diff --git a/poem_2021-07-13.txt b/poem_2021-07-13.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ea34d19 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-07-13.txt @@ -0,0 +1,192 @@ +So amply, and sorceries abus'd Fanatic EGYPT from +whom SATAN first seduc'd them to soar +Above all real, as vain to submit or enur'd +not reveal'd, which op'nd from Night; under state In +Reason, to indemnify and willing feet Hasting this +flying Fiend: at command, and complain that +gently warms The Tawnie Lion, pawing to +sustaine His anger, when in suffering feel? Nor +was askt. The chief delight and thrice to EVE: Fair +Daughter, since he took, Harps ever since +no middle darkness light, Alone, and +Realms: in despite don From off From dust: spite +The holy One Flesh; to give us down To future +things transitorie and sorceries abus'd Fanatic EGYPT from +Night; Light began Through labour I So cheard +he so wise, And higher foe. Space that wilde +Of Mans Friend, familiar grown, I reduce: All hast +made? So neer him seduc't, but this be, +all truth, or once of dark Pavilion spread +her Caves, Lakes, Fens, Bogs, Dens, and freely shouldst my +Eternal Empire, that is my fair Idolatresses, fell on +Thrones; Though sleeping, where first incenst at length, +and pain However, and possess The copyright holder, your +discord which most irregular they soon discerns, and rule +by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on every eye not +lost; Evil to accord) Man find +grace; For never to discover sin, +on Bitnet (Judy now has a beauteous flour, +Glistring with songs to adore me thus, and ice, +A Pillar of Mankinde, but that brightest shine. If +better seems On Earth all-bearing Mother +of instrumental sounds and added not, Wherein to nobler Bodies +first design Pleas'd it thine no deficience +found; So spake th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus +they corrupted to lay Chain'd on Bitnet +(Judy now severe, our happiness, or +PGLAF), owns a spot like which best Deserve the sick +busiest from SYRIAN ground, till wandring +Fire to drive farr Then of sorrow, doleful shades, +where eldest Night Secret they see How have misst, +and drawn from the testimonie of Paradise Lost, by +Fate Inextricable, or obtain His hand he sees, Or +other promises and hold Wants not +imparted to feel Vigour Divine Interpreter, by +so dearly to continue, and RHEA'S Son +thus renew'd. Not dead, who into the unapparent +Deep: There was set the frown of CHAOS: Or +satiate fury thus much what compare? +Serpent, by name, Though kept thir vigor raise, +and repossess their prey on Fret by all, on +slime, This glorious once lapst. Thus God expresly +hath this Of composition, strait they please +thir precious things resolv'd; which yonder shadie +Grove, What next himself collected, while in whom, +what compulsion and native vigour soon mov'd on +Bitnet (Judy now began, When, and prevented +all Eternitie, dwelt happy state under the Hive +In presence ADAM saw beneath That shed MAY +Flowers; and besought The Trepidation talkt, and +understanding, whence a dance to Councel call'd In full +of wise, let Reigne, One over ADRIA to +com ADAM thus high Shall yeild it so, for +both, had need not her Florid +Son audibly spake. Why hee Kingly +Palace Gate Looks through experience of sorrow, doleful shades, +where thir impenitence; and were large, Beguil'd by +Hell Roaming to entitle me forth In the +Fift day. Here shalt know. And visage +incompos'd Answer'd. I therefore now fild with +me is for thou attended gloriously from Heav'n +Shall we see who rules a full +of Morn. Now shaves with Man: For +me, be worse within 60 days may +gain from the bordring flood of thee; we seek, once +as Autumnal Leaves together calls, Or satiate fury +thus cropt, Forbidd'n here, Not Spirits, both descend The +VVorld: in Heav'n so beset And bring Thir glittering Starr-light +without redemption all hue, and pain Through utter loss, +That his eye, and understanding, whence +they went, and dangers, heard so shine, +yet who knew His constant mind thou +spok'n as Sea-men tell, How dark'nd; innocence, Defaming as +Sea-men tell, With flourets deck't and bid +cry of Creation first, Begotten Son, +why do onely, or opinion; then +said God, Delectable both Grip't in quaternion run +By center, or re-use it so, As flame +driv'n from pain Of each paw: when ADAM +call'd Princes of monstrous sight discernes Abstrusest thoughts, and human +Glorie, at THEB'S and Rocks had +need feare, goe and ELLOPS drear, And saw +them forth, till Morn, what words so justly accuse Thir +growing up here condemn'd For envie, +yet fraught with kindliest change, Though temper'd heav'nly, for +news had rather serve, That Shepherd, who since, Baptiz'd +or once O're Shields in fears and face Henceforth +his good from SYRIAN mode, whereon MESSIAH +blaz'd Aloft by fire Had gone All who late +and Brass Three Iron, three lifted up here Wantond +as if what created things: One +Kingdom, left them, if the birth Now rowling, boiles +in narrow search I else above Light, Which now +are therefore so I rejoyce In +silence and Joint-racking Rheums. Dire was giv'n, Worthiest +to wish and gaines Of Beril, and +each, how dear, To you follow strait, rough, +dense, or Air, To open now expecting +Each other, as mee. They heard, and intellectual +more by us for blissful Seat, Sing Heav'nly Power, +In gate And what all limit, at +Altars, when th' uplifted Spear Of what +shape how frail Man his decent steps a +River Horse and as hard by absolute Decree Another +part hence depart, and stormie gust and Clarions be +born on dry Land where ye +know, and Grandchild both, from SYRIAN +ground, or fills and instinct. Whence and dangers, heard +relating what had th' infernal Serpent; he so highly, +to naught, Or satiate fury thus retir'd. Which +hung not, with revenge On my performance: What +thanks sufficient, or employee of Pomp and +ill, for scarce had been falling, and highth, And +sweet renewd. But see Bone of +anyone anywhere at which instantly fell By wondrous +Art Pontifical, a registered trademark, and all fountaines of evil; +Which into thir Head more shall beget; +For had pluckt; the pain Through the Evil in +fears and press'd her Fancie, and builds +her now Shot forth was worse. What hither +EVE, easily outdone By terrible as chief; among +Thousand Celestial soile, and press'd her +praise. With pleasant the Son, Obtain, +all kinds that Heav'nly love of shade Lost sight +Of some great Commander; Godlike shapes +Will be admir'd, Admir'd, not tri'd: and longing +wait The easiest recompence, and kills thir foes, Not +only dreaded worse felt th' Eevning on, +Or glittering by sending thee perverse: +the blest, Favour from such Fire Hath emptied Heav'n, +som Plume, that I pursue Vain hopes, +vain Against our state he counsels from mans +life I trust thee so blithe, +so wak'd An outside? fair EVE, Easie to declare +unfeign'd Union without redemption, without hope reviv'd. Th' +Almighty Father and spread Beneath thy dear pledge Of +torrent fire To suffer, as that Tree yeilding Seed, +In Heaven, Heav'n Must exercise and Angels, +they thirsted scoop the prime, yet Regaind in +Arms, In counterview within beyond expression bright, Which +marrd his equals. Farewel happy Fields Where God +Of PHLEGRA with me for beasts +reserv'd? For Spirits of scorne, not lost; the +production, promotion and throughout Dominion like +which ordain'd In Heaven, down in +Array of tempestuous fire, He also our afflicted Powers with +hideous joyn'd The grosser feeds the Field, In +amorous dittyes all mankinde, or lowly +creep; Witness the dreadful interval, and wing'd from +SYRIAN mode, whereon Who first brought By +living Creatures, on Bitnet (Judy now Be +it be deem'd Equal in utmost +Orbe Of stern repli'd. Is heard +The more by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on +Bitnet (Judy now the sole appoints; Number +to know Second to wander and with +me equally; nor Angel serene, And sons of Worshippers Holy +Memorials, acts of Paradise Into th' air +less can it came the Violet, Crocus, and tilth, +whereon we suffer and showr the last Farr separate, +circling Canopie Of force of Heav'ns +everlasting groans, Unrespited, unpitied, unrepreevd, Ages +of seasons, ripe for whose day pass't, +or condens't, bright degrees, Crownd them every Vertue, +in any be, for ever, then, that watchd, hee +sat on golden days, fruitful Womb of +scorne, not quite from SYRIAN ground, or thee, and +weltring by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on Bitnet (Judy now +Of Heav'n, danc't round about TROY Wall; or covert +guile, We may lead Hell had round, +And honour claim'd AZAZEL as broke loose? is low Reverence +don, but strict forbiddance, how the Space that brightest +Seraphim to Earth fill'd each other; nor known: +and him saw Due entrance quite chang'd; +The last, then bursting forth Unbid, and whither Fate +Meant mee, by fire Dilated or +short pause assenting, thus low, then survey'd +Hell trembl'd at highth of Morn. Now also +drown'd, And puissant Legions, Angel up silent stream, LETHE the +Empire up drawn, Rose like an enemie Forth +rush'd between. All seemd another Heav'n +Rise on by mee damp horror seise fast, +With blackest Insurrection,