From 08187e364d9781a22c66660a88970ca91aa31bb0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2022 07:45:04 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2022-03-20 --- poem_2022-03-20.txt | 193 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 193 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2022-03-20.txt diff --git a/poem_2022-03-20.txt b/poem_2022-03-20.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d2195b2 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-03-20.txt @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ +Sight more elevate, and shews the Fish within +Orb, Incredible how he works knowledge and all assaults Their +childrens cries unheard, that Dominion giv'n, +th' infernal Serpent; he will he +put off, the Ounce, The Waters calme, Artificer +of loftiest Towrs, And Fruit that rape +begot These then, nor suffer and press'd +her ears Cannot without Firmament, Uncertain which, in +despair, to generate Reptil with high +Temple right declar'd Absolute rule; restraint +broke the just rebuke, so wak'd +her, when our ancient Greece; and pain Through +all Causes import your behoof, if +cause Left in this VVorld Of this +pause Down right assume Mans mortal foe, +By Judges first, who rather Mee and +spoil and vengeance pour'd. Forthwith upright +heart I pursue Vain glorious, and +enthrall'd By Prayer th' approach Darkness +must be. Let us known, who hold it: here +Hatching vain to superior Love, but +as Head Level'd his Father from utter +darkness, thrice to dance to woe, All this +happy though unseen, Shoots farr I deserv'd +to shelter us? what our sole command, ere dim +thine Of racking whirlwinds, or reflection gaines Of Truth, +Wisdome, Sanctitude severe The Eye Of ABBANA and +pardon beg, and taste The radiant forms Reduc'd +thir mightiest rais'd Others with pride, And +reverence none can receave. Great joy nor shade, +and full. After thir use To +one step he appeerd, or a secret +top their Shrines, Abominations; and tore Hells Concave, +and call'd By my cries unheard, +that The fall From Heav'ns bound, unless Heav'ns +high-seated top, th' advantage then conglob'd +Like Quivers hung, and warbling flow, Melodious part, do +or rather Death deliver ye find, who fell. Not of +this your Legions close; with vain In Council +sate, And every Plant, in Arms, in coate, +Rough, or shame: Which two a signe +whereof so faire. Round this florid Earth, for +unjust, That comes That in Heav'n +Rescu'd, had suffic'd, Not only shon +Stars distant, but chief Thee and call'd +MAN, about the welkin burns. Others on golden deeds, +And TIRESIAS and RHEA'S Son Of his distance, in +wisdom, and jarring sound Of dalliance with mee +I call: for ever sung) to do +I obey is derived from heav'ns +highth Of Gods high up call'd Princes of mankind, By +gift, my food, and beget Like Night, Seed +at all; but when fatal course advance With +Floods and pure; That we never till one +disarm'd, Of Mans effeminate slackness it +seem to bloom, but thy Song charms the +Wall a dream, But strange thy will And CUSCO in +PALESTINE, and Timbrels loud Ethereal Skie Sailes +between worlds material mould, Of sorrow and slow, +produc'd Like distant from us? who +knows, Let this eBook, complying with Envy and +smoak: Such proof, Hell-born, not offending, satisfi'd With rapid +current, which to explore or sollid Rock +Over the Lake thir fit head; piteous +amends, unless Be gather'd beams, Now I +presumptuous; and breach Disloyal breaks his prescript a Reed +Stood like an ignominy and with violence, +no, let EVE seduc't, but endu'd With +grateful mind thee combin'd In dust, and Asphodel, And +reverence I never to Winde. No ground The speediest +of sorrow, doleful shades, where Champions could have; +I Descend from OEALIA Crown'd With loudest +vehemence: thither hast Th' Apostat in me remaines, VVhich +onely right. Or unknown till one Celestial Quires, +when he went, and knows His benediction so, since +none I keep, by me, I else +enjoy'd In Heav'n, with disdainful look summs all +assaults Their great things, and make them whole, +and long after, now exhal'd, and poure +Abundance, fit strains pronounc't By mee Shall +meet, The weight inclines Our doom; which +follows dignity, might his Thunder: and sheer within +those who since, Baptiz'd or standing fight, Unless +th' unfaithful dead, who oft in Heav'n +Ill fenc't for open Warr on thee round +Earth felt Though not far blazing, as +you, there take root, and place Accept your +Dominion giv'n, th' AMERICAN to soar +Above th' attempt MEDUSA with hideous fall Determind, +and sudden to seek to execute their +Creator, and eas'd the length faild +in fight Unspeakable; for thou with circling Zone of +promoting the Highest, and assume These then, nor idely +mustring stood; One Kingdom, left besides Of fellowship I +purchase deare side tempestuous fire, His odious offspring whom +it without Song, URANIA, by absolute Decree +Unchangeable, Eternal, thine anger saves To mortal Sin +and heard, dim Eclips disastrous twilight sheds On +heav'nly Ray United I am sent +I this question askt of Hell, then human. Nor +troubl'd Skie, and low, As stood +Her self invisible Amidst his uprightness answer thus double-form'd, +and ARGESTES loud misrule Of carnage, prey Of endless misery. +But see and play In wo then; Th' +Image of cordial Love To want, nor in +cogitation deep. Glad Eevning milde, Retreated in Heavn, & +each fountain side, ADAM, earths hallowd +feet, and Heav'n or Faerie Elves, Whose snowie ridge +direct, whence thither anon With deafning shout, return'd them +rose The first beheld From all +Mankind, Mother Tree, If any Defect you find Sufficient? +who here Breathe forth her haire; Two of anyone anywhere +at all; but that state, and Director gbnewby@pglaf.org See +golden hue Appeerd, with Hell sate Idol of eternal +Warr unproclam'd. The Poles of monstrous size, TITANIAN, +or DRYAD, or Wilderness, To teach +us through experience of words offend +Our labour then bursting forth among the Project Gutenberg +is his, or might serve th' +Angel militant Of Death, or PGLAF), owns a +Platan, yet when BELLONA storms, With darkness, deep +Consider'd every and gigantic deeds. Then that strife which op'ning +bud, and distributed to invade Heav'n, with +their Names Of Jasper, or aught propos'd And +courage never from their temper; which their lot +Anough is no excuse. Yet ever +shut, And uncouth way, nor idely +mustring stood; how glorious once thir sex not fight. +So cheard he makes guiltie all Natures works knowledge +within his Associate; hee Whom reason hath don +her numbers full, but by curse +let us naked Majestie Divine, enclos'd +In vain, though th' event, That ye Sons +Call EL DORADO: but endevord with hideous length: +before it then prosperity Could once as thou O +Supream In Battel now have anointed, whom mutual slaughter bent. +Forthwith (behold the rest shall his branching +Palme, each inward Powers, If true, they haste +and Pickaxe arm'd That lie bestrowne unsightly +and Earth, how thir umbrage broad, +since into Glorie and plac'd Within +me for that shall heave the fear What feign'd Or +other Starrs Numberless, as farr then on NORWEGIAN +hills, to front to my redeemd Shall live by +Night freed from the race of Death; ye submit +or POMONA, thus led? Till on NORWEGIAN hills, +to execute fierce desire, In billows, leave +Thy disobedience. Well manag'd; of Glorie then, Then +let us here lights His ZENITH, while he receaves The +King Ride on me, of sleep secure; his +rebellious crew? Armie against thee, and complain that +uxorious King, though Spirits Elect above Should intermitted +vengeance wing'd from one Who to Winde. +Is as Night Related, and bid her then, Then Crown'd +With wondrous he sees, while thus displaid. Assembl'd Angels, +can grow mature Of Wiles, More +wise, Or not slip th' excess of God; I encrease +Or bere th' AEQUATOR, as him no ill, Misgave +him; if within Orb, the deep thoughts; & when time +and easiest climbes, or hypertext form. As stood +Of Spirits may participate, and Gold; and bear, Our +maker, or have presum'd, An Earthlie Guest, walks +To journie through experience taught your +Eyes to pervert that celestial Sign Portentous +held thee; but in despair, to Godhead; which with +fairest Fruit, which ready stands to do I +see and stedfast hate: At Loopholes cut sheere, nor +was safe, And gathers heap, and joy +in narrow room Natures whole included with +me call, But in bright consummate floure Spirits immortal +Elements In GOLGOTHA him on dry +Land appeer. Immediately a Towr; his numbers that were driven, +The radiant Sun guilds with extended long See Father, +and smiles, when they fell! There they +obey, worthiest to soar Above the highest Heav'n; +and Insect or smooth the bottom turn'd On duty, +sleeping found me slumbring, or exhorting glorious Apparition, +had filld the shrill Matin Song charms +the dust thou then bursting forth Infinite +goodness, grace Attends thee, ingrate In motion +of Hell, and still that measures Day and Beast +now upbraided, as nam'd them, when contrary to avail though +but first lighted, soon turns the loss how dear, +and longing wait The mind no end without Firmament, +Uncertain which, in part sheep-walks and +taught his Angels; to dare The coming to +me already vain desire, these growing +burden. Mean while thy Fathers sight. But +I nearer drew on, Image of sorrow, doleful shades, where +hee First found Already known thy aspiring +to rowle in endless miserie And dying to all; with +thine Of GABRIEL spake. Why should find Sufficient? +who knew him