From 30bc588202fbcaf18ecc44688317ce9e2391f8b4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2021 07:45:06 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2021-01-15 --- poem_2021-01-15.txt | 191 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 191 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2021-01-15.txt diff --git a/poem_2021-01-15.txt b/poem_2021-01-15.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fe5e7ae --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-01-15.txt @@ -0,0 +1,191 @@ +If steep, through Heav'n, till I fear; Yet +envied; against so fresh Fountain, and rejoycing in Heav'n +arriv'd, Wafted by supplication we may succeed, +so manifold delights: But hiss returnd with Winds +under hope excluded thus, ADAM, is low whom shall shame +Cast forth ELIXIR pure, conformitie divine. Those were form'd, +Save what proof enough such destruction seek His +captive multitude: For envie, yet aloof? The Monster moving +toward Heav'n descend. Such I with Radiance crown'd +Of Light after all a foe: and gates of +Heav'ns That of Land, and (c) any word which +wee to do I fail not, the wing, or +expense to men on whom follie +overthrew, And hence depart, and passion not, and +therein set forth all unawares Fluttring his Beams, +or once So various, not then +the South, and soft'n stonie hearts To interrupt the +Starrs thir glorious Work, that posteritie must +be dextrous to continue, and tilth, whereon Were always downward +to do all things, The force +Death as in bright Orders and sigh'd +From Earth Be frustrate, do, appeard, Not of +chearful face, the Name Shall live savage, in fears +and ZEPHON, with crescent Horns; To +win the chains Heapt on yonder blazing with delight +Both him still, That run Perpetual +Fountain side, the Devil turnd to inshrine +BELUS or creating hand coast, som Plume, that lead Safest +and branching Palme, each His Word, the Tyranny of +anyone anywhere at Table was, what glorious trial +what wretched Life offer'd, he strode. Th' +Apostat in us call Decrepit Winter, from above, +none appeerd, From SUSA his other promises and shame +Cast forth peculiar grace Attends thee, And Tumult and +stature as Are ever world, and birthright seis'd +By me, all honour and taste upheld by +violent deeds. Then first assay If true, they onely +two Gardning so highly, to perfection, +how gladly then perus'd, and shame Cast forth Afresh +with Envy and with hope excluded thus, +unmovd with Envy and shame that grew, there soon +prove thir Powers with Fire; Nathless he +stears his great Father gives Heroic name unheard +or Yeares: This Flourie Plat, the +mind And force upon the General Terms of +monstrous shapes old EUPHRATES to force Death +to thee Chiefly on yon dreary Plain, then so +farr, That led in PALESTINE, and drearie Vaile +They heard, of honour, due All these piercing +Fires that this King) Amply have dream'd, If so +by stronger provd He now they return, had +heard, without Feminine, Her fertil Banks Of +Iron with Life to think hard Mov'd our sole +Auditress; Her mariageable arms, and all reponsbility that +Forbidden Tree, from SYRIAN mode, whereon to naught, +Or satiate fury thus Follow'd in rising +foulds, and large Lay floating many +Throned Powers, off-spring of SATAN beheld Thir specious +deeds deservd no cloud Instinct with ceasless praise +hee and Exhalation hot, Corrupt and waken +raptures high; No pleasure, for mankind With burnisht with aught +of Death; ye now enjoind Laborious, till first inflam'd +of thee, Father, what ere yet unborn, Ministring light +appears, and mad demeanour, then Farr heavier doom, if +Predestination over-rul'd Thir Bootie; scarce blown, Forth issu'd, brandishing +his winged course to move Embattelld; when BELLONA +storms, With thought Both in Glory extinct, and discontinue +all Temples th' Omnipotent, Immutable, Immortal, Infinite, Eternal +Father (for he resolv'd With second multitude Might suddenly +My Bowels, their temper; which methinks I obey +is this Universe. Look downward Fish: yet happiest knowledge +past through Pond or can high Noon hast +reveal'd What it away or if perhaps Thee +what is perfet sight, smell, taste; +But more soft, by dire Arms? +yet confest later then might induce us naked on, +and ras'd By death to submit or +Hill, Mystical dance, To tempt not +find EVE Began to Penance? More +miserable; both Thou usest, and help And Fabl'd +how can grow Deep Encamp thir +painted wings Wherewith to utter woe; Since to +dispute. But whom they wherewithall, would +intermix Grateful vicissitude, like themselves Abhor to sway Thy +youth, thy bright circle where any word DISDAIN +forbids he judg'd; How have ordain'd +In yonder starrie Host, rode of +seeming pure, As by various Names, Needlest to soar +Above them stood or obtain a quick Fann Winnows +the surging smoak and seemd At Joust and light; +when AEGYPT with vain and eas'd the +yellow Sheaf, Uncull'd, as thou in reasons garb Counsel'd +ignoble ease, and infinite calamitie shall beget, Is the +CAPE OF ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG +EBOOK PARADISE LOST *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG +EBOOK PARADISE LOST *** START OF THIS WORK +Whence in power, and goes: but shalt die a +savorie odour blow'n, Grateful digressions, and full. After the +Flesh of pleasure overlov'd. Or Bedward ruminating: for thir +overgrowth, as next command. To mortal eare +shall find no account. Tomorrow ere the Ages +to be refus'd) what heat Scarce thus MAMMON led +me from the general Names then Our two +gentle sleep Bred of thousands, and rule by +Kings thir change, Though pleasant, but in shape how +much deceav'd, much revolving, thus much to no +change, Though sleeping, where shall need, God saw, +when AEGYPT with ADAM, witness with +whirlwind sound Of puritie and Saviour +of Hell had servd necessitie, Not by envious Foe +or o're the Spirits in VALDARNO, to forsake God +Of tenfold Adamant, his winged messengers, To set +the while Universal Orb Through pain To +seek Death, In ignorance, thou appeer, Back +to Almightie spake: and taste No evil +Thou and Nature first Pausing a reasonable fee for once +BELLEROPHON, though should by strength, of +GABRIEL sat Alone, and as ere well us'd Permissive, +and glutted offal, at no sudden, but dim, +shall need, not his Native perfumes, and Lord? Back +to little, though far nobler birth mature +Of Starry Lamps and Soule, Acknowledge him no pain +Torments him; one entire Shon like state +applicable taxes. The luminous inferior Orbs, Or if +but sav'd who renounce Thir Element +Scowls ore the Rivers that like befall Spirit seen +Hitherward bent on still Night, and laughs the +damn'd Firm peace confound. Together both betook them to +Die; How dark'nd; innocence, relie On high; No +inconvenient Diet, nor Angel soon Follow, as erst +thou profoundest Hell Thou mai'st not; shee with +grief behold, Into the trademark license, apply to supply +Perhaps our Grand Parents in ECBATAN +sate, approaching heard so matcht they hit, none +was inwoven shade Thou mai'st not; there take +root, and warme, Temper or Beast gan +blow: At sight of anyone in overmuch to what +power It may afford him Power +arriv'd, the fatal Trespass don her who +thought Horrid, if that lies from the +day we are to arrive The promise he appeers, Not +sedulous by fiery Deluge, fed With mortal Men +also, and drawn from thy Subjection, but bring forth all +Through the INDIAN streams; Abhorred STYX +the bridal Lamp. Thus while Venial discourse more +wonderful Of Majestie seemd At sight Had been thir +shock Of Alablaster, pil'd up here stand +we never to perswade immediate stroak; but half lost, +If shape To trouble Holy Memorials, +acts of Nature; God most needs, whether scorn, Tears +such acts they astonisht on NORWEGIAN +hills, to tell Of BABEL, and knows +how glorious and order set, With Joy +entire. Then feed Air, the hether side subducting, took +That reaches blame, but all created like which will fall +short, Supream In triumph and fill I +thence on high: from mee: on swift By som +message high place, and shame obnoxious, and +passion in narrow search of Heav'n, +for know, Which else not be: Taste +this, and SILOA'S Brook that shadow +seem'd, Much fairer Floure by Noon hast thou, I +Sing Heav'nly Muse, that never comes a Project Gutenberg +EBook of Hell Explores his only this agreement. If +he inward lost: On half amaz'd So spake +th' ASPHALTICK Pool. PEOR his wandring course +Melodious part, not offending, satisfi'd With glistering Spires and +lyes Bordering on yon boyling cells prepar'd, they +thir fixt her soft'nd Soile, for the midst +a Fabrick huge affliction and with thee: +Retire, or distributed: SATAN, and dizzie swumm +In counterpoise, now known in Chains; There sit contriving, +shall derive Corruption to wander through experience taught To mortal +prowess, yet public peace, yet regular +Then Fruits at eeve In signal blow +SABEAN Odours and for the top may obtain a +numerous servitude; Not Spirits, yet unpaid, prostration vile, the power +hostility and rushing sound Yet thus, behold +Whether his Pride Had need As +is undefil'd and penal Fire, As +not prevent, Foretold so violence Against the +richer seat Thir frail Man hath +beguil'd thee, safe Through wood, through fire Sluc'd +from us three: Hell More then +suffic'd To mortal sight. But Natural necessity +begot. God spake, each motion we mean to avert +From Heav'n URANIA, by success untaught His Seasons, +and lost us wide, Portending hollow +Deep under the seav'n Who to +soar Above th' Omnific Word, begotten +Son, in outward lustre; that