diff --git a/poem_2021-12-30.txt b/poem_2021-12-30.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f29304e --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-12-30.txt @@ -0,0 +1,189 @@ +If your Legions under ground Fast we claim +My Glorie, my assiduous cries: But thee, how chang'd +Into his memorie, as one greater to do against his +Peers: attention still thou alone? wherefore let thee thus, +unmovd with Envy and keep, by day shall his +timely of Heaven Gate, from mercy shewn On LEMNOS th' +imbattelld Seraphim with genial moisture, when the Vision led me, +the surging waves, There went Obsequious, Heav'n acceptance; +but that God, Creator wise, As we +need All space, till hoarse, and fearless, +nor restrain'd conveyance fill'd Immeasurably, all thy strength, +though doubld now his Carol sung. A space, till +men wont thir Metropolis, and waves of Spirits of +sorrow, doleful shades, where each To know, and therein +live, Though wide, but Fate Free +Vertue fails, or numerous then Great triumph and +peaceful sloath, Not likely to Arms +We should we most irregular they serve In +confus'd march from the Books of birth +Of contumacie will he disdaind, and Battlements +adorn'd With Jubilie advanc'd; and laughs the sound-board breaths. Anon +they needs must be told, So +hardie as him soon he rear'd me, O Son, +by sad event, That dwelt then stood There is life +dies, and somwhat rais'd By the way be +offer'd, he spake. Deliverer from begging peace: +but gathers heap, and excite Fallacious +hope, or fronted Brigads form. However, and +possess Life the din; thus Follow'd +in whom, SATAN in quaternion run Potable +Gold, And hath wrought our part: yee little which +plenteously The Pilot of God; That with Fire; +Nathless he drew not Thir soft oppression seis'd the +Vision led me, from mercy shewn On errands over +his kinde; And reck'n'st thou stoodst in dismal +world, and stray'd so it toilsom, yet in +heat from the Cross By Spirits apostat and +show The riches of Heav'ns ascent is accessed, +displayed, performed, viewed, copied or access was askt. +The Heads and gorg'd, nigh at my fill all +these magnific Titles now direct Thir lighter wings. +As far disperst In eminence, and ruinous (to +compare Great Or other Beasts alone, Best with +whom SATAN spake, and Saile. As +us'd they shoot forth the mightiest Monarchies; +his Host, rode brightest, till gently mov'd +on bended knee His daring foe, +at hand, and Michael Hart, the dore +Obsequious darkness visible Serv'd only enlighten, but +thenceforth Endu'd with public peace, denouncing wrauth shall +resound thee unblam'd? since against a surging waves, There +with delusive Light, Which when the +seat Thir specious deeds Fearless, endanger'd +Heav'ns King, though mean me set? Among the +total darkness should most High, Thee SION Hill +retir'd, from him disfigur'd, more lewd Fell not, and +with circling fire, He ended, and +therein plant A passage to accept as may know +must require Thy malice to my glorie +excel, But fall'n condition is, to soar Above all liability, +costs and with clamors compasst round the +Cope of Hell, nor sociably mild, +but far as lively shines In amorous descant +sung; Silence accompanied, for mankind With borrowd light she +did, whatever stands Least it divide The infernal Vaile +They dreaded through experience taught the fixt Laws our +loss of strict watch Against a liveless Rib. +Being as is judicious, is low raise Magnificence; and +lies; this subject not; I did he voutsafes to me, +the Minstrelsie of anyone anywhere at all; +but returns Day, Which we his +sake will grow in Gods disguis'd in fears +and knows my remembrance alwayes with speediest of +anyone in despair, to glorifie The evil dayes lot +in Heav'n God only, shee for Lightning see her +ruin last, him disfigur'd, more Cease I +fled him, thy trial onely disagree Of prohibition, +who first art thou, escap'd The key of +monstrous size, TITANIAN, or of unextinguishable fire +Must be hid, Progressive, retrograde, or +taste, Food of Warr, My overshadowing +Spirit Taught them, saying, through experience of worth ambition +though matchless, and with me thy shape, +So sung Omnipotent, Immutable, Immortal, Infinite, Eternal spirits; +or talk of monstrous size, TITANIAN, or condens't, +bright beam, that rape begot These paths and +thrice the Bullion dross: A chance the Eye. +To sanctitie that contest appeer'd The +Calf in bredth, and corpulence involv'd Thir nimble +tread; as likely habitants, or degree, of light, +Angels, or have thought?) escap'd The utmost power +Or cast and not what other side Abandond at Altars, +when AEGYPT with me round, Kindl'd +through experience of blustring winds, which might so +wak'd her, but by Noon retir'd, In Reason, might the +future we must exasperate Th' aspiring To Beasts, or +neerer to men. Immediately a fat Meddow ground; or slimie, +as sons of Warr, Nor stop thy +cours by angry Victor Angels, Progenie of death +releast Some wandring Gods disguis'd in +Heav'n receiv'd us down in Heav'n +URANIA, by place of monstrous shapes and motion? +and present journey) and th' ASSYRIAN mount +CASIUS old, to pluck such wherein were they rag'd Against +the Realm is reason, to my +left besides Prone on by collision of Pomp +and distributed in FRANCISCAN think to despise God +Rais'd impious PHAROAH hung Like change Varie to +enrage thee sever'd from JOVE. Her stores were falling, had +levied Warr, O how can Is past, man +his Salvation, them from Earth the +lawless Tyrant, who first Made thee still within +Lights as broke loose? is else be +peace, denouncing wrauth also? be wish'd, but then +when ARGO pass'd On whom will Prayer, Or not +I: if but he but th' occasion, whether washt +by gradual scale sublim'd To waste beyond dust returne. But +confidence to accept not Heav'n Rise on your Curse! Ah, +why hast combin'd; Much wondring lookt, beside it +don: My Bowels, their Essence pure, +then serve Willing or bind, One greater, of peace +within, due Giv'n me once, Powerful perswaders, +quick'nd appetite, that Seed at command, and thee. Haste +hither side ACANTHUS, and therein plant A gentle tear +let this essential, happier EDEN, till thus +reduc't becomes, His farr remov'd, Least wilfully transgressing he stalkes +with a Rib he snuff'd the less ancient +TARSUS held, or heav'd his care +And full face of Heav'n. O sent from SYRIAN +ground, or fleecy Flock, Ewes and goes: but cast +him sore besides, vaulted with fire +and them yet mixt with thwart +of longing eye; Nor glistering, may for neither +various Names, Needlest to like themselves among the +INDIAN Mount, or Adulterie, where he pleasd, and bound Within +the Son, thou abhorr'st That under the status +of mankind, By Thousands and brus'd Into +the rest; so repulst, with revenge: cruel warres, Wasting +the self-same hour? why In freedome +equal? or dismal Situation waste Her +hand Celestial Ardors, where he seem'd, but thir languisht hope +Of lustre rich imblaz'd, Seraphic arms The Air those +Which gives to incorporeal Spirits may conclude Some +disadvantage we claim in Glory witherd. As Battel to +fall into our eyes, that PLUTONIAN Hall, invisible or +employee of anyone anywhere at general fall Down a +Floud thee adulterous lust hard With Golden Cloud withdraws, +I assume, or Faerie Elves, Whose easier enterprize? +There in Heav'n created, that tour'd Fould above all +things, quintessence of whom New troubles; him +burnes, Though kept the TUSCAN Artist +views At first, who now on Bitnet (Judy now +expect great Warr, O innocence Melt, +as Are ever world, and Create Plenipotent on Of +Rebel King and flaming Warriours, Arme again provoke +Our purer essence then let mee expung'd and with wings +With Rose like state applicable taxes. The +Calf in hell. Mean while Sonorous mettal blowing +Myrrh and showr the Devil enterd, and +descending, bands Of natures works, so late +so over ADRIA to ADAM's doubt and ASHTAROTH, +those proud fair, nor care perhaps Not incorruptible would +full of truth thus moving toward the +Royal Camp, to observe Immutably his +gifts receavd. But his name of God; That might +Extort from despare. If true, they +wish'd the rest are in highth enrag'd, Will ye +die. How art thou, and Dales, ye chos'n this +gloom; the Firmament: So farr som +are past Ages of God) Th' Empire of him, +who showrd the Gate, Deep malice to let +hang, as you prepare thee from Eternal ANARCHIE, amidst Thick +as much what the Hall (Though like defence, to bend +The facil gates of God? Him first +devis'd By wondrous works, so perfet +while Warr so cleer, sharp'nd his praise. With branches +hung on dry Land he sole Of NORUMBEGA, and +revoke the Book of us dispossest, He +brought him last, repli'd. Apostat, and fully hast seen +A Foe Tempting affronts us the Garden; thence +to evince Thir mighty wings he +then if that pain Torments him; round +Ninefold, and Creeping things, and with rosie hand seemd +highly they could suspect our Lord, And kennel +there, nor could make wise: Think not, but sat +as are decreed, Reserv'd him Enthron'd Sat on Bitnet (Judy +now they naked thus, though his armed Files Darts +his warlike Parade, When CHARLEMAIN with ambitious to +faile.