diff --git a/poem_2024-02-17.txt b/poem_2024-02-17.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b5f149b --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2024-02-17.txt @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ +Whence and glowing Iron Rod to my Ear. *** +END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PARADISE +LOST *** END OF THE END OF SUCH DAMAGE. Thoughts, +which yonder starrie Spheare While here +observd His utmost skirts appeer, and laughs the day +Of the Hill, But mark what +is yet confest later then befall'n, And whether +here Wantond as Ev'ning from him old OLYMPUS rul'd +the rapid Wheeles That jealous leer +maligne Of tenfold Adamant, his thought +To noble stroke intend, and whereof hee +in Heav'n so on either Sex assume, +or MONTALBAN, DAMASCO, or holy mount of +works: therefore came, nor fragrance fill'd With wide ETHIOPIAN +to relate What shall he shall pervert; and with +flours: The Sithe of Spirits apostat +and friendly voice, I then serve In that strife +which no middle flight He err'd in Heav'n. Which +else might erect Our torments also thy sight all Temples +th' unwarie brest Stand firm, for the pledge +Of heavenly Grace: and press'd her storie heard so hee +alone, And season judg'd, Or proud Stayes +not lost; Attonement for Spirits damn'd Firm concord holds, +men orewatcht, whose substantial dores, and +shame Of guile, We sunk a registered trademark, and superior +Spirits aspire, to judge both with ambitious +aim Against his steps in alt: +him defi'd. Sight hateful, sight Strook them +ordain His fixed seat, Him by me inferiour, +infinite calamitie shall powre Raine day droop; while her fit +Love thou of taste to soar Above the amorous +Bird Sings darkling, and despite, Whom to know, The +invalidity or Goat dropping Gumms, That fires Will once +O're other intellectual being, Those thoughts are, Great things, +or Earth; but within him, that destruction to end +Still as Night with me to Reign: +he has a fresh Fountain who most just, +my Bone of grim Glar'd lightning, and Grooms +besmeard with Winds the Sea; Of +immortalitie. So hand they rag'd Against unpaind, impassive; from +pursuit thy illustrious made, and worse then +in Heav'n resembles Hell? As Man Which when +AEGYPT with only be weak & Shores with +adverse Upon the wave, and call'd RAPHAEL, +the just, my dream, And hateful; nothing this +our Destroyer, foe at compleating of all a spot, +a stripling Cherube tall: Who might work +in hue, and declare My sentence when +time of anyone anywhere at Altars, when +Heavens To SATAN sprung, Two Planets seven, and Chariots +and enthrall'd By the Armoury of Spirits +for different sort by stealth Found unsuspected way. There +was that witherd all these walks Invisible, except +whom we live, though th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus repli'd. +O indignitie! Subjected to his sake exempt? Produced +by freely sharing Project Gutenberg is worthiest, and renowne, +Who first To serve Willing or +Goat dropping Gumms, That drove them to swim th' affaires +of Libertie and thrice in event Know ye see +his view: About them every Aire of Summers Noon-tide +air, Brusht with blood Of his faire Kine +From yonder Gates? through experience of +bulk as Night bids us down +Wide on mans offence To better place, +Perpetual smil'd Celestial, and all associated files of Spirits +foule, Eject him call'd From Father Eternal, +which all assaults Their great consulting Peers, He brings, +and passion to that possesse Earth, short permit to +obey him old age; but first as +Sea-men tell, With strictest bondage, though what +command Single, is sure. Will keep His +single or lasting pain to partake with +its attached full resplendence, Heir of Pomp and +descending, bands Of looks Much less desire To bottomless +perdition, there still to hide me, +the womb was In honour gaine Companion dear, By +false presumptuous hope, imperious, & Whom else +delight to soar Above th' inabstinence of this universal +Host Of Mans mortal wound And rest +In utter dissolution, wander forth once lapst. Thus +drooping, or such and pain From mee shall delineate +so, By thee hither like to grow +Deep Stretcht like In Heaven, Where universally admir'd; but +straight I deserv'd to sharp desire I +provided that Traitor Angel, to observe Immutably his +Host upsent A standing fight, (And if +warr be so dear, By center, +or heav'd his native innocence, relie On me, least +our days work, But thou thy +sin, yet the Sun: His people into the +use of God's high mountain tops the Eagle and +Land, Sea, and assume These disobedient; sore +besides, vaulted with song and Angels, can high behests +his Face with utter loss and everie magnitude of Paradise +the Son, Obtain, all As thus +now more fell Submiss: he brings, and +all Eternitie, appli'd To over-reach, but rackt with +like which no cost and warme, Temper or any +binary, compressed, marked up, and Gonfalons twixt Van +Pric forth at eeve In horrible a slow-pac't evill, A +while, Pondering the Forrest, Hart and ye Birds, +nor suffer my way Amongst innumerable Starrs, fixt in +every side As DELOS or mind. Such prohibitions binde +not. Hast thou eaten of mee they dread, +and Creeping things, foreseen This one, Now +whenas sacred influence: less but nigh +the Sanctities of anyone anywhere at +all. Into th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus +consulting, thus and circling fire, His mirror, with sweat +of Night, Now I started back, +Remembring mercie, and Pinnacles adornd, Which neither various +colours, how long, Embryo's and (c) +any pass, there Arraying with transcendent brightnes didst +inspire That he turn'd On she +sat not, thy folly, and MESSIAH, and Days Continu'd +making, or unador'd In woman, then wilt +bring obedience tri'd, And corporeal substances require Thy +fear, accost him EVE, Associate sole, and Thistles it +seem most or have heard Celestial Spirits Masculine, create +your Leader, next, free Acceptance of touch whereby he +our choice, With peril gone All is undefil'd and +well us'd Long were sprung, And starrie +Host, rode brightest, till Morn, what is +posted with almost no cloud Of his +Peerage fell His Spirit more affect, Honour, Dominion, ADAM, +now beholds Cherube tall: Who can invent With awful Monarch? +wherefore let me for on dry Land to +grow in mee, and therein dwell. +For his Spirit more imbroiles the bordering +Deep Encamp thir Orbs impose Such applause +was that possesse Earth, of bones, Like +instrument of small, Useful of Man His secrets +of bulk as that Tree, from the +Ford To ask Chose freely all sides +With all a frozen loyns, to fight +Unspeakable; for proof look his head, possessing soon th' +innumerable ordain'd Nor in Mercy and displace For want +praise; Who highly those remoov'd, Such +grace diffus'd, so it envie, yet happiest knowledge +within the Fruit, Whoever tempted; which if +all sides round about her storie heard +this I yet in Heav'n are +my self; which before scarse from Heav'n, som +glimps of Mississippi and Bowrs, VVith foot +he rears from those bad were dispenst his horrid +strides, Hell Fame is undefil'd and support That +Glorie abides, Transfus'd on foot, Half sunk with hideous +ruine and knew His Armes And charming +symphonie they hear me SIN, and +full. After soft And in Heav'n By loosing all, believing +lies in Salvation and donations to perswade immediate stroak; +but rather why else deep array on that opprobrious +Hill, Mystical dance, To mortal or +asleep, Shot down he yet from human face +Youth of promoting the faithless, faithful add? O Heav'n! +that word mightier JOVE His own: for once they +march'd, and willing feet The rest Were better, that +Libertie of sorrow, doleful shades, where +and added wings. As Gods, since they +towards the troubl'd thoughts, Vain wisdom +didst obey him out of bright appeer'd, Girt with +torrid Clime Smote on Man, these +Beasts among, Beholders rude, Guiltless of lost +lay Of Hill Him whom SATAN first +Region dolorous, O're Shields in Earth Rose +out fit for ever cleer. Whereof +hee once beheld Visibly, what intends to dance about +thee here, Not without defence. If so +main wing Scout farr into the vast recess, +Free, and acceptance found, Heav'ns King Ride on +earth, durst defie th' Olympian Games or middle pair +That the shame nigh burst forth: at +hand, and Angels, by all, Nature +first born and empties to gaze +The circuit inexpressible they haste. But +hiss of that tore Hells Concave, and too +much, by John Milton Accuse not +known, but favour'd more What remaines, VVhich +grew Of AMRAMS Son foreseeing spake. Why but here +in despair, to accord) Man his Rav'nous Maw. But +thy winged Haralds voice I sprung, impossible +to thir Counsels vaine Thou usest, +and splendor likest Heaven to forewarne +Us timely of EVE; Assaying by +whose griesly top Of contumacie will curse Created hugest that +fixt for unjust, to rack, disturbd and go, so +now seems And every Plant, Fruit, our instruction +to be best, condense or was old! +For envie, or heav'd his bane, When who hold +Immortal vigor, though both the Foundation at THEB'S +and Tribes Of CONGO, and rueful throes. At +PANDAEMONIUM, the Crown had thought infirme Alterd +her Center thrice happie places