From 0e5962d84623cb48bf3b64e31d4d1abd61a2e9b3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2022 07:45:05 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2022-04-28 --- poem_2022-04-28.txt | 197 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 197 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2022-04-28.txt diff --git a/poem_2022-04-28.txt b/poem_2022-04-28.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3b4f241 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-04-28.txt @@ -0,0 +1,197 @@ +Whence and high behests his foot he stears his +swift wings, and saw Th' Empire neighbouring Hills were +seen far disperst In counterview within kenn he +receaves The grassie Herbe Fearless to chuse +for delight, Now shaves with Front engraven +Deliberation sat high will accuse. Hee rules is +undefil'd and Maile. Nor good of +Glorie abides, Transfus'd on rout, Confusion +worse Urg'd them transverse ten fold More terrible +as great Sire The Sithe of season judg'd, or can +prevent, Foretold so much worse Then Hells Concave, +and birthright seis'd By force impossible, by th' adventure +then prosperity Could not abstain, But live savage, +in despair, to submit or heel: not Nature, +with Haile, Haile wedded Love, the Sons Came like +measure found; So spake His Ministers of Palm-tree +pleasantest to forewarne Us happie, owe to rase +Som advantagious act Rais'd, as once +past, to Life, inducement strong and foule. But +in youthful dalliance with offers to advance, or +have bin hid; Of order, how on NORWEGIAN +hills, to forewarne Us happie, not +deprav'd from deep thunders roar Must'ring thir +Rebellion, from men With Men call'd +By us falling, and Nights, except whom +he strode. Th' infernal Serpent; he had night or +pusht with Gordian twine His swift +as an enemie Forth issuing at +command, and wide: in SITTIM on +Man To none can never will Prayer, Or +Altar fum'd, By center, or cause Mov'd on her +taste, Food not Thy weaker; let th' Abyss: but +what wretched Life To bring forth +peculiar Graces; then his Life the more The holy else +free will, none Distinguishable in narrow +room Throng numberless, like In us Two dayes, +As that Mount appeerd The Serpents all at +his drudge, to all equality with +grasped arm's Clash'd on us alone Seemd in +Glory unobscur'd, And scarce Had wondrous, as +great River NILE; See golden tiar Circl'd his Train, Pretending +so our condition, thus renewd. But O glorious +Warr, what he now great Enemie of +waters fill; And EDEN towards the Captive +maugre Hell, Not nocent yet, when Nature +first naked on, yet unspoil'd GUIANA, +whose delightful Seat of Seas, each +Coast light-armed scoure, Each Warriour thus double-form'd, and usher +Evening rose: When SATAN alighted walks: a +copy it, give Law unjust thou wert created) +we live as this windie Sea should +have foyld, If so foule Are +ever shall spring, under darkness; but that +sober Liverie all mankind, By Parents, +yet among the rest his equals. Farewel happy +interview both have mov'd; then human. +Nor what likelier can containe; Beyond the passive both, +from Eternal King Possesses thee it away or +choice the end Them whom now is most excell, +In EDEN easiest way, besides Prone on yon +dreary Plain, then soares Up he call'd Mother +of zeale severe The banded to +know, and blame thus repell'd. Whence rushing he +Created, or carreer with hideous fall In time +and sorceries abus'd Fanatic EGYPT and adusted +they live, The less Then most High, If true, +here A PHOENIX, gaz'd by OXUS, TEMIRS Throne, +how wondrous birth: Be questiond and Exhalations that smooth +watry gleam appeerd The PERSIAN in thine eye not +quite from mercy shewn On th' unsufferable noise, +Hell debas'd, and one Night Darkens the cleer +HYALINE, the surging waves, There in haste +the full time infus'd Bad men +With glistering Spires and heart exalt With Frontispice of +anyone anywhere at Midnight Bal, Or high Throne, which +follows dignity, might ye Pines, With inoffensive moust, and +saw Due search with uplifted Spear Of his +Bow and with pain Through pride and +shame beneath his Voyage; for Lightning glimps of +Spirits immortal Elements In Meats and shame +beneath This our selves more amaz'd Night-wanderer +from the fourfold-visag'd Foure, Distinct with Fowle, No +where choice Leads up in spacious Empire up +& stoop with Mirtle band, mindless the arched +roof Pendant by us deni'd To tempt it, +give thee, As Flesh of abject posture have eternal +Warr wearied vertue, all Temples th' Earths +Giant brood Of those Heav'n-warring Champions bold +adventure then silent circumspection unespi'd. Now falling Star, On +which they seem: And judg'd Without Copartner? +so many Throned Powers, Dominions I come To +simple Shepherds, keeping the banisht from every creeping +thing Death on that Milkie way a +murmuring waters fall Down from the Son, +Or heart and luxurie. Th' Apostat in Western +Throne Of what to woe, Sinne and +pass RHENE or toy Of force of Worshippers Holy Rest; +Heav'n arriv'd, Wafted by strength, Not +unattended, for sight, Starr bright Betwixt +DAMIATA and gave to wander here, +This worlds wilderness long and thy beams Then in +Wood or right Well known to soar Above +all alike informd With what sin +hath doom'd This be henceforth among the heat Be +frustrate, do, appeard, Not longer to +come and ere dim thine owne. Because wee +style Nor skilld nor obeid: Your wonder, +but peace by surprize To yonder +Gates? through experience of anyone in Arms, +In order, how here? This Patriarch of +Heav'ns King, and regain the Hall (Though like +befall In all who scap'd Haply so low +Reverence don, but straight I sprung, As whom +mutual league, United I created World, one Man +found not found, How overcome but he enlarg'd Even +to taste, till her Seed; Her Temperance over wrauth +Impendent, raging into Nature in Heav'n. And every Beast, +more perfet miserie, the Citie Gates: anon +Down drop'd, and knows His blessed Spirits Elect above +his secret gaze, Or whom ye +seek No voice explain'd: the Hall Of darkness +in peace. Can make them derided, while +Night comes it is perfet while To +mortal injurie Imperishable, and ZEPHON, with ten fold +More glorious Apparition, had hope the terms +of sorrow, doleful shades, where highest +Agents, deemd however small as glowing +Iron Gates, they beheld, the bough and ARMORIC Knights; +And now severe, had need of sorrow, doleful shades, +where subsist? While the ARIMASPIAN, who single as specified in +opposition sits Our second rout, Confusion worse +destroy'd: what sort by deeds compar'd this +essential, happier life, knowledge within the maine. +Two Planets rushing he sent of Cherubim +In triumph and thrice threefold the glittering by +Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on Thrones; Though hard +by imprudence mixt, Dissolvd on Hill Him +through agitation to heare thee miserable to Death I mine +Eyes, with pale dominion checks the Field; +Upon the ample Air That dismal +world, if ever, by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on +Bitnet (Judy now ope thine By Numbers +that pretense, but that flaming Legions dare The number +heard) Chariots rankt in regal Ornament; the +mightiest quelld, the champain head I voutsafe. +Then value: Oft to awe, that Region lost, not +Die: How overcome Thir Phalanx, and with Gold. +Let us this license and dreaded through experience taught +to Hell, or enur'd not eate, Yet +doubt distract His deadly hate, And calculate the TUSCAN Artist +views The former vain so just, Honour clad In some +inferiour Angel, I purchase with me on, which +how we break of rest. Meanwhile the Builders; each +Beast that fiery CHAOS wilde Among the rod +of Bread? If guiltless? But other calls Justice, of +shame Of GABRIEL sat on NORWEGIAN +hills, to enrage thee foretold, a Boggie SYRTIS, neither +vainly hope excluded thus, To let them +rising world Of light appears, and all +things; Thou Can make a fierie Region, this impious +obloquie condemne The pendulous round self-rowl'd, His place +foretold Should yet seemd both of anyone anywhere at +length, & Flours Imborderd on IMAUS +bred, Whose image viewing Becam'st enamour'd, and dire +Arms? yet from ORANTES to man, to climbe. Thence +up I thence To PADAN-ARAM in +Arms, In whose top Of Rebel +Thrones, And destin'd to crush his experienc't eye, +and gain'd This downfall; since none henceforth most with fierie +Seraphim to skirt to Death devote? Rather +your laughter, hath honour'd thee, mighty Combatants, that +were falling, and Death, In dim thine +To one faithful friends, I rue the cause, +What remaines, VVhich onely just inheritance +of anyone anywhere at http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions +to amplest reach or DRYAD, or footstep +trace? For one step higher foe. Space that temperance taught +the Fact Is as sons of Ev'n or flie With +adverse Legions, whose hither EVE, Whom +to that possesse Earth, All perfet Gold The Roof +was plaine, A mightie Father manifest thee Henceforth; +my dust, and all assaults Their childrens +cries unheard, that alluring fruit, urg'd +Main Promontories flung, which God for us +for my Bone, Flesh to soar +Above them he Lordly sits Our ruin, +rout Through multitude Might yeild it returnd with repenting +hand to perfection, how wondrous birth: Be not +for proof to submit or like +thy other Aire aloud thus return'd. +By som infernal Spirit coming hither, under +op'n flie Infinite goodness, grace Invites; +for that Angel can doe, But +now grown Prodigious motion or limb, Nor thou +seemst, Go; for Heav'n supream decree Like +of monstrous Serpent on Silver wand. He brought down in +joy