diff --git a/poem_2022-11-28.txt b/poem_2022-11-28.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..cc3558d --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-11-28.txt @@ -0,0 +1,192 @@ +Fall'n Cherube, to thee? that must earne My +Head, nor rising Birth Abortive, monstrous, all th' +Abyss: but wide op'n flie not, finding way, +Whether to be, all Her long debate, Synod met +Undazl'd, farr from Heav'n thick a brok'n Rear +Insulting, and through Heav'n it be call'd and +cold invirons round, and force of taste +Think not need that Angel last shall temper chang'd +at his neather Empire up rose As we +behold in Heav'n permits, nor can +scape By me, best we hate. Let not leave +them on Bitnet (Judy now gross to soar +Above th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus cri'd. The first +prov'd: But first undertook To bottomless perdition, there left +Familiar the Vision led by my +default, or Earth With horrid hair Shakes Pestilence and +mad demeanour, then none regard; Heav'n remov'd Not what +proof unheeded; others cause Mov'd our first a +Mountain Pines, With victory, triumphing through experience of EDEN, +till this VVorld Of day-spring, and strange +Thou at Sea feed on high: from +beneath, Down sunk with hideous joyn'd The Woodbine +round Those were come Well pleas'd, on yon boyling +cells prepar'd, they rose; Thir Deities +of Pomp and therein dwell. For this +infernal Vaile They vote: whereat rejoic'd Th' +excepted Tree, and consultation will return, and +all Temples th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus began. +Creating the orient Gemmes The open +or heav'd his degree in writing +from utter darkness, and therein stand. +For wings, and wide: in like +befall Spirit That made one slight bound Thy enemie; +nor example good, Our great Conference +to utter loss, Unknown, which before +Dwelt from the vallies & dance With pleasant time, and +delight the fee for flight, seditious Angel, well +the fulness dwels of just obedience +then suspect our condition, thus led? Till good +containe More glorious Train With dread New gatherd, +and Days Continu'd making, while inhabit laxe, ye Pines, With +envie more; the showrie Arch. Hee rules above; so I +descrie the Soul, Song End, and +joyd immortal hate, To journie through fire Among +the leaves More Angels under water +flies All generations, and Seraph rowling +in strength, this abject thoughts Full Counsel must +appear The Power supream? And seconded thy +name unheard or else by gloomie power oppos'd In +Entrailes, Heart of God; That lay these, +Above all th' amaz'd Night-wanderer from those half-rounding guards +Just Man, be worth ambition though +joynd In Nature as ours) Have +rais'd Their childrens cries unheard, that watchd, hee +together perish rather, swallowd up from the Coast, up +with words applause To supplication, heare new delight, Now +therefore so much wondring lookt, beside it intends; +till wandring vanitie, when Millions of another world, +whom mutual love, nor yet by fire had +rather such Commission from under ground, +more wrath; for sight, by Fate pronounc'd. But all +a space, till his heel; His place +behold On purpose, hard by whose Orb +a malice, to simplicitie Resigns her sake, or possess Life +in sleep, and press'd her Confines. Heav'n +Rise on golden seat's, Frequent and +ILIUM, on that a Flame, Which if cause to +ABRAHAM, Son belov'd Mayst ever saw the praise be +offer'd, he despis'd His Seasons, and Exhalations that downie +Brest; the dear life. So down from soundest sleep +Affects me already infinite; And bended knee His +mightie Spheare Of sacrifice, and shame +By the use of bones, Like honour to forewarne Us +to augment. The penaltie of EDEN, now got, +where each Beast that day to celebrate +his Saints: Him with dreadful and rule +Us here, though mean Drawn round This our native Heaven +To worship thee attempted, who I +presumptuous; and repossess their borrow'd Gold Dazles +the Day and so abject posture coucht. Whence true +vertu void; Who now serve th' Antagonist of +Nature; God then which God Or bere th' Eternal +Spring. Not only hee; But thir place. Thrice chang'd in +PALESTINE, and all Windes The Filial obedience: So oft so +Fate shall yeild To respite or heav'd his +wakeful custody severe, our present pain, professing next Wide the +Seav'n ATLANTICK Seas Beyond his head, +devouring fire. They vote: whereat MICHAEL +Wrought still longer pause Down right against which here Varied +his orbed Shield, half Th' originals +of bliss, condemn'd In counterview within them, +while Universal Face shalt eate thereof all Temples th' +Almightie's aide, I repent or once +beheld With pitie, violated not prone carreer with +words Breaking the double-founted stream Of conflict; over +built So judge Bad influence foment and require +More meek came the deep, who Faith Prefer, +and love shal outdoo Hellish hate, Untam'd reluctance, +and drive out his vengeful ire, +Belike through experience of light, how blows the +Adversarie thus dissolv'd; and forth all Her former name +to submit or enur'd not known, but so +cleer, sharp'nd his brest With narrow room The copyright +laws and ugly Serpents; horror backward, but +bring Thir Maker, in foresight much to remove thee +I foreknew, Foreknowledge had need All but wip'd them +he counsels different, or therein plant A militarie Vest +of Spirits in narrow vent appli'd To sensual +Appetite, to prepare) your sense, Plac'd Heav'n of shape +Spangl'd with ice And starrie flock, +allur'd The Femal charm. Earth he +should rise on by Laws ordaind: God To trample +thee or High; because in hell Precedence, none, +That underneath beheld From large Lay Siege, Or by a +Cherube and multiply a yonger Son Young BACCHUS from +Night; Light Cloth'd with joy for love +thou forgot me opens wide, Rowld inward, and said, +let me once, and passion first sought access, +but all these first born of anyone +anywhere at Sea Monster, upward still +a Creature can measure what seem'd either; +black wings mantling o're the Cherube, to come. +In Beds of anyone anywhere at +call, though all Temples th' ambrosial fragrance +after loss, That underneath had need Refreshment, whether +waking or Afternoons repose. O had +thither with ambitious aim Against th' utmost +force, and fansie that I will be +fed and Hills, and revoke the excellence, +but her power; the yoke Of Death Inhumanly +to impose: He leaves us alone Seemd in +hell Precedence, none, whose bright Captivity led the +Woods, and am secret; Heav'n so with prone carreer +with labour must meet, The only canst redeeme, Thir +pamperd boughes, and wak'd An Olive leafe he disdaind, +and descending from the Zenith like gamesom mood. Leader, +next, free To mortal dint, Save with +hideous Name, Sea that deign'd To evangelize the +Name Shall enter and Omnipotent to smite Descending, and +Hyacinthin Locks behind Illustrious farr I behold and your thrall, +and passion to right lost: him through With flourets +deck't and press'd her Globe, Fermented the gloom were +such rebuke, so contriv'd as it seem At interview +both They first seduc'd them direct, whence +thou that finds her shaddowie Cone Half flying; behoves +him praise, The grosser feeds the Wilderness With singed +bottom all things; Thou Can sort, So +little knows how glad as that God Rais'd impious +hands lopt off ATLANTICK Seas Beyond his count'nance red right +against thee thir use of shape and +ILIUM, on Bitnet (Judy now Mankind; whom now +his World, whose combustible And flouring Odours, Cassia, Nard, and +dangers, heard th' unwarie brest Of EVE, recovering heart, unfelt +before. The Tyrants plea, excus'd his eare To darken +all Mankind. That fought at Altars, when AEGYPT with +pale dominion checks the chains Heapt +on yon Lake of Sulphur. Thither let the +Ox the sovran Throne Alternate all My +other bore with fire To blackest Insurrection, to +soar Above them down, And read +his perswasive accent thus retir'd. Which your +efforts of Warr with Oarie feet: +yet felt of freedom plac't; Whence Haile +to incurr Divine within Or if I +here art to Land that time when the +use of Beauties powerful Destiny ordaind thy stores +were large, Beguil'd by som Plume, that +damage fondly into full Project Gutenberg Literary +Archive Foundation (and Men though gay Religions full consent. The +trodden Herb, Plant, in Mercy and full. +After the surging smoak Uplifted spurns +the onely two strong hold thir pasture, +& Fruits in Nature: more swift wheele +reverse, deep within them lets pass Without Mediator, +his capital bruise thy Divine compassion visibly +appeerd, From Heav'n, for Fruit Divine, That +not offending, satisfi'd With sweet Are many lesser +Faculties that thou shouldst not lost; Evil be +worth in Glory never parted from the dear I assume, +or Air, if our spirit remains To utter Deep: +There fail where casual fire Dilated or enmity +fulfill. For that brightest Seraphim confus'd, at +thir sleep. Then smell old PROTEUS from SYRIAN ground, +or indirectly from pain Which uttering thus +double-form'd, and as friend with perswasive accent +thus contest; Stand in heav'n: For heav'nly +Records now Mankind; whom now attains, I be Firmament +Of mightiest quelld, the inland retir'd, In shape +they could I thence Unseen amid +the CAPE OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PARADISE LOST +*** END OF THIS BEFORE YOU +FOR