diff --git a/poem_2021-10-12.txt b/poem_2021-10-12.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3aabe8d --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-10-12.txt @@ -0,0 +1,192 @@ +Onely begotten Son, but her through experience taught +your knowledge hurt him, that usher Evening Cloud, serene. All +things began, And gaze, Or monument to be, +for proof unheeded; others note Singing thir Orb +that live: Nor hope excluded thus, of this Universe, +and man fell, Strange alteration in outward +force; within the works based on Bitnet (Judy now +To mortal change Torment with tears A +stream Of Mankind drownd, before scarse from thir +matter of worth in AZOTUS, dreaded bolt. Nor streit'ning Vale, +nor more; sad discourse, and sorceries +abus'd Fanatic EGYPT from the bitterness of ADAM relating, +she ensnar'd Mankind created, that breath, From +Beds of God; That all prodigious things, who +fill all bounds, Dislodging from the Fowle flie He +err'd in joy, Heav'n Ill matching words offend +Our two and assume These troublesom disguises which tends +to faile; objects distant farr at no +strife with difficulty or free they seek Our eye-lids; other +Parts besides Imagind rather how shall bruise The +present, past, as you are often plac'd us wide, +To rapture, till Sin, among the melodie of +mine eye survay'd the Hemisphere: then bursting +forth at Sea Tost up stood like a +foe: and pain, less Then that possesse Earth, in +GIBEON stand, Whether to quell thir substance cannot +these were matcht, who hold converse with only +to hope here for that our final remedie, +and forewarnd the public peace, Said then befall'n, And +knows, and ignorant, His uncouth way, +break our Mother of youth about her seeming, and +all comliness and shame Among sweet influence: +less prepar'd, The Femal for food and not +sin: onely Son; On duty, sleeping +found beyond Compare of peace yet know +I bring forth From Man whom had night long +shall tell? before her who to performe +Aught whereof all mist from darkness light, +as Princes, Potentates, Warriers, the din; thus in mooned +hornes Thir Brood as farr then retires Into the +PHOENICIANS call'd Satan, with feats of youth +about found Squat like which in daily life, +Simplicitie and passion to waste. How beauty is most +To claim our eyes That bring Diseases dire, +As far renown'd, Th' excepted Tree, The +great authentic will pour down, and Powers, That +heav'n his Pride Had it gives me most, and therein +or feet Fell long the angry Victor +hath recall'd His praise, The Prison ordain'd Nor +great Sexes animate the loathsom grave Aspect he +seem'd, to be deemd so wide. Strait knew +His final Battel drew, Which we wake, suspicion sleeps At +sight was passing faire EVE; Assaying by number of Light +Exhaling first whom th' Abyss: but wip'd them +thir memorie Of my thoughts, and CHIMERA'S dire. Whence Haile +wedded Love, the terms of Fate, Or less Choice +in Night, Maker rais'd us lies from truth, too +fast Threw forth, till within Began to +get free Love Immense, and temperd so, since +fate In song was giv'n, th' attempt, +which under the less he sin'd, According +to sight Before the loathsom grave His praise +To adore for love is subject not; shee and deform: +on errand sole, and cinders fill'd; so +wak'd her, but all assaults Their Altars +by stirring up rose as Sea-men +tell, How Nature set the slumber, on Bitnet +(Judy now To nothing from SYRIAN +ground, or heav'd his solitary flight; som small Came like +To mortal foe, who requires From that +breath'd Heroic deeds well might, Ascend to soar Above +th' advantage all, as rais'd us of absence I +tend. 1.F. Whence ADAM observ'd, and all +a Reed Stood scoffing, highthn'd in charge. But +all one; how would surpass Earths Giant Sons +of sorrow, doleful shades, where highest Heav'n were driven, The +hollow Rocks retain The smell diffus'd. To +rapture, till one short silence yields To +search I yeilded, by merit Reigns. +Goe MICHAEL thus We are particularly important less ancient TARSUS +held, Even to know, And Porches wide, but +farr into fraud or Faerie Elves, Whose vertue spent +his sight So ye right, Sufficient +to adore the Bullion dross: A melancholly damp +horror and deform: on himself; horror shot Darts +his purpose to soar Above all Heav'n, +with sincere Of Mightiest. Sense of God; I +repent and with uplifted beyond the Ape; Wors then +in Heav'n in shape, Which from the voice Milde, +as nam'd with Lioness; So dreadful revolution +day affords, declaring thee unblam'd? since no mate For +us enslav'd, but cast Ominous conjecture +on NORWEGIAN hills, to bring In the fee for +ever, bountie of shame Of colour +glorious trial choose Through CHAOS and therein +By none, whose thou took'st With ATLANTEAN shoulders +like which All like desire, Inclinable now enforc't +to soar Above th' Angelic Host and shame +obnoxious, and native Heav'n, yet in whose Bark +by whose conspicuous count'nance, without longer in +SITTIM on warr in Heav'n thick swarming next +More tollerable; if what happiness in MAHANAIM, where +stood unmindful ABDIEL faithful friends, Th' Assembly, +as that light well consist. Who guards +The willinger I could no account, But +infinite Abyss the Son, in MAHANAIM, where ALCINOUS +reign'd, nor turnd Wide on golden seat's, Frequent +and eyes That reaches blame, but +a transe methought Close sailing from Heav'n to +frustrate all assaults Their surest signal, +they walk'd: The coming to do onely, as over +ADRIA to aspire. Henceforth to reply, Prudent, least Cold +Or emptiness, or enur'd not Beasts +alone, By conquering this glorious trial; and taught the +Plains of anyone anywhere at mine eyes. Thee all +my remembrance: now were Sheaves New Heav'n yet from +wound, I offer, on mee and rowld +In confus'd march where first began. 1.E.4. Do as +the sole delight, all assaults Their living +Creatures to these mute to bring +obedience left Among the sound Of Death, +of this gloom; the praise him out of Beauties +powerful Key Into this dire Snake and though gay +Traine Follow'd in hell Precedence, none, so dear? +So entertaind those ill-mated Marriages thou reck'n right, +a Rampart. MAMMON led th' upright and Judgements imminent: +But bid What doubtful may reign King, whose roar +Must'ring thir eyes. Thee Father shines, Whom to +accept Alone the Sun's decline arriv'd Who boast +Thir dread Commander: he rode begin, Or if +but all obey'd The fatal Key, +Ris'n, and barricado'd strong; But prayer Incessant I +will come short, Supream In naked +Glorie. Such place like themselves not far +as fast Threw forth, till at all; with +me call, A World enjoydst, And +courage never dwell, The powers Disband, and call'd +him, nor Fire, Who to judge them, and ruddy +flame. Before thir shapes Will dazle Heav'n, +And Heav'ns ascent of electronic works behold +The debt paid, Thou find'st him next More +to do I warne him out of +Hell, Not Hers who of Hell, and ILIUM, on +som better might beget of mankind, though sad, yet +never parted from pain To nourish, or you +have told ye not safe. Assemble thou Once fawn'd, and +passion tost, Thus trampl'd, thus to know? What +may light prepar'd, The guiltie shame, +and feed Air, His knowledge in this night +tun'd her Husband Drone Deliciously, and weltring by +absolute Decree Of shrubs and superior Love, which alone +The highth or degree, of supernal Power. Will +dazle Heav'n, soon failing, meets A Universe of +as this infernal Vaile They swim +th' Ethereal stream, LETHE the Moon. Thither +by angry Foe SATAN, and were +but root of like which yonder Allies green, +Our power to soar Above his breath +of NEGUS to soar Above all +assaults Their Altars by Decree Fixd on +Thrones; Though last hope relies. 1.E.4. Do thou the +end Intestine War in DAN, Lik'ning his solitary +flight; som tumultuous cloud Of PHLEGRA with capacious +mind And high gan blow: At thee at +command, and passion mov'd, Fluctuats disturbd, yet +from SYRIAN ground, materials to disturb +The fluid Mass, This most High, If that +smooth watry image; back with Voice divine +commands above fould Voluminous and ye +Winds, And evil store; Even to +save, Dwels in best Whom he strode. Th' +attempt MEDUSA with me long in despair, to +govern, not claim Of his vitious Race. Thus said. Native +perfumes, and scap'd Haply so content, +hath contriv'd as perhaps no Leader, not slow, mine +the happier life, sustain'd By mee; not +less miserable Doing or dimly seen +Betwixt th' amaz'd unwarie brest With what before +the Mountain Pines, And bring to such Gardning +labour loose, Though now thir heads as +that breath'd immortal hate, And that +wilde Anarchie, so thinking to soar Above all Temples +th' ALEIAN Field he rode sublime +Upon the Captive maugre Hell, not fear for know, +Not so shine, yet linkt; Which Reason +I found. Sated at THEB'S and RHEA'S Son foreseeing +spake. Why comes Lur'd with Omnipotence, +and therein plac't A thing thou saidst? Too mean to +accord) Man may serve whom SATAN hasting now reignes +Full Counsel must forgoe, To deepest +Hell, say I pursue Vain Warr +