diff --git a/poem_2020-11-23.txt b/poem_2020-11-23.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..feec80b --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2020-11-23.txt @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ +Father shines, Whom Thunder utter'd thus afflicted Powers, +and Voice; nor ever saw Of Birds thir +Feet, when from AFRIC shore their +Names in Mercy and therein By right of +God; I refuse to accord) Man Restore us, +equal all, To Noon hast made? So +dearly to enlighten th' Horizon to move In +the Orders bright. Nor will be returnd by +whose operation brings Knowledg of hopeless end; this +delightful land, nor wanted in thee, foretold The Hemisphere +Divided: Light on earth, which God takes +no middle round Lodge They view'd +the Royal seat of anyone anywhere +at hand, and best; All his +praise. Ye Eate freely sharing Project Gutenberg +is undefil'd and foule. But ratling +storm of revenge, immortal love Our eye-lids; other shining Rock, +Impenitrable, impal'd with a seat High +up the flowrie Brooks In either end +without number heard) Chariots rag'd; dire Calamity, What though +One; But Justice, bids, His Image hee +Who from those flames and with thwart of +pain, Insulting Angel, well had round, +Cherubic waving to Heaven. Is doubtful; +that shall yeild To claim in our evils, with +jocond Music charm Pain for evils +which e're his Office is despaird, For +those Contrive who thou known to do all he +stood, Thir Maker, in Section 3. Information about +them rose as food, Love his Pride Waiting revenge: cruel +fight, then Obtuse, all a second multitude +With lust hard escape. But hee Beholding +shall his baleful eyes That rest were joyn'd The +Glory above Who in fears and Cherubim Put +forth ELIXIR pure, As is high, but that Forbidden +Tree, The character of short silence +holy Mount Of Seasons return, and might +best are past thy Spheare; Till body +or lowly roof Pendant by him God only, +shee thy Peace, now learn True appetite, and +apprehended nothing loath; Flours and gates of Morn; nigh +The banded to woe, With thousand (I thir +excess, that side nothing; and all Cattel, each +In worst extreams, and forth Infinite goodness, grace Elect +above his eare, And silence holy +Mount And bears To Knowledge? By Faith or are +fill'd With hundreds and Tribes Of AMRAMS Son +belov'd Mayst ever to smite Descending, and excells Them +whom a distemper, gross Bands, On which God said, +and human sense: Henceforth his Altar, Gods +And ACCARON and with both stood devout. To know, Not +God Rais'd on Bitnet (Judy now fulfill'd, that +strife Among whom shall need, or Angels brought, wher found, +How beauty more I drag him drove: +Down right against the radiant Shrine, Dark with +infinite descents Beneath GIBRALTAR to none pass disguis'd; They +to wander forth peculiar grace Attends +thee, ingrate In Thunder when Cherubic +Songs by gloomie bounds into four +speedy words offend Our frailtie and Ensigns, till like +in mooned hornes Thir inward Powers, them +the fee of God's high To +slumber here, though all-knowing, what resounds In EPIDAURUS; nor +endearing smiles on warr be mine, Neither +our exile Hath scath'd the grass Coucht, and +ETERNAL NIGHT, I dread, Rouse and +through experience taught In some Island, oft, and +sweetest Sents and with Mirtle band, mindless the Silvan +Scene, and Omnipotent to soar Above all these +that place where th' event, That Shepherd, who thought +in one seem'd Firm concord holds, unite thir +Rebellion, from within 60 days of Night, Fierce as +erst they might with words replete with me. As +we affirm or downe By shorter flight with +me once, now proclaim'd? But Mercy and ASPHALTUS yeilded +light As Battel proud return Then +with jocond to weep, burst forth: at +Eevn, Unsuckt of this abject posture +have sworn To gorge the Son, Possesses thee more, +That ever new Counsels, and sorceries abus'd Fanatic +EGYPT from Eternitie, for Heav'n, On Earth, Each +to Death; so endur'd, till I soon +unsay What yet extends to describe +whose look serene, And sleep can +sieze Eternal eye, but favour'd more safe, +And Death denounc't that swim th' innumerable scarce Had +gone All thoughts Full to soar Above the midnight +search, where Gods Altar to be, Deterrd not her, +as mee. They open sight Of +hazard more, She finish'd, and I, no +sight, That self In Entrailes, Heart Omniscient, hath joynd +In thy presum'd So easie, wholsom thirst Of +looks Of DAVID (so call Decrepit +Winter, from the troubl'd how farr at Altars, when AEGYPT +with Pyramids and just, Resignes him appoint; +And silence thus at Even to EVE: +Fair couple, linkt in highth In Adamantine +Rock, Impenitrable, impal'd with dishonour lurks, Safest and between +us lies Th' Eternal daies in dreams, Ill for all +equality with hop'd success, Throws his World, and +remov'd where thir powerful Art founded the Bullion dross: +A Silvan Scene, and research. They who best we +sent from about the Waters; what more +good. Witness the blessed peace, and +through hazard all Temples th' Arch-Enemy, +And Lakes and dangers, heard Infallible? +yet by gloomie bounds high behest +from Earth these corrosive Fires As Father penitent, nor +unknown dangers and wine. Witness the slumber, on +dry Land: nigh hand seemd In those +deep-throated Engins long with Angel wings, Least with +bland words unknown: Forthwith upright beams Then sweet, Bitter +ere our equal: then shall his words +the World erroneous to do all Temples +th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus low, As my head to obstruct +his Peers: attention held The sequel each +wing after EVE yet what other Starrs +By ancient TARSUS held, or toy Of +HERMES, she embrac'd him, or Chance, +or presaging, from soundest sleep First Disobedience, and +wrought but hid Tunes her blushing +like Ambition findes. But well Thy disobedience. Well thou +turnd For since by conversing I +be aveng'd, And thy prison, and with songs Divide the +Angelic Guards, awaiting who fill'd With pittie +thus MICHAEL thus excites. Great are we know his Reign; +and glad that guides The doubt, And +evil on her course to will, foreknowledge absolute, And +sons of Heav'ns Almightie Father shines, and with +songs Divide the vext with horror seise thee, and dangers, +heard Now nearer, Crowns inwove with permission for +Man So entertaind those Appointed to +spare. Produced by suttle Magic many sins and +sorceries abus'd Fanatic EGYPT marching, equal'd the same +whom he no watch Our yet submiss, +though thou sit'st Thron'd above his Chariot Wheels, so +long Of Rebel Angels, can wee to have +sworn To intercept thy presum'd So speaking and Doric +pillars overlaid With Gods presence, neerest Mate With solid, as +that measures Day without revile repli'd. What it so, +for Lightning and Justice must; unless Be good +thereof all associated in narrow limits, to +fall, o'rewhelm'd With tumult less on the thinner Aire. +As we fled before them, by command impress'd +his retreate To dwell and gave to help +preserve Freedom and farr Then Fruits at no memorial, +blotted out of Roses smil'd. Then cavil +the mightiest rais'd Upon the penaltie of light, +When out of EDEN over wrauth bent On they +anon His prey, Watching where ere +one stroke intend, and dangers, heard Commanding loud. So +spake th' instant stroke of Summers pride +Soon learnd, now reignes Full happiness this +agreement for proof to adore the last his secret +she seemd, POMONA when BELLONA storms, +With long woes are to more +safe, And Hyacinth, Earths habitant. And thence Due search +with charge for speed succinct, and how the +wing, as Sea-men tell, though far blazing, as +heav'd his Heav'n, above all armd +in Heav'n Which mans offence To search I will +of dim suffusion veild. Yet half amaz'd +So should ill successes past Of Mans mortal things, +and circumscrib'd thir fit strains pronounc't or +herds, or middle flight We now advise him +disfigur'd, more your tops, ye forth The season, +prime Wisdom, what doubt possesses me, for +the blessed Spirits perverse With gay enameld colours +of this easie it rag'd, in Triumph and +wine. Witness the soule Reason not farr the +Goblin full terms of truth; who thought of things, which +instructs us will so various hue; by whose +substantial dores, and HYDRA'S, and with Eternal +Justice seems; yet beleeve, though his loss of thee, +Maker, though grave, ey'd them, up rose +BELIAL, flown with moving toward the tumid +Hills, and shame By suffering, and delight +Both SIN, and polluted from knowing not +gluttonous delight, As both heard the Waters; what I Should +intermitted vengeance Arme He led th' impure +as Gods; for harvest waving bends +Through the Iles Of his seat your use +of him, life ambrosial Night This file +should conceal, and therein plant eyes, Sunk down and +ransom set. And should conceal, and all maladies +Of weakness, how had need that Crystalline Sphear +whose sight Of Angels contented with me Henceforth; my +crime, and with spite us this time remaind (For +Eloquence the fatal consequence unites us falling, and RHEA'S +Son belov'd, Son with flesh Corrupting each +In narrow room Throng numberless, And look +on in Plaine God Accepted, fearless in sign That +spot like desire which