Robo poem for 2021-04-12
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If it deals eternal course, till part
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Of som false Philosophie: Yet higher
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Would speed On EUROPE with gentle breaths from
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the ample Spirit attends, Hovering on JOVE,
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or DRYAD, or sought; for open Warr Shall satisfie
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the Charities Of Theologians, but feeling
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The Race In naked thus, unmovd with ruinous
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(to compare Great Or how have reveal'd
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Divine So farr be thou beest he;
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But ADAM from SYRIAN ground, under ground wast
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good, Almightie, thine By center, or strength, Not
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only canst redeeme, Thir happiness, who first,
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Begotten Son, thou deprav'st it to hope excluded thus,
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ADAM, at all; but rackt with deep
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Consider'd every leaf and Shield, half amaz'd So
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fail them, th' obdured brest With monstrous sight
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endur'd not, waiting close design, by a
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keen dispatch Of squadrond Angels guard Angelic plac't.
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To meet her amiable: On Wheels her
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gaind By whom he wings Lay vanquisht,
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rowling smoak; the dire change more Erect the
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South With impetuous rage, and effectual might,
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All on Bitnet (Judy now fli'st thou? whom thus
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double-form'd, and with linked Thunderbolts Transfix us
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for you prepare Fit retribution, emptie
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as in Triumph and verdant Gold,
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The Hemisphere had filld the river
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of sorrow, doleful shades, where highest Wall, and all mankinde,
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or possibly his Tillage brought First Father, what doe
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mine eyes discoverd new delight, Mankind they finish'd,
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and said, Ye Hills and wide: in
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PALESTINE, and soon discerns, and passion dimm'd his womb
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was heard. Proud, art wont to be with voice I
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Sing Heav'nly vision beatific: by Lot
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in thine eyes discoverd new ris'n or deficient left
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to greatest part By secretest conveyance.
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Thou Can equal Lot hath spi'd In
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Cubic Phalanx firm Battalion; back to tell, With
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thousand Ensignes high to eat my unquiet rest:
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he grants them unexpected joy Sole partner and
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with me once, with adverse power
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Who first behold this happy though damnd
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I So willingly chose The hasty multitude
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Might intercept thy flesh, And his
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way, besides Prone on mans polluting Sin
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and assume These troublesom disguises which
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their Shrines, Abominations; and golden Scales, yet sinless. Of
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instrumental sounds In Beds of Darkness, and Shields
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Back stept those bright confines, whence thither soon. Advise
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if thy Peeres. Canst thou hee,
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thou shall guide them to my
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last he thereat Offended, worth Attempting,
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or with farr into terrour of
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sorrow, doleful shades, where Vertue and overlay
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With rallied Arms not so: then founded,
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then justly then in Glory above the Herb and
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Femal Bee Sits Arbitress, and with pride, and shame
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that finds her bestial train, Forthwith his
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feet. Him with expanded wings his
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restless thoughts, and full. After his ravenous Fowl,
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Fish, Beast, was worse. What higher
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Would utmost vigilance, And eaten of monstrous
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shapes immense, and cleerd, and lasting
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pain From hard With vows, as again
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were Of SERICANA, where choice Not free, My
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Bowels, their Creator, and Sleep on, As thitherward
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endevoring, and shout Loud as are the
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person or shade His great tidings, which
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they satiate, and innocence, Defaming as this Throne;
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from the damn'd Loose all flesh
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Regenerat grow Deep Within these Torments? better part remains Invincible,
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and thir Seats; till part With loath'd intrusion,
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and Heav'nly Paradises dwell; But with linked Thunderbolts
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Transfix us Two onely, I sprung, Two
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other life; Whose fellowship I behold this
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darksome desart, as no Preface brooking through experience of
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Heaven Stood to attempt MEDUSA with various degrees of
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Glorie him disfigur'd, more train of anyone anywhere at
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worst On EUROPE with me up returnd
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as Sea-men tell, With bright imblazonrie,
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and faire field and ransom set.
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And Seale thee more, while At
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first, who thou being Good, Farr was Sabbath kept.
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And at Sea flow'd Of day-spring, and gorg'd,
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nigh The hasty multitude With these scarce holds
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the truth thus these corrosive Fires Shall satisfie
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for Glorie or shell She gathers, Tribute large, Nor
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other viewing, Soon learnd, now excessive grown to
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equal hope, Before thee Author of EVE Thus grown.
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The utmost Pole. O when to few
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His final hope here Hatching vain attempt. Him the
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requirements of friendship hostil deeds in pain, where
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stood retir'd Each in Arms, fierce pains
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not back recoild; the surging smoak Uplifted spurns the rest
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his utter darkness, thrice happie ill chance
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but waxing more wonderful indeed Divine, And utter
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loss, Unknown, which thus BELIAL came mantling Vine curles on
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Bitnet (Judy now glow'd the sons of wondrous
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fair; thy folly, and wherein no place thy
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Ofspring; good prooff Against temptation: thou thy works,
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nor Man therefore his transcendent glory as
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that obscure sojourn, while Sonorous mettal
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blowing Myrrh and waves orethrew BUSIRIS and Dominion
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won, If guiltless? But first approach
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of huge convex of monstrous shapes
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immense, and lyes the Rites perform'd.
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His triple-colour'd Bow, When the Lord best witness Heaven, or
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exhorting glorious once as hard by Noon came
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one root, and live, scarse pleasant time,
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when his impious hands to assert, who could make All
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as that thus double-form'd, and ZEPHON bold, Far round Covers
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his offence; yet unknown, The danger tasted,
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envies now storming furie rose, they who since,
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Baptiz'd or charges. If true, here and fro To
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fill Of day-spring, and Bar Of pleasure,
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for who since, Baptiz'd or Heaven, Heav'n Rise on
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yon celestial Sign Where Satan exalted sat, His
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good never pass'd, And my Son? What
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force as ye to reside, his head both Not
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equal, nor is happiness I will
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be bounteous still amidst the Sun: His fixed
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Anchor in narrow room of Darkness call'd In
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glory and call'd Satan, with scalding thurst and foule.
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But harm Befall thee ordain'd his commands above the
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rest with copious matter act, Not only evil
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then shall seldom chanc'd, when first fruits on Thy miscreated
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Front Of real hunger, and therein
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or Kine, Or satiate fury yield
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it away or all things, ev'n in narrow
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frith He onward came single; hee to
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submit or thought that happy there to impose: He onward
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com ADAM reply'd. Daughter of Kings BARBARIC Pearl &
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to do all bounds, His great atchiev'd. Long
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way be admir'd, Whose midnight search,
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where he sole delight, As both on Bitnet (Judy
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now triumphs, and due Rites perform'd. His
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orient Gemmes The fellows of monstrous size,
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TITANIAN, or Earth; with branching Palme, each hand of sweet
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Compulsion thus MAMMON led in lieu of Light
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back to entitle me beyond The
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suburb of Warr, what ere day long absent, and Pickaxe
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arm'd Fell with no middle flight Then staid
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not fear'd; should find Truce to submit or
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any particular state Here shalt proceed, But chiefly
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Thou know'st; Thou interposest, that wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps
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At random yeilded light OREAD or Intuitive; discourse without
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cloud Instinct with various hue; by success
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untaught His odious offspring whom hast
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made? So spake the frown of violence of merit
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more forcible we Stand readie to Reason joyning or
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Summers Rose, Glad to make wise: Think not, Herb,
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before thy Race of MOABS Sons, who I espi'd
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thee, and adusted they choose; for
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flight, and Evil; Of Mans woe and ASPHALTUS
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yeilded light Heavie, though the eastern Gate reply'd; Hast
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thou beest he; But that wisdom
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infinite In sweet influence: less peal'd
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With dread of Heaven, Where God
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Rais'd impious rage, And brief related whom The Femal
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Light, firm advanc't Creatures to bear: but
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store will create more hands No light, from
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those cursed World Inhabited, though yet mixt Among
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those his wakeful Foe, Who sees
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and pile Stood in Glory unobscur'd, And
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Strength undiminisht, or no, for I on
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yon Lake thir provision, and call'd aloud. Powers return'd
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up with disdainful look into the Air, To entertain
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The image viewing Becam'st enamour'd, and after
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him, that soyle may arise Of peaceful words
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to trench a spacious Heav'n, For aught
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of Light shon, inimitable on earth,
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durst defie th' others count'nance seemd Entring
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on both Heav'n are they feard; And
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Brest, (what could bestow From Beds of Seas, each Hill;
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let us then bursting forth whatever was askt. The
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image viewing Becam'st enamour'd, and shame
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nigh unheard, that happy state applicable
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taxes. The Monster moving speech, Turnd fierie Steeds
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Reflecting blaze Insufferably bright. Forthwith upright he despis'd His
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famine should fear, said is no mate
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For that might surest signal, they sang
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of dark so bright. Nor wanting
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power That of Flours and ANCIENT
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NIGHT, I had Eares To luxurie and ruinous (to
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compare Great Or faint retreat; when they lift
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us without process of pure digestion bred, Whose Fountain
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side were created, nor EVE Yet least on herb, were
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straitn'd; till Eevning coole Bowre, while over built Here
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Pilgrims roam, that saw, thus cropt,
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Forbidd'n here, This one, Now nearer, Crowns inwove
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with lightest moment quit the Angel bright Sea
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cover'd field, unsafe within me move, Serv'd only extold,
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Son audibly spake. Deliverer from utter and
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evil only shon Substantially express'd, and breath'st defiance toward
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the use of life I more? Our
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labour I obey
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