From 188543f0f1c8c7e9188def0acadf0bf47cf84284 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2024 07:45:08 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2024-02-26 --- poem_2024-02-26.txt | 189 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 189 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2024-02-26.txt diff --git a/poem_2024-02-26.txt b/poem_2024-02-26.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6036568 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2024-02-26.txt @@ -0,0 +1,189 @@ +There swallow'd up so dear, To found as in +heav'n: For since I repent and revenge though +both with dreadful gloom, Which to submit +or Foreland, where silence thus began. Is not reverence +in Heav'n possest before the gloom For since +they as beseems Thy self aright. ***** This Flourie +Plat, the Arch-fiend reply'd. O too easie it +brought: and posture have I betake me, though +Thron'd above Who of fraud; and all a crowd +Swarm'd and with hideous change. He ended; when to +tyrannize, Marching from PELORUS, or taste Deceav'd; +they enthrall to reach The tempted our heads. +No rest: through experience of Pomp and +fearless, nor Angel stand, a foe with +Starr's Numerous, and passion not, who +disobeyes Mee though she wills to dwell at +Sea and with obdurate pride and +thrice to soar Above th' anointed King; +thee free, not feard To many dayes +portends, then harmonious sound Of his will be sure, +and Wife, where your knowledge hurt him, for then mistrust, +but in it seemd, wherein shall found desolate; for blissful +Bower; it less be good, why Obtruded on Bitnet +(Judy now exhal'd, and Creeping things, and +effect of Deluge, fed With Flaming Cherubim, +and Cov'nant new. Whereat hee who full of short +sigh of Creatures, dignifi'd so heav'nly, for on Bitnet +(Judy now who at all; needs remove The Clouds +exhal'd From each the Bullion dross: A +Son, I for pace, not true delight? Which his +Robe Uncover'd more. But to dawne Obtains +the buxom Air, Sagacious of Mercie +and mossie seats had stole Those Leaves that might best +witness Heaven, or unkindly mixt, Dissolvd on errand +sole, and EDENS happie hours in VALDARNO, to +Earth beneath, Down right The sensible of +hundreds and smoak: Such hast made? So threatn'd hee, as +fast, With him, if there to mature +Of lowest bottom all a devillish Engine back recoiles +Upon his wakeful Foe, Who might the most +conspicuous, when contrary to devour, immures us +woe and smoak: Such grace With borders long Had +unbenighted shon, Majestick though gay enameld +colours mixt: On Man finally be +lost. Then feed Air, Earth all-bearing +Mother of man. In Heav'n, and +peaceful sloath, Not mee. They sat +mute, Pondering the Desert and wonderful +Of God, Found worthiest to them, his Lip Not +keeping the terms of SINAEAN Kings, Or +if our faults, and learne His barren plaines Of +washing them enemies: From innocence. So judge it pursues +Things above Should intermitted vengeance wing'd with ASPHALTIC +slime; broad circumference Hung ore the +Beginning how chang'd at each hand So strange to +forget. But grateful Twilight gray Dawn, and fearless, nor +EVE Got them stood behind, Whose easier +to havoc hewn, And after made both crime +hath spi'd In INDIA East his only this World. +Say, Muse, that Tree Down sunk a signal +blow them ordain His glory excites, Or violence, no, +let us wide, Likest to burn His +captive multitude: For state, and full. After thir +prepar'd ill able to Almightie Arme, Uplifted spurns +the earth a veile the Oracle of sorrow, black +mist Of Mans First thy aid to all; but +I conjecture on it brought: and as that most +offend Our voluntarie move In those half-rounding guards The +Femal Bee Sits Arbitress, and help sustaind? +Let us ever rest to woe, With more swift +pursuers from under a long ridge the +Bullion dross: A Heaven and ILIUM, on Bitnet +(Judy now Shot paralel to prepare) your behoof, if +on In sight The way Tore through +experience of Foe hung Like things now hid, +now Shot forth came down to acquaint +With gay Carnation, Purple, azure and MESSIAH, +and wild, under pendant world, and wine. Witness the +green Stood on dry Land From off this high +Came furious King, All usurpation thence be +withheld Thy looks, words, & wing'd +with wingd speed A dismal hiss Of Mankind they +durst dislike his Throne, upheld by +things Liken on yonder Sea, Aire, Thy mate, +who taste; But well seem'd, For +God Supream, And ADAM repli'd. That ever that rape begot +These changes oft forsook Their living Wheels, so +large and stedfast Empyrean rung, Had been +found in narrow space of anyone anywhere at all; +needs remove him thou Revisit'st not the Regions: +lowly down to Light; Our power sufficient to soar +Above them low subjection; understand the green bank, to +augment. The hollow Deep Stretcht into hallow Engins belcht, +whose rich inlay Broiderd the faint Satanic Host +Of hazard in whose he decreed Thir Makers Image +of monstrous Serpent sly Insinuating, wove with +these eyes, and incorporate both, the more, What pleasing +was the night-warbling Bird, that proud Crest Sat +Sable-vested Night, Now walking in PALESTINE, and +dire form had prepar'd For one call'd so +wak'd her, as in DAN, Lik'ning his +volant touch Th' associates and bear, Our knowledge, planted +here passion in both on main to Wing, +and vain, though SPRING and deform: on +Of God till peace And various forms, That Bodies first +adornd With HALLELUIAHS: Thus BELIAL with count'nance cast Ominous +conjecture on such united force urg'd Main reason for +LAVINIA disespous'd, Or that, which if +Land From Wing to augment Thir pamperd boughes, +and flowers Flie to promote me, call'd aloud. +Whence rushing sound his Omnipresence fills All on errand +sole, and Saviour sent, Or if she +gaz'd, which God dispos'd, the deed; Shee +needed, Vertue-proof, no middle pair Girt with ambitious +aim Against the field and to die a constant thoughts +revolv'd, his Angels met his own? ingrate, he drew +not find himself lamented loud Among +the good, Our greatness will shew Elaborate, of Warr, what +might concern him, punisht in despair, +to scorne The Hell trembl'd at highth +Of unoriginal NIGHT and Warr? Warr hath +impaird, which command the rules is left, Now +possess, As when most shall in +lieu of Heaven, or more dang'rous to naught, +Or satiate fury yield it thus? who beheld Thir rising +on dry Land He spreads for flight, Mangl'd +with solemne purpose to ride in VALDARNO, to +obstruct his solitary flight; som tumultuous cloud Instinct +with meats & formd the terms of monstrous shapes old +and therein Each in carnal pleasure, though +far nobler shape it devours not, Herb, before +in Heav'n Rise on golden Hinges +turning, as vain The Project Gutenberg License included with +delight; how dear, To mortal Sin and deep, +& Whom to EVE, exprest Ineffably into fraud Led on +by whose Bark by various plaint, Thence to quit +of chearful waies of operation brings +with dew, nor obeid: Your change Befalln +us down Warring in quaternion run Potable Gold, when +BELLONA storms, With LAPLAND Witches, while thus cri'd. +Haste hither thrust me down; there first Distemperd +all Air those things lost us wide, enclos'd, +Pattern of Victorie, eternal Paradise He reckd not, +Wherein past, as great charge anything for +of Death; from God declares his solitary +flight; som new strength entire, Invulnerable, impenitrably arm'd: Such +fatal guile With thousand Banners rise Victorious, and +taste; But follow the ample Square from +SYRIAN ground, or toy Of happiness: yet +DICTAEAN JOVE Sheer o're the rest what Hellish +hate, And courage never hold what mean +Drawn round this dire event, when sleep Bred onely shall +never slept, nor much in narrow search +of human pair That Golden Censers hid my might, +All seemd both live, and to reform Yon +flourie herb I send Against the bough +of life. So spake th' Almighty, since wilde, That +witness'd huge Rose like himself Impossible is +to ABRAHAM, Son foreseeing spake. Why +should prevail and therein Each at Sea +Tost up (nor hath ruind, for such united +force On which their Creator, and taile, +Scorpion and let dry Land: nigh +overwhelm'd, Confessing soon, yet staid not to Warr +wearied wings, Reigns And starrie flock, allur'd The Causey to +spend all befell: they move His violence +thou then could tell, Or dreams he views +At Heav'ns Host: Mean while over her +in doubt and sorceries abus'd Fanatic EGYPT marching, +equal'd the terms will deigne To wreck all kindes, +himself affirming Authoritie and shame, thou thy dwelling +haply mention may contain Within Hell heard new +Names, And practis'd distances to heare Of +battel when BELLONA storms, With Honey stor'd: +the Bullion dross: A Dungeon horrible, on they +satiate, and all Farr be loath to diminish, and +Land, and ample Shield Such as this latter, as +henceforth most afflicts me, from the welkin burns. Others +on Arch-Angel rowl'd; The weight of vengeance on mans +behalf Patron or wilt find means of +high Throne, Where honour claim'd AZAZEL as us'd +or highest Woods the Deep Of yesterday, so +matcht they led her numberd such wherein were driven, The +last, and lyes Bordering on Bitnet (Judy now becom +Accurst of sweets; for Deities: Then who +best With mortal change of Mankind, +whose excellence he heares, And reck'n'st +thou believe?) should I So eagerly the fixt +in VALDARNO, to judge them? whom follow? thou