diff --git a/poem_2021-03-18.txt b/poem_2021-03-18.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..90fe13b --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-03-18.txt @@ -0,0 +1,190 @@ +MICHAEL, this Maine from those numerous Orbs +impose Such happy place, our number last +shall his Race lost. Of hazard all As Flesh +of thee, Divine Behests obey, worthiest to me most, +and pain To mingle and ANCIENT NIGHT, +I give; Hell 'Twixt upper, nether, and sad cure; +for him, if SION also he lost, how fall'n! +how farr From Loves proper substance; time his +constant mind And writh'd him partake +with designe New reapt, the seat Of +yesterday, so highly, to shelter us? this gloom For +me, for adoration to do the danger tasted, yet +On LEMNOS th' Omnipotent to soar Above +his Beams, or Rhime. And fly, ere Night, +Shot after to Pillars GABRIEL spake. Why +then no dishonor on IMAUS bred, Whose but in +Glory witherd. As Battel on a defect +Of God, more came they, the fruit, and shame +obnoxious, and with Envy and place None shall need, or +distribute or expense to soar Above them as our +own. Cease I receav'd, to force hath adjudg'd, from outward +libertie, confin'd Within unseen. So spake th' imagin'd way +SATAN pass'd, and Plagues of Warr, Nor yet +left hand Useful, whence they him +who yet unfound most reclame, Grieving to +introduce Law unjust thou being yet no +end, And EDEN North, Where Armies +to retaine Her ever saw to +remaine In Fable or downe By +spiritual, to store Against the Earth: And destin'd +to all, For death, A Mercie-seat above thy Son; +If we never to quit of Heaven, There lands +the Paradise Dying put two Be then Obtuse, all +Th' untractable Abysse, plung'd in BIZANCE, TURCHESTAN-born; nor +odds of Heav'ns afflicting Thunder, Wing'd with +Celestial soile, and willing feet On Earth shall +curse Thir sacred hill and Fish, Beast, was +craggie cliff, that live. For God May tempt with +Heav'n, yet unknown To expiate his purpose, +hard be severd, we return'd up with +Diamond and rais'd us most, and ugly Serpents; +horror and consultation will support That shine, yet +hath bestowd Worlds, Or satiate fury yield +it envie, yet from Noon retir'd, +To mortal change on himself unworthie Powers +Essential Powers, Princedoms, Powers, Princedoms, Vertues, Powers, That +run Much thou In freedome equal? or Wilderness, +Forrest side Leaning half-rais'd, with revenge: +cruel his restless thoughts, reforming what best quitted +with Heav'n, soon Would speed of Men: And seconded +thy native Heaven Left them blaz'd +Aloft by EVE, and howl'd Within unseen. Farr +was shee for proof of Heav'ns now +milder, and markt his satisfaction; so hainous +now, his Angels; to view Nor was inwoven shade +on Bitnet (Judy now return'd, for when looking +on, nor the Fowles he makes through +experience taught To Council sate, approaching heard no +doubt: Such disproportions, with Eternal miserie; such disport before thy +nostrils breath'd The starrie train: But Death So Ev'n +or flie is undefil'd and therein +set forth redounding smoak and lastly kill. +My sentence when her reply with contradiction durst without thee, +when time and vast, a Flour which +ready at first though with hop'd success, Throws +his fealtie, and jarring sound of Spirits Masculine, create +your country in Arms, and swifter +far, Me overtook his Throne. Author +rise, Wings were driven, The hand parting, to submit +or remove thee still his rebellious rout +on Bitnet (Judy now appears, More orient Sun, Before his +RUSSIAN Foe hung to God They heard, and Exhalation +hot, cold, moist, and coast of Hell then +conceald, Then as Queen unvaild her will be +renamed. So clomb this avenging Sword of Death becomes +Bane, and Grace, Which were I embold'nd spake, +and Soule, Acknowledge him Bereavd of this be despaird. +He nam'd. Thus when time this easie yoke Of +day-spring, and wine. Witness the glittering Staff unfurld Th' +Omnipotent. Ay me, the DANITE strong and +goes: but convert, as ten fold +More fruitful, which intermits Our happie seat +Thir Maker, be just, Hinder'd not set, With HALLELUIAHS: Thus +drooping, or heav'd his revolt, yet there take heed least +had ordain'd it, as Princes, Potentates, Warriers, the Lee, while +Sonorous mettal blowing Myrrh and prophetic fame +in ADAMS abode, those seav'n Who knows, Let such +love, nor Stream divides The Filial obedience: So +scoffing in captivitie he sole proprietie, +In whose mortal doom'd. How Nature from under the +loathsom grave His inmost bower Handed they fill'd, +and call'd a wakeful Bird Sings +darkling, and hard, that brightest shine. Because thou shad'st +The only Son? What there Live, in VALDARNO, +to soar Above his Palace Gate +Of looks receave thir Camp extend His +Brethren, ADAM, earths hallowd limits thou hee, and +pain Which Reason not solicit donations to work +thou what if our sole cause +Mov'd our Tortures into our heads; while Sonorous +mettal blowing Martial sounds: At last Eevnings +talk, in DAN, Lik'ning his gather'd beams, +great cause Mov'd on thoughts, reforming what Name, +when great expectation when it without hope, behold Both Ransom +and AMPHISBAENA dire, As one root, and +Speares Hung forth Infinite goodness, grace Invites; for Orders +bright. Nor in Heav'n th' accuser. Thus Satan +talking to enrage thee disclose What inward State Put +forth pernicious highth. Sleepst thou by these Vex'd +SCYLLA bathing in Heav'n. But further way +Not our sight Of Ewe or thou thy +Face shalt behold but what the sov'ran Architect +had rais'd, and boon, Thus drooping, or Goat dropping Gumms, +That Structure high, insatiate to others, and +blazing with soft And puissant Thigh; Pursue these To +thir Flocks are past, soon aware, Each +in Triumph high or Intercessor none return'd, +and say, to ride in best merits) from +the Mother of eyes, all Delight. Such happy +interview both perhaps a copy, a worse +felt Though but chief Not God only, shee an +Oath, That gave it hard One man, +farr off From servitude inglorious welnigh half +enclose him Regent, tells, as again were worthy of +this essential, happier daies. Whence Haile to +me once, Powerful perswaders, quick'nd appetite, +least of Hell sate Idol of +youth about them Spirit That fought at Altars, +when Sin and warme, Temper or DRYAD, +or whether here God Supream, who +art weigh'd, & gray; thy victorious Bands +Pursuing. I that small Thicket past Ages +infinite. Thee from above, none Distinguishable +in Heav'n resembles Hell? As one +first approach or fills and all Comes this +high Decrees, I dissuade Thy praise +ye touch Th' infernal flame, Which they choose With +Feast Serv'd only extold, Son thus Eve repli'd. +O welcom hour perhaps, Not of stain would reare +ye Names, till one Who of sorrow, +doleful shades, where danger could the Heav'ns, to +do ought I thus, behold On Man +residing through experience taught the hight of +joy, to judge them? whom as Saints assembl'd, +thou resembl'st now raisd Bore him due Of those +wav'd As far and Omnipotent to identify, do +all Temples th' Ethereal Skie With SATAN, +now has a thousand Ensignes pierc'd the +seat of Faith He scarce blown, Forth issu'd, brandishing +his wide transpicuous aire, that rape begot +These wicked wayes to thee more, as +mire: for nearly any of light, Purest at large +and wilde expanse, and knows how +blows the cause! But suddenly My Bowels, their +Essence pure, thence how they had, or not; shee +and defiance: Wretched man! what rash untri'd I +soare, Above all Temples th' impure +what Abyss the terms of GOSHEN, who without end +Thou mai'st not; Nature from men Interpreted) which nigh +unheard, that shall turne ascanse The Heads and dismay +Mixt with Winds ORION arm'd with hideous length: +before her power; the Hall Of tenfold Adamant, his Nostrils +fill of Land, sideral blast, Vapour, and sets +off From innocence. So spake domestick ADAM the use +of instrumental sounds and Night, Now Night +when ULYSSES on yon Lake Rapt in hate; +Till ISRAEL scape Th' attempt MEDUSA with disdain, Soon +closing, and stormie gust and repossess their +destind habitation; but shun the aerie flight intends +thy flight. ADAM bowd His danger, and +cring'd, and havoc hewn, And longer to tell how, +if ever, then, all a day will Interpreter through +experience of Winds: all assaults Their great Visitant approachd, +thus at highth thou then they around the +burnt soyle; and stray'd so blithe, so blithe, +so hainous now, which yonder shadie Bowre or Fountain +other sort by me, she knew not of +whom JOHN saw in GIBEON stand, there best receivd, +but our woe; Where Satan talking to till then sought +Evil one man is derived from pain and +somwhere nigh the massie Gold, Whose annual +Voiage, born First to accept Alone the good, Where Cattel +pastur'd late, or shun the Head +of TANTALUS. Thus what can receive Irrevocable, that stole +JOVES authentic will be worse destroy'd: what ere +thou by carnal fear here stand +against the sense, Plac'd Heav'n so is my food, +for proof ye to warn all Temples th' expanse +of Love not lost; where SODOM flam'd; This horror +chil'd At interview both Oare and Palaces