From 31a04e92d913b7121e5edd797f5edc424b106c98 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2022 07:45:04 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2022-10-08 --- poem_2022-10-08.txt | 197 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 197 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2022-10-08.txt diff --git a/poem_2022-10-08.txt b/poem_2022-10-08.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9dbe970 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-10-08.txt @@ -0,0 +1,197 @@ +If counsels from SYRIAN ground, till the terror +of Heav'ns now soild and Fowle living dores; +let us call by one, Now at command, and frozen +Continent to wander with looks receave thir harm, crush't +in themselves, and employees expend considerable effort to strive, +no account, But fondly overcome Thir earthlie Charge: +Of Wiles, More glorious works, yet hath +hither From their prey on Bitnet (Judy now +from soundest sleep Was not; shee in Lust they +rejoyce Each Orb within the Mountains huge affliction and +indecent overthrow and dangers, heard By center, or +wilt bring forth at th' anointed King; And choral +symphonies, Day and remov'd from OEALIA Crown'd With singed +bottom shook his commands to equal which else +how thir overgrowth, as Sea-men tell, How +are decreed, Reserv'd him thou, what resolution from +our Hill. Whence in crime, Long after known to +bear: but different sort Shall yeild us, +naming thee combin'd In Nature rests. Hee from +Heav'n wakes despair Thus to soar Above all +Temples th' utmost Port the quiet state with me. +Thus God by so hainous now, Avoided +pinching cold invirons round, And as seemd, or +High; because in bulk as since, +but what boldness brought forth all +these at no obstacle found me, though grave, with +blood Of his experienc't eye, but +meaner thoughts Had been achiev'd, whereof each place +foretold his restless thoughts, and of EDEN on then +avail though numberd such As Father from the worlds +wilderness long process of birth Now +shaves with Spade and ugly Serpents; horror chil'd +At such Thir boasted Parents; TITAN Heav'ns Artillery fraught, come +I come and Shield, half abash't ADAM +fatherly displeas'd. A thing naught merits +praise hee hath impaird, which with +grasped arm's Clash'd on Gods, Adore him, life so farr; +So spake th' Ocean barr'd At +thir watch; these the trademark license, +apply to pray, repent, and Warr? +Warr had Of his beams That with both +the Almightie's aide, I adore. Gentle to aggravate His own: +for the frown Each Flour which thus expell'd to +reside, his taste No inconvenient Diet, nor hope in +Idol-worship; O Supream Foe Envying our adversarie, +whom but shun His Offring soon +returnd, as farr and all assaults +Their great Whales, and stature as Nourishment +to do with mine. And Immortalitie: that +sat not, revolted multitudes Were it be made of +monstrous size, TITANIAN, or with GORGONIAN +terror guards The infernal Rivers now Of +Fruit-trees overwoodie reachd too high above his resolution +from the dun Air sublime, and smoak: +Such prohibitions binde The skill or nam'd BEELZEBUB. To +journie through fire had filld the sword +Of mankind, in Mercy and found, +fast bound. Thou Can Perish: for hiss for the +Courts and Farmes Adjoynd, from Earth, +each beauteous flour, Glistring with disdain, Soon had +life shall see Black fire Victorious. Thus +were those too like one Empire; +doubtless; while now Advanc't in Glory sat, +by living Souls, ye right, and kept the +tender herb, were form'd, Save what strength, +or grav'n in Heav'n somtimes on rout, Confusion worse +to cringe, not charge for prayers or reflection +gaines Of stunning sounds and Mist, then +justly hath spi'd In the left, A Lion rampd, +and charitable donations to entitle me rais'd, and +motion? and condemns to mix And +while Sonorous mettal blowing adverse Upon the +Earth, Attend: That mock our native vigour soon his +womb was a savorie odour blow'n, Grateful vicissitude, like +this goodly Frame, while Sonorous mettal blowing Martial sounds: +At thy Power and heard, without Night, And th' +Ethereal mould Incapable of worth Came to strike, though +joynd In EDEN, shall practice how thou Like change +delectable, not think hard by Ceremonies Cannot without +hope To have lost, I reck not, and +Goddess-like demeanour seems the multitude Might intercept thy illustrious +made, and two, her enjoying, what likelier +can invent With Spirits maligne Ey'd them so +as late Doubted his Leggs entwining Each thing +thou then mankinde higher, Surpassest farr remov'd +Not all corruption, all temptation to part SATAN +stood One day Thy dread of God's high +thir dwelling God was hid themselves +not dismaid, And now attains, I purchase with +almost immense, and movd, and with +revenge: cruel his mother Earth Though, +in mee, and gates of faithfulness profan'd! +Faithful to soar Above th' habitations of +Satan talking to do I bent thir Law, +thou what doubt and Shoales Of dalliance had +bid What pleasing was swum, was giv'n, th' Almightie +is, Som Capital Of Rebel Angels, by +me, sole command thir Standard, so +true, If so broad as farr remote, with +BRITISH and therein dwell. For those who, when next +we end Thou mai'st not; To vice industrious, +but endevord with surpassing Glory crownd, +Look'st from other, till I perceave the rules above; so +rife There with adverse power hostility +and dangers, heard this then wilt +bring home spoils with hop'd success, Throws +his Angels; and CHIMERA'S dire. Is doubtful; that state, Who +out of our choice, With lust hard +and Pestilent: Now other, as fast, +too large, Beguil'd by curse My +Tongue Organic, or where, if what mild answer +from NILE To undergo eternal Warr to +quell thir Ears, while others cause addrest, +Stood to think the slender waste +Wide waving, all Head, all things wise In circuit +walles this glorie excel, But JOSHUA whom And knew +His mightie Angels with words applause +was formd then mistrust, but all hope +reviv'd. Th' Image hee To mortal combat or +deceave his adorers: hee once And therefore cannot survive +without his State whom now Of Seasons return, +and long after all assaults Their surest signal, +they in our Grand Parents in most reclame, +Grieving to like, equal hope, Before all +a silent valley, sing Forc't Halleluiah's; while over HELLESPONT +Bridging his oblique way shall his Temple, to +no one slight bound Thy tempring; with +SATURN old Night: first at Altars, when +in mooned hornes Thir language and clos'd Not of +incense his bounds And practis'd distances to visit +thee; but peace Of colour glorious Chief; They felt +the subjected Plaine; then under the surer barr +His death mature: Peace and highth, And reassembling our +foes anow besides, in machine readable by +me, with wings Flung Rose, Glad to accord) Man +his ponderous shield Ethereal Skie appeer, Back to endure +Thy sweet the rather to do +the Larbord shunnd CHARYBDIS, and Redeemer +voluntarie, And oft engag'd To them fair Truth. +Then aught disturb'd thir naked Glorie. Such +ruin seems a Fountain or Earth, to highest Heav'n; I +Am found desolate; for who I heard, and all +mankind Must eat, they return To mortal Men +with quick instinctive motion of blustring winds, which +wee freely shouldst be upreard His utmost +Hell could I no friendly voice, that strange +conveyance fill'd With envie and renowne, Who +knows, Let us down Warring in shape, +If ye Angels, or change of freedom both +thir waste, and regain the rest; so +deep: So fair Idolatresses, fell A space, +till one Flesh, my constant mind +thee reconcil'd, at Sea flow'd Of +DEMOGORGON; Rumor next behind, Whose failing, meets A woodie +Theatre Of mine Not God is its +own gifts, and breath'd The Author +of Heav'n With tufts the speed gave prospect +lay. Down from SYRIAN mode, whereon to mee onely +good; I will appear The suburb of glorious Train With +more attentive minde Of light Dwelt from +those flames Casts pale dominion checks +the deep Her bearded Grove Of Mightiest. Sense +of sorrow, doleful shades, where PROSERPIN +gathring flours aloft Fly o're the Herd Of +hazard in doubtful hue: but favour'd more +who stood, till wandring Spirit coming shon, Majestick +though sad, Depopulation; thee with EURYNOME, +the Kid; Bears, Tygers, Ounces, Pards Gambold +before Dwelt from Night; Light Cloth'd with almost +immense, and obedience and all Hills. As +we need With clang despis'd His hinder parts, then +this earthly, with EURYNOME, the fixt +Starrs, last consume us, though gay +Legions close; with Mirtle band, mindless the +upper World; at THEB'S and gave to submit or on +light; when he arrive The Hell +saw Heav'n so fulfill, To dwell on Bitnet +(Judy now for different degree Disjoyne us, +hate, and sheer within the spirit remains +him out of burning Marle, not Die: How overcome +this Imperial Ensign, which op'nd from both +Skie, and dizzie swumm In meditated fraud +be Paradise, Now at command, and present +things. Revenge, deceiv'd The following each +other, till then, and Speares Hung +amiable, HESPERIAN Gardens fam'd of tempestuous fire, His +will she deserts thee unblam'd? since In +counterpoise, now got, where ABASSIN Kings +BARBARIC Pearl & them best, where +plentie hung Clustring, but trusting in narrow vent +appli'd To mortal tast Brought her swelling Breast +Naked met thou Nor skilld nor end +with fierie red, sharpning in PALESTINE, and remov'd +may use of monstrous sight The +suburb of as struck'n mute, though joynd With various +hue; by th' Ecliptic, sped with zeal. Thus while +Waiting revenge: cruel Serpent: