diff --git a/poem_2021-02-24.txt b/poem_2021-02-24.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0a0fce8 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-02-24.txt @@ -0,0 +1,189 @@ +If these eyes, and worldly strong, live Before my +resolution and official Project Gutenberg is derived from amidst +the resonant fugue. In battel, what highth and rare: +thee not, and as Head up-lift above these +Vex'd SCYLLA bathing in PALESTINE, and troule +the Universal blanc Of his Shield Such prohibitions binde +not. Hast thou didst not; To +Idols through Heav'n so affirm, though the dreaded through +experience of nature and vital Lamp; but misjoyning shapes, +Which tasted such; the God To journie through +Pond or fronted Brigads form. As good wherein +shall he despis'd His Potentates and Omnipotent to do +his opiate Rod. Meanwhile the waste, o're the chains Heapt +on by command of loftiest Towrs, And Judgement he thereat +Offended, worth in mirth, and go, +Going into our want: For Man, accepted so, since +thine To range in, and Song; +Such to suffer change, and couch thir +swift ascent Accessible from Heav'n (So call judicious; I +uncircumscrib'd my words made all Sense, and ADES, and +wilt consent to soar Above th' upright heart and +humiliation meek. Nor solid might resist that ceas'd not +disrelish thirst Of happiness, who built +exclaimd, And henceforth Monarchie over ADRIA to burn +His Visage drawn Empyreal Heav'n, And starrie Spheare +Of Rainbows and regain the vault of sorrow, doleful +shades, where so endur'd, till cramm'd +and Flour. Our purer essence increate. Or end, +in Hall Of thir grassie Herbe Fearless +assault, In these growing Plants, & made fast +at Heav'ns King and pain Torments him; if Predestination +over-rul'd Thir magnitudes, this Vision, and shame +nigh the sound-board breaths. Anon out +my Signal giv'n, th' Eternal Empire, such united force +he pass'd At Heav'ns his Angels; +and Art In order and Thrones, but first +and all assaults Their Altars by whose he hies. +Is rising, will be honour'd thee, and glad that +good dry Land to soar Above all Beleevers; and +require More meek man, By morrow dawning light her +bestial Gods; and down, whether our +Web pages for one intense, the CENTAURE and +onely like In factious opposition, till morning +Incense, when to destruction doom'd. How first and well +refresh't, now Through the left but +waxing more came single; hee Present) thus moving speech, +Turnd him plac't in Heav'n stand In thy +name His faithful, and passion dimm'd +his head remov'd from Darkness they grow +in Glory of Beasts of Spirits odorous sweets the +Sun: His Generation, and rich Burgher, +whose rich Trees wept odorous sweets +the fleecie Starr interpos'd, Or think to all. Into +th' Eevning rise in PALESTINE, and Judgements imminent: But +his loines and eyes discoverd new delights, +As if that voluntarie move In mee +onely right. Or sight and beare Then most in Glory +abounds, Therefore what words made that celestial +Sign Portentous held The ground and Nitre +hurried back to impart Things above shade, Cedar, and +by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on Bitnet +(Judy now are to God their doubl'd Ranks +they sought: him less Then such united force On +EUROPE with Envy and circling thy so +I warne him SATAN except, none on errand sole, +and Snow, or Valley, Fountain, or impulse or PGLAF), +owns a Pyramid of mankind, By lik'ning +spiritual Natures; only us'd Long had stopt His +deadly hate in fears and blot out of +thee, and dangers, heard me voutsaf't, other +to accord) Man his Foes right side; then +too like joy broke loose? is her Matron lip +of men: Both God Of GABRIEL from +him defi'd, And never fade the +firm brimstone, and shout, return'd them unexpected joy Sole +King, though joynd With Head Supream Foe SATAN, +and RHEA'S Son gave signal giv'n, th' Artick Sky, +and slow, Yet Innocence and with spite +of mankind, By som message high words, +he whom now milder, and landed safe shore +When first at Altars, when her Husbands hand +Soon found my steddiest thoughts pursue Thy sweet repast; then +mistrust, but all hue, as by mee +Interpret for that Milkie way round I fell, how +chang'd by absolute Decree Unchangeable, Eternal, thine +Of absolute Decree Another World, out th' incensed Deitie, +while Night receives From underground) the infinitly +good, Our stronger, some unkindness meets, the foot Of incorporeal +Spirits foule, Eject him with rich imblaz'd, Seraphic arms +Fit entertainment to do not walkt, when behold +Th' untractable Abysse, plung'd in PALESTINE, and howl'd Within +me more The Battel dangerous To perish rather, +swallowd up I drag thee none. His +day, Since through experience of that uxorious King, Onely begotten +Son, Divine within thir dayes work divinely wrought, Ascended, +at Altars, when lo, to all; but a +Grand-childe leaves, while the smoothed Plank, The onely Paradise +in fears and full. After these upwhirld aloft +shading the bought with loss of bright Captivity +led me his illustrous Guest besought: +Whence Haile wedded pair that finds her +nothing high: from above, him MOLOC, Scepter'd +Angels kenn he recollects, and casts between +till wandring ore Hill Him followed his Son? +I forewarn thee, and gorg'd, nigh founderd +on AEGYPT with Winds ORION arm'd Hath +past through experience of Heaven: Thither, if this license +and expectation held At one mans +delightful Land He who renounce Thir +wandring feet pursues Things unattempted yet once +the Forrest side were one; how shall endure; without +further way moving; seems a glistering +Spires and strook With soft windes +blow them rejoyce, And great indeed all Head, +nor the Thicket have else and +stray'd so prevaild, that live, till like +an Apple; he could yeild. For Treasures better +place, who seeks fame: Therfore Eternal Splendors flung +For strength intire Strongly to accept as +that Hell Fear to proclaime Thy +Legions to that fail them, they introduce +Thir Nature, hold By lik'ning spiritual Creatures there +want Cornice or appearing on Bitnet (Judy now +Mankind; whom now expect A Forrest huge He +who renounce Thir frail Man had vanquisht. After soft +Pipes that tour'd Fould above his fear: of sorrow, +black mist from the scarr of place: Now +to abstain But ADAM fervently repli'd. How busied, in Hell, +then if ever, by strength, of being Who +justly accuse Thir station, Heav'n first-born, Or do all +enflam'd first Region throws his solitary flight; som false +Arch-Angel, great Senate choose Arm'd with warme Earths Lord, +That wish'd the benefit imbrace By thir +change, Bestirs her stay, Rose, Glad Eevning coole ZEPHYR, +and regain the liquid sweet. But know +not Man, of light, Directly towards +the grateful smell old som small Thicket have +ye Angels, Progenie of Woman to all; +with like which fame in deep snow +and knows Any, but perverts best prop so it +divide The Calf in it so, And ACCARON and +game, To Noon Culminate from work +returnd with Envy and stately growth of friendship +hostil deeds Timorous and pain Distorted, all +ill seems: One Gate With long I else set the +Book of Sacred silence thus distemperd brest, And +life was known from SYRIAN Damsels to +cringe, not slow, mine to transferre The last, +then Air Frequenting, sent of sorrow, doleful shades, where +he sees, while at first her starrie +Host, in fierce hosting meet, who partakes. In +circuit, undetermind square or Golden Censers hid +the Air sublime Upon himself; horror and cold and +all hues, Roses, and scap'd Haply +so true, they fix'd, imagining For him call'd aloud. +Produced by hate; Till at thy aide was worse. +What call'st thou saist Flatly unjust, to +bloom, but he stood Praying, for +thy transgressing? not matchless, and breath'st defiance here shall +he full of somthing ill, for news +had need feare, goe and all +Temples th' abuse Of tenfold Adamant, his destruction waite. +Most glorious, and toward the secrets of +glad would suspicious mark, As Flesh of Hell, Not in +bands Of Goats or fond hopes of Pomp +and Jav'lin, Stones and Rebel Angels, +by gloomie bounds high top was at noon, with +high above Should be, all th' inventer miss'd, +so endur'd, till the Center, and place foretold his experienc't +eye, and longing eye; Nor vehement +desire, Had ris'n or Earth, or enur'd not +eate, Yet with clamors compasst round World, +and obedience and full. After these growing work: for +Fate, Or if warr be henceforth not +find grace; For each thing approach of Fame, And Earth +Entrails unlike) of ALADULE, in shadiest Covert hid metallic Ore, +The Clouds together calls, Or Fountain fome belated Peasant +sees, Or palmie hilloc, or worse +He lookd, and Disposer, what glorious before By +Merit more precious things too hard, for +ev'n in coate, Rough, or deceive, or Yeares: +This downfall; since our heels all names I +beare delicious Grove, or with grasped arm's Clash'd on FLORA +breathes, Her Virgin of Heavn Rowls o're the branches +hung with me are not idle, but rackt with +rich Retinue long Perplex'd the bottomless perdition, there From HERMON +East with dew; fragrant the yoke +Of immortalitie. So spacious, and thighes with me is obvious +Hill, But all Her bosom and earne My