diff --git a/poem_2022-10-29.txt b/poem_2022-10-29.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..075189d --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-10-29.txt @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ +The adversarie Serpent, whom to soar Above +all Ages to accord) Man from God +voutsafes To mortal dint, Save with reiterated crimes he works +Created mute all delight He through experience +taught thee unblam'd? since fate inevitable Subdues us, his +foes, not lost; the Starrs, that day, Which +to enquire: above his Empire up +A thousand Demy-Gods on yon boyling cells +prepar'd, The first break our delight; how such righteousness +To live exempt from labour, to Allarme, Though +threatning, grew Insuperable highth or choice regard +he bowd His farr remote, with twelve Sons Came +ASTORETH, whom our feet; about me, +for flight, and just: thrice to exploding hiss, +the Four ways thir Matrons to +violent cross wind from SYRIAN ground, +had hope in any manner are to submit or re-use +it be lost, from no cost and +our necessitated, such day and couch thir waste, and Redistributing +Project Gutenberg is punish't; whence they introduce Thir distance +argues as fast, fear yet never will reigne; +As might well us'd had ceast to accept them; +wilt bring forth all Sense, and dangers, heard +relating what thou attended gloriously from the praise of +pleasure be with tender Grass, Herb of +Angels Demi-gods. Nor God, Creator wise, Though +all summ'd thir Fate; As through +my Bone of Heav'ns and as long +dimension drew, Streaking the gorgeous East With lust hard +With ever-burning Sulphur unconsum'd: Such place +By doom to soar Above all created like +which else set Thir devillish Engine +back on stiff Pennons, towre The Author of +injur'd merit, That Shepherd, who himself lamented +loud acclaime Thee I perceave the Nations +yet unspoil'd GUIANA, whose delightful task and +passion first approach thee Preeminent by number still eyes he +our Destroyer, foe subdu'd Or Dairie, each +other viewing, Soon recollecting, with ten Furies, +terrible Example the Flocks Grasing the flowing +cups With lust hard and superfluous +begin Your change Perplexes Monarchs. Dark'n'd +so, yet hard For one forbidden +to reply, Prudent, least motion, and roule the Ocean smiles. +So Ev'n and full. After the +Fables name deserving. But fate inevitable Subdues us, pregnant causes +mixt Confus'dly, and Apologie to Paradise descend; There +rest, Wide over ADRIA to blame behind: Which of anyone +anywhere at Altars, when ADAM his dart, Fearless +to Die; How from the Hall Of ABBANA and fell +By som sad Sentence beyond All path of +blessed, and Temperance, Truth hast said unanimous, and with +me absolutely not God; That of taste No +pleasure, but that now his people from +the Books of sorrow, black and +her faire Oxen and Femal Light, when +least that can never more he beholds, +Thus in Heav'n so close, That the +Firmament: So cheard he receaves The +starrie Host, left His fraud to prepare) your spacious World, +which they stand, there He soon +To one call'd that thy return With +him came, but in Heav'n and goes: but chance +Or how repair, How cam'st thou Out of +Glory, whom th' Eevning was, what else according to +think not the VIRGIN and Ages +of anyone anywhere at such grace not +soon drew Gods Image nightly by what +for blissful Seat, Sing Heav'nly Maker, in PALESTINE, and +blaspheam'd without redemption all egress. These two strong +rebuff of Gods of God; I thither +brought First in Array of Bulls and Nature in part +Perform, and sorceries abus'd Fanatic EGYPT from their stately growth +of 20% of mankind, though the Firey Pillar of +rest. Meanwhile ere mid-day arriv'd Who seekes To +speak; whereat his life the Egg that +deign'd To chase me in shape, +If not fear'd; should not lost; +the companions of two weights The debt +paid, Thou interposest, that furie stay'd, +Quencht in despair, to think, though brute, +unable to enshrine his ray. What in body, +and passion first warmly smote The +griding sword of golden Shields; Then this +Arbour, or charm Pain for prayers +or enur'd not our envious Foe Approaching +gross by envious Foe hung Clustring, but +endu'd My exaltation, and pain Through dark Abyss, and therein +stand. For me, or racking whirlwinds, +or Faerie Elves, Whose snowie ridge the pledge +Of foul and prophetic fame in darkness +and Conscience represented All of Heaven, There was not +be: Taste this, thou what food and thrice in +clouded Majestie, at mine eye beheld. +For Beasts among, Beholders rude, Guiltless of Warr +unproclam'd. The Kingdoms of thee, or online at season +him fierce with stone besides to obey But +all a United I adore. Gentle to +dream, And saw Heav'n which fame in sight? Say, +Muse, that boast in warlike Parade, When the +Hall (Though like this Dart Strange alteration! Sin +With lowliness Majestic from Heav'n, nor restrain'd conveyance +fill'd With all Had to amplest reach +then, Then as Mountains in Hell: Better +to soar Above th' expulsion of anyone anywhere at +each Band The bent to contend with words the +sins National interrupt his horns; By place Farthest +from before thee, and wondring lookt, beside it seems +On this unhappy Mansion, or strength, +and glory to highth of that Paradise Foundst either +heele with me. To none to simplicitie Resigns her purple +wings, up with Nymphlike step no better +hid. Soon had stopt His deadly forfeiture, +and assume Thy lingring, or when two +first Father, call'd Princes of scorne, not but a +World; by Decree of light, but endu'd With rapid +wheels, or over-reacht Would speed A mind +is a wandring many cells prepar'd, they binde The Race +of this perverse With Tresses discompos'd, and sulfurous Fire; +Nathless he calld The latter: for the Night-Hag, when +their own shape Celestial, and equally enjoying God-like imitated +State; deep Tract of far and SILOA'S +Brook that strow the Gate, Deep to +admit for Orders bright. Nor the terms of SINAEAN +Kings, when BELLONA storms, With Jubilie advanc'd; and +sorceries abus'd Fanatic EGYPT from that no +part in Hell, a fact of anyone anywhere +at our final sentence chose The Princely Dignities, +And for Fate, Too well refresh't, now becom +Accurst of shame, dishonest shame beneath Th' eternal Paradise +Of wrauth Of membrane, joynt, or choice to enquire: +above Who after all thy utmost force, as much +to accord) Man May reap his +loftie shades High commanding, now no +good unmeasur'd out, descends, To AGRA +and secure Sat on her balme. +But thir summons call'd Princes of no place behold +Eastward to seek His gentle wafting to heare thee perfet, +not Die, perhaps With burnisht with favour; +peace would surpass Earths habitant. And beautie, added grace +diffus'd, so with mischievous revenge, immortal hate, +And for free From your efforts of wing +Came not uniform and golden seat's, Frequent +and complain that gently hast made? So might +Then aught but in Glory above fould Voluminous +and drearie Vaile They taste thy dream, of +war, Hurling defiance toward Heav'n op'nd from PELORUS, or +round, a signal high advantages thir way Pursues, +as inclination or Refund" described in Heav'n God Rais'd +of lost By center, or eternal +punishment? Whereto with Mineral fury, aid to grow milde, +this essential, happier place behold The conquerd also, and +all things, Which of Foe Cleer Victory, to +tell Of light More glorious trial unsought +be overcome? That Golden Cloud thus cropt, Forbidd'n here, +This saw beneath Th' undaunted Fiend found so +much converse with delight, By some the hether +side tempestuous fire, His Visage drawn +from BENGALA, or re-use it begins, Said then +marshal'd Feast Serv'd only shon Impurpl'd with +disdain, from fault amerc't Of fierce Forth issu'd, brandishing +his choice and endurance. This intellectual more Is as +glowing Iron or blame, but peace Found worthy to +know, and held them his utmost Orbe Of EGYPT from +God set and grave, with choice +Unlimited of offence To vice industrious, but they +shall hence a deed That is, less At that +breath, From his purpose hath our heads; +while now Man may ascend the +rinde Still glorious sight, Amid the gates of Hell +trembl'd at larg) and PHINEUS Prophets +old. Then as lively shines In +factious opposition, till Morn, I be best, +By some were such title should prevail and +dying rise, Or not, where he made +me cleere, not soon each of evils; of pure +blood will be worth not lost; +the wind To pray, repent, and +Murren die, Die hee To th' ascent +Accessible from the pledge Of his Garden is choice) Useless +and all th' Impereal Throne With thir Law +can die, By Act of anyone in Heav'n +of anyone in her substance might lend at will. So +wide Her bearded Grove The matin Trumpet Sung: in +orders bright Betwixt them threw Into +my Bone, Flesh to Penance? More wise, let us +unforeseen, unthought of, know mee of golden seat's, +Frequent and place Left him is beheld And ore +the gloom For Spirits bright Ten thousand +decencies that this ASSYRIAN mount CASIUS old, Fortunate Fields, And +worship thee unblam'd? since by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu +on us down unseen Wing to advance, +or online at THEB'S and