From 37062b1c7d1f0777e2050facf259b35e580f5cf7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2021 07:45:07 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2021-03-22 --- poem_2021-03-22.txt | 195 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 195 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2021-03-22.txt diff --git a/poem_2021-03-22.txt b/poem_2021-03-22.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3f9c347 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-03-22.txt @@ -0,0 +1,195 @@ +If your Dominion won, Should favour sent I Toild +out a weather-beaten Vessel holds the +Priest Turns Atheist, as decai'd; And +choral symphonies, Day and with their native +home. What when ARGO pass'd Through pride +Soon learnd, now 'Twixt upper, nether, and gates of God; +I seek, And level pavement: from dance about +this night or enur'd not find His +bountie, following each Coast light-armed scoure, Each cast +him found her watry image; back Despoild +of God; That so cleere, not soon +ended frowning, and waken raptures high; The +Soule For such Majestie approv'd My word, my Author, +thou taught thee informd With notes Angelical to +think, though SPRING and imperial Powers, Under +her Will prove no nor delaid the method you in +hell Precedence, none, None arguing stood, That fought +at thy Sentence; Hell, then sought them +stood Of order, how Hee will ever? how blows +the Serpent on yon dreary Plain, or +TREBISOND, Or whom mutual wing Tormented all mankind. Go therfore +mighty powers, Terror of Sulphur. Thither full +refund from SYRIAN mode, whereon were those Shall +teach us he pleasd, and everie magnitude of Deitie +or Suffering: but that posteritie must +be quite abolisht and Dale of fairest Fruit, in +PALESTINE, and call'd From HAMATH Northward to all; +but despair: His Loyaltie he fixes sad, +Sometimes towards the shoar Bursting with either, but +food alike destroyes In eevn or sinks, +or re-use it pregnant: What could suspect +our plots and renowne, Who would +on Bitnet (Judy now prov'd ill successes past +with BRITISH and smiles, when Orient beam Purge +off In humid Bow, When CHARLEMAIN +with clamors compasst round he attends the +swift wings, at THEB'S and sublime, +and pardon beg, and were driven, The +works knowledge by putting off at +large For since fate In signal high +rais'd me is free? This must be, all +Creation first, who liv'd; nor with ambitious to +soar Above all yet remain'd; There went hautie +on, methought, alone From him, mee th' uplifted +beyond Compare of God by allusion calld, Of Justice, bids, +His single or degrade thine eyes, that defended +Fruit; or EDEN: this florid Earth, Made +common to Nobler deeds in Prose or threats to accept +Life much, by people who agree +to be tri'd: and with blood arise Of those +graceful and descending, bands Of Coral stray, or exhorting glorious +Work, that dark Ended rejoycing in Synod of Heav'ns +free Acceptance of life. So spake +th' Ocean Iles, but endu'd With noises loud +Ethereal quintessence of things, and give +both righteous Altar, Gods Works, on +him long? Mee disobeyes, breaks his Word the prime in +mooned hornes Thir perfet Gold The sourse +and counsels, equal much the Empire up returnd, +Pleas'd with slandrous darts, and disdain'd not +I, faire field be just; this gloom; the +monstrous sight and obstinacie, and proud! Words alone I +seek needless cause Mov'd our want: For +Spirits in Glory extinct, and Flours, Which +the dire Calamity, What there From Beds +of dim Eclips disastrous twilight here; and resound thee fealtie +With LAPLAND Witches, while thus GABRIEL to harme. This +was that Traitor Angel, nor think, +though but first Battel, sunk in +Heav'n my mouth Cast forth all ill have +lost, adjudg'd to tell how may +reign in Heav'n so long process of Men +Delighted, and Host Of erring, from side +They pass through agitation to reward to +enrage thee to soar Above his +ire, Belike through their Vows and remov'd may +at large and breath'd Heroic deeds +What yet On whom now ere well +us'd or dismal universal King; And DIPSAS (Not so foule +In close Thy coming, and press'd +her bounds, This second sours of aire, that strife +of SION, thron'd Between her perverseness, but dim, shall +live exempt From him, nor somtimes forget to +enrage thee hath planted here place where +there thy head and Bar Of sooty coal +the Depth Of Natures know'st, and forewarnd +the Will, for soon they enthrall +to prompt, Which it thee Good we +subsist, yet why? it nightly rounding +walk the pure of not unsung, where flowes +GANGES or whose guile contemn; Suttle he who +liv'd; nor ever With charm Pain +for much the previous one--the old Ocean +or cure or have marr'd What can enjoy +Free Vertue in him dispose: joy of monstrous sight +all egress. These changes oft Thy going is +beheld Thir planetarie motions vain, at all; but much +confide, But of those Appointed to soar Above +th' oblivious Pool, And o're the wilie Snake, Whatever +sleights none regard; Heav'n We are bold Compeer. +Which to execute What creatures there to mention, through +experience of thee, against a Golden lustre +visibly appeerd, From AURAN Eastward to invade Heav'n, My +self a Comet; which nigh unheard, that one disarm'd, +Of force Death into deception unaware, To Till +warn'd, or fresh Fountain, or enmity fulfill. +For which one moment, in machine readable by +skilful Stearsman wrought our Omnipotence, and Heav'n +somtimes Viewless, and with fire; And LICHAS from fault +amerc't Of Birds thir vertue; least of +kind for Heav'n, On duty, sleeping +soon returns, Though all Him counterfet, if Art +thou spok'n as now, his head, but +misjoyning shapes, Wilde work divinely wrought, Ascended, at THEB'S +and woodie Theatre Of massie Gold, With +thy mildness on, with SATURN old with contemptuous +brow. GABRIEL, thou turnd I approve. To evangelize the rule, +as this would loose, Though wandring. Brightest +Seraph tell Of hard contents, and call'd Mother of +Diabolic pow'r Active within them; and +such appear'd Obscure som irriguous Valley spread +wings, and just Circumference, O Son, Both her +watry Plain, forlorn and ANGOLA fardest +from on promise made of end +Them in narrow circuit of season judg'd, Or aught +of Panim chivalry To mortal doom'd. How overcome +this Rock Ran purple wings, and gave thee +have ensu'd, nor could repeate, As +we need As Man Which then soares Up to +violate sleep, which they sit lingring here Farr differing +from beneath, Just men they enthrall themselves: I +at first, for thee, dim Eclips disastrous twilight +here; and call'd MAN, about them right, the +God declares his hope, to wrack, with Heav'n, Angel +militant Of dalliance as fast, and Rebel Angels, +for within Shall separate he voutsafes to +dwell; But in worth ambition though +numberd such delay Of thir furious expedition; +for I assume, or guile. What rests, +but neither breath in Nature wills, Night To one +he sent from the PONENT VVindes +EURUS and despightfull act Of anger infinite +Abyss Wide gaping, and printed and him to dissect With +blackest Insurrection, to accept My Bowels, their +Vows and shame that Angel can yet fraught with mee +All that strife of Hell, say first seduc'd +them comes a narrow room of strict watch On +JUNO smiles, for Fate, Too well refresh't, now he +gave thee Into th' Omnipotent to give his +wrath may with three of Hell to give +us to them ordain His Sluces, +as Sea-men tell, With Jubilie advanc'd; and her stay. +Oft times the Libertie of Spirits +maligne Ey'd them as that shon +Filial Godhead, gave prospect high, Wherein to +graze The just rebuke, so scap'd Haply so +endur'd, till inundation rise A triple-mounted row of Paradise He +ask'd, but favour'd more With Jubilee, and +Power, thy Lips, ADAM last they fill'd, +and shame that most thou hast, though now +To thee alone, Or end, my dwelling place +Eternal King Ride on yon dreary Plain, or Earth, Made +thee alone, As Father to do his MEMNONIAN Palace +of thee, offerd grace With grateful +Twilight gray Dawn, and all dismal; yet well, +in Heav'n be obeyd: I never pass'd, And +starrie flock, allur'd The Planet guilds with ambitious +to plague us? what societie Can +by success may live, And Vertues, Powers, +where and do all access Impregnable; oft +amidst the polar windes, then thus advanc't, We sunk Under +what resolution and breake Thy hatred they chose his +breath Of Day and shame that rape begot These +wicked Tents farr at Altars, when AEGYPT with +double ours to meet no advantage then from Hell should +be my bowels of change. He spake: and +glad. Empress, the leaves all enflam'd +first it had need With glistering Spires +and pain up with audible lament +his own dismay Mixt with full of +man, to see, smell, taste; But in +whose charge To claim Of noxious +vapour, or rare. If thence the thirstie +Earth conspicuous count'nance, without Night, Or +from one seem'd either; black with cold and +call'd EGYPT, divided With such wherein thou +fallst. Moon, Or touch Th' APOCALYPS, heard +The Author of Foe Envying our woe, Mee thus, +though now more; sad For dust and dangers, +heard And Country whereof created, nor shall I will +be found: Warr to enlighten th' AEQUATOR, as +ere well us'd or 20.zip ***** This deep array +Of SARRA, worn with liquid fire Into +thee oft, as all Ages of God; That brought +him endow, Exalted to soar Above