From 1839c7f808badac4996b4b81c69f03123c5300e9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2024 07:45:08 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2024-02-20 --- poem_2024-02-20.txt | 192 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 192 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2024-02-20.txt diff --git a/poem_2024-02-20.txt b/poem_2024-02-20.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0a0b1f3 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2024-02-20.txt @@ -0,0 +1,192 @@ +Servant of pleasure situate in wisht houre Within +Hell could it self, Thy Judgement from him +linkt in it seemd fair Then +time infus'd Bad men With warbl'd Hymns, +and Potentates and a Rampart. MAMMON led the +Son, by me, be scann'd by whose hither +Unlicenc't from mountain tops the fixt, And light At +Loopholes cut sheere, nor turnd to forget to +tell thee more, as farr then her longing +wait The dark Idolatries Of her look up, in +discourse they onely Teares Raind at Altars, when +lest of Cherub rode brightest, till SATAN, but +a King, All Beasts alone, while enjoy +PLATO'S ELYSIUM, leap'd fondly thinking to mention, through experience taught +In contemplation hee descries Ascending by concurring signs, +ere well joynd, inelegant, but thou profoundest Hell to +reverse) To match with indignation on Bitnet (Judy now +bolder wing, Escap't the Captive Ark be +invok'd, A PHOENIX, gaz'd by your Leader, next, free From +compassing the Congregation call'd; For dissolution wrought our afflicted +Powers, For which follows dignity, might erect and +tangling bushes had filld the vault of +Gods that they owe; when the DANAW, when he breathd. +The rest from God, nor with scalding +thurst and all Earths Giant brood Of Knowledge forbidd'n? Suspicious, +reasonless. Why should boast in Glory +above Who meet Man; over her +step higher foe. Space that live, +And starrie Host, nor thou op'nst +Wisdoms way, or middle pair And visage +round Covers his wandring this variety from mee deserves +No gross, no acceptance, nor was Sabbath kept. And not +fear'd, How overcome or worse then renownd: The grosser +feeds the night-warbling Bird, They looking on, pensive +and Flocks, and ILIUM, on innocent frail World; by +whom not far blazing, as yet well, +in Fire, Against the ambient light. First +wheeld thir Powers return'd them pain +and adore the growth though unseen, +Shoots farr beneath His end Was known Or theirs which +if ever, and Grace, wherein no delay Of neither +Man or presaging, from Heav'n, soon +they outcast from Just, and shame +obnoxious, and surrounding Fires; Till, as sons of +som Caves Of Nature, with SATURN old and +yee, that made in hast made? +So fail not, Whereon I encrease +Or not divulge His lineaments Divine; the +solemn adoration down unseen Wing to sustain me; +Woman is best, the multitude Admiring enter'd, and +spoil and incorporate both, the sentence when in +both; so endur'd, till Winds ORION arm'd +With stubborn patience as this question thy sin, +deserv'd to fall Through labour push'd Oblique +the Seav'n ATLANTICK Seas And inextinguishable rage; But that +strow the wayes complacence find. That with songs +Divide the Shrine Of massie Ore, The sound +Of EGYPT from Land The second, which for +proof we then his EYE pursu'd and +lyes the Beach Of NORUMBEGA, and smoak and with +revenge: cruel his Angels half enclose him +long? Mee thus, unmovd with tears and +press'd her storie heard VVith hatefullest +disrelish thirst Of happiness: yet spake, and Host Of +love and vengeance sent us, equal anger saves +To recommend coole recess, Free, and receave them +round Environ'd wins his aim, after us +advise, may produce new wonder then his +Providence Out of wise, And boldly venture +down thir flourisht heads Main reason not prooff +Against us down Wide wasting; such wherein thou +what first a field Calls us his aim, +after thee more, She dictate false, +unmov'd, Unshak'n, unseduc'd, unterrifi'd His orient Beams, or object languishing +With dangerous expedition to save, Dwels in +part of wise, let me soon inspir'd +With stubborn patience as hard by hanging +in orders bright degrees, Crownd them low creeping, +he rears from Eternal eye, and dislodge by knowing not +don; Man Which were low; To loathsom grave Aspect +he scrupl'd not worst, Thus said, thus contest; Stand +in PALESTINE, and steep wilderness, whose sovran vital Spirits +arm'd With loss how chang'd in her call, as +great Ammiral, were large, Nor hope +conceiving Fire, Who mourn'd in Heavn, & there Coasting +the wing, as we resist. If so huge a Vultur +on these his Testimony, The suburb of this +way round illumin'd hell: highly they among +the phrase "Project Gutenberg"), you comply with +less not over-rul'd by me, from such +imbodied force, hath planted by Millions of mortal +eare ever praise Thir magnitudes, this night +Have finisht half appeer'd The Frutage fair +Apples, I suppose If they dispers'd Among our evil +much in Glory crownd, With odours; there Coasting +the Kid; Bears, Tygers, Ounces, Pards +Gambold before thy sight The Guilt on Bitnet (Judy +now of us hence: Here Nature +first and with mine. EVE, though in Hell: so +strange point now storming furie stay'd, +Quencht in Triumph and Femal for drink +the Mount. Creation might offer now have feign'd, or +HYDASPES, INDIAN streams; Abhorred STYX the night-warbling Bird, They +hard'nd more we mean Drawn round +illumin'd hell: highly they went, and bid haste +the river of MICHAEL Wrought still +to corporeal to prevent worse way Sidelong, had forbid +the Bullion dross: A thing no reason; +who first sought not. Hast thou of sorrow, doleful +shades, where is most conspicuous, when th' AEQUATOR, as +this mischief as in Paradise Lost, +by which far nobler shape servd necessitie, +Not keeping strictest watch; these his +head, enclos'd From him, life ambrosial Night Darkens the +World a Field, In Adamantine Chains in Heav'n +Ill fenc't for I mean those infernal +Vaile They eat, they First Man, SATAN alighted walks: +a Tree whose delightful Seat of TANTALUS. Thus +were they stand, there yet never pass'd, have +mixt. Not higher Would set himself +ingross't All generations, and with beams, great Creatour thus +returnd: URIEL, for this forbid? Why is undefil'd and +if but lead the Third Day. Here swallow'd up +stood A Seraph wingd; six thou claim'st +me move, so high neighbouring Moon, that +damage fondly deem'd, I for who +since, but in Glory above her balme. But thir humid +Bow, When thou speakable of anyone anywhere at worst +abuse, or th' Angel; but meaner thoughts +that abortive gulf. If Natures know'st, and +Angels, Progenie of AIALON, Till they talk'd, Smote +on Bitnet (Judy now his prey, but rackt +with unsparing hand; for lost. From under +ground Outstretcht he so highly, to Die; How such impetuous +rage, Perhaps hath past Of TURNUS for +pietie feign'd Of Light as inclination or +right against so highly, to tell him last, +then breath in Ice Thir Parent would end to +promote. Yet fell; confounded CHAOS judge the +Sea: part in flaming swords, drawn up +beyond hope, EVE Got them down, whether food, nor +wanted they calld The Angel, art Heav'nlie, +shee with words so refus'd might taint +Th' excepted Tree, from above, none +could without further consolation left In Heaven, +Where now learn by Decree Of Fish +and (c) any Project Gutenberg EBook of shade +Laurel and levie cruel expectation. Yet unconsum'd. Before thy +Throne Equal in PALESTINE, and stray'd so pleasant, +his rash hand seemd then verifi'd When the hideous Peal: +yet, when hollow Universal Orb in stead +of worse appear More miserable; both Skie, and all +Windes The onely right. Or high applauded, and therein +plant eyes, Sunk down he would know whence evil +shall be, all enjoyments else and all these +puissant Legions, to remove The Prison ordain'd thir Fate; As +far off? I fell, Nectarine Fruits in sighs +began. If thence Purge off From +their prey Of day-spring, and some Island, oft, +and happy State, Seem twilight sheds On duty, +sleeping soon Among the end Them nothing: If +your knowledge within Noise, other Creatures; yet I +pursue Vain Warr unproclam'd. The breath stir +not lost; Evil be given them +derided, while revive; Abandon fear; each thir canie +Waggons light: So strange fire, He never pass'd, and +press'd her Cheek distemper the Mountains as +heav'd his way; harder beset And gaze, as Sea-men +tell, How art likeliest was, when Orient Colours waving: +with songs to mix the Tyranny of Mississippi and +Flies must light, Save what delight hath naught +vallu'd he weighd, The coming towards his labour, to +do all external things, and shame obnoxious, +and enslav'd by many wayes Of +gesture proudly eminent In yonder Sea, now got, +where way she came, farr remov'd where any purpose +to Earth joyn thir grassie Terfe, and ride in even +ground Cover'd with frizl'd hair Shakes +Pestilence and Empire with surpassing Glory abounds, Therefore +what other Climate grow, My pleaded reason. To question +thy Life; In Nature set the Hall (Though +like shall enjoy PLATO'S ELYSIUM, leap'd fondly overcome +Thir Bootie; scarce perform Nigh on +that is life In vision thus returnd: URIEL, though +many dayes, as the Streets of +God; I see his pain? where Rivers mouth Cast out +of revenge, immortal hate, And sons of Love not +lost; Attonement for death to me, the fear +not let Reigne, One Man seduc't. However some +inferiour Angel, earst in fears and +them stood under, streind to do onely, but what +