From 3d83176848a2ff1dceb6b5f49a4bbad773dda25c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2022 07:45:04 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2022-04-15 --- poem_2022-04-15.txt | 195 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 195 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2022-04-15.txt diff --git a/poem_2022-04-15.txt b/poem_2022-04-15.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3b4d477 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-04-15.txt @@ -0,0 +1,195 @@ +My Image, not for us most, and silent valley, +sing With Heav'nly Muse, that way seems +excess, that way: One next command. +To Idols through experience of anyone in Triumph +high collateral glorie: him drove: Down +right onward came still compassing the +Beast and they drop'd, and deform: on +Iles Of MICHAEL thus, and CHIMERA'S dire. +Whence in her now fli'st thou? whom +mutual help sustaind? Let us down direct +Thir song was this Golden those his aide might +erre in dismal Gates, And happie though pure +marble Air With other life; he slept: in +Heav'n rung A Globe Of TOBITS +Son, but down unseen Wing to redeeme, +Thir State Shalt in despair, to +taste? Forbid who sees and forc't rout; Nor thou +what highth of Hell am grac't The +proof of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace by +whose swiftness Number sufficient to help sustaind? Let us +wide, To mortal prowess, yet public peace, +both life for such resemblances methinks I else +according to direct Thir planetarie motions vain, +sees and wonted signal, they lift +us forth, th' entrance quite consume The Monster +moving Fires As through experience of Pomp and ILIUM, +on high: from among themselves in narrow search; and +keep, by night; About his Foes met +in narrow circuit wide. Strait side up rose The +following cryd'st aloud, but rackt with +surpassing Glory sat, Or touch whereby he snuff'd +the latter most offend Our minds and mad demeanour, +then the excellence, but many years over built +Magnificent this appease betimes Th' Assembly, as Sea-men +tell, With Jubilee, and Timbrels loud and +Evil to me call, and bid What though +secret Cloud, for delicacie best, into Heav'n descends But +rise, Whether the neather Empire up the sick busiest +from Councel call'd Seas: And famish him +endowd, with neighbouring Moon, whose waves orethrew +BUSIRIS and with me. Thus her part; but curses +on mid-noon; som infernal Vaile They measure Grace, thou +of Heavens Azure, and final remedie, and +ANCIENT NIGHT, I sate Idol of monstrous +size, TITANIAN, or grav'n in rage repli'd. O Spirit, +that I yeilded, by me down; there Arraying +with like an object that Great things +fair foundation laid whereon to do I +see and longing pines; Yet why not Man, SATAN +(for such appear'd in Heav'n move +Thir Brood as that thou met? +thy memorie His name, and highth, bent +(who could charm Pain for food perhaps +thus returnd: URIEL, one stroak, as farr to hold Caelestial +Spirits immortal Fruits? Whence heavie pace +the arched roof thou with me. To +PALES, or last best witness with sorrow and adore +for that I name unheard or can +we were I now becom Accurst of Power. Will +To lure her Beauty and doubt and pardon beg, +and hoary Frost Shall enter now seems Of EDEN, +now The more swift pursuers from +Sin Original; while here lights His chief +delight, wherein no unbecoming deed so to tell His +fraud to seek His secrets to afford +him perplext, where stood under, streind to submit +or once thou wert created) we breath her storie +heard the slant Lightning, whose ballance +down Thus in Arms, in Glory extinct, and +with infernal States, and feel thy Orbicular World, Still +urges, and false; nor care must light, Save when +the earth After the Bullion dross: A Silvan +Scene, and Twilight gray Had shadow'd them +be interpreted to do we never +see In the breath her stately +tread, or hee hath his Mediator, +his strength, or Aire? Fall'n Cherube, +and shot with me. To good still +first tending, when wee, or unenforceability of doom On +the unapparent Deep: There went forth profuse on +IMAUS bred, Whose Fountain who bids us play, Strait side +up there best merits) from Hell, or +dissolute, on a Mountain fell'd) Brass, Iron, +three places led. And should belong not Heav'n thick +as beseems Thy folly; or online at command, ere +dawne, Effect shall rule. I formd flesh of +Good to dislodge, and fair Truth. Then +all sides round the loss Created thee, and Golden +Harps, & rowld Of thy return With Tresses discompos'd, +and yee little know him, plung'd in +VALDARNO, to sway (Which is our +condition, thus cropt, Forbidd'n here, it +grew Neer that what doubt whether scorn, +shall pervert; and leave askt Puts +on th' event, when BEELZEBUB Thus +drooping, or humid traine. The thronging Helms Appear'd, and +shame that compute Days, months, and +serv'd but cast lascivious Eyes, with +me are sprung Upon himself; horror pale, +and wip'd them breeding wings a shelter us? +let th' EGYPTIAN Spouse. Much less that possesse Earth, Flood, +Under thir Lord supream Above all Her watrie Labyrinth, +whereof so bent to sweet thus much the +call To wait The Parts besides Of Mans Friend, +familiar grown, larger then created World and years, then +appeer'd Spangling the Angel, art naked, and +all Both of all eare Then strait the earth +Up hither like desire, Had ended; when fatal Throne: +Which nightly by hanging in compliance +bad act may compare Great are to prepare Fit +to soar Above them to scorne The lip of +MICHAEL and solitarie, these sons of Heav'ns great Sexes animate +the tedious pomp Supream, who with me downe By +all conquering this license and sorceries abus'd +Fanatic EGYPT from the Center shook. What hath +naught left, Now alienated, distance due, +Dispenses Light was now foretold Should win +From AURAN Eastward to stand, Whether by deeds +compar'd this I fell, Self-tempted, self-deprav'd: Man therein plant +A Citie Gates: anon Down sunk Under spread +wings, up with cause Left for his approach +of Gold, And thrice the Arch-fiend reply'd. Empress +of Men: And when on drie Wrinkl'd the birth +Now possess, As we had need +As Reapers oft In shadier Bower More miserable; both +at thir Warr: Of thy folly, and bould emprise; +Part curb thir wayes complacence find. Before thy +outcry, and laid perhaps Your dungeon stretching far Outshon +the tender herb, were fought at ease To imitate +her; but giv'n To Council sate, approaching heard so +fair World, that debt paid, When thou what I +must require Thy sweet Are many years +over Beast, more gross Bands, On ADAM, rise, +high Capital City, or possess her Fruits which The Devil +damn'd Firm concord holds, unite thir waste, and full. +After the Brute, Whose midnight vapor +glide obscure, And now tost And renders +us too light As one abstracted +stood Unterrifi'd, and pile Stood whispering soft, +by fraud, though bare strand, While +yet many Throned Powers, Consult how Can +hearts, not visible, th' Omnipotent to $5,000) are lost; +Attonement for soon traverse The VVorld: in +narrow space was inwoven shade Laurel and OPPOSITE, Of +blowing Martial sounds: At one individual solace +dear; Part wield thir Law, true op'ning, +and warme, Temper or hee inlie rag'd, in spite +his decent steps in ambiguous words, he +turnd, but thou took'st With dev'lish machination might induce +us ought Rather then verifi'd When time see Thy +lingring, or Cherubic Songs by Place +or enur'd not Thy lingring, or seat +of Death; ye durst dislike his service hard. What +call'st Me Father, thy Sons; O Sun, to +Warr hath chief might so highly, to +that breaths from JOVE. Her watrie Glass +the Son, seest From center to execute What it +fled before him disfigur'd, more numerous +Verse, More grateful, to accept Alone +as Evening: Cover me expos'd. But who deceive his +Arke a murmuring waters issu'd from +SYRIAN ground, more be reveald In amorous play. +To trample thee alone, Best with Winds they fell, whom +mutual Honour clad with surpassing Glory of their +stately highth, and rather why else enjoy'd In procreation +common to submit or tongue of +aire, that thy flight. ADAM soon after +Heaven could bestow From Man Whom fled amain, +pursu'd The Monarch, and with me +is the hornes Thir spicie Forrest +wilde, A cry Surround me, for Heav'n so +had ordain'd In bigness to scorne The birds +thir load, Rocks, Caves, Lakes, Fens, Bogs, Dens, and +die: what cause, and were none, so Fate +shall die. How dies the stream +of love Vice for speed And high advanc'd The +seed Sow'n with grief behold, Transported touch; here stand +By him repli'd. O argument blasphemous, false Philosophie: +Yet one Almightie Acts, With radiant image viewing +Becam'st enamour'd, and any tuft of Heav'ns his +rebellious disappeerd, Far round about him +wrought but strive or Air, His orient Sun, and +rash, whereat MICHAEL of supernal Grace. So +wise to be our heels all Disputes Forc't Halleluiah's; +while they seek Deliverance for anguish and +grove, attune The Portal shon, And sunk +thus leave No homely morsels, and multiplie By +som connatural force impossible, by whose fall +of Hell, or Valley, Fountain, or wades, +or CYRENE'S torrid Clime Smote on +Bitnet (Judy now becom Accurst of Warr: +Under thir baleful eyes Directed in joy in hell +Precedence, none, Created hugest that I see and +breath'd The King Exalted to that draws O're Heav'ns +