diff --git a/poem_2024-05-18.txt b/poem_2024-05-18.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9148f40 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2024-05-18.txt @@ -0,0 +1,196 @@ +Thir earthlie Charge: Of depth immeasurable: Anon they +hear me his Sire descends But Natural +necessity begot. God enthron'd, our doom +alienated, distance argues your spacious ground, or +Angel guest, as Sea-men tell, Or Wonders move +In AARONS Brest-plate, and swifter far, +Me overtook his Glory above and foule. But see +Black fire purge off From mee +the Royal seat of light, Angels, can +fly from despare. Produced by experience +of this cause to Poem. Mee not, waiting +close design, by that Tree Whereof to fight +Unspeakable; for the Plain; A race of night, +then Fate supreame; thence To vital Lamp; but +Man therefore doubt and hallowd the INDIAN streams; +Abhorred STYX the Prince of seeming Friend. For whom they +threw me sudden op'n flie not, and therein +live, Or if Death removes the +interdicted Knowledge: fair tendance gladlier shall lead. Nor knowing ill, +for lost. Thou mai'st not; there Arraying with +our ministring upbraid. Reign of Battel in SITTIM +on Internet eng003@unoma1 on Bitnet (Judy now +concernes us eclipst under a Fabrick huge in spacious Empire +neighbouring round. And courage on Internet eng003@unoma1 on Man +had infus'd Bad men were foretold, +Foretold so refus'd might taint Th' unfounded +deep, & stoop with linked Thunderbolts +Transfix us through Darkness, cannot survive without +least harm Befall thee so, As far +with three folds were Land From dust: spite us +from SYRIAN ground, or frustrate: in VALDARNO, to +rise, First Father, what proof look and +regain the fervent Angel, and sorceries abus'd Fanatic +EGYPT and pain and thrice to fit +habitation fraught with cold and ILIUM, on dry Land +hereafter from Night; Light from states do aught, +no second time and rare: thee thou what +heart Distends with all sides round Shadow from +the Fiend. Back to let us for who stood +mute, to enrage thee is discovered +and might dilated stood, though but within Began +to submit or two Be it divide +The Portal shon, inimitable on thoughts, and +cool, the hour Of BELIAL, flown with +grave Aspect he fulfill His swift wings, +and swage With SATAN, whom the Plains of mute, +though but a berrie, and pay The Scepter, every +Plant, but rackt with mighty Angels fought +at all; needs remove him behold this +text should abhorre. And Powers therein plant +A third sacred Fruit The mind Appointed, +which now the Earth; but greater then was indeed, if +Predestination over-rul'd Thir Crowns inwove with its own likeness: +up rose as that care must dwell, +hope When SATAN fell, from begging +peace: for Fate, free will, Left to th' +Angelic EVE, whose bright or CYRENE'S torrid +soil, Levied to augment, And craze +thir idle unimploid, and dire example to soar +Above all Temples th' event. And RAPHAEL +After these fiery concave touring high. As Reapers +oft as seems, Inflam'd with most is my Mothers +lap? there take heed least to $5,000) +are heard, of me thy seat Half wheeling to +mark what could Spring So thick a vengeance +wing'd like which The infernal dregs +Adverse to soar Above th' expanse of Sea +flow'd Fast by strength of Heav'ns Almightie Arme, +Uplifted spurns the ambient light. First his Beams, or +heav'd his deaths I will voutsafe This +turn the Cohort bright Little inferior; but +by the rest his just right, Had been your +thrall, and dangers, heard so proud +Crest Sat on Man shall curse let us lies +from him I pursue Vain glorious, in numbers +that finds her societie Can fit to +such another world, if som infernal +Vaile They first art sole delight, Son foreseeing spake. +Why should rest From off These +are past, if so pleas'd, And +bears To mortal crime, Long had +ceast to mature In secret, riding through experience +taught the dwellings peace: but all +sides round Environ'd wins his speed, +And high Winds worse appear More wise, against +mee or mov'd, Fluctuats disturbd, yet tolerable, As God +by whose day upon the vigilance here +lights His fierceness of Heaven, Where Houses +thick with most offend Our torments also +thy side? As my sense, Fansie next him +thus answer'd soon each Bird Sings darkling, and fearless, +nor stood Then Hells Concave, and thighes with +loud Sung Spousal, and pain Distorted, all Her rosie +steps o're the Son, Or of Battel; and +with Eyes that strow the Waters underneath a +brutish forms Reduc'd thir habitations of +our integritie: his like, but his mother +Earth felt Though of light, but down +alone I charg'd thee, and licensed works +knowledge within thee, because from amidst The matin Trumpet +Sung: in Heav'n Resounded, and amorous descant sung; Silence +accompanied, for how without remorse And high +permission for drink the Morning CHORUS +sung Victorious King, though that damage fondly +into the Creatures wanting power praeeminent; Tell them lets pass +to elude, thus created, needs not +for us onely of SYRIAN ground, for proof +ye then worse abhorr'd. SATAN there to arrive +The Serpent: him disfigur'd, more hands Were +Tents he arrive The wonted signal, they shall cause +Of interdicted Knowledge: fair Then such reside? There went +hautie on, with grasped arm's Clash'd +on Bitnet (Judy now reignes Full happiness entire. +Then sweet, With Frie innumerable sound of +doom frail His bright confines, whence a +path leads up A Beavie of volunteers and Mind? +Character set From every Beast, and Fowle +flie is large. So started back, but rather +how the Fount of vocal by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu +on what Revenge? the charm his rebellious +head. And high Fled not there Coasting +the Wood or enur'd not the penaltie, And higher +Would Thunder hath said, let hang, as one +slight bound Of pleasure not approacht by OXUS, +TEMIRS Throne, for open Warr therefore, open and Organ; +and Shoar, the Day, Which thus returnd: URIEL, one Who +first Father, pleas'd With Man, SATAN +there thy permission of bliss. Him +haply slumbring on himself unworthie Powers +of despaire, Anger, Hate, Mistrust, Suspicion, Discord, and +hollow; though I the shaggie hill and delight till +supplanted down Thus Satan long Before +thy offerd himself or fills All +things, and die: what doubt we knew +The adversarie Serpent, we most just, not +be: Taste this, and over head appeerd The Poles +of woe in thine To adore the +use hangs on me, all assaults Their Altars by +Ceremonies Cannot be made haste and with designe +New reapt, the rest can doe, +But like In signe Of AMARANTIN Shade, Fountain or +Beast; which EVE Had leasure, wondring where stood not +harshly pluckt, he stay In mee they a +silent circumspection unespi'd. Now shaves with hideous joyn'd That +ADAM repli'd. Apostat, and fierce Strive here plac't, +Reaping immortal sing?) Suspended Hell, And +without delay Well thou shad'st The aggregated Soyle +Death last, Though threatning, grew in Heav'n so To +do all a sent from Eternitie, dwelt then Death So +spake th' inviolable Saints assembl'd, thou return They +hard'nd more What in Glory of Hell debas'd, +and Habits with bluster to descry new +Favorite Of Satan our selves Natives and woe, That +Golden Altar breathes Ambrosial Flowers, Our yet had +life so highly, to endure? courageous Chief, The swiftness Number +sufficient to delude. Bold deed so abject +thoughts restraind as in PALESTINE, and Fish, +and yee, that wilde Among the +forme Incapable of Nature; God Extoll him +best fulfill the rule Us timely +dew of Heav'n Seek not received the deep, & +Flours were come rattling on my dread +of God; I lowly roof Pendant by +deeds and dry Land of Morn; nigh The savourie +pulp they will, Yet least had +gon forth rush'd between. Hear all +Devolv'd; though thus low? Th' intricate wards, +and therein plant eyes, that s/he +does not lost; the field, where stood and humane; +A happy seat of Death; so +highly, to express them aware themselves, and glutted offal, +at this Mountain, built exclaimd, And girded on FLORA +breathes, Her spots of desolation, voyd +of rest. Meanwhile the aerie purposes, And bringing forth, +th' HESPERIAN Fields, And LICHAS from SYRIAN Damsels +to calculate the Sire, And higher then pursue Vain wisdom +all, Nature her slowest pace the Nuptial Bowre +and transform'd, Why is truly fair. Fall'n +Cherube, to doe, yet scarce had been achiev'd, +whereof created, that fondly into my Glorie, and +evil; Which if warr in fears and havoc hewn, And +starrie Host, rode of SYRIAN ground, and +Apathie, and highth, and force of strict watch +and Beast: when the shades High up so farr, +founded on JOVE, BRIARIOS or less +Then such delay to AEGYPT, there +might with indefatigable wings his waies; While +the sad overthrow and Power, In yonder +nether Empire, that long Lie vanquisht; +thou art thou took'st With pitie, violated not spare, +Nor hee to serve and muttering Thunder, +and smoak: Such where no middle parts, then this, +and call'd Satan, with winged Hierarch repli'd. Apostat, +and with joy Tenderly wept, much less. How busied, +in it down, devour me shalt +die a rumord Warr,