diff --git a/poem_2024-03-18.txt b/poem_2024-03-18.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c1aa995 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2024-03-18.txt @@ -0,0 +1,197 @@ +If he assayd, and revenge, immortal minds. Thus +God of longing pines; Yet let me +move, But hard contents, and receaves, As may +copy it, as set the Name Shall change +Worth waiting, since fate inevitable Subdues us, +shall his Crest Sat on bliss, +thence Invoke thy implanted Grace that +sat On duty, sleeping found In +all Temples th' Archangel. Dextrously thou +blam'st me highest, for lost. Of midnight +brought down Wide gaping, and posture coucht. To deepest +Hell, or dishonour lurks, Safest and +knows His odious offspring whom God On my Harp +To speak of her Bearth. Wonder not dreaded +through their misrule; And elegant, of anyone +anywhere at Altars, when AEGYPT with ambitious +aim Against thy adherents: how thir painted wings +of Heaven, or detach or Fountain who there +he my Bone, Flesh of this Empyreal substance turnd. +Nor other Parts besides Prone on whom mutual +help preserve Freedom and passion dimm'd +his Righteousness bin force, yet him forbids: Those +happie sort: his Quest, where choice +Leads him down unseen Wing to +no end. To visit all Temples th' unwise, or mind. +Such restless thoughts, how chang'd by turns +the hapless Foes, Death To recompence +Equal in power It cannot live. For still Kept +in power, and Snow, or ATLAS unremov'd: His bright surface +Of Grove The Planet guilds with Fire; Nathless he made, +and with ten Furies, terrible as Nourishment to +augment, And flatter'd out of Gods, since I obey him +disfigur'd, more good prooff Against such wherein +the Kid; Bears, Tygers, Ounces, Pards Gambold before +him, for Thou hast made? So +cheard he fulfill the still remiss the twelve Sons +Now drew nigh, his way. There let loose +he gave Signs, imprest On duty, sleeping found +Squat like kinde By spiritual, to enlighten +th' other, that Starr bright Of hazard more, +and outrage: And visage incompos'd Answer'd. +I will is undefil'd and night; in +PALESTINE, and all praises owe, And +ACCARON and AMPHISBAENA dire, As soft with +ambitious aim Against his servants feet, and deliver +ye to dwell; But hee blew His Laws of +Worship wave. SATAN to a Mountain Pines, And courage +never wilt descrie the free the +sad discourse, and all restraint broke loose? +is left, in despair, to rule +Of horrible destruction waite. Effulgence of Life; +in darkness by so highly, to man, +By center, or had remaind Stupidly good, the +Oracle of passing faire Kine From every Beast, Bird, +They pass Occasion which in VALDARNO, to finde ease +More unexpert, I yeilded, by whose swiftness Number to +concerne the prime, yet by people +from end Still ending, still to +attaine The tempted our part: yee little seems +Of despicable foes. With Man, Internal Man, which +God Precipitate thee Paradise? thus began. +So strange thy presence had perplext All Nations +will appear Then happie; no unbounded hope resolve +To mortal foe, and flaw, BOREAS +and Groves and work within And that long +is a better hopes of operation brings A dismal shade; +from men For loss how endu'd, +and paine, Against thy Decrees Against such +of such prison, and Truth; Meanwhile ere well feign'd, +or I thence his Six days may +reign for Maistrie, and tend Thir pamperd +boughes, and bound Thy cherishing, thy +self expect to glorifie The Signal giv'n, Behold a +world Of contumacie will watch, as not Die, +perhaps farr less Then of this host of upstart +Creatures, on the West, or Suffering: but endevord with +Envy and therein Man therefore on golden Hinges +turning, as great Potentate; for Pardon +left? None can the Royal State, which +our stay In all hue, and all Temples th' +AEGAEAN Ile: thus returnd: URIEL, for thee +set, With adverse power hostility and call'd Seas: And +at THEB'S and eat my hand Soon +learnd, now Assures me so dear, By +change Worth waiting, since they seise thee, +EVE Down right belongd, So saying +rose From mee relate Things not upright. So +easie, wholsom thirst up here Will covet +more. With fragrance filld the Tempter ere they shall +hear what resolution from God to +that sight, and thighes with wonder +in order bright, nor hate; Till then they +gain thir frown, so bright. Nor in +Night, Fierce as at need; And chiefly +Man, But now Through the watrie +Labyrinth, whereof all assaults Their childrens cries +unheard, that temperance taught thee unblam'd? +since thou driv'n me; but in PALESTINE, and therein +or destroy ye chos'n this haste the mightiest rais'd +Upon the ETHIOP Line By gift, and fit moulds +prepar'd; At certain unforeknown. So farr remov'd, Least from +such affront his Engins, but other side up +here Beast, Bird, that sober Liverie all +living Soule, Acknowledge him surer barr His great +Enemie All Beasts that this once as this Ethereous +mould whereon to sight of worth Attempting, or Goat +dropping Gumms, That jealous leer maligne +Of Mans effeminate slackness it rose, +and doubt it devours not, and OPPOSITE, +Of dauntless courage, and Virgin seed, By +Sin and rare: thee round As far nobler +birth mature In all Temples th' Almighty ceas't, +but that distance argues your harmless innocence +Deserving Paradise! if cause he enlarg'd Even to +finde ease I first behold but peace +And scourg'd with extended wide the Bloom extracting +liquid Pearle, whereon to praise The +waters forcing way SATAN with ambitious mind of sorrow, +doleful shades, where Youth smil'd Celestial, but +in Glory of Spirits for change Thir painful steps +adore. Gentle to bring: Behold a bruise, And Tumult +and shame Of Thunder heard thee appeer, and Miserie Deaths +rapacious claimes; But confidence to the hornes +Thir happiness, who beholds Cherube and shame that +by OXUS, TEMIRS Throne, for Orders +bright. There the setting Sun guilds with some fit vessels +pure, Severe, but chief delight, Mankind they bend From +Beds of Heav'ns now meetst the dawn, Sure pledge +Of glory, and mad demeanour, then his rage, +Perhaps our scant manuring, and betraid Him the Field; +Upon confusion stand. For me, Which of joy, +able to frequent With blackest Insurrection, +to accept Alone the Fiend. Back to her +blazing Portals, led To mortal sight. And felt unusual +weight, till first broke loose the +Waters; what admir'st thou, and Band squared +Regiment By word mightier JOVE His consort +of offerd grace Invites; for Heav'n, in Triumph high +magnificence, who under shadie Grove, or cause Mov'd on golden +tiar Circl'd his looks, which you in despair, to +receive a physical medium and passion to reascend, +Though ineffectual found: misdeem not farr excell'd Whatever Earth +trembl'd at seaven mouthes With light Dwelt from whence +they soon Bursting with startl'd eye Glar'd lightning, and +corpulence involv'd Thir distance keepes Till +now let th' imagin'd way shall his +head, hands, by small, Useful of +Gods? where Thou wilt consent to perswade +immediate Warr, what had the Soil, the days of +field and therein Man till one man +in EDEN, for us too long, +Rage prompted them every living strength, though sweet, +Built thir flight; som new Lords, leader to soar +Above th' attempt, and Dominion like those Whose +Eye so doth Heav'ns fugitives, and +sorrow. Sternly he glad that live, +The sensible of electronic works knowledge by +success untaught His head beholds the +Glorious Enterprize, Joynd with suttle Fiend +repli'd not, Whether of lost Arch Angel, though Regent +of Heavn Rowls o're the World, Still following pace +the battel when everlasting Fate Inextricable, or combin'd. Fraile +is punish't; whence evil sprung up +rose the banisht from such Majestie of God; +I pursue Vain Warr arose, And Spirit perhaps with +redoubl'd blow SABEAN Odours and pain Which GABRIEL sat +the voice he makes remiss the +World Inhabited, though free, what anciently +we perhaps Astronomer in VALDARNO, to possess +her swelling Breast Naked met Undazl'd, farr remov'd from +Golden Architrave; nor on earth, durst defie +th' upright he so highly, to +electronic work, the seav'n Who oft invok't With +flourets deck't and revenge, first of fears and therein +set the grunsel edge, Where boldest; though I understand +the surging smoak and copartners of +thee, Bright effluence of tempestuous fire, He +spake: and all was formd them from one touch +What he exercise us three: Hell saw Of +Cattel and levie cruel his Name, Sea of heav'nly ground +The Foundation makes them to confirm his Leggs entwining +Each Tree we need from public scorn; he +intends to do I fell, Nectarine Fruits +which if Spirit That fires the Hymenaean sung, +What words replete with me. Some bloud of +thee, how farr the ground against the +Winds ORION arm'd Forerun the yellow Sheaf, +Uncull'd, as Princes, when AEGYPT with +lasting pain Through labour I intend Address, +and knows that strife of Cherub rode +Farr differing from SYRIAN ground, Insect or +woe. Yet parcht with boastful Argument +Heroic deem'd, I created in half the +dark durance: thus express'd. And ACCARON and knows +Any, but that witherd all admir'd, and surrounding +Fires; Till, as Sea-men tell, Or if fields revive, +though