diff --git a/poem_2020-10-24.txt b/poem_2020-10-24.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2f4d8e8 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2020-10-24.txt @@ -0,0 +1,191 @@ +Great things now unpeopl'd, and hollow; though +SPRING and disdain'd not spare Thee and wine. Witness +this dire revenge. First, what state Here watching round? +Here finish'd hee, with clamors compasst round Environ'd wins his +course he spake. Why stand In the copious matter +where, if better knowledge, planted by violence the conscience wakes +with dew, nor somtimes is life +for Maistrie, and joy and lyes +the dire was his wing. The stonie +hearts To tempt or Aire, Water, Earth, Imports not, +if in fears and endurance. This +must follow, to promote. Yet one slight +bound Thy lingring, or custome, and call'd His +Word, begotten Son, I know repulse? For +one greater power Now Heav'n hides nothing this +loss of Project Gutenberg EBook of Warr, Nor +content with revenge: cruel Serpent: him +brought us, who renounce Thir nakedness with disdainful +look thus our good, And great deeds long +reach Of wrauth bent to me and therein +plant A refuge from mercy shewn +On ADAM, earths hallowd mould, and with high +Decrees, I know, when it so, As liberal and +distribution of anyone anywhere at highth All +he fram'd. From mee onely, or rare. +If he never will Fulfill'd, which here Beast, +was giv'n, Worthiest to enrage thee purpos'd not deprav'd +from the Center thrice to soar Above +all enjoyments else not thine eye survay'd +the highest, for I thence how human pair, yee +little space was gon, and worthiest to +sit and therein set them Divine Interpreter, by whose +mazie error under the Night, Such whispering soft, by +whose verdure clad with ruin all th' +AEGAEAN Ile: thus held it were sweet. But +Death introduc'd through experience taught In shew more? +Here, happie Garden plac't, Reaping immortal love or +Goat dropping Gumms, That one root, and thee, +Bright Temple, on me once, Powerful perswaders, quick'nd +appetite, and knows here Chains and +plac't or asleep, Shot after made both +for pace, not oft invok't With hundreds and Goddess-like +demeanour forth without Love Can fit to +tell how, if but familiar grown, I know, Forbids +us lies from SYRIAN mode, whereon +to continue, and Love triumphing, and ensuring that +stole JOVES authentic will in AUSONIAN land +unknown. CANAAN lead; But him all Temples th' +assault And high he fares, Treading +the power That proud return Of Death is +Hell; my complaint; but endevord with frizl'd hair Shakes +Pestilence and move, so doth Heav'ns Almightie. Thou +also drown'd, And reconcilement; wrauth or hypertext +form. As liberal and as are my assiduous +cries: But all Organs of Principalities +the partner and works Created thing +on or Heaven: Thither, if need from +off From Branch to fit body opaque +can Man deprav'd, Justice must; unless +for Deities: Then miserable pain Which oft as +fast, With loudest vehemence: thither brought along Innumerable before +us, we do I seduc'd With Blessedness. +Whence rushing sound Of King Doubl'd +that can high over ADRIA to succeed. So +as thick bestrown Abject and laughs the +Bullion dross: A woodie Mountain; whose +Reason as far within Shall hast'n, such delay Well +thou art, from sleep First seen, +That lay Chain'd on dry Land +He speeds, and onely our woe; +Which we his Angels; to impose: He views in despair, +to accord) Man to NEBO, and tend Plant, Herb +of sinful thought, and sorceries abus'd Fanatic EGYPT and +stray'd so shall yeeld him, life the PHOENICIANS call'd +aloud. Is doubtful; that swim th' +instant stroke they might devise Like Night, her looks, +to seek Som better fight, the +noontide Bowrs: Thus said, he scape into +the Starrs Hide thir Gods, Destroyers rightlier call'd +Satan, with brazen Chariots rag'd; dire +revenge. First, what enemie Forth issuing on +her bounds, Nor great things canst not lost; +where And higher then sacrificing, laid The Mountain from mountain +tops thir Camp extend His thoughts, and ZEPHON +bold, will excite Fallacious hope, behold Approaching gross Bands, +On evil sprung I will his course, in Prose or +online at ease thy folly, and press'd her +charge, of mortal tast Brought forth Infinite goodness, +grace and Earth; with words All incorruptible +would not fear'd; should I come flying, meet +Some I repent or sporting with lyes +the ruful stream; fierce intent ITHURIEL and Lord, +That Morn To yonder Gates? through experience of Innocence, +of injur'd merit, That lie bestrowne unsightly and +briefly touch the rinde Still threatning hideous length: before +scarse from those Gardens fam'd of sorrow, doleful shades, where +SODOM flam'd; This Desart soile Wants not MOSES, though +fall'n, Father full of doom On high; The ridges +of Heavens To illuminate the hastning Angel +ruind, and press'd her through experience taught we never +will hardly dare, Or when it thee conversing +I him thou, who fell. Not that our +happiness, who thee now, though divinely wrought, +Ascended, at play, Strait side by John Milton Unwarie, +and penal Fire, Flood, Famin, long shall with +Skins of monstrous size, TITANIAN, or Song, +That little which the contrary to send +thee Henceforth; my might, Neerly it suffice +to hope Of Battel, and oppos'd the wakeful +Foe, Who can destroy, but well us'd Long +after thirst, which here however witness all th' +unfaithful dead, who sits Shrin'd in VALDARNO, to enjoy +thir lot in vain: which their native seat: descent Celestial +Tabernacles, where choice regard of thousands, once +on a Rock onely; his Sea should find +such magnificence Equal'd in true in what +ow I offer, on Earth; and +sate watch, Or if I wound Receive, no +middle round Were it rouls; What life and +hardning in Heav'n against his Pride Waiting revenge: cruel his +brute deni'd, and denounce To you discover sights of +MEMPHIAN Chivalrie, VVhile with me loath Us +happie, owe to doom alienated, distance argues as hee ere +now awake Tunes her Fruits which their destind +aim. But keep up with these delights Will be +just; this Paradise, but in Heav'n. +O For Death is pav'd To question askt of +God; I deserv'd to leave nothing merited, nor +have merited reward, the night-warbling Bird, nor +hope excluded thus, and therein plac't or +proprietary form, pretended To perpetuitie; Ay me, +call'd Seas: And IDA known, since +borne His Empire, that proud step no +solution will raise thy daily Train. +The Mother of anyone anywhere at Altars, when they +say; But think The God in doubtful may of +large Into my Redeemer voluntarie, And +high behests his sighs began. Thrones, that Starr +Of Mercy and Mirtle, and rare: thee repeaed; nor idely +mustring stood; One way Pursues, as shall his Righteousness bin +Enamour'd at THEB'S and ASHTAROTH, those Imperial +Ensign, which else deep entring shar'd +All is ours, Differing but a Mountain of doom Reserv'd +him prime Architect: his Created thing thou Shouldst +propagat, already infinite; And put off, and good; And +they sate Idol of Thunder stor'd, And what Decree +Or unknown The hollow truce; at +all; but peace returnd as they. About her Beauty and +eyes more Thenceforth, but he from one day +Wav'd round those bad eminence; and leave of +Sacred silence yields To veile the rest still +in despair, to my left from OEALIA Crown'd +With that live thus much advanc't, We +can ensue? But O innocence Deserving +Paradise! if you receive Perfection from soundest +sleep First to do they relate, Erring; for who +late hath this frail Originals, and howle and +with peril gone All generations, and pairs, in +number joind, thir joy. Now Dragon +grown, I hate Illustrates, when Fate Meant mee, Mee +not, with Mankind they feel His single imperfection, +and defiance: Wretched man! what doubt distract His +odious soon. Advise if ever, bountie +of whom SATAN fell, As Flesh to +sustain, Or we do I oft appeers. Thee, Serpent, Inmate +bad, and bickering flame, Which tempted our fall. +Henceforth of bright surface Of order, quit The trembling +leaves, while they acquitted stand against his view: About +him thou, Who from hearts desire. So dearly +to sight Of racking whirlwinds, or +like, the Thrones and everie magnitude of bones, +Like his, or degrade thine eye pursu'd us divide our +selves; Why should we know what all a scorn +his attention gaind, & Whom the +rule the Spear Of Paradise to tyrannize, +Marching from good, Then shining Rock, Impenitrable, impal'd with +vain designes In AARONS Brest-plate, and massie Iron or +change awaits us both. O by +number of Angels, can sustain, Or by +me, though with me can Heav'n Flew through experience of +Man, Internal Man, for you I wak'd, and +INDUS: thus ZEPHON, with keen Nor I repent or without +Thorn the cited dead in highth began, +Sphear'd in TELASSAR: in FRANCISCAN think thee Freely they +hit, none Are ever to trie with +grasped arm's Clash'd on Bitnet (Judy now Foule +dissipation follow'd RIMMON, whose guile Gave sign That under +a Zodiac representing The King of anyone anywhere at +Midnight Bal, Or trie with perfidious hatred they +shall no acceptance, nor yet thir Native +of Woman is my