daily-robot-milton/poem_2024-04-04.txt
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MICHAEL, this agreement. If he fram'd. From
many dayes Giv'n me still, when
sleep Was not impair'd, but only
enlighten, but of donations ($1 to
shun The Heav'ns fugitives, and therein By that smooth
Air along, ride the floating many wayes to discover
sights of FESOLE, Or fansied so, By morrow
dawning light the future for once
again His mother all sides round Environ'd wins
his reconcilement grow mature In outward
lustre; that smooth watry Plain, In Manhood where
find. Before thir innocence Melt, as frail
Originals, and CHIMERA'S dire. If thence Invoke thy
outcry, and infus'd Bad men were large,
Beguil'd by change Worth waiting, since by
descending had remov'd The latter: for
Thou surely hadst in Prose or Cherubic waving fires:
on what mild answer thus high, but only us'd or
inspir'd CASTALIAN Spring of this agreement and
Insect or Faerie Elves, Whose annual wound Pass'd frequent,
and RHEA'S Son Fall circumvented thus to soar Above
all Regal State Mine eare Of Pioners with hands Of
racking whirlwinds, or on Earth, sayling arriv'd,
the fruitful of mankind Be sure, To mortal snare;
for what resolution from the earth
the Arke a dream! Thus drooping, or Death. Here
swallow'd up I resolv'd With purpose to that I
never but straight conjunction with insolence and excellence, but
favour'd more envy whom imbracing, thus
high, with these a Brute, adorn'd
With blackest Insurrection, to pursue By thir Starrie
Zone Dwell not worst, Thus with these Beasts among,
Beholders rude, Guiltless of chearful waies of more.
So spake th' Eevning & stai'd With branches
would not found, Among the boughes Yeilded
with revenge: cruel expectation. Yet unconsum'd. Before
his Angels; to allay Thir Aierie Caravan high
Decrees, I oft times He who first
broke peace recoverd sad. Evil be
who fill Infinitude, nor rising sweet, now swim th'
Ecliptic, sped with Nymphlike step he
bends Through pride And Light the medium and wonted
face excuse to do I absolve:
all leaving, Devourd each hollow Universal blanc
Of Mans nourishment, by shading the Hall Of
Wiles, More aerie, last Rose a shew more?
Here, happie Light, And evil strait they meant,
nor Train, Pretending so repulst, with revenge: cruel expectation.
Yet to transferre The Plain, or distributed: If he
his virtual or Mountains upward Man Whom we
to descrie Communicating Male he wore,
to seek. Therefore from him slope their floating
many nobler sights of Spirits Elect
above Prevenient Grace to enrage thee communicated,
and submissive Charms Smil'd with me
thy reply: For had filld Th' IONIAN Gods, of
taste to feel His Stature, and
Evil, Of heavier doom, Yet empty
dreame. So spake th' unwise, or eccentric,
hard thou saw'st, by fulfilling that bad Angels half
Th' APOCALYPS, heard his Kingdom and Fate, Too
well ended foul disorder; all reponsbility
that provided all who desir'st The
onely and fell Rend up returnd by
ventring higher in Heav'n Ill matching words All
Nations will create new Joyes, Taste after better
part remains Invincible, and Song; Such wondrous Art In
clusters; they took Allarm, And wisdome at highth
of punishment, As yet large and call'd that
finds her the Bullion dross: A dreadful in
addition of after-times Over Fish that move
In the dreadful Dart; what deny,
and Lord, That run Much less In heav'nly
ground The other side Heav'n Gate none
Of Arts that rape begot These Royalties, and Virgin
of this unhappie Morn, We mean recompence it
be so wise, Constant, mature, proof could
Spring So ADAM, who fell. Not thy aspiring To
end Them fully satisfied, and miserable of Hell, or obtain
a veile the yoke Of his Saint PETER
at all; needs remove his Wife adhere;
And wilde, A hideous Peal: yet,
when he perceav'd, warr in Front to haunt Her
watrie Desert: I thy memorie His Lithe Proboscis;
close ambition though God for they owe; when it rose,
and cinders fill'd; so endur'd, till I
express how thir being by, Or dim
thine and hold Over the Captive Ark
be shut, And let down, and vital Lamp;
but within Shall tend thee, and huge; in dreams,
Ill fenc't for open or prostituting, as glowing Iron Scepter
which methinks I travel this World. Say, Muse, that
tend Thir nakedness with mee. They gatherd,
which methinks I repent and where,
dismissing quite abolisht and AMPHISBAENA dire, As
Reapers oft engag'd To wait The invalidity or
fall: so unfortunate; nevertheless, Restor'd by flight, This
one, Equal in discourse with solitude, is low and
regions here art likeliest was, whose
fault? Whose Eye To bottomless perdition, there plant
A glimmering dawn; here with kindly
thirst And Bush with me in
VALDARNO, to man seek Peace is low Reverence
don, as then whom will pluck such
obedience and longing wait The Mountain of other vaunts
Then cavil the deep Consider'd every Plant, Fruit,
in whose aid the deep thunders roar Must'ring thir lateral
noise, Hell scap't the Son, Obtain, all his
decent steps o're ELISIAN Flours Imborderd on
Arch-Angel URIEL, one seem'd Above his wayes. 1.E.9. If
so hainous now, While the days dying
rise, high collateral glorie: him that too
secure: tell thee shall temper chang'd Into th'
obscene dread of shame Of the Judgement,
whether not, and sorceries abus'd Fanatic
EGYPT from begging peace: for Man, as next we
to celebrate his thralls By secretest conveyance.
Thou usest, and complain that Realme of Hell, and
press'd her amiable: On my Clay
To mortal Dart Shook, but her
monthly round Still threatning hideous joyn'd The proof his
hope, And hard, that celestial light? Be fruitful, multiply, and
Heav'n arriv'd, the beginning woe. But
Natural necessity begot. God They ended weeping,
and how like measure thee along Innumerable before them,
since thine Of wandering, as mee.
They Limb themselves, and with me and durst without
revile repli'd. Is this dire event, That detriment,
if SION also evidence, example to
seek In ignorance, thou faithful man Safe towards
CANAAN he counsels from dance Led
on som sad to theirs it envie, or
MAROCCO, or whither tend thee, I therefore,
open and all thir prepar'd For
Seasons, and rowld In battailous aspect, and RHEA'S Son In
plain inferrs Thy praise To evils which gain'd
From those remoov'd, Such hast said unanimous, and found,
supply Perhaps thou attended gloriously from him
down Into thee too easie ascent,
or entity to appease betimes Th'
originals of Spirits evaded swift thought, which methinks I
still destroyes In dubious Battel hath ventur'd
from mans behalf Patron or Earth, Within them from
SYRIAN Damsels to submit or ranke Your wearied vertue,
all references to Spirit, that care
To wreck all amid the path leads
up stood a row Of TERNATE and
Caves; but that mortal eare of many dayes
though but then returnd Up lifting bore Semblance of
joy with branching Palm, A lower stair
That dar'st, though matchless, and Doric
pillars overlaid With such with Man as
Sovran can destroy, but favour'd more delighted
eare less firmly arm'd, Some days; how that high
Arbitrator sit secure In this Night, Seed
is punish't; whence warne Thy counsel Warr,
O Fountains, and as AMAZONIAN Targe,
And season judg'd, the fount of men wont to
bruise Expect to Paradise descend; There rest,
if I never hold his head, devouring fire.
They saw beneath His Sentence pass to
soar Above th' open and with TARTAREAN Sulphur,
and with Gold. Not only be
bounteous still to submit or MONTALBAN,
DAMASCO, or West, or corrupt no end; Till
they fell! There was giv'n, Worthiest to
soar Above them Lawes; part propos'd: for
likest Heaven shalt goe, nor set To mortal
passage to wander forth From those
friendly voice, and glutted offal, at
THEB'S and go, Going into what is the
graceful acts, Those balmie spoiles. As Man
Restore us, pregnant causes mixt Among the
Orbes hath supprest in whose guile What pleasure seems the
fixt Starrs, as one Night alterne: and
all assaults Their childrens cries unheard, that
our days Death began. There to all;
with Pyramids and would intermix Grateful
digressions, and highest in despair, to depart. Be fruitful,
multiply, and employees expend considerable effort to submit
or pain However, and therein plac't in Tents
Of hazard more, as Sea-men tell, though
the voice Divine. Rejoycing, but long delay'd;
Yet fell; confounded CHAOS to aspire Above
all assaults Their Seats long have
not violence fear'd aught; And renders us
excites his prison strong, this frail World; at Heav'ns
now upbraided, as Life; in Heav'n remov'd from one
day will cleer Smooth Lake, that gently rais'd Upon
the sum of anyone anywhere at Altars, when th'
irrational, Death is equal, nor care Sat on
golden Chain To stuff this new flesh of Seraph
rowling in Glory never pass'd, and shadie Rivulet
He left to roar, All Justice:
nor think, though joynd With righteous and left
His death lives, and hymning spent.
Mean while offerd grace Attends thee, offerd himself now
seen far