Robo poem for 2021-07-09
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Would not before us, and actions, mixt Confus'dly,
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and all th' Archangelic Power Hurld headlong
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from the smoothed Plank, The blasting volied Thunder stor'd, And
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courage on golden Scales, yet confest later
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then Heav'n Is as mire: for Heav'n, som irriguous
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Valley spread Beneath thy words applause
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To witherd all Temples th' obdurat King Omnipotent From
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HERMON East her numberd such force
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as to heare: This Woman is just Circumference, O
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Parent, these first design Pleas'd highly pleasd, and
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beheld The Foundation at his mighty
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Stature; on or mute, And TIRESIAS and force believe
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Those Blossoms and Twilight gray Dawn, and dark
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Ended rejoycing in Prose or their
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Essence pure, And various: wondring tell
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thee thus, though faultie since, but there that much
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converse Induc'd me. Some I sit secure
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Either to do ought that wisdom didst invest The last,
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then from above, him sole Lord had
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said, Let her bestial Gods; and Fowle So saying,
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from BABYLON thence full oft seen; his
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look up, and keep, by whose
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he above his sighs now appeer'd,
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Girt with thy will he spake; No second
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Sovrantie; And time his Leggs entwining Each shoulder broad,
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came from such appear'd Less then paus'd, As we
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would intermix Grateful digressions, and Trophies: all Sun-shine,
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as gross, no account. Tomorrow ere well suite
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with loss how can close ambition though unwearied, up
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with jocond Music charm Pain for
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generations to contend with repose; and
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deliver ye Elements In close recess and
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laughs the Books of birth Now shaves with
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revenge: cruel warres, Wasting the Wilderness With Armed
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watch, or Death, What Heavens Fire to heare onely
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God, who had not refuse to be his?
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Or as this eBook, complying with offers to
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repaire That time and poure Abundance, fit Of Mans
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voice, which yonder VVorld, which God after thirst, which
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compel'd Mee not, till SATAN, hee
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sat mute, to dare The highth All
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on Bitnet (Judy now hid, Progressive, retrograde, or blame By
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his enemies, and sad Sentence beyond
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thought, and passion first Parents in narrow search; and
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motion? and with innumerable Of puritie and
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wip'd them that might induce us falling, had filld
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Th' Infernal Thunder, Wing'd with flying
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March, along Innumerable force he designes In
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recompence Dole with my inbred enemie Forth flourish't thick
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Of despicable foes. With ruin are set, and
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thrice to simplicitie Resigns her sight
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Of SENNAAR, and Realms: in fight Unspeakable;
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for no account. Tomorrow ere mid-day arriv'd
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In eminence, and Meddowes green: Those
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argent Fields more it fled the
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bottom all Her chrystall mirror holds, unite thir
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God, from the flowrie Brooks In Battel now fild
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with Eyes, she embrac'd him, who disobeyes
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Mee first warmly smote The Heav'nly Guest.
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But his pride With this windie Sea Swallows
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him this flying Fiend: at which EVE
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Persisted, yet when BELLONA storms, With blackest Insurrection, to
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all; with Fire; Nathless he ordaind, Hath Omnipresence)
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and though more came still pays, at Sea flow'd Of
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heart-sick Agonie, all a fame in LEBANON allur'd The
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stonie hearts desire. If so long obedience then these
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hallowd mould, Of Heav'ns fugitives, and
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with ambitious mind thee farr From off From
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darkness enters, till within his tortuous Traine Adorns
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him, but well awake. Nor tongue
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of sorrow, doleful shades, where stood Her bearded Grove
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Of him long? Mee not, and each, how
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would not, and PHARPHAR, lucid streams. He
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back on evil much advanc't, We may praise; Yee
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that this with heavie pace the deep:
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So as hard With all chase me
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then, mee must be severd, we suffer
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change, Though sleeping, where Thou mai'st
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not; Trial will And Discord with eternal course,
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and tell Of Passion, I will betide the feare.
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Why satst brooding on errand sole, and nature and
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clasp thy Ofspring, end Thou sever not; To Spirits
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be debas't Under whose hairie sides round Skirted his
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seat Thir rising on thy puissant Thigh; Pursue these
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rebell'd, To fill all these wilde Woods
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and all My self in narrow
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room large and flowers Flie to Reign, Refusing
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to do ought that fixt Laws our
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wish. Mean while they would? what seem'd Above them
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rul'd, stood retir'd From standing fight, As
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good will destroy Us happie, owe to save,
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Dwels in sight, like In the ground. But in
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wandring Spirit That sacred Porch EZEKIEL saw,
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Surveying his labour, to soar Above th' event In
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mystic Dance not taste Of his Station bright. Forthwith
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upright with benediction. Since Reason on
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they fought at THEB'S and divine or wanton
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growth though steep, through midst exalted
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sat, by Decree Another World, to Arms.
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Nine times the wisest heart relented
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Towards him that houre Of despicable foes. With loudest vehemence:
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thither hast reveal'd What can God Rais'd impious PHAROAH
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hung with youthful beautie, added The
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happy State, which cause Mov'd on or
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heav'd his Powers Farr off In things
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Built like Ambition threw Down sunk before
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her Kings; there to tame These
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past, Two Planets and Violets, and various, not thus, behold
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The adverse We now To win the VIRGIN and
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Song; Such resting found repose; and dangers, heard new
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to Death and all ill able to his
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approach, and after her Reign in
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HESEBON And sin? the calmest life:
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But mark what ow I wanted
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yet what other once heard And anger saves To
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one Night bids increase, who well understood must outlive
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Thy enemie; nor shund the charge to drouze,
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Charm'd with grief behold, Into the Twelve that
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earthly fruits the Field, Or Shee from
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their misrule; And hazard all Temples th' occasion,
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whether thus answerd smooth. Dear Daughter, thus returnd: URIEL, one
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man a Toad, close th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus
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distemperd brest, And twentie thousand lesser
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Faculties that sat mute, Pondering the outside bare Earth,
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Subdue it, man to know, when they fell, from
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hearts desire. If this irksom night; methought Close sailing
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from him last, then these, Above
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his Enemies: Nor skilld nor somtimes forget
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to whatever place testifies, and unhallowd:
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ere well us'd had remov'd from
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numbers full, but DELIA's Traine, Betook them,
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th' advantage then clad with grasped arm's Clash'd
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on mee, by tract of Hell, Not
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well I tri'd, now high, but worse Then
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first sort by force, yet by native seat. For you,
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there to reaching to sit contriving, shall yeild
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it thus? who sees and Reason in Heav'n Rise
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on innocent frail Man and Aire, Thy malice serv'd
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but all these our way thou
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attended gloriously from SYRIAN mode, whereon JACOB saw beneath
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This was with wingd speed retir'd to destruction
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to submit or short blush of mankind, in power God
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by whom mutual help preserve Unhurt
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our afflicted Powers, Under whose boiling Gulf Tamely endur'd
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a pleasing light Shine inward, and stray'd so in
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PALESTINE, and complain that Tree All
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space, till then thy love, there no cloud
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Drawn round If they durst enter now all Heaven
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to degree in VALDARNO, to concerne Unpractis'd, unprepar'd, and
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prevented all Her rosie steps in bigness
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to undergoe like themselves decreed Thir
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penance, laden with rosie steps a Gryfon through
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experience taught To stuff this place,
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pushd by prayer Incessant I fail not, as
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great command thir being? Yet Virgin Modestie,
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Her long back All these piercing Fires
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As we send, The Parts besides
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to that thou thinkst not over-rul'd Thir perfet
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sight, but all unawares Fluttring his Altar
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breathes Ambrosial Odours and all th' inroad of
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dim thine To vice industrious, but ere he
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Created, much they will not divulge
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His deadly aime; thir shock Of Deitie or shun
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the settl'd State whom his head, devouring
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fire. Sounder fierie spume, till wandring Fires
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between; Over the Earths inmost bower Handed
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they weend That stone, Carbuncle most just, Shall satisfie for
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mankind under ground, or fixt Laws impos'd, to
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possess her other Hill made thy youngest
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Son belov'd, Son except, Who from pain
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From Faction; for generations to exclude Spiritual
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substance turnd. Nor grateful mind Appointed,
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which cannot live. Whence in alt:
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him his Adherents, that infernal Peers, Midst
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came on, Forerunning Night; when to accept
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them; thence raise them as the
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grand Foe, Who but all th' AONIAN Mount, while
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yet know In Arms away or EARTH-BORN, that crept,
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which by fraud, though unbeheld in narrow search I
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dissuade Thy coming, and us must
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overshadow all th' Almighties works, JEHOVAH,
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who most just, Honour clad with aught of impious
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hands lopt off Heav'n, shall guide
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Lamenting turnd thither-ward in narrow search with Nymphlike
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step no cloud Of tenfold Adamant, his uprightness
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answer thus EVE, who thus cropt, Forbidd'n
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here, This turn Desirous, all Temples th' irreverent Son
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by all, To motion, but thou profoundest
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Hell to spend all Hell Captive Ark of
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open brest With sudden onset, either He
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comes That Glorie account, But drive
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All night; methought Close at THEB'S and therein
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set free distribution of EVE within,
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whose Bark by fire Had unbenighted shon, Truth, that
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rape begot These then, what the just th'
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upright beams That fought
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