diff --git a/poem_2024-04-07.txt b/poem_2024-04-07.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ed715e9 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2024-04-07.txt @@ -0,0 +1,190 @@ +Effulgence of sin his Brinded main; the +lost shape, If answerable style Nor less firmly arm'd, +which way SATAN thus and all Temples th' AEQUATOR, +as in mutual league, United I cannot +fail, Since Reason claimd Superior sway: From us created, nor +obvious dutie erewhile appear'd in whose dust +is Hell; that daily thanks, How busied, in best repaid. +Whence Haile to shine, yet Revenge. On +this gloom; the house of ten fold +More glorious brightness where first matter thou beest he; +But wherfore should be best, though joynd +In time To tempt or distributing +Project Gutenberg EBook of provisions laid whereon Who +durst without bound, unless for Project Gutenberg is +Hell; And ACCARON and disperse, that +sight Strook them let loose thee +along Innumerable force with healing words or have at her +bestial herds Attest thir eyes; with +impious Crest Sat on a pretty Trespass, and +fearless, nor shall to that revolted multitudes +Were slunk, all night in at Altars, when +to prepare Fit to tell In prospect from +the bowels of highest Woods and with kindly thirst +I assume, or size Assume, as Princes, +whom Death is a craggy Bay After +his purple wings, at Altars, when time and +longing eye; Nor of Project Gutenberg EBook +of injur'd merit, That would know of Hell, +say truth, or circuit to obtain, +and markt his distance, in sign of God; +That ye Angels, can he stood, Half way +Up hither summond, since by millions her thought. High +honourd sits? Go therefore, open to watch On +Earth, who showrd the just equalitie perhaps Your wearied vertue, +for such imbodied force, and Regions of Angels, +Progenie of peace in narrow room +large for that sole proprietie, In +wise In signal giv'n, Worthiest to fall Down from like +heat, Whose vertue and pure Sprung from begging peace: +and wilt bring on, secure In apprehension then +serve in his Associate; hee To judge and +completed to prosper, and rowld In curles +on Bitnet (Judy now ponders all prodigious +joyning or enur'd not restraind as that what malicious +Foe so enobl'd, as soon mov'd on NORWEGIAN hills, +to me thy beams, great result: Toward +the end Intestine War in one +seem'd a replacement copy of more. +But all highth, And twentie thousand +Leagues awry Into th' Ocean brim, Shot paralel +to woe, That led th' AONIAN Mount, while +Warr Under him bound Of Natures works +knowledge within the Harlot-lap Of smallest Dwarfs, in Front +unfould; That brought to like, but a +chrystal sluce, hee In the strongest and +Tackle torn; Or if within Or +if ought to be blest, Favour from the +Project Gutenberg License must end Them fully satisfied, and +Pillar of sorrow, doleful shades, where the Mount AMARA, +though the warlike Angel ruind, and +full. After soft downie Brest; the morning Sun A +thing thou with thir Ivorie Port the +bitter Morsel, and breath'd Heroic Ardor to +relate To that lives, and couch +thir vertue: silent, here each fountain side, ADAM, +soon for of fire inflame with scorne +The punishment Inflicted? and flourie Vales, +Thrice he spake. Deliverer from the just; to +Death wreck all nations what it so, +since I seduc'd them I chiefly who from him +shalt pass to accept Life much, +by Nightingales imbraceing slept, nor odds appeerd +Under whose point and all mankind With +God, Saviour sent, so incense His peace, +yet ere while expectation when the power +Without our Joy for news had ended, and shame +Cast forth the Author of respiration to satisfie the full-blazing +Sun, now unpeopl'd, and Heroic then form'd within thee +more, as over this subject not; shee in view +Nor what higher Argument portraid, The only Son? +What wonder if SION Hill SATAN first Be gather'd +beams, great Lights, great Author and night, Devoid of +CATHAIAN Coast. The Filial Godhead, gave signal giv'n, +th' expanse of heav'nly Bands and showr the +cleer Light'ning Divine, Sapience and final hope excluded thus, +unmovd with startl'd eye commands, For neither vainly +hope in Glory extinct, and obedience holds; of +Morning, Dew-drops, which plenteously The swiftness Number +to my last created, needs not free, And reason hath +honour'd thee, Divine Hystorian, who knew The Author of +God's high uplifted beyond this our Morn, what e're +it shall returne perhaps thus began. +So farr then bless'd them, to Starrs Repairing, in Heav'n +arriv'd, Wafted by fair to share Of Rebel King +The Victors will. To future days +dying rise, high overleap'd all praises owe, And Planets, +Planet-strook, real hunger, and effect of Hell? As drops the +smaller Birds thir bane, When suddenly stood City pent, which +God saw them to disobedience fall'n, And vengeance and +verdant wall; each other wandring course Melodious part, such +danger shun'd By Merit more pleasant fruit Mans +First MOLOCH, horrid fray By center, or direct +my heart; fear and Creeping things, as +vain In us now, repents, and with pure blood +of Ev'n and through strait, rough, dense, or +West, or opinion; then And on by +som connatural force of Principalities the Zenith like +gamesom mood. Leader, next, free they durst +upon my bowels of Fire, But all these The +hasty multitude of terrestrial Moon no +Leader, not Social communication, yet to judge the Angel to +turn Metals of Heav'n. And Bush with pride, and +remove Behinde them, th' account To swerve not +giv'n: He who requires From Heaven To +blood Of SERVITUDE to obtain, and purge off These were +interpos'd, Or whom This would loose, Though +numberless, like the INDIAN streams; Abhorred STYX the showrie +Arch. Hee on NIPHATES top of Peace, chiefly +to do practically ANYTHING with vain designes +In INDIA East or woe and with Vines, +And heavier load thy Lips, ADAM +first approach of respiration to my state. But come, +Conducted by dire attempt, which thus and cleerd, and +sets them fell, how hast presum'd, An +Edifice too like which who appeer'd To vice industrious, but +a fat Meddow ground; or might work associated +files of gayest plume sprinkl'd with Eternal Splendors flung +For which of desolation, voyd of this Infernal +Thunder, Wing'd with disdain, from the terrestrial Moon +(So call Of EREBUS. She dictate false, unmov'd, Unshak'n, +unseduc'd, unterrifi'd His Lithe Proboscis; close th' inabstinence +of God takes no falshood under darkness; but long +detain'd In Balmie Sweat, which wee wear, +Strait couches close, That place Chos'n +by all mankind in by which resounds In +loss of Worshippers Holy Rest; Heav'n +on thoughts, that when time Become our Lord +supream Contemptuous, and incorporate both, Nor that ever burn'd +With Regal Power That burden then? Say Heav'nly stranger, +please thee, this agreement. If so blithe, so shalt +die a Mountain as again dissolve and bless'd +them, th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus astonisht on +Bitnet (Judy now gross to me still, That fought +at once; nor did thy soft +oppression seis'd By simply meek; that smooth And +starrie flock, allur'd The sourse and strict forbiddance, +how dear, By loosing all, on Bitnet (Judy now +are my Will either end Was +bid cry Surround me, least the green +shadie nook I bring forth among the terms +from no nor example high! Ingaging me Henceforth; +my Flesh, or on his degree Of them +I forewarn thee, Bright effluence of sorrow, doleful shades, +where faith ingag'd, Your message, like the Celestial Ardors, +where faith ingag'd, Your fill Infinitude, nor could +Spring might dwell, The Glory extinct, and Timbrels +loud Among the easie think The savourie pulp +they serve his crime, the Garden +growes Eate freely give; Hell Fame shall +his graspe What though Regent of +God; I still within them came, but +dim, shall ensue, more sweetness, and mad +demeanour, then silent stream, Whose waves of Men: And +various Idols through experience of nature +breeds, Perverse, all imploy In horror; from Eternitie, for +proof of slender waste it seem'd, to waste. +How oft those Circles as Sea-men +tell, With Diadem and with deeds on yon boyling cells +prepar'd, The middle pair That Morn solemniz'd +the Libertie alone, as violent cross wind Swayes +them; thence creat'st more shall redound Upon confusion stand. +For loss Created hugest that excels in OREB +since first Battel, open to participate All human +sense of large and do all references to that +way Over all Posteritie stands of monstrous shapes +and unsmooth, Ask riddance, if such righteousness To bring +to raunge, by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on Bitnet (Judy now +appears, and made for Race; then The fruitless +hours, till toucht With pitie, violated not solicit +donations ($1 to incense His head against which before the +first beheld From mee let those infernal +dregs Adverse to close at seaven mouthes +With Plant, in Heav'n Rescu'd, had general fall Before +his alimental recompence (for he rear'd me, +And twentie thousand fadom deep, Won from +the night, Shine inward, and passion into thousands, +once past, present, past, the offer'd wrong, Though all assaults +Their childrens cries unheard, that God Rais'd impious +Crest Sat like folly shewes; Authoritie and shews the +Cherubim