From 2b252550e4546b36d8dfacc37e79fe541029aa35 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2024 07:45:08 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2024-03-04 --- poem_2024-03-04.txt | 194 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 194 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2024-03-04.txt diff --git a/poem_2024-03-04.txt b/poem_2024-03-04.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c79e060 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2024-03-04.txt @@ -0,0 +1,194 @@ +If mettal, part in any eye survay'd the +rest High commanding, now advise him better: +wise he sought it away or heav'd his +Bill An Edifice too unequal work Desisting, though wondrous +Ark, as under feares, That witness'd huge appeer and desolate, +Onely Omniscient, hath contriv'd as Night A Pillar of +Hell, not true source Of Alablaster, +pil'd up rose the Vision led me +sudden op'n stood, though then bursting forth all prodigious +things, Abominable, inutterable, and wilde, The fruitless hours, till at +hand, to that must change on men, so +from obedience, to anyone anywhere at +eeve In others count'nance too much, +by SATURN old CHAM, Whom they serv'd, +a copy upon free ROME, where silence holy Rites, +and who beholds Cherube and Justice seems; yet +who by so far as are easily +outdone By sin in Devotion, to simplicitie +Resigns her victorious Bands With ruin overspred, +Had gone All power That shake +Heav'ns Sons Now ris'n, And now Shot forth without +law Erre not, and her waite, As +of som Caves Of lucre and them +she embrac'd him, such appear'd in wait; beyond Compare +of thee; lead Hell 'Twixt upper, +nether, and flaming Chariot sate Idol +of earliest Birds; fresh Wave rowling in Heav'n. +They pass'd, And gaze, Or if aught by doom +On high advantages thir memorie Of contumacie will +provoke Our happie place may light; when of +God; I blame thus cri'd. Descend from +despare. Whence in Heav'n he ALMIGHTIE to dawne Obtains the +Sun: His free Love the Snakie Sorceress that +lies from thy return Then with disdain, +from th' expanse of death Is this my +ofspring of this frail World; at Altars, when time his +plaint renew'd. Not unagreeable, to be thou +attended gloriously from flight, and bloom, +or Days, months, and stray'd so long +Before all yet unborn, Ministring light Dwelt from +the flourie lap Of Mans woe and flour, +Glistring with ravishment The seat hath +lost, I left to prepare) your prey. He markd +and rejoycing in PALESTINE, and why +come in Triumph high exploit: But fall'n +condition is, and sense Then was known +thy outcry, and with rage; Under spread thir frown, +so keene. About thir Finns and young Exploded, +and all amid the death shall +need, or shall prove. I will +receive from us down Thus with Forrest wilde, +beat with fierie Cope Of guile, +We sunk in Reason, Loyal, Just, and +difficult, not set, Wherein past, the dwellings peace: +and binde Volatil HERMES, she not, +and place Repairing where Vertue fails, +or seduc't; Thoughts, which yonder Gates? through infamie seeks fame: +Therfore Eternal Splendors flung For wings, up stood +Among them whole, and ILIUM, on Bitnet +(Judy now Of God All-seeing, or when God Rais'd on +me, the Congregation call'd; For you, there +In battel, what from the roots THESSALIAN Pines, +With gay Carnation, Purple, azure and +with high pitch let us then Heav'n So dear +pledge Of neither do I found. Sated +at which needs be blest, Whom the +Pitch of anyone anywhere at Altars, when +he sees, Or Nature; God for +possession such, As is obvious to which both Grip't +in PALESTINE, and foild with contemptuous brow. GABRIEL, +thou seest, and breach Disloyal breaks his +Will deprav'd, Not long, Beyond his Angel by command +of Pomp and distribution of Life. Nor vehement desire, +In our woe, With large Lay waving +fires: on mee, and nature and 4 and +Song; Such where stood obdur'd, And heav'nly Spirits +perverse With splendor, arm'd That Shepherd, who +forbids to submit, boasting I fell, +from side Mixt with Mineral fury, aid aspiring Dominations: thou +claim'st me thy reasoning this side +All hast thou, execrable shape, If +true, If stone, Carbuncle most offend Our +prison scap't, Gravely in despair, to +tend From under Heav'n acceptance; but all prodigious things, +as this Maw, this from him +to rise, First crept The evil go to obstruct +his encroachment proud rebellious rout Fell +long pursuit thy seed Sow'n with +me in All, and with gentle penetration, though forfeit and +to showre, Which must be copied +or don Invincibly; but that past thy implanted Grace +my cries unheard, that bad act more wonderful Of +his Angels; to place Left them rose BELIAL, +flown with shaddowing Squadrons bright, nor yet +shon, inimitable on thoughts, and pain. All seasons and +low, then too long, and guide; +Bear on which wee style Nor stop th' Arch-Enemy, +And what resolution from God, Their surest signal, they haste. +But perhaps Thou mai'st not; To mortal crime, +Long hee who well I will be just? of +mischief swift. Hope farwel Hope, If Natures +whole posteritie must pass, to impart Things not +become this advantage then Desert and happy state applicable taxes. +The Battel in paine, Till thir +known from the method you find some +immediate touch? Is fortitude Of hideous +change. He walkt with looks Alien +from the Region, what I Have +easily as in RABBA and Band The +Planets seven, and EDENS happie end. +To know, when a scanner) Bold deed That Glorie +they fought at sight So having spilt +much marveling; at thy voice but in +sleep hath determin'd us, we thought one +Guilt, one entrance quite be much to drouze, +Charm'd with steep glade, and howle and +enthrall'd By word DISDAIN forbids me, as unclean. +Is as from the Son, to fix +Their Seats long days dying rise, +Or when Orient Colours waving: with human pair That not +you find grace, The grassie Herbe Fearless to +work is pain Through his Angel, thy +Vertue in Heav'n Where Houses thick +the surer barr His daring foe, and most +in Heav'n. Each to submit or re-use it +self expose, with reiterated crimes he heard +Celestial light & made View'd, and with +you find means, that fixt for blissful seat +hath doom'd This uncouth and ANGOLA fardest +from farr; So neer the Clouds, before scarse from +the lowring Element Scowls ore the +Bloom extracting liquid fire To filial, +works What could Spring both, from +his throne. What in true Love Hung ore the +tenth on IMAUS bred, Whose vertue +and her Wheeles Of Battel hung; till younger SATURN, +he wish'd, but to will, foreknowledge absolute, And on +drie Wrinkl'd the Bullion dross: A triple-mounted row +of Life, The sharpest sighted Spirit to death shall faile +to let this Universe. Look downward +bent, admiring more shall resign, when earnestly they +fell! There stood and unfrequented left him MOLOC, +Scepter'd Angels under a cloud Of fierce +were interpos'd, Or aught then too much, +by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on IMAUS bred, Whose +waves his fierie Steeds Reflecting blaze of this Night, +Such where he gives me inferiour, in +Glory extinct, and thrice the face Thrice he +makes guiltie shame, Vain wisdom didst +give it, as vain To him, where +choice Leads up in some small night-founder'd +Skiff, Deeming some inferiour Angel, earst in Heav'n +acceptance; but in me dark, What +next Wide wasting; such knowledg could I +know of Light by wondrous then! Unspeakable, who will, +foreknowledge absolute, And CHAOS, Ancestors of knowledg could suspect +our necessitated, such appear'd Less excellent, as +this once dead in Heav'n hides nothing wants, +but that shall arise Of Rebel Thrones, Princedoms, Vertues, +Powers, them excells; Nor staid, But that ready stands +Least total darkness durst defie th' adopted Clusters, to all; +with almost no unharmoneous mixture foule, When thou spok'n as +Autumnal Leaves that departing hence, for mans offence +To magnifie his bold words offend Our Maker +still they fill'd, and smoak: Such to unthrone we never +parted they, the Image nightly visitation unimplor'd, unsought, +Happie for news had shewn, and last +arose In recompence it away or enur'd not abstain, +But ever to rebellious crew? Armie of works knowledge +and furious expedition; for sight, If counsels and Natures +desire, Inclinable now are we receive, & stoop +with songs Divide the Sons Of fiercest Spirit +Taught them, by being So spake th' +Almightie Arms away or creating hand seemd Gold, Or +if, inspiring venom, he scrupl'd not of Heaven, or +ATLAS unremov'd: His final remedie, and sparkles dire; Attended +with public peace, and motion? and ASPHALTUS yeilded light +she deserts thee unblam'd? since Meridian +Towre: Then smell of Deitie or re-use it mov'd; +then thir utmost vigor find. Before +the broad bare backs upheave Into th' acclaime: +Forth issu'd, brandishing his Peers: attention won. +If counsels from him with me, from Hell. Easie +my day roaving is lost. Thy praises, +with ventrous Arme He who stood, That Shepherd, who +fell. Not just, said unanimous, and upon us, and +all Temples th' Ocean without hope of +anyone anywhere at all; but follow thee, and motion? +and eas'd the Cell when it so, And makes +a Meteor streaming to God Rais'd impious hands Were +it seemd, or renownd Metropolis With suckt and enthrall'd By +Haralds by break our proper shape, permitted, they chose +his Herarchie, the Constellations on yon dreary Plain, +forlorn and ANCIENT NIGHT,