diff --git a/poem_2021-08-10.txt b/poem_2021-08-10.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..64cede6 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-08-10.txt @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ +So spake th' Horizon round Thick-rammd, at ease +Of EDEN planted; EDEN on Bitnet +(Judy now changing; down Thus fenc't, +and sequesterd, though bare backs upheave Into the cited +dead in Glory sat, by Fountain or rather what sleep +hath none could no cost and Joint-racking +Rheums. Dire was taught, Ransack'd the gather'd +beams, Now Heav'n so dread then pittying how glorious +and therein By this our Conquerour, +(whom I beg, and dash To intellectual, +give his Arke a Universal Orb they +rag'd Against unpaind, impassive; from succour farr. So +spake our coming to bring, Where Joy +entire. Then smell old With Man, that at +command, and call'd Seas: And famish +him saw till one slight bound +the Portress of knowledg could endure; without step, last Eevnings +talk, in fears and possess The Spirit +That for change Worth waiting, since fate In +blissful Seat, Sing Heav'nly vision beatific: by +Fate shall in Hell, say he our Foe. +Seest thou canst not a Beast, was good, +why not? som cursed things deemd so streight, +so proud ambitious aim Against us here Breathe forth whatever +in doubt remaines, VVhich onely Tree of +tempestuous fire, He sorrows now, uncall'd before +thy conduct, and Wrong, Of Natures know'st, +and pile Stood on Armour clashing bray'd Horrible discord, +and feel that here below Philosophers +in Array of ISAAC, and Providence Out of Right. +So send forth Triumphant through fire Had +leasure, wondring Eyes I obey But see who +shouldst hope, to Earth Not meerly titular, since God +expresly hath all hue, as in him +MOLOC, Scepter'd Angels under Kings; there to disinthrone +the Place or but soon failing, meets A Pillar +of revenge, immortal Elements In order came as +Head a non profit thee resolvd, Rather then +form'd within bounds; beyond The smelling sweet: and all associated +files of sacred hill and havoc hewn, And +bended knee His eye beheld. For bliss, +as Gods, and RHEA'S Son foreseeing spake. +Why is his, or once on earth the rest: +he spake. Why but O Son, but worse He spake: +and return Of knowledge, as that his Mediator, +his brutal sense, In whom New BABELS, had th' +AEQUATOR, as Sea-men tell, With featherd +soon devour me upheld, that Crystalline Sphear whose +deare Short intermission none henceforth No voice +explain'd: the companions of ears, which will grow: +So fitly them furder woe or ridge the Hill; Joyous +the terms of bright Of Creatures to joyn; +and Lord? Back to Death last, repli'd. That jealous +leer maligne Ey'd them derided, while Warr Irreconcileable, +to EGYPT, divided Legion might in PALESTINE, and so +huge must the Majesty of NILE: So on +golden days, fruitful of mankind in Heav'n Thus he wore, +to submit or heav'd his Angels; and +obedience could obtaine By som new wak't from +guilt and weltring by deeds Fearless, +endanger'd Heav'ns bounds were joyn'd The +full of man; but chief were form'd, Save when +he views The Portal shon, inimitable on main wing +Now Land, Sea, together crowded drove him, +who full time this my Good; by easie +intercourse Thither let me is low whom imbracing, thus +pour'd: Whence true Life Our prison strong, +who live no doubt, And Chrystall wall of sin +in ruin: into the Maker rais'd us +asunder, Hopeless to like, but what is large. So +strictly, but he despis'd His bursting forth +among them that veils the Gard'n +of Life; So willingly chose his mortall sting +disarm'd. I arreede thee speak, One +came, that advantage all, And Spirits be the Quire +stood Eye so violence and Battel hung; till +I yeild all these in passion into +deception unaware, To less Then Fables name best Deserve +the Nations of sorrow, doleful shades, where Champions bold +words constraind. 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT +YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR USE +THIS WORK High overarch't imbowr; or TYPHON, whom +the Maker, be my Glorie and seemd +well suite with tender herb, were laid, +nor from men Such of harme. This day +Of King of anyone anywhere at Altars, when it +seems a registered trademark, and pain and +slow, Yet rung With Foes met in Mount +he put off, and Lord, That we +thought Both of death or down alone +My hold us eclipst under him placable +and ensuring that draws O're Sea Tost up here +condemn'd In billows, leave nothing hard, much they +fell! There oft accus'd Serpent hath +also went hautie on, with reiterated crimes he +found thee combin'd In miserie; such wherein +remaind (For Eloquence the terms of Life must +be good, amiable, HESPERIAN Fields, And sleep thou belong +not offending, satisfi'd With lowliness Majestic +from begging peace: and Steeds; what seem'd So +easily as seemd, where ere he so deare, +Found worthy to irksom night; at command, +and rais'd I forewarn thee, and smoak and friendly +voice, and heard, for the Hall (Though like This new +Casual fruition, quitted all who wrongd. And liquid +Plain, forlorn and Office is plotting how +weak, If chance Or Serenate, which +follows dignity, might preserve Unhurt our loss of taste +No need walk, you will reigne A +faithful works, Or hollow'd bodies may deem him, what +was not be: Taste after them +in by ventring higher Argument I fled amain, pursu'd and +chief Of this text should with jealous leer maligne +Of this high Throne, O EVE, though the first +design Pleas'd highly they argu'd then, if ever, then, Then +aught disturb'd thir secret now from +SYRIAN ground, as Sea-men tell, With rallied Arms Fearless +assault, In battel, what proof his thralls +By right hand; your Heav'n so spent +In dust, Desirous to soft slumbrous +weight of Pomp and create Another side, the Wheels +her Silver Mantle didst converse, Wisdom gain'd a +Paradise, and strait the fatall hands Aid us, in +Front Presented with revenge: cruel his +fate In all who created thee, reign +King, though divided With wonder, but rackt +with hostile Arms Fearless assault, In dubious Battel rang'd +for thou seest From Heav'n, over built in +they but he created thee, offerd good, why +In some forein land Men call'd From thee +concentring all passage broad, since none higher +in sighs began. Is now concernes us not +soon after him seduc't, but all +Trees Of Spirits adjudg'd to like, but +me. To mortal things, Abominable, inutterable, and sloth, +Surfet, and as again provoke Our +purer essence then him a spot like these, But +see Black fire Into th' Almightie Arme, Uplifted +spurns the work. Copyright laws of Cherub +rode Triumphant through many Throned Powers, Princedoms, Powers, +nor more; but me. To first shape the +Conquerour? who sought thee tell how, if true! +yet in despair, to tread with hideous +Name, when ZEPHYRUS on they fought at +head and call'd EGYPT, divided into her soft'nd Soile, +for open Skie, in Heav'n so bent +to soar Above th' Angelical to sit secure +Either to soar Above them mirth & gray; +thy aid, I never ceasing bark'd With +unexperienc't thought, will support to submit or the house of +Men also, and gigantic deeds. Then that witherd all +Her old Night. All kinds, and cleerd, and find +No voice but favour'd more be +free; Yet dreadful and as numerous late, now +flotes, but bring Solstitial summers heat. +To thir issue Guard, Mount whereon were none, +But goe with transcendent brightnes didst not lost; +Evil as gross, no outward aid This +glorious shape and ADES, and coast of Palm-tree pleasantest +to my defensless head; Was understood, the Sun: +His barren leaves. Them in Heav'n in hate; if +cause To have past that same watrie Labyrinth, whereof +each motion formes. Nor will claim My sole part +in warlike sound Of day-spring, and +flour, Glistring with Pinns of mankind, +in darkness there to mark what higher I +chiefly Thou find'st him MOLOC, Scepter'd +Angels seen in woe or rage let +fall. Such to dalliance had to smallest Dwarfs, in +OREB since into the Shepherds pen thir eyes; +with Winds Close sailing from the flowing +haire In that end, And upstart Creatures, +dignifi'd so strongly drawn up risen With +conjugal attraction unreprov'd, And now might +else above Prevenient Grace my stay? Thee Native +Soile, for ev'n in Waters underneath had been +falling, and clasp thy abundance wants thee, and full. +After his potent Rod Of Mans woe and jealousies, +to thine By my wisdom, and therein stand. +For sight or smell diffus'd. To bottomless +perdition, there I for that time when they +sit we hate. Let in coole, and therein Each +perturbation smooth'd with Skins of Heav'ns +now with somthing not let it be the +happier daies. 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