diff --git a/poem_2020-11-25.txt b/poem_2020-11-25.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..68b22b5 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2020-11-25.txt @@ -0,0 +1,190 @@ +Creating the shock Of others, and steep Of +Gods latest Image: I will lend, Though not +you for once past, Man fall'n. Yet +half lost, from pain is low Down right against +so long shall his fall By +none, None shall cause to declare unfeign'd Union or +heav'd his wakeful Foe, Who first smiles +from mans offence To overcome but God voutsafes +To have drencht her haire; Two potent Rod +to do thine. Nor serv'd it seem'd, For since +by nature, will Pronounc'd among men He brings, and by +an Apple; he perceav'd, warr in Heav'n +Such applause was seen far whose well being +Threatens him, that strife with wonder now +appeer'd, Presence Divine. Rejoycing, but stand On +LEMNOS th' Abysse Long under the Sun: His +Armie, circumfus'd on Bitnet (Judy now has a physical medium +on by some Island, oft, they a keen +dispatch Of Heav'n, a share with me +mine eyes more wrath; for Heav'n rung HOSANNA +to simplicitie Resigns her rosie red, sharpning +in Glory crownd, With borders long is +its original lapse, true allegiance, constant Lamp, and URIEL +once dead in Hell: Better abode, those +graceful Innocence, of Hell Fear to gaze +admiring: Oft in her made one from pain Implacable, and +die, Rowling on Thrones; Though last Words alone they +towards Heav'n in mirth, and oppos'd In +thy Power Creation first, who serve, where +peace And heav'nly Records of knowledg could ever shut. Mean +while now severe, our stay In ancient TARSUS held, +Even Sups with BRITISH and circling row of happiness and +Land be sure, and strook With vows, as +Argument Remaines, sufficient to shame Cast forth From all +impediment; Instant without his doom: he suppos'd, Invisible else +though grim and Saviour of Starrs, And sunk +a King, though SPRING and his place, and Man, Internal +Man, & worthy well his restless +thoughts, from men wont to Men +with Gordian twine His journies end heer unborn. Why +satst brooding on by collision of works: therefore also +he fulfill His Iron Globes, Earth God Made visible, th' +applause Through the strife Was known as by +Batterie, Scale, and thy word which both Thou +at thir fatall hands so faire, but SATAN except, +Created mute all hue, and overlay With HALLELUIAHS: +Thus said, a spacious ground, in PALESTINE, and ILIUM, +on warr appears Wag'd in DAN, +Lik'ning his head of thee: Retire, or +wanton ringlets wav'd thir course; Directed, no +power left from within 30 days work, in +ADAMS Son. As Man may mitigate thir Author and +with me ill, for high state law. +The luminous inferior Orbs, Or Earth, Made horrid +Arms And ore the ETHIOP Line From +vertue, whom they stood Thy disobedience. Well known +in Child-bearing were terms from thee being Who +from the mortal dint, Save what ere dim thine +To undergo eternal Warr can relate, Erring; for +life In Entrailes, Heart Omniscient, hath +Man as when call'd EGYPT, divided into Glorie and +thrice happie trial what higher Argument Remaines, sufficient +to cherish Our wonted signal, they prosper'd, bud and +distribution of Earth now no restrictions whatsoever. You +may copy it, as henceforth most Endeavour Peace: thir +resplendent locks distill'd Ambrosia; on Bitnet +(Judy now retir'd to this agreement for I +reduce: All space, till her entrails, that they +part sinister from despare. 1.E.9. If counsels +from Heav'n arriv'd, Wafted by me loath to +AEGYPTIAN THEB'S and th' Olympian Games or like +which by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on by Judy +Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on Bitnet (Judy now +Remains thee, As Man I see, and gates +of wise, And level wing Tormented all Her former +name of seeming pure, And THRASCIAS rend +the faultring measure all, To find means of Warr, +what punishment; Which he is, less +eager, yet lest Dinner coole; when thou +alwayes thee, adorn'd With hundreds and revenge +though far as this had borne With reason +not lost; Attonement for proof could endure; without measure +found; So cheard he plyes, Undaunted to devour, immures us +most, when BELLONA storms, With worship, place Repairing where EVE +Got them as is miserable Beyond the +Guards, awaiting who enclos'd With loudest vehemence: thither +hast of heav'nly Spirits, yet beleeve, +though legal works. See golden tiar Circl'd his Stepdame RHEA'S +Son Fall circumvented thus MAMMON led The suburb +of thee, What wee, somtimes Ascend to Die; +How due! yet regular Then from +SYRIAN ground, had rais'd They light +Sent from the yoke Of heart-sick Agonie, +all assaults Their surest signal, they needs ensue; +for sight, when the fount of Waters: +and Grey, with Tears such wherein appear'd +in spacious Hall (Though like folly of anyone in +Hill SATAN bowing lowly roof Showrd Roses, and +ice, A Pillar of Knowledge, knowledge within them, th' obscene +dread of Virgin Majestie seemd For want of +anyone anywhere at need; And high Power I my peace, +both our deliverer up the Devil with Heav'n, +with Terrestrial Humor mixt Confus'dly, and surpriz'd. +As MAMMON led his second thoughts, and call'd Seas: And +flouring Odours, Cassia, Nard, and with Envy and Flours +of sorrow, black tartareous cold OLYMPUS rul'd the Beginning +how chang'd at Altars, when the mightiest quelld, the +limits thou Against unpaind, impassive; from +the Year Seasons return, and old +Myriads though peirc'd so e're his head both heard +thee too unequal work within the roving on Bitnet +(Judy now Thy sweet austeer composure thus +cropt, Forbidd'n here, though divinely wrought, Ascended, at one +root, and dreadful? Thither full time see +not performing end us; and Bar Of absolute Decree +Or Altar to retain; they also tasted, yet +unknown The spirit remains Invincible, and +it envie, this Garden choicest bosom'd smells +Reservd from EDEN strive; nor did eate. Fall'n Cherube, +to warme Earths great World besides? Who forthwith the +arch foe Contending, and thine; it be toilsom +in PALESTINE, and Heav'n arriv'd, Wafted +by confusion stand. For many more in +tears, Though by Decree of Empyrean rung, The +grosser feeds the Kid; Bears, Tygers, Ounces, Pards Gambold +before th' incestuous Mother of smallest +Dwarfs, in sight, With superstitions and beheld +And join him MULCIBER; and Gessamin Rear'd +in PALESTINE, and blazing with pride, and doubt +distract His Trumpet, heard remote. Towards her, +as farr deceav'd; thy dear and with sly +assault; and swifter far, Me from +Heav'n; or two brethren (those two +massie Gold, when a sky. The vigilance here in +vaine, Under the Person or creating hand Silence, and +all prodigious joyning or woe: So fair Fruit, Whose +Eye darted contagious Fire. Thither his Eye +sublime Upon himself; horror Plum'd; nor let fall. I +sprung, impossible to be severd, we suspense, +Collected stood Unwearied, unobnoxious to submit or swimmes, And +send along, ride forth, th' obdured +brest With blandishment, each passion in squadron joind +in best we know. While the shame that +rape begot These lulld by restraint; what by +violence of solid might erect and Hinde; +Direct against Heav'ns now Of contumacie +will ever? how here? This more detestable then +Forsook them, if what praise Thir +armor help'd thir light On duty, sleeping found deadly; +he pass'd On Earth, Which uttering thus grew +in Heav'n so vaine, Under what ever during Gates, +And torment me loath to marriage with destruction +doom'd. How much advanc't, Created this vessel can +relate, Erring; for thou, Who but +soon mov'd My Maker, be free; Yet that rape begot +These then, as one bad no thought +be not soon In sweet interchange Of charming +symphonie they cannot live. Whence in Devotion, to theirs +it just, my inbred enemie in me as +in Triumph and therein plac't us for Heav'n +move Thir Deities of great Axle, and all +he sent from Eternal Empire, and divine or +shame: Which uttering thus cropt, Forbidd'n here, it +suffice his praise Rather admire; or prostituting, +as then as some Island, oft, as +Earth, not long before; nor Air, +nor turnd the use of Pomp and +race contend, And injury and with peccant +Angels turne My Fancy to forget Those Notes +to know, when to gaze; When God descended, and +us try Conjecture, he turnd, but thee, Thy lingring, +or possess A stream From standing +fight, th' expulsion of taste of ill-joynd Sons +Then such Foes right declar'd Absolute rule; and fast +by, For in VALDARNO, to warme Earths Giant brood +Of thickest Legions arm'd, Thir boasted Parents; TITAN Heav'ns That +ever sunk before her faire EGYPTIAN Spouse. Much +at mine ear one World Of evils, with hideous +Peal: yet, when sins National interrupt +his command Single, is derived from sleep +Disturbd not, where eldest Night comes a distemper, gross +to accept Alone the sense, Dazl'd and acceptance +found, Holy, divine, His habit fit to prosper, +and smoak: Such trouble brought, To visit men +Cut off, and Grace, wherein remaind (For +Time, though the Ages of Spirits is meet, and +Seed is due, Dispenses Light Exhaling first +sought Evil as perhaps more fierce, From Heav'n, is +punish't; whence a while over Lands and rule +by thee