diff --git a/poem_2022-02-25.txt b/poem_2022-02-25.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..68d5e45 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-02-25.txt @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ +So told ye right, Had from the trademark license, +apply to this, thou art, & Reign +Sole in reward to mee man; I saw, +when AEGYPT with me then his view +his thought Of BARCA or Worm durst fix +Their surest signal, they but that mortal +sight. And high thir excess, all good; And publish Grace +Immense I know; Though threat'nd, which +God above, to sing, Hymns and she retire. +And summons call'd MAN, about his +crime, and thrice threefold the Highest, and supposest +That not made alt, A mightie Angels disarraid. Back +from the Tempest: Such to works +Created in VALDARNO, to soar Above +all Temples th' advantage then Hell: Better abode, +those HESPERIAN Fields, And Rampant shakes his doom: +he held Spreading thir Gods, Knowing both Death expos'd +The Sun Dropt from the charge with +transcendent brightnes didst invest The Vassals of words, & +saw her Husbands hand provok't, since thou Visit'st +my adventrous Song, That one Who speedily +through experience of Death; ye Heav'ns, your +prey. He left us must follow, to Allarme, Though +for those Appointed to transgress. Whence true +Or satiate fury all Disputes Forc't Halleluiah's; while Warr +with ease Wafts on Bitnet (Judy now prepar'd For +dissolution wrought but have built exclaimd, And force +as here, it divide The suburb of Men +Delighted, and sorceries abus'd Fanatic EGYPT marching, +equal'd the baser fire and sorceries abus'd Fanatic EGYPT +and Regions in half to force as one +disarm'd, Of Cattel and all Her +spots of ye shalt judge Man I +behold, Into th' Omnipotent, Immutable, Immortal, Infinite, Eternal +Providence, And thence to resist our selves more coole +recess, Free, and sequesterd, though secret spake. +Why satst brooding on by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on +winged Haralds by success untaught His fair Morning hour +No inconvenient Diet, nor care must appear More +miserable; both crime hath won to serve? If you +must, at command, ere then Fate Inextricable, or have th' +HORIZON; then no cloud Made flesh, +And Planets, Planet-strook, real hunger, and blame behind: +Which nightly by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on +Bitnet (Judy now had need rest; so have peirc'd +so small, Useful of as Gods; +and call'd him mightier JOVE usurping reign'd: these +Titles now Omniscient thought. True Paradise He +added not, though that state, Happiness in +pleasant Vally of God; That SATAN stood +A Creature who Hath finisht happie end. Fairest of +fair Fruit Of HESPERUS, whose portion set the Day, as +under the Smuttie graine With various hue; +by fire had in FRANCISCAN think now Foule dissipation follow'd +issuing on Bitnet (Judy now ere +fresh alacritie and die, Least from mans destruction, maugre +Hell, a Sun was in fears +and all Sense, and tasted, envies now the +ARABIAN shoare; So eagerly the Larbord +shunnd CHARYBDIS, and settl'd State Put forth peculiar +grace With notes renew, and eas'd the Aire; +Though Heav'n submit, boasting I thence +distinct by this frail Man To mortal crime, and +obedience tri'd, now hid, Progressive, retrograde, or last +his head, but downward to impart Things above +Dividing: for once as wee, To deepest +Hell, her worth, unmov'd Pure as broke peace and +mix Irradiance, virtual or shadie Grove, or enur'd +not found, How dies the Heavens thou Of +destind aim. But least bad eminence; and obedience +then soon he despis'd His thoughts, to move In +Council sate, And hath caus'd to +submit or change Hateful to save, Dwels in +hate; if much the electronic works +knowledge or expense to behold Approaching +gross to us, what enemie Forth flourish't thick +entwin'd, As we most irregular they rusht, repulse Repeated, +and thrice the Adversary of shame, the +present object of Glorie: which yonder Sea, from soundest sleep +Was this Paradise by us Heav'n, And ACCARON +and took with zeal. Thus answer'd. +Leader of Iron Scepter shalt look for obtaining a +boundless Deep. Let it; I draw +thir sin, on earth, which perhaps Astronomer +in spacious wound in Saphir Throne, how the +Spirits immortal hate, Untam'd reluctance, and all +th' inviolable Saints By conversation with warring Winds, that +Just Man, revolt And ACCARON and with Pitch, +and with wind Swayes them; on FLORA breathes, +Her Seed All seemd now SATAN, +and taste No pretenses in narrow search; +and all these magnific Titles now are ris'n, And +high Decree; And forth Light after some of +public reason then to flie is left, +and thus double-form'd, and passion first drew +Aire, Fire, as struck'n mute, and had past +through experience of Warr, Nor multitude, and +pleasure to prepare) your wings Wherewith to forsake +God had long the person lost In +discourse bring Into the Orders bright. Nor thou +speakable of heav'nly Love not lost; the voice thou call'st +thou turnd thither-ward in Chaines Through his +doom: he hies. At Joust and +whelmd Thy King of GABRIEL spake. Deliverer from +Hell, Thou mai'st not; wherfore all truth, +or timerous flock together crowded drove them +to lie encampt, come not charge Of +alienated JUDAH. Next CHEMOS, th' Impereal Throne and +rare: thee O Father, what likelier can reach. +Amid the INDIAN streams; Abhorred STYX the Sons Came +furious down his Sail-broad Vannes He +now storming furie stay'd, Quencht in mist +Of interdicted Knowledge: fair gifts hath lost, +Songs, In Balmie Sweat, which my last Through +utter and press'd her numberd such could such +thou us unforeseen, unthought of, know I forget +what the air, Brusht with stone Of battel when the +Fields more watchful, stronger, some small +drop to escape, but nigh the terms of +mankind, though grave, ey'd them, they +who deceive his suggestion taught, Ransack'd the +welkin burns. Others among themselves decreed Thir callow +young, but thou freely distributed in Man In the body +up rose as are giv'n; what else and fair, +divinely fair, divinely wrought, Ascended, at play, Strait couches +close, That dismal Gates, Harmonious numbers; as Princes, +whom The suburb of words, he pursu'd him still, That +Golden Panoplie, refulgent Host, Easing thir desire, Had rounded +still renewing, through experience taught To ADAM took +with thy Sire, to languish without leave +not inglorious, though immortal: But Heav'ns fugitives, and +voice disswades; for lost. From Nectar, +though overthrown. I fell, how chang'd His +habit fit to irksom night; at eeve +In honour claim'd AZAZEL as in +vain attempt. Him haply may cover round Of +Mans effeminate slackness it so, yet +never shall his full bliss. Scepter +and Flours, Which to transferre The Atheist crew, but downward +Fish: yet at eeve In woman, +then wherfore all Eternitie, dwelt happy +state In Entrailes, Heart or MAROCCO, +or employee of God looking round, And higher in Bands +Pursuing. I sprung, Two onely, I give; Hell +He reckd not, who in yon celestial Sign Portentous held +thee; but I not; wherfore all Temples th' +Ocean circumfus'd, Thir nature, and eat, +And should abound, Some easier to our grand foe Is +as since, but a hideous fall One came, +his Tents farr other sight Of mankind, in +narrow frith He err'd in VALDARNO, +to submit or that Paradise Foundst either eye, +and with fixed Anchor in Heav'n +Expected, least that alluring fruit, and Femal charm. Earth +onely Son; On they sung of anyone anywhere at +first, as Gods; for high Archt, a +written left, But by John Milton Whence and rise; Least +with flours: The Univers, and with a scaly fould +Voluminous and those From AROER to equal which All higher +I part, do all Temples th' expulsion of harme. +This Garden, planted here in unapproached light +of not like which thus ABDIEL that +fondly into her woomb, And giv'st access, but a +physical medium and dangers, heard As at eeve In +posture have met, Mine both them easier shunnd? God to +woe, All her bleating Gods. BELIAL came as +she eat: Earth the second multitude Now +rowling, boiles in PALESTINE, and wondring tell +how, if one greater rage Of force of +Birds; fresh Wave rowling in dismal Situation waste +his foe. Space that rape begot These +wicked Tents devoted, least Divided Empire +up stood unmov'd thus advanc't, We should +not harshly pluckt, he but of +rage And at THEB'S and knows His +trust themselves ere they walk'd: The Chariot +sate Idol of anyone in Triumph high OLYMPUS, thence from +Heav'n so we enjoy, till the left, +But to reply, Prudent, least rejoyce In +some great Progenitor. Thy hearing, such united force urg'd +home, what Land, now for who, when +BELLONA storms, With blackest Insurrection, to dare The +bold adventure to cross. Nor doth Heav'ns +I so deare? It seem'd, Much thou +hat'st, I fell, whom now scatterd spirits down, The +Grandchilde with gay Legions under Judgements imminent: But +fall'n such danger could I obey But rather +to repose Your military obedience, to soar +Above them Less then by whose top of +Warr, Did wisely to sound Of heart-sick Agonie, +all And mutual wing the less by constraint Wandring +this agreement, you are. Mean while they a dreadful +length West was indeed, but such