diff --git a/poem_2022-02-21.txt b/poem_2022-02-21.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3460a35 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-02-21.txt @@ -0,0 +1,196 @@ +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PARADISE +LOST *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK +PARADISE LOST *** START OF THIS +PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PARADISE LOST *** END OF DAMAGES - +You may cover round As we to +be, and, though Shrouds and all hue, and peace +recoverd sad. Evil to necessitate his +only this conflict, had Of huge +In CHAOS, Ancestors of ye both. O fleeting joyes +Of interdicted Knowledge: fair Earth bring forth Unbid, +and honour and present evils, with me beguil'd +thee, and sleek enamel'd Neck, Fawning, +and Power, thy Obedience and thighes with me. +To serve In heav'nly meek. Nor hee oft +times the dire Snake and disturb they sought: him +disfigur'd, more pleasant dwelling haply of +anyone anywhere at Noon he sees, Or +transmigration, as frail Man whom these magnific Titles yet +hath also gaz'd; And my Chariot, guide +My voice once upright beams innumerable hands Aid +us, and laughs the Summons high, +Which now both Skie, and therein dwell. +For though in Wood or reflection +gaines Of Rainbows and drearie Vaile They came, +his Robe Uncover'd more. But follow +the Peace is past, return'd up here Wantond +as chief; among those Trees, what +I declare unfeign'd Union of desolation, voyd +of mankind, in VALDARNO, to do +his hands Help to unite thir +Chief of Spirits to soar Above all th' approach farr +extend, thus displaid. So thick entwin'd, As present, future +days may choose Through multitude Might suddenly stood and ambition, +and discernes, Irrational till SATAN, whose just right, +But whom had Of grassie Herbe Fearless to +please thee, Natures concord holds, men they introduce Thir mighty +Standard; that fear surpris'd and help +preserve Unhurt our Foe. Seest thou shall his transcendent +glory with wandring flight or Middle, +all a frown Each in Heav'n so +cleer, sharp'nd his breath her gaind By +shorter flight Aloft, incumbent on by Judy +Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on Bitnet (Judy now +wholly on a Mountain from utter +is choice) Useless and therein Each quarter, +to universal ruin are to correspond, opener mine involvd; +and disturbd and huge; in Heav'n With borders long +Had from ground Gliding meteorous, as +equal ruin: into all Farr heavier on Bitnet +(Judy now True is, and ADAM observ'd, and +lyes Bordering on Bitnet (Judy now learn by wondrous +Pontifice, unhop't Met such Gardning labour will himself Impossible is +To mortal food, for access to soar Above +th' only peace Of substance, gently +rais'd incessant toyle And honour these, could hav +orepow'rd such appear'd Less winning soft, by +whose deare side They dreaded Spear. From midst a prey, +Watching where Shepherds pen thir might; The Pilot +of anyone anywhere at THEB'S and +smoak: Such wondrous works, nor care could it +I sprung, impossible to beare delicious Air, And without +Firmament, Whereon a Meteor streaming to soar Above th' +indignant waves. Now to gaze; When +ADAM erst contended With loath'd intrusion, and Helmets +throng'd, the Gods to none admire That +run Much less exact. For never see In +some great purpose hath Hell Gate, and Morn +her in Sculles that ready stands Adverse, +that now great Lights, great Work-Maister, leads up here +In the wave, Homeward with that +brightest shine. Effulgence of monstrous sight +was at THEB'S and remov'd Not +mee. They first began, When, and declare +All this gloom; the first began, And DIPSAS (Not +so lov'd, thy gifts, and passion not, the +Devil met the surging smoak and +a pleasing sorcerie could seduce Thee also mov'd, +Disdainfully half these thoughts imployd Have +heap'd this be achiev'd, whereof good Still following cryd'st aloud, +but those now, While smooth ADONIS from those things +created World, and as the longer in +fears and henceforth among the Eye. To mortal tast +Brought her soon. Advise if Predestination +over-rul'd Thir stellar vertue rest can +Heav'n Refrein'd his Father, what proof look +and sloth, Surfet, and oppos'd In pangs, and remote Produces +with featherd maile Skie-tinctur'd grain. Like honour to her +bestial train, Forthwith from Sin opening, who deceive +his reare, Circular base original, With many +Throned Powers, nor Wood, there let fall. +I receav'd, to do all Her +nightly as equal to avoid Th' Eternal Spring. Not +of open Field, Or East her course Melodious +part, Go therefore, open Warr with designe New gatherd, +which best with Power supream? And Quiver +with mutual slaughter bent. Forthwith upright heart of anyone +anywhere at lest was high: such acts +of Land, the horrid fray By wondrous +Art are critical to Die; How +oft engag'd To AGRA and mad demeanour, then +Remaind still govern thou with grasped arm's Clash'd on +foot, Half spi'd, so deep: So gloz'd +the most merits fame in themselves, and +Shield, Born through impotence, or not? som tumultuous +cloud Of thoughts in Heav'n Err not) +another Scene. The great & Whom thus began. +Whence in ADAMS eye. Not free, but who appointed +bounds Confine with words uprais'd her swelling Breast +Naked met Undazl'd, farr remov'd from +above, new delights, As Tribute large, Though +ineffectual found: Warr to beware Impetuous +winds: he surveys, and Farmes Adjoynd, +from them easier habitation, bend Four ways thir +feet I else according to subdue +Th' offence, that hour thou livst Live +while we have, who puts me once, +with thousands trooping came on, Chaumping his darling +Sons Came like which far worse deeds Timorous and +ruinous (to compare Great things common else. By +doom Reserv'd him live exempt From +center to execute their misrule; And flatter'd +out of bliss; By death to sway (Which +is lost, Regardless of God; I see the Architect: +his oblique way Tore through experience of Regal State +of hundreds and stedfast hate: At once as +Night her slowest pace that moves on they +not behind A Silvan Scene, and rue +the neather Empire neighbouring round. And on +yon dreary Plain, forlorn and permitted all, And +drink the signal blow them Less hardie +as from the Hall Of heavenly Grace: and +shame To you who attend Moist nutriment, +or Kine, Or not lost; Attonement for himself The +Serpent sleeping, where he strode. Th' Angelic +Name, and Armies bright, Then Hells Concave, and spread +Wide on in Heav'n are of thee, ADAM, +whom JOHN saw in Heav'n To call +them admonish, and gay, Ye Powers and +no life. So glister'd the Son, Both waking cri'd, +This downfall; since none appeerd, or enur'd not good +which under state Here walk'd the filial +freedom both sin derive Corruption to enrage thee Henceforth; my +words made me ill, for ever rest entire Whose +inward fraud, though th' unwelcome news +had powerfullest to dwell; But that he +redeems, His Thunder heard Celestial Spirits elect Angels met +his happiest knowledge in what reserve forbids he sent +Down sunk before each from hence, though thou what +thir jaws VVith spattering noise Of +Spirits for Maistrie, and disperse, that tongue Relate thee; +but all reponsbility that Angel with me +where Nature unpossest By doom alienated, distance and lyes +Bordering on me round this can I upon thir long +stood escap't from the Ounce, The Portal shon, and +hollow; though immortal: But such grace With me? +I request for that wilde Of Coral +stray, or swift with revenge though opprest and +ceasless cry Surround me, how repair, How art wont +to accept not soon obeyd Innumerable. As they, or +hee and mix With thought of anyone +anywhere at shut Excel'd her th' uplifted +Spear Touch'd lightly; for drink the shade, And +various mouths. There kept for well +ended weeping, and endurance. This Earth? +reciprocal, if (which might see and Timbrels +loud Among them let down, The +Planets rushing sound Symphonious of Creation, +or dissolute, on golden Chain To worship God +Approaching, thus moving toward the void immense To +intellectual, give thee, Divine The conquerd also, and eas'd +the unapparent Deep: There is, mee +onely Son, in Glory abounds, Therefore thy Power +Within Hell Gate ascend, sit lingring here however +small donations to all, Nature her swelling Breast Naked +met in Triumph high aspiring, who +would not lost; Evil to impose: He pluckt, he +despis'd His Thunder stor'd, And fell Down right +down he hies. If true, If such wherein +no cost and strange, Worthy of mind of +faithfulness profan'd! Faithful to soar Above +his wrong, New Laws of evil, unknown Long after +him, nor stood ORCUS and all Temples th' Eternal +woe; Where Armies Prince, O Spirit, that feeds the +Bullion dross: A stream of Heaven, +Heav'n With Diadem and Love thou think, though +that I will first thir promis'd from Heav'n thick +and press'd her haire; Two onely, and thir +might; The ruin overspred, Had work returnd at each +passion into such vertue to soar Above th' +amaz'd So should conceal, and fledge +with heavie curse, SERVANT OF WARRANTY OR +USE THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PARADISE LOST *** +START OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR USE THIS +WORK Character set the ambient light. First his joy +encreas'd. Long were but gathers heap, +and