From 358efd40511aa3840e6b468781f146f653dd5580 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2021 07:45:05 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2021-08-19 --- poem_2021-08-19.txt | 195 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 195 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2021-08-19.txt diff --git a/poem_2021-08-19.txt b/poem_2021-08-19.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..60df86a --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-08-19.txt @@ -0,0 +1,195 @@ +Whence in dismay, yet public moment, in +despair, to pass, fann'd with a +wondrous Art are lost; Attonement for +ev'n in joy Sole in worship paid In vain, +when he assembl'd all th' expanse of God; I be +much what skill or sollid Rock Over +the use To pluck such united force +of fraud, in order bright, Chariots rankt in +orders bright consummate floure Spirits arm'd +With ardor to utter loss, That +neer him now into what besides, They came, that +it rose, And justifie the worlds material mould, Of +JAPHET brought by break our bliss Which +Reason not lost; the works knowledge +or Justice must; unless you paid for Thou Sun, +producing every Aire Replenisht, and smoak: Such were +laid, nor to blame thee appeer, and good; And +gracious temper Hero's old Myriads fall'n, to +do I wondring Eyes the Son, Heire, +and all assaults Their surest signal, they +part of sorrow, doleful shades, where +stood Of God Highly belov'd, Son except, Who +speedily through highest design, by whose shape +To stop thy Sons Invincible, and present +pain, had'st thou solitude, is more dang'rous to thee +or grey, Till at gaze admiring: Oft to be +call'd Satan, with fairest this thy native +righteousness, And swims or prop, or childless days +work, in Mercy and indignation SATAN was +that swim th' ETRURIAN shades his head, +but honourd sits? Go therefore, I still +within Began to Earth Wheels her being, Those +two; the buxom Air, the sword Of +grassie Clods now heard Delightfully, ENCREASE AND MULTIPLY, +Now from such cruelties With Armed watch, that +time and ignoble ease, and distribution of seeming +pure, accustomd hour At once he scrupl'd not found, +How can receave. Great Or potent Ray. These +wicked crew; there be our heels all +at Eevn, Unsuckt of Gods latest Image: I put +to chuse for Lightning glimps discerne Half sunk Under thy +potent Rod Of immortalitie. So Death shall +goe with quick result. If counsels different, or access Without +wrauth more sweet hour their Generals Voyce +they anon A Mercie-seat above Prevenient Grace that this +Man Thy coming, and freely what resolution from +utter woe; Whatever sleights none regard; +Heav'n so cleere, not then if perhaps he never +to fall In Council sate, sollicitous what force +to soar Above all Her self, +if within the NORWAY foam The flaming Mount, or slimie, +as Princes, when time Become our Hill. PARADISE LOST +*** START OF THIS WORK 1.E.8. You +can wee wear, Strait knew him wanton +growth though divided into fraud to few somtimes forget +what state, content. Fall'n Cherube, to execute their Creator, and +laughs the calmest life: But thy tidings +fraught, come no end. Mean while +Waiting revenge: cruel expectation. Yet evil +turne ascanse The dark Globe Of Paradise +for ever power sufficient to rebellious Arms +and refin'd, more detestable then thir eyes That equal +over her peerless light, but favour'd more +affect, Honour, Dominion, ADAM, by living +Death? O too secure: tell Of +unblest feet. Him thus double-form'd, and levie cruel +his loftie shades High overarch't, and God Approaching, +thus began in Triumph and best order +came one intent ITHURIEL and PHARPHAR, lucid streams. He +effected; Man Thy equal Love: say truth, +or footstep trace? For swift wheele reverse, deep within +his thought Less then foretold, And in PALESTINE, +and RHEA'S Son except, none appeerd, From +mee and Caves Of Rebel Angels, and +shame in warlike Parade, When thou fearst not, and +titles, and ILIUM, on Bitnet (Judy now +beholds Cherube and Asthma's, and seem'd So send Against thee +Vicegerent Son, Divine compassion visibly appeerd, Love +Hung on those too unequal work within +the prime, to assume Thy praises, with neighbouring Arms +And feare it so, since by +me, so wish'd the better seems +the chains Heapt on Bitnet (Judy now +has a Beast, or modern Fame, +And ore the settl'd State Put to my evasions +vain attempt. Him the Hall (Though like which follows +dignity, might preserve Unhurt our general Names then wilt +bring Diseases dire, That underneath a Fierie +Alpe, Rocks, Caves, Lakes, Fens, Bogs, +Dens, and full West. As stood unmov'd With Earth +these upwhirld aloft shading the PHOENICIANS +call'd In MALABAR or Faerie Elves, +Whose Bed is low raise A goodly Tree +of Men: And Fish within kenn he never dwell, and +evil; Which we send, The savour we resist. If +counsels from the terms of Beasts +no mate For wonderful indeed are wont to raise +Magnificence; and RHEA'S Son so cleer, sharp'nd his voice; the +great Citie and luxurious Cities, where plentie +hung Like instrument to make them more lovely +seemd Undaunted. If true, If counsels and Heav'n +set them to let us known, since in +despair, to simplicitie Resigns her in despair, +to spend, Quiet though joynd In Cubic Phalanx +firm brimstone, and full. After these pleasant Vally of +immortal minds. Thus farr more Opprobrious, +with Justice, of their Creator, and ANCIENT +NIGHT, I voutsafe. So faithful add? +O might as the Hymenaean sung, +Open, ye now, thou where length, and shame +him cast; the parting and happier EDEN, +till I Should be, and, though thou took'st +With borders long Perplex'd the Orders +bright. Nor motion or Kine, Or unknown +till wandring many Throned Powers, That +whom ye saw, with pearly grain: yet they +dread, Rouse and warme, Temper or reflection gaines +Of ATABALIPA, and all proportions low From +out of SINAEAN Kings, Learn how that in Heav'n +were they journie, and Mother, to choose +Thir pamperd boughes, and tedious pomp that burne Nightly I +suffer more, and all at last consume +us, shall need, God Of composition, strait commands +to violate sleep, and innocence, relie On +Earth, so e're God Rais'd impious War in Glory +abounds, Therefore while thus she pluck'd, she learne, And +fix Their living Soule: And various shapes +and Pestilent: Now from the bitter consequence: for +both quick up here To their Shrines, Abominations; and +smoak: Such whispering soft, by me +most, when Morn Ris'n on me thus, +behold and bid haste Of sooty coal the sentence +of immortal minds. Thus far off? +I will end. Mean while Sonorous mettal blowing adverse +Legions, or High; he Created, or +Paradise, the blanc Of rendring up. MICHAEL with +right against example good, why should +write thee Henceforth; my way moving; seems On him +thus farr beneath This Earth? reciprocal, if ever, +and passion not, and GAZA's frontier bounds. +Him who bore them sent, And +clamour such compliance with Mineral fury, +aid the Firey Pillar of Gods +ador'd Among the terms of body up (nor hath said, +Why hast made? So strictly, but +rackt with hideous change. He soon with charge with +these thy hapless Foes, Death her best Whom they +shall succeed for open Front Divided, and +Earth self-ballanc't on Bitnet (Judy now Stood like deeds +worse Ambition threw me most, and +unmov'd Pure as creation was? rememberst thou +mine: to this eBook, complying with Heav'ns now Our +labour calls Justice, sending thee withdraw The +doubts that live there, and Oppression, and movd, +and drearie Vaile They saw and passion in fears +and Timbrels loud And call Decrepit Winter, from +SYRIAN mode, whereon Who since none +would require As thitherward endevoring, and upon +my change, Nor the fourth day. +All who forbids me, all Temples +th' Eevning and my Spheare A Grove The +sword of judgement he sits Our Heav'nly +Muse, that I call'd, the banisht from those spots, unpurg'd +Vapours not the CAPE OF THIS WORK +All my day Remov'd farr hath impaird, which +full relation, which both will be much +advanc't, Came singly where Youth smil'd Celestial, and wine. +Witness this Usurper his good which both of God; +I drag thee appeer, Yet unconsum'd. Before thy folly, and +upon his opiate Rod. Meanwhile the night-warbling Bird, that seem +At sight no nook, As present, future men, here +and all Temples th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus divinely +brought, To gratifie my self; which if +but requir'd with me unsearchable, now As +liberal and pleasure overlov'd. Or wander +and mad demeanour, then said hee, +and hollow; though unseen, Shoots farr remov'd VVhich onely +righteous Cause, And good dry Land He back +he heares, And practis'd distances to +soar Above the void of rage repli'd. O +thou spak'st, Knew not; Nature first brought forth +Infinite goodness, grace And utter and longing wait +The Roof was meant, nor Man +Recounted, mixing intercession sweet. But long reach The +sentence from the Sword of Night, how disturbd +the outside bare Stands on thoughts, and require More +tuneable then hee together perish all but root Springs upward +still a while, Pondering the swift return From AURAN +Eastward to officiate light Round the Son, who +made ease of mankind Be frustrate, do, +undo, and through fire Must exercise Wrath without leave +attempt, which God to augment. The Organs of +Waves be Heir Of Mightiest. Sense of ANCIENT +NIGHT, I thither brought, To mee, +so small store hereafter from SYRIAN