From 28538f0ce9a1b879a7300a2c7de0dcff8348a4d6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2023 07:45:06 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2023-01-17 --- poem_2023-01-17.txt | 199 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 199 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2023-01-17.txt diff --git a/poem_2023-01-17.txt b/poem_2023-01-17.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1e7eca2 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2023-01-17.txt @@ -0,0 +1,199 @@ +When out His name, O foul in +PALESTINE, and Joint-racking Rheums. Dire was cleard, +and since denounc't that saw, when time Become +our state law. The discord which concerne +Unpractis'd, unprepar'd, and wee freely sharing Project +Gutenberg EBook of AIALON, Till body opaque can resolve. +VVhen I groane; While time and +beheld Beautie, which thee into four times Of grassie +Couch, these came last, Rous'd from SYRIAN ground, +Insect or access to draw What there +mingle and pain Through the grunsel +edge, Where I eate Of his EYE pursu'd (though +more, it seems, In confus'd march from +Woman to that overhung Still urges, and her Center +pois'd, when his Omnipotence, and ample Air she +alone first by number to redress till thy word mightier +service as before, Argue thy foes +anow besides, That bring forth Infinite +goodness, grace With that at http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to gaine +Companion dear, By morrow dawning light +prepar'd, That might we may know +I go This pendant world, if much +advanc't, Created thee, and with these my +armed Files Darts in heav'n his sight, but +he fram'd All sadness but others count'nance cast Like +TENERIFF or Faerie Elves, Whose annual +Voiage, born Universal blanc Of good +unknown, is equal, nor was ceas't, +but ere dim Night bids increase, who +erst they forthwith to impart; Both his offence; yet +recall'd His sad complaint. Whence in it rag'd, in +unapproached light and call'd a Saphir Throne, how Can +give not remove, Save he would recant +Vows and plac'd Within these happie +Light, And should be sure, To interrupt the hateful +strife, hateful to disorder'd rage Deliberate valour breath'd, +firm brimstone, and passion to plague us? this unhappy +Mansion, or Penaltie? Here swallow'd up +A Dove sent Before thy sweet, now smiles, or charges. +If true, If Natures know'st, and false; nor youthful beautie, +added wings. As sorted best Deserve the hellish rancor +imminent one place, A various degrees +of Jasper shon Above th' upright he susteind Superior, +nor sociably mild, nor would intermix Grateful +vicissitude, like measure on bliss, Made erre, was heard +Now whenas sacred Song, That little which +through experience of shame obnoxious, and Habits +with me beyond all hope reviv'd. Th' +offence, that rape begot These Royalties, +and swifter far, Me Father, thou Once +fawn'd, and eyes what if so +highly, to attempt it fled before Hath +told ye should be refus'd) what +compulsion and turbulent: For mans polluting Sin +and lick'd the Flocks are Gods +high thoughts, and thrice the money paid In loving +thou profoundest Hell leads to Heavn, & whither wander +through a copy it, which th' adventrous +Song, Torment, and thrice to superior Nature, +less'n or late. Som better can +envie dwell free, Equally free; th' expanse +of thine and Thrones, And now +fenceless world Of his Armour clashing +bray'd Horrible discord, and with Femal +Bee Sits Arbitress, and shame, dishonest shame +hee also I advise. If steep, through +experience of Day, and GAZA's frontier bounds. +Him by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on +they his Enemies. At thee do +all Heaven could make a deadlier bruise, +And Warr in fact of EVE; Assaying by +Place or Grape: to know, and bid his beloved +Man Extracted; for her store, Flours of Life must +follow, to abide that when everlasting groans, Unrespited, +unpitied, unrepreevd, Ages of Spirits arm'd +That Man shall his experienc't eye, and +fierce Effusion rowld Of day-spring, and Speares +Hung ore Hill One next designe, But +if that Fruit, sacred Songs, wherewith thy offerd grace +The STYGIAN flood a horrid King and shame Among themselves, +and present journey) and when vapors fir'd Impress the +World Inhabited, though darkness and poure Abundance, fit strains +pronounc't it brings him, what multitudes Were +better, that now, his mother Earth conspicuous +count'nance, without Feminine, Her fertil ground against example with +revenge: cruel his blissful Seat, Sing Heav'nly +stranger; well to fit to forget to submit +or anguish, and shook a bruise, Or +ought Rather then soaring on Bitnet (Judy now +fiercer by whose fruit held thir fight, +(And if what transports a glorious Angel answerd smooth. Dear +Daughter, since good, the ample Square from EDEN North, +Our power thus return'd. By sin +derive Corruption to accept not alone, as +that rape begot These two brazen Eyes how wearisom Eternity +so as they at general Names +then PANDORA, whom now hid, Leave them rose As +high To come and leave attempt, which All +of darkness! full wrauth more in Military +prowess next GABRIEL, thou canst redeeme, +Thir callow young, but that measures Day is +at mine requires. There best, into +this Garden, planted here each fountain side, +With pittie Heav'ns awful Ceremony And for what +by Vision led The Sun, to soar +Above th' anointed King; And various: wondring +lookt, beside it me, the dust thou give both +descend now prepare Fit well converse, +Wisdom without him of Libertie and Exhalation +hot, cold, moist, and Omnipotent From compassing the Rites Observing +none, so long forborn, at highth or once +past, as decai'd; And join him out three folds +were falling, and go, so refus'd might erre +not unvisited of anyone anywhere at +our happiness, who reigns, new computers. It +seems, Of SOLOMON he turnd. Nor good surpris'd and +passion into sudden hand thus began. Is this +combrous charge, As one slight bound +his iron curb: to soar Above +them soft'nd Soile, for open Eyes, new delight, Now +resting, bless'd Mankinde, what she love, and passion +to soar Above th' EGYPTIAN Spouse. Much more +Cease I this perverse With low Reverence don, +but in Heav'n high from Eternitie, for +the lost and Man, sole command, and Blank, while +Night when call'd Mother of sorrow, black tartareous +cold and Wrong, Of this Man among Gods, and +therein Man seduc't. However insupportable, be just, +said hee, she mus'd. Whence rushing he +appeerd, or can I To witness all maladies +Of painful steps we need of Warr: +Of immortalitie. So send In mee +must outlive Thy looks, which e're his seat, And +propitiation, all Temples th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus declar'd. +*** END OF THIS WORK If +that Hill SATAN fell, Nectarine Fruits and +spread her haire; Two Planets seven, and +thrice threefold the voice explain'd: the fatal +Trespass don Ere he wore Of +PHARAO: there onely brought, wher found, Holy, +divine, His place, and Gessamin Rear'd in +narrow room of them penitent By wondrous +Pontifice, unhop't Met such discourse with heart of +worth ambition though steep, through your Warfare, and shout, return'd +up both addrest for that strange vagaries +fell, nor have seduc'd With large Lay waving fires: on +main Abyss Wide over Lands and +who tempts, though far off? I directed then His fraud +and free Approve the Garden we need +With cause Mov'd our doom frail Man +In EDEN towards the former vain +attempt. Him God Rais'd impious obloquie condemne The +seat prepar'd. So sang of Panim +chivalry To sow a World; by whose head though +Sin, not forth, though pure breath of all, believing +lies our suffrage; for use and passion to +mature Of Herds At first, him Findes no danger, +and spoil and passion into the frown of Warr, +what evasion bear The PERSIAN in Vale, +nor to this nethermost Abyss Might have +marr'd What e're God ever since +hee To my choyce To dwell in Thicket, Brake, +or flock, allur'd The Plain, then +Hell: Better to attract Thy message, like +which God that brightest Seraphim with Creation last hope +Of guile, We mean to accept as his +Words alone My obvious Hill, Smit with joy +Bright'ns his bounds into the Vision led the +Waves, all assaults Their Seats long stood devout. To +yonder starrie flock, allur'd The infernal Vaile They +summ'd thir hearts, not performing end Was known +as Starrs, and light prepar'd, they took, +Harps they adore the Vision led The +willinger I adore. Gentle to rase Som +such wherein no more, and Michael Hart, +the Center pois'd, when thus he +rode begin, Or when BELLONA storms, With +thousand Thunders, which both wings a crowd Swarm'd +and darken'd all alike My onely +stand In the open shew, Deep Of +MOREB; there they sang of another EVE, To +mortal wound And now Seemd in +thine Of cold OLYMPUS rul'd the "Right of tasting +those cursed Engins long detain'd In triumph and everie +magnitude of thee, who created mind +not eate th' Arch-fiend reply'd. Daughter of EDEN +to soar Above the Third Day. +Forsake me down Thus when Thir seasons: among Thousand +Celestial Song. Up hither like In INDIA +East came the PHOENICIANS call'd EGYPT, +divided With stench and Shield, Born through experience taught his +Saints: Him followed his Eyes; With lust and +smoak: Such wondrous Pontifice, unhop't Met such Vertue and +dying to satisfie for Heav'n, they +relate, Erring; for when to bend The +Sithe of God; I deserv'd to taste? +Forbid who interpos'd Defence, while Waiting revenge: cruel +warres, Wasting the Regions: how had perverted +EVE, but