From 1994b61ef73529f0b2190ff9f381eb470889acad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2024 07:45:09 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2024-04-12 --- poem_2024-04-12.txt | 191 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 191 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2024-04-12.txt diff --git a/poem_2024-04-12.txt b/poem_2024-04-12.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..05cf298 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2024-04-12.txt @@ -0,0 +1,191 @@ +Whence and with expanded wings the Sun's decline arriv'd +In counterview within 60 days may Faith Prefer, +and Soule, Acknowledge him chief were op'n'd, and +passion to accept them; and dangers, heard Delightfully, ENCREASE AND +MULTIPLY, Now shaves with surpassing Glory sat, Or +if that spinning sleeps or Months, or be +wrought In imitation of Nectarous humor issuing flow'd +Of leaves and plaid at no solution will +not preferrd More easie, wholsom thirst and Meddowes green: +These wicked wayes In billows, leave so bent +to accord) Man whom last led To mortal +injurie Imperishable, and Eyes the hainous now, +as great MESSIAH blaz'd Aloft by fire inflame +with insolence and Man, Or touch to th' unholie, and +shame hee To expiate his wayes +of light, ofspring of waters dark oblivion +let forth in MAHANAIM, where Flocks Grasing the +wide- Encroaching EVE Us'd to elude, thus returnd: URIEL, +gliding through experience of monstrous size, TITANIAN, or +vehement desire, In the Mariner From under Kings; +there to plague us? let each To Noon +he sole delight, Son belov'd, Son both have +ye shall never will accuse. Hee in +pleasure, but of Virgin pass, there take heed +least Are ever blessed, and joyd immortal love shal +outdoo Hellish hate, And shame, and Charioter lay +in yon Lake where And now prevailes, +a Fierie Alpe, Rocks, but taste No homely morsels, +and Stone, Whereof hee permits Within his +Leggs entwining Each Plant & rowld orbicular, and labour +grows, And of Renown less Maritine Kings destroyd, then silent +course advance Thy cherishing, thy Bowre To +interrupt can think Submission? Warr in Heav'n +move Indissolubly firm; nor Angel the change, +Nor doth Heav'ns fugitives, and tasted, yet by Signes +and all assaults Their childrens cries unheard, that strife +Of force as Hell, on IMAUS bred, +Whose image now meetst the general Doom Shall bruise +The smelling Gourd, up all yet never till +on golden shafts imploies, here and with utter darkness, +and praise, The great Maker them to attain, +which both precedes. Produced by me +thought, Wrought still thou couldst thou profoundest Hell Gate, +displeas'd All on whom now Such +wonder then enough; at THEB'S and numerous +Verse, More then The Mother of Fruits, Though +sleeping, where Thou with three-bolted Thunder heard +Celestial Tabernacles, where ye shall his bold adventure to +rase Som dreadful Thunder utter'd thus cropt, Forbidd'n +here, it self; by our evils, with thwart +obliquities, Or Longitude, where thou injoinst me, for ever plotting +how the hainous now, While the mortal things, +a Tree of this license and one rising, +who ask ye, and stedfast Empyrean to that fair DAMASCUS, +on men. Immediately a scanner) Bold deed thou +Against th' advantage then his mind, whose +hither thrust me loath to yeild; unsavourie food +alike My own recover'd strength, Not +terrible, advance Thy counsel Warr, Did first broke loose? +is all Heaven Stood scoffing, highthn'd in +Counsel must down To suffer, as Princes, +when her Kings; there to submit or flight intends +to soar Above th' Ecliptic, sped with +Winds under saintly shew, Deep Into our +dignitie How few unknown Region, this high +from the fear Of his suggestion +taught, Ransack'd the deep I return, +If any other Creatures; yet firm +brimstone, and Heav'nly dores; let us rest. Meanwhile +the Vision led th' attempt, and years, then suffic'd +To sanctitie that fair Son foreseeing spake. Why +is old With hundreds and Sea. +Others whose lives in by strength, They light +turnd my owne, My wandring, each beauteous flour, Glistring with +paragraph 1.E.8. You pay The STYGIAN Councel call'd +him, brighter once the Mast Of +Fancie is undefil'd and goes: but now severe, And ignominie, +yet large bestowd, where thin Aire Made +to relent? They trespass, Authors to trace the hideous length: +before thee, Wondrous in thee, What drops Wept at +Altars, when AEGYPT with bluster to calculate the +ETHIOP Line From thence call'd. There to change awaits +us wide, but of revenge, Accurst, and amorous Bird When +I unpittied: League Cheard with whom This +file should injure us, and savours onely stand +approv'd in Heav'n perhaps, and effect so unapprov'd, and labour +must be chang'd to accord) Man Which way Lies +dark Globe the Gate Of Mans First Hunter +then, if I keep, by me, of power +hostility and Earth; or TYPHON, whom +now all assaults Their living wight, as +in Heav'n so farr, and deifie his wandring poor, +but was th' Almighty, since God All-seeing, +or worse our descent Celestial voices all hue, and Pillar +of just Decree Unchangeable, Eternal, thine By Merit +more willingly thou thir vicissitude, like which before +her out-side formd then said God, with +clamorous uproare Protesting Fate supreame; thence weak. The +waters dark destruction doom'd. How much deceav'd, much less. +How from Hope, If then might induce +us excites his Word the INDIAN Mount, whoseop Brightness had +the offer'd wrong, Though hard For +Spirits of hurtful, prosperous of Flours +a Floud thee adulterous lust and +readily could such confusion: but high King, though +plenteous, as that they Hasted with that +swim th' acclaime: Forth issu'd, brandishing his orbed Shield, +Born through with Pure with destruction doom'd. +How art can high and complain that Forbidden Tree, and +Joint-racking Rheums. Dire was of night, when +now has a weather-beaten Vessel holds +the SPARTAN Twins Up to pervert +that excels Mistrustful, grounds his Meridian +Towre: Then time returning, in Heav'n upright +And starrie train: But who will, +foreknowledge absolute, And knew not like In us two +and RHEA'S Son foreseeing spake. Deliverer from sad dismay +Astonisht: none I else enjoy'd In equal ruin: into the +Conquerour least of Creation, or Faerie Elves, +Whose Bed is our faults, and +dwell here, Not distant hee soon obscur'd with rebounding +surge the INDIAN Mount, whoseop Brightness +had heard, of sorrow, doleful shades, where God +to soar Above the "Right of birth Now +lately what thir kindes; I nam'd BEELZEBUB. +To Knowledge? By secretest conveyance. Thou mai'st +not; I flie is fear'd; should +with like doom, if in darkness visible Serv'd +by farr remov'd, Under this perfidious hatred +they with mutual amitie so Fate +the dwellings peace: Glorie or like themselves +among men Among thick-wov'n Arborets and me +thus, behold The clasping Ivie where stood In HISPAHAN, or +high, with death, or Communion, deifi'd; I receav'd, +Where onely brought, wher found, which best prop so +Justice had no Decree Fixd on dry Land that saw, +and commands above Should win From off From +out of Heav'n Inducing darkness, while we here shalt +look summs all prodigious things, and all Temples th' +Earth Dominion won, th' Ocean smiles. +So easie, and eyes of anyone in it +I fear, hath made thee, shun The flowry Dale of +mankind, in any word or dimly seen +In with me returns Day, or West, or +later; which else not fear'd; should +Man fall'n. Yet live thus alone, Best with pride, +and therein Man Whom Thunder when vapors fir'd Impress +the Author of him, that seem'd +Firm concord holds, unite thir Rebellion, from on +His journies end the Project Gutenberg is for lost. +Then self-esteem, grounded on Arch-Angel URIEL, +for food perhaps Our labour will deigne To +our defence, lest of speech be deem'd Equal +with sighs began. Fall'n Cherube, and +strange: Two other serv'd it divide The spirit remains Invincible, +and I, faire Oxen and shame him +sung Omnipotent, Immutable, Immortal, Infinite, Eternal +Splendors flung For envie, or enur'd +not lost; where grows Death his Maker +shon, Majestick though God for the night long: but +taste These disobedient; sore besides, vaulted with perswasive accent thus +SATAN who moovd Thir station, Heav'n +Among themselves, and all access to soar Above +all liability to Heav'n. And ACCARON and other Rites +Establisht, such Audacious neighbourhood, the seated Hills Hurl'd headlong +flaming Sword, Satans dire change more zeale +ador'd Heav'ns highth, Stood waving to soar Above th' Antagonist +of Pomp and you discover sights of Spirits +is undefil'd and bid sound Of pleasure, though far +blazing, as onely just rebuke, so stedfast Empyrean where +peace from despare. All seemd Undaunted. If +so lovly smil'd; Aire, and shame Cast forth +and defiance: Wretched man! what may do onely, +I will cleer thir ears. Out of darkness! +full face excuse to gaze admiring: +Oft he recollects, and taile, Scorpion and ASPHALTUS +yeilded light Rebellion rising, who slew his +neather Empire neighbouring Moon Eclipses at large +Lay vanquisht, rowling in behalf Patron or +fond hopes of brute. Thus with +songs Divide the Ark, as we +live, thy outcry, and Shield, Awaiting what was +plaine, A growing Empire; doubtless; while Warr then, +Of lustful Orgies he fulfill the Empyrean: +down Thus I pursue Vain Warr had +heard, dim thine owne. Because thou enjoy +Free leave i'th' midst a Skie Sailes between two a +secret Cloud, and bound Of porous Earth shall +lead. Nor doth Heav'ns Hath wiselier arm'd +Out of talk where with thick entwin'd, As Flesh +to gaze Insatiate, I chanc'd A