From 367f4bbb67eed1284b9b6c1df28f92f85b9f3f18 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2022 07:45:04 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2022-06-17 --- poem_2022-06-17.txt | 193 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 193 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2022-06-17.txt diff --git a/poem_2022-06-17.txt b/poem_2022-06-17.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..071957f --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-06-17.txt @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ +Hail Shot after some renownd Metropolis With thir order +and Rue The present, and every side of harm? +But rather thou with fire. They shew +him die, Least from Land to side I had +suffic'd, Not less desire To mortal wound in +PALESTINE, and Sons Came summond over EDEN +strive; nor thou lead Hell sate them +low creeping, he sought, In unitie defective, which +alone The Kingdoms of Heav'n: Under spred Among unequals +what likelier can grow In yonder blazing Portals, led +th' assembly next they pass, the Ocean: +though unseen, Shoots farr som irriguous Valley spread +Into all thy only to prevent The Trepidation +talkt, and make her swelling Breast Naked met arm'd; +For such Fire and tedious pomp Supream, +And stripes, and attend. This inaccessible high applauded, and perpetual +inrodes to have don, but shall his hapless Foes, +Death more th' inventer miss'd, so +heav'nly, for mankind under Judgements imminent: But O Son, +I be less his seat Thir influence on +them Rock or false dissembler unperceivd; For wings, +or hee Whose dwelling place by +conversing I made, and weltring by +him bound Thy King of bad eminence; and +Organ; and crude, Of what ere long, though +fall'n on dry Land, the Potent Victor from her +words Breaking the crested Cock whose mortal snare; for which +God most needs, whether in any agent or their +destind aim. But evil brought along +Innumerable force of joy filld, and with +soft oppression seis'd All were one; how good, Departed from +pain Of looks Divine Imbu'd, bring +forth Infinite goodness, grace Invincible: abasht the Foundation, +the unapparent Deep: There was wont in her moist +and shews of Beeves, faire Oxen +and call'd up rose From midst a defect Of +SENNAAR, and amaz'd, No pretenses in foresight much they +chang'd at THEB'S and therein plant eyes, that formd +so main Abyss Heard farr remov'd from Heav'n: Under +spread her coming to submit or Afternoons +repose. O too secure: tell Of force Of +watchful Senses represent, She dictate false, unmov'd, Unshak'n, unseduc'd, +unterrifi'd His troubl'd at all; with grave Aspect +he wonns In shadier Bower More aerie, last +Endless, and Flours: In sight endur'd not, and +mad demeanour, then avail though the +Minstrelsie of woe, Regions they lift us advise, may +lift thir Reeds Put forth peculiar grace With branches would +invade, but breath that hour Not proof could +suspect our beginning woe. Yet ever plotting how thir +viands fell, As my Celestial rosie +steps of Sulphur. Thither by far, Me +overtook his proud Crest receive. Whence +rushing he turnd. Nor those from pain to forewarne +Us here, Not unagreeable, to sharp desire +to transgress. The season, prime Architect: his mortall sting +disarm'd. I fly from mans offence +To perish rather, swallowd up drew, and +speed; Havock and move, But thir vacant room, though +should ill Where God Rais'd of this dire +attempt, I forewarn thee, As we +then? what delight He to like, but +first Morn. Now shaves with sincere Of +Mans voice, nor yet confest later then mistrust, +but despair: His holy Hill and Shields Back to +fall Down sunk before thee, foretold +Should favour equal which thus shall please +Can fit to this with ascention bright +surface Of Battel, and proclaimd MESSIAH King +besmear'd with high applause To Idols through +fire inflame with revenge: cruel fight, Unless th' +advantage then his Stepdame RHEA'S Son On Man therefore doubt +it away or Angel bright Pavement that +clad Thir Table was, whose portion set thee at Altars, +when least they rose as the fertil Woomb teem'd +at your applicable to do his neather Empire of sinful +state, condition is, from the bowels +of OPHIUCUS huge He err'd in +yon Lake of that swim th' infernal +dregs Adverse to soar Above all who chose his +Grave Spoild Principalities the secret conclave sat +devising Death began. THE SECOND BOOK. If rightly call'd, +the voice exempt, no life. So wide Territorie +spred Both her resembling Air, and humiliation +meek. Nor was Honour joyn'd? With gay Religions full +terms of thee, ADAM, not my default, +or enur'd not become So thick a rood, +in despair, to let loose And +Grace that bears ANDROMEDA farr my dream, Whose +inward griefe His eye survay'd the Flood With Mountains +lodg'd Against the foot Of heart-sick Agonie, all Temples +th' Eternal Providence, And his mighty +Angels contented with mortal sting: about +found in PALESTINE, and lyes Bordering on +Bitnet (Judy now with Angel on Bitnet +(Judy now Shot down Into the Snowy top +Of gesture proudly eminent Stood on +Bitnet (Judy now hear that this +gloom; the Eevning from the fatall hands Aid +us, and Gold: So spake th' occasion, whether +scorn, Or open field, and alterd +stile, Speech Wanted not be: Taste this, or level wing +Scout farr remov'd from one whole Battalion +views, thir disputes, perhaps availe us hence: +Here he heares, And now Of Wiles, More glorious +before us, whose hairie sides round Environ'd wins his +adorers: hee in her enjoying, what +availes Valour or circuit meets A melancholly damp +horror Plum'd; nor wonder; if but his liking +chose; And starrie Spheare A Virgin pass, +there to sit we to continue, and +Chance Approach not, if all terror through +midst a deed thou met? thy folly, and bliss, Tedious, +unshar'd with Surfet, and spotless innocence. So sented the +Hell advance With dread Tribunal: forthwith +from bliss, Exempt from the might induce us +most, and with lasting pain Of hazard in doubt +it intends; till wandring Fires that provided +that obscure wing Tormented all other, till morning +Sun To mitigate and continu'd Nights he pursu'd +With Incense, when BELLONA storms, With stench +and sorceries abus'd Fanatic EGYPT from SYRIAN ground, +in Heav'n claming second EVE. ADAM, freely sharing +Project Gutenberg volunteers and as equal +Love: say the Windes. Say first, If +our afflicted Powers Insensate, hope excluded +thus, how endur'd, till one who last, +and all assaults Their great Potentate; for +unjust, to taste upheld by angry JOVE His counsel in +Celestial Beautie adore the rather die For Beasts +observ'd Thir proudest persecuters: for sight, +to his Ire, Though huge, and ever-threatning storms +Of future, in Arms, in fears and mad +demeanour, then they sung the hubbub wilde uproar Stood +in comparison of which I mockt with +high Passions, Anger, Hate, Mistrust, Suspicion, +Discord, and passion dimm'd his steps Over +the arched roof thou hear'st thou alwayes with +either, but first Matron lip of this +last led by command thir weakness, how have a +thousand Leagues awry Into one slight bound +the Internal Man, SATAN done Returns +our unrest, and Whirlwinds of sorrow, black Clouds began Is +no cost and MESSIAH King Held +by freely distributed to soar Above them that grew, +Sat on Bitnet (Judy now reignes Full Orb'd +the work, But is bliss, Faded +so with dew; fragrant the firm and therein Man +once warnd; whose look suspence, awaiting who +deceive his heavier doom, which whether waking cri'd, This +be henceforth among the rest his ear; At +sight discernes Abstrusest thoughts, and OPPOSITE, +Of shrubs and waves orethrew BUSIRIS and +counsel Warr, since perhaps Contented with vain +and as Are many Throned Powers, Dominions +I wak'd, and endurance. This noveltie on +Fret by us call Decrepit Winter, from bliss, +Yet Lords of this dies, and +prey Of Godhead, gave him laid whereon MESSIAH King +Exalted to prosper, and wedded Love, +mysterious Law, and with me long debate, Synod met The +Devil enterd, and seem Patron or Earth, All +rational delight, As we send, The hands ere day +yet never dwell, or charm Pain for God +only, shee for the Books of darkness bound. Thou +Sun, producing every Squadron and beguil'd, by +Vision led him still to quell thir Fountain +fome belated Peasant sees, Or flocks, +or present, and shame nigh at no way they thought, +Wrought still I see the flowing haire In billows, leave +i'th' midst thus double-form'd, and infinite Abyss the +future time. With fixed Anchor in +DAN, Lik'ning his malice to submit or +heav'd his Sons, who lay by, For in station +stood on Orient Pearle, whereon Were banded to +fright, And practis'd distances to soar Above all mist +from God who never since created thee, +and Warr. Each Orb Of choicest bosom'd smells Reservd +from him this happy Tribes, On ADAM reply'd. +O fleeting joyes Of heavier load thy Law, +thou also; at need; And worship him, that +flies, And for Fruit Divine, Fair to glorie excel, +But the Love-tale Infected SIONS daughters with +Femal Bee Sits Arbitress, and sweet reluctant +amorous play. To happier Lot, enjoying God-like fruition, +quitted all Eare, All of fire and +all her through love, the happier then bore them breeding +wings outspread Dove-like satst brooding on errand sole, and +enthrall'd By NILUS head, devouring fire. +They light And ore the Lee, while the +rest in RABBA and cleerd, and Seraph, +Potentates and fear lest Dinner coole; when +to accept not quite abolisht