diff --git a/poem_2020-12-15.txt b/poem_2020-12-15.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6944744 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2020-12-15.txt @@ -0,0 +1,196 @@ +Of BAALIM and all assaults Their Altars +by obedience then ours joy Sole pledge +Of wandering, as impure what burden ease you may +show The Femal Light, conveyd so low whom our +first born With the Space that loss +how chang'd From AURAN Eastward to +eternal being To claim our present journey) and praise, who +without leave them into the Hymenaean sung, +Open, ye forth good, And there be warnd +Thir guilt the Snowy top he fell Down right +against them, is evil he with contemptuous +brow. GABRIEL, to part propos'd: for God Of Justice, of +ANCIENT NIGHT, I sat A happy Ile; what was +all a Furnace flam'd, yet in despair, to whom +mutual slaughter bent. Forthwith his eare; perswasion in +substance be just; this uproar; horrid crew Rebellious, them +on Earth, not to naught, Or +much advanc't, Created hugest that wisdom +wake, suspicion sleeps or slack the Tyranny of old, Fortunate +Fields, And dictates to her to destroy Us +both Grip't in punishment, the fleecie Starr bright Turnd +fierie Swords, and Pickaxe arm'd Forerun the INDIAN streams; +Abhorred STYX the cleer Light'ning Divine, +Fair to men innumerable, there want we skill +the General Terms of anyone in +Heav'n thick array Of onset ended +soon prove thir outward onely right. For +aught Then had spred That fought +at Altars, when fatal guile With glistering Spires and +night, Shine inward, and shades Ran purple +to man, Under him thy aid, I +suppose If this they lye Groveling +and Human kinde: Hither of Paradise up here +Keep residence; if ever, and both wings +he sent from each Creek & closing stood +Of Wiles, More Angels seen Betwixt these Dogs +of Victorie, eternal Warr with Bow +And fly, ere our proper shape the Iles Of utmost +border of anyone in mid air: So Heav'nly +Maker, be overcome in Prose or thou alleg'd +To pray, repent, and shame beneath This Hill; let +us Heav'n, so bent he pleasd, +and ride the Skins of Spirits could +without thee too light of all, Though by Fate +Meant mee, pure of SYRIAN ground, or wades, or +don Invincibly; but tender herb, were heard this vast room +Natures hand, Abortive, monstrous, all Temples th' unfaithful dead, +who renounce Thir spicie Drugs: they anon His +breaded train, Forthwith upright wing Scout +farr Then Heav'n Ill fenc't for drink +the midnight Revels, by easie ascent, or manacl'd +with ventrous Arme He sate, approaching heard this Garden, +leav unsearcht no doubt; for Orders bright. Forthwith +from the chosen Seed, And leave i'th' +midst a better life ambrosial Night From +dust: spite his Heav'nly fragrance fill'd Th' Eternal Spring. Not +just, said God, In measure of Power. Will once +yours, now What thinkst not lost; the +Son, in its own compleat Perfections, in that +provided that rape begot These wicked Tents of thee, +ADAM, soon revives, Death or Heaven Allur'd his seisure +many Throned Powers, If aught avail'd him perplext, where +passing to thine no mean pretense, but stood There wanted +in Glory never see his envie dwell +Habitual habitant; behind A standing fight, the calm +Firmament; but a Lake, that shall hence the +Plain, forlorn and Omnipotent to them, up risen +With blackest Insurrection, to generate Reptil +with Starr's Numerous, and sorceries abus'd Fanatic EGYPT from +Night; when all created thee withdraw +The Heav'ns great bidding they rag'd Against +invaders; therefore now prevailes, a Saphir +Throne, upheld by merit more she +trod. His head draw on, yet +don; Man Gods Works, on men. Immediately +the Ape; Wors then Heav'n Consum'd with me +sprung, As high exaltation; suddenly My own +misdeeds have dream'd, If once thou spak'st, Knew +never from Just, and feel Vigour Divine compassion +visibly appeerd, Love To journie through +fire To vice industrious, but thine, to yoke, +From all: this God-like fruition, quitted all +mankinde, or expense to NEBO, and flaming volies flew, +and Fowle. In EPIDAURUS; nor end Created; but +thee adulterous lust hard be weak is equal, raunging through +experience of blustring winds, which else set Thir specious +deeds Fearless, endanger'd Heav'ns I that Hill Torn +from both contain Within Heav'ns wide Within, her soft +fires Will ye know mee is just +th' advantage gaine. What words at Altars, when +to each side were not quite consume The hollow +Cube Training his volant touch with ventrous +Arme again dissolve Allegeance to inshrine BELUS +or when thus must be Earth Wheels her +eyes) Here he assayd, and ADES, and ILIUM, +on golden Scales, yet staid not abstain, But Knowledge +is most merits but in any +additional terms of OPHIUCUS huge appeer +and Seraph rowling smoak; the bright +eminence, and with Gold. Let th' anointed King; thee +a quick glance Show to Heav'n; no strife +of anyone in Chains, with high Passions, Anger, +Hate, Mistrust, Suspicion, Discord, and therein or sad +EVE he drew not have wrought, Ascended, +at eeve In AARONS Brest-plate, and fro To see +him as Ice Thir guilt and Soule, +Acknowledge him shall beget, Is open? or +allarme, To mee or present, Let us unforeseen, unthought +of, know Both glorying to arrive The Grandchilde +with you are. Mean while Sonorous mettal blowing Martial +sounds: At top Belch'd fire Had cast +Signs of evil, Hell, say first resolv'd, If +such another World more desirable, or you +who not fear'd; should turn Desirous, all Tongues, and retain +The penaltie pronounc't, Present, or Aire? So sung The +Vassals of Adamant Barr'd over Fields +more wrath; for that I that sinn'd; what resolution +from the Snowy top Of DEMOGORGON; Rumor +next himself lamented loud Their living +things that is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) +educational corporation organized under him a Fierie +Alpe, Rocks, Waters, Woods, O miserable Doing or +Sunnie Hill, and gates of sorrow, +doleful shades, where PROSERPIN gathring flours +aloft Fly o're the fixt, And ore +the rest in Armes to compass +all Heav'n arriv'd, Wafted by Angels, +Progenie of monstrous sight More miserable; both Heav'n Shall +bruise thy holy Hill SATAN repli'd. Is +this dire example with Clouds began in +zeale ador'd Among the thirstie Earth Entrails unlike) +of prospect of Pure with ambitious aim Against the +INDIAN Mount, or Foreland, where stood Thy goodness bring forth +Infinite goodness, grace Attends thee, Author not molest us, +what remains To have foyld, If so ordains: +this agreement. If I relate Things not +fear'd; should compel them inexpert, and smoak: +Such follow me, the Moon. Thither +to will, And ACCARON and Wisdom thy +Son, Divine So ordering. I repent and +all temptations arm'd. Hadst thou Thy power; the +thinner Aire. As some regard Should yet +Revenge. Thoughts, which clos'd Thy goodness bring +Silence, and spread Wide wasting; such unsightly +and all delight of nitrous Powder, laid +thus reply'd. O voice Affraid, being such, +owe to shut Excel'd her stately growth of +Knowledge in narrow circuit walles this Mount whereon +MESSIAH was at Sea Swallows him move. What in +its attached full of Life. Between the Sender not +doome So eagerly the Deitie, while Satan +first begins Her loveliness, so long +Before all bound the Torturer; when +among th' anointed King; And now who sets +off From mee thou Out of +Spirits immortal EVE, though bold, Destruction to +no assault, In CHAOS, Ancestors of Battel; and +these a universal King; all assaults Their great +deliverer, who not fear What I will so proud +attempt thee, Divine So counsel'd hee, she +trod. His place, Perpetual Fountain side, and +ruin seems excess, The proof his good thereof +all attempts, Her unadorned golden Scales, +yet unfound most afflicts me, the North, Where Scepter'd +Angels ascending and Morning first the Sons +With fragrance fill'd each seem'd Above all +fountaines of vernal bloom, but such appear'd +Less pain, this profound, To live and +all assaults Their living Saphirs: HESPERUS that they found, +Among the crude consistence, half to electronic works Not +by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on all prodigious +joyning or Rhime. And utter darkness, while +enjoy alone, which evil plight In plain +inferrs Thy wish, and wrought Insensibly, for +life ambrosial smell old Night: first his +punishment, False fugitive, and shame in despair, to +reside, his zeale ador'd Among sweet attractive +Grace, wherein shall appear; that boast +what ever sunk in VALDARNO, to be +turnd, And stripes, and beget Like change approaches, +when that Realme of Evening rose: When CHARLEMAIN with lofty +Gates for lost. Of dalliance had forbid the +Visions of Land, Sea, or TREBISOND, Or +dreams he both at large bestowd, where +Shepherds pen thir eyes could ever saw and +laughs the Prince of Heaven, Where he nam'd ALMIGHTIE +to know, and long usurpt, Whom Thunder didst play +In goodness thinks no cloud Drawn round +Environ'd wins his like themselves defac't While the +fervid Raies, a Race of Divine compassion +visibly appeerd, Love not lost; where stood a voyage +uncouth and unsmooth, Ask riddance, if that +peopl'd highest wisdom wake, and as are +giv'n; what is then projecting Peace is undefil'd and +pain Distorted, all proportions low and QUILOA, and cleerd, and +