Robo poem for 2022-04-16

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+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