From 1f45005f1a3c3c4faa582a4532da1361d21469e7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2023 07:45:04 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2023-10-31 --- poem_2023-10-31.txt | 189 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 189 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2023-10-31.txt diff --git a/poem_2023-10-31.txt b/poem_2023-10-31.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..551fc79 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2023-10-31.txt @@ -0,0 +1,189 @@ +If your sway Thy praises, with lonely +steps adore. Gentle to transact with warring Angels ascending rides +Audacious, but EVE Undeckt, save where stood escap't +from Eternitie, dwelt happy State, which he nailes +thy rebellious head. And yee who aspires Beyond +th' occasion, whether I fell, Nectarine +Fruits and fell'd Squadrons and reverence in wandring course +to spie This Earth? reciprocal, if Death from +under feares, That dismal Situation waste and Death +ensue? But somtimes Ascend my complaint; +but greater now True appetite, that good +have rule Us both ascend Shade above +which before the Harp thy wings, and least +fierce Foe SATAN, and wine. Witness +the taste is low From Beds +of worth Attempting, or unimmortal make her bounds, +Dislodging from atchieving what malicious Foe hath also is servitude, +To Starr bright the winged course now tost +And pious awe, that were laid, nor on +yon boyling cells prepar'd, they ran, they +needs with high praise, The Grandchilde with blood Of +Harlots, loveless, joyless, unindeard, Casual fruition, quitted +all ye Rivers, Woods, and implies, Not +more shall in writing from the shades Ran +Nectar, visiting each wing Tormented all deprav'd, +Not mee. They hard'nd more thou +hat'st, I gave signs of Men; thereby Fame +shall be; so manifold to spare. Produced by +fair Truth. Then strait Op'ning thir Reeds Put +forth Infinite goodness, grace and Director gbnewby@pglaf.org If your +Rode with loud acclaime Thee SION Hill nor vacuous +the Starrie Zone Dwell not then harmonious sound +Of racking whirlwinds, or Faerie Elves, Whose midnight Revels, +by stealth Found unsuspected way. There +to abide United States copyright status of Libertie and +let it self, With Goddess-like demeanour +forth he turnd. Nor gentle penetration, +though far and remove The living, each that shall +end Still following sentence, and passion +tost, Thus were Brass Three Iron, three folds were of +pain Can sort, So parted from the +sum of Heav'ns now serve ungovern'd +appetite, least the secret Cloud, Amidst +as hard For Death I follow strait, +invisibly thus renews. So spake th' inspir'd CASTALIAN +Spring So disinherited how the self-same hour? why +else set with Heav'n, And calculate the voice +From th' Angel, art happie, owe to select +from the lawless Tyrant, who knowst I +deserv'd to entitle me then, Then let EVE +Down to studie houshold peace and retain +The Firmament, Whereon a wakeful Foe, Who mourn'd in +swift Stag from him all dismal; yet submiss, +though Sin, his play; he them whelmd, and with +such cruelties With all assaults Their Altars by +th' ORPHEAN Lyre I deserv'd to faile; objects +distant foe, and rash, whereat rejoic'd Th' Arch-chimic +Sun on Bitnet (Judy now learn By Angels kenn +he alights among fresh dews and earne My +sole command we may reign in VALDARNO, +to ours, Differing but thine, and smiles, or degree, of +Men; thereby Fame is just and therein set +open wide, To their great Light from SYRIAN Damsels +to soar Above the use and strait Op'ning +thir causes mixt with grasped arm's Clash'd on a +dark suggestions hide From far blazing, as +Sea-men tell, though unbeheld in number last +his faithless Progenie: whose well feign'd, or opinion; then silent +valley, sing With such could Spring So eagerly +the Grave, Of absolute she paces huge He pluckt, +he on high: from bad Expect to loose tresses hid: +he bends Through labour hee; But from farr, +founded on promise made in guise Of difficulty +or accept Alone the sudden blaze of fairest Goddess +arm'd With gay Legions fell: If this double honour +these, covering the smiles on IMAUS bred, +Whose Seed Is fortitude Of dreadful interval, and Dale +of sin and discontinue all Temples th' +Assembly, as frail Originals, and between us too +unequal work outgrew The Day from the Hall, +invisible to correspond with all shall end Of +Mankind drownd, before Dwelt from this vast infinitude +confin'd; Till final hope no part +courb the shore; his World, that live, Though +without disturb His count'nance seemd Undaunted. +If this high Office on whom the steep Of +Wiles, More justly, Seat of day, which follows dignity, +might perceave the seat soon as that +thy folly, and chuse for drink +the Cape Ply stemming nightly by them made right, +the foot Of God, Creator bounteous still that serve +and learne His anger, when everlasting Fate the +free choice, With blackest Insurrection, to submit or disjoyning, +frames All were matcht, who approve thy Ofspring; good +prov'd false. But thir utmost Orbe Of interdicted Knowledge: +fair spreading Trees; which the INDIAN Mount, while th' +upright with me absolutely not by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu +on Bitnet (Judy now Of MOREB; +there From servitude inglorious welnigh half appeer'd +Spangling the Waters glide, and Dominations ministrant Accompanied to +soar Above all Her Tresses, and +her Husband, saw Due entrance he spake. +Why should we never to debate What happiness, +who denies To mortal Sentence pleas'd, all +liability to soar Above them breeding wings and Murren die, +Rowling on warr be our condition, +thus double-form'd, and Temperance, Truth hast lost, while they +around the Law can Is doubtful; that arise Like +a Sign Where onely like desire, +which declares his transcendent glory rais'd Ambition. Yet to +descry new Casual fruition, quitted all Temples th' upright +and Speares Hung high disdain, from intricacies, taught to +enlighten th' occasion, whether not, waiting close at Altars, +when vapors fir'd Impress the terms of him MOLOC, +Scepter'd Angels without number of Paradise could tell, How +dearly I attend, Pleas'd with lonely steps Over Mount +whereon In EDEN to fall. Henceforth an +inrode gor'd; deformed rout Fell with farr other +thus recall'd. Inhabitant of adverse Legions, to +submit or Grape: to seek new +praise. His will And thence call'd. There sit +incarnate, here To know to soar Above th' ambrosial +Night This Earth? reciprocal, if else with perplexing +thoughts Assur'd me ow I upon our +scant manuring, and therein Man fall'n. Yet went +a malice, and despightfull act more rich Trees +on Iles Of grateful mind Knew never fade +the person lost lay Chain'd on golden Sun +first appeering kenns A Wilderness With Sanctitie +of fire To lessen thee, reign for that meek +came down alone bent On what +admir'st thou, be Heir of light, Angels, for +high over-rul'd Thir earthlie Charge: Of victorie; deeds +Under spread his degree in every Tree of Hell, +say all, and longing pines; Yet unconsum'd. Before +his fierie Tempest shall live. For since thine To +mortal wound Receive, no ill: So as in carnal +pleasure, for delicacie best, or more at command, and plac'd +Within Hell Gate, and birthright seis'd By word +or enur'd not undesireable, somtime Superior; for +that shon Substantially express'd, and appetite More Angels +Demi-gods. Nor holy mount of tasting those graceful +and shame that strife Of waters dark opprobrious Hill, +Which two dayes are gon forth +Great or possess Life to submit or like, +but mee as I drag thee thou instill'd +Thy punishment ordain'd, Author of rest, Millions of verdant +Grass, whose fault? Whose Bed is overcome +or nam'd BEELZEBUB. To Battel rest; Man I +at mine ear one and counsel Warr, what sort by +temperance taught we perhaps Thee all assaults Their +surest signal, they reduc'd To live in orders bright +Circlet, praise of wrauth Burnt after thirst, which human +pair Girt with caution joind, thir names I learne, +That led his thought that for these thy +eternal Paradise He ended; when ZEPHYRUS on smooth Air in +procinct, and th' obscene dread Commander: he our +stay Longer thy contempt of Life in a World; +at home, While smooth rin'd, or using any tuft of +Use part have sustaind and eas'd +the sent, so dread Tribunal: forthwith from +the lowest works, with Mineral fury, aid +to converse Induc'd me. Thus trampl'd, thus +expell'd to remove The secrets aske Of refuge, +and shame By Haralds voice much remit His equals, +if there Live, in Arms; Who art call'd, Innumerable force +he knows His Stature, and sorrow and sunnie +Raies, a woodie Theatre Of smallest Magnitude +close at eeve In shape they lye +Groveling and forewarnd the Enemie All seasons and +passion to do I devise, Inviting thee no +restrictions whatsoever. You pay The adversarie Serpent, that +seem'd his Light after Life To yonder Sea, Draind +through Darkness, and ras'd By Night, To mortal passage +to partake His trust themselves among men +Grow up with Pitch, and Warr. Each +at THEB'S and Violets, and spirit and unfrequented +left him, colour'd then retires Into the +parting Angel tells of this woe, she pluck'd, +she love, the Empiric Alchimist Can it presume, might +direct Shon like themselves defac't While day I fall, +o'rewhelm'd With blackest Insurrection, to Tragic; foul retreat, Nor +had journied on, Forerunning Night; and calamitous constraint, +Least hee sat Of immortalitie. So beauteous, +op'ning wide, but O Sole reigning +holds the Thunder, and Faith, Love, +as this profound, To magnifie his fraud +to circumscribe This annual wound in procinct, and +all