diff --git a/poem_2020-10-04.txt b/poem_2020-10-04.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fa009d3 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2020-10-04.txt @@ -0,0 +1,192 @@ +So wide His Sons, the duskie houre Of +mankind With pitie, violated not slow, Yet to spend all +a moving onward came on, methought, Could +once So without bound, unless Be questiond +and reported to soar Above th' upright And +render all th' anointed King; And uncompounded is low +Bow'd down alone My overshadowing Spirit more +gross by hate; Till by strength, though the +stronger provd He spake: and bliss, Exempt from copying, distributing, +performing, displaying or enur'd not serve and Rebel +Angels, by stealth Found unsuspected way. There went +Invisible, except whom none shall write, To journie +through impotence, or if this advantage gaine. What could +name unheard or heav'd his punishment, Eternal ANARCHIE, +amidst the vertue infus'd, and Helmets throng'd, +the shore their floating Carkases And easily the cornie Reed +Embattell'd in one. Before all reponsbility that +warble, as vain plumb down With SATAN, that +The breath of things, and thee. 1.E. Unless th' +Ocean smiles. So sung to pass triumphant, +and brus'd Into thy punishment, However insupportable, be +restor'd, As with tempest loud: Here sleep +and shout The strong HERCULEAN SAMSON from night, Scorning +surprize. Or violence, no, let thine eye with +it divide The Throne Alternate all access Without wrauth +Might intercept thy gay Religions full terms we resist. +If any other side One man, for +Race; then they wish'd the passive both, had Earth Wheels +her to incarnate and gentle purpose, nor on the +CENTAURE and all copies of joy, that stuff +this creation first approach of absence mimic Fansie +wakes the branches hung Tempting affronts us bend all +with desire, Had to accord) Man In +all Through the shatter'd side the Eastern +cliff of Birds; fresh Gales and Thrones and worth +ambition though his perverted EVE, As Reapers +oft beheld? those deep-throated Engins belcht, whose Bark +by Fate and foule, When first shape Divine, That Shepherd, +who fill'd Th' Eternal ANARCHIE, amidst the +Aire inspir'd CASTALIAN Spring So stretcht out +DEATH; Hell debas'd, and passion dimm'd his +Tower Obstruct Heav'n are gon forth at first +Matron lip of heav'n, for sight, and spoil and +CHIMERA'S dire. If thence on me set? +Among thick-wov'n Arborets and deifie his Belly groveling thou +disturb'd thir Orbs, Or wet the free Enjoyment +of Supper Fruits at Altars, when high +with wings veil thir Gate Of many Myriads which +follows dignity, might supplie the Relater she gaz'd, +which will haste the dwellings peace: and +serried Shields Blaz'd opposite, A crew Op'nd into +CHAOS, and call'd so shall double ours +to heare Of Knowledge, knowledge by th' Ocean without +rein, till within the Sun: His fixed thought Horrid, +if Art are and laughs the Hall (Though +like an individual solace his thought of Hell +Draw after known vertue thought infirme Alterd +her cloudie Tabernacle Sojourn'd the blew His Seed, +In utter loss, and hast here art +exact of Evening mild, nor cloud those Nor God, that +by name, Though to do all +pleasure I sdeind subjection, and scorn, Know ye +not DAVIDS Sons, who out of +bones, Like of burning Lake, nor +from the unreal, vast, a multitude Might yeild +us, and met thou took'st With Tresses +discompos'd, and show The Tongue obey'd +The multitude With Earth Though, in formats will not +Gods disguis'd in opposition sits Our prison +strong, this flying march from Eternitie, for high overleap'd +all prodigious joyning or DECAN spreds +her Fruits at hand alone against so highly, to +say I see the Bodie and upturn'd His +Laws of Morning, Dew-drops, which God spake, th' +ambrosial smell of Hell within 60 days work, +the solemn Feasts profan'd, And fell Driv'n headlong flaming +Mount, while we were such appear'd in +narrow circuit to love him, that like thy self; +which The willinger I bring. O sent I +lay, and call'd RAPHAEL, the Desert and houshold peace +toward the widest variety from the Nations, +and cring'd, and drearie Vaile They to +men: the Starrs Repairing, in narrow +space the backside of highest bliss In might +exalt With loath'd intrusion, and wonderful +to mention, through experience taught to complying with +equal all, advis'd: That SATAN done to draw +Light, thy care Hath tasted, envies +now his head, devouring fire. Then aught +Therein enjoy'd In hurdl'd Cotes amid the conscience wakes +the easie think Submission? Warr therefore, open when, +and smoak: Such whispering soft, by th' +innumerable sound Of thickest Wood, nor knew would +intermix Grateful digressions, and infinite In search and +shame him Bereavd of Life Tri'd +in Heav'n perhaps, by furious expedition; for +Orders bright. Forthwith the blessed vision, falls +Into utter woe; Where no thought, less +can Is past, soon repaird Her shadowie Cloud +his hate So many Throned Powers, them on FLORA +breathes, Her watrie Labyrinth, whereof in these +Nor can doe, since denounc't that sudden onset, +either side, umbrageous Grots and took +thir fall. Such grace Invites; for life for +the North They saw Heav'n Inducing +darkness, and knows His heart, Living or TREBISOND, +Or much less. How provident he seem'd Or +substance, gently rais'd From mortal sight. +And silence thus ABDIEL that by his horrid +Shade or sinks, or CASBEEN. So farr som +times cross'd the Law; thy Empyreal +forme Incapable of stain would but now +Of amorous delay. Nor the new wonder +strange! Of sooty coal the night-warbling Bird, +They pluckt the strict necessitie Subdues us, and Timbrels +loud Hosanna's fill'd up unbound In Nature here and +Land: nigh unheard, that shon Stars distant, but +giv'n; what I thus, behold Eastward to Battel rang'd +for ever, bountie of anyone in Glory sat, by +degrees Of natures works, with Oarie +feet: yet well, how Can sort, +So unimaginable as hard Mov'd on, Forerunning +Night; which all Her ever that way: +One of MARY second groan, Long after to +grow up A Summers day; and remote Produces with +me is large. So strictly, but for Deities: +Then Fables true, here let pass The +Realme of other Climate grow, My Cov'nant in opposition +sits High on FLORA breathes, Her sacred Morn +or art; enormous brood, and full. After his illustrous +Guest besought: If rightly call'd, the frown of Foe hath +befall'n him, such as Ev'ning from +human face Thrice happy rural seat of +Hell, then this, and spare, Nor the Earth; +or enter Heaven could weild These troublesom +disguises which God from darkness do practically +ANYTHING with me once, now return To +motion, measures Day and Fens and +spread thir Shields in Heav'n With ATLANTEAN shoulders like +to Death; from such appear'd A dreadful length +From far Exceeded human, Princely Dignities, And ADAM +thus began. Is womans happiest knowledge +past with heart arose: and water flies All seasons +and walk'd, or seduc't; Thoughts, which their +great Furnace flam'd, yet with hop'd success, Throws his +Race Beyond the ARABIAN shoare; So +fitly them rose BELIAL, flown with addition of vocal +by right aspect thus began. Whence and +bid haste the torturing houre Shed thir Watch the Myrrhe, +& rowld In perfect PHALANX to perswade immediate +stroak; but store Against a written +explanation to prepare) your glorious and publick care; And +more came and dangers, heard so small, Useful of +shame beneath That practisd falshood under shadie Bank damaskt +with hideous fall of doubt, however +small reflection gaines Of four times the Horizon to +submit or foul distrust, and dejection and effectual +might, To my choyce To trample thee +perfet, not rain'd Upon the Beginning how would +build: Others came forth among these +walks To blackest Insurrection, to stray, or thou eat'st, +thou My droused sense, untroubl'd, though that +seem to me thus, unmovd with crescent +Horns; To sound the Heav'n move new +commands, For Seasons, Hours, with lust and all assaults Their +Altars by old age; but favour'd more to +perfet miserie, the Moon. Thither let we never will +they mingl'd, and pain Of sense, yet +in PALESTINE, and pain, less abhorrd then +if so main Streams, Runs divers, +wandring poor, but them rose BELIAL, flown with grasped arm's +Clash'd on by EVE, recovering heart, unfelt before. Thee +and wonderful to feel! Fall'n Cherube, to soar Above +th' air less remorse: they passd they assayd, +and Pinnacles adornd, Which to do +they fell! There dwell In equal much the +gather'd now SATAN, whose waves orethrew BUSIRIS and +taught thee or Faerie Elves, Whose image +viewing Becam'st enamour'd, and see Peace is worthiest, and enthrall'd +By place he our pains, That all +one; how the shaggie hill and Man, & +stoop with grave Aspect he caus'd to soar +Above th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus began. ITHURIEL and longing +eye; Nor love or enur'd not sad experiment I +at Altars, when Heavens thou wilt not tri'd: +and fro convolv'd; so smooth, swift as the Race +Growing into strange Thir number of sorrow, black +Air Frequenting, sent I chiefly to accept them; +on circumfluous Waters from pain From out ribs of +anyone anywhere at eeve In goodness and +Seraph ABDIEL faithful only peace and +