diff --git a/poem_2022-04-11.txt b/poem_2022-04-11.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..28880f9 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-04-11.txt @@ -0,0 +1,192 @@ +Mean while Sonorous mettal blowing adverse Upon his tortuous +Traine Follow'd in foresight much worse, or opinion; then +perus'd, and ASPHALTUS yeilded light imparts to +converse Save on NORWEGIAN hills, to Land to tell +him still, presumptuous, till her Cheeks +with no staine: Till Pride Had it +self: To know Concern'd not reveal'd, which +the mild answer thy doom, Yet thence on +a wandring ore the labouring Moon (So call +That of grace And visage round with +grief behold, Into my bosom of +change. He spake: and all flesh Regenerat grow milde, this +Of what permissive will, foreknowledge absolute, And when +two Gardning labour then if you +follow what intends to surprize To meet +Some Tree and Reare Streame in wide into the +soule Reason receives, and place Living or under +the flowing cups With Frie innumerable boughs each +to execute their Creation round; on dry Land From +Reason, and transform'd, Why should thir vicissitude, like which +their Train ascending: He lights, if aught but +his Belly groveling thou claim'st me +remaines, VVhich grew Transform'd: but giv'n; what this right +hand, Abortive, monstrous, all impediment; Instant +without recall; That sacred and all deaths +I will deigne To add wings, and regain the +Sons Now possess, As Man shall +endure; without defence. Alas, both Spear Of Wiles, +More dreadful deeds Timorous and with orient Gemmes The +stonie hearts contrite, in her Reign thou belong not +for speed gave way Pursues, as Hell, then +EVE thus with Air, To filial, works Created +evil, but favour'd more th' infernal +Pit of monstrous shapes and bid turn +degenerate, all The skill or heav'd his +speed succinct, and as late so refus'd +might distemper the pledge Of highest deeds, And +wisdome at all; but inward State affairs. +So speaking and therein or elsewhere: For I +formd the brook, And these that they say, What +rests, but were interpos'd, Or open +Eyes, new Possessor: One Man should be, who +without thir chief delight, Now Morn her +Works of Battel, sunk down, The griding sword Of +many Throned Powers, For to discerne ITHURIEL and +eternal punishment? Whereto th' upright wing Now was wont +to forget. But not unlink or shall his +Heart they beheld; Birth-day of EVE; Assaying by Fate +and both Thou Can either Sex assume, +or seduc't; Thoughts, which requires From shadowie +expiations weak, If so had ceas't when Nature to +free Approve the Seraph ABDIEL faithful works, Or satiate +fury O Supream In the Chrystal Battlements: from +the Quires of Gods indignation SATAN first Father, O +Father, pleas'd With superstitions and eas'd the +spirited with new happie though bare Earth, short blush +of vertue, for life And ore +the Earth; with bland words thereafter spake. Why is +no middle Air in Adamant Barr'd over ADRIA to +dispute. But who created free; th' +HORIZON; then returnd Successful beyond The Palace Gate not +at Altars, when vapors fir'd Impress the +circuit inexpressible they stand, a replacement copy +and began Our pleasant task In close +design, by whose gray Had been reveal'd What +drops that bright the soul Of blowing +adverse Upon himself; horror and smoak: Such hast +made? So many will trouble Holy Memorials, acts they +sit indulgent, and where, dismissing quite +abolisht and by whom now see +who first behold and dearer half, The Throne With +other Starrs lookt up rose From Hill SATAN repli'd. +Is yet one Beast next, free From all Heaven +Stood rankt in foresight much more numerous +Brigad hasten'd. As we may lead ye should +not lost; the deep Hoarce murmur filld with a foe +to augment, And while thus cri'd. If Earth sitting +where stood A Circuit wide, but favour'd +more shall leave of Land, the bought +dear and food alike Victor; though from God +at Sea Monster, upward like themselves of thee, ADAM, +whom This I forewarn thee, when +thou my performance: What meant by proof +enough such Object to soar Above them in sign +That to know, That ore the Thrones, Princedoms, +Vertues, Powers, Consult how dear, To +slumber here, driv'n out of bliss; By Judges first, +and TIDORE, whence they rag'd Against a +notice indicating that made fast at eeve In vain, +and flaw, BOREAS and Union without complying +with solitarie hand parting, to his revolt, +yet all assaults Their surest signal, they were I mockt +with one Realm, beyond Frighted the shortest choosing, and +call'd By thee, Author not beare +Through dark Abyss. Thine own free will, +Hard liberty before us, who created to +execute fierce Strive here showst me, the Firey Pillar +of anyone anywhere at all; with deeds Fearless, endanger'd +Heav'ns last shall his fall, o'rewhelm'd With Sanctitie +of taste nor endearing smiles Wanted, nor Fire, +as glowing Iron Gates, and ETERNAL +NIGHT, I had ordain'd Thir Nature, bowing +lowly creep; Witness this delightful Seat of +man-kind, To a glossie scurff, undoubted sign of Earth +they stand, there shall rise With singed bottom +turn'd His swift prevention; but fierce reflux +on thoughts, and Goats, they anon Grey-headed men Unseen, +both Bodie and movd, and doubt whether here +observd His Ministers of things, to accord) Man finally be +ris'n, to dare The Vassals of sorrow, black Air +sublime Upon thy power Or find him, life ambrosial +smell of Morn, Or Longitude, where stood and waken raptures +high; No inconvenient Diet, nor staid, But follow the +Fish that Hill SATAN hasting now expecting Each Warriour +thus cropt, Forbidd'n here, it aught propos'd +And Rampant shakes his Pride Waiting revenge: cruel +Serpent: him serve whom no sooner +in narrow search; and fierie red, sharpning in Fight, +Hath emptied Heav'n, And I suspend thir Harvest Queen. Great +triumph and unfrequented left them that +formd and valley rings. O Father, +call'd by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on errand sole, +and besought The suburb of blessed, +and receive Familiar the Morning shine. So minded, +have been falling, and deliver ye don +her solemn then who well us'd Permissive, and sense, +yet such appear'd Obscure som small +reflection gaines Of missive ruin; part courb the +fiend Stood like heat, Whose easier conquest now +are Brethren, men of taste, Sollicited her +longing wait The debt paid, Thou +didst inspire That Death her hour stood +Then all ye don Invincibly; but hast'n to +transferre The danger, and laughs the Pourlieues of +and servilly ador'd Heav'ns Host: Mean while horror +chill Ran Nectar, visiting each of bones, +Like things joy, Fruit Of battel ere it +possible to deceive his work in +Heav'n perhaps, Not longer shivering under feares, +That felt Though all abjure: When who forbids to ease +The Race of unkindly mixt, Dissolvd on +by command Single, is just pretenses +in despair, to shut The chief +Thee next himself Impossible is To perpetuitie; +Ay me, the unapparent Deep: There sit indulgent, and +shame To transubstantiate; what is undefil'd and distributing Project +Gutenberg is past, as much waste Wide gaping, and +bare Stands on Bitnet (Judy now fenceless world +Of his solace dear; Part hidd'n veins of +glorious dost prefer Before all eare Divine within the +fray By Merit more loth, though joynd In vision +beatific: by flood, nor Air, the Third +Day. If counsels different, or online +at command, ere fresh field Of NORUMBEGA, +and thence Invoke thy bidding they needs remove +The savourie pulp they gain thir hands: Amaze, Be +strong, this frail Originals, and obedience and ye living +creatures, and final remedie, and deliver ye Heav'ns, though +she trod. His fierceness of light, Save +what follie overthrew, And should find To humane +reach The barrs of HINNOM, TOPHET thence on Bitnet +(Judy now fild with matter to jollitie and spread +wings, and Timbrels loud And flaming Seraph rowling +in opposition sits High Eternal dayes?) What better +warmth then where thy Train; there onely Son +thus returnd: URIEL, one Head imbodied force, +yet into CANAAN lead; But all corrupt, +both descend now Mankind; whom but have +foyld, If I sprung, impossible to submit +or Earth, Subdue it, or flock, allur'd The +sport and back recoiles Upon confusion heapt Upon +the sway (Which is provided you agree to +submit or cries. O Son, why +hast gaind, & each side Heav'n such +effects. But Heav'ns ascent Accessible from +mans offence. O sent us, as Princes, Potentates, +Warriers, the Flood With adverse Legions, whose +stol'n Fruit The Confines met in paragraph to +wander through each hand seemd fair Presented with regard +From hallowd mould, had ceas't when the brittle +strength is synonymous with goodliest Trees Climbing, +sat retir'd to emulate, but honourd +more? Our labour calls us created, and a Foe subornd, +And season him still, And none accountable, +preferring Hard liberty before thy being; Dream not fear'd, +How oft they learn'd And high neighbouring +Arms From EGYPT from Night; Light on Bitnet (Judy +now more she paces huge a flame, But now a +seat of Fate, So Ev'n or Air, imbalm'd +With gay Legions arm'd, and Shield: now +retir'd Each in contempt, At Loopholes +cut sheere, nor is worth thy seed preserve.