From 2c817599605d3dc32d6bfebbe79826a87059fa1a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2021 07:45:07 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2021-10-10 --- poem_2021-10-10.txt | 195 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 195 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2021-10-10.txt diff --git a/poem_2021-10-10.txt b/poem_2021-10-10.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b96cb53 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-10-10.txt @@ -0,0 +1,195 @@ +Fall'n Cherube, and imbracing leand On mans +behalf Patron or dimly seen A Heaven +long past thy God, thereby to +dewy Eve, A PHOENIX, gaz'd by turns, on +NORWEGIAN hills, to soar Above the smiles +from the baser fire inflame with Warriours +mixt, Assemble, and AARON) sent Before +thy blood arise Of Instruments that brightest Seraphim +another World erroneous to abide United thoughts to +sing, Hymns and foulds; Ith' midst +a bloody Fray; With terrors and knows how glorious +Train ascending: He trusted to learn +What thy so endur'd, till Noon: For +loss of these fair event Know +ye to redeem Mans voice, that watchd, hee In +doing what else dismai'd. Now lately what rash +untri'd I know whence learnt: who long the brittle strength +from himself reli'd, As resting found none, so +bent down Must be honour'd thee, and +lyes the DELPHIAN Cliff, Or open +to direct the Citie GERYONS Sons Came +furious windes blow them he felt +Though sleeping, where first at eeve In this Gate +was worse. What neerer danger; goe +and Power I yeilded, by John Milton Whence +in Arms, in PALESTINE, and all +hue, as they. About thir eyes; with +forked tongue Of ugly Serpents; horror backward, but what Arms +And practis'd distances to fulfil is old LAERTES Son, +but in pairs thou fledst: if cause +Mov'd on Thrones; Though all Temples th' AEQUATOR, +as unclean. Haste hither From me down; there From +every part, to enjoy PLATO'S ELYSIUM, +leap'd fondly into plaints thus consulting, thus +spake. Why sleepst thou beest he; But +longer shivering under our sight Of waters generated by +suttle Fiend found here, as the name, O Heav'n! +that like In the Starrs Numberless, as equal ruin: +sage he alights among the goodliest Trees wept odorous sweets +the Center hung. What neerer to prie, shall burn, +and untrod; All he made, since created +mind through mid way: One over +the unwiser Son Perceive thee were of +Grain, or worse, in VALDARNO, to soar +Above th' Omnific Word, begotten Son, in +Heav'n and surrounding Fires; Till, as inclination or +rather how vain In th' Earths great +Light shon, Truth, in highest To +argue in likeness of 20% of longing pines; +Yet happie Light, when ZEPHYRUS on +Earth, of Warr, Warr so with ambitious aim +Against the Coast Blows them admonish, +and Dale) Light LEUCOTHEA wak'd, and +let fall To-worship thir Assemblies, whereso met, Scarse from ESAU +fled Affrighted; but peace Of immortalitie. So farr +remov'd where eldest Night with grasped arm's Clash'd on +AEGYPT with Mineral fury, aid aspiring Dominations: thou such grace +With radiant visage turnd, but to pass Occasion +which instructs us up, nor Fire, But +hiss for Wealth and spoil and work in Paradise Leveld +his bold discourse unblam'd: I now raisd +Bore him next himself Treble confusion, wrath may light; +Speed, to rule by Imperial Ensign, which before +her thou blam'st me here to dalliance +had been thir imbattelld Seraphim another World, high +sufferance of Spirits immortal EVE, And left +but peace by various style, for high +words, & Heav'n Where Scepter'd Angels brought, and reason +then bless'd them, while ADAM repli'd. To meet the +Sons Came furious rage. Farr was that durst dislike +his voice, unchang'd To deepest Hell, or +depth, still to their portion set and rest, if +cause Mov'd our better fortitude Of things common to +enlighten th' Ocean or might dilated stood, innumerable +ordain'd Good we subsist, yet one man +created things His proud step no other +wheel the gloom of sorrow, black it +brought: and vain to equal Love; Least +Heav'n arriv'd, Wafted by steps the Lord +God Rais'd impious War in Glory sat, Or +I turnd thither-ward in Glory above which +they lift thir Eyes, with force, And reconcilement; +wrauth whose griesly top Of gesture proudly eminent +Stood scoffing, highthn'd in Heav'n casts between (Unanswerd +least our stay Longer thy overpraising leaves +and serv'd but well pleas'd. I chiefly Thou +Can equal hope, or action markt: about +the multitude Admiring enter'd, and Empire up +silent stood not lost; the while. +God Rais'd of mine to accord) Man from begging +peace: and yee little which he thereat Offended, worth +Came shadowing, and vigour soon discerns, and full. After +the Night-Hag, when time and therein Each Warriour thus these +Fansie next and shame obnoxious, and laughs the +true source Of Passion, I will trouble of Spirits +perverse With vows, as great indeed Divine, +And shun His fiery concave touring high. As +many dayes, as rais'd From ABRAHAM, Son audibly +spake. Why comes Lur'd with excessive +grown Prodigious motion we return'd up with verdant +Grass, Herb of GOSHEN, who sitst above +and stature as Night with kindly thirst and +bliss, Exempt from darkness do I sought +repair that bad Errand, Man nor Man +whom thus SATAN return'd: Son, Heire, and QUILOA, +and Plaine, Both in PALESTINE, and all Windes +The cool, the Flood, Famin, long detain'd +In discourse they seem'd his Powers as Night +Related, and Fowle, No more she +ensnar'd Mankind they had, or fall To PAQUIN +of Renown less arm him forbids: Those middle +flight of hate, Giving to this first awak't, and +mad demeanour, then they anon Grey-headed men Successive, +and wandring, each act or Fountain who appointed stand +On what eyes in Heav'n remov'd may +choose Dilated or proprietary form, pretended To yonder Gates? +through experience of Mercie and strange: Two dayes, +they storm; great Ammiral, were who moovd +Thir soft imbraces, hee and ras'd By +Act of anyone in PALESTINE, and Shoar, the +dore. Meanwhile To better hid. Soon recollecting, with +steep flight to withstand He ended; when +fatal bruise, And higher Argument Heroic then projecting +Peace and gorg'd, nigh at ease +thir public domain (does not find thy eternal woe. +Yet half on som glimps discerne ITHURIEL and therein +dwell. And now storming furie stay'd, Quencht +in dismal Gates, And bring forth once past, +present, future men, he ALMIGHTIE to +seek Death, Said then Glory above +and Timbrels loud Sung Triumph, and +Reason joyning or rage And that +moves on yon dreary Plain, then +saist thou? whom God Express, and enthrall'd +By four speedy words attention held me; for +sweetest his Glory obscur'd: As one midnight search, +where bounds On our dungeon, not come Well +hast of like that Forbidden Tree, whose broad circumference +Hung forth more forcible we hope was plaine, A +Dove sent propitious, some thing on circumfluous Waters +glide, and full. After the Fathers head? +and worthiest to give account To Satan +our extremes, Or solace his Bill An Earthlie +Guest, and wide interfus'd Imbracing round Covers his +flight; som irriguous Valley spread wings, up with +hideous length: before the fiercest Spirit Powrd forth +all sides With shiverd armour strow'n, and +all Temples th' inviolable Saints In knowledge, +planted by whose lowly down To mortal Sin Original; while +Warr can it be good, and sweet returne. +But first lighted, soon for ever to +that serve in Heav'n were those two past; +and neerer to work or cries. O +Spirit, but EVE her Elm; she +turn'd; I though Spirits elect Sense of sorrow, +black Clouds began this windie Sea +that revolted multitudes Were it self Can make +her Kings; there soon Th' animal +Spirits embrace, Total they villifi'd To mortal foe, and +Plaines, And what higher in Ocean without cloud +in Glory abounds, Therefore what highth recal high Archt, +a Towred structure high, Where Houses thick bestrown Abject +and yet public scorn; he for thou no +fear and hollow; though in Front to +obstruct his other self, and Clarions +be linked Thunderbolts Transfix us unforeseen, unthought of, know repulse? +For hee Present) thus calld aloud. ADAM, by Sin, +not theirs which impli'd Subjection, but stood +Of hazard huge must keep up stood Of +us too long, Embryo's and temperd so, for flight, Mangl'd +with rage. Farr differing from amidst them +that kindl'd those Appointed to sway Of Day without least +of Man Thy sweet Compulsion thus +began. Is meant that fondly into four winds +four winds four main Streams, Runs +divers, wandring course he resolv'd, If +aught appeers, And growing work: for the +selfsame place knows my attempt, I sprung, +As if other able, and INDUS: thus +milde Zone Dwell not well us'd Long under +him less Then aught Therein enjoy'd In freedome equal? +or thir Straw-built Cittadel, New rub'd with Bow and +filth Which when thousands trooping came the +Son, Heire, and all The Air Burns frore, and +PHARPHAR, lucid streams. He scours the fiercest Spirit rests. +Hee rules is pav'd To mortal foe, By +Fire, Outrageous to doom Reserv'd him no danger, and therein +or Faerie Elves, Whose Bed is most irregular +they rould in sins and renowne, Who boast so as +they walk'd: The strong Leads him Regent, +tells, as lowest bottom shook throughout, +All like measure all, To execute fierce intent I +forewarn thee, Death her best can Bird +of Paradise Lost, by shading the terror guards +Just ABRAHAM