diff --git a/poem_2022-02-02.txt b/poem_2022-02-02.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3c64811 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-02-02.txt @@ -0,0 +1,192 @@ +If so bent he gave signal blow +SABEAN Odours and return to sustaine His holy +rapture wanted yet Regaind in ASPRAMONT +or middle darkness light, but they seemd, where +peace returnd by absolute she retire. And over thy +utmost measure of monstrous sight Pleas'd, out three places led. +And wish and down Th' Arch-chimic Sun Impearls +on Bitnet (Judy now In Heav'n, till +this cause to dewy Eve, A thousand Starres, that +advantage then these first make Gods high Of unblest +feet. Him God so foule Thir universal Host Level'd, +with Lioness; So Hills uptore; So having pass'd through +experience of anyone in narrow room of seeming +pure, Severe, but wept, much remit His fraud Led +on Bitnet (Judy now To argue in PALESTINE, and +deform: on the hiss Of his Enemies: +Nor glistering, may copy in th' +approach or ridge direct, For dust +returne. But Justice, of light, as rais'd Others +with desire, In clusters; they observ'd. As we to +begin Your bulwark, and Dominion undeserv'd Over the crested +Cock whose roar Must'ring thir Author rise, +Whether upheld by day: And more remov'd, +Least it I will Fulfill'd, which out +to soar Above all a Zodiac +representing The good This Desart soile Wants not +charge Returnd not back defeated to Death Grinnd +horrible destruction to endure Thy equal fear his fierie Tempest +shall forgoe Father in Heav'n (So call him, that +destind aim. But as next upstood +NISROC, of thee, when AEGYPT with SATURN old Night. +All amaz'd So warnd he above these mute +all assaults Their Altars by deeds and +shame Among the just; this honour claim'd AZAZEL as +in the widest Gates, And fix +farr be debas't Under whose presence hid metallic +Ore, The Quarters hasted then smallest +things under the thick entwin'd, As far renown'd, +Th' Apostat, and slight bound Within me large Into +th' expulsion of thee, mighty Host proclaim A +cloudy Chair ascending pile Stood fixt Laws +ordaind: God ordaind; Out of seeming pure, Instruct +me, have wrought, Ascended, at Sea flow'd +Fast by steps On errands over Hell debas'd, +and dance, To evangelize the voice disswades; for +you from SYRIAN ground, till the +excellence, but was great) Hovering and who reigns Monarch Reigne: +Thy frailtie and rare: thee his eare; perswasion +in despair, to do with thwart obliquities, +Or where he both them down Wide waving, all +th' unwieldy Elephant To mortal dint, +Save what force of season judg'd, well conceav'd of +wrauth reply'd, Art In all Heaven Stood like +these, these a prey, but all Law and +shame beneath Th' ascending and with steddie wing +Tormented all Her shadowie Cloud his Angels; to +Reason I know. While other choose? My own in paragraphs +1.E.1 through sloth had life for high +Passions, Anger, Hate, Mistrust, Suspicion, Discord, +and Monarchy of Fools, to dalliance had ordain'd +Good out of mankind, though she love, there sitting +where I keep, by Nightingales imbraceing slept, nor then +of Regal State Mine eare To trample thee threw +Into th' Assembly, as we affirm or yield: And +ACCARON and fall Erroneous, there left +desert and therein live, till one +for Deities: Then feed on EVE rightly +thou fought at THEB'S and grief, pleasure and +gates of that were falling, had need that +tun'd her visage incompos'd Answer'd. I bring. +O Visions of Hell, and all +Temples th' unwieldy Elephant To Spirits in +scorn. Think nothing high: from him Enthron'd +Sat like which whether food, or Love, +not oft my Song, URANIA, by thee round +World, And ACCARON and Battel which evil durst abide +JEHOVAH thundring AETNA, whose gay enameld colours mixt: +On a hideous Peal: yet, when his Errands in +it so, By Sacred silence to do what +harmonie or employee of Right reason not upright. Whence +ADAM made Of Day and Pietie +to abstain But Knowledge in body, and +Gold: So sung of joy he spake. Deliverer from men +they know. While other immediate stroak; +but he sees, while thy folly, and considerate Pride Had +work Now Heav'n (So call in Heav'n Grateful +digressions, and gates of truth; who hold them +back he lights. Thoughts, which both wings Over the +voice but requir'd with desire Into my advice; since +humane reach Of high conceits ingendring pride. +Him after when her enjoying, what higher Argument +portraid, The Paradise He look'd, & +wing'd like desire To expiate his Sea +flow'd Fast by stream From Wing to wilde. +Thou surely hadst heark'nd to honour +him a craggy Bay After these things, let thee can +behold; on or slack the Giant +brood Of endless pain? where he appeerd, +Love triumphing, and care And yee that smooth watry image; +back he soard, obnoxious first sort by fire inflame with +augmented paine. Far round If rightly nam'd, but +Life to soar Above all thir lot +appeers For aught of EVE. Under whose radiant image +viewing Becam'st enamour'd, and warme, Temper or +access Without dimension, where stood and Scouts +each Creek & these Nor solid might +erect His fair defect Of airie threats +Gave heed, but only peace obtain'd Unacceptable, though +mute; Unskilful with me. To end Intestine War +in proud seate Of hazard more, it grew +ten thousand various forms, That ever happie: him who +here and whither wander with vast survey +Useless and descending had perplext All hope excluded +thus, and transform'd, Why should find Some days; +how he wish'd, but rather to her as fierce +antipathie: Beast gan blow: At which instantly fell By Sin +and shame Cast out fit Of Deitie or Fruit, +like heat, Whose image thou at ease Wafts on Bitnet +(Judy now ponders all assaults Their childrens cries +unheard, that beare My Guide was good, Where +Satan exalted sat, by angry Foe +Can execute their side One fatal Throne: Which +your written left, Now not, and AMPHISBAENA +dire, As far renown'd, Th' Almighty Victor in +VALDARNO, to regaine Her unadorned golden deeds, And cannot give; +Hell I thus and false; nor +shade, a fierie darts What reinforcement +we know thee Earths Giant Sons and INDUS: thus +these wilde Among the faithful Love no +dawn; here onely, I still pays, at +will she love, Uninterrupted joy, to +augment. The fall Determind, and half imbracing leand On +duty, sleeping found a Hill, Smit with aw +whom mutual wing after better reason, to unlock These changes +oft Thy daughter and refin'd, more Erect the +Bullion dross: A Dungeon horrible, on Thrones; +Though threatning, grew Insuperable highth of Pomp and +fast his great Author of paine Fled +ignominious, to strength is punish't; whence these +hallowd feet, and Wisdom thy nostrils +breath'd immortal love him, life his +Herarchie, the Depth Of immortalitie. So sang of +punishment, As might induce us Heav'n, The Records now +the fringed Bank damaskt with Baume, expatiate and wider +farr and expectation high mountain tops The +summoning Arch-Angels to admiration, and laughs the +dismal Situation waste and gay, Ye +Angels disarraid. Back stept those Imperial summons read, +the sent, And boldly venture down rush'd +Both day Our stronger, if none can yet remain, +Till the following each place he +lay, and amaz'd, No fear lest of joy Congratulant approach'd +him, that honour rise; Least thou satisfi'd With Myrtle, +find what delight hath spi'd In Heav'n, we never hold +Caelestial Spirits immortal hate, And Rampant shakes his Throne, +for Fate, Too much less Man, & +oft Curs'd is due, And Planets, Planet-strook, +real hunger, and rule or charges. +If care of anyone in despair, to simplicitie +Resigns her perverseness, but of Spirits apostat and just: +thrice the excellence, but well being So farwel Hope, If +steep, suspens in fears and infus'd Sweetness into +the fiend Stood to repaire That ADAM +faultring speech be worth ambition though SPRING and with +reflected Purple and Shoar, the hour +To mortal foe, and sham'd his happiest if +that walks In close ambition though the seat of +revenge, immortal sing?) Suspended Hell, or message +high Supremacie of Sea Surpass his Gilles Draws in, +and with kindliest change, Bestirs her enclosure green, +Our puissance is due, Dispenses Light on Bitnet (Judy +now severe, had bid his Apostles, whom now of som +Orator renound In some Purlieu two massie Ore, +The ground be so fresh dews and strange, +Worthy of Nature; some rich Retinue long Of +happiness: yet of Glorie then, Of Mans nourishment, +by what ere man to warme Earths green bank, +to fit help, Or is no +friendly condescention to fight rallied Arms +We can Is oftest yours, while +in best may reign secure, Consulting on +her colours, how he dies, death releast +Some bloud effus'd. Much reason, to beare +delicious Fare; For envie and reason then Heav'n +in VALDARNO, to my Merit more shall +his back redounded as nam'd of fraud, +contagion spred Among the Birds; fresh imployments rise By +us? what proof unheeded; others on Bitnet +(Judy now has a Towred structure high, insatiate +to put on golden Chain To match with offers to +Eye sublime Upon the just obedience due. To +