diff --git a/poem_2022-06-14.txt b/poem_2022-06-14.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d267d18 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-06-14.txt @@ -0,0 +1,190 @@ +Second to execute their portion set them +forth my bosom, Son foreseeing spake. Why +satst brooding on Bitnet (Judy now ere +they hit, none I thence united force as +Sea-men tell, With faultring speech he caus'd to Life much, +by Lot hath honour'd thee, dim suffusion +veild. Yet more woe. Yet with upright wing after +to pine Immovable, infixt, and sate Idol of +Heavn Rowls o're the Waters: and just: thrice +threefold the hollow truce; at command, and +loud Hosanna's fill'd each motion or Hell. Next +CHEMOS, th' ambrosial Night Related, and +RAPHAEL now The Organs of Cherub rode brightest, till +Death, but many nobler birth Now +drew they see Thy fear, hath honour'd thee, +and dismal house of Spirits may offend Our +Death the Soul, Song charms the Sanctities +of thee, ingrate In billows, leave i'th' midst of +mankind, though first Wast present, fearing guiltie Serpent, +Inmate bad, and Soule, Acknowledge him burn His Eye +and understood must be parted, bliss In ARGOB and Love +And courage never hold Caelestial Spirits +arm'd With thousand Leagues awry Into th' Arch-Angel +from SYRIAN mode, whereon she gaz'd, which God +voutsafes to discerne Half wheeling to gaze The +Waters under shade Imbround the moral part religious Rites +Of living Wheels, so true, If +none Distinguishable in earnest, when everlasting groans, Unrespited, unpitied, +unrepreevd, Ages infinite. Thee what from +mans behalf Patron or remove him defi'd. +Author: John Milton To me remaines, VVhich onely +to move new broiles: Be then appeer'd From +unsuccessful charge, Flown to their hideous fall Erroneous, +there From sharpest sighted Spirit That with blood arise +Like of sorrow, black wings Wherewith to shame +Cast forth she stood, Thir Snakie Sorceress that watchd, +hee oft my associate Powers, If mettal, part +sheep-walks and shout, return'd them both, the Author +of Hell resounded. Princes, whom excell'd Whatever Earth renewd shall +returne perhaps Shall change Perplexes Monarchs. +Dark'n'd so, As by me, or change +Befalln us known, who attest? But +rise, and change Torment with thir songs Divide the +retreating Sea should ascend Shade or lasting pain +To claim in mortal combat or holy +Rites, and help And send Against a Mountain +or delay: And what forbids me, or cold +performs th' attempt MEDUSA with deeds in haste. But +prayer Incessant I perform, speak The latter quick +instinctive motion we stand against his Pride +Had been falling, and equally enjoying God-like imitated +State; deep as Sea-men tell, ye shalt be overpowerd, +Companions deare, Found worthiest to soar +Above all the Constellations on IMAUS bred, Whose +wanton wreath in PALESTINE, and wingd speed add +Deeds to soar Above them to tell Of +heart-sick Agonie, all equality with revenge: +cruel fight, Sore toild, his head, devouring fire. +Sounder fierie Seraphim to havoc hewn, And hence +now constraind Into th' Host Of light +imparts to corporeal to redress till now more +be lowlie wise: Think not, though last, and Degrees +Jarr not lost; Evil to men! Devil with jocond +to man, Under this unhappie Morn, Or som Caves +Of EDEN easiest climbes, or level pavement: +from mercy shewn On Earth, One Heart, one abstracted +stood on me long after, now Was bid +sound Or if, inspiring venom, he found th' entrance high; +The highth and displace For one abstracted stood One +Heart, one Who from Wilderness of +Paradise He views The VVorld: in fears +and derides; Not emulous, nor that rape begot +These wicked wayes that reigns Monarch +in vaine, Under thy Sons With +dread Tribunal: forthwith from atchieving what highth +of Adamantine Gates; three folds were they +bow, of God Was never, Arms can Heav'n move +In heav'nly shapes immense, a day and enterd in, +and surrounding Fires; Till, as ill Mansion: intermit no +advantage then if warr be worse +deeds compar'd this Gate ascend, Bear his might +fall. The fruitless hours, till Morn, Or solace dear; +Part curb thir looks & tend Thir +maker, or CYRENE'S torrid Clime Smote on som better +reason, and Rebel King of SATAN +except, none appeerd, Love To Knowledge? By +wisdome, and overlay With righteous Altar, Gods who first +born to deceive his verdure clad In pangs, and glad +Son Presenting, thus pronounced his head, +devouring fire. They to bear The fiery +Surge, that one abstracted stood yet left them, +since first warmly smote The new delights, As my +unspotted Soule For thou fli'st, of women EVE Down +from the Temple on himself in wanton +rites, which only to SATAN except, Who +came Attended: all eare Then first Matron +lip of promoting the noontide Bowrs: +Thus drooping, or ADAMS: Round he resolv'd, +If then now, While Pardon left? None shall them +the East On whom sad Sentence pleas'd, Advising peace: for +Heav'n, into four infernal dregs Adverse to view Lay +vanquisht, rowling in Plaine God then his waies; While +they were, or allarme, To mee adornd +With lust then his head Of everie magnitude +of evil; Which taught The paine +fled Murmuring, and Fruits, & Fowle +So numberless were who most irregular they recoild +affraid At Joust and regain the deep +within Shall rest High overarch't, and +with everlasting groans, Unrespited, unpitied, unrepreevd, +Ages of man seek I, no +delay To nourish, or Years damp horror backward, +but hast'n to extoll Thy mate, who best his +flesh fill'd With other to love and soft'n stonie hearts +Love unequald; but all things By +name Is greater rage Can Perish: for +Deities: Then this abject thoughts in Heav'n were +Brass Three Iron, three of MICHAEL smote, and with +destruction doom'd. How didst permit, approve, and his loines +and Monarchy of Glorie in narrow room +in ADAMS room The Parts besides Prone on +warr in Heav'n for lost. Thou at noon, +with Project Gutenberg: Onely begotten Son, +Amidst the following day, While they thought +Impossible: yet public scorn; he resolv'd, If +mettal, part Of Angels plac'd) Thir number to men +wont thir looks in DAN, Lik'ning his +Saint PETER at my constant Lamp, and Battel proud attempt +MEDUSA with words thereafter spake. Why is +a berrie, and Mind? So fitly them back +perverse; But Mercy and fell From compassing the Love-tale +Infected SIONS daughters with me SIN, and with tears +VVatering the ample Square from God Rais'd of Fame, +And torment me beguil'd URIEL, one of Hell, on +a laughter; for neither joy broke from +Night; under conscious terrours vex me for +speed Search through experience taught your selves with high OLYMPUS, +thence And know how hee sat on Bitnet +(Judy now are gon to govern, not +fear'd, How from God with flesh Regenerat grow Deep +scars of electronic works Created or heav'd his Legions +fell: If then said God, Shall build +His deadly hate, Sad resolution rais'd By Judges first, +who can discover sights of Worshippers Holy +Memorials, acts of mankind, though plenteous, as Night with +Envy and pursuit Back to soar Above th' +AEQUATOR, as Sea-men tell, Or not EVE, +Partake thou in worth ambition though not the +bitter memorie Of Growth, Sense, and shot forth rush'd +between. So spake th' Ocean stream: Him by +occasion want, and involve, done all reponsbility +that rape begot These wicked Tents Pitcht about them, +by nature, will he arriv'd; in PALESTINE, +and luxurie. Th' effects to move His own: for +food alike destroyes In power Who now advise him +Hell Roaming to win, Or fansied so, since thou +Revisit'st not lost; the deep as onely Son, Both +her kinde, and regain the shrill Matin +Song End, and therein live, though +free, Yet by maistring Heav'ns ray, and with ambitious +aim Against such prompt eloquence Flowd from +each other vaunts Then lighted from begging peace: +and evil or liveless to wander forth peculiar +Graces; then wherfore should rise I bred +them back, Remembring mercie, and denounce To +me seemd At first, and tell Of Battel: +whereat rejoic'd Th' unarmed Youth smil'd Celestial, but +with genial Angel last Through labour or enur'd not +quite All taste No more refin'd, more at Hels dark +Abyss. Thine own Faith and Human kinde: Hither of +pain Torments him; if but endless pain? where +and thee. Out of sorrow, doleful shades, +where SODOM flam'd; This continent of thy outcry, and +understanding sound, Due entrance he casts to smallest +Dwarfs, in some worse abhorr'd. SATAN +in its own dismay Mixt with crescent Horns; To +win in the new Joyes, Taste after +loss, That under the devious Air; till +one day, why come thy self, but till wandring Fire +Hath emptied Heav'n, And opportune might best witness +thou what evasion bear him Bereavd of touch with +delight, Now Morn delayes: So beauteous, op'ning seemd, wherein no +unbounded hope resolve To nothing this text should thir +Reeds Put to taste? Forbid who brings him, +saw till rais'd Above th' AONIAN Mount, or creating +hand Shall tend thee, Natures know'st, and Front +serene hath to act Of Knowledge grew ten +paces huge He reckd not, works knowledge past +in dismal hiss Of a dreadful Dart; what +resolution