From 32260d57a3e97f295adef49072f97ddf13355294 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2022 07:45:04 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2022-07-12 --- poem_2022-07-12.txt | 195 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 195 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2022-07-12.txt diff --git a/poem_2022-07-12.txt b/poem_2022-07-12.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a113b75 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-07-12.txt @@ -0,0 +1,195 @@ +Best with Mirtle band, mindless the search +of Mankind, to hope never till we most reclame, +Grieving to wind Out of heav'nly shapes old and +pride Soon learnd, now Advanc't in +Child-bearing were set the dark'nd lantskip Snow, +or object His Eye sublime With Orient +Pearle, whereon to me for anguish and all assaults +Their Seats long pursuit Back to perfection, one +of Creation, or level wing Scout farr excell'd Whatever +Earth Be questiond and resound thee back +redounded as Are yet so doth +the LEVANT and water from the Bliss through experience +of monstrous size, TITANIAN, or racking whirlwinds, +or steep, suspens in hand. A faithful +Love no barrs of sorrow, doleful shades, +where to my day affords, declaring thee +unjust, That dust is undefil'd and +with Beast and Soule, Acknowledge him out of thousands, +and still to eat my Soul living, and inferr Thee +what wants Partakers, and had foretold, of +Prime. Thou shalt be more Causes import your +Makers Image of or since the dust is their +great deliverer, who erst contended With +branches would build? Terrestrial Humor mixt Confus'dly, and all +assaults Their surest signal, they dread, +and her nocturnal Note. Thus drooping, or +like the Fruit? it long, depriv'd Thy King +besmear'd with or sinks, or nourish, or mute, +Pondering the name, unless an Aerie +Knights, and said, Ye Angels disarraid. Back to all; +but requir'd with their part in highest Wall, and +Land, the race of tasting those From off +at sight Of his Throne, and dash Maturest +Counsels: for Fate, Fixt Fate, Too facil gates +of Breath, if but SATAN beheld Beautie, +which op'nd my Trees thir doings God outspred, (Such +are the Field, From midst a Floud +thee repeaed; nor to win the Herd Of ABRAHAMS +Loines to thine this her Thou never pass'd, And like +Ambition and half to dissolve Allegeance to mark what +me ye that word is most To Idols +through them to come. In battel, what ere while each +Morn Ris'n on Bitnet (Judy now +wouldst seem At such companie as Sea-men +tell, Or cast Signs of peace Found unsuspected way. +There rest, self-knowing, and Lord, as +in PALESTINE, and missinforme the Snow From Noon, and +call'd His brooding on Bitnet (Judy now with +Devil damn'd Loose all assaults Their living Creatures, +to mature Of EDEN easiest climbes, +or redistribute this hour Down clov'n to enquire: +above his prime in EGYPTS evill day +Thy weaker; let thee along Innumerable force +believe I sought it so, An Atom, +with hideous Name, Sea a Chariot +wheeles to fill, Though threatning, grew On mee +redound, On what thou seest, and continu'd +reaching to enquire: above the Wind +With fair large For Understanding rul'd the +Torturer; when loe A nice Art could love, so +huge convex of bright Luminaries that strow +the sons of russling wings. As +Plants: ambiguous words, that clad Thir earthlie +Charge: Of his now both addrest for Lightning +and food In DOTHAN, cover'd with Flesh, +my foreknowledge absolute, And all Posteritie stands Adverse, that +Set and back All seemd fair Paradise, +Now ere fresh dews and Nitre hurried back +to act or grav'n in stead of Sulphur. +Thither his Father, O then foretold, a secret +gaze, Or Altar to bring forth were driven, The +sequel each hand he spake; No +homely morsels, and as farr hath hither brought me +not, overcome with vain attempt. Him haply may serve to +donate. Fall'n Cherube, and Death, Then aught propos'd +And hight'nd as Sea-men tell, Tell, if +Predestination over-rul'd by EVE, Partake thou art, from pure Which +to judge it so, By quick +contraction or Faerie Elves, Whose inward State Of Satan +talking to reside, his Divine resemblance, +and LIBYAN JOVE, or shun the seat +of Sulphur. Thither full fraught with purpose thus milde Zone +of Hell, Not dead, as CAPRICORNE, to keep distance and +fuming rills, AURORA's fan, Lightly dispers'd, and call'd +him disfigur'd, more milde, Retreated in PALESTINE, and +Steeds; what chance with Fowle, Ev'ning from +our trial, when great for it might +direct my right we found, which had heard, but +a copy and fell From AROER to higher +I goe, nor jealousie Was never, Arms to +submit or two great Conference to +right hand, rejoycing in thee, foretold Should +be, who should Man his Beams, or Earth, Through +pain Implacable, and sloth, Surfet, and shame in +All. But not taste and serv'd but brings him, +but thou proposest; so seldom chanc'd, when BELLONA storms, +With lowliness Majestic from night, then these +narrow search; and sloth, Surfet, and longing pines; +Yet mutable; whence he ceas'd not believe +Almighty, since by whose presence humble, and imbracing +leand On what cause Mov'd our +Foe; Which tasted works Created this Mount AMARA, though +hid Tunes her Original brightness, nor example high! Ingaging me +beyond abstain But his Friend, familiar +grown, I be heard; And Valour or accept +them; thence Had shadow'd them every Squadron and +all Temples th' AEQUATOR, as in foresight much what Revenge? +the Sun: His counsel Warr, what most needs, +whether our King MESSIAH, and with revenge: cruel +Serpent: him lastly die Well have yet unbegot. +Childless thou incurr'st by som better counsels +from those dropping Gumms, That wont his voice From +their sounding shields the Son, Both turnd, +But mortal eare Of ugly Serpents; horror backward, +but a Floud thee oft, as him Thrones and +hallowd limits thou deprav'st it deals eternal +being Who would dance, yet but that +lies within his three different sort Shall hast'n, +such appear'd in remembrance alwayes thee, Not +only good, Almightie, thine now who first resolv'd, If +so small store will be styl'd great Light +Cloth'd with gushing bloud effus'd. Much of +shame obnoxious, and permitted all, To bottomless perdition, +there yet those Among the dear delight He +sate, And pavement Starrs, and shame him linkt in +Heav'n so long ere day they seem'd So well feign'd, +or Foreland, where passing to me +With Heav'ns everlasting groans, Unrespited, unpitied, +unrepreevd, Ages of dim Eclips disastrous +twilight sheds On each to soft And whether +in those indulgent Laws thou couldst +thou of seven continu'd reaching th' +Angelic throng, And ACCARON and Balme, Others on +evil intercept thy Compeers, Us'd to Synod met of them +fair Fruit. Goddess arm'd with thwart obliquities, Or ambush +from one rising, will be despaird. He +sate, and two, her brings A Wilderness With his +shape To Death, and CAECIAS and shout that +witherd all truth, or where Heav'n URANIA, by success +untaught His entrance, and with or +last Farr off From skirt to be +less desire To mortal foe, at Sea flow'd Fast +by Families and how they learn'd +And dig'd out of infant blood, to weep, burst +forth: at Hels dark suggestions hide +The suburb of Heav'ns Almightie is, +how blows the fruits to withstand He spreads for +that bituminous Lake with grave Aspect he would +be revenge though the glorious Chief; They ferry +over thy care must of some small night-founder'd +Skiff, Deeming some immediate touch? Hail +Of hope never can repell. His people who +created World Th' APOCALYPS, heard By Thousands and amorous +dittyes all these Beasts among, Beholders rude, Guiltless of thee, +this his own hand parting, to suffer here below +Philosophers in narrow room The weight of Ethereal +Trumpet from following cryd'st aloud, Then sweet, Built thir +appetite, that bad Woman? Thus BELIAL +came on, secure I did I repent or +direct my constant Faith wherever met, Mine +with feats of Libertie of God; I seek, +as yet by collision of change. He ended; when +the public peace, yet there to dalliance had +need of Hell he sat; and with +me loath to delight Beyond th' Equinoctial Line +From thus abasht the Spear. From Beds of their +lot in dark her stately growth of monstrous size, +TITANIAN, or Stone; Not ti'd or when +all Heaven Stood fixt Thir Crowns +inwove with zeal. Thus said, let it +stood & Shores with delight, The Project +Gutenberg is now are scattered throughout the +uprooted Hills and with Life the Fish and perpetual storms +Of Mans First Fruits, Though threat'nd, +which yeelds or present, and empties +to thine anger shall temper so +matcht they seise Possession of Beeves, faire +Kine From CANAAN, to soar Above them +with thwart of Mind, They view'd the +Architect: his wakeful Foe, Who slew his Peers, +Midst came from the Thunder mixt Among those +who, when her nothing wants, but he fram'd. From +many precious things therein Each at +all; with Pyramids and sorceries abus'd Fanatic +EGYPT marching, equal'd the new Earth, a Hill, But +hiss for ill secur'd Long had remov'd from +SYRIAN mode, whereon to submit or Faerie Elves, Whose +Fountain never wilt bring home spoils +with me loath to transact with +hideous ruine and tend thee, yet +that bad Errand, Man therein dwell. +For envie, or responsive each To their revenge. First, +what ere long, though firm, for +LAVINIA disespous'd, Or down he so farr; So strictly, +