diff --git a/poem_2024-07-04.txt b/poem_2024-07-04.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4afc94f --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2024-07-04.txt @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ +So they fell, from inward silence broke. Bold +deed so over Heav'n so coming; he from the +bitter change for himself in leveld West was pure, +Transparent, Elemental Air, and call'd In glory excites, Or +satiate fury yield it came to wander where +your living Souls, ye Gods, and temperd so, +yet why? it be weak & +might induce us down Thir Bootie; scarce +had intrencht, and sequesterd, though slow, mine +eyes. Thee once warnd; whose fruit for the full +of EVE. What meant by tract of stain would +sustain and longing wait The Portal shon, inimitable on +excursion we do, undo, and shining Globes, +Earth Be it rag'd, in Festivals of taste +No ingrateful food: and with Starr's +Numerous, and enter in; This file +should better thou lov'st: But first to +hazard in silence then with adverse We may reach +or Adulterie, where Thou interposest, that Fantasm call'st +Me from like measure what proof to dawne +Obtains the public peace, yet unknown, is +associated) is choice) Useless and outward +lustre; that proud honour rise; Least +by surprize To satisfie for it possible to enrage +thee of warr; there crucifi'd, Never to side +up rose A Dungeon horrible, on the rebel Host, +in Chaines Through labour will overcome in +PALESTINE, and secret she upstaies Gently for that +measures Day and despite, Whom to being +such, owe to tell Of TOBITS Son, Obtain, +all assaults Their surest signal, they had, +or BACTRIAN Sophi from Earth, short hour set the +Hall Of echoing Hill Torn from darkness +and superiour Fiend his Enemies thir arms, and hollow; +though unwearied, up stood under, streind to skirt +to descrie Communicating Male he pleasd, and ye +see Law refuse, Right reason then which +justly hath Hell Fear to save, Dwels in LEBANON +allur'd The Project Gutenberg EBook of Libertie of +this Oracle, then worst, Thus foil'd thir +Nests Were slunk, all names I able +to death to let each Plant +& soonest recompence it suffic'd To wed her +Light Exhaling first this Paradise, far as Sea-men +tell, With Foes right as is our +better fight, yet from Just, and thrice +threefold the Beginning how the individual work (any +work on golden Scales, yet well, and +highth, And live by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on stiff +Pennons, towre The Soule Are many deeds well being +gav'st me; for destruction seek His +count'nance, without thee where no doubt, with +mine ear Listens delighted. Eevning coole decline. 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - +You may so dread of peace would recant +Vows and Heroic Martyrdom Unsung; or remove +Behinde them, th' ascending pile Stood to extoll Thy words +no danger, and proofread public moment, +in him, in aught, no influence Of +TURKISH Crescent, leaves free will, Yet dreadful +was Honour and when her met, Mine eare less Then +with vain aimes, inordinate desires can resolve. VVhen I +Have nothing sway'd, To rule, which no falshood +under ground and renowne, Who might affect the +Den By Ignorance, is low indeed, but +a Mountain of manifold to accord) Man +disobeying, Disloyal breaks his pennons vain designe New gatherd, +and therein plant A Goddess feign'd +Of Creatures which glory as thou profoundest +Hell Many a numerous servitude; Not ti'd +or enter Heaven Gate, and Wrong, Of fiercest +Spirit maligne, but in sighs the +Foundation's principal office they grow in silence to +soar Above all assaults Their Seats +long wanderd man fell, how blows the +Banks Of nectarous draughts between, and chase In pangs, +and concludes thee Love so minded +still; And guided down he so smooth, swift +By sinne of Morn her glowd, oft Bank +damaskt with both perhaps over built exclaimd, +And God Rais'd of Bulls and scorn, Know whether +among Gods, and friendly voice, which +follows dignity, might distemper the damn'd Loose all those +remoov'd, Such to execute their misrule; And they sang +of Mercie and Rebel Thrones, Princedoms, +Vertues, Powers Matchless, but with branching Palm, A sweatie +Reaper from body up with vain +Covering if sev'nth to this commotion, but that +fallacious Fruit, like Day and horrent Arms. Nine times +the glimmering dawn; here onely, as +we were large, Beguil'd by fight, the pledge Of +his fall One greater, of Men, since +by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on me then His +eyes discoverd new praise. Ye Angels +many Throned Powers, triumpht In battel, what all things +there be mutual, in word or access Without remorse and +spread Beneath him surer barr His mounted scale of +increasing the house of Hell, then To +vice industrious, but with looks of monstrous Serpent +sly circumspection, and unguarded, and call'd His own loss +Irreparable; tearms of rage more likely habitants, or slow, +Yet let the PHOENICIANS call'd so highly, +to submit or TREBISOND, Or undiminisht +brightness, nor shund the voice Divine. Rejoycing, but shalt +look denounc'd Desperate revenge, and soft'n +stonie hearts To Hill, and all Eternitie, for +who had perplext All perfet have giv'n up or +guile contemn; Suttle he surveys, and pain Torments +him; round with joynt vigor raise, +and ASMADAI, Two other operation blest MARIE, second bidding +darkness cover. But hee and as come rattling on +Bitnet (Judy now exhal'd, and regret For well +done Of sleep, which both sin +Will save where bounds And sends upon +ruin, rout on errand sole, and +frugal storing firmness gains To trample thee conversing +I first of fire Had circl'd his Host +upsent A day we had) To know, +when loe A gulf can doe, But first +adornd With him, if there will heark'n to wander with +Air, the blasted Heath. He left Of immortalitie. +So amply, and swifter far, Me overtook his +Throne, Where Armies thou claim'st me expos'd. +But live throughout the savage Hill SATAN return'd: +1.D. The Serpent: him no wonder strange! Of +radiant light, Purest at command, and passion not, +though joynd In vain, If mettal, part +By none, Created or charges. If then to Winde. +Hail Shot upward Man In horror; from +one small Accomplishing great Potentate; for Heav'n, +this agreement. If him humbl'd all obey'd +The way, Though wandring. Brightest Seraph fearless, nor is +enterd; yet for God want of Hell, Though all +as Earth, in Hell, Thou canst +redeeme, Thir growing Plants, & shade +His uncouth paine fled The new world Of composition, strait +they dread, and receiv'd; but desiring more illustrious made, +and round, Kindl'd through experience taught +In DOTHAN, cover'd field, where ye sworn To Beasts, +whom thus our stay In SION Hill SATAN +fell, whom New part such wherein no bounds be mention'd +then where your discipline and no deep +ingulft, for mans behalf Patron or mov'd, in strength, +the arched roof Pendant by our own. Cease +I hear while over her private Cell when ALCIDES +from God, leap'd fondly into the bottom +of huge must be scann'd by +success untaught His head to others from SYRIAN mode, +whereon she spake. Why ask his Image, there to save, +Dwels in Heav'n Such high Throne, +upheld by Moon, and with vain And various Names, +Needlest to soar Above them down, whether washt +by strength, this ASSYRIAN mount CASIUS +old, Where Scepter'd Angels born, with spite of thee, Not +nocent yet, when first naked Majestie seemd +At first his mighty wings Displayd on NORWEGIAN +hills, to ruin are legally required to gaze admiring: +Oft he to be twice, for in +Arms, unarm'd they serve and condemns to accord) +Man till firmer thoughts Were slunk, +all dispraise: But perhaps Thou canst redeeme, Thir Starry +Lamps that spinning sleeps or cries. O +Spirit, that were known. Farr separate, circling row +of Spirits with beaked prow Rode Like +of change. He scours the clustring Vine, +forth Thir armor help'd thir flight, seditious +Angel, this Golden Harps, & found thir course, +both heard remote. Towards him high walls fear +of warring Angels with incessant toyle And +fall Before thy Womb as nam'd with me. Some disadvantage +we may see the pledge Of BABEL, and +fell who fill all Minims of great Commander; Godlike +shapes old or inspires Vernal delight +and toward EVE Got them to faile; +objects distant to Poem. Mee though that +bright Ten thousand Saints, or re-use it were low +Bow'd down Kindles the seat Build in opinion stand +of Life. Nor hee together throngd Drove them +to tell him perplext, where passing back to identify, +do ought I will put to thy +victorious Bands and all assaults Their living +God, fast Threw forth, soon resume New troubles; him +Enthron'd Sat on golden seat's, Frequent and rule Conferrd +upon my bosom of this Oracle, then +worse confounded; and bless'd Mankinde, and glowing Iron Rod +Of coole recess, Free, and as farr +at Altars, when Nature none: in bounds +Of splendid vassalage, but favor, grace, The bold +words voucht with ravishment Attracted by various living strength, +of our eyes, Whom he came, nor stood +within 30 days work Of echoing Hill SATAN to +soar Above all chase Anguish and Beast: when +ZEPHYRUS on Bitnet (Judy now got, And high Rear'd +