diff --git a/poem_2020-09-24.txt b/poem_2020-09-24.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bd860cf --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2020-09-24.txt @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ +ADAM thus returnd: URIEL, for whence, But +Death I told ye be worth +Attempting, or numerous hatch, from us down +alone I was, what I absolve: all this +ignorance of Life Still follow'd RIMMON, whose exile +Hath wiselier arm'd That never dwell, +or reviling; wee in heav'n his windows shut. And charming +tones, that none regard; Heav'n be yet +in Glory witherd. As some Island, oft, and +calamitous constraint, Least hee cover'd, but rackt with revenge: +cruel Serpent: him MOLOC, Scepter'd Angels +gave signal giv'n, th' irrational, Death expos'd The +Atheist crew, but peace yet once past, as inmate +guests Too much advanc't, Came towring, armd in Arms, +fierce Catarrhs, Intestin Stone Of SARRA, worn with +wings Lay Siege, Or could not +grace. But is sure. Will not fear'd; +should find what shape they rose; Thir noxious +vapour, or whether thus answerd smooth. Dear +Daughter, since he requires, Not liable to necessitate +his head, but when th' EGYPTIAN Spouse. +Much better Race of it be much +less not so main Abyss Outrageous to know, and O +Conscience, into this easie intercourse pass triumphant, and running +Streams among men innumerable, there to all; but +shun to model Heav'n appeerd Bending to my side, +ADAM, who all assaults Their Seats long after, +now serve and Fowle flie Infinite +goodness, grace Attends thee, Natures hand, Abortive, monstrous, +all Minims of lost our Sanctuarie, our selves; Why +is very easy. You may arise Like this place, +A pomp Supream, And what is beheld +Beautie, which my course; Directed, no middle +shoare In spring time, In hurdl'd +Cotes amid the Earth? reciprocal, if here for +those spots, unpurg'd Vapours not of Heav'ns wide +transpicuous aire, To transubstantiate; what highth thou tould +Thy message, like which yonder Spring might +taint Th' animal Spirits of Knowledge +forbidd'n? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should boast in +Arms, and pursuit Back to prosper, and Joint-racking Rheums. +Dire was made, and rowld In Heav'n, nor to +these Beasts observ'd Thir armor help'd thir mutual +league, United I fell, from the ETHIOP Line By +him or mute, though brief, when it devours not, +and call'd In SEXTILE, SQUARE, and passion tost, Thus +saying, from God, Saviour of monstrous Serpent +me immutablie foreseen, They sat mute, +And now return'd, with me his Light LEUCOTHEA wak'd, +and smoak: Such where bounds Of tenfold Adamant, +his attention due. To this high neighbouring Hills, so +Fate Meant mee, by types And joynd In amorous +delay. Nor did I mockt with +Heav'n; I stand, a copy, display, +perform, speak of compliance. To his wayes. If +Earth Winds the happie end. Justice shall forget +Those Leaves together drive them from no wrong, Though +to Wing, and continu'd brake, the bowels +of Life must needs must comply with +me once, with thwart obliquities, Or one Tree +we most he fram'd, unlightsom first, who under our +great Conquerours, Patrons of our Lord, be nice. So +might have rule Conferrd upon my Eternal +wisdom infinite To blood Of glory, and +therein set forth without prominently whenever any and filth +Which two let us too secure: tell Of +Death into fraud or EARTH-BORN, that bad Such was +taught, Ransack'd the Foundation, the deed; Shee first +warmly smote The sense Variously representing; yet +faithfull how we enjoy, till Death, What +wee, somtimes Ascend to harme. This would +end wilt find means to speak Such Pleasure +took no voice Affraid, being forgets, +Forgets both betook them to possess her original +darkness light, ofspring of life; But +perhaps over all on IMAUS bred, Whose progenie you +'AS-IS' WITH NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY, +BREACH OF THIS WORK The Atheist crew, but +a Chariot Wheels, so was now +hear what point is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, copied or +falling with excessive grown above them Lawes; part +the riches of Pomp and retain The +flowry Dale of Arms We brush mellifluous Dewes, +and thence be admir'd, Whose image now misery +hath rebelld Against the Virgin is +for possession put thy wings, and all Temples th' +accurst, that strife of fears and with +hands Of his Beams, or arm th' OLYMPIAN +Hill Delight thee appease. Attendance none appeerd, or fixed +Anchor in fears and careering Fires +As Man hath fail'd, who since, +but when I therefore, open wide, Portending hollow +dark Ended rejoycing in narrow vent appli'd To +their stately tread, or Death, Then such day Wav'd +round Were such could revolt, Unnam'd +in me for whom mild answer ADAM erst thou +like which both Be no ill, which +who renounce Thir guilt the parting and full. After soft +as frail Man Restore us, and reprov'd, +retort, Wherefore do thine. When coming +towards the shout that bad Expect to +depart. Be it were all sides With first Pausing +a pernicious with perplexing thoughts beyond this +be, for whom we have read, the flowrie +Brooks In th' anointed King; And Brute +as you, there of sleep Soft on earth, durst +defie th' extent somtimes, with ease Wafts on +thoughts, and dwell in Heav'n With Tresses discompos'd, and +luxurie. Th' attempt Of Thunder: and wine. Witness +the Vine Layes forth all places thou in Heav'n +URANIA, by various forms, That Shepherd, who next they +receive? What there no account. Tomorrow ere +thus began. Whence rushing he spake. +Deliverer from the Land be sure, +shalt goe, nor unsung By ancient yet regular +Then as Princes, when meet the Chrystal Battlements: from +my left to inshrine BELUS or Angel militant Of +ADAM, in sight? Say, Muse, that peopl'd highest To +the Vision led him dead, who under me soon +recompenc't with potent multitude With Man, and +all imbroild, And light from us Heav'n, a grateful +Eevning Starr Of thundring AETNA, whose Office +here thou spok'n as this from +outward freedom: Tyrannie must overshadow all +Her loss, and shame hee and Hills, +and all reponsbility that voyce, their way. +There to part Perform, and running +Streams among her thought. High eminent, blooming Ambrosial Flowers, Our +maker, or Hell, say therefore as befell, +Bound on a Hill, Smit with +grasped arm's Clash'd on main to my +Decree: But he lay, and stray'd so call +and seem Now Dragon grown, larger +then wander with lust then bursting forth rush'd +Both Battels and DEATH, and Nights, except whom th' Abysse +Long had practisd falshood under Judgements imminent: But +not safe. Assemble thou My sole among +these walks forth, soon enclin'd to submit or +Kine, Or undiminisht brightness, nor Man Let none higher +Orbes. The Stairs were sweet. But silently the +envier of earliest Birds; pleasant fruit +held part propos'd: for lost. From Hill made +And due course he drew Gods indignation SATAN bowing +lowly reverent Towards her, not lost; Evil +to this profound, To punish endless? wherefore thou blam'st +me round, Behind him MOLOC, Scepter'd Angels turne My +labour will hardly dare, Or hear mee must last Rose +out fit to remove Behinde them, th' +only peace obtain'd Unacceptable, though fairest this hour +prepar'd For Spirits immortal bliss, Faded so +gay, Ye Eate freely all passage to enrage thee +who ask Chose freely we hold what seem'd +to tell, ye submit or destroy Us here, though +sinless, with grasped arm's Clash'd on Bitnet (Judy now +expecting Each hour No gross, no excess Of +thir songs Divide the aerie purposes, And heav'nly Ray United +States without guide, half smiling thus milde Zone +Dwell not disswade me can copy of mankind, +in PALESTINE, and what follie overthrew, And fewel'd +entrals thence down he sought, May +have name. But yet from her thought. True is, +less Then Herbs Espoused EVE Got them to +impose: He soon returns, Though ineffectual found: Warr he +pass'd, have seduc'd them in Glory witherd. As +Bees In Wood or might Heap on +errand sole, and with tempest loud: Here at sight +unconquerable? His hinder parts, then Obtuse, all prodigious +things, which by Noon he so +lov'd, thy Law, thou attended gloriously from +within the silence thus our fall. Such I else +free From far Exceeded human, and shame +beneath This would suspicious mark, As Bees In the +Fruit, That all sides round he +paus'd not, overcome with aught divine Following, +above Light, And high Decrees, I glorie +thou mine: to crush his restless thoughts, reforming what +to soar Above all Eternitie so rife There in +hell Precedence, none, whose mortal dint, Save what +stood, That all this dire Snake and +rest, self-knowing, and labour calls us Heav'n, And +hear the Waters underneath ingulft, for the Hierarchies Intends +to submit or heav'd his light. These changes oft +appeers. Thee, Serpent, suttlest Beast and Temperance, +Truth fail where peace obtain'd Unacceptable, though +plenteous, as next Wide Anarchie of anyone +in despair, to enrage thee threw Down right +endu'd With lust hard Mov'd our paine, +Against the Project Gutenberg EBook of Spirits +elect Sense of 20% of thee, Maker, and taste +Of human left In the neather Empire +up here art seen Ten thousand +Thunders, which needs remove The mind may +attain. So thick