daily-robot-milton/poem_2020-12-27.txt
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by proof, Hell-born, not offending, satisfi'd With
wondrous birth: Be questiond and might surest
signal, they recoild affraid At once again
provoke Our wonted signal, they know All
he dismiss'd them, to undergo eternal being
Who from all Temples th' ALEIAN Field They
taste Of Father, what ere Death
expos'd The visual ray To us
tend From thus I turnd thither-ward in Pairs
they all, on yon boyling cells
prepar'd, That self more safe, And Morning CHORUS sung
they, who lives in earnest, when the
Hills where subsist? While other wandring thoughts,
and deliver ye Waters generate Reptil with a Son gave
a wakeful Nightingale; She most, and quench
his gloomie bounds Of tardie execution, since
our necessitated, such an awe of Paradise to Nations
will raise At Loopholes cut sheere, nor is
low Reverence don, but Heav'nlie borne,
Before all eare Of Guardians bright,
Then lighted from pain Torments him; if
thrown by fire Dilated or Angels many Throned Powers,
That Shepherd, who since, but rackt with thee, Wondrous
in narrow vent appli'd To us,
nor these eyes, Sunk down Thus incorporeal Spirits
when call'd Princes of SYRIAN Damsels to soft
windes with Heav'n, so Fate Meant mee, by
all these graces won audience and Judgements
imminent: But might work him MOLOC, Scepter'd
Angels to NEBO, and Meddowes green:
These cowring low Down a hideous Peal: yet, when
BELLONA storms, With vain attempt. Him
whom now awake Tunes her first Father, Son, Obtain,
all feavorous kinds, and rising seem'd his care must earne
My Fancy to Folly, as Rocks thir mouths
the Rose: Another World, To this Fountain fome belated
Peasant sees, Or if what reward was
now My hold Betwixt them rising changes oft
his guide Lamenting turnd the way, or possibly his mawe
Destin'd to approve thy folly, and Snow, or indirectly from
thy great Visitant approachd, thus I though
his head up to burn His
own: for ever since first a
foe: and pain, had'st thou My sentence
Man: For regal Scepter and laughs
the orient Gemmes The strict Senteries and
peaceful words here I suffer here in evil on
golden seat's, Frequent and shame nigh The evil
he hath equald, force of Myrrhe, & there command
Transgrest, inevitably thou shad'st The horrid King
MESSIAH, and therein set them prostrate
fall like an Apple; he wonns In Manhood
where PROSERPIN gathring flours aloft shading the terms of evils;
of Artifice or Justice with ambitious aim
Against a World; at Altars, when
great Sire, And o're hil, o're the works knowledge
past who sees and ore the
works to work in bounds And beautie, added not,
and smoak: Such to spring time, All perfet
sight, Amid the track Of Coral stray,
or possess All amaz'd unwarie brest With first
thus I wondring tell Of King Omnipotent Decree, The
paine of anyone in mysterious Law, thou
of Heav'ns fugitives, and Pine, and disperse, that
s/he does not less hostile din, That to gaze
the highth of God; I yeilded, by fire
purge off From that with wings a
horrid confusion rose: When SATAN except, Created
pure. But well understood Of hard
For Treasures better fortitude Of BABEL,
and whom in Heav'n Grateful digressions, and chief good,
and his head up rose Satan talking to quell thir
Matrons to either sweet approach of
danger by whose hairie sides With Goddess-like demeanour
forth peculiar grace Invincible: abasht the
free, be turnd, But all assaults
Their childrens cries unheard, that shape Comes unprevented,
unimplor'd, unsought, Happie for high top of
Heaven, There rest, His living Death? O glorious
march; but meaner thoughts what is for food discern'd
Or Spirit That Bodies first create
Is this Deep, then bursting forth Thir
influence Of his circling row of hell Precedence, none,
so superficially surveyes These wicked wayes of Heav'ns
everlasting groans, Unrespited, unpitied, unrepreevd, Ages to dawne
Obtains the VIRGIN and shame nigh founderd on me
returns Day, The Womb of Hell trembl'd at
seaven mouthes With vain so had rais'd, and paternal
Love, Where universally admir'd; but a Monument Of AMRAMS
Son in bigness to graze The doubt, And stripes,
and Power, and cleer thir fall Of his head, hands,
wings, and hate, Sad task enjoyn'd, but strive
or EDEN: this unhappy Mansion, or any and
(c) any additional cost, fee of supernal Power. Will arrogate
Dominion hold Betwixt these mid-hours, till my last
his flight Then Crown'd With solid,
as that warble, as the choice Here swallow'd up
or more to submit or redistribute this
darksome desart, as now, though with Pure with
me light & stai'd With sweet
Converse with winged Saint After short pause
Down sunk Under whose hairie sides round Shadow
from pain Implacable, and INDUS: thus
reply'd. O sacred Porch EZEKIEL saw, when he
sees, while thus double-form'd, and Power,
And found repose; and therein stand. For one rising,
will destroy ye chos'n this my steddiest
thoughts restraind as Princes, Potentates, Warriers,
the fields were come short, on Bitnet (Judy
now Gladly the Reign obscur'd, But all
from Sin and hath to accord)
Man ere dawne, Effect shall endure; without Thorn
the new wak't from him out of God;
That reaches blame, but double how here?
This day we may no further
knew) Nor chang'd to accept as mee. They
summ'd thir punishment, False fugitive, and
add what ensu'd when AEGYPT with blood will
pluck such and AARON) sent I put to impose:
He spreads for the brink; But ever
since denounc't that witherd all Temples th' AEGAEAN
Ile: thus consulting, thus double-form'd, and with Grace descending
tread us who fill of raging into
thir bleating Gods. On other parts were heard attentive,
and go, so affirm, though through a glossie
scurff, undoubted sign That what proof his Heav'n,
On my sentence, and dangers, heard
so wish'd beheld, the fee for mankind repli'd.
To want, nor shund the Serpent, we
send, The Records of Jasper shon Above
all Her Husband, for Maistrie, and prevented
all hue, as Sea-men tell, ye may, Yet what
is very easy. You provide access Impregnable; oft
the VIRGIN and shame obnoxious, and dire
Calamity, What within 30 days of UTHERS
Son Young BACCHUS from the pledge Of substance,
gently rais'd I purchase deare Short intermission
none would I who first resolv'd,
If true, If these corrosive Fires Shall
fill Of dreadful thing thou covet more. With hundreds
and ras'd By which, in Wood
or woe or happy State, which when looking down,
whether here Breathe forth peculiar grace Attends
thee, when AEGYPT with songs to
eate: Of Rainbows and call'd so suffice his
resolution rais'd Others more might beget
Like of sorrow, black attendant Death. Here
finish'd hee, as did I be
the op'ning seemd, or Sun-light, spread wings,
and pain Through Spirits of desolation,
voyd of grim Feature, and all hue,
and place Left them and pleasure not become this
universal Host Level'd, with taint Th' Apostat in honour
his uprightness answer thus must appear More dreadful
Thunder had need With every Creature, fair
defect Of EDEN strive; nor end with Envy and
broad, came down Thus drooping, or ground
None can impair thee, safe retreat Beyond th' Ethereal
warmth, and cool, the waste, and free From
either to run Potable Gold, And
vent'rous, if Predestination over-rul'd by experience taught
we never will fall I call that rape begot
These as that rape begot These wicked wayes
from the fresh and therein By whom
mutual league, United thoughts were coming, and colours
mixt: On they parted; by wondrous length into
the crude consistence, half his view: About
them stood Or not, and dismal hiss of
light, we return, but a fat Meddow ground;
or DRYAD, or taste Deceav'd; they were such
unsightly and solitarie, these our sighs
now MOSES so hee in one whose hither thrust
me most, and settl'd State Mine never
seek, once So dear pledge Of missive ruin; part
single imperfection, and shame obnoxious, and obedience holds; of
obtaining a bruise, And Brest, (what could repeate, As
we his Sail-broad Vannes He hasted, and
wilful barrenness, That Lantskip: And more glad
as that rape begot These troublesom disguises
which through experience of this pause Down the full-blazing Sun,
and pain To trample thee thither
anon With Tresses discompos'd, and pain
up with me for us here place Of
new trouble raise: Hast thou sawst, hourly
conceiv'd A space, till Morn, Or Sex,
and all kinds that Realme And fly, ere
while each other viewing, Soon banded; others bore
with loss of anyone anywhere at compleating of
monstrous size, TITANIAN, or sinks, or
Penaltie? Here Pilgrims roam, that dost prefer Before
thee shall receive a Heard farr his
Sire gave a River to fall Of
gesture proudly eminent Stood waving fires: on our
afflicted Powers And they passd they durst
dislike his Tongue obey'd The sentence from these delights
Will arm'd, the weight of sorrow, doleful shades, where and
don by Limb by command wherever stood So glister'd
the noise