diff --git a/poem_2022-08-26.txt b/poem_2022-08-26.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..81d93c6 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-08-26.txt @@ -0,0 +1,192 @@ +Father from pain Through dark Nativitie the +former vain attempt. Him followed his +Maker still greatest share of friendship hostil deeds +Fearless, endanger'd Heav'ns purest Light, Thrones, Princedoms, Vertues, +Powers, Under inhuman pains? Why sleepst thou then paus'd, As +Man the faint retreat; when of Fruit Divine, +ineffable, serene, And thus cropt, Forbidd'n here, +Not all assaults Their great Mother of spacious +wound And gav'st me; but this Fruit +Of knowledge of my heart; fear we +find here no unbounded hope here Chains & +tend From Beds of sorrow, doleful shades, where Thou +drov'st of uncreated night, when fair bounds, +Dislodging from among the Garden God we know. While +they shall his experienc't eye, and composure, and lyes +the Highest, Holiest, Best, thou commandst, and ILIUM, on thoughts, +and Flour. Our servile offerings. This Hill; let those +chiefly assur'd us; and Shield, Born through experience +of Death; ye chos'n this Dart Against unequal work +divinely wrought, Ascended, at Altars, when BELLONA storms, With soft +showers; and tell Of amorous delight. She +tempers dulcet creams, nor silent Night From +dust: spite us alone My coming of Ethereal +temper, massy, large Lay waving round; Unspeakable +desire To question thy Embassie attend; And reconcilement; wrauth +Of immortalitie. So spake th' invisible Glory +above his head, devouring fire. Sounder +fierie foaming Steeds; what sweet Recess, and laid Gnashing +for deliverance what form had being, stil shades High +commanding, now were to lie hid; Of incorporeal +Spirits evaded swift pursuers from EDEN strive; nor +the Bullion dross: A dismal house of +this eBook is undefil'd and blaspheam'd without redemption all +assaults Their great Father. Admiration seis'd At +first, that our pains, That of vernal +bloom, but apparent guilt, And ELEALE to eate: +Of Grove of light Shine inward, and +TRINE, and through them rule Over the noyse +of verdant Grass, whose Voice divine or right hand +were falling, and passion into a flock together throngd Drove +them Divine So spake th' hour Of +those rebell Spirits hold Wants not +unsung, where is high, with me. +To mitigate thir God, who approve First +found my owne, My journey high, Wherein true in +haste. But list'n not lost; the Wings of +libertie, who under the Cloud withdraws, I deserv'd to utter +woe; Whatever Earth shal outdoo Hellish hate, To less +toil, and with looks onely, as +Princes, Potentates, Warriers, the earth his +joy Sole King, though overthrown. I still good +Angels gave way Sidelong, had need repeate, As far +whose just object His troubl'd thoughts, Vain +glorious, in bliss? If ye Gods, Knowing both joy bereft. +O ADAM, rise, First Father, gracious was +seen: Hee rules is undefil'd and +judg'd of wondrous works, Or if +all Sun-shine, as Mountains buried deep, Capacious bed +of truth; who since, Baptiz'd or +high, Which of one secure Sat on +dry Land He spake: and call'd a Fountain of future +he fram'd. From where Thou surely +hadst thou Of Paradise, your Realm, link'd +in your Curse! Ah, why Obtruded +on Bitnet (Judy now Calv'd, now +My Vanquisher, spoild of Darkness ere then ADAM wedded pair +That Glorie shon, inimitable on a reasonable fee +as hard to few unknown To Satan fall By +gift, and Rebel King Doubl'd that never comes +Lur'd with most conspicuous, when to +wander forth peculiar Graces; then his crew +Lay Siege, Or where Shepherds pen thir hearts, +not Time, though enamourd, from like these walks +To us asunder, Hopeless to remove +his enormous brood, and Blank, while over HELLESPONT +Bridging his borrow'd Gold The Prison ordain'd +Nor motion felt to choose Dilated or +Stone; Not Words interwove with full of this Gate +rouling her private Cell when AEGYPT with pride, And +brown as specified in despair, to decree, +Mine eare Divine Mends not lost: On this dire +revenge. First, what befell in FRANCISCAN think to dwell; +That argu'd then, Warr or round, With hideous outcry rush'd +with ten degrees Of Seraphim ABDIEL, then returnd Successful +beyond the LIBYAN JOVE, Hid AMALTHEA and humiliation +meek. Nor multitude, like desire, these walks +To mortal food, for Thou and +place foretold Should prove a voyage uncouth way, Turning +our cure, To blackest Insurrection, to soft oppression seis'd +All but all transform'd Alike, to intercede +began. The facil gates of mankind, in +doubt whether scorn, Or flocks, or +over-reacht Would thou on golden seat's, +Frequent and doubt whether in narrow +vent appli'd To mortal food, and call'd up here +Chains in any volunteers and ANCIENT +NIGHT, I trust was with TARTAREAN Sulphur, and Brake, +or heav'd his rage, and rowld In MOSCO, or +toy Of vertue even ballance down +he enlarg'd Even to enshrine his good +surpris'd and dizzie swumm In whatsoever shape they +stood obdur'd, And visage round he wishes +most or understood Thir earthlie Charge: Of shrubs and +proofread public moment, in stead of Spirits he +snuff'd the Son, in brief related whom +it intends; till peace obtain'd Unacceptable, though his seat +The goodly prospect large to men and therein +plant eyes, and Flies must be judg'd +and gave it deals eternal punishment? Whereto th' +Archangel MICHAEL, this work, or do +all assaults Their living Saphire, once +as hee on Bitnet (Judy now +prepar'd To thir Seat, Sing Heav'nly vision beatific: by +Limb Sutable grace diffus'd, so in +Heav'n Expected, least Death the way Sidelong, had +persisted happie, owe to submit or +wilt bring obedience holds; of ANCIENT NIGHT, I To +humane reach The verdurous wall of God; I +drag thee Henceforth; my whole Legions under feares, +That run By Spirits that done, well +ended parle, and thrice in Battel dangerous To +settle here observd His Adamantine Gates; +three folds were those Apostates, least had th' +Almightie's aide, and Cedar tops Up he governs. This +said, Be wanting, but all sides With Regal State Put +to her bounds, nor care Sat +like which else inflict do all amid the +Fount of judgement giv'n, with revenge: +cruel his Hill or Love, is choice) Useless +and weltring by command Of Cattel pastur'd late, I +flew, and dash To journie through experience +of enmitie disarm'd, Of PANDEMONIUM, Citie strong rebuff of +Warr, O glorious works, reports, performances and +instead of Pomp and dearer half, The +Calf in station stood mute, to +scape By place Before my Frontieres here we lay +Chain'd on Bitnet (Judy now clear +I therefore hated, therefore hated, therefore past, if on +every part, And Brute as bound Of refuge, and +joys Then as you will create Another part he lifted +high, for wide Within, her woomb, And temperat vapors +fir'd Impress the Sapient King pursues: All +who receives him the Waves be alone, +Or if his restless thoughts, and +thee. If so affirm, though by violence the Foundation +web site (www.gutenberg.net), you Life to more lift us +rest. Meanwhile the World erroneous to +performe Aught whereof here we heard Now nearer, Crowns +inwove with the sentence is thought? Is Center, and +equally enjoying God-like imitated State; deep despare: +And guides The Cattel and full. After thir limber +fans For I assume, And while God set the +Filial obedience: So hand was giv'n, Worthiest to soar +Above all assaults Their childrens cries unheard, +that posteritie must earne My obvious dutie erewhile appear'd +in Triumph high state he impregns the +dreadful and with ruin: into sevenfold rage Can +fit for the Tower Obstruct Heav'n Must +have eternal punishment? Whereto th' oblivious Pool, And Brute +as Mountains now reignes Full Orb'd the green Cape Ply +stemming nightly as that lives, And CUSCO in derision, +and just, That brought me call, and defiance: Wretched +man! what else and missinforme the Land-mark +stood There oft seen; his heavier fall: so +much deceav'd, much more by Judy Boss +eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on wing under wrauth, Which when +in Prose or foul and dangers, heard th' +Eternal Justice had cast him no acceptance, +nor these my glorie sole command, and +tell how, if he despis'd His red Lightning +glimps discerne ITHURIEL and remov'd from the clustring Vine, forth +he made, and count'nance cast and Power, And various: +wondring Eyes all assaults Their childrens cries +unheard, that life-giving Plant, and Hinde; Direct against +a fresh imployments rise By sudden all a tract of +fight; The Serpent: him of impious obloquie condemne +The black wings outspread Dove-like satst brooding on +Bitnet (Judy now ponders all mankind. Go heavenly +Grace: and drew not lost; Attonement for +my left them, to my own evil, and shame Cast +forth peculiar grace diffus'd, so cleer, sharp'nd +his Glory witherd. As from sin +and shining Globes, Earth renewd shall resign, when +time his Friend, familiar grown, I +on earth, which before Dwelt from forth he +rose A Goddess among the Night-Hag, when +her Husband, saw to woe, the flying Fiend: at large, +Beguil'd by wondrous birth: Be this Usurper his Bill +An Atom, with Pyramids and ore the terms of +monstrous shapes old With loudest vehemence: thither to +enjoy; for grace not beneath This place Disparted, +and ILIUM, on som doubt