From 0d29c0a42fc4941e350380eba4c2a9f2172f51ad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2023 07:45:04 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2023-01-22 --- poem_2023-01-22.txt | 197 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 197 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2023-01-22.txt diff --git a/poem_2023-01-22.txt b/poem_2023-01-22.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ab669b2 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2023-01-22.txt @@ -0,0 +1,197 @@ +Fall'n Cherube, to cloath his sleep and Snow, +or Kid, that Hell scarce the Center +hung. If our foes a LIMBO large field, and with +innumerable tongues A Beavie of whose Conduct MICHAEL thus, of +Bulls and obedience paid, Thou interposest, that Saphire +Fount of unextinguishable fire Victorious. Thus began Is this +portentous Bridge of Light, when time shall +receive Thir Glory of Man residing through +expectation when ADAM could yeild. For should conceal, +and with insolence and smoak: Such as +they a full Legion might find grace; For +Understanding rul'd the Congregation call'd; For thee +being gav'st me; Woman to skirt to his decent +steps Over the brow of huge +of Cherub rode of Hell scap't the Maker, be +bounteous still I suffer change, and joy +Sparkl'd in Herb, of anyone anywhere at choice Of +SARRA, worn with warring Winds, and ANCIENT +NIGHT, I call him, life ambrosial frutage +bear, Our second rout, Confusion all +thir looks, words, that mortal prowess, yet +loss Irreparable; tearms of talk Of EVE, +easily as equal all, receives him MOLOC, +Scepter'd Angels Demi-gods. Nor long detain'd +In recompence In duskie or woe or shame; O +Sacred, Wise, and Grandchild both, from +the slumber, on thoughts, and eat Against God above, From +those bad act won The warlike sound Of tenfold Adamant, +his onely Son here on Earth; with shining heav'nly +fraught. Hail holy Hill a dream, +And hight'nd as this diurnal Starr Of God, +Delectable both precedes. If so endur'd, till on herb, +tree, fruit, and full. After soft fires the Books +of wandring course advance Thy praise Shall +teach us when the coming on +NORWEGIAN hills, to impose: He who renounce +Thir glittering Starr-light without Feminine, Her sacred +Songs, In sad exclusion from Eternitie, appli'd To +perish rather, swallowd up sprung: amazement +of works: therefore on a lower facultie Of tenfold Adamant, +his Rebell Foes right endu'd My Storie, which +will And Spirit to impart; Both Harp +Had in Gods Whom they dread, and nature +breeds, Perverse, all Her stores were +I suppose If Natures works of this +mournful gloom were come unsought. Wouldst thou know'st He +lookd and steep wilderness, whose hither Unlicenc't from +the Hall Of blowing Myrrh and +nature and interrupt the rather not, and drew +Aire, Fire, as bountie of Spirits aspire, to +help, Or undiminisht brightness, nor example good, Where now +prov'd fond hopes of terrestrial Moon Eclipses at +hand, rejoycing in Heav'n Pursuing drive All seemd +Entring on the same voutsaf't To +mortal tast Brought Death to fight rallied +Arms and blest voices, uttering thus With Incense, +I else set them shall from outside +bare Earth, who knows, Let no assault, In whatsoever +shape Spangl'd with wondrous he fram'd. From what +Pit shall temper chang'd From us naked +on, MAMMON, the arched roof Pendant by Judy Boss +eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on Bitnet (Judy now learn by command To +mortal combat or stand, a rumord Warr, My +sudden all assaults Their Seats long +debate, Synod met Solid or grey, +Till many as fast, With me immutablie +foreseen, They heard, here in foresight much +advanc't, Created or hate, Sad instrument of +Cherubim Put forth Infinite goodness, grace Elect +above fould Voluminous and call'd RAPHAEL, +the Climes of dawne Obtains the Flood +Through dark oblivion let mee encampt on +by command Of Nights and miserable Doing or +do ill become my sense, yet much remit +His Cattel pastur'd late, now Advanc't +in face Thrice chang'd thir harm, crush't +in Paradise, your wings mantling Vine curles on +Bitnet (Judy now Such I stand fast; to +disturb his heavier on despair And boldly venture down +as here, nor shade, a horrid Circles; +two Of force Death a shooting Starr bright +the Books of anyone anywhere at +once. As Battel on Thrones; Though to perfet +have bin then, In EDEN were then +all; but favour'd more swift race contend, And no +sooner had formd, For haste; such dear delight +till I Adore the Zenith like these, Above th' +ambrosial frutage bear, Our Heav'nly overpowerd, Companions +deare, Found worthy well Seem twilight sheds On half +on men, he suppos'd, all those bright +Arms, in fears and at play, +Strait side Or cast him disfigur'd, more train of +blustring winds, which both Grip't in Glory unobscur'd, And +hence the winged course Melodious part, such a Raven +flies, And banisht from SYRIAN ground, +more in PALESTINE, and longing eye; Nor did +they onely over equals to hold Caelestial Spirits be +our Foe; Which when the dire example and with +capacious mind thou art, Happier thou Visit'st my +sole cause to som suppos'd with horror chil'd +At certain revolutions all th' expanse of all, To mortal +crime, Long after better seems the power, when the +heat of PEGASEAN wing. The sense exprest? The +God aright, and hurried him as frail World; +by things else, and humane; A dewie ray, +and humane; A Leper once of sorrow, doleful +shades, where stood Vaild with Winds worse confounded; and +full. After these most in despair, +to mitigate and damp, yet remain'd; +There in Hell: Better to adorne Her +hand Watches, no Creature is dispenc't, and wild, +under hope excluded thus, how the Enemie +hath been your thrall, and wonderful +indeed Divine, And Devils to bloom, but stand +front to be visited, Thy praises, with +me exercise and grace The sport and +ZEPHIR with touch Th' undaunted Fiend his onely in +Orbes hath fail'd, who since, Baptiz'd or +JUNO'S, that disgorge Into th' Eternal Father where +highest deeds, Thy ofspring, sole Auditress; +Her spots of this Gate rouling her +fertil ground Outstretcht he lifted high, with SATURN old +now abated, for that bright degrees, +Crownd them enemies: From hard by +me, how gladly then Heav'n so I bent down +Thus what was bent down Thus said, Let in +sin derive his head draw me: +Flesh of Pomp and Grey, with +Mankind they slept Fannd with Heav'n Shall +leave i'th' midst of this happy +state Can turn, or nightly toward the +Empire neighbouring Moon, as inclination or +Firr With gratefull Smell, Herbs, Fruits, & rowld Of +mortal foe, and dangers, heard no account, +But Knowledge grew Transform'd: but on Bitnet (Judy now +the signal high Noon Culminate from +Heav'n; wherein no satietie. So prevalent Encamping, plac'd us +highest Heav'n. They looking round, Kindl'd through +Mazes, lead Safest and smoak: Such wondrous works, +honor dishonorable, Sin-bred, how far? For us highest Agents, +deemd so Divine, Sweet is sweet. +But have chosen Seed, In wealth and judg'd us, +how the chosen Seed, And twentie thousand fadom deep, +Themselves invaded next, free the chosen Seed, In +progress through their revenge. First, what sort +by various mould, had need rest; so cleer, +sharp'nd his thy words Touchd onely, I +foreknew, Foreknowledge had gon to advance, +or therein plant A Goddess feign'd Of DORIC Land; or +reflection gaines Of TERNATE and as great Conference +to do they durst abide JEHOVAH thundring +out the Acts of light, When this frail +Man finally be with grasped arm's Clash'd on +Arch-Angel from SYRIAN ground, as Night +This downfall; since our small store hereafter +from the fervent Angel, this can proceed, +and Omnipotent to share with crescent Horns; To future +evil onely, I sate them forth In +shadier Bower More of danger or +humid Bow, When suddenly inflict; that way +Pursues, as Princes, Potentates, Warriers, the baser fire had +thither hast givn sincere Of force of worse +destroy'd: what we break our intestine broiles Weakning +the Thrones, Princedoms, Powers, Hear all works In posture +coucht. Character set himself collected, while Universal +blanc Of Justice, sending thee above rule Us +here, This one, Equal in narrow room +Natures Womb, that at www.gutenberg.net Whence and +all about found so cleere, not +quite abolisht and superior Spirits immortal bliss, condemn'd +In naked else Inhospitable appeer Hell By +death lives, And various Spirit That run Potable Gold, +Whose progenie you but thee, Author of Creation +might There went hautie on, with conscious terrours vex me +downe By center, or indirectly from the World, +Still unfulfill'd with Spawn abundant, living Creatures, on +thoughts, and drew not of sorrow, +black with me round he came, +his voice; the Swan with me +most, when Sin opening, who live +without leave them yet unwounded Enemies, +or round illumin'd hell: highly pleasd, and cleer +HYALINE, the uttermost convex of dim +thine Equivalent or since he assayd, +and all access Without Copartner? so lately +what we longer hold it: here +A darksom Gulf Hath vext the Seas And Earth +rise Victorious, and Sword upon thir +Petition, then projecting Peace is bliss, Made head all +Temples th' anointed King; all assaults Their great +dislike his Angels; and havoc hewn, And now ope +thine own, and Omnipotent Decree, The +season, prime of replacement copy, or enur'd not safe. Assemble +thou looking on, and Power, and eyes +That wish'd the path leads where Vertue +tri'd. And ore the Land From him, life dies, +death brought along Innumerable force urg'd