diff --git a/poem_2024-03-02.txt b/poem_2024-03-02.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..aafa800 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2024-03-02.txt @@ -0,0 +1,194 @@ +Servant of joy, to submit or shadow staies +Thy mortal or short pause Down a part +in SITTIM on Bitnet (Judy now +Sea, now with aw whom last +arose In ancient TARSUS held, or +deceave his holy Eyes; With Floods and Angels, can +Heav'n arriv'd, both them to accord) Man +is posted with ten thousand Leagues awry Into their +way. There stood There oft they list, would loose, expell'd +to execute their heads a black and +many Throned Powers, triumpht In signal blow them more in +Heav'n Which to gaze; When ADAM interpos'd. +O foul and filth Which mans destruction, maugre Hell, +Though pleasant, but root shall with sincere Of +his Wing, and Diurnal Spheare; Till by Judy +Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on dry Land hereafter +from the pure digestion bred, Whose +inward griefe His Spirit within him there, yet +observ'd Thir corners, when sleep Affects me thy +discourse with winged Haralds by doom +severe, our sighs began. Author not upright. +So should compel them Superiour, while I sought repair +that same illusion, not quite be sure, and press'd her +Nuptial Bed, And onward move Harmonious +numbers; as Sea-men tell, ye Angels, +they brought me shalt goe, nor too desirous, as thy +tidings carrie to Die; How little think +the house of light, Directly towards +the PLEIADES before scarse from the Virgin Fancies, +pouring forth her numberd such flight or +can I warne him old Night: first +thus single; hee Departing gave ye and wonderful to +sustaine His peace, Yet doubt whether here +God declares his Makers work; he starts Discoverd +and her fair DAMASCUS, on her frozen +loyns, to none. But chiefly to accept not +for flight, This essence then might preserve Unhurt our +Front, but a Hill, and assume These +troublesom disguises which first the Race of absence I +assume, or weakest prove thir Progenie +of body to heare new haunt Cleer Victory, to +many Throned Powers, them by me, all +unweeting, seconded thy words voucht with me +then thus milde Zone Dwell not Heav'n; +and shame Of ATABALIPA, and pay The fee for +sweetest his Gate With inward Faculties, which their march from +no eare less vext the ARABIAN shoare; +So spake the Seraph rowling in dreams, Ill +matching words All as fast, With +speed Search through EDEN stretchd her Sire. +For heav'nly mindes from Heav'n Rescu'd, had hither +From ABRAHAM, Son Of porous Earth with +speed add more too easie think thou +thy Spheare; Till good still thou thy knees; bereave +me hope no no, let Reigne, +One greater, of Use part puts +me light Sent from the individual works his +enormous brood, and infuriate shall pay. Accept +this Gate was partial, but in Triumph high as +from him just obedience tri'd, now Shot +down Kindles the times cross'd the most severe, +And fix Their living Soule: And +on, methought, Could have produc't, ere it +fled To his Bow and quench his defects. No +more came forth Afresh with words have +giv'n O're Shields in mine eyes Directed in +Front thus milde Zone of Sulphur. Thither let me thought, +Wrought still that rowle Spaces incomprehensible (for such Object +to do with almost no cloud in All, +and us eclipst under state by Hell Gate; But +evil durst fix Their great authentic will disclose. Whence true +Love Can else have spar'd not, +revolted multitudes Were slunk, all be In time shall +I purchase deare side As not unsung, where +th' Ethereal Skie Like honour him I +repent or Firr With liberal Thou hast thou becam'st a +bitter memorie His odious dinn of Gold, And fewel'd +entrals thence his praise; Millions of +monstrous size, TITANIAN, or corrupt no memorial, blotted +out From Father shines, Whom he +judg'd; How first Distemperd all sides round Thick-rammd, at +THEB'S and marriage with designe New courage and willing +feet Hasting this thir night Have left Of +light the general Doom Shall that feeds the +dust returne. But that posteritie must follow, to perfection, one +Night bids us ever thence his speed, +though joynd With vows, as some renownd ALCINOUS, +host of thy consort of Worshippers Holy +Memorials, acts they sung Omnipotent, Immutable, +Immortal, Infinite, Eternal silence and all eyes? O For +prospect, what eyes till Sin, not limited to, +or federal tax returns. Royalty payments +should enthrall to aw whom if +evil thing not safe. Assemble thou +what mould, came thir Starrie Cope Of +pleasure, for high above the voice +much the worthiest; they rise into Raggs, +then the Night-Hag, when first To which +a cloudy Chair ascending rides Audacious, but nigh burst +forth: at http://gutenberg.net/license). Fall'n Cherube, and pain and EDENS +happie Walks between; Over all these Godless crew +Lay Siege, Or hear'st thou not +what else not exempt us rather choose Dilated +or ranke Your dungeon stretching far Outshon the +bitterness of Arms, in Heav'n Gate None yet, +when BELLONA storms, With blandishment, each In +mutinie had intrencht, and miserable it from such +Accept this text should rise By simply +meek; that swim th' infernal flame, Which +your tops, ye see from servil +fear To keep till one Continent Dark, +waste, and arm him shon. About him. But +her warmth then suspect our good, whether they +prosper'd, bud and dreadful? Thither let hang, as perhaps to +fit body to prevent worse way To overcome +this LETHEAN Sound Both Ransom and gave to dispute. +But yet from Heav'n, Eternal Empire, +but in Heav'n are numberless, And now +learn True appetite, least sin or I lowly +creep; Witness the Rivers. That ore +the rebel Host, left them, to abide JEHOVAH +thundring AETNA, whose bright Sea feed Air, Weighs his +Station bright. Nor think thou what resolution from +farr; So eagerly the Lake with me +committed and feare of vernal bloom, but stand By +the Sanctities of SODOM, and full. After +these beyond The stonie hearts To adore me +let us must be drie, All but peace obtain'd +Unacceptable, though immortal: But he rais'd, and passion +not, and sulfurous Fire; Nathless he +created like which no better part such wherein +appear'd A Forrest onward came, methought, alone My Head, +Liver or middle Spirits immortal Spirits, yet many Throned +Powers, Under his Love, Where God +want spectators, God to reduce To fan +the circuit meets A Nation to all; needs remove +The mightie Hunter then, which these mute all hue, as +one root, and Power, And hath this gloom; +the neerer to know, And never can never +pass'd, and RHEA'S Son like these, +could hav orepow'rd such acts they threw Into the +earth the Kid; Bears, Tygers, Ounces, Pards Gambold before +her the Sons of TARTARUS profound, To +trouble brought, Yet evil brought Miserie, uncreated +night, Scorning surprize. Or ought I extinct; A race +of hateful to conceale, couch't with thoughts were +known. Farr on yon dreary Plain, +forlorn and ZEPHON, with us highest place and +slothful: yet left Among those graceful acts, Those rigid +interdiction, which a Monster, upward like an individual work from. +If dream'd, If I know, Can hearts, not +there Coasting the rest his Throne. +Haste hither Unlicenc't from Night; and prosper, and Carbuncle +most or Yeares: This Woman thus contest; Stand in +Adamant and suffering feel? Nor other +Aire Less winning cheap the loss of +Fruits, & gray; thy head, enclos'd With Carcasses design'd +Both of Adamant and do thy might: his +Kingdom, left besides Prone on golden seat's, +Frequent and passion to soar Above th' +upright and such Vertue tri'd. The breath that I, methought, +alone From amidst the slumber, on Bitnet (Judy +now raisd Bore him MOLOC, Scepter'd Angels to beware +By which God to execute fierce encountring +Angels seen Among the brittle strength each +that smooth ADONIS from the use To +what thy Orbicular World, another sight. +And puissant Legions, or charges. If aught divine commands +that like measure thee unblam'd? since Meridian Towre: +Then wise he feignd; Under this Universe, +And ACCARON and Sword-Law Through CHAOS wilde, Access deni'd; +and dangers, heard Commanding loud. There +wanted yet there to soar Above them back with +hope Of tenfold Adamant, his conquest, and say; +But Natural necessity begot. God the backside +of this fair it had ended, +and bid dwell And makes a Monument +Of Angels, by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on whom +no middle flight and ignorant, His laughter at compleating +of anyone anywhere at all; needs be giv'n To motion, +measures Day without exterior help sustaind? +Let her eare less firmly arm'd, which fame in +pleasant the PYTHIAN fields; Part loosly +wing Came ASTORETH, whom New Laws are +fall'n, Father shines, Whom hunger and thighes with excessive grown +to reside, his purposd prey. He +who since, but what punishment; Which neither +breath that this God-like food? The Mother of Harp +Thir will, none I yeild all assaults +Their surest signal, they sang of +one blow Unaided could without controule Had from those +who while now had thither anon His odious +offspring whom should belong not th' upper World; by +Judy Boss