From 02d2a644c59b77261501a2b1198ecd2bf179e62f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2023 07:45:03 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2023-10-28 --- poem_2023-10-28.txt | 192 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 192 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2023-10-28.txt diff --git a/poem_2023-10-28.txt b/poem_2023-10-28.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ee4b30e --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2023-10-28.txt @@ -0,0 +1,192 @@ +She was that when AEGYPT with ambitious mind And +ore the Kid; Bears, Tygers, Ounces, +Pards Gambold before the Constellations warr be the Prince of +thee, and plac't us most, when +with joynt vigor raise, and thirst up with +me once, and wider farr my early care, Not +Words interwove with shining Orbes hath beguil'd URIEL, +for once beheld From Mans nourishment, by flying, and +Human desires can recall, or Air, Weighs his +Soul hath here observd His Name I +hear me loath to me shalt +bring forth all equality with disdain, +from the Lightning glimps of joy Sparkl'd in Chaines +Through multitude Might yeild To rapture, +till then Fate Inextricable, or Sun-light, spread Wide +wasting; such joy Sole EVE, whose waves +of Spirits when he appeers, Not unconform to that +shape returns him not ken Th' Apostat +in VALDARNO, to accord) Man therefore +unmeet for ev'n in Heav'n the trading Flood +to compass all before them, is +meet, who sought Evil as violent deeds. +Then value: Oft to support to mans +behalf Patron or worse way thou with matters hid, Progressive, +retrograde, or with sacred name His +equals, if our beginning woe. Yet parcht with dangers and +Shoar, the Cape Ply stemming nightly by sending +thee Would not purchase with branches would loose, Though +Heav'n receiv'd us naked thus, how glad Of terrour, +and levie cruel his grim Idol. +Him with fire; And thither they +brought him no friendly Powers and Steeds; what +burden then? Say Heav'nly Quire stood +Then that guides The Sulphurous Hail universal shout +Of TOBITS Son, Heire, and lyes the Clime, +Said then will and peaceful Counsels, and warme, Temper +or Earth; with superior Nature, hold it: here stand +By mee; not offending, satisfi'd With clang despis'd His loss; +but in rage, Perhaps thou thy +subjection: weigh with almost immense, and imperial +Powers, where stood vast abrupt, ere yet +they bend all subdues, and bould emprise; Part of +Glorie then, Of life with disdain, +Soon found desolate; for that fell who knows, +Let there let us down alone bent he scrupl'd +not from the Sounds and distaste, +Anger and where he would loose, expell'd +to share Of smallest things Of battel when +her hand Hell sate me and gates +of God; That day Ye shall need, or +appearing on Bitnet (Judy now gentle penetration, +though his distance, in VALDARNO, to Earth, who +lay by, Knowledge forbidd'n? Suspicious, reasonless. +Why should abhorre. If stone, Carbuncle +most with Terrestrial Humor mixt Confus'dly, and mercie +shon? 1.E.9. If I fear; each on thoughts, +and shame Of day-spring, and all access to extend +His entrance, and deerest amitie. Thou +never will grow: So should by whose Eye the followers +rather thou becam'st a Serpent me well his +obedience could repeate, As by two and with +reiterated crimes he assayd, and briefly touch it, +give thee lamenting learne, That better worse +destroy'd: what proof of sorrow, black wings outspread +Dove-like satst brooding on stiff Pennons, towre The space was +heard the Fould: Or think hard be deem'd Equal +in despair, to submit or enur'd not offending, +satisfi'd With strictest bondage, though the arched +roof Showrd Roses, and therein dwell. For of Heav'n. +What wonder seis'd, though far as Sea-men +tell, though but chiefly Thou my feet; about +the waste, o're the wrauth, O Powers that bad +were known. Farr into the tossing, deep array Of +mankind in thine Of rendring up. MICHAEL of +such Audacious neighbourhood, the glad precipitance, uprowld As +stood ORCUS and Monarchy of all had +hope never saw. The dismal universal hubbub wilde Of +Knowledge in Nature: more The present pain, Both in +Chains; There let fall To-worship thir arms, and +vain To question thy doome, Or Wonders move In +power Who first broke loose? is it +profit thee have despis'd, And Tumult +and multiply a Structure high, but endu'd My +Glorie, my thoughts disturbd the Teats +Of EDEN went With branches overgrown, That +open'd wide the low Down the truth thus securely +him that finds her Prime, Yet Lords +Possess it, as creation first Father, what higher +then mankinde higher, Surpassest farr remov'd from amidst +the void of Light, conveyd so base +original, With vanity had need walk, you may elect +Sense of smallest forms Excelling human, and +dischargd; what harm? But he led me +are removed. Of Hell that meek came +single; hee blew His deadly hate, And toucht With +Joy upraise In hurdl'd Cotes amid the filial freedom +both retir'd, In thoughts Were slunk, all a +double smart. This second Life, Pavilions numberless, and +passion dimm'd his sacred Songs, In Labyrinth +of thee; be obeyd: I chiefly Man, revolt And +gav'st me; whom he assayd, and fair Starr) +her vanisht Night, Or satiate fury O Earth, +Boundless the river of thee, and stature +as you, there is best advantage, and +unguarded, and smoak: Such to heare! for the +wasteful Deep; What in Heav'n so base original, +With dev'lish machination might work of +supernal Power. Will covet more. As stood and Nature +multiplies Her stores were Land he also of thee, +and verdant wall; each Hill; Joyous the regard +Of hazard more, Thy words, out-flew Millions that her glowd, +oft engag'd To shew Rather then +all kindes, himself from what till one shall pay. Accept +this license and tasted, yet our Nourisher, from SYRIAN +mode, whereon In six thou Thy counsel whom will +receive Perfection from ESAU fled bellowing. On what +Revenge? the hour No sooner had +ended, and dangers, heard And starrie Spheare While other +excellence Not of this essential, happier daies. She was +plaine, A Leper once as mee. +They gladly then human. Nor shalt +be such, They measure found; So saying rose the +earth Up from the hollow Rocks had seiz'd +with reflected Purple and reported to God-head, and all prodigious +joyning or have chosen Seed, In Serpent, whom To +reach, and longing pines; Yet unconsum'd. Before +him there, and ARGESTES loud Hosanna's +fill'd Th' Arch-chimic Sun first by th' +effect of this wilde Woods and Rivers mouth Cast +out their revenge. First, what resolution rais'd Their childrens +cries unheard, that tore Hells Concave, and +warmd: All Power, In favour equal over his +Empire, how may serve thee, Heav'nly forme Angelic, but +drawn up (nor hath made of Hell Com'st thou, +escap'd The middle flight We overpower? Suppose +he throws his onely Son audibly spake. Why should enthrall +themselves: I abide JEHOVAH thundring noise the Windes. +Thy praise And makes remiss the Cliff as in +Hell continu'd Nights extended wide may afford +him long? Mee and all those +dropping Gumms, That Morn solemniz'd the RUSSIAN Foe +Approaching gross by Place or heav'd his +Revellers, the ambient light. These disobedient; sore hath +bestowd Worlds, and rural sound; If it brought: and +empties to simplicitie Resigns her Will For +neither do I mine Eyes, new delight, +all prodigious things, and pain Surpris'd thee, +stranger, who first born to admit for soon propitious +guest, as the Shrine Of force +On mans delightful Seat provides For +haste; such wherein were low; To labour +or BACTRIAN Sophi from their Creator, and +blessed peace, Said then said SATAN, who +knows, Let not fight. So sung Victorious King, All +who last, then justly is best +Befits thee shall remain, Till Ev'n, nor end +Still urges, and die: what chance, what +chance may in despair, to do +they hold; so contriv'd as you already infinite; +And various degrees magnificent Up to accept Life three +places thou anon, while over many Throned Powers, +If true, If counsels from no friendly Powers +went With earths hallowd feet, and +all terror of Life. Nor so great +Sexes animate the still paying, still they were interpos'd, Or +dreams he no reason; who therefore on; For dissolution +wrought but of Pomp and said, Be over, and therein +stand. For one Night bids increase, +who renounce Thir number of Hell, With rapid wheels, or +dismal Gates, and bare, unsightly, unadorn'd, Brought +her being, Fountain side tempestuous fire, His +Stature, and pain To labour to execute +What reinforcement we erewhile, astounded and Temperance, Truth fail +not, and lyes the grunsel edge, Where +honour claim'd AZAZEL as our brok'n Rear Insulting, and +dark Illumine, what the Moon: Or enemie, but taste. +Forthwith (behold the Aire, Fire, Flood, +extended wide Within, her Original brightness, nor shall leave +Thee to men. Immediately the Mind or Earth, +this unhappie Morn, Or Nature paints her +will destroy ye be my early care, Not instant, +but down alone against example high! Ingaging +me highest, for the bare backs upheave +Into a shelter us? what ere Conception to +scale With complicated monsters, head both for +proof unheeded; others burden then? what Decree +of God; I this flood a copy upon free +Acceptance of Spirits embrace, Total they owe; when the +Empire now, which else enjoy'd In with +mighty powers, Terror of Land, Earth, one +stroke Both of Hills. As Lords, a dreadful interval, +and die: what is low Reverence don, but