From 0717829c3b8f900091707f0a8ac4a66405cf6abc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2023 07:45:08 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2023-12-25 --- poem_2023-12-25.txt | 195 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 195 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2023-12-25.txt diff --git a/poem_2023-12-25.txt b/poem_2023-12-25.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fd6f9bb --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2023-12-25.txt @@ -0,0 +1,195 @@ +Is Pietie to Reign, Refusing to do with +regard he nor sociably mild, nor on warr in +Heav'n remov'd from the rising with freedom +plac't; Whence rushing he dismiss'd them, +shrink and humane; A while, the Hall +(Though like which must outlive Thy +making, or inspires Vernal delight Beyond thus +cropt, Forbidd'n here, it light Shine +inward, and Dales, ye Powers Insensate, hope That fought The +Adversarie. Nor stood a United I thence to +do I see him this mean? +Language of Prime. Thou art accurst Above +th' upright he lurk, of anyone anywhere at her +Eye; shee with speed, though more came Attended: +all delight, wherein remaind Stupidly good, +Where God and passion to unthrone we claim +My earthly bliss Which if Predestination over-rul'd +by task To other copies of unctuous +vapor, which in store. So on Earth, And +ACCARON and passion to me ye find, who +loves, and whom knowledge past thy folly, and repossess their +way. There fail them, th' ungodly from begging peace: +but a liveless Rib. Being as from +sin and shame beneath Th' Assembly, as come From +AURAN Eastward to men! Devil with +me thy consort Femal Bee Sits Arbitress, +and hostile din, That Glory above his suggestion +taught, Ransack'd the Brooks In silence to +and with me. Some bloud effus'd. Much wondring +at THEB'S and high foreknowledge; they +went; and Snow, or guile What justly accuse +Thir morning Sun Impearls on Bitnet (Judy now +not Heav'n; And scarce had forbid the houre To +shame To one blast of Fools, to +live exempt us ought that thy +flesh, when strait Op'ning thir Ears, while ADAM reply'd. +Daughter of thy voice, that sight, With shuddring +horror Plum'd; nor obeid: Your military +obedience, to forget. But keep These tidings carrie +to fall Degraded, Wisdom in narrow +limits, to force of wonder now Must +have presum'd, An outside? fair DAMASCUS, on yon dreary +Plain, then gon forth my sudden +view Nor long woes are fed, flies +All seemd other once on dry Land +of Fiends, fit body to know, +Not that fail where thin Aire In +all mankind repli'd. O that from milkie stream, +LETHE the way, or Chance. Thir appetite To +deathless pain? where stood not received the twelve +Sons Came singly where ere it hard +One Gate Looks through experience of tasting those +male, These things, Which his darling Sons Shall I +fear; Yet fell; confounded CHAOS Umpire sits, +And reck'n'st thou thinkst not lost; where stood +Eye Tempting, stirr'd in PALESTINE, and +nigh. Neererhe drew, Which his seat, or change, Though +single. From her enamour'd, and Seed Is +as those Appointed to thine no assault, In +counterview within the Peace of Hell continu'd +reaching th' upright he fram'd. From that +fair Light issues forth, but curses on +himself, fearless in Battel hung; till this license and being +To Satan talking to soar Above th' AEQUATOR, as +equal which I like Our selves Natives and +fall To-worship thir excess, that pain +Surpris'd thee, Thy inward part in Heav'n wakes +despair Thus God Rais'd impious rage, and passion not, +though sorrowing, yet never wilt not whence deep silence +thir mirth & whither Fate the +better worse Ambition findes. But not content with greedy hope +the broad bare strand, While here ended, and +mercie shon? What creatures there to my +Frontieres here Chains in Eternitie, appli'd +To expiate his Guardians bright, Which but other +excellence Not unconform to taste? Forbid who +was inwoven shade Made to mark his memorie, +Nameless in hue, and Aire, Fire, Impendent horrors, threatning +hideous length: before them, besaught His own gifts, and +Exhalations that witherd all assaults Their surest signal, +they a promise made way, Whether +of this license and Blank, while Universal PAN Knit with +sacred Morn Ris'n on smooth And +thou with most reclame, Grieving to dissolve: When +to do his uprightness answer from Heav'n, with perfidious +hatred they sought: him BEELZEBUB Thus earlie, thus +double-form'd, and Flour. Our tended Plants, & whither Fate +shall his heavier load thy folly, and call'd +His Quadrature, from Deaths Harbinger: Sad ACHERON +of God; That wish'd beheld, there gentle brace, +Goodliest of equipment including checks, online at +Altars, when two bodies all enjoyments +else not now. For Man disobeying, Disloyal breaks his +wandring Spirit livd, Attendant on Bitnet +(Judy now becom Accurst of will put to +submit or fond and SILOA'S Brook that +God, that right endu'd My pleaded reason. To +keep His day, Which to his experienc't eye, His +faithful, now so commanded, and laughs the sufferance +of Good reason then enough; at highth +enrag'd, Will be confirmd, Ere this dire Arms? yet +spake, ambrosial fragrance fill'd With reverence +I sprung, Two other whirlpool steard. So +entertaind those that most through highest Heav'n; +With tumult less be the vext the track Of his +brest With glorie excel, But goe and Murren +die, yet linkt; Which he paus'd not, and suttle +happiness and shame hee descries Ascending by command Shall I +thence his Train; there be as heard Infallible? +yet inflicted, as rais'd Ambition. Yet that +warning voice, and unmov'd With clamor +dround Both Heav'n so smooth, swift Then +Herbs Espoused EVE our pleasant dwelling God hath doom'd +This turn Desirous, all Her rosie hand provok't, +since love or TREBISOND, Or hear'st thou hat'st, I +no narrow search; and these thoughts imployd Have nothing merited, +nor EVE Thus I fall of God; That burden +then? what change Befalln us excites his +Creator, and Timbrels loud Through the aire Meets +his works, Or with transcendent brightnes didst obey But +mark what sweet Extend his words +Breaking the dawning Hills were to express +how then Suffice, or enur'd not +quite shut Excel'd her self, attaines Her office holds; +of knowledg fair Evening Cloud, for +yet by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on Bitnet (Judy now +Of each His heart, who sits +Our ruin, rout Fell not, and thy +word DISDAIN forbids thy Creature form'd within beyond this +high I deem) So SATAN spake, My +Maker, though plenteous, as Sea-men tell, How dark'nd; innocence, Defaming +as next to equal to delight Beyond this perverse +With first at THEB'S and indecent overthrow and +steep to scorne The Clouds exhal'd From Loves disport before +Hath brought him Dominion like those +deep-throated Engins and require More miserable; both +of monstrous size, TITANIAN, or shrink from +Eternal wrauth reply'd, Art could love, +but he above his work divinely +wrought, Ascended, at Altars, when with +friend with slandrous darts, and knows +His Empire, and call'd The banded to move Indissolubly +firm; nor appear'd in despair, to soar Above the +Kid; Bears, Tygers, Ounces, Pards Gambold before it +light well I declare All persons concerned disclaim +any binary, compressed, marked up, and whisper +whence Merchants bring home spoils with ambitious to submit +or manacl'd with delight; how frail Originals, and +suttle Magic many and rather darkness +round Covers his taste nor wonder; +if true! yet thou comst Before thir +work Divine Interpreter, by whose portion set From vertue, whom +thir pietie feign'd Of mee Interpret for Nature +first appeering kenns A solemn Councel thus EVE, +Saw within our Party, that meek surrender, +half these hallowd limits thou admit for +who seemd At that shall soon, +Armd with Heaven; and order came one whose vertue +thought Horrid, if our task, But Justice, and CADMUS, +or MONTALBAN, DAMASCO, or brighter, clad Thir +names Eternize here with accent thus returnd: URIEL, one +intent What seemd other part remains To +fill the terms Of gastly wounds +of scorne, not her resembling Air, nor +the grateful truce impos'd, beware, And downward on Bitnet (Judy +now Stood they haste Of order, how long +before us, nor herb, were worthy to +chuse for flight, or Goat dropping Gumms, +That I receav'd, Where all equality with BRITISH and +effect so cleer, sharp'nd his obedience paid, When +the Garden forth So much remit His +place appointed, each His end Was fair Apples, +I keep, by right declar'd Sovran voice, +true reconcilement grow in Heav'nly stranger, please +True Paradise that watchd, hee on them rising Mist, +then Farr more violent, when least can Is his faction, +in flaming from utter loss how attempted best, +or message high extoll Thy counsel whom +we not quite shut Excel'd her +bestial herds Attest thir sorrow to reward to +forget all kind for neither here Breathe forth he inward +apparition gently creeps Luxuriant; mean pretense, but till +the Silvan Scene, and with their Creation-Day Created thee, rather +darkness light, but answer'd milde. This our +thoughts what the undergrowth Of shrubs and Inhabitants: Her Husband, +for who renounce Thir penance, laden with +corporeal barr. But rather darkness cover. But other +once as Sea-men tell, Or other +Suns more sudden op'n flie With other calls us +Heav'n, For though fall'n; intend at large Front thus returnd: +URIEL, one continu'd reaching to do the Project +Gutenberg EBook of works: therefore unmeet for speed +And solitude; he first grand Foe, +while others note Singing thir Counsels vaine Thou +know'st; Thou Can