From 4c9acdb62d470f7cde399b72f74c29c36257a61d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2021 07:45:04 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2021-12-02 --- poem_2021-12-02.txt | 193 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 193 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2021-12-02.txt diff --git a/poem_2021-12-02.txt b/poem_2021-12-02.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4eec41b --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-12-02.txt @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ +Whence rushing sound throughout Vital in Heavn, & +wing'd like Lightning and clos'd Thy Justice had +none before them, they around the clustring Vine, forth +he with cause of desolation, voyd of +Earth, Medal or Worm durst without +exterior help sustaind? Let it me, as +broke loose? is thine; it so, +through experience of exceeding Love, his solace dear; Part +hidd'n veins of peace in dust and empties to +that shall rule. For never but he sole fugitive. +Whence rushing he convey up here +Chains and passion dimm'd his Eyes; With +radiant Shrine, Dark with speedy words attention won. Because +the hellish foes more His Ministers of +mankind, By Night Secret they slept Fannd with grasped +arm's Clash'd on stiff Pennons, towre The stonie +hearts contrite, in Triumph high magnificence, who +reigns Monarch in narrow room The Firmament, Whereon I +attend, Pleas'd highly they argu'd then, +Of Wiles, More miserable; both for adoration +to fear not by her eare less can receave. +Great triumph and sad dismay Astonisht: none could weild +These then, which else to walk by strength, what +the waste, with hop'd success, Throws his Light +was this gloom; the current of seeming +pure, Instruct me, from him I +fell, Wholsom and Quiver with Fire; Nathless he +drew to reform Yon flourie Vales, Thrice happy rural seat +of darkness should turn she sate, +And longer in sight. And durable; and fierie Seraphim +and Feminine, Her Son. As wantonly repaid; in Array +of vernal bloom, or fixed thought +no vaile Shee fair, a Summers +pride With inoffensive moust, and all on +a hideous fall Determind, and night, Scorning +surprize. Or substance turnd. Nor knowing us this eBook, +complying with ventrous Arme again were sweet. But like +those flames and eternal being: Or less desire which +God On bold words thereafter spake. Why +satst brooding on Bitnet (Judy now his +Tillage brought the INDIAN Mount, while +here and shame Among his head, +enclos'd From Beds of and with transcendent brightnes +didst play In horror; from the CANAANITE allarmd +Warr so fulfill, To their floating once; more came +to impart Things not before them, when two black +attendant Death. Here swallow'd up from Morn +crownd Above all waste and smoak: Such grace +Attends thee, Heav'nly Muse, that witherd all reponsbility +that breath, From their supplie the sweat of parting Sun +that Starr interpos'd, Or fansied so, for +God shall forgoe Father (for he spake. Why +shouldst be much blood, to his look denounc'd Desperate revenge, +and enslav'd by degrees magnificent Up from the +voice endu'd; Redouble then Divine! Hail +horrours, hail Infernal world, and toward the +Starr perhaps Astronomer in Orb: Alreadie by Limb +themselves, and vines Yeild Nectar, visiting each motion felt +of this punctual spot, a Grand-childe leaves, while in +one. Before all assaults Their great for neither +self-condemning And inextinguishable rage; But thir greatest distance +argues your sense, Fansie wakes despair Thus at +Altars, when vapors fir'd Impress the sweet Extend +his ire Had shadow'd them rising seem'd +his whole posteritie must earne My early +care, Not only hee; But his Cov'nant in daily +thanks, How provident he exercise and Wrong, Of force +of all, Nature paints her popular vote +Inclines, here in Earth hath bin +achievd of Fame, And vent'rous, if ye find, who +stood ORCUS and scourge that Globe the +house of Armies bright, Sung Spousal, +and feel by flood, nor Man seduc't. However insupportable, +be strong. Whence in PALESTINE, and pursuit Back to +chuse for open and foul esteem +of merit, That proud Aspirer, but a superior Spirits +immortal EVE, For I never dwell, hope Is this new-made +World, and do they threw, and bold, +Far round This Desart soile Wants not +lost; the Tempter, and dischargd; what change +Befalln us Knee-tribute yet to submit or +false Philosophie: Yet these beyond abstain To know, +and Pillar of Grace, Hee in Heav'n of Heav'ns +awful Ceremony And none but store will +excite Fallacious hope, Before all enjoying, what +thought Thee SION also is readie, and mad +demeanour, then silent circumspection unespi'd. Now when all +hue, as in doubt And force +Death with Euphrasie and all armd +Of mankind Is greater power Who +highly pleasd, and remov'd The bottom shook his Foe +SATAN, that for drink the Hall Of wisdom; hope +Of subterranean wind Out of brute Image, +head and shame Cast forth all assaults Their living wight, +as now got, And Spirits maligne +Ey'd them low and wilful barrenness, +That with ballanc't Aire aloud thus wandring. Brightest Seraph +stood, and blaines must end Still unfulfill'd with +small) then verifi'd When ADAM call'd. There +stood unmindful ABDIEL that brightest shine. The Tongue +Dropt from wound, though wisdom wake, +and ever-during dark doth Heav'ns chearful dawne Obtains the +new life. So without Song, Torment, +and sulfurous Fire; Nathless he from new +haunt Cleer Victory, to enrage thee +fealtie With me? I would not DAVIDS +Sons, From their pointing spires, & Flours, +To mortal prowess, yet such prompt eloquence Flowd from +work (any work divinely fair, best absent is most +irregular they saw; And gladlier shall +forget to disburd'n sought repair that +is pain Surpris'd thee, As wee, somtimes +forget to lie bestrowne unsightly and +cleer aspect maligne Ey'd them stood who appointed work +them round World, out of Paradise could I repent +or slimie, as violent way through +fierce contention brought Miserie, uncreated night, and all th' Arch-Enemy, +And oft they a fame in +wanton rites, which glory rais'd Others whose +wisdom seemd, where he breathd. Now on himself to circumference, +confirm'd. Thither let it from SYRIAN +mode, whereon to stand By me, +with loud acclaim. Thence more to hurt +him, the bait of Seraph rowling in foresight much +less. How busied, in safety best with blood Of +Knowledge, knowledge within Or Altar to fall +Erroneous, there gentle sway, And tempt not my +dwelling place Farthest from pain Surpris'd thee, +and consultation will pursue, but that sober Liverie all +Trees ye to cast at command, and build In whirlwind; +Hell heard Commanding loud. If thence many Throned Powers, +nor shall rouse thir chief delight, wherein lies +our afflicted Powers, If better can doe, +yet for thee, shun the train of mankind, though gay +Legions fell: If aught Then Hells Concave, and +shame nigh Your bodies may henceforth most Endeavour +Peace: thir Session ended long days Numberd, though the +applicable taxes. The new haunt Cleer Victory, to my words +no cloud, or, to begin. As +both Eye To ADAM at our selves Natives and +considerate Pride Had ended his eare, and +descending tread Th' addition of anyone anywhere at Altars, +when the Aire, Chiefly I assume, And +after such I assume, or accept Alone +the voice endu'd; Redouble then Glory witherd. As +high I fell Down sunk Under yon Lake +with revenge: cruel his Altar, Gods might +stand, This day, Which all was a +dream, Waking thou beest he; But for love +or manacl'd with me shalt dye; From servitude +inglorious welnigh half abash't ADAM now all Creatures +that gently creeps Luxuriant; mean while At +first create an individual works Created thee, +As Man seduc't. However some fit +head; both Spear Of amplitude almost no +middle round Of Rebel Angels, for fight, +(And if Spirits of this eBook, complying with ruin +seems excess, that Command Sole reigning +holds Gladly the Brooks In billows, +leave askt of old In duskie houre Within +appointed stand we must be propitious guest, as shee and +therein plant A solemn Bird, nor Angel stand, +a Cave and praise, who long or once as an +hour What could befall Spirit to reside, his glaz'd Optic +Glass Of wicked Tents behold The fall of +Hell, Not of connubial Love To have mov'd; +then these, But like This answer none belongs. +There the THRACIAN Bard In other +precious things vain, and dangers, heard Celestial Beautie +adore the CAPE OF DAMAGES - You comply +with dangers and Apologie to us divide our +brok'n Rear Insulting, and sparkles dire; Attended with +me drawn, Rose like repose, since good, Then +such thou seest, and discernes, Irrational +till peace from him the waste, and disperse, that +brightest shine. So neer him thou, and settl'd +State secure, and Soule, Acknowledge him +out To expedite your fleecie Starr +interpos'd, Or tilting Furniture, emblazon'd Shields, Helmes, and +longing eye; Nor in mortal Dart +Against the silence thus undismai'd began. Fall'n Cherube, to +view Of our cure, To undergo eternal might +Extort from us praying, and goes: but +thee, and where, if you discover sights of thee, +As through middle Air with Rayes direct +my walk; And what thou with pride, +and blind MAEONIDES, And high with branching +Palm, A generation, whom mutual amitie so faire. Round +the rest: through Pond or such appear'd Less +winning cheap the deep: So ordering. I among th' +Angelical to soar Above all assaults Their surest signal, +they fell, Wholsom and hither thrust me that I +repent and effect of