daily-robot-milton/poem_2022-06-07.txt
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Descend from Heav'n, My bread; what means of
anyone in vain And courage and GAZA's frontier bounds.
Him whom mutual guilt the Beginning how faire,
Less excellent, as glowing Iron Globes, Earth
be henceforth most he so lov'd, thy Lord, to
chuse for scarce allay'd still But have transferr'd All
perfet miserie, the Adversary of Hell scarce had disincumberd
Heav'n, Empyreal Mansion thus our joynt or
timerous flock together went Into my Word, begotten
Son, and pain Through Spirits adjudg'd to accord) Man of
doubt and LAHOR of Mountains now have transfus'd,
that brightest Seraphim Approach not, and upturn'd His Offring
soon recompenc't with me expos'd. But all but with Terrestrial
Humor mixt Confus'dly, and yee behold the resonant
fugue. In power with thir Counsels vaine
Thou at all; with fury thus consulting, thus
MAMMON led her bestow'd Too mean Drawn
round About him thus the brute
human, rational, though perhaps no cloud Of Brick,
and Earth upheav'd His Eye That Man Whom thus
she needed Lute or entity to dewy Eve, A Citie
strong hold what it bin achievd
of anyone anywhere at Heav'ns chearful waies of thee,
safe with obdurate pride and eat my Head I
come Into their great Conquerours, Patrons of sorrow,
doleful shades, where we may for
speed gave him off From him, if but thou
in warlike sound throughout the Bullion dross: A Pillar
of talk Of guile, We sunk
with peril gone All Trees loaden with that out
From SUSA his Sanctuary it divide our
loss, Unknown, which op'nd from new Kingdom
and shame obnoxious, and said, Let us remote
Produces with transcendent brightnes didst depart, and dangers, heard We
sunk before her Saile; So spake th'
upright he sits Shrin'd in crystal Wall,
and Love thou but adoration pure digestion
bred, Whose annual wound Receive, no solution will
support Each thing not my Self have
grown above his highth, and taste of Arms, and
multiplie By Act of Warr, Nor in it
away or dying to fall Erroneous, there
Arraying with me let hang, as in her ears
Cannot but others note Singing thir
being? Yet willingly thou spok'n as Are ever dwells:
Hail horrours, hail Infernal world, whom they
thought one disarm'd, Of vertue to
that render all things, foreseen This ponder, that VVhich onely
two weights The works even ballance down he
so minded still; And ACCARON and ANCIENT NIGHT, I
beg, and not wonderd, ADAM, one of
Knowledge of Bulls and massie Ore, The Tawnie Lion, pawing
to detaine thee attempted, who not quite
consume us, nor turnd thither-ward in ADAMS room
The Eye To mortal tast Brought Death
must of Spirits could they bend From Beds
of God; I adore. Gentle to girt With
head, enclos'd With Sanctitie of Rock
or charges. If you may have ye see
and apprehended nothing lovelier can easily
transgress the more, What hither side Disparted CHAOS over
him no aide might rise Above them
ordain His Cattel and all Temples th' ORPHEAN
Lyre I see her faire his Wiles, More
wise, let me then paus'd, As thus created, nor
Man may compare Great triumph and
with genial Angel stand, a Reed Embattell'd in honour
to rase Som advantagious act Of blowing Martial sounds:
At once beheld Where Scepter'd Angels disarraid.
Back to death, Proclaiming Life began in
peace. Can equal anger saves To evils which The
ground for that Dominion like an hour stood unmindful
ABDIEL that no cloud in her shows; Made
vocal Worship wave. SATAN beheld From cold OLYMPUS
rul'd the circuit to smallest Magnitude close Thy inward
part Half sunk in Glory above her
amiable: On ADAM, rise, high Walls Of dauntless
courage, and Timbrels loud And now who
counsel in wisdom, and wrought In
song was askt. The storie heard
his bad no fall, and glad Of MICHAEL
from aspect Silent yet such of
easier shunnd? God created thee, Divine
not of light, Save on IMAUS bred, Whose vertue, for
with feare of Hell By me, or not; wherfore
all fast, With various colours, how that pure now
Shot down Thus measuring things so faire, Less
hardie as they outcast from SYRIAN ground, under
water flies All night tun'd her
bestial train, Forthwith the rest shall his
Tillage brought into thir course to
plague us? this miracle, and held part in danger lies,
yet on mans offence To found
Already known As we to corporeal substances
require More tuneable then human. Nor had filld
Th' invention all assaults Their Altars
by him surer barr His Armie, circumfus'd on
Bitnet (Judy now foretold his Trunck
spouts out from Earth, another world, and infinite
Abyss And worn with thousands trooping came from God
enthron'd, our libertie, confin'd Within the Birds;
pleasant the deed; Shee from Heav'n, with mutual Honour
clad Each at hand, to enrage
thee Chiefly by me, of immortal minds. Thus drooping,
or Penaltie? Here walk'd the mild
Judge Of guile, We overpower? Suppose he surveys,
and undon, hath our Grand Parents in
multitudes Were such Object to submit or danger
by us who thought himself untri'd. I well stor'd
with flours: The Angel, well pleas'd. I
Adore him, Towns, and apprehended nothing high: from the loud
misrule Of BACCHUS from the Goblin
full bliss. Him the perilous edge Of order, so
easie ascent, or entity that like befall
Spirit within kenn he sent from
blest MARIE, second Life, the worthiest; they sang
of which before them. But hiss for ever during Gates,
And girded on every part, and smoak: Such ambush
from dance about his Gilles Draws in, and
Conscience represented All these Beasts among, Beholders rude,
Guiltless of MOABS Sons, From Beds of
God Rais'd on thoughts, reforming what surmounts the brink
of public peace, both will put off, and nature
and wak'd SATAN, filld the bitterness of Hell
trembl'd at THEB'S and seem so small night-founder'd
Skiff, Deeming some say, to that opprobrious Hill,
Nor did thy call. Now I obey
is sure. Will rule; and play
In honour and eyes appeard, Not only sound Yet
half in behalf Patron or whether scorn,
Or whom mutual slaughter bent. Forthwith his
righteous Cause, And courage never did not lost; Evil
into terrour chang'd his heel. Haste hither
thrust me already lost, from Night; Light
Hasted, resorting to soar Above the arched roof Pendant
by freely what proof enough such rebuke, so on
dry Land hereafter from Councel thus MAMMON
led th' obdurat King of supernal Power.
Will once as that now, repents, and with pale, ire,
Or shall find Against the Sword of
Mankind, Mother of BABEL on Bitnet (Judy
now reignes Full to sway Brandisht aloft shading the chief;
among themselves The sacred song; but what reward
Of Natures works Created pure. But thir weakness, how found
Thir own Heroic name His famine should have still remember'd
The last, him danger or violent, when he
calls us too fast shut Excel'd her Judge
and wrought Insensibly, for in Hill Torn
from the earth Up to simplicitie Resigns her Will
slack'n, if SION also evidence, example
with me. To evangelize the Desert and Thrones, Dominations,
Princedoms, Vertues, Powers, Dominions I thence Had been
falling, had disincumberd Heav'n, we fled bellowing.
On duty, sleeping found Before all
Temples th' attempt, But bid cry With
liberal and ILIUM, on Thrones; Though distant farr, founded the
Aire: So dear pledge Of hazard in Spirit coming
of Paternal Deitie, while it down, and assume These Adamantine
Gates; three drops the sons of anyone anywhere at
rest shall we endur'd not, as mee.
They heard, without end; but rather
Mee who moovd Thir Nature, hold
his strength, Not incorruptible would loose, expell'd to
mention, through ways That excellence he so
prevaild, that uxorious King, though divinely brought, and
Joint-racking Rheums. Dire was but grace The
sport and interrupt his Errands in Triumph high praise, who
ask ye, and bid cry Surround me,
with revenge though the terms of Hell, not To
interrupt the dear life. So to animal, To my
experience, ADAM, earths hallowd feet, and all
monstrous, all Temples th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus advanc't,
Created evil, and upright and vines Yeild Nectar,
visiting each dayes of Land, and transgress the Pit
shall then Gods live Before thir
way; harder beset And shook Of Growth,
Sense, and as day mortal, and hostile din,
That such live Forever, to highth
began, and breath'd Heroic Song charms the Vision led
me long detain'd In whirlwind; Hell trembl'd at
eeve In Council sate, as some
Island, oft, as beseems Thy likeness, thy Associates,
ADAM, earths hallowd the madding Wheeles Of
subterranean wind To good have disobei'd; in Heav'n
Gate reply'd; Hast thou Out of lamentation
loud acclaim. Thence more Cease I wak'd, and
Golden Panoplie, refulgent Host, Easing thir
change, Though all Air his Mace petrific,
cold invirons round, Behind him wanton ringlets wav'd thir
sin, deserv'd to foul disorder; all mankind, though steep,
through experience of pure of Heaven,
or re-use it speak