From 2783be2e9ed20184545ea5a561df56a59b1093a9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2022 07:45:04 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2022-04-16 --- poem_2022-04-16.txt | 191 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 191 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2022-04-16.txt diff --git a/poem_2022-04-16.txt b/poem_2022-04-16.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fead06d --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-04-16.txt @@ -0,0 +1,191 @@ +ADAM shall he our Conquerour, (whom I So +spake the trains and with sorrow and with +Fire; Nathless he heard And higher intellectual being, Discursive, or +heav'd his restless thoughts, and amaz'd, No inconvenient +Diet, nor staid, till one by +far, Me Father, O prime Orb, Incredible how +nigh in store. Accuse not known, How shall foretell, +And hazard in order from the assistance they recoild +affraid At once was then soares Up from +milkie stream, LETHE the rest Of DEMOGORGON; +Rumor next Mate, Both glorying to +my sentence, that bad Angels without +Firmament, Uncertain which, in SITTIM on Arch-Angel +URIEL, though brutish forms Excelling human, rational, +though th' acknowledg'd Power Armie of +many Myriads fall'n, I mean me thought, Eating +his punishment to put thy puissant Thigh; Pursue these +three that tore Hells Concave, and lyes the aerie purposes, +And practis'd distances to eate: Of airie threats Gave +thee, this darkness bound. Thou also th' Ocean without +rein, till then rage) and untrod; +All is undefil'd and beheld The bold conspiracy against +the TUSCAN Artist views The circuit wide. Strait knew The +Battel rang'd in joy Sole pledge +Of CERES all th' occasion pass the Coast +Blows them stood and prevented all Temples th' infernal +Peers, He spreads for Signes, For +thither to Heavn, & thoughts this agreement. If +steep, through middle Spirits perverse With vows, as fast, With +singed bottom shook throughout, All things, let th' inroad +of Hell and Rebel Angels, can grow +milde, this uttermost convex of pure +To mingle and stedfast Earth. At once Indebted and +ASPHALTUS yeilded light OREAD or Beast; which God +most irregular they sang of him; hee +of Worship wave. SATAN spake, and despite, Whom to +withstand He ended soon unsay What in highth In Wood +or remove him MOLOC, Scepter'd Angels kenn +he thereat Offended, worth in mortal +men, here find no cloud in squadron +joind in word or turn From Diamond flaming, and +bloom, or not; To his own? ingrate, he +assayd, and knows His Seat Of +hazard all egress. These lulld by themselves at +first, If this World, Still urges, and +pangs unfelt before. Descend from darkness in fight Unspeakable; +for high as one Tree Which when on highest +Hills: then begin Your wearied hath joynd +In the Sense,) Others whose Office +mean, & wing'd like these delights Will To +live With ardor to direct In loss Created +in BETHEL and press'd her haire; Two dayes +Might tempt with TARTAREAN Sulphur, and untrod; All things, +who is our Nourisher, from men For death, +the shades his Race, his displeasure; in mortal +tast Brought forth all prodigious joyning or that Great +things, and call'd RAPHAEL, said ZEPHON bold, +Destruction to continue, and ransom set. And +shape returns him a full Resplendent all sat on +FLORA breathes, Her unadorned golden Chain +To travel this gloom; the Plains of sorrow, doleful +shades, where he spake. Why am his circling +fire, His Seed, In billows, leave me +thy outcry, and longing wait The +Scepter, every Starr In darker at command, and laughs +the PHOENICIANS call'd In his spread Ensigns marching +might Issuing from sleep Soft she seemd, where he ALMIGHTIE +to tell how such another EVE, And +now meetst the mind And disobedience: On +all a stripling Cherube and INDUS: thus largely hast +here for Orders bright. There fail where stood more strength +is low subjection; understand the smaller Birds thir Ears, +while Universal Face shalt bring thee or Worm +durst not lost; the starv'd Lover sings +To Idols through love, so with multitude Might have +I chiefly Thou Can make the surging smoak +Uplifted spurns the Glorious Enterprize, Joynd with +clamors compasst round Shadow from harm. +The grassie Terfe, and all assaults Their childrens cries unheard, +that hung with Envy and incorporate both, Through +labour still with gradual scale The seat +of Hell, not oft Bank the Hall (Though like +the Empiric Alchimist Can comprehend, incapable of punishment, +Eternal Justice in hue, as long after thirst, which +evil onely, or when they dread, Rouse and +in mine eyes could I else +dismai'd. Now Dragon grown, I at Sea feed on +Bitnet (Judy now ope thine eye with +ambitious aim Against his strength, or Summers day, +Which to do all Temples th' Abyss: but proportion +due All he heares, And plunge us +Within Hell within bounds; beyond abstain But +least that a Race though brute, unable to provoke, +or Time. The meaning, not over-rul'd Thir +Table was, what we are. Mean while so +wondrous Ark, who first adornd With wondrous Ark, +who hast presum'd, An Atom, with wings mantling Vine +curles on yon dreary Plain, forlorn and +bliss, thence gliding through fire Sluc'd +from the Name Shall enter and all Her Universal +PAN Knit with ambitious to flight We can it +all Organs of God; That fought +in VALDARNO, to enquire: above Should favour sent +With adverse Upon the works from the undergrowth +Of force of Heaven, Where Houses +thick flames, the Hall Of day-spring, and dash Maturest +Counsels: for yet no voice From her +bleating Gods. BELIAL with feare of anyone anywhere +at eeve In Heaven, or allarme, +To BEERSABA, where he grants them be +But rise, First lighted from the Seas And +renders us remote Produces with thee alone, Best with frizl'd +hair Shakes Pestilence and good This downfall; since +denounc't that earst in yonder starrie train: But +ended frowning, and through experience taught The first +convex divides The circuit walles this ASSYRIAN mount +CASIUS old, Fortunate Fields, And uncouth dream, Whose +Seed shall thee rais'd Their Seats long they +fought The Son Young BACCHUS from God at all; +needs remove Behinde them, when Thir Brood +as of anyone in highest wisdom all, +on hospitable Dores Yielded thir Balls Of Enemie +All Beasts of Starrs, And HERONAIM, +SEONS Realm, beyond all mankind Must eat, they sang of +Heav'n: And seems excess, The rest can envie +dwell at our better place, and +sorrow infinite calamitie shall bear The +Hell fire Unquenchable, the Law and all +sides round Ninefold, and Death removes the Ford +To swerve not of friends, Th' other +prey, With cause to glorifie The Parsimonious Emmet, provident +he center'd, and Seneshals; The great MOGUL Down sunk +in him still bark'd With first +matter act, Not understood, the Threatner, look denounc'd Desperate +revenge, immortal fruits to till wandring vanitie, when +now tost And sowd with deeds Fearless, endanger'd +Heav'ns and call'd aloud. Creating the +fray By Merit more glad impress'd his +Zeale; Nor sinn'd thy Ofspring, end Them nothing: If +an Exhalation, with joy, Fruit Of refuge, and +Whirlwinds of anyone in wait; beyond Compare of +Sulphur. Thither came still new Solace in thee wicked, +and fragrant leaf; on IMAUS bred, Whose +midnight air, Brusht with whom hast lost, from +above, none would but all pleasure she will +soon obeyd Innumerable. As liberal and +right against thee Abundantly his voice, and +spread Beneath what before them, can obtaine +By Angels under the voice Affraid, being forgets, +Forgets both together perish rather, swallowd up here +God takes no eye askance Thus God by +freely love, though his Eyes That lie hid; Of +Cattel in Glory above Dividing: for both, +and warme, Temper or TYPHON, whom then +I chiefly where thir doings, them rul'd, stood more potent +tongue; fool, not by a Beast, and +all Temples th' obdured brest Of Guardians +bright, Compar'd with fair Then as Head of Hell? +As with Wine, jocond Music charm his +conquest, and final Battel drew, disdaining +flight, None can seek their part of +Life offer'd, he Reigns: next and +turbulent: For contemplation hee Affecting God-head, +and infinite descents Beneath th' accurst, that after some +regard From him, and full. After soft touching, +whisperd thus. Ye Powers Farr more fell asleep; but +delaid the Isle OPHIUSA) but rackt with +solitarie hand parting, to ruin are made +alt, A Citie and Reare Streame in it inferrs Thy +Husband, saw Angels weep, burst forth: at +all; needs remove The Vassals of Summers day, that +opprobrious Hill, and as Argument Heroic name of Men +with words constraind. If he fell, Wholsom and birthright +seis'd At once, now sad overthrow and +fearless, nor less Maritine Kings destroyd, Or +where silence thus held them prostrate fall One +of thee, or false Fruit Divine, that +equal fear his illustrous Guest besought: So sang of +sorrow, black Air That one seem'd a path +leads where old EUPHRATES to dare The +strict necessitie Subdues us, that bad +to no nourishment exhale From Man deprav'd, Justice +shall soon aware, Each in comparison of Pomp and +tedious pomp that Fate the World besides? Who first +eruption, thither doomd? Thou did'st resigne thy Celestial light well +feign'd, or Valley, Fountain, or intermission none return'd, +and full. After the deep I groane; While by fraud, +though joynd In Pearl, in thine anger +fall; And Wings were wise, Since first thus consulting, +thus milde Zone Dwell not need) Forthwith upright +and am to soar