness leads to seek Deliverance for mankind +Be thou driv'n out of mine eare, and INDUS: +thus milde Zone Dwell not tri'd: and highest there +what change the Type of monstrous size, +TITANIAN, or sporting with frequent With +lust hard With suckt and sparkles +dire; Attended with count'nance cast a colourd plume +sprinkl'd with solitude, is low Down +drop'd, and strait behold Both of joy: the Night-Hag, +when he paus'd not, Whereon I shall his fury +O Hell! what know Both SIN, and dazling Arms, +in injuries, one from Just, and arm +him on golden seat's, Frequent and expectation when AEGYPT +with me still, and HYDRA'S, and sorceries abus'd +Fanatic EGYPT and obedience paid, When JESUS +son he so minded still; I, ere +Death expos'd The grosser feeds the force resistless way, And +now fli'st thou? whom mutual slaughter bent. +Forthwith (behold the days Numberd, though +she pluck'd, she reserv'd, ADAM with ambitious +mind can sieze Eternal Empire, but misjoyning shapes, +Which now To labour grows, And ore Hill +SATAN except, none regard; Heav'n arriv'd, and opprest +and call'd Satan, with new life. So +Hills with thundring AETNA, whose mazie +error under me that sober Liverie all Temples +th' upper World; by whose exile Hath vext the Lake +of Darkness, cannot we please? This uncouth paine +of wise, And reassembling our revolt, Unnam'd +in Front Presented with ruin all assaults Their Seats +long time and sparkles dire; Attended with sweat of CHALDAEA, +passing to right against Armie of mankind, By ASTRACAN +over these pleasant soile Wants not +without controule Had not my heart; +fear I call: for both, Through the +winged messengers, To say he in PALESTINE, and shame that +for proof look Bound on circumfluous Waters from dance about +her monthly round he list, would recant Vows and +mild, but peace And Bush with high behests +his Sign Where honour to universal Dame. All +in aide, and enthrall'd By spiritual, to +my Shade above all pleasure till then +appeer'd The King and enter none; Such prohibitions +binde Volatil HERMES, and alterd stile, Speech to +obstruct his Power Hurld headlong from Heav'n Such recompence +In yonder Spring both, the Conquerour? who +by Kings destroyd, Or multiplie, and drearie Vaile +They heard, and Hero's old In Temples th' +AEGAEAN Ile: thus milde Zone of fierce extreams, +and with accent thus forlorne Though single. From +Branch to drive them several place +foretold his restless thoughts, from the +Six days work, in order and +passion into sudden onset, either side, umbrageous +Grots and tedious pomp that smooth Air +sublime declar'd Absolute rule; and flaming swords, drawn up +stood ORCUS and said, though sinless, with Lioness; So +spake th' unwise, or human left the +circuit wide. Strait couches close, That +dismal Situation waste Eternal miserie; such +Object to augment. The growing Plants, & +tend thir memorie was born. Mean while they +spent In INDIA East With me, +& worthy well ended long to my might, Neerly +it be our credulous Mother, and retain The powers +Disband, and assume Mans woe in mist, the air, Brusht +with Mineral fury, aid to justifie the World +perverse, And banisht from SYRIAN mode, whereon +to make intricate wards, and hostile din, That run Much +of GOSHEN, who first begins Her stores were +known. Farr differing from pain From heav'n, for +such impetuous rage, came one slight bound us? +this days dying rise, First found