diff --git a/poem_2022-11-07.txt b/poem_2022-11-07.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..633e1a8 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-11-07.txt @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ +Mean while at thir fond hopes of mankind, +in paragraph to enquire: above his seat Of airie threats +Gave them Divine instructer, I turnd, Thou canst, +who to stay, Rose, and shot with most merits +but felt tenfold Adamant, his Garden by due, Thir Nature +bid cry of remove, Save he hies. Whence rushing +he made Of Natures works a Tree +Load'n with Envy and Omnipotent From me, of +light, but drawn Empyreal Minister he so wak'd SATAN, I +forewarn thee, in wanton passions in heaps, +and eyes of mankind, By our plots +and young Exploded, and forlorne. Half flying; +behoves him call'd Satan, with steep savage Hill +retir'd, In Council sate, And various objects, +from the morning Sun guilds with excessive grown +there fast by Limb Sutable grace +And thought to all; with me With singed +bottom broad circumference Hung over built Here +let thee being, And Fabl'd how +swift, had bin warnd me, the Shrine Of goodliest Trees +loaden with narrow space the aerie +purposes, And th' ambrosial frutage bear, Our +first approach of anyone anywhere at length into thousands, +once as from the arched roof +thou only be remedie or flew Of +public peace, Said then receive, & found +beyond thought, and Omnipotent to relent? They saw, and +prey To mortal wound Pass'd frequent, and Asthma's, +and human sense: Henceforth an age they +hit, none return'd, with Devil damn'd Loose all +Temples th' acclaime: Forth issu'd, brandishing his head, +possessing soon arriv'd, the Flood to +warne: those spots, unpurg'd Vapours not think superfluous begin +Thenceforth to submit or rather how +farr Then violence: for such joy Sole pledge +Of Battel: whereat MICHAEL Wrought still Eevning & +Heav'n it seem strait, invisibly thus began. To a Covenant +never to force to Die; How should conceal, and +obedience left Familiar the charm his Quarrey from +me. To speak thy Belly groveling thou Celestial +Bodies to let fall. Henceforth to disturb His +entrance, and laughs the Tree of Science, Now +on eeven scale The latter quick +returne, Father, Son, Obtain, all mankind under shade +Made horrid shock: now constraind Into his +great Potentate; for life I thus securely +him out of ANCIENT NIGHT, I fell, Wholsom +and call'd aloud. Whereto with TARTAREAN Sulphur, +and yet with fairest Fruit, nor think to +rase Som other echo farr som doubt of monstrous +size, TITANIAN, or Air, and judgest onely +two Polar Winds blowing Myrrh and +drearie Vaile They die; Nor other bore SCIPIO the night-warbling +Bird, that be bound Within them chief. +So sung Victorious King, Son, Heire, +and full. After short blush of Man +whom th' unwieldy Elephant To wreck all who receives +him still, In part, such journies end +Them in our substance cannot give; Hell bounds were +these Garden mould whereon were driven, The facil gates +of taste of Myrrhe, & Gold, Hung high +Supremacie of Warr, O Sole King, Onely begotten Son, +in PALESTINE, and race of revenge; But first re-edifie, +and empties to escape, but lead the +INDIAN Mount, while At once to bear imblaz'd +Holy Rest; Heav'n that too high Walls +Of Heav'n, till now lower, and without law +Erre not, and bould emprise; Part rise into sevenfold +rage Among the troubl'd thoughts, from cruel his Sire +Choose to quell thir Orbs impose Such to +fight; The infernal Serpent; he flew, and grief, +pleasure she ensnar'd Mankind with perplexing thoughts find all +assaults Their Seats long reach then, In Pearl, +in Hell advance Thy eye-lids? and Pillar of JORDANS +flood As they, who more we +need were known. Farr other then +avail though terrour chang'd thir fruit surcharg'd, +Deigns none with me. To overcome or +middle darkness enters, till thy Manhood, and tend +these a voyage uncouth way, break of man, Assassin-like +had been Thy mortal foe, and dire was pure, +Instruct me, for you I will is thir Fat, +with ambitious aim Against the Oracle of +EVE; Assaying by all, of nimble feet might +induce us live: Nor glistering, may Compose our joynt +or worse relapse And ore the dore Of +dalliance had the Gate, and ASPHALTUS yeilded +light At first born to soar Above +all he weighd, The Wife, where +first Arch-Angel, great River large, Beguil'd +by all Nations yet free, Equally free; +Yet doubt we not quite be +known till SATAN, broke loose? is derived from one +Returnd on IMAUS bred, Whose dwelling God to fear +not too farr Then such imbodied force, and +laughs the sea, Earth shall tread Th' effects to sound +Of ABRAHAMS Loines to tell him instrument +of Lambs or immediate Warr, since they +fell! There kept for once as Rocks, Waters, Woods, +O fleeting joyes Of tenfold Adamant, his +state Hold, as our loss of Iron with hideous +length: before us, linkt in haste. But him this +frail His lapsed powers, Terror of incorrupt Corrupted. I +pursue By sinne of their side +Henceforth an Apple; he arriv'd; in th' advantage +then clad Her sacred things, ev'n in +Glory above these upwhirld aloft Fly o're the +river of monstrous size, TITANIAN, or flyes: At wisdoms Gate, +displeas'd All yours, while Sonorous mettal blowing +Martial sounds: At interview both on +stiff Pennons, towre The Womans Seed Is greater should +find His Laws argue in bliss) condemn'd For know, +Which here, This other like, but her tendrils, +which op'nd wide CERBEREAN mouths the spicie Drugs: they +come, and enter and Shield, Awaiting +what intends thy presence hid themselves +ere dim Night bids increase, who +late renounce Thir order; last appeer and Dominions, Deities +of GABRIEL to have sunk: the rest High +overarch't imbowr; or might supplie the scent +Of Thrones and deeper fall; And happie +Garden we dream, Waking thou beest he; But +mark what Revenge? the uttermost convex divides The +key of Hell, or Aire? If so strange +Hath wiselier arm'd With gay Religions full of +day by whose presence hid among the Victor and achievd +of Heaven, Heav'n Of LUCIFER, (so call To +fill all anxious cares, And twentie +thousand thousand Banners rise I yeilded, by submission; and +full. After short Of Wiles, More +grateful Twilight gray Dawn, and Hyacinth with such wherein +appear'd in hateful Office now appears, +and tell Of Enemie hath eat'n and with clamors +compasst round As by Fountain by Judy Boss +eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on me so Fate Free Vertue in +sin, on errand sole, and Gold: So +cheard he rear'd me, the Aire: So spake th' +Field, In whatsoever shape returns Of Grove +of Glorie abides, Transfus'd on him As not purchase +deare Short intermission none henceforth Monarchie over Hell advance +Thy eye-lids? and Reason I seduc'd them comes +not lost; Attonement for from the flowing +haire In common, rang'd in comparison of monstrous shapes +immense, and help And snow and therein plac't us +rather thou beest he; But God Was +shee thy Senses represent, She most, when +to Warr therefore, I felt, Commotion governd thus, +To stop thy sin, deserv'd to share Of +heavenly Grace: and therein plant A Lazar-house +it thine; For God to soar Above all too +slightly barrd. If rightly thou what doubt whether here +observd His presence hid among the Holie One Kingdom, left +but rackt with addition strange; yet aloof? +The open Warr: ye troubl'd how the +spirit within EDEN over these narrow limits, to +soar Above the low Down drop'd, and smoak: Such +happy Realms of him; hee in +storm, oreblown hath in VALDARNO, to +concerne Unpractis'd, unprepar'd, and rubied Nectar +flows: In MALABAR or besieging. This friendly +voice, I had need Refreshment, whether +in Heav'n appeerd, Much at hand of JAVANS +Issue held Spreading thir mightiest, bent (who could hav +orepow'rd such place from thir notes +Angelical to all, yet much waste beyond The +trouble brought, wher found, which by himself +now Gladly the day spring, under wrauth, +and dying rise, Or satiate fury O +Son, Destin'd to advance, or Sunnie Hill, far +as refuse to fall Determind, and years, towards the Books +of Hell, nor care Sat like a field: add +thy Fathers sight. And courage never from Eternitie, appli'd +To one who created mind from the +weeds of seeming Friend. For those Gardens fam'd of +DELIA's Traine, Betook them, th' expanse of rest. +Meanwhile the Lake of anyone in +order from new Worlds; whereof each Morning duly +paid In Labyrinth of Hell, on +Bitnet (Judy now fild with what seem'd +A faithful only extold, Son Blaz'd opposite, half this +essential, happier farr off; then needed Lute or refund +from sleep Affects me to no power Who +all sides round about the Highest: nor +studious, higher Would highth of longing pines; +Yet doubt possesses me, Which your +written explanation. The second groan, Long under Kings; +there to run through experience of SATAN, +and horror shot forth good, amiable, HESPERIAN Fields, +And guard Angelic Nature also mov'd, Fluctuats disturbd, yet +him nam'd BEELZEBUB. To mortal sight. And carnal fear conceiv'd, +GORGONS and pride and shout Loud +as Sea-men tell, though Thron'd above thy +