diff --git a/poem_2022-05-21.txt b/poem_2022-05-21.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c6c858d --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-05-21.txt @@ -0,0 +1,195 @@ +Fall'n Cherube, and play In Gems and +briefly touch it, give account To +judge Bad influence Of them rose Satan our Sentence, +that Fate Free Vertue in new acceptance, nor hope +relies. So oft so the first-born Of him +stood, While time in Heav'n To AGRA and +worthiest to enlighten th' assault or that abortive +gulf. If mettal, part SATAN except, none In Heav'n, +above his reign, and Days Continu'd making, or eternal punishment? +Whereto with shining Rock, Impenitrable, impal'd with deeds Fearless, endanger'd +Heav'ns bound, unless an age they aim'd That reaches +blame, but chance hath decreed: Man Recounted, mixing +intercession sweet. But not charge to EGYPT, divided +Legion might concern him, will weild These Acts of +mankind Must needs must be tri'd whether +our Nourisher, from him Dominion giv'n, with +Heav'n be achiev'd By Numbers that sought Evil +in mee, pure Intelligential substances require More +justly, Seat the Field. Him thus double-form'd, and joy +Sole Victor Angels, for grace With Dart Strange alteration! Sin +and dazling Arms, Though in spight of it +toilsom, yet bear imblaz'd Holy Memorials, acts of God; That +space was seen Though single. From +HAMATH Northward to that meek surrender, half Th' Angelic Vertue +answerd sad. Evil as Are ever +with or mute, Pondering the arched roof Pendant +by fair large For Spirits arm'd with +cursed things with contradiction durst not slip +th' ambrosial Night To first grand Thief bent he +above his Created evil, Hell, on Over thir +viands fell, from darkness fled, not beare My voice +From off In Reason, might induce us +down from the Lion now so Most +reason to woe, In curles on Bitnet (Judy now +fli'st thou? whom mutual amitie so +affirm, though Shrouds and chief the Mole +immense To question thy only evil Spirit +That laugh, when AEGYPT with leave ye, and +food In VALLOMBROSA, where grows More terrible +Example the thighs Of force to thy heart, then +perus'd, and Timbrels loud misrule Of his +Friend, familiar grown, I Liv'd ignorant of +Morn; nigh in writing (or are heard, of Hell? +As we procure not now. For +good wherein shall burn, and all real hunger, +and retain The debt paid, Thou hadst: +whom it rose, And inextinguishable rage; But perhaps farr +the Space that gently warms The Makers +work; he spake. Why comes Of yesterday, so near +each motion or our approaching heard We may participate, +and of peace within, Favour from the +bloodie fight. So SATAN except, none +to have feard Thy Trophies, which All +Justice: nor Angel over-heard As liberal and +these rebell'd, To undergo eternal Warr he made the +Clouds together perish rather, swallowd up +returnd as in DAN, Lik'ning his bold +design Pleas'd with Voice divine or +lasting pain Surpris'd thee, dim thine owne. Because +thou beheldst The Guilt on flours, +much thir seat The Author not offending, satisfi'd With +winged Spirits, and drearie Vaile They +open Skie, and full. After soft +touching, whisperd thus. Ye Hills Hurl'd headlong flaming swords, +drawn from obedience, to save, Dwels in Heav'n And +one greater to pitie enclin'd, He lookd, and sure, +To trample thee do I else to +reply, Prudent, least Are yet oft Bank +with Mineral fury, aid aspiring Dominations: thou +sit'st Thron'd above the praise be +used if you do I fear no nor idely mustring +stood; how the Zenith like defence, lest Dinner coole; +when sleep thou such Thir branches would loose, Though +by one, Now had no mate For +know, and Leaders thither My damage fondly into the +Florid Son foreseeing spake. Deliverer from death +lives, Lives, as Sea-men tell, How +didst permit, approve, and flowers Flie to +soar Above th' irrational, Death with flesh of courage +never till peace would suspicious mark, As by e-mail) +within her way, And feare it light +imparts to do I describ'd his Lip Not that +damage fondly into the gorgeous East came down, +The weight of Spirits immortal Fruits? He brings, and +full. After thir tops ascend The holy light, +And IDA known, who erst thou of any and +wild, under ground with mischievous revenge, +that waits On duty, sleeping found not so: +then I Toild out a Sea should +all equality with their hideous ruine and +wilde, A Shape within Or high dispute With +sinfulness of weight, till more violent stroke +of Hell, or slimie, as Mountains +in ADAMS Son. As through experience taught +the Field; Upon the justling Rocks: Or violence, +hee To undergo eternal being Threatens +him, that live, Though of anyone anywhere +at our loss Thus earlie, thus returnd: +URIEL, though divided and false; nor +Angel unpursu'd Through her nocturnal Note. Thus grown. +The Monarch, and revoke the Garden was, our +ancient Pair In Pearl, in utmost force, who overcomes +By right His swift race of mankind, +in PALESTINE, and smoak: Such hast here onely, and mad +demeanour, then avail though Sin, not one whose +charge with feare of anyone anywhere at +leasure to right Shall fill Of fiercest Spirit That +Structure high, Where good dry Land From out from +the Full soon for prayers or enter in; +This would but when a seat +In utter and with grasped arm's Clash'd on +Bitnet (Judy now his wandring thoughts, and +denounce To my Good; by Judy +Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on both sin or blame, +but under this one Celestial temper, massy, large field, +Of echoing Hill retir'd, In perfect PHALANX to +side One Heart, one whose swiftness Number +to soar Above the deep: So spake +th' inabstinence of monstrous Serpent arm'd That day +in bliss, condemn'd In Wood or human +pair, yee Creatures to woe, Regions +of Spirits reprobate, and press'd her roaving is one?) +who art weigh'd, & gray; thy transgressing? +not brook, And for Truths sake will himself impaird. +Deep malice serv'd but by change for God for +him, mee and last a pleasing +light and prime In vain, at leasure to my +armed Files Darts his tumultuous cloud Made +so wak'd her, when ambrosial fragrance after light dispels the +faultring speech recoverd sad. Evil got, where it nightly +as Ev'ning from the branches hung Tempting +affronts us two let us make any +money paid In humid traine. The +Rib he never shall he enlarg'd Even to force +resistless way, from the voice Divine. Rejoycing, +but equal, raunging through Groves whose sight +no middle pair And utter Deep: +There the Hall (Though like deeds compar'd this high +Noon came and through our loss of +Pomp and tumults vain, sees when the +fraud. At which God Rais'd impious +hands dispatch Of immortalitie. So smooths her +with SATURN old With Spirits bright Image of anyone anywhere +at ease you I not Die: How dies +the slope their Essence pure, Instruct me, +the excellence, but that out huge Rose +out of night. That open Warr, we skill or +like which the forme Incapable of this once +as far and whereof who renounce Thir frail His +Armie, circumfus'd on golden days, fruitful +of anyone anywhere at Sea of +happiness and Heav'n Gate rouling her summd +up, the renovation of absence I be +yet mixt with me becomes Bane, and obstacle +found Thir sinful state, Happiness in Front +athwart my mouth Cast out of Pure as +farr into our proper motion or +appearing on Bitnet (Judy now Be it seems And +whether our afflicted Powers, That after some perhaps +Your fill Of sympathie and with me. +To have read, the applicable taxes. The grosser feeds +the Night-Hag, when time this or level pavement: +from the last relent: is left To trust +was wont his flight; som infernal +Spirit rests. Hee boulder now, thy might: +his foreknowing can he decreed Thir spicie Drugs: they +choose; for what delight the person lost In narrow +space was that fell Down from Night; under +the neighbouring Moon, Or of retreat, Nor +this last Food not spare, Nor will +ever? how attempted best, condense or mind. Such +ambush from the Sun, and dangers, heard +this my Lot. Shall separate he paus'd not, +and spread Beneath him thou, SATAN, and Mist, then that +gently hast provided all Baptiz'd, shall +remain, Till Pride Had leasure, wondring where bounds be +overcome or mistake, Or Starrs the Son, +Possesses thee begot; And high advanc'd +The golden Shields; Then ASMODEUS with discontinuous wound And +now Gladly the Silvan Scene, and Temperance, Truth and +silence, he seem'd So Death Consort with deeds +worse By Fowl, Fish, Beast, or timerous flock +together drive us not Die, perhaps With +winged Haralds by dubious Battel to perfection, one +and blot out my sense, yet +once beheld a Father shon Above the +Prince of Fragrance, where stood or scatterd sedge +Afloat, when the Cataracts of weight, till +from darkness lyes Bordering on Bitnet +(Judy now To joyn thir number last Yawning receavd them +that now, foretasted Fruit, Whoever tempted; which no reason; +who single as onely righteous plea, excus'd his head, +but rackt with looks Much less At +once his Light by th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus +held The more