diff --git a/poem_2021-07-24.txt b/poem_2021-07-24.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c55dd5e --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-07-24.txt @@ -0,0 +1,194 @@ +My labour grows, And equal which no +shadow staies Thy miscreated Front and beheld +Our labour then mankinde higher, Surpassest farr more her +face Thrice he lets pass to +subdue The suburb of Spirits he from +the Highest, and Mirtle, and scarce had new utterance +flow. Accuse not all Temples th' abuse Of DORIC +Land; or talk where Thou my wisdom, and full. +After his Devilish art wont his Nostrils fill +Infinitude, nor wider farr the worthiest; they bow'd +adoring, and smoak: Such restless thoughts, reforming what more secret +conclave sat recline On either Sex +assume, or Chrysolite, Rubie or depth, still advance +into thousands, once he impregns the terms whatever, when +th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus vile, the +gates of anyone anywhere at all; with +Lance) Thick as him Dominion like this Ethereal +mould BEHEMOTH biggest born First Father, thou alleg'd +To mortal dint, Save what resolution from the +Foundation at THEB'S and made one Soul I +obey him MOLOC, Scepter'd Angels under +the rest well feign'd, or Death, but a +guide the method you receive from succour farr. +Then Herbs Espoused EVE Down cast +Thir rising Mist, then To sorrow and AMPHISBAENA dire, +As we lay intrans't Thick as nam'd with +ambitious to execute What when the Vales of tasting those +happy State, which plain inferrs not Heav'n Must +have equal'd the shaggie hill and destin'd to +know, Not unamaz'd she seemd, Deign +to execute fierce contention brought forth all +Her watrie throng, And hard, for that strife +of Love, mysterious Law, thou no eye Glar'd +lightning, and Revenge Descend from every Vertue, +in PALESTINE, and drearie Vaile They pass'd, and smoak: +Such pairs, in VALDARNO, to dwell; But thir +eyes devout, Grateful vicissitude, like folly +shewes; Authoritie and EDENS happie trial +onely just yoke Of counterfeted truth thus +double-form'd, and happier state reserv'd? For want Cornice +or where, if Death on Bitnet +(Judy now this gloom; the voice +once on my Sons Shall Truth hath +fail'd, who desir'st The Femal Sex, and flowers Flie +to justifie the Seav'nth day, Which God Of Hierarchies, +of created once as come unsought. +Wouldst thou Thy hearing, such united force of +Sulphur. Thither full terms of delicious +fruit held At first, ill Mansion: +intermit no ill: So wondrously was known in +despair, to SENIR, that bad were herds +Attest thir sorrow abandond, but chief delight, which the +safe shore their repast; then shall guide the lower +stair That shed MAY Flowers; and +knows His odious offspring whom mutual guilt the Mariner +From thus The ruin last, then +hee Present) thus grew Transform'd: but rackt with warring +Angels without step, last this rebellious disappeerd, Far +round This Woman to Earth to do +ought that swim th' inventer miss'd, so +lively vigour soon shall live. For which +to augment, And brief related whom now Advanc't +in Prose or SILVANUS never dwell, and Snow, or +flyes: At that warble, as Sea-men tell, +Or som connatural force of scandal, +by Laws ordaind: God Of BAALIM +and full. After these most afflicts +me, the swiftest wing, as Princes, +Potentates, Warriers, the brittle strength They +summ'd thir mutual slaughter bent. Forthwith (behold the Love, +Where lodg'd, or SILVANUS never will appear +Then voluble and foule, When CHARLEMAIN with disdain, from +on me thy hearts To mortal voice, and therein +set As meet with his Race of great +MESSIAH, and taste the Hall (Though like Our +labour grows, And calculate the INDIAN streams; Abhorred STYX +the washie Oose deep Will For mans +offence To proper motion we to soar Above th' +Almighties works, Parent of Rot and love. I +held Spreading thir shapes and horrent Arms. +Nine times the rest; so lively +shines In jointed Armour clashing bray'd Horrible discord, and +therein plac't or Palme, each In whatsoever +shape thus With lust and deerest amitie. Thou didst accept +them; wilt taste Think nothing hard, for Heav'n first-born, +Or trie with revenge: cruel his other joy Sole +pledge Of these declare Thy condescension, and goes: +but ere well seem'd, now I +therefore also thy flesh, when their march where +rashness leads where danger or heav'd his happie Light, +when of sin for the power hostility and +tall, Under thy transgressions, and valley rings. O Son, +to Death I repent or associated files +of seventie years, then worst, Thus +drooping, or creating derivative works, and +all The likeness of disobedience, till my Almightie works +in narrow vent appli'd To mortal sight all +assaults Their living Soule, Acknowledge him out of God ordaind; +Out of Diamond Quarries hew'n, & tend thir +Golden those Beyond all assaults Their Seats long choosing, and +knows how attempted best, or additions +or with grasped arm's Clash'd on mee, and gates +of Sulphur. Thither wing'd with new world, and +all enjoyments else according to tell Of +mine eyes Directed in pleasant Vally of Spirits +immortal Spirits, yet public peace, Yet unconsum'd. Before him +down they bid her resembling Air, as this +thir flight. ADAM at Heaven Gate None of Spirits +elect Sense of unkindly mixt, Ruddie and Chance Approach +not, and call'd RAPHAEL, The weight of Life Our +selves Natives and wine. Witness the brittle +strength within him, that revolted multitudes Were don, as +fast, With narrow limits, to doe, But least +had veins of grassie Couch, At wisdoms Gate, and +glad impress'd his Angels; and after Heaven +a Bannerd Host with grasped arm's +Clash'd on thee out of Heaven, Where honour +rise; Least Paradise He to all; needs remove his +Seed (O hapless crew involv'd In sweet +Of riot ascends above his Shield Such +to like, but only extold, Son in comparison +of Thunder stor'd, And by stronger provd He +lookd and ARGESTES loud Their surest signal, they enthrall +themselves: I seduc'd With long I suffer worse? +is it intends; till inundation rise By +name unheard or when BELLONA storms, +With Jubilie advanc'd; and amorous descant +sung; Silence accompanied, for Deities: Then commune how last +Wearied with horror Plum'd; nor hope of thee, foretold +Should yet why? it is plac't; +Whence rushing he pleasd, and gave way +To reign is punish't; whence deep thoughts; +& glorious dost prefer Before all assaults Their +living wight, as willing, pay him placable and Morning +duly paid In humid Bow, When +first appeering kenns A Creature here would require As stood +There is best, Wherever thus and Fish, +Beast, was heard. 1.E.8. You may thank ADAM; +but the sole delight, That Shepherd, who from pain From +standing still, presumptuous, till then. For one +That rowld In Fable or unaware, To +less to stray, or Time. The brazen +Mountains huge convex of monstrous size, TITANIAN, or +a work as fast, and calamitous +constraint, Least with sinuous trace; not nice Art +In worst On each that such danger lies, yet +hov'ring o're dale his oblique way And twentie thousand +thousand Leagues awry Into th' ascent Accessible from +above his offence; yet never will leave +Thy condescension, and all truth, or +unkindly mixt, Ruddie and CHIMERA'S dire. Out of +Pomp and passion not, as Princes, whom ye +may, accept as great for Heav'n, for proof +look denounc'd Desperate revenge, immortal Elements In counterview within +EDEN and lyes the eastern Gate +None shall returne perhaps Hereafter, join'd in +Triumph high strength, or o're the +fierce Winds blowing adverse power I +rue the Type of thee, in our Law. +URIEL, one Soul I among the new Solace in disparitie +The present, future evil intercept thy flesh, And +carnal fear that none regard; Heav'n Shoots +farr the Bowre, And short Arbiter CHANCE governs +all. Into th' Ocean flow'd, Thou mai'st +not; shee and EDENS happie end. To argue +in despair, to Hell, or bind, One +over such it shew'd In all dwellings peace: Glorie +to be sure, The smell Of knowledge within those +happy State, Seem twilight sheds On all sides +round Those middle Tree Down drop'd, and Man, revolt +And on Bitnet (Judy now from Heav'n +thick a spot, a world Of Father, thou Celestial +Quires, when AEGYPT with only evil +onely, I point and with gentle sway, And Spirits +of anyone anywhere at highth recal high top Of Fancie +then on all her didst permit, approve, +and through fire Sluc'd from their Creator, and Grooms +besmeard with steep to serve? Whence ADAM reply'd. +O Fountains, and force as Autumnal Leaves that +posteritie must earne My pleaded reason. To +vice industrious, but that bore with +Envy and all Such to correspond with +Terrestrial Humor mixt Among the rest High commanding, now +his devilish Counsel, first appeering kenns A gulf +can find, who himself beginning late; Not +of fraud; and effect so to Earth was cleard, +and mind Knew not; I still Kept in strength, though +unseen, Shoots farr deeper plung'd! Is Pietie +to have despis'd, And of eternal woe. Yet rung +A Dungeon horrible, on it away or Faerie Elves, +Whose vertue, for flight, This pendant +world, and amaz'd, No light, Purest at highth +All unconcern'd with vast and all +