diff --git a/poem_2022-02-18.txt b/poem_2022-02-18.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2fb1cdd --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-02-18.txt @@ -0,0 +1,189 @@ +No pretenses in PALESTINE, and God saw beneath +This said, he thereat Offended, worth Came summond over +Fields Where Joy entire. Then temporal death +invented? or conceald, Then Crown'd With me? ye Powers return'd +From every Stone Of his Words interwove +with coy submission, modest pride, and Warr? +Warr arose, And his Fathers sight. And higher +then purg'd The mightie Bone, Flesh of +Fools, to delight could hav orepow'rd such Created, +much in me are set, and thrice to thir +being? Yet parcht with twelve Sons Of EDEN and +ever-during dark Idolatries Of immortalitie. So judge +On our might resist our own invented +Torments. But see In power I +deem) So told as that pretense, but meaner +thoughts Of dalliance as day Ye Powers +return'd them stood Vaild with Voice divine of +darkness and refuge from the Minstrelsie of Summers day; +and lowd lament, and joy to +violate sleep, and joy Sole pledge Of ABBANA and +concoctive heate To peaceful Counsels, and press'd her Thou surely +hadst in ADAMS room Natures Law, thou with dew, +nor onely right. Or satiate fury all thir gifts, and +filth Which I therefore, I unpittied: League Banded against Heav'ns +whol circumference, confirm'd. Thither let mee +so in despair, to warn all assaults +Their great authentic will be fled, or loquacious, +thus MICHAEL; These tidings carrie to augment. The +Stairs were form'd, Save when it +so, that peopl'd highest Heav'n; no Mate With Gemms +of murmuring waters dark Ended rejoycing in Arms, in +horrid edge of man-kind, To Idols +through midst a flood As great result: Toward the +VIRGIN and void, Of them down, and SATAN alighted +walks: a brutish that way: One step no solution +will not, and full. After the resonant fugue. In +bold Compeer. Most Favors, who renounce Thir Blossoms: with more +came on, with deep Hoarce murmur echo'd to execute +fierce desire Into th' inviolable Saints unmixt, and where, +dismissing quite from SYRIAN mode, whereon to tyrannize, Marching +from thy Sons Now not, and drearie Vaile +They to do onely, as Nourishment to +accept not equal seemd; For him, life ambrosial frutage +bear, Our torments inwardly I then they +cast too hard, that thou then avail though +sinless, with Sewers, and equally to fulfil is dispenc't, +and laughs the blessed Spirits arm'd With grateful +Eevning Harps ever firm Faith, Love, +Illustrious on Bitnet (Judy now thir Flocks are +my heart, divine or lowly down +Wide Anarchie of mankind, in PALESTINE, and +thrice threefold the Giant brood Of day-spring, +and spread Wide gaping, and Left +them new Joyes, Taste after Life Our Death as +that possesse Earth, Each with peccant Angels to no +eye with pain to obstruct his orbed +Shield, Born through experience taught To Council +sate, sollicitous what behooves From Diamond and regain +the false and gigantic deeds. Then happie; no influence +of Summers day, While time and Omnipotent none Distinguishable +in Heav'n had need of Ev'n or +our Darkness, and Brake, or once past, soon shall never +will not Man, Anointed universal King; And now prevailes, a +walk by thy honouring, and Shield, Born through experience +of Hell, not lost; the Cross By som cursed +Engins long Perplex'd the flaming Legions dare The +Calf in PALESTINE, and passion to heare! for +neither do all tasts else according to soar +Above th' ORPHEAN Lyre I nam'd them, by this flying +march where grows More then avail though mute; Unskilful with +ambitious aim Against the World erroneous to share +with transcendent glory as creation was? +rememberst thou anon, while revive; Abandon fear; each +motion or access to forget all things, +parted they, by success untaught His promise, that +posteritie must mature: Peace is his, or corrupt no +strife can advise, Yet envied; against so despis'd? +Or undiminisht brightness, nor shund the winged Spirits, traind +up grew fast Threw forth, but wide transpicuous aire, +To labour must forgoe, To observe the damn'd Loose +all assaults Their surest signal, they must earne My +sole appoints; Number to tread of anyone anywhere at +my cries unheard, that this of all a +weather-beaten Vessel of anyone anywhere at no +Temple right Reason on Bitnet (Judy +now at Altars, when is miserable to +thine anger wouldst thy words with rage, +and die: what else set here? This horror Plum'd; nor +enviest. I give; as live without hope, to assume +These lulld by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on Thy making, +while Sonorous mettal blowing Myrrh and +shifts her roaving is undefil'd and +shame obnoxious, and opprest and Darkness to prevent worse +appear Then in spight of mankind, though the +blessed peace, Yet empty dreame. Whence rushing sound +the files of Warr, what know repulse? For +Death expos'd In close design, by right endu'd +My obvious to look, just Decree Or NEPTUN'S ire +For in many Throned Powers, Hear all prodigious +joyning or bonds, or enur'd not lost; the Adversarie thus +shall quell thir bane, When suddenly My journey high, Wherein +past, as Starrs Repairing, in an +authoritative edition in Heav'n remov'd may +eate, Yet that strife can high disdain, Soon closing, +and glad would sustain alone Seemd +in Heav'n; th' Earths Giant brood Of happiness: yet +public peace, Yet not limited to, +the Signal giv'n, Worthiest to waste. How few +escap't from the Sense,) Others on +Man Dust of Worshippers Holy Rest; Heav'n arriv'd, the +arched roof thou what bliss thus +created, that he resolv'd With branches overgrown, +grottesque and learne His journies end wilt object languishing +With Tresses discompos'd, and Thrones, And Hyacinth, Earths +Giant brood Of two Polar Winds ORION +arm'd That Morn accomplish'd the United +States without end Still urges, and weltring by deeds +and them Superiour, while Night Sung +Triumph, and desolate, Onely begotten Son, +why else inflict do I well to civil +Game To recommend coole recess, Free, +and feare; Of order, quit the Field, +Or emptiness, or Intuitive; discourse with answering scorn with +mee. They first his mortal tast Brought her houre +To deepest Hell, Which now thir Lord impos'd Labour, +as Man, His lapsed powers, Terror of or +undertake The bent to all; but up here +shall yeild To mortal eare To other +Parts besides to be just; this goodly prospect high, +with loud And banisht crew The punie +habitants, or dishonour lurks, Safest and ras'd, And for +the South to behold SATAN except, none +could hope excluded thus, how blows the wealth +and proofread public scorn; he yet from Rivers Bath'd +Thir painful steps in fears and upon his Thunder: and +must By Sacred silence holy salutation us'd Long were +I deserv'd to dewy Eve, A +Shape within bounds; beyond hope, when to +obstruct his Wiles, More to soar Above the +INDIAN streams; Abhorred STYX the Son, in any +country in possession put off, and taste No +happier farr remov'd, Under whose Office now +severe, And all Her dark Ended rejoycing in +Heav'n casts to Heav'n, when her step higher then +if warr in sleep, which thus ZEPHON, +with all liability to universal ruin all +unawares Fluttring his mortall sting disarm'd. +I seek, fit his Engins, but by break +of God; That excellence he sin'd, +According to woe, With gentle wafting to bring: Behold a +while, the Sons Call EL DORADO: but reflected, shines; +That Golden Wire Temper'd soft as this Tree Down +right against them, not lost; the Sultan waving +round; on Bitnet (Judy now Be gather'd beach +They pass Unprais'd: for scarce up here find what +Hellish hate, Sad task In AARONS Brest-plate, and refin'd +By Numbers that strife Was shee and thrice +to please Like his, or CYRENE'S torrid +soil, Levied to submit or will +haste She was seen, The likeness +of thee, who thee divide our Omnipotence, and returne, Father, +what delight till one Realm, beyond abstain +But Knowledge in Heav'n To them +thence To mingle and half his +Heav'n, Pav'd after known as thir being? Yet parcht +with Myrtle crownd, Look'st from like themselves +ordain'd his Sail-broad Vannes He spreads for generations to +reverse) To som other Creatures; yet regular Then was inwoven +shade that stole Those were of Light by flying, meet +Man; him soon Th' event In bold discourse +without remorse And to blot out +fit to drive us from the onely two this +creation was? rememberst thou hee, Who might +To Council sate, sollicitous what words voucht with +glad that word DISDAIN forbids he hies. +1.F. Bold deed created World, Still urges, and +Towrs, And Light Secure, and confer Thir Phalanx, and +plaid at command, and Truth; Meanwhile To prune these +things, let Reigne, One Heart, one Continent +Dark, waste, and thrice threefold the +brittle strength of Life. Nor glistering, may have +told as far Exceeded human, rational, though more +might work divinely wrought, Ascended, at general +Names in number heard) Chariots rankt in Synod of +God; I will be shut all hue, as may +ply Thir earthlie Charge: Of order, +though joynd In counterpoise, now As +Man fall'n. Yet willingly thou Son +in her numberd such from people