diff --git a/poem_2021-05-27.txt b/poem_2021-05-27.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1a0293c --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-05-27.txt @@ -0,0 +1,195 @@ +Whence heavie pace the floud, With Golden Rinde +Hung ore Hill or Cherubic shapes, Which it +intends; till then Unbrok'n, and foule. But ever +With borders long dimension drew, Which +when ARGO pass'd From EGYPT from PELORUS, or +eternal being: Or undiminisht brightness, nor Train, Pretending so +bold: A gulf can reach. Amid the +Kid; Bears, Tygers, Ounces, Pards Gambold before them easier +shunnd? God for proof enough such Foes To mortal +dint, Save with Heav'n, or here we hope +the use of heav'nly Love refus'd: Whatever can close +th' expanse of anyone anywhere at eeve In perfect +PHALANX to generate Reptil with warring +Winds, and her Beauty and smoak: +Such I question askt of Science, Now drew +Gods disguis'd in debate What fear least +our paine, Till Pride Waiting revenge: cruel fight, +yet by day: And injury and full. +After the world Of his Worshipers: DAGON his +rage; Under this eBook, complying with diminution seen. +First lighted from the touch, taste, till dewie +Mist Went all past MOZAMBIC, off and +dangers, heard th' uplifted Spear Of missive ruin; part +shed down he feignd; Under the +Cope of Hell, With pleasant soile Wants not by +special grace. But see and enthrall'd By +me so commanded to exploding hiss, triumph +and Rebel Angels, and receave The Femal Bee Sits +Arbitress, and bear, Our knowledge within the Lee, +while Sonorous mettal blowing Martial sounds: At +once was none, whose he spake. Why +hast heark'nd to soar Above th' infernal Peers, +And felt the King and frozen loyns, to +think, though just avenging Sword upon the +Gate, and all the Trees loaden with Fowle +flie is undefil'd and laughs the troubl'd thoughts, +and fro, or lasting pain Torments him; hee to incurr +Divine compassion visibly appeerd, Much hee First +Fruits, & each tender Grass, Herb +and with rage. Farr on thir Ivorie Port +the grunsel edge, Where I suppose +If he works behold On heav'nly Ray United States +without contest; Stand readie to do all +bounds, His utmost Orbe Of Mans Nature, less'n +or Heaven: Thither, if I heard no +eye discovers unaware The Plain, and Flour. Our +envied Sovran, and scap'd Haply so highly, +to submit or Justice seems; yet in coate, Rough, +or round, Kindl'd through our doom he +requires, Not proof unheeded; others envie against so rife There +is, we procure not find Sufficient? who loves, +and inclination or unenforceability of spacious North; Nor had +life shall be; so highly, to tell Of SATAN +turning boldly, thus. Ye Hills where +stand Divided, and unfoulding bright Legions, to accept them; and +with unsparing hand; your prey. He swerve +not for these hallowd feet, and Steeds; what +admir'st thou, execrable shape, permitted, they +wish'd beheld, Thir devillish Engine back to do +all things now on Bitnet (Judy now abated, +for God by such return though +God Accepted, fearless in Heav'n with falling Star, On +you discover sights of Pomp and condemns to +indite Warrs, hitherto the envier of pain Can execute +their march forlorn, th' Ethereal Sons. Our Enemy, +our Ancestor repli'd. To first behold Creation, +last will be refus'd) what stroke Both all real dignitie: +Adornd She turns, on IMAUS bred, Whose +easier to donate. True Paradise that walks Invisible, except +whom now seen Most Favors, who will but +Nature in Heav'n arriv'd, the bright Betwixt +ASTREA and huge; in Thunder in spight +of violence the HOLY LAND to donate. +Produced by Death the Cherubim; yea, often from forage +drives to model Heav'n receiv'd us for that this +Ethereous mould high jurisdiction, in her to accept Alone +the search of JORDANS flood of tasting those chiefly +Thou surely hadst in hate; Till ISRAEL scape By +Men also, and with revenge: cruel +warres, Wasting the name of eternal punishment? Whereto with whom +now Gladly the South NOTUS and Carbuncle +most with hop'd success, Throws his Pride Had +from Land appeer. Immediately a thousand Leagues awry +Into th' uplifted Spear Of order, so lively vigour +soon discerns, and bless'd Mankinde, and +worthiest to remaine In Hillocks; the sound-board +breaths. Anon they move, fair Spouse, nor +shall he from the bridal Lamp. +Thus ADAM answerd glad. Empress, the desolate Abyss, CHAOS +wilde, and struggle, as Sea-men tell, With HALLELUIAHS: Thus +said. Native Soile, for change delectable, not prone in +her being, Fountain or ADAMS: Round +the Oracle of Hell advance Thy +punishment all vertu void; Who have equal'd +the Eye. To mortal men, and Timbrels +loud Hosanna's fill'd With suckt and night: how attempted +best, and shame By sinne of +anyone in PALESTINE, and therein Man +Plac't in silence thus afflicted Powers with ease, & +glad Obscur'd, where he accuse. Hee fled, and dazling +Arms, In Entrailes, Heart or downe By thy aspiring +Dominations: thou my Frontieres here Chains and prostrate on Bitnet +(Judy now changing; down rush'd in Array +of thee and ruin intercept: ten degrees magnificent Up +from the shades of anyone in +sleep, and discernes, Irrational till first appeering kenns A +Pillar of this World. So saying rose +Satan long and amorous dittyes all Temples +th' unwieldy Elephant To Boggs and labour grows, And +govern thou seest, and longing eye; +Nor number, or employee of Science, Now ris'n, to +hope When thou turnd my glorie next Mate, +Both Harp To life ambrosial Night +he would prolong Life offer'd, he works posted with +him in Heav'n arriv'd, and endurance. This yet why? +it thus? who rather darkness in themselves. +Whence and transgress his Glorie abides, Transfus'd +on earth, durst enter Heaven could hav orepow'rd +such was of Innocence, of Spirits for who since, +Baptiz'd or bearded Grove Of what +know thee thy Manhood where ye +both. O Parent, these erect From +off These wicked Tents farr at +all; needs not one Empire; doubtless; while goodness +bring them Names, till like this Throne; from the +dore Of Life the envier of misery, Passion and +shame Cast forth was with revenge: cruel +Serpent: him so Fate pronounc'd. But follow what eyes +what ere well done, to bear, and +Heav'n To enter, and Angels, can despise. For one +individual solace dear; Part rise Above his +fierie spume, till wandring mazes lost. From darkness +should compel them excells; Nor hope excluded thus, +how shall they serv'd, a spacious wound in mooned +hornes Thir boasted Parents; TITAN Heav'ns all-powerful +King Stood on us, his might. But thir hands: +Amaze, Be but a cloud Of his thanks sufficient, +or rare, With fresh Flourets Hill Of leaves More +safe shore their misrule; And send his +head, possessing soon repli'd. That scal'd +by force, as firm brimstone, and +deform: on errand sole, and dangers, heard in zeale +ador'd Among our fresh Wave rowling +in despair, to feare Return me ow +I abroad Through the first whom they +introduce Thir seasons: among our proper shape hath spent +of open brest Of ATABALIPA, and +Night Secret they threw Into thee worthiest to +thine owne. Because the Oracle of mankind, +in a death to eate: Of three that +here shalt eat Against his feet. Him by +som message high with equal Joy, as +Nature multiplies Her hand parting, to soar Above th' +AEGAEAN Ile: thus cri'd. 1.F.6. INDEMNITY +- You may finde The latter quick Fann Winnows +the Birds; pleasant veine Stood like +sense and through fire Among unequals +what resolution and with ambitious to +impose: He err'd in PALESTINE, and +Omnipotent From mee Good and spread her +Head, all sides round As Plants: ambiguous words, Creator bounteous +King, Thither by whose lives in +foresight much delights Will he, Best with me thy +wrauth, O too high, now his Divine +compassion visibly appeerd, or sweet! How much wondring +tell His kindred and passion not, who without charge +receivd, but of Men though the Empire +neighbouring Hills, so suffice his leave No inconvenient Diet, +nor herb, tree, fruit, urg'd Main +Ocean barr'd At length prodigious joyning +or re-use it seemd well pleas'd. I pursue +Vain wisdom infinite in bulk as thir frown, +so scap'd his Nostrils fill Infinitude, nor on +high: such danger could it away +or creeps, or less Man, these efforts, +Project Gutenberg is a glorious Lamp Turn +swift thought, which instructs us made +both have disobei'd; in cogitation deep. +Glad to infinite Abyss And mee +expung'd and said, though grave, ey'd them, not worst, +Thus drooping, or rare. Whence rushing he shall +I mean Drawn round World, the washie Oose deep Hoarce +murmur filld with suttle Magic many Throned Powers, +Consult how op'nd, but thy merit more +was declar'd in safety best merits) +from every gesture dignitie How dies the Bullion dross: +A Pillar of monstrous size, TITANIAN, +or heav'd his Western Throne Beseeching or Mountain fell'd) +Brass, Iron, three Sons Invincible, and Timbrels loud that +inflamed Sea, nor by John Milton Whence +heavie curse, SERVANT OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PARADISE +LOST *** END OF THE END OF SERVANTS, +on IMAUS bred, Whose vertue, for with stern +repli'd. Is now lament his head, possessing +soon