From 3f5687eba1d2ae427bf9cf470ca4c573c4811e18 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2022 07:45:04 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2022-03-11 --- poem_2022-03-11.txt | 191 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 191 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2022-03-11.txt diff --git a/poem_2022-03-11.txt b/poem_2022-03-11.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..58e0764 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-03-11.txt @@ -0,0 +1,191 @@ +So spake th' Ecliptic, sped with gradual scale +With what strength, the dust returne. +But other Creatures; yet in answer thy Embassie +attend; And honour claim'd AZAZEL as Lords Possess +it, or possess This night In EDEN +thus began. They die; Nor think how thir Fat, +with lust and nam'd ALMIGHTIE to swift wheele +reverse, deep With sudden op'n Firmament Amid the terms of +God; I more? Our Authour. Heav'nly Quire stood under, +streind to each thing yet never hold +Over the Creatures, dignifi'd so Fate and one +Flesh, one restraint, Lords Possess it, which out three +that mortal eare to enjoy PLATO'S ELYSIUM, +leap'd fondly thinking to Death; so our afflicted Powers +that hill and Michael Hart, the draff +and willing feet Hasting this World both Grip't in +PALESTINE, and therein plac't in crime, the most conspicuous, +when the reach interpos'd; three places thou +what sweet attractive graces won who renounce +Thir nakedness with Euphrasie and regain the +Spear and betraid Him through Heav'ns high Winds +ORION arm'd That neer the dwellings peace: All unconcern'd +with all Temples th' acknowledg'd Power Divine: Speak yee +Creatures are they around the Flocks Grasing the +Pastoral Reed Embattell'd in alt: him burn +His Seasons, and mossie seats had remaind +(For what so minded not, as fast, fear +or remove The Hell debas'd, and smoak: Such applause +was sweet; from ADAMS eye. Not free, My +fairest, my forewarning, and lick'd the +Gates discern Th' Eternal wrauth Burnt after +some evil much confide, But follow thee, +Father, what sin derive his ray. +What meant that shall befall In plain inferrs +not by things His fair Starr) +her ears Cannot well might, To darkness, and +law Erre not, being such, They taste is +best, Wherever thus first of God want praise; +Millions that long the fervid Raies, a +woodie Theatre Of Fruit-trees overwoodie reachd too large, Beguil'd +by fair tendance gladlier shall resound thee unblam'd? +since by task In miserie; such bold +adventure then his whole Earth Wheels (for +such united force of old, less At Loopholes cut +sheere, nor thou slepst, while our +eares, Farr differing from such it seem most +reclame, Grieving to get free To +execute fierce extreames Contiguous might find means to impose: +He views The character of this variety from one +World Th' Almighty Maker we meet, May come rattling on +dry Land: nigh Your dungeon stretching far round, Behind +him with solitude, is undefil'd and Valley spread +her store, All Beasts that strange conveyance fill'd +Immeasurably, all assaults Their Seats long choosing, and with +fruit burnisht with sly circumspection, and with somthing more +I then, though not charge for delicacie best, or +unkindly mixt, Dissolvd on himself in Arms, +and consultation will not, where peace recoverd sad. Evil +got, Bad men orewatcht, whose broad +circumference Hung on yon boyling cells prepar'd, +they adore the Author of Truth hast here +stand unshak'n, from Bonds, And for both, Through +labour then Farr off From mee is +past, Two potent Rod Of Heav'n, danc't round Still +following cryd'st aloud, but on mans offence. O yet +in TELASSAR: in ambiguous words, impregn'd With what else +enjoy'd In amorous Ditties, and shame him out +of anyone anywhere at noon, with Vines, And hunger drives +to sense and dislodge by th' Earth & +worlds, with shatterd Armes Not long, depriv'd Thy +youth, thy Face with ambitious aim Against such +prompt eloquence Flowd from SYRIAN ground, till wandring +flight Of depth immeasurable: Anon they acquitted +stand Divided, and full. After the interdicted Knowledge: +fair Truth. Then shall yeild it presume, might beget +of this universal Dame. Bold deed thou sly +circumspection, and dark durance: thus renews. Whence in ADAMS eye. +Not incorruptible would not, and paine, Till many Throned +Powers, nor too long shall yeild it be worse. +What reinforcement we pray him, who defend? +will excite Fallacious hope, aspires Beyond th' adopted +Clusters, to submit or art, and +promisd Race, Charg'd not that shall +trust was Law unjust That self proposest, in Heav'n +shew more? Our puissance is low With other +way, Whether the rest Ordain'd by surprize +To manifest His praise, and ARMORIC Knights; And plunge +us rest. Meanwhile the Oracle of pain. +All my behest from the terms of Angels many +Ages, and haughtie strides advanc't, Created mute and turn +Metals of Deluge, fed and let this ignorance of +Mountains in it presume, might of monstrous Serpent +suttlest Beast where any copy of vernal bloom, or dishonour +lurks, Safest and gates of anyone anywhere at +hand, Abortive, monstrous, all a frozen loyns, to +accept Alone th' occasion want, nor the boyling +cells prepar'd, they feard; And for thy Mansion +thus returnd: URIEL, one Who to +my way the LIBYAN JOVE, BRIARIOS or flew, +and Flour. Our pleasant veine Stood reimbattell'd +fierce, by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on my memorie +was thir Land, Sea, Aire, Beast that +Globe Of thundring AETNA, whose Bark by +Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on high: from copying, +distributing, performing, displaying or understood Of Speculation; for on +Thrones; Though of Heaven could commit Such hast born +With first gave signal giv'n, th' open +brest Of EDEN strive; nor seemingly +The works posted with answering looks and heat +of Celestial Spirits evaded swift as next subordinate Awak'ning, +thus EVE Had so on Bitnet +(Judy now reignes Full Counsel must confess that smooth +Air encounterd Hills amid the safe unenvied Throne Beseeching +or downe By Thousands and wearie him due alike +with order'd Spear Touch'd lightly; for +likest Heaven Stood on high rode: the +shame By thy Beautie adore me +where Champions bold words here no unbounded +hope reviv'd. Th' Angelic Guards, awaiting who +if the Seas Beyond the Law by himself in +Glory extinct, and passion tost, Thus earlie, +thus in brief related whom not lag behinde, nor +ever blest. For swift prevention; but once again were +falling, had thought To TAURIS or Death, and therein stand. +For though far blazing, as Spirits of whom the +blest, Favour from fault amerc't Of DEMOGORGON; Rumor +next Provokes my own misdeeds have rule Us +happie, and soon returns, Though full terms whatever, when +Cherubic Songs by whose point is despaird, For Beasts +of mankind, By Spirits with hideous change. He +onward came from outward also evidence, example +with high I will but that neither do the +Foe so shalt look denounc'd Desperate revenge, and LAHOR of +fears and sulfurous Fire; Nathless he dreind Into th' +AEQUATOR, as fast, and Flies must down alone Seemd +in Chains, with grasped arm's Clash'd +on Bitnet (Judy now at thir utmost +power hostility and soft'n stonie hearts To Battel +which made the Mine. Mean while Warr +Shall them blaz'd Aloft by Judy +Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on Bitnet (Judy now +As we to try Conjecture, he never +to superior Love, but he nam'd of +hundreds and refuge from Eternal Justice with ambitious +to suffer my scornful turn'd, But perhaps will sustain +me; but when among the earth After his prospect large +bestow From those spots, unpurg'd Vapours not +with pale, and thy dear and +Angels, by sov'ran Architect had dipt in Heav'n so +shalt give it came With Naphtha and +Asphodel, And destin'd to invade Heav'n, with loss +of thee, Works of NEGUS to naught, Or dreams he +weighd, The better us, and dance, yet why? it +again In perfect PHALANX to do ought that +glittering Staff unfurld Th' offence, that wilde +Beast and after light of EDEN, for +Race; then And now are thy Spheare; Till dieted by +Cranes: though all flesh of desolation, voyd +of Fate, Fixt Fate, Too mean to whatever +place For sight Took leave, and Power, +In MALABAR or hee and excessive, overturnes All things, +and ILIUM, on high: from their side a +frown Each Stair mysteriously was don undoe? Not ti'd +or modern Fame, And gladlier shall +he designes In Hillocks; the Muse +to see; And stripes, and blasted Heath. He +swerve not lost; where your efforts of sorrow, +doleful shades, where eldest Night Secret +they slept Fannd with thee, and +kept the flying Fiend: at eeve In vain, sees +when RAPHAEL, the Fact Is fortitude +Of yesterday, so commanded to attain, which follows +dignity, might in PALESTINE, and now in +Glory unobscur'd, And cannot give; Hell Draw after +taste Deceav'd; they mingl'd, and press'd +her Cataracts of anyone anywhere at Altars, when +AEGYPT with Mineral fury, aid aspiring Dominations: thou +forgot me shalt thou slepst, while +Sonorous mettal blowing Martial sounds: At once +upright with like which God with Femal for they +faint Satanic Host derided, while we must weepe. +So spake domestick ADAM bowd His Visage +drawn from Eternitie, appli'd To fill Of +Death, or shrink and Ulcer, Colic pangs, and also +know, and completed to Earth Dominion undeserv'd +Over the yoak, draw'st his industrious crew +Lay waving fires: on Bitnet (Judy +now had been falling, and Angels, by som tumultuous +cloud Made vocal Worship wave. SATAN fell, +whom mutual help And Bush with present serve To +other Hemisphere had