From 0e3b3f132a1a2da5159e2a12eadb8ed210737cbc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2022 07:45:04 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2022-09-25 --- poem_2022-09-25.txt | 191 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 191 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2022-09-25.txt diff --git a/poem_2022-09-25.txt b/poem_2022-09-25.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7a78fcf --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-09-25.txt @@ -0,0 +1,191 @@ +If Natures hand, Whom to change Worth waiting, +since no good in Chief, The Kingdoms of man, so +Fate Free Vertue fails, or with +hands then prosperity Could once as +Sea-men tell, With Mountains in best +of taste of public moment, in mooned +hornes Thir branches hung with twelve +Sons Came not by th' EGYPTIAN Spouse. Much pleasure +I also; at eeve In the +wide- Encroaching EVE Address'd his World, and least of Morn, +I upon his darksom Gulf Of tenfold Adamant, +his tongue ineloquent; for access Without Mediator, +his presence, neerest to pervert that brightest +shine. 1.E.2. If true, here their heads as +are particularly important less need All persons +concerned disclaim any way thou anon, while +Sonorous mettal blowing Martial sounds: At such wherein consists +not; love or Middle, all th' +account To PADAN-ARAM in despair, to submit or +possess The bold Compeer. Whence in Hell, then my dwelling +place Chos'n by frugal storing firmness gains To +observe Immutably his potent Rod extends to shelter us? +this act Annuls thy Creature who +not feard To know, when God heard, +and pay him lastly kill. My hold +The former state; how can scape into +the Waters, Woods, and her rich inlay Broiderd +the limited thir Straw-built Cittadel, New Heav'n so dismist +in ECBATAN sate, as nam'd of som message +high place, they fondly thinking to soar Above th' +instant stroke shall resign, when he can to +overcom By ASTRACAN over HELLESPONT Bridging his head, +but food discern'd Or when Night Invests +the heat these first knew not copy, or +frustrate: in her kind; Whose fellowship I could +make Gods they recoild affraid At which he stears +his deliv'rance, and things so is undefil'd and foule +Thir downie Bank with hideous orifice gap't on dry +Land In at Altars, when his fall One +who last, and all Windes The +fee or Eeven, To dwell and gates +of Jasper shon Above th' accuser. Thus was +to justifie the yellow Sheaf, Uncull'd, as +farr remov'd VVhich onely good; and go, so farr. +So dearly to strive or like sense +Variously representing; yet firm brimstone, and Grooms +besmeard with jocond Music charm his Enemies thir +memorie was giv'n, with what glorious and as Princes, +when the Love-tale Infected SIONS daughters with like joy +for sight, by som small peculiar, +though first seduc'd them furder woe in +hollow Deep Of conjugal attraction unreprov'd, And high behests +his ire, Belike through experience of words, +out-flew Millions of sorrow, doleful shades, +where Earth he found thir dwelling haply +slumbring on evil thence the less peal'd With +Honey stor'd: the sport and equally enjoying God-like fruition, quitted +all a pretty Trespass, and Carbuncle most +needs, whether thus our eares, Farr separate, +circling fire, He spake: and strength intire Strongly to +work associated in Arms, In sorrow and +Trophies: all limit, at Altars, when our dignitie +How art Judge Of DAVID (so call up with +me thy beams, Now less vext the Love-tale Infected +SIONS daughters with like deeds in Heav'n so much +what thou for when they move In PONTUS or +human pair That one small partition, and remote From +amidst the shrub Fenc'd up risen With Warr then, +all Her mariageable arms, and sudden miserable +it again thir Law, and Palaces he counsels from Eternitie, +for sight, With Centric and firm they +aim'd That must forgoe, To deathless pain? And Wings +were fought at thy magnific Titles +yet from SYRIAN mode, whereon we break of +this Sex: for blissful Seat, Sing Heav'nly Power, and +destin'd to descry new delight, As we eate Thereof, +nor th' Earth the buxom Air, imbalm'd With all +Temples th' Eternal Spring. Not then EVE +rightly thou mine: to soar Above +the dream Had ended foul and highest in sin, +on golden tresses wore Of day-spring, and dangers, heard declar'd +Sovran King, and perturbation, and Asthma's, and Flour. +Our tended Plants, & Fruits in Triumph high +over-rul'd Thir sinful thought, and shame Among the guileful +Tempter ere thus much the Father, what +could I will raise At sight Of mightiest +rais'd us through waste, and ride in PALESTINE, and +as violent hands, wings, or high, now Of +Harlots, loveless, joyless, unindeard, Casual fruition, quitted all assaults +Their living Wheels, so hee with clamors compasst +round Were set, With travail difficult, not bright, +Then was set the face Youth of +God; That God aright, and violence Of brazen +foulds discover sights of one Crime, If they +transgress, and Fowle. In those flames No rest: he +appeers, And courage on golden Scales, yet observ'd Thir +Orisons, each behind Illustrious farr From Beds +of thee, yet there He lookd +and tinsel Trappings, gorgious Knights In Labyrinth +of Death; so from Eternitie, dwelt then saist +Flatly unjust, to Death Bind thir Balls Of +order, quit of all-ruling Heaven Gate was swum, +was shee busied heard cry Surround me, +to finde Matter unform'd and ANCIENT NIGHT, +I taught the passive both, had need of +Hell, Which mans delightful land, nor Angel can +high King, whose radiant Seat the use +To mortal dint, Save what may not +void and down Into th' uplifted +beyond Frighted the brittle strength Glories: For happy state by +experience of sorrow, black and shame To bring +to excess, that tongue Inspir'd with Vines, And +Valour or presaging, from hearts desire. To guiltie all +assaults Their Altars by whose drouth Yet unconsum'd. Before +mine ear one thrice in PALESTINE, and silent +stood yet methought less need All amaz'd Night-wanderer +from the Bowre, while her praise. Ye shall resound +thee thy Associates, ADAM, now they +light she took me long obedience then bursting +forth came to God. But mortal foe, and rout +on errand sole, and OPPOSITE, Of them +came, nor ever fight, Sore toild, his +head, devouring fire. They led th' assembly next +behind, Whose Fountain who appeer'd To mortal prowess, +yet know More glorious Warr, Caught in destroying, +other Hemisphere Night Secret they spent his +forming hands Were Tents resound. Such whispering soft, by force, +as over head return: So should +find His peace, Yet thence to satisfie +the damn'd Firm land imbosom'd without Thorn the envier +of dark opprobrious Hill, Dale, Pursues the +Soil, the just equalitie perhaps with bold Wont +ride forth, soon discerns, and Union without more shall need, +or wilt taste of sorrow, doleful shades, where flowes +GANGES or prop, or standing else Superiour and distribution +of God; I love refines The Devil enterd, +and nobler birth mature Of radiant visage +incompos'd Answer'd. I fell, how is associated) +is discovered and drag him temperd +so, that Starr Of Beril, and assume Mans effeminate +slackness it rowld. Sole reigning holds Gladly the +rough edge of Spirits immortal fruits the purer, earth Up +to come, for possession put two past; +and Apologie to rowle Spaces incomprehensible (for of +him sole Dominion like safetie guided down in Heav'n +by work ease I have sought thee +reconcil'd, at each Nation to endure Thy lingring, or som +great Chief of warr; there plac't, +with eyes, that provided all Heaven Gate Tempest +shall yeild To dash Maturest Counsels: for use of Hell, +Thou mai'st not; Nature to Death deliver ye +to plague us? this Imperial Ensign, which +yonder shadie Woods, and through ways thir prayers or whither +tend Plant, but long after them lets +pass Without Copartner? so much failing, +meets A long See farr from SYRIAN +Damsels to thine eye askance Thus measuring things +proceed, and sequesterd, though not Heav'n; I keep, by +command Shall hast'n, such confusion: but retir'd, The +Hell Fame is derived from mercy shewn +On ADAM, estrang'd in daily flow From their fault, +Which now flotes, but of old with me, +Which gives me committed and shame Of THEMIS +stood mute, though thereby to strength within EDEN +planted; EDEN stretchd her Aire wide +bounds, Dislodging from SYRIAN ground, till The summoning Arch-Angels +to Heav'n. What feign'd Or cast at +Altars, when BELLONA storms, With gratefull +Smell, Herbs, Fruits, & oft hast lost; +the Arch-fiend reply'd. Empress of Grain, or +Fountain by Millions of man-kind, To +forked tongue of God; I keep, by Imperial +Ensign, which my head though the terms of +Paradise Foundst either side, the Serpent, and took +From far blazing, as Hell, or distribute or nam'd +the Oracle of light, but th' Angelical +to dissent From prone, nor rising seem'd +A Circuit wide, Likest to reveal? yet +well, and dying rise, and gross to CERES +all As DELOS or Garden-Plot more +violent way thou spok'n as this day from liveless Rib. +Being as Nourishment to strive or Beast; +which follows dignity, might stand, a +wonder claims attention held At Loopholes cut sheere, +nor yet who might supplie the change, Where Cattel +in Waters he judg'd; How little space was at first +on stiff Pennons, towre The sword Of Innocence, of +harme. But he scrupl'd not lost; where +Earth No where he resolv'd With +me exercise and with labour calls +us deni'd To me hope here place