daily-robot-milton/poem_2022-02-11.txt
2022-02-11 07:45:04 -05:00

193 lines
8.7 KiB
Text

1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You two massie Spear
Of lustre rich CATHAIAN Coast. The trouble brought, wher
found, supply Perhaps hath this file should
turn Reines from Heav'n, once past, soon contemnd,
Since through Heav'nly stranger; well suite with fair Tree of
far blazing, as likes best, where I see
and ANCIENT NIGHT, I obey But still to strength
each His trust All seasons, ripe for flight, Thou
interposest, that strife with fair Women, richly gay Traine
Follow'd in mettle. After thir delay
Of anger fall; And stripes, and servilly ador'd
Heav'ns free Enjoyment of Knowledge call'd,
and beheld From me, will serve, That space
was In PONTUS or impose Such hast allayd
The second stroke Both from death lives, and
deeds Fearless, endanger'd Heav'ns afflicting Thunder, Wing'd with
ambitious mind Of Passion, I for those chiefly Man,
revolt And felt That sacred song; but felt and Heav'n
Ill fenc't for they spent of God;
I left side, Or could repeate, As Lords,
a Cloud, Amidst the charge with liberty,
who therefore his scatterd sedge Afloat, when the
forme Incapable of Spirits to woe, she seem, Insensibly
three that Region lost, Defac't, deflourd, and
Wife, where Thou mai'st not; To many Throned Powers,
Under him out of Orders, and all past with
blood arise Like Night, and what deny, and prayes
contrite, in mee along: For those
Shall enter Heaven sat Fast we lead
Hell Roaming to model Heav'n God Precipitate thee
too light At Heav'ns matchless Chief:
As at that sober Liverie all these
narrow search and dangers, heard me voutsaf't, other
Creatures; yet well, and bliss, Exempt
from Heav'n, with extended long Before thy
Race of Right. So sang of
many comforts, till Morn, Or Altar send along,
ride in Arms, in by things from SYRIAN
mode, whereon Who seekes To that
prospect high, Wherein past, and pass triumphant, and let
forth all Starrs, fixt Laws argue in narrow vent appli'd
To mortal Men call'd him, life so dread
of SIBMA clad In goodness bring
And thou spok'n as inclination or bonds, or
by Angels, they passd, and soft'n stonie hearts To
teach thee thy Sons; O Woods, and many Myriads though
strange conveyance fill'd up rose A multitude,
like which by strength, Not pleas'd, Canst thou appeer,
and freely what hinders then from
either side, the times may meet is, and dire
event, That equal Love; Least by strength, And
joynd In punisht in paragraph to soar
Above them down as him exercis'd Heroic
Race of touch the first create Another
part he wore, to Earth renewd. But that Crystalline
Sphear whose thou Dismiss not quite abolisht and mount
of sorrow, black Air with uplifted Spear
Of his beams Of day-spring, and
ambrosial Night would come flying, meet
with rich appeerd Under th' event
is large. So Ev'n or Love, not
by som small may ascend Up he sat; and
slow; But silently the gift possess her bestial
Gods; for which I devise, Inviting thee hath
honour'd thee, and Soule, Acknowledge him
thence And fierie foaming Steeds; what
compulsion and Fruits at Table was, what
he sat; and discontinue all seem'd, to reascend,
Though sleeping, where first thoughts pursue Vain glorious,
in quaternion run through experience of SODOM, and EDENS
happie places else had intrencht, and press'd
her Bearth. ***** This noveltie on som
suppos'd with Golden Cloud thus high mountain
tops the while. God proclaiming peace, Yet these thy
offerd grace diffus'd, so highly, to augment
Thir Parent would loose, Though single. From
out of him, such Majestie seemd Alone
as Gods, death to beare rule, Each
on highest Heav'n. But hiss of Nature;
some fit strains pronounc't and Love Immense,
and oyle; and call'd so hainous now, thy
Realm of thee, ingrateful food: and
formless infinite. Thee and honour claim'd AZAZEL as ours)
Have nothing loath; Flours were but reflected, shines; That
rais'd Others more delicious taste: Betwixt th'
Impereal Throne and levie cruel his
World, whereof in Festivals of Bliss. Direct against so abject
posture have feign'd, or Fish and make a
Gryfon through experience taught the SAMOED shoar
Bursting with me exercise Wrath without
permission of monstrous shapes Will keep the
Sons The discord which to abstain
But mortal doom'd. How didst reject Envious commands,
invented Torments. But O Progeny of Paradise up drawn, Rose
out To sorrow infinite Thy hatred they fondly thinking
to mix Tastes, not lost; Attonement for Man.
With goodness bring Taste this, thou
us hence: Here finish'd hee, as erst
they see thou not tri'd: and bound
his courage and mad demeanour, then Hell: Better to
quit of Fate, free Will, And various
influence Of his name, Though now so
customd, for the hubbub wilde Of ARABIE the dust
shalt to do with swift errands
over Lands and Asp, and feel Torment with
perpetual King; all mankind in pardon beg'd, with
or head, possessing soon contemnd, Since SATAN fell,
from him reverent, and leave so stedfast Earth. God remit
His best societie, And Fish that sight; but EVE,
Easie my early care, Not diffident Of peaceful Counsels, and
smoak: Such was pure, And at head
appeerd Bending to mans behalf Patron or have thee perfet,
not Men, thy Sentence; Hell, Thou
mai'st not; To heav'nly Quires of anyone anywhere at
Altars, when answer thus Eve repli'd.
Thou mai'st not; wherfore should write
thee more; Go heavenly Grace: and
sense within the flowing haire In whom
now proclaim'd? But thy self; which compel'd Mee though fall'n,
to impose: He sat; and QUILOA, and gain'd From
the sea, Earth Put forth to incurr
Divine compassion visibly appeerd, or harme. This saw
when he our Morn, Or if thrown by
Limb Sutable grace Attends thee, in contempt, At Loopholes
cut sheere, nor Man Whom thus shall
his grave His Seed, In discourse Is no
assault, In yonder starrie Pole: Thou did'st resigne thy
Kingdom, let us too farr thy Life,
what ere long after, now MOSES and foule.
But might induce us it not thy great event was
old! For that life-giving Plant, but well ended
frowning, and passion to soar Above all at th' abuse
Of Hill and dangers, heard so hainous now,
despoild Of wisdom; hope excluded thus, of
wonder at THEB'S and plac't A God,
now who not diffident Of heavier on golden Hinges
turning, as rais'd By him for the Spirits
elect Safe towards the Clouds began Is flat
despair: we owe. Nor of God; I sprung: amazement of
Power. Will To stop th' Eternal
Justice with almost no danger, and commands
that breaths from following each place he
scarce perform Nigh on either end Nights extended wide
That bred them excells; Nor content with me hence?
erre not her Eye, In sight, If shape and
despite, Whom fli'st thou? whom the bosom
and discernes, Irrational till from whose substantial dores, and
bliss, condemn'd In imitation of brute. Thus trampl'd,
thus double-form'd, and bleating herds Attest
thir senses dark, What order, how adore, From
those Contrive who first Made to know, when next
himself beginning late; Not ti'd or
enur'd not DAVIDS Sons, From standing still,
That open'd wide Lantskip all these eyes, Sunk down
alone Encompass'd shall CANAAN he sees,
while in thick bestrown Abject and
shifts her call, but of Hell should abhorre.
URIEL, for whence, But follow thee, this gloom; the
dreadful length prevaile Against us known, shall
his virtual or Hill, Nor shalt eate
Of his Angels; and native innocence, Defaming
as creation was? rememberst thou with native vigour soon To
final remedie, and Faith imputed, they
finish'd, and therein dwell. And one entrance
quite abolisht and shame to tears and disturbd
the local wounds of things; in Ice Thir guilt the
buxom Air, And worthie seemd, for
evil Ruin must earne My sole Lord supream
Contemptuous, and Songs, In circuit, undetermind square or harme.
But all men, he saves To whom
these Godless crew Lay vanquisht, rowling in CREET And
high Office mean, & tend From
Beds of Spirits Elect above rule Us his ofspring
of wind from Paradise up and knows
His dark Encounter in Hall (Though like
an Organ from him surer barr
His Quadrature, from no unbecoming deed so
as sons of pleasure she embrac'd him, the thick
a Meteor streaming to haunt Her Son. As
good befall'n him, what Revenge? the Mission
of lamentation loud And Brute as my side,
With Jubilie advanc'd; and CYTHEREA'S Son; If ye submit
or have tri'd whether washt by sentence Man: For
bliss, Faded so I upon thy Enemies, or fronted
Brigads form. However, and all night under ground Cover'd
with feats of Hell, or gemm'd Thir rising Sun
On mee, or Rhime. And Wings were set
them inrould, or Faerie Elves, Whose vertue
and granted tax deductible to do or ignominy,
or suttlety: Though to that most afflicts me,
from Heav'n they weend That run Potable Gold, Immortal
Amarant, a Fierie Alpe, Rocks, Waters, Woods, and
slothful: yet hov'ring o're