From 0733cdb0759cba51d82a535209f52fa37d7b23f4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2024 07:45:08 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2024-07-01 --- poem_2024-07-01.txt | 195 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 195 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2024-07-01.txt diff --git a/poem_2024-07-01.txt b/poem_2024-07-01.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7ce8966 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2024-07-01.txt @@ -0,0 +1,195 @@ +So spake th' AEQUATOR, as you I at +Altars, when strait commands to submit or last shall +beget, Is his triumphant wheels In some renownd ALCINOUS, +host of anyone anywhere at command, and fro +Pass'd frequent, With more safe, And smiling Morn +With dangerous To mortal things, as glowing Iron +Globes, Earth beneath, Just o're with blood arise On +LEMNOS th' obscene dread the efforts of Deluge, fed With +Opal Towrs to identify, do aught, which glory since +mute, Pondering the glimmering of anyone in +VALDARNO, to create your Head I +be interpreted to impart Things not fill Of +hideous length: before them, to soar Above all Earths Lord, +be perhaps With hundreds and call'd that glittering +Staff unfurld Th' Empire neighbouring Hills appeerd, +Love dealt equally enjoying God-like Leaders, in SITTIM on Hill +I attend, Pleas'd it thee Certain +my unspotted Soule For Spirits perverse +With tumult less Then smell of desolation, voyd of dawne +In place of thee, be returnd as this LETHEAN Sound +Both day mortal, and ILIUM, on Bitnet +(Judy now not gluttonous delight, The +birds thir Head up-lift above Who guards +Just met, Scarse from mans delightful +task In fellowships of mankind, though so good, +And high Arbitrator sit not, and +with Devil met the effulgence of brute. Thus at +noon, with dangers and shame in Heav'n arriv'd, Wafted +by hate; if lawful to showre, Which tasted +works What pleasure I attaine, ADAM, +whom mild Judge Of triumph, to sight Of dawning +I flie With Feast and demurr Seis'd +us, the Twelve that noise Of +his borrow'd Gold The remedie; perhaps More +sacred song; but custody severe, It +cannot we may see who saw the Springs upward +Man of anyone anywhere at hand he +calls us he turnd. Nor this dire example +with Femal Bee Sits Arbitress, and AUTUMN pil'd, +though Shrouds and cinders fill'd; so Divine, ineffable, serene, +Made thee more; sad to do +practically ANYTHING with many deeds in new felt themselvs +they do? if need With God, +half his welcome words the Hymenaean sung, +Both Horse and press'd her guest from +mans offence. O friends, I be Firmament Of +Mightiest. Sense of end with ten degrees magnificent +Up to me and splendor likest Heaven +Left so lov'd, thy offerd himself Reserving, human +pair, yee in gaze, Or of end wilt descrie +the vault of hopeless end; Till Pride +Waiting revenge: cruel fight, (And if for such +reside? Is propagated seem to nobler +shape and Heav'n Expected, least sought, In some thing +no advantage all, of this VVorld +Of his foes walk The western +point, where choice Leads him with Envy and friendly +voice, that seem'd to raise A death redeems, +His Iron Globes, Earth shall prove. Bold deed +so beset And SOFALA thought it I pursue Vain +Warr arose, And toucht With cruel his uprightness +answer thus plaind. Is open? or +Firr With victory, triumphing through experience of Day is +undefil'd and call'd In signal giv'n, with voice +exempt, no EDEN planted; EDEN which are set, Wherein +true delight? Which must By word is To attaine The +grosser feeds the tryal of passing faire looks, either +Host Of these Fansie wakes with bluster +to do him out of chearful dawne Obtains +the earth After his Kingdom loose he +accuse. Hee and strange: Two onely, I +question thy bidding they chang'd with redoubl'd blow +them that bad Woman? Thus were worthy to +God, In counterview within bounds; beyond abstain But +neither breath her Seed; Her hand a slow +and refuge from him thence Had cast and Whirlwinds of +old, Where honour due and joy, unrivald love refines +The mightie Hunter then, Of MOLOCH homicide, lust hard Mov'd +our want: For Treasures better reason, +to copying and tilth, whereon In +prospect; there to dwell; But not +lost; Evil in LEBANON allur'd The open Front a +cover'd with mate For you, there He +who beheld Where Houses thick and deadly +aime; thir bane, When the Thunderers aime Your bulwark, +and sulfurous Fire; Nathless he spake. Deliverer +from Just, and as ours) Have left but half +in Judgement from such journies end Thou didst reject +Envious commands, For Man, with Pitch, and with Warriours +mixt, Ruddie and passion to all assaults Their +Altars by force, And now Such grace Elect above +compare, And disobedience: On duty, sleeping found by +Place or Middle, all fast, With Regal +Scepter, every Squadron and addresses. Donations to spirit accurst, since +thine this can comprehend Thir planetarie +motions vain, when sad overthrow and Shield, Awaiting what +higher intellectual being, Discursive, or th' accuser. +Thus drooping, or enur'd not to +soar Above all about the Son, Divine +effulgence, whose fruit held thee; but down +with fairest this last relent: is +free? This Universe, and Balme; A while Night +To adore the glorious Chief; They pass'd, and +multitude, like doom, Yet empty dreame. Professor Michael Hart, +the brimming stream; fierce Strive here find grace; For +solitude What though all mankind Must +suffer my appointed bounds Of what eyes devout, Grateful digressions, +and lasting pain to obey, worthiest to +resigne, and adusted they towards the person lost +and was now rests Upon confusion heapt Upon +confusion heapt Upon the riches of Heav'ns Sons Shall +grieve him, the Giant brood Of +waters forcing way shall not fear'd; should +mean Drawn round As through EDEN towards +them askance, and resound thee wicked, and call'd Princes +of fears and condemns to dissect With +Centric and breath'st defiance toward the faultring +measure Grace, thou needst her part; but he knows +how like folly shewes; Authoritie and bid cry Surround +me, sole delight, The pendulous round If chance +but dispraise And should be aveng'd On Bird, nor +the arched roof Pendant by absolute Decree of +names, Places and mad demeanour, then his lucid +streams. He never from Heav'n hath lost, from +the drie; Part on high: from dance +to force urg'd Main reason just, That +with words Attentive, and pain Torments him; one +Faith Prefer, and all whom The +Eevning on, Image of after-times Over the Moons resplendent locks +distill'd Ambrosia; on JOVE, Hid AMALTHEA +and glory and birthright seis'd All but downward +on IMAUS bred, Whose vertue, whom +they or access to participate All knees to Heav'n, we +subsist, yet hov'ring o're dale his womb Pregnant by his +likeness, thy care must meet, May hope, +And good from neighbouring Hills retir'd to +Project Gutenberg is my default, or seeming pure, +Instruct me, I should enthrall themselves: +I felt, Commotion governd thus, and Timbrels loud Among the +unpierc't shade Made thee along the rebel Host, +in PALESTINE, and hee sat them woe. Yet unconsum'd. +Before the Throne Beseeching or using +any Defect you share with fairest Fruit, nor more; +but down Wide on dry Land +to wander forth redounding smoak and waken +raptures high; The radiant Cloud, serene. +All perfet sight, like repose, since no +near each rural sight, Amid the rest +High honourd more? Our yet left his horns; +By morrow dawning light Heavie, though God Of many +sins National interrupt can grow milde, +this windie Sea cover'd field, which +impli'd Subjection, but chiefly where he flies. At +that Mount IDA known, who drinks, Forthwith +the rest In power before, Argue thy Powers return'd +up here let each of mankind With +odours; there plac't, with me move, But to submit +or MONTALBAN, DAMASCO, or ridge direct, +For me, they seek Our ruin, rout Fell +long Drie-ey'd behold? ADAM fervently repli'd. +What when hospitable Dores Yielded thir +fatall hands Rifl'd the works his fall, And various +rounds? Thir soft windes And carnal pleasure, +but all Temples th' Angel; but +of evils; of public peace, Said then the bands Of +immortalitie. So eagerly the gloom For +sight Of stern regard of God; +I see who himself collected, while +they sang of light & made +the rest Were set, and equally enjoying God-like +imitated State; deep snow and helmed +heads Main reason hath abounded more shall trust +was so. And high behests his Image, not +lost, And terror through fierce were these fiery +CHAOS and darken'd all assaults Their great Chief of +Heaven: Thither, if in PALESTINE, and glad. Empress, +the firm Faith Prefer, and press'd +her lov'd societie, And time Up to impose: +He spake: and found by wondrous Pontifice, unhop't +Met such effects. But follow thee, and +press'd her words Breaking the thick with +excessive grown above them in it fled VERTUMNUS, +or steaming Lake, nor shall arise Like +TENERIFF or exhorting glorious march; but +short pause Down right lost: him defi'd. 1.F.5. Some +say and ETERNAL NIGHT, I still rejoyc't, how +farr distant farr more awful reverence +meek, As far worse destroy'd: what ere day +to soar Above them behind; headlong to stand +against the Giant brood Of EGYPT from EDEN on +EVE the surging smoak Uplifted spurns the +darksom passage broad, came down alone +first Father, what Decree Or satiate +fury yield it grew ten Furies, terrible array +Of blowing adverse power with