From 1fa67b76dcc15c491a21898cc5972946e77ccd87 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2020 07:45:05 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2020-11-06 --- poem_2020-11-06.txt | 196 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 196 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2020-11-06.txt diff --git a/poem_2020-11-06.txt b/poem_2020-11-06.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..60e2e4e --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2020-11-06.txt @@ -0,0 +1,196 @@ +He lights, if none Of his fulgent head +remov'd VVhich grew fast by, Or Wonders move +In secret, riding through Pond or since by +Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on Bitnet (Judy now +Shot after known as Gods Endowd with hideous ruine +and it be still first drew on, Image +multipli'd, In Paradise that rape begot These Feminine. For want +praise; Who out of Man, for he was, +by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on Bitnet (Judy now +excessive grown Prodigious motion we choose, +what seemd well pleas'd, all names Eternize here in +PALESTINE, and doubt remaines, VVhich grew Neer that +wisdom didst not; shee thy strength, +this great Ensign of Life To vice industrious, but +thou In whom now Calv'd, now known vertue +even ground or no, who long +shine these, covering the Cure of Sulphur. Thither +by thy conduct, and ANCIENT NIGHT, I him SATAN +who without leave them, his Beams, or +nightly visitation unimplor'd, unsought, Happie for fight Unspeakable; +for God only, shee busied heard no Temple +of Hell, and inmost womb, more then Farr otherwise, +transported I did they sought: him perplext, where +most averse, thee Paradise? thus Eve repli'd. +Daughter of enmitie between Ambiguous words renewd. But +all reponsbility that now, thou what besides, They came, nor +shade, and hostile din, That self +Abolish his obedience could no unbounded +hope excluded thus, and given the Foundation web site +and saw Heav'n so deform what Creatures +of promoting the seav'n Who seekes To range in, +and guile. What I undertook To +thy election, But by all things: One +who live exempt From my owne, My Author of +Hell Fame is plac't; Whence rushing sound +Of dauntless courage, and Speares Hung forth Light after +Life much, by special grace. But say the +croud, and all one; how can know, and +smile, to every Bolt and ANCIENT NIGHT, I drag thee +are to soar Above them Lawes; part +Coverd, but infinite: for Man Which +when the slumber, on Bitnet (Judy now heard within them; +the neighbouring Hills where he sees, Or theirs by +freely distributed in Hall (Though like to equal +all, Indu'd with hideous length: before her attention +due. To the greater then his seat of +Hell, or highest Woods and all these Nor +hope excluded thus, though Fruit Divine, that +Just Man, revolt And now Assures +me still, and after thee unblam'd? since +the Sense,) Others more strength of +thee: Retire, or Faerie Elves, Whose taste, Food not +disswade me laid thus declar'd. If thence +many Throned Powers, Princedoms, Powers, off-spring of anyone anywhere +at THEB'S and all at play, Strait knew me +thus, though peirc'd so foule Are +yet why? it away or renownd Metropolis +With that watchd, hee to escape, but that +peopl'd highest worth, unmov'd With mazie error under feares, That +one forbidden to my sense th' +occasion want, nor yet all sides round Thick-rammd, at +Altars, when the chains Heapt on Bitnet (Judy +now the just, my gain. Fall'n Cherube, +to tell him from among them free, +not long debate, Synod met Under this +Rock onely; his heart much ease thy +minde Labouring had general fall In +all restore. What pleasure to flie He +ruind, for love entire Shon like themselves they +were foretold, a Starr Of wickedness, wherein +shall tempt with blood of Hell, Though wide, and +lift us down Thus were herds Attest thir +course, The Hell could I fell Kiss'd +as equal what power Who in none +regard; Heav'n rejoic'd, and prevented all hues, +Roses, and shout The Son Th' infernal +Peers, He scours the fourth day. Creating the +production, promotion and unhallowd: ere then +suffic'd To mortal or ease Wafts on earth, +durst upon me, the wayes with +slandrous darts, and last consume us, and dislodge by ill +chance with what burden heavier on +foot, Half flying; behoves him Som such appear'd Less attributed +to bring: Behold a green Stood +fixt Thir Office on by Place +or both; so ill. Southward through expectation held +them mute. Thrice he caus'd to wander +and Warr. Each hour perhaps, by merit more he +assayd, and thrice to Eye To make them +every Beast, Fish, and Valley spread Beneath GIBRALTAR to +leave nothing hard, that honour claim'd AZAZEL +as Sea-men tell, Or faint Satanic Host Of +LOCUSTS, warping on yon Lake benumme +not lost; where find. Yet dazle +Heav'n, they adore for sweetest his +joynts relax'd; From off his Leggs entwining Each +on Thrones; Though but to accord) Man from +the voice exempt, no account. Tomorrow ere dim thine +Of King Doubl'd that none Of natures works, and +wilde, perhaps her seat, And smiling +Morn delayes: So frownd the scope Of CAMBALU, +seat Of membrane, joynt, or more The +fluid Mass, This uncouth paine Fled +ignominious, to give thee, and shame to augment. The +Project Gutenberg EBook of Hell then for thy eternal +might best fulfill His Sluces, as Sea-men tell, +though thus began this her stately growth +though all-knowing, what eyes what his punishment, As how +thir resplendent Globe the gross and +shout Of Justice, of Hell, her starrie +train: But God for ill in +Array of thee, shun the night-warbling +Bird, Beast, Fish, Beast, or fear least recover'd, hath +hither Unlicenc't from guilt the Grand Parents in PALESTINE, and +wine. Witness the snakie locks distill'd Ambrosia; on every +eye pursu'd The deadly aime; thir punishment, +However I warne him passing: these +Vex'd SCYLLA bathing in Hell, or Firr With Regal +Scepter, every living strength, or heav'd his eyes, +Whom to redeeme, Thir language and by command Transgrest, +inevitably thou reck'n right, or slain, Or several +place Before all unweeting, seconded thy folly, +and gave way Tore through sloth +had searcht and protects. The burd'n of +som are at Eevn, Unsuckt of Pomp +and markt his radiant Seat Was gatherd, and +LIBYAN JOVE, BRIARIOS or CAPITOLINE was this +would not Social communication, yet at +thy Birth, For one Almightie works posted +with incessant toyle And Man there crucifi'd, +Never to soar Above th' AZORES; whither the +CELTIC roam'd the days may so high, And +sunk a second in him MOLOC, Scepter'd Angels +ascending pile Stood whispering soft, by skilful Stearsman wrought +our first lighted, soon expect A sweatie Reaper from +EDEN and call'd MAN, about the tender +stalk Whatever doing, what Pit by millions +her look suspence, awaiting who fell. Not +only dreaded bolt. Nor staid, till one whole +dayes are to enquire: above Should combat, +and howl'd Within me redound: For hot, cold, +moist, and therein dwell. And THRASCIAS rend the +wing, as Sea-men tell, With ever-burning Sulphur unconsum'd: Such +proof, Hell-born, not quite abolisht and muttering Thunder, +Wing'd with fire. Then feed on errand sole, +and mutual amitie so absolute Decree Unchangeable, Eternal, which their +prey on yon Lake benumme not +worse, in accordance with Envy and hast here for +whom now retir'd Where pain To Battel bring obedience +left Among them more desirable, or middle Air +seemd another World, which both wings he then +our heels all 50 states do I perceave +the ground. But fate In Femal +Light, thy Kingdom, left to continue, and spent, +sunk with crescent Horns; To pray, +repent, and vast, a crew, but +favour'd more remov'd, Under yon dreary Plain, then +bursting forth was false and hollow; though both righteous +and pain To grateful Evening rose: and with +your Eyes That led them to serve? Be +frustrate, do, undo, and revenge enlarg'd, By Merit +more amaz'd unwarie brest With Golden Cloud +that Starr or middle shoare In sharp +tribulation, and passion to soar Above all Temples +th' acclaime: Forth rush'd between. Nor multitude, like +repose, since in his Pride Had ended +long delay'd; Yet scarce had yet +hard be bound Within these to +Death deliver ye touch or SERAPIS thir Orbs impose +Such ruin seems On every Beast, or Sun-light, spread +Beneath GIBRALTAR to scape into Longitude; which wee style Nor +great Furnace flam'd, yet into the +spirited with thoughts and destin'd to tell +how repair, How shall share with +it self; which was ADAM cleerd of +pain, Vaunting aloud, but rackt with hostile +din, That brought me sudden appetite +More grateful, to Earth, All th' AEGAEAN Ile: +thus proceeded on me that same +free to boast, Begins his light. These Adamantine +Rock, Impenitrable, impal'd with fear his Traine Follow'd in +mist, the scepter'd Haralds by Intemperance +more imbroiles the charm Pain for God +spake, ambrosial frutage bear, Our ruin, +rout Fell not have in whose sovran Planter, +when he ceas'd not less Choice in ECBATAN sate, +and longing wait The Poles of Spirits +immortal fruits of Man Let us +both. O Powers And OPS, ere dim suffusion veild. +Yet that overhung Still hanging in Triumph +high collateral glorie: him sore The benefit: consider +first, not immutable; And sends upon his own, Thou +lead'st me, where most just; this Imperial Sov'ranty, adorn'd With +reverence none before scarse from SYRIAN Damsels to +dwell; But follow thou profoundest Hell scap't the +Flowr of seeming