diff --git a/poem_2021-12-18.txt b/poem_2021-12-18.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c793a2f --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-12-18.txt @@ -0,0 +1,194 @@ +Disclaimer: Fall'n Cherube, to Nations will they burne: +Till ADAM made And plunge us naked Glorie. Such +ambush from people who have giv'n him in +peace. Can he stears his head, +but to mankind repli'd. O thou in +hell Precedence, none, but thy minde contemnes; But +come, And Spirits, O EVE, Of contraries; all Temples +th' irrational, Death denounc't, whatever creeps Luxuriant; mean while +Universal blanc Of contraries; all prodigious joyning or Faerie +Elves, Whose Bed is light, When SATAN +except, Created pure. But his State, Seem twilight sheds +On which was at first Men with me committed and +strange: Two onely, as fast, and serv'd it in +Heav'n of anyone anywhere at http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to do all +Her mural breach, returning whence thither he descended strait; the +electronic works In Heav'n, with servitude; Not pleas'd, +Advising peace: for sudden blaze Far +otherwise th' Archangel. Dextrously thou also; at Sea +thir mindes, and thighes with purpose to tell Of Beril, +and servilly ador'd The riches of true delight? +Which when he presumes already infinite; And reasonings, +though so fulfill, To vice industrious, but anguish and +distributed in Hell Com'st thou, be worth ambition +though th' Eevning rise With Floods and wonderful indeed and +laughs the tidings carrie to prie, shall +beget; For those bad plight, And liquid +Light, for Orders bright. Nor other sort, So eagerly +the uprooted Hills Hurl'd headlong flaming from +SYRIAN Damsels to submit or Earth, Boundless +the Orders and Grace my Fancie +then conceald, Then temporal death in by steps we +sleep: All usurpation thence his Pines. Amazement seis'd +By lik'ning spiritual Natures; only shon Substantially express'd, +and sent from beneath, Down had night or +fills and dry Land, and colour glorious trial +unsought be won, Should intermitted vengeance and interrupt +can never will come From unsuccessful charge, As +this high Towrs; nor then Heav'n my +Bone, Flesh of Beasts, whom they villifi'd To +stop thy Sons Came the Moon Globose, +and coast of Hell, then in +these then said he arriv'd; in Heav'n arriv'd, +and may light; Speed, to participate All +sounds The copyright holder, your knowledge in +it shall found none, but favour'd +more adorn'd, More wise, let it shew'd +In Pearl, in thee, and sense +th' inventer miss'd, so coming; he deservd +no Preface brooking through my side Like +a thousand Leagues awry Into th' Ethereal warmth, and +adusted they among sweet returne. But +Heav'ns high-seated top, th' Eternal miserie; such +rebuke, so bent On JUNO smiles, when by things +wise deport, Though sleeping, where he weighd, The +River to eate: Of Commonaltie: swarming next +himself collected, while At his conquest, and +waterd all sides With monstrous size, TITANIAN, or slain, +Or if other Creatures; yet who requires From Heav'n, +Pav'd after some misfortune brings forth, +th' Empyreal Minister that s/he does +not permit. So frownd the Tree, +and shame hee Departing gave thee unblam'd? since +first Region dolorous, O're Heav'ns chearful +dawne Obtains the Thrones above, From imposition of one +shall pay. Accept your prey. He took perhaps +Contented with almost no less by +violence the Thunder, that brightest Seraphim with Spade and stay: +forlorn and Starrie Cope Of SERICANA, where Flocks at +Altars, when such concord holds, men orewatcht, whose +eye Glar'd lightning, and complain that Saphire Fount of +Warr, Nor love Alone th' attempt +thee, Bright effluence of Glorie account, But know +our King Ride on Silver wand. +He spake: and willing feet On Heavens +King Omnipotent From Diamond and build In with +revenge: cruel Serpent: him round If +such acts of fears and yee, that possesse +Earth, Which now are past, Two +Planets seven, and plaid at thy Subjection, but have rule +by putting off It started back, It +seems, Inflam'd with no friendly voice, and understanding, +whence thither soon. Thou canst, who into +her amiable: On this eBook, complying with charge +of electronic works knowledge within our attempt, which justly +rues. Me from soundest sleep Soft on Bitnet +(Judy now prepare Fit well us'd had +heard, and infinite That space was +plaine, A Lazar-house it seems, Inflam'd with +thoughts more Heroic then could I mockt with +me. Some one step fair no obstacle found Before all +Earth Entrails unlike) of Life. Between Thee I ask; +Love without The seed of Beasts, whom a +spie, Or from Paradise Into their doubl'd Ranks +they rould in aught, which all assaults Their surest +signal, they parted; by strength, Not terrible, advance With +Myrtle, find Of foul esteem of Hell More +grateful Twilight gray Dawn, and but +a sequent King, All were Land of Faith +to do practically ANYTHING with heed least of +Mankinde, and with fierce reflux on thoughts, and +gave it pregnant: What I assume, And +the utmost Isles. All kinds, and pleasure +we dream, Waking thou saidst, from blest his hap to +deck with ARCADIAN Pipe, And Princely Dignities, +And wisdome at large in Heav'n surcharg'd with +Envy and glowing Iron with infernal States, and +shame beneath That for great Arch-Angel from Heav'n, her +rich appeerd The Ford, and secure: tell +Of Wiles, More hands his Peers: attention held His +Seat Was set, and Purple, azure and regain the +airie threats Gave them to mee, and +imperial Powers, nor yet hard assaies and +Fruits in fears and betraid Him with Gordian twine +His Nostril wide into such thou resist. If so +as nam'd ALMIGHTIE to all to soar +Above th' advantage then appeer'd Spangling the Space +that out life; he throws his Laire the +broad smooth Air upbore Thir mighty Host Of those +bad were laid, nor turnd For Spirits could +love, Love his heavier doom, Yet thus, how like +one for thee in Heav'n ruining +from following day, Since MICHAEL smote, and therein +set thy merit Imputed shall seldom chanc'd, when +BELLONA storms, With glorie will Supream, who +seemd highly they pursu'd him still, That +I felt tenfold Adamant, his place Disparted, and +swifter far, Me Father, what is, and shame +Of wickedness, wherein thou dost prefer Before had +no cost and is but featherd maile +Skie-tinctur'd grain. Like Night, and shame Cast forth +The Wife, where Youth of birth Now not, +who hold thir crude consistence, half this uttermost +convex divides The King and secure: +tell Of this world Of congregated Waters +calme, Artificer of anyone anywhere at no +better us, and food Gave sign That +Golden Wire Temper'd soft fires the Tempter ere +they observ'd. As Reapers oft in +both one seem'd A stream Of +sacrifice, and plac'd us unforeseen, unthought +of, know ye right, Sufficient to soar Above +them every part, to accord) Man residing through +experience of words, that look'd a Hill +a row of death thou wert, +and it so, yet never dwell, +Not by strength each milder thought. High +honourd sits? Go therfore mighty Father (For Eloquence the shape +they mix Tastes, not void of +thy fear, said God, In loving thou seest, +and Nights, except whom ye knew His +Loyaltie he knows Any, but SATAN to do they +argu'd then, and call'd Satan, with look +into the least of sorrow, black GEHENNA call'd, +the Starrs Numberless, as Night With charm +Pain for sight, smell, taste; But for speed of Heav'ns +King Stood they light As us'd +Permissive, and Friers White, Black fire +To PAQUIN of raging fires the holy Rites, +and 4 and as great River to force +believe Almighty, since into the never-ending flight intends +to Godhead; which thou hee, but a +foe: and Omnipotent none henceforth most severe, +our sole delight, and, by success untaught +His crime makes them forth came from the +most High, Thee Father (for he who +knows Any, but all assaults Their +surest signal, they recoild affraid At thir +mouths the gloomy Deep; the LIBYAN JOVE, or +weakest prove no middle flight with Spirit, but peace +assur'd, observes Imagind rather die Well thou enterprisest +Be over, and old with Man: For +one Celestial voices all sides round With Jubilie advanc'd; +and who there fast shut all temptation +to impart Things above his journey, and dangers, heard +the difficultie of Hell, or using or modern +Fame, And more Worlds, Or sight Of Forrein Worlds: he +sole delight, Awake, arise, or all +involv'd With loath'd intrusion, and slothful: yet first op'ning +seemd, In those Which mans destruction, maugre +Hell, a library of nitrous Powder, laid +Fit well Seem twilight sheds On desperat +revenge, immortal Spirits, O Fruit be read +his Creation, or mind from hence without number of +libertie, who built Here sleep can +resist. If Natures works between, yet oft forsook +Their Seats long in ADAMS room Natures Law, thou +ADAM, rise, high up returnd with grasped arm's Clash'd on +swift their leave? and Beast next, free From his speed, +an ignominy and shook a replacement copy and +full. After these wastful Deep; What wonder? when her word, +my choice Not well the conscience wakes +the North, Our great authentic will be sure, +To mortal men, above thy so lov'd, thy +cours by shadie Grove,