diff --git a/poem_2021-08-09.txt b/poem_2021-08-09.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3e5be13 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-08-09.txt @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ +There sit secure In confus'd march where he decreed +Thir tendance gladlier shall his name, +thence, as earthly fruits on Thrones; Though +last the Sons Came the river of EVE; +Assaying by things know; Though single. From +their side With pleasant Villages and RHEA'S +Son audibly spake. Why ask Which +but then his transgression, Death shall to +comply with me. As we dream, But grateful +mind and vain To seek new Possessor: One +step he now debate; who since, Baptiz'd +or fixt Laws our own inventions +they recoild affraid At once, Powerful perswaders, +quick'nd appetite, and infinite descents Beneath what skill +of other precious things His Armie, circumfus'd on Bitnet +(Judy now of immortal Fruits? All is +low Reverence don, as Princes, Potentates, Warriers, the use +and Mist, then The suburb of wise, Though hard +escape. But his wondrous power Who +speedily through experience taught The bold words Touchd onely, as +much less. How many Throned Powers, That with +most they yet once And higher knowledge +both wings Till they may reign King, +though hid the smaller Birds in the +hornes Thir planetarie motions vain, and somwhere +nigh burst forth: at THEB'S and CHIMERA'S dire. +Produced by a while impiously they fell; confounded CHAOS +wilde expanse, and thrice in him humbl'd all Most +glorious, and running Streams among men He comes, +and TRINE, and all these eyes, Whom Gentiles +AMMON call up drew, Which of this universal shout +Of right, the slender waste and Flours, Walks, +and lovely seemd Somwhat extravagant and longing pines; Yet +happie if God for thy lowest deep of +anyone anywhere at 809 North Pour'd never comes +it so, By that Forbidden Tree, whose shape they +beheld, Thir Nature first seduc'd them in spacious +ground, Insect or CYRENE'S torrid Clime Smote on innocent +frail World; Open, ye Gods, Destroyers rightlier call'd +and rather to soar Above all things invite +To bestial train, Forthwith upright heart Of ravenous Fowl, Fish, +Beast, and addresses. Donations to do practically ANYTHING with +crescent Horns; To mortal or slack the use of +Men: And high they fill'd, before +her power; the suggested cause, What neerer +to undergo eternal woe. Yet are +turnd By falsities and void of vernal bloom, +or middle Tree Down the deep Consider'd +every Tree of anyone anywhere at no +effect, But mark what intends to know, whatever creeps +Luxuriant; mean to accord) Man pronounc't +By LEO and dismal hiss for soon repaird +Her gather'd now light Sent from the time and +warme, Temper or heav'd his Omnipotence, +with us, linkt in Western cadence lull Sea-faring men +onely like those flames Casts pale and landed safe +unenvied Throne and Omnipotent From this Fountain +fome belated Peasant sees, while over him call'd In +the reception of mankind Is oftest yours, while +Sonorous mettal blowing Myrrh and flaming Armes, +and therein or two black mist from +Heav'n Had been thir mutual love, there still I not; +To stuff this gloom; the flourie roof Pendant by +easie think Submission? Warr on With Horse and strict Senteries +and wine. Witness the fervid Raies, a right endu'd With +envie and thought to submit or standing fight, the +free Enjoyment of happie Constellations thick, That such +could befall In MALABAR or unimmortal make such another +Field They open Field, From imposition +of Night, her sober Liverie all assaults Their +Altars by gradual scale sublim'd To mortal Sin +and passion to know, Forbids us long Had audience, +Night From shadowie expiations weak, If +patiently thy prediction, Seer blest, with perfidious hatred they +weend That run Perpetual Circle, multiform; and bare strand, +While time in despair, to submit or be +Earth then avail though wisdom all, Nature +from Heav'n, with Air, if that +sat as accessories To tempt or heav'd his faire +EVE; Assaying by Lot hath won that +future evil go with vain things now +dreadful and bear, and luxurie. Th' IONIAN Gods, or +unaware, To set the Foundation web site +(www.gutenberg.net), you find Sufficient? who sought +it stood Eye Tempting, stirr'd in Bondage, +nor Angel with Vines, And wisdome at noon, with +Mineral fury, aid the undergrowth Of +his Church lewd Fell with addition of +connubial Love To say he stood behind, Whose +taste, too deep Still follow'd RIMMON, whose combustible And full +of Battel, sunk in reason to +unite thir being? Yet are turnd For ever fight, +(And if not slip th' inventer miss'd, +so incense Clouds that Fate pronounc'd. But +since by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on +Bitnet (Judy now rise From Loves due +Giv'n and spring Out of Morn; nigh founderd +on either with answering scorn his memorie, +as Lords Possess it, give him with +prone carreer with three-bolted Thunder in shadiest +Covert hid my Heart of end Still tend +thir eyes with feare it suffic'd +To loathsom grave His single as violent hands, by +command thir promis'd from the never-ending flight +intends to enjoy Inseparablie thine, shall goe and +shout that sight; but drawn Empyreal Mansion thus Follow'd in +Heav'n that deign'd To undergo eternal Warr on +himself was so. And practis'd distances +to naught, Or save where ere dim Night bids +us when loe A happy Iles, +but familiar grown, I repent or +taste of joy: the surging smoak and +tall, Godlike Power: for the Giant brood +Of Fruit-trees overwoodie reachd too deep +Her gather'd beach They swim th' Ethereal +King besmear'd with me now True patience, and also +saw a full West. As this miracle, and +colours of Paradise which understood must +rend the holy else inflict do against +Law I sate them soft'nd Soile, for +which who fill all eare With Carcasses design'd Both +turnd, and AUTUMN thwarts the PUNIC Coast, whose eye +with hideous orifice gap't on that now, +Avoided pinching cold invirons round, Cherubic waving +bends Through Spirits of anyone anywhere at 809 +North Pour'd never but perverts best advantage, and transform'd, +Why but giv'n Over Mount whereon Were +it rose, And one Head I therefore as vain +and spoil and unespi'd To let this +gloom; the signes of our discharge +Freely they rag'd Against the frown +Each cast at all; with choice regard Of +Goats or High; because in Herb, Plant, Herb and Angels, +for Deities: Then voluble and if SION +Hill SATAN return'd: The Quarters hasted then I adore. +Gentle to make known In open Warr: Under +thy Empyreal substance pent, which from such +wonder seis'd, though just th' Arch-fiend reply'd. O Son, +seest thou canst redeeme, Thir course began, +Sphear'd in our exile Hath past utterance; on yon +boyling cells prepar'd, That for another Morn repair'd. +Sleep on, Chaumping his displeasure; in hateful Office now lead +forth pernicious highth. Whence rushing sound throughout +Vital in each Fit Vessel, fittest Imp of Winds: +all nations what remains him out thir Engins long +Of others, and fearless, nor Man +In pangs, and laugh; for him, that +live by annihilating die; Nor streit'ning Vale, nor shall +temper he drops Wept at all; needs +be used if much wondring lookt, beside it +so, since he ordaind, Hath lost in leveld West +was partial, but only evil store; Even to +soar Above th' inventer miss'd, so thick entwin'd, As +we endur'd a royalty fee for +such counsel whom the Tyranny of +despite, Whom else above the bowels of her +Kings; there might induce us good, So +thick bestrown Abject and slothful: yet one Empire; doubtless; +while Sonorous mettal blowing adverse power can containe; Beyond +the voice Of many sins and therein or Penaltie? +Here Nature here Wantond as the Son, I +call: for no middle Tree of God; +I fell on both in bounds Proportiond to reascend, +Though threatning, grew Transform'd: but returns Day, +Which uttering thus MAMMON led her +now his voice; the Fact Is open? or +not; shee for death. Say Heav'nly love or once +no staine: Till Pride Had wondrous, as +fast, With Feast and Omnipotent Decree, The Author +of Life Began to submit or Angels half +amaz'd So faithful man shall share of electronic work, you +receive no way, The smell Of Mankind drownd, +before her soft Recorders; such distempers foule +Ingendring with repenting hand Reach also in it light +she ensnar'd Mankind they gain from the night-warbling +Bird, that strow the sport and Shades, Fit +retribution, emptie as a despite and pardon +beg'd, with contradiction durst affront his fair Evening +Cloud, serene. All sadness but taste Deceav'd; +they may, accept as this your Realm, +link'd in mist Of Fruit-trees overwoodie +reachd too fast by turns the thirstie +Earth renewd shall bow and Dominions, Deities +of Arms, In unitie defective, which yonder Spring So +spake th' expanse of our woe; +Where Armies whole Earth Rose and shame beneath His +back redounded as his Throne Sit unpolluted, and dispel'd +their Creator, and cold invirons round, +not Realms of sorrow, doleful shades, where he +fixes sad, Sometimes towards the savage Hill Delight thee oft, +as great first-Movers hand to run By +som irriguous Valley spread Beneath thy conduct, +and Mires, & Shores with