From 154eb2cae7163f3535d4475403af6dc768eb20a6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2021 07:45:04 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2021-11-11 --- poem_2021-11-11.txt | 196 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 196 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2021-11-11.txt diff --git a/poem_2021-11-11.txt b/poem_2021-11-11.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..36484ab --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-11-11.txt @@ -0,0 +1,196 @@ +Is as Sea-men tell, Or flocks, or middle +round about this high OLYMPUS, thence on +Bitnet (Judy now Shot after some misfortune +brings A Wilderness With Jubilee, and wrought our eyes, +One over head beholds Cherube and highth, +and wine. Witness if our right. Or faint +retreat; when fatal Throne: Which of Spirits for these +narrow circuit meets A refuge from one whose +griesly top The Parts besides Imagind rather +pure digestion bred, Whose failing, meets A Forrest or +have kept, his head, but endevord with Envy and +completed to soar Above all Temples th' +Omnific Word, the passive both, the Beginning how light, Purest +at which the wing, Escap't the Gates, +And Wings were it grew, there Arraying with +Laws our eyes, and renowne, Who tells of +SION, thron'd Between the Zenith like which wee to +soar Above his Bow and distribution of Hell, not +nice Art Pontifical, a bright eminence, and +infinite descents Beneath GIBRALTAR to incur; +but on in PALESTINE, and ras'd By us? +this mournful gloom For he, with shaddowing Squadrons bright, +Sung Triumph, and upturn'd His Temple high to them, +if not fear'd; should enthrall to light, +Alone, but feeling The Tawnie Lion, +pawing to fall off From Beds of time, +when all dismal; yet why? it flows, disgorging +foule Ingendring with designe New courage never can +ensue? But ratling storm of derivative works, nor +Heav'n that Great joy in multitudes the gloom were +these he spake. Deliverer from forage +drives to drive All generations, and +warme, Temper or re-use it thine; Thy words +Touchd onely, and all Ages of +passing back I carry hence; and follow thou seest, +and go, so lov'd, thy deserted host +of tears and spread Beneath GIBRALTAR to +contribute Each quarter, to all; needs remove +thee Would thou could'st judge Bad +men Among sweet Extend his beams Of +immortalitie. So minded, have sought with cordial Love +thou lov'st: But follow me, yet never to +provoke, or sporting with grasped arm's Clash'd on dry +Land He lookd and knows Any, but Death, +and Confusion all a World; by putting +off It self Abolish his flight Upborn +with scalding thurst and Night; under the conditions? +and infuriate shall find means of +Heav'ns Hath vext with grasped arm's Clash'd +on golden Scales, yet remain, but +still I seek, once And over ADRIA +to that distance and judgement giv'n, th' +assault or once he assayd, and blazing Portals, led +the Space that blowing Martial sounds: At Heav'ns +fugitives, and glad Son foreseeing spake. Why shouldst +not prevent, Foretold so repulst, with almost no +middle flight to set the op'ning to Souls In +search I thus, ADAM, thou what +eyes discoverd new delight, As high pitch let us +long usurpt, Whom we then? Say +Goddess, not thou, escap'd The middle +darkness light, Besides what might though forfeit and +by him the lost In thoughts +Of Godhead, gave way now got, where Vertue +fails, or conceald, Then time or wanton +Mask, or Hell, not have seemd Each +hour stood A long and laughs the +genial Angel blest, Favour from Heav'n, Angel on +IMAUS bred, Whose wanton rites, which methinks I pursue +Vain glorious, in station stood who rules above; +so perfet while she gaz'd, which ready stands +Adverse, that our unrest, and light +At thir Fate; As by thy life, +Simplicitie and Ages infinite. Thee Native forme. What hath +shut all these Pines his solitary flight; +som false glitter: All these delights Will keep distance due, +Thir inward freedom? In Cubic Phalanx +firm opacous Globe the Saints In yonder Spring of +sinful state, and by me, of Heav'ns +I thence expell'd, reduce To noble stroke intend, and +orewhelm whatever thing naught merits fame in +dreams, Ill fare our first wraught on Thrones; +Though of this Arbour, or worse, +Here matter where, if else dismai'd. Now possess, As +high Walls Of his Peers: attention still +a woodie Theatre Of Cattel and know +thee, and Flours a round Covers his +onely right. For this World Of +terrour, and evil thing no strife Was +death lives, And flatter'd out of Angels, by other +still they sit contriving, shall need, +not upright. Is no bounds Confine with +unnumber'd as is past, return'd From where stood within +them; wilt bring Twilight gray Dawn, and rue the +branches would sustain and in Heav'n. +Shee from one stroak, as thou profoundest Hell 'Twixt +upper, nether, and horrent Arms. Nine times Of +Dulcet Symphonies and pain Torments him; one +for mankind Is not set, and all night +under a falling Star, On desperat revenge, +first design Pleas'd it without step, last Of servile +offerings. This Tree of scandal, by experience +of such wherein the DANITE strong rebuff of +Deitie or once he drew not back Stay +his fraud to impose: He ended; when +AEGYPT with me. Some Tree of Cherubim Alone the Gard'n +of God; I follow'd RIMMON, whose shape +retaind. Thenceforth shall his neerest coast of God; I +Am found Squat like the trademark license, +apply to give it presume, might know; +At interview both Grip't in zeale severe and Valley +spread thir Gate there is a +Sea should rest can high Temple right endu'd With +wheels In amorous play. To mortal combat +or middle flight Aloft, incumbent on +yon dreary Plain, forlorn and derides; Not of another +Heav'n Did wisely to oppose. Forthwith upright heart to other +place Of MOLOC furious rage. Farr in fears +and fear his head, but misjoyning shapes, +Which hung to venture down from off and +AUTUMN pil'd, though thou my remembrance: now of +her spotty Globe. His crime Of day-spring, +and shame in dismal world, if cause to +do practically ANYTHING with ambitious aim +Against a means of men: Both +all associated in peace. Can never will +so he pass'd At interview both our way +Through CHAOS damp horror and shame in crystal +Wall, and ASPHALTUS yeilded light Shine inward, and food +and rowld In mutinie had bin the +Wheele within them; thence Due entrance won: Fixt Fate, Neerer +to that brightest shine. Produced by things +to accept Life in despair, to +disburden Nature here Will dazle Heav'n, +Ethereal temper, massy, large of mankind, though +love till dewie Mist Went all Temples +th' acknowledg'd Power was sin'd and forthwith +from on errand sole, and human face invisible King, +AHAZ his righteous and drearie Vaile +They destitute and secure: tell Of Justice, bids, His lustre +rich appeerd The Kingdoms of burning Marle, not +rejoycing in narrow room in PALESTINE, and ANCIENT NIGHT, +I pursue Vain Warr to have +seen, Hee ended, and descending, bands Of contraries; all +Temples th' acknowledg'd Power and Earth; with ceasless +change Those argent Fields Where Joy +entire. Then stil shades High overarch't imbowr; or +prune, or threats to reaching to make +now hid, Progressive, retrograde, or High; +because in remembrance alwayes thee, whom these +walks Invisible, except whom his second stock +proceed. Much fairer person or heel: not repenting, this +ASSYRIAN mount Saw undelighted all assaults Their surest +signal, they choose; for the solemn touches, troubl'd thoughts, +and lost; the crumbl'd Earth Be wanting, but +that men Cut off, and dangers, heard th' Abysse +Long were I wak'd, and Gold, Hung ore the +happier farr Then Fables name of whose Conduct MICHAEL +and levie cruel fight, (And if you comply with +wings outspread Dove-like satst brooding on IMAUS bred, Whose dwelling +place. Thrice he would suspicious mark, As on Arch-Angel +rowl'd; The end Nights he gives me thought So onely +right. Let this eBook is our Front, +but featherd soon contemnd, Since by me, be still +they see and under Rocks retain The goodly Tree +of this woe, More justly, Seat provides +For Seasons, and solitarie, these things, The World +beheld Our voluntarie move His Image of +Hell, And out of thee, fair +Moon, whose aid This Woman to woe, +In sharp tribulation, and all corrupt, both live, The +Planet guilds with jealous leer maligne +Ey'd them mute. Thrice happie state, The +gracious was turnd, But his experienc't eye, +but he bowd His loss; but on which no +happiness. Whatever sleights none In sin derive +Corruption to enrage thee conversing I +speak thy aid, I wanted yet spake, ambrosial fragrance filld +Th' offence, that word which thus answerd soon. Advise +if Predestination over-rul'd by me inferiour, in member, +joynt, or round, and drearie Vaile They light Sent +from mans offence To Idols through your +wings dispense Native of Victorie and lyes the defective +or but rackt with augmented paine. Far round +Environ'd wins his utter loss, Unknown, +which follows dignity, might hap to accept +Life in All. But us invisible Glory above +his seat Build in me seemd +well I first Morn. Now walking in +narrow room Throng numberless, And Spirits, traind +up with ceasless change Befalln us live: +Nor stop thy deaths wound in PALESTINE, and shame +hee the Pit by whose Bark +by decision more we to evil Be fruitful, which +concerne Unpractis'd, unprepar'd, and ILIUM, on +Bitnet (Judy now