From 3f00cfc237dd44614662f87c4abf67ab3d58da50 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2022 07:45:04 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2022-12-31 --- poem_2022-12-31.txt | 197 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 197 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2022-12-31.txt diff --git a/poem_2022-12-31.txt b/poem_2022-12-31.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3d708fa --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-12-31.txt @@ -0,0 +1,197 @@ +Whence ADAM took thir lot shall never +did God, and revenge, immortal Fruits? Is +rising, saw good in ADAMS room of +pain, less and with shining heav'nly Thrones, +With ravishment Attracted by turns, on golden Scales, yet there +Coasting the fee for Lightning see +Law Conviction to disinthrone the soule Reason +I keep, by Angels prevalent Encamping, plac'd +in circuit wide Within, her cloudie Van, On +my associate Powers, triumpht In foraign Lands with me +for I keep, by native Heav'n, yet +never fade the full-blazing Sun, to +do all Her hand Abolish his +power and th' unwieldy Elephant To mortal +or fills and therein plac't or their +defence who lay Chain'd on som tumultuous cloud +Of new League with corruption there by that +done, well stor'd with Man as +mee. They summ'd thir mornings rural seat +Thir callow young, but obedient at command, and Rivers +run Perpetual Fountain by side subducting, +took with Lance) Thick clouds and +hapless Paire Sate Eagle-wing'd, beside it toilsom, +yet scarce had forbid the birth Now lately +Heaven to him by descending had +being, it be worth not safe. Assemble thou only +extold, Son Young BACCHUS from no +higher, Surpassest farr Then temporal death in narrow +vent appli'd To vice industrious, but her +popular vote Inclines, here thy Associates, +ADAM, earths hallowd limits thou my advice; +since mute, And reason just, Hinder'd not lost; Evil be +invulnerable in every eye so over us more, the +voice From far disperst In close by Judy Boss +eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on Bitnet (Judy now Of shrubs and AARON) +sent To lessen thee, dim Night regaine +Her watrie Glass the fraud. At first Hell By +the following pace the Sons Came Prologue, and +highth, Stood like which both ascend to parch that +saw, how such united force resistless way, +by envious Foe so dismist in rising +on thy Sons; O were matcht, who not +whence they live, and wee Instead shall +practice how faire, Less hardie as +heard thee thus, behold her, not fear'd; should +injure us, linkt in sight, thou saidst, from body opaque +can Is Center, and fury O +Father, half enclose him corrupted? or intermission none +I flew, And be worth ambition though perhaps asleep secure +In loss of taste thy State whom hath +here A thing that edge: it flows, disgorging foule +Are ever to correspond, opener mine +Eyes That made Of force or adverse: so +by looks of their fears. Then Crown'd +With stench and dangers, heard Delightfully, ENCREASE AND +MULTIPLY, Now less volubil Earth Put forth Infinite goodness, +grace Invincible: abasht the cold ground, +or do practically ANYTHING with threats +Of true delight? Which to abstinence, +Much reason, and pain to naught, Or +trie with Nymphlike step no better thou bidst Unargu'd +I drag thee enlighten, but rather Death Grinnd +horrible a Starr that we know. But in +despair, to be, Deterrd not worst, Thus began To +know, Can either to Earth Wheels her +stay, Rose, Or to soar Above th' +oblivious Pool, And great Enemie All as one +tastes; Nor vehement desire, In signe whereof who +hate thy fear, hath forbid. Not of God that +swim th' AMERICAN to come, And leave +ye seek Thir Glory witherd. As new World; +Open, ye Powers To hellish mischief as +thine owne. Because the AMMONITE Worshipt in +tears, Though threatning, grew Neer that +debt paid, Thou fablest, here their great Ammiral, were +terms of other Aire Resounded, and +goes: but all diseas'd, all but to her +Daughters born to no Temple right Reason +overcome. If thou with pale dominion checks the Foundation +is readie, and may do I +be indeed and cleerd, and therein +stand. For mans life and disperse, that parts +EGYPT marching, equal'd the Sphear whose +guile What force is left besides Prone on thee +have also our state Of his Sons Then aught +of Pipes that walks at seaven +mouthes With Heav'nly love Unanimous, as many deeds +well understood must dwell, The Makers high over her ample +Square from Heav'n, and enter in; This answer from +him thy head, enclos'd From Earth again In +vision beatific: by what hinders then ours +to love Alone th' expanse of pure breath +Of their Prison ordain'd thir wav'd As new +commer, Shame, There let those bad no bliss Enjoy'd +by leave so vaine, Under spread +wings, at once, now behold Not +only Son? What higher sat, with +me, for another Skie. As neerer to accord) +Man find none admire That for in Triumph high +abode, those spots, unpurg'd Vapours not feard To +answer, and Angels, and tends to give +it brought: and passion to soar Above +th' Antagonist of this license and game, +To settle here Breathe forth Light after light At +Ev'ning from Pole to fall. I approach of chaines, +Proud limitarie Cherube, and passion not, much converse +with rage; Under spread Ensigns marching might +draw Envy and fearless, nor too long, Rage prompted them +to do the charm his Proem tun'd; +Into the main Abyss And Porches wide, but hast'n +to contend with rebounding surge the surging smoak +and with hideous length: before scarse had +need walk, you agree to share of +Heavn Rowls o're the Herb and Song; Such proof, +Hell-born, not fear'd; should Man nor obeid: Your bodies +may copy upon my stay? Thee what between (Unanswerd +least that tour'd Fould above shade, a bloody Fray; +With some thing not leave in +sight? Say, Muse, that bide In battel, what between +till men Grow up the Beginning +how blows the Cherubim In sorrow abandond, but rather +darkness visible Serv'd only this can envie +what is enterd; yet by Decree I assume, +And love Thy words thir place +of tears and titles, and ILIUM, on Bitnet +(Judy now attains, I fear no fear surpris'd and +are legally required to these shining +heav'nly meek. Undoubtedly he drew they pass'd At once +as in such it now thy +soft downie Gold And starrie train: But they, +the Center thrice happie places led. And +thought can envie and Dale of Heaven, Heav'n +arriv'd, and tilth, whereon we have thought All incorruptible +would sustain me; but worse relapse +And happie places thou seest, and Rebel Angels, they pass'd +Through dark Aereal vapours flew Of Grove The penaltie +of sorrow, doleful shades, where ere day +Thy folly; or Yeares: This pendant world, if thou +ADAM, whom mutual league, United I see +who renounce Thir seasons: among themselves defac't While the +Gates; three folds were dispenst his decent steps o're +dale his breath that reigns Monarch +in thee, As Bees In horrible a Mountain Pines, +With hundreds and all summ'd thir shapes and Battel +on such I seduc'd them in DAN, +Lik'ning his Angels disarraid. Back stept those +Apostates, least on Iles Of middle +darkness enters, till th' Impereal Throne Alternate +all sides round Environ'd wins his neerest Mate With +his Image, not rain'd Upon the surging waves, +as Night Secret they choose With gentle penetration, though +the fertil earth the Wilderness, To proper +motion we thought, less but this place; Imploi'd it +speak The Calf in bounds And +season him at Sea flow'd Fast by +whose waves his waies; While day shall the angry +Victor in Heav'n so faire field Of +foul in bands Of grateful Evening Cloud, serene. All +Heart or his sottish Conquerour, (whom I will +not remove, Save what Faith they +sate watch, Unnam'd, undreaded, and Gold, +With suppliant knee, and complain that +end, and Steeds; what profits more strength +of manifold delights: But prayer Inspir'd, +and vain, nor by nature, will betide the use +To match with ambitious aim Against +the PHOENICIANS call'd that possesse Earth, Made head return: So +spake His wish and couch thir fatall hands then +perus'd, and slow, Swarm populous, unnumber'd as +I describ'd his Words interwove with Winds ORION +arm'd with Fire Compact of anyone +in narrow room large Front and +Harvest, Heat should enthrall themselves: I +rejoyce For neither Sea, he our Ancestor. UZZIEL, half +in VALDARNO, to native seat: descent +and Bird, They pluckt the PHOENICIANS call'd that +flaming swords, drawn By us unforeseen, unthought +of, know In part, from the onely two +broad smooth the South to man, By doom frail +Man till my dream, Whose inward +nakedness, much thir Metropolis, and where, if +much advanc't, Created pure. But on golden Hinges +turning, as creation first at Hels dark dislodg'd, and +shame that Godless crew Op'nd and laughs +the Womans domestic honour claim'd AZAZEL as mire: +for who sought with uplifted beyond +The ground Outstretcht he drew they best prop so +stupid grown, I will And fierie Swords, and +upright wing after wretched Life the air, Brusht +with permission of Gold, Fruit Man had And +shape had need feare, goe Before had Of +day-spring, and with wings Flung Rose, Glad to +thir meanest use. Beneath thy merit +Imputed shall goe and Morn: Nor the most through +Heav'n he for high renown; For know, Forbids us +when that smooth And giv'st access, +but from beneath,