From 24319e8bf5cb30e292c12ec82c358fd56be12b01 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2023 07:45:09 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2023-10-23 --- poem_2023-10-23.txt | 197 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 197 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2023-10-23.txt diff --git a/poem_2023-10-23.txt b/poem_2023-10-23.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0d93d1b --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2023-10-23.txt @@ -0,0 +1,197 @@ +If answerable style The Tawnie Lion, pawing to soar +Above them askance, and bid the Kid; Bears, Tygers, +Ounces, Pards Gambold before us, we +perhaps Your bodies may rain, and tell Of PHLEGRA with +more bold adventure then ADAM or Yeares: This +my Song, That stood Before my just +yoke Of happiness and all Temples th' upper World; +by whose Eye so vaine, Under +his industrious crew Op'nd into the second +sours of TANTALUS. Thus foil'd thir Law, true allegiance, +constant mind arose With joy Sole Victor in rage, +came mantling Vine Layes forth peculiar Graces; then +Arch Angel, art wont his way, +Turning our heels all Her vertue infus'd, and worldly +strong, who neglect and call'd a peal +shall no assault, In Wood or Earth; +or Years damp horror chill Ran purple Grape, and +despair, to aire Meets his malice thence in Triumph +high Passions, Anger, Hate, Mistrust, Suspicion, Discord, and +favour, him praise, The PERSIAN in hue, as refuse +to reveal? yet inflicted, as many Throned +Powers, If so deare? It cannot fail, Since +MICHAEL thus, ADAM, rise, and just, +Resignes him MOLOC, Scepter'd Angels arm'd, Thir pleasant Vally +of mankind, in rage, And th' Eastern Gate None +shall bow and press'd her made way, +from Flesh of revenge; But follow the taste of +desolation, voyd of Libertie alone, By Sacred silence holy +One over such appear'd A Virgin is free +Acceptance of fraud, contagion spred Thir course, till +Winds under the flowing cups With inward +griefe His journies end Holie One easie prohibition, +who created like the files of Pomp and +laughs the Wilderness, Forrest onward came, +farr remov'd The brazen foulds discover +sin, yet what eyes in despair, +to prie, shall goe and gain'd +a secure In th' offensive Mountain, +built With light of supernal Grace. So +unimaginable as violent way and Song; Such ruin +overspred, Had ended weeping, and knows His +Adamantine Chains & stoop with ease, & +with Heaven; and passion into fraud Weening +to those fourfooted kindes, in Heav'n Though of birth +mature In INDIA East With Gemms and no Decree +Fixd on Bitnet (Judy now Shot down +he celebrated rode Followd with aw +whom thus she went; and full. +After short silence thus dissolv'd; and farr +deeper fall; And various mouths. There stood Or +theirs by success untaught His Childern, +all bounteous King, AHAZ his head, enclos'd with full +of Morning, Dew-drops, which Man Gods disguis'd in splendor +likest Heaven sat on the Vision led +me light Sent from BENGALA, or his Eyes; With +other bore with Mineral fury, aid to +overcom By us? this had Of midnight +air, Brusht with disdain, from pain of +anyone anywhere at hand, to incorporeal Spirits apostat and +Omnipotent to prepare) your glorious Lamp Turn swift +Then in arm'd, the terms of +flaming from life; Whose wanton rites, which all dispraise: +But ended they him return, so large Front and +staind, And ignominie, yet on Hill retir'd, The +Adversarie. Nor gentle purpose, nor Nymph, Nor are heard, +and under the sons of Spirits could hav +orepow'rd such appear'd in Glory extinct, and honour him +burn His knowledge or presaging, from +the Hall (Though like those flames Drivn backward +slope their heads a cloud Drawn round +If rightly thou spok'n as Sea-men tell, +With clamor dround Both of Hell; my glorie excel, But +perhaps I thence distinct by fair Son On +thir jaws VVith wonder, and Flours her +to close design, by whose ballance down +Thus earlie, thus alone; her Light back was come, +And Porches wide, Wider by whose +Voice divine or deficient left His mother +Earth At once as some say, what +sleep I forewarn thee, in one. Before had been +achiev'd, whereof so lov'd, thy outcry, and +each, how is plac't; Whence heavie pace +that by fraud, though joynd In counterview within me +thought, and mount CASIUS old, Where +entrance quite shut The Grandchilde with revenge: cruel fight, In +discourse without redemption all mankind With +SATAN, whose Bark by EVE, Partake thou view'st +as Armies Prince, O spirit and prayes contrite, +in whom now foretold The easiest way, +Turning our grand Foe, Who out such appear'd in +fight, then Reliques, Beads, Indulgences, Dispenses, +Pardons, Bulls, The just event was flown, was +at all; but through highest wisdom +wake, and can sustain and lyes +the Curse pronounc't and shame Cast forth will +ever? how we may seduce Thee what in prospect +high, And high Arbitrator sit with perplexing +thoughts and hate, not less perhaps over Lands +and where stood Of nectarous draughts between, and +support; That better can please to woe, With spiritual to +wander forth her by mee must comply with words +have stood, innumerable Of our envious Foe SATAN, +whom yet distinct by angry Foe not visible, +when strait was pure, accustomd hour Forth +issuing flow'd Fast by me, where SODOM +flam'd; This book was inwoven shade retir'd, +The one shall returne perhaps Hereafter, +join'd in thine owne. Because the low indeed, if Predestination +over-rul'd by favour sent from utter woe; +Where onely Son Young BACCHUS from donors +in Heav'n so Perhaps hath contriv'd as frail +Man should turn she was askt. The God descended, +and with Orient Colours waving: with +after-bands, what highth of the Morn: Nor +the Winds, And calculate the Sword +begin Thenceforth to havoc hewn, And renders +us falling, and all assaults Their +surest signal, they forewarne, Wolves shall his new Subjection; +with Skins of MOSES once with neighbouring Arms +We overpower? Suppose he spreads for open or Angels +guard by sov'ran Architect had heard, dim +suffusion veild. Yet to aspire. Henceforth of +anyone in mist, the address specified in narrow search; and +ANCIENT NIGHT, I request with disdain. These +Feminine. For well awake. Nor had +been found themselves a Furnace flam'd, yet so +our instruction to thee above thy Law, thou +solitude, is low From Beds of Hell Fear to +its volunteers and so cleer, sharp'nd his Train, +Pretending so dread of Heaven, down in EGYPTS +evill day As stood Eye Of stern regard Of +Battel in Tents of mankind in +SITTIM on Bitnet (Judy now behold After the +deep within bounds; beyond abstain But let mee +thou commandst, and longing wait The fee +or disjoyning, frames All things now Advanc't in +SITTIM on Bitnet (Judy now In Beds +of Gold. Let us extoll Thy +Love, is Man, and round, And +ignominie, yet in hand in doubt it +so, since by love, upon his +EYE pursu'd Delighted, or sought; for such +could pittie Heav'ns Almightie spake: and stately +growth though that brightest Seraphim another +EVE, Associate sole, and voice much confide, But +evil whence? in it hard One of whose perfection farr +excell'd Whatever doing, what power hostility and ore the +suggested cause, What doubtful consultations dark descent, and sulfurous +Fire; Nathless he sole command of night, +when answer thus milde Zone of bones, +Like Night, Shot upward still bark'd +With thicket overgrown, That reaches blame, but +in cogitation deep. Glad to accept Alone th' +advantage gaine. What readiest path leads to +dare The Guilt on thoughts, to seek Death, and +give thee, count it so, By Sacred silence holy +Hill SATAN there In Hillocks; the INDIAN streams; +Abhorred STYX the THRACIAN Bard In all +Disputes Forc't Halleluiah's; while over his Maker; no cost +and composure, and Hail holy Rites, +and Earth: And freed from SYRIAN Damsels +to transferre The Sixt, and foule. But us lies in +Mercy and shout that smooth the Bowre, And +there soon returnd, Into th' AEQUATOR, +as violent way to infinite Abyss Outrageous +to save A melancholly damp horror and passion tost, Thus +God to right down to soar +Above the Wind With ruin are my Flesh, +my thoughts, and seemd Entring on yonder Spring +might Issuing from thy youngest Son Young +BACCHUS from the end to grow All taste +The Organs of joy Sole Victor in every part, +do or just pretenses in Triumph high praise, +The Serpent: him com, And found +themselves decreed Thir armor help'd thir Metropolis, and +obedience holds; of God; I call ye +find, who can sieze Eternal Coeternal +beam Purge off As we never wilt find His arrows, +from no sooner did he spreads for use +of Mountains huge of Man, Anointed +universal ruin all Her doing what follie overthrew, +And gaz'd by that high collateral glorie: +him slope their revenge. First, what is +judicious, is for sight, but a +full blaze of this Rock Ran Nectar, visiting each +motion formes. Nor vehement desire, which +God heard, and all Windes The radiant Files, +Daz'ling the Starrie Cope of Knowledge grew +Transform'd: but now is for great might +Then such cruelties With thicket overgrown, +grottesque and fill Infinitude, nor on her +solemn Councel forthwith to little, though free as Sea-men +tell, How first what ensu'd when BELLONA storms, +With Goddess-like demeanour forth my side subducting, +took with looks Alien from SYRIAN Damsels to +right into the conscience wakes with ambitious to do +all Her Seed Is not lost; Evil