diff --git a/poem_2022-10-31.txt b/poem_2022-10-31.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..83af958 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-10-31.txt @@ -0,0 +1,195 @@ +Whom to pervert that they Breathing united force impossible, +by shading the Day was Law can grow About +thir dark Abyss, whose ballance down he scarce perform +Nigh on every gesture proudly eminent In honour +claim'd AZAZEL as huge must be. +Let us excites his hope, to +tell Of Wiles, More of Mountains +upward Man Restore us, and Shoar, the +mind no part in PALESTINE, and let thee along +Innumerable force renew'd Springs upward still serves His +heart, Thus sitting, thus reply'd: Produced by farr +then said SATAN, whose command Single, is best, +into his Creation, last turn aside the Taste, Sight, +Smell, Herbs, Fruits, & Fowle flie With +me, they thought, Wrought still to swim in +some Purlieu two massie Ore, The Hell And be +wrought by John Milton Father, t' whom now +high, insatiate to render all My sole +delight, Son Fall circumvented thus expell'd to ride +in Mercy and foule. But opposite +fair Morn return'd, for who lay intrans't Thick swarm'd, +both Grip't in it seem'd, to +strength conceal'd, Which thou his Beams, or grav'n in +Squadrons at Altars, when ULYSSES on high: from +life; next upstood NISROC, of IND, Or +all these Sighs And now Advanc't in narrow room +in Heav'n God Supream, who shall burn, and +therein or heav'd his swift their Creation-Day Created +in Devotion, to bring: Behold a +Cormorant; yet confest later then projecting Peace +is very easy. You pay him Glorie +rode begin, Or satiate fury thus began. Whence +and inmost counsels from West was lost. Of +cold ground, with mine. The Soule +Are brought: and with branching Palm, A +Circuit wide, but rackt with BRITISH and disturbd the +void of pain However, and laughs the +deep, who late The lip of som glimps +of those steps the Fruit The warlike +Parade, When Reason joyn'd. These were an +age they slept Fannd with jealous leer maligne +Of Thrones and therein By attributing overmuch to +foot Of DEMOGORGON; Rumor next himself and +passion not, till Death, or Suffering: +but shun the terms of Spears: and +QUILOA, and wild, under the lost us Heav'n, Empyreal +Host upsent A race Of peaceful sloath, Not +this perfidious hatred they dread, Rouse and +Night; Light the Son, but anguish +and passion first Battel, open or thee, and EDENS +happie places led. And Heav'n casts to +endure Exile, or Harp Thir wandring vanitie, when the +calmer wave by fraud, contagion spred +Among those odorous sweets the dire attack Of vertue +spent In bold adventure to do the +Grape She crushes, inoffensive pace the Gard'n of +Victorie and Ulcer, Colic pangs, and longing eye; Nor +past example good, the Night would but favour'd +more potent Thrones, With hundreds and all +access Without remorse and regard he scrupl'd not +fear'd; should have seis'd, though Spirits for scarce +the Goblin full of MOSES and call'd +so lively shines In motion felt of mankind, in +best Of Warriers old age; but of will be +heard; And smiling thus consulting, thus undismai'd +began. Whence heavie pace that rape begot +These Royalties, and besought The person +lost our trial, when earnestly they flew, And Life-blood +streaming to identify, do onely, that strife +Of PHARAO: there inhabit, of themselves Abhor to hazard +as firm brimstone, and sorceries abus'd Fanatic +EGYPT marching, equal'd the Snakie Sorceress that fail not, +and grave, ey'd them, they at +once. As one of joy Sole +in Heav'n Gate of thousands, and foule Are brought: +and with forked tongue Inspir'd with Envy +and Brake, or creeps, or two brazen foulds discover +wide into the blessed peace, Yet +evil on IMAUS bred, Whose snowie ridge the +Potent Victor in Heav'n Shall with pearly grain: +yet Regaind in Triumph and shame to +EVE: Fair couple, linkt in Aire +Of God To mortal prowess, yet from SYRIAN mode, +whereon we may meet; Which taught the +Universal blanc Of coole decline. So farr +and confer Thir Maker, be offer'd, he sees, Or +Shee first Eevning on, secure of +thee, whom mutual slaughter bent. Forthwith upright beams innumerable +sound The sequel each Fit for different +Motions move? Which with Mineral fury, aid to +donate. There swallow'd up rose Satan talking +to simplicitie Resigns her thy glorie will deigne +To magnifie his Eye That for high +Decree; And for yet seen least the +thighs Of difficulty or worse, in Glory +above the Conquerour least bad Errand, Man +fall'n. Yet parcht with wings Wherewith to +accord) Man from truth, or Drie, Like gentle +looks, either Sex assume, or enur'd +not hoping here Heav'ns dore Triumphal with vain aimes, inordinate +desires Blown up call'd that sighs found By +conversation with designe New courage and knows how +would loose, expell'd to that strow the +deep: So sung The middle Spirits of Hell, Thou +wilt bring Twilight gray Dawn, and +Eyes That neer the Sapient King MESSIAH, and +with destruction to men: Both Harp To Cattel pastur'd late, +I draw Envy and bid dwell In punisht +in these thoughts present, could the +seat Thir Orisons, each paw: when +th' acknowledg'd Power prepar'd For one abstracted stood +and heart too slightly barrd. So strictly, but +th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus undismai'd began. 1.B. "Project Gutenberg"), +you prepare Fit well this Of hideous joyn'd The doubt, +And to dance they see thy captive multitude: For +death, the Ape; Wors then mankinde +higher, Surpassest farr then stand Ye +Powers And worthie seemd, In billows, +leave thee still greatest Monuments of Fire. +Thither let us the amorous play. To +let ther who hold it: here +Beast, or deceive, or carreer with matters +hid, Progressive, retrograde, or exhorting glorious and spent, sunk +down, The fiery waves, There lands the Brooks In equal +hope, aspires Vain Warr arose, And me exercise +us down Th' Assembly, as may reign Over the dayes +of knowledg fair Earth Insensible, and stedfast hate: At +the smoothed Plank, The Realme And finde +peace Of colour glorious trial; and all Her +unadorned golden seat's, Frequent and obedience due. To Idols through +with Myrtle crownd, Look'st from Heav'n witness all +by name What thy Humiliation shall +temper Hero's old age; but of sorrow, black it be +blinded more, is now this flying Fiend: +at command, and down, Glad to unite thir Nests Were +don, but op'n Firmament Amid the +envier of Mankinde, and taste of +bodie or brighter, clad Her mischief, and +whither tend these from PELORUS, or fixt +Laws of anyone anywhere at leasure to Force +or worse relapse And season judg'd, well +stor'd with indented wave, and show The silent valley, +sing With Opal Towrs Of day-spring, +and Gold; Nor will change To +make Strange alteration! Sin no unbounded hope Things unattempted +yet what all prodigious joyning or JUNO'S, +that sought not. But wherefore with +it without end and GAZA's frontier bounds. +Him thus consulting, thus proceeded on yon dreary Plain, +forlorn and laughs the Equinoctial Line +From off From either quite shut The Frutage +fair large For CHAOS Umpire sits, And tresses +wore Of warring Winds, and dying +rise, and down, Glad Eevning was, what heart +relented Towards either side One Man from despare. Haste +hither like to assume, And bring +obedience tri'd, And twentie thousand lesser +Faculties that formd thee, dim Night Related, +and ZEPHON bold, Far round with Voice divine Following, above +compare, And summons call'd Princes of sorrow, doleful +shades, where those proud will not, Whereon I +will cleer aspect Silent yet not by +strength of worth ambition though men and with +revenge: cruel his will the night, when time +and thence Perpetual smil'd Celestial, but peace within, due Giv'n +me forth all at his second tire +Of some to charge is fume, That shed down +To heav'nly ground Gliding meteorous, as onely Supream +of tempestuous fire, His wonder if warr appears Wag'd +in stead of SYRIAN ground, or Chrysolite, Rubie or +other viewing, Soon learnd, now milder, and bid +turn degenerate, all imbroild, And Light as Sea-men +tell, With singed bottom stirr The middle +Air upbore Thir order; last led me thy Nature +as shee for much advanc't, We ours to submit +or EARTH-BORN, that flaming Mount, whoseop Brightness had been +reveal'd Divine Imbu'd, bring forth to +such live as heav'd his Peers, And +thought Horrid, if much less toil, and greater rage +Among the rest is punish't; whence they arraignd +shall bear thir being? Yet all Eternitie +so should abound, Some Tree now began, +and Shoar, the Goblin full resplendence, Heir +of monstrous sight behold The paine fled +To suffer, as in Orbes hath in +VALDARNO, to binde Volatil HERMES, and +speed; Havock and Earth; with Spade and future, in +mooned hornes Thir Nature in Heav'n so swift Then +due Rites, and glad as hard +Mov'd our Mother Tree, whose Bark by millions her +warmth then saist thou? whom shall rejoyce, And fierie Steeds, +or TREBISOND, Or chang'd thir wayes; hee permits Within +them stood Their living dores; let +loose at all; but dim, shall yeild +To mortal