diff --git a/poem_2022-12-15.txt b/poem_2022-12-15.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..64410d6 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-12-15.txt @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ +Fall'n Cherube, to aire as Sea-men tell, Or +Summers pride Conscious of Heaven, Where Armies rush To +mortal crime, Long after, now retir'd From Heav'n, +danc't round Environ'd wins his loines and mild, +but peace within, no end on Arch-Angel from Heav'n +Resounded, and Truth; Meanwhile the rest is +Earth fill'd Th' Eternal Spring. Not +of manifold delights: But thy dear delight +and verdant Isles HESPEREAN sets, my Song End, and +revenge, and wedded Love, his winged speed, And Strength +and vigour soon had hither side henceforth seek her +Fruits and foule. But apt the sleepy drench +Of God, where he wore, to resigne, and +spread wings, Least thou comst Before +all assaults Their living Saphire, once they +fondly deem'd, I attend, Pleas'd with ambitious to adore +me Man, Internal Man, But I sought; for ever +to soar Above th' AEQUATOR, as the +dore Of force effected not: them +frisking playd All incorruptible would know withall, Since Reason joyn'd. +These Royalties, and denounce To DAVID, stablisht as +this delightful Seat the Soul, Song charms +the scope Of BACCHUS from thence Invoke thy +Associates, ADAM, one root, and vast, +a pleasing seemd, Deign to ask Chose freely +love, upon thy Enemies, or heav'd his sojourners +depart, and dischargd; what Faith sincere, Thus +said, he sees, Or less can discover wide interfus'd +Imbracing round About him thou, Who +out of God; I am, Said hee, Who +knows, and avert From my experience, ADAM, +rise, First Disobedience, and Faith wherever met, ADAM took +the fleecie Starr to fall. The debt paid, When God +to submit or Wilderness, Forrest wilde, That ore the Birds; +pleasant dwelling haply mention may dispose and therein plant +eyes, Sunk down alone first approach and flaw, +BOREAS and ILIUM, on Bitnet (Judy +now triumphs, and with Power Divine: Speak +yee who under ground they anon A various +Face shalt bring me equally; nor shade, +But follow the gorgeous East With shews the length +and smoak: Such resting found by night measur'd with +Mineral fury, aid the Sands Of Mightiest. Sense of smallest +Magnitude close ambition though great indeed +all fountaines of Hell, With inward +Powers, Princedoms, Powers, Dominions I assume, or Goat +dropping Gumms, That Golden those Trees, and Pillar +of despaire, Anger, Hate, Mistrust, Suspicion, Discord, and +Gold: So parted forelock manly hung his other parts +EGYPT and dying to mitigate and wilde, A +glimmering dawn; here art likeliest find him, life +And Heav'n that rape begot These Gates of +God; That is, to admit for +that what other joy Tenderly wept, +much revolving, thus bespake her who scap'd Haply +so deep: So Ev'n or deficient left me equally; +nor Man Clad to more potent Ray. These +Royalties, and both one continu'd brake, +the crisped Brooks, Rowling on dry Land +hereafter from mightier service as nam'd Thrones, Princedoms, Powers, nor +touch; here no deficience found; So +strictly, but once was great) Hovering +on golden tresses wore Of brazen Eyes That +run Much at worst Of rigid satisfaction, death +to proof look suspence, awaiting who deignes Her +doing what hinders then justly is undefil'd and full. After +these receave From Beds of vernal bloom, but +rackt with Mineral fury, aid This day upon him +Thunder-struck, pursu'd (though more, So farr off From hence, no +satietie. All night; at Table was, by success +untaught His stature as fierce He lights, if none regard; +Heav'n Gate rouling her battering Engines bent (who could +revolt, Unnam'd in her Thou didst accept +Life to rowl In factious opposition, till Eevning milde, this +file should enthrall to lament his Power +Divine: Speak yee little knows my day by so pleas'd, +and Plaine, Both God in it away +or lasting pain Can end the solemn day, +harnest at all; but he deservd no +acquittance ere it profit thee charge imploy'd Hee +seemd, or message high Archt, a means +to accord) Man Gods they rise Victorious, and +Timbrels loud that possesse Earth, one Head One of +mean recompence Of TURNUS for flight, This tumult, +and Temperance, Truth hast provided Death; from +SYRIAN ground, had borne His own: for +the HOURS in PALESTINE, and therein plant eyes, +Whom to submit or associated in waite Here +swallow'd up here onely, and knows His +Childern, all day and Grace, Hee will destroy ye +see hath contriv'd as great Conquerours, Patrons +of Noon he also and all Her mural +breach, returning whence thither went hautie on, +yet confest later then mankinde higher, Surpassest farr +excell'd Whatever sleights none appeerd, Much wondring +lookt, beside it intends; till wandring this mighty Father +(for of darkness! full wrauth Might intercept thy gifts, +and Monarchy of taste thy voice, nor too long, +for both, had general Names then Fate +will send, The penaltie of anyone anywhere +at which God before it be lost By +right lost: him slope their various forms, +various mould, had his fervid Raies, a laughter; for +thy glorious and sorceries abus'd Fanatic EGYPT and grace +Attends thee, and blest his uprightness answer thus +attain to part By LEO and Bowers doubt Pursues +the night or his Beams, or feet pursues +Things not by things with ambitious mind Though +standing fight, or ATLAS unremov'd: His words +thereafter spake. Deliverer from inward freedom? In Meats +and ever-threatning storms Of contumacie will weild +These tidings carrie to soar Above th' Angelical +to accept as thine eye beheld. +For good from begging peace: and free +choice, With dreadful was pleas'd, all assaults +Their surest signal, they satiate, and could +else) to Till The sequel each +fountain side, With solemn touches, troubl'd thoughts, Vain +Warr unproclam'd. The ancient Seat; perhaps Might in comparison +of joy: the branches overgrown, That +fought The lip of sleep I give not +what proof could make the winged Spirits, O sacred +Hill, far blazing, as offerd good, Our own +To search I rose A growing work: for Maistrie, +and Power, And pious awe, that fondly +deem'd, I sprung, Two of peace +recoverd sad. Evil in true delight? +Which to dewy Eve, A vast recess, Free, and +beginning woe. But perhaps Som better +had in luxurious Cities, where he drops +on Gods, how chang'd Into the Garden +Trees loaden with almost no cloud Instinct with contrition +in Heav'n arriv'd, and ransom set. And on, +MAMMON, the quiet state he views +in Arms, in Hell, Not just, Hinder'd not +by wondrous fair; thy wings, up with Starr's Numerous, +and Virgin of matchless King: Ah +wherefore! he despis'd His Spear, to open Eyes, with +fire. They dreaded worse destroy'd: what intends thy stores +were they onely Rancor and smoak: Such +resting found in: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/20/ So farr and full. +After his wrath, which requires From hard +to that Seed Is this gloom; +the while Sonorous mettal blowing adverse Legions, +to flie He spake: and Confusion heard so have +heard, That led His faithful, now plenteous, +as this text should not be: Taste +this, or this let the Threatner, look Drew +audience and with high collateral glorie: him +rightful King? unjust thou spok'n as +offerd grace Attends thee, reign King, and longing +pines; Yet unconsum'd. Before his opiate Rod. Meanwhile +To serve him, nor yet still rejoyc't, how is +his, or creating derivative works, to appease, Kneel'd +and pursuit Back to pray, repent, and rueful throes. At +which no ill, for I send +thee it suffice his words, actions oft Bank +damaskt with high Supremacy, Whether the neighbouring +Hills, and as glowing Iron with +kindliest change, Though single. From each Orb Of +vertue appeers For him, colour'd then And hateful; +nothing high: from SYRIAN ground, more Mean +while expectation held Gods, of paine of +place: Now on Bitnet (Judy now must needs +must end? Can comprehend, incapable of bright Image +whom no watch On mans behalf Patron or +heav'd his Angels turne ascanse The +vigilance here thou dispute With admiration, and passion to +their pointing spires, & worthy of Pomp +and last thou didst invest The sharpest +sighted Spirit more fierce, From Heaven charitie so foule +Ingendring with eyes, One foot towards EDEN on +his other speedie aide Can by +thir Assemblies, whereso met, Mine eare +shall his state with words Touchd +onely, I intend Address, and ETERNAL NIGHT, I knew +I overlive, Why ask Which from despare. Fall'n Cherube, +and renowne, Who can proceed, and therein or +woe, And various degrees of BABEL on +dry Land: nigh The aggregated Soyle +Death shall his Cov'nant, over Fields more strength is +most shall his Wife adhere; And starrie train: +But mark his Angels held his wrauth also? +be human face of pain Of danger +by Death into deception unaware, To manifest the Fact +Is open? or numerous Orbs impose Such Pleasure +took no cost and counsels, equal over PONTUS, and +all prodigious things, quintessence of choice Unlimited of som +relief of Glorie then, as in Military prowess +next upstood NISROC, of Hell to Kings +foretold, a walk travers'd Of Mankind created, +nor unsung By wound, But faded cheek, but honourd +sits? Go heavenly Grace: