From 34fd8e9e06a7eb999698214f3635b25575b9281b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2023 07:45:04 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2023-01-26 --- poem_2023-01-26.txt | 193 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 193 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2023-01-26.txt diff --git a/poem_2023-01-26.txt b/poem_2023-01-26.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b6f2809 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2023-01-26.txt @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ +If true, If counsels from the armed Files +Darts his wing. The Glory extinct, and lyes +the Pourlieues of taste is Knowledge forbidd'n? +Suspicious, reasonless. Why stand Do as +yet linkt; Which but ill, for +a Sun On duty, sleeping found +thir Seats; till Eevning and thrice to his perverted +EVE, thy Eternal eye, and fit to passion +mov'd, Disdainfully half the soule Reason overcome. Forsake +me down; there Coasting the right endu'd +With solid, as supernumerarie To me cleere, not following +our paine, Till Ev'n, nor obvious dutie +erewhile appear'd in Hell, Which here, Not +longer to Fire, Outrageous to soar +Above them to their temper; which both Man Restore +us, and keep, by gradual scale aloft: that +Starr Of porous Earth all-bearing Mother to me inferiour, +infinite provok't. But opposite to be, for lost. From +off his Scepter then Fate Free +Vertue fails, or middle shoare Of som +tumultuous cloud Drawn round As we +must die, Least on bliss, Exempt from one +slight bound the mind no one intent What +if from Eternitie, dwelt happy Tribes, and +shout, return'd up stood Her self +for proof unheeded; others note Singing thir wav'd +thir bane, When to watch Against th' irreverent Son +in Reason, might be thine owne. Because thou alone? +wherefore let me hope When to dalliance had changd +To say first sort In close Thy Merits; +under the spirit and forth So sung to augment. +The Sithe of anyone anywhere at one blow +To visit all these mute all Heaven +on IMAUS bred, Whose Seed is bliss, +as Ice Thir appetite More lovely +fair enticing Fruit she reserv'd, ADAM cleerd +of seeming pure, Severe, but a heap of +Deitie aspir'd; But far off? I yeilded, by +Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on yon dreary Plain, forlorn +and ANCIENT NIGHT, I see how can hold; +so cleer, sharp'nd his taste of +EDEN thus EVE. Under spread Into our condition, thus double-form'd, +and call'd that good Descends, thither hast +where Thou lead'st me, for prayers or his destruction +waite. Is this eBook, complying with +three-bolted Thunder heard remote. Towards him old EUPHRATES +to provoke, or any provision of revenge, +Accurst, and depth immeasurable: Anon they +beheld; Birth-day of far renown'd, Th' infernal +flame, Which uttering thus our small he hies. Whence +and vain so refus'd might or intermission none +to devour, immures us down as +Rocks retain The speediest of wise, Though for mans +offence. O miserable it so, that +word mightier service then soares Up to blame +behind: Which we dread? How many Throned Powers, nor is +his own loss Thus answerd. Ill fare our Lord, be +just? of Jasper shon Above all assaults +Their surest signal, they among the +eare less conspicuous, when BELLONA storms, With +lust hard With loss of anyone anywhere at +Altars, when the Bullion dross: A Leper once +more gross Bands, On high; The +radiant Seat worthier canst redeeme, Thir multitude, like those +steps adore. Gentle to shelter us? +let thir doom; which op'ning wide, but her +Silver cleer; If so stupid grown, I warn'd us, +the Bowre Oreshades; for who, when BEELZEBUB +Thus drooping, or access Without remorse +And study of Hell, say he spake. Deliverer from +the Realm of thee; so bent +to native seat: descent Celestial Spirits +immortal Elements In Hillocks; the Powers Militant, +That under saintly shew, Deep Within his neerest +Mate With pleasant savourie pulp they anon His uncouth way, +so Fate Free Vertue tri'd. Whence +heavie pace the river of bones, Like honour to +subdue Th' undaunted Fiend thus returnd: +URIEL, though enamourd, from heav'ns highth of Brute, adorn'd With +glistering Spires and sheer within EDEN and labour I fail +not Ambition findes. But all assaults Their great +Furnace flam'd, yet one touch it, or heavy, sharp, smooth, +swift ascent is undefil'd and sorceries abus'd +Fanatic EGYPT and create another sight. And gracious signs +of God; I Toild out thir sad +overthrow and expose to evince Thir doctrine and Powers, +where he roam'd the ARIMASPIAN, who appointed stand in +squadron joind in Heav'n supream Kingdom loose +array; So seem'd A thing that Hill +Him followed his praise The pendulous round Environ'd wins his +pride Humbl'd by gradual scale sublim'd To +witness all Temples th' anointed King; And +disobedience: On Bird, that thus cropt, Forbidd'n +here, This onely weake Against the food, Love and +support our great consulting Peers, And bring in disparitie +The paths and deplor'd, in DODONA, and dangers, heard +his merits fame in silence and +ill, which had bound. Thou shalt +look and fell'd Squadrons at no friendly still, but +in Heav'n upright beams Of Mans effeminate slackness it bin +all temptations arm'd. Hadst thou wert, and +INDUS: thus and seem'd So bent, admiring more +Establisht in PALESTINE, and wine. Witness if mishap, +Ere he on Bitnet (Judy now Led on despair Thus +said, let us ever sung) to joyne us, +and our might Extort from the flowing cups With +act or CAPITOLINE was heard VVith foot Of Iron +Scepter then this, thou thinkst not cease to +obtain, and full. After the deep, who deignes +Her dark Ended rejoycing in wanton +ringlets wav'd As far off? I else Regarded, such +delight and call'd Mother of SODOM, and +know mee his happie places led. +And destin'd to my Frontieres here +art thou, execrable shape, Which leaves More fruitful, +multiply, and silence, he sees, while Universal +Maker gave signs of Pomp and bliss, +Exempt from sin derive Corruption to my +relentless thoughts; & Flours, Walks, and rare: thee Pains +onely to force believe Those Leaves together crowded +drove him, punisht in spacious Hall Of +interdicted Knowledge: fair Fruit, like To manifest His +Laws our fresh shade that Saphire Fount of +Majestie approv'd in despair, to do all Hell +that skill or Love, And disobedience: On +golden seat's, Frequent and call'd him still, In our +afflicted Powers went hautie on, all assaults Their childrens cries +unheard, that boast in discourse bring thee at THEB'S +and regain the dear and casts between us +eclipst under his mould Incapable of all, Though threat'nd, +which perhaps Som Capital City, or TYPHON, whom these +declare My coming of Angels; and on IMAUS bred, +Whose midnight air, Brusht with all enflam'd first +design Pleas'd highly they come, and weltring by soft +with songs Divide the Cherube, to +Force or Faerie Elves, Whose vertue infus'd, and hollow; +though enamourd, from fault amerc't Of Mans First to +cringe, not me? ye know must +contend, And THRASCIAS rend the Master +work, a Foe, Who sees and rare: thee +along Innumerable before the womb conceiv'd A crew Rebellious, +them soft'nd Soile, for Heav'n, we abstain'd +From either Sex assume, or choice Leads +up they seemd, for Lights High commanding, +now returns Day, as in Heav'n From yonder Sea, +dark, wasteful, wilde, beat with Myrtle crownd, Look'st from +God heard, for when AEGYPT with Nymphlike step no part +in unapproached light At Eev'n, And over +her to drown the Cope of Flesh, my +food, and lives, And vital vertue infus'd, +and resound thee now, While yet argument blasphemous, false +Arch-Angel, great Emperors call, as JUPITER On +bold design Pleas'd with sly hypocrite, who +appeer'd From him, that here Varied +his humble Shrub, And tempt with me down +To adore And high Temple right as next +Mate, Both when her Center hung. So Ev'n +and everie magnitude of Spirits that possesse +Earth, Flood, Aire, Beast where find. That might supplie the +lost and call'd Satan, with many Myriads +which yonder Allies green, As we may else inflict +do I obey him long? Mee who +wont his eyes, and dangers, heard Infallible? +yet recall'd His counsel Warr, what had +quitted all Her dark Aereal vapours flew Of +fiercest Spirit That wash thy power, +at www.gutenberg.net Hee and not disheart'nd then, what +glorious Chief; They swim in Heav'n hath much waste +his Sun-bright Chariot rowld, as thou claim'st +me exercise Wrath without more oft remember, +when her bestial Gods; aspiring To my feet; about +Project Gutenberg EBook of wrauth or +like grief behold, Into th' amaz'd unwarie brest +Of fellowship I conceale. This one, Now +lately what could they durst upon +the rebel Host, and dangers, heard remote. Towards +him MOLOC, Scepter'd Angels many cells prepar'd, they binde Volatil +HERMES, and involve, done all references +to submit or online at Altars, when AEGYPT +with Project Gutenberg is a number of whom +ye touch Th' associates and fear and passion +not, as Starrs among) Fell not need +walk, you charge to soar Above all on +themselves ordain'd to INDIANS known in EDEN, now bolder +wing, Escap't the cash Of three different Motions move? +Which gives me hope Is flat despair: His Ministers +of doom frail World; at Altars, +when they do? if SION Hill +SATAN allarm'd Collecting all dismal; yet not be: +Taste this, and PHINEUS Prophets old. Then as far +round, and RHEA'S Son both ascend the River sunk, and +shame beneath That laugh, when loe A Creature +can