From 4fc9fa6a23bc8779a9d1ad9cfbaba37de951a221 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2023 07:45:09 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2023-11-26 --- poem_2023-11-26.txt | 196 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 196 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2023-11-26.txt diff --git a/poem_2023-11-26.txt b/poem_2023-11-26.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bca19d8 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2023-11-26.txt @@ -0,0 +1,196 @@ +So might induce us three: Hell trembl'd +at THEB'S and orewhelm whatever creeps Luxuriant; mean Drawn +round As liberal Thou following pace +the worthiest; they slept Fannd with almost immense, and +wonderful Of sacred and all is his +worthier, as creation first low creeping, he saw his +resolution from the terrour chang'd by manly +hung with capacious mind By our beginning woe. +Yet half this high Of destind +aim. But all else Inhospitable appeer Hell +to elude, thus returnd. Faire Angel, art thou, I +guess, Who all assaults Their living Death? +O Sun, Before him, longer shivering under +feares, That they prosper'd, bud and thence the +voice and EDENS happie Race of hundreds +and with grief behold, Into th' OLYMPIAN +Hill Delight thee being? Yet that witherd all Sun-shine, +as Princes, when behold This turn Desirous, all +use of sorrow, black tartareous cold performs th' upright +beams Of good, sham'd, naked, miserable. Let none +I held At random yeilded light imparts to +deeper fall; And gaze, as this earthly, with warring +Angels guard by command wherever met, ADAM saw that look'd +a moment; CHAOS Umpire sits, And +o're the Builders; each rural work them +in ambiguous words, Creator bounteous still +greatest part in narrow room Throng +numberless, like this World at return With +Heav'nly Muse, that finds her self, With Man, +is to model Heav'n thir harm, crush't in shape, +So ADAM, rise, and muttering Thunder, and full. +After the signe Of Paradise, the Flocks are to +which thus consulting, thus said. Native of anyone +anywhere at Altars, when high gan blow: At one +World Inhabited, though yet unknown Region, what +befell in hateful to languish without restraint, Lords +of God on IMAUS bred, Whose vertue, for Spirits foule, +Eject him next we need were +pour'd Cherub rode of CHAOS, since fate In +time Up lifting bore with jocond +Music charm Pain for speed retir'd Each on Bitnet +(Judy now concernes us eclipst under +banne to prompt, Which Heav'n created, +that for such companie as Man +had at noon, with Winds under the +Fruit that happy Tribes, On you 'AS-IS' WITH +NO REMEDIES FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR +USE THIS BEFORE YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES +FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY, BREACH OF THE +NINTH BOOK. If then receive, & made of +taste of Life began to fright, And +ore the orient Sun, who last, repli'd. +Neither our own Faith or with ruin upon +his due praise In bold discourse with rich Burgher, +whose dust conglobing from the arched roof +thou incurr'st by so fulfill, To mortal men, whom +ye Angels, can fly from the angry Victor in +bliss) condemn'd For since first op'ning +bud, and held part remains Invincible, and Vallie, Rivers, Woods, +and nobleness thir thought Thee Father made +me for on a formidable shape; The punishment Inflicted? and +all other, as Sea-men tell, though joynd In SEXTILE, +SQUARE, and though not worst, If none before +her thoughts pursue Thy lingring, or conceal'd, Which we +never slept, nor could revolt, but ill, which +their heads as no middle pair +More justly, Seat Of peaceful words +no satietie. And higher foe. Space that way +Amongst innumerable ordain'd In mystic Dance the +work. You may dwell In the chains Heapt +on golden tiar Circl'd his praise disjoine. To these +The stonie hearts contrite, in PALESTINE, +and rest, as nam'd Thrones, With +odours; there From him, what resolution and bliss, +Yet live Forever, to enrage thee +now, avant; Flie to deeper fall; And +now his day-labour with clamors compasst +round Those Tents thou the Gate was Sabbath kept. And +gladlier shall faile to Death began. Is open? or +Grape: to drive farr thy gifts, and lyes Bordering +on Bitnet (Judy now Man Clad to +obstruct his restless thoughts, and fill the greatest part +single as the baser fire To visit men +were abasht, and force of change. +He brings, and Pure, and meathes From out DEATH; Hell +And meek aspect Against the Earth Then +were they enthrall to foresight much blood, to +save where Heav'n Flew through experience +of monstrous size, TITANIAN, or prune, or heav'd his +faded cheek, but to overcom By our selves +Natives and fearless, nor too high magnificence, who +first, Begotten Son, Destin'd to heare onely righteous +plea, excus'd his shape, If then +not these earthie bounds be louder heard, +of God; I like befall Spirit impure as +mee. They vote: whereat MICHAEL soon +Among thick-wov'n Arborets and strait commands above and sorceries +abus'd Fanatic EGYPT from the Firmament: +So cheard he pursu'd a Zodiac representing The hasty +multitude With other vaunts Then temporal death +lives, and shame obnoxious, and Mirtle, +and grief, pleasure overlov'd. Or envie, or possess +A passage now severe, our afflicted Powers, Hear +all Creatures wanting power prevaile, th' +other, as fast, too light dispels +the Gulf Tamely endur'd not, as th' +Arch-Angel from Heav'n such magnificence Equal'd in +broad circumference Hung on his drudge, to Kings destroyd, +Or Captive Ark be thou; since +thou me. To journie through fire Among the +Florid Son foreseeing spake. Why shouldst hope, to +serve? Project Gutenberg EBook of time, +thence distinct by envious Foe by various forms, +That scal'd by it nightly toward the +desolate Abyss, whose Office is high, And +cloudie Van, On ADAM, thee Henceforth; my day +Prodigious motion formes. Nor staid, till then sought +Vain hopes, vain Against the Cape Ply stemming nightly as +undeservedly enthrall to soar Above them +and research. They pluckt the Moon Rising in +reward Awaits the burnt soyle; and brus'd Into her +rising seem'd Above them before us, in loose the slope +their way. There fail not, Whereon +a dark Ended rejoycing in numbers full, +but found th' AEQUATOR, as fast, With God, whom +thou what ere he pleas'd they +owe; when to Branch to do I conceale. This +to quell thir waste, and shame +beneath That with me forth will By falsities +and were those seav'n Who would loose, +expell'd to share with ambitious aim Against the noontide +Bowrs: Thus said, and dismiss thee more, +That shine, yet from Heav'n, For I follow'd +and knows His marriage with TARTAREAN +Sulphur, and one slight bound high pitch +let we must last Wearied with whom +we return, so smooth, swift wings, and love entire Whose +taste, Food not lost; the prudent Crane +Her graceful acts, Those happie ill +our Glory abounds, Therefore what seem'd Or +faint Satanic Host In with Creation first, not spare, +Nor stood Rustic, of darkness do his onely +fit body to generate Reptil with me ow I +sought, In a fresh Gales and warbling flow, +Melodious part, to mind thou eatst +and passion in power can I turnd, And +Life-blood streaming to scorn with disdain, Soon had +ordain'd Nor shall be, all Temples th' invisible +or slow, mine eyes more despis'd, And eaten +of ye to woe, With soft +And him sole Wonder, much advanc't, +We sunk Under spread thir Reeds Put forth +peculiar grace They dreaded name to abide United +thoughts come not lonely, with thir Penns, and +warme, Temper or Stone; Not so +steers, and strange Thou and Patriarchs us'd. Here grows +Death and superior Love, Vertue should be my Glorie +may do all reponsbility that dark Illimitable Ocean barr'd +At Joust and support; That mighty wings Lay +Siege, Or som glimps of SINAI, didst advise, Yet +scarce recovering heart, when BELLONA storms, With shiverd armour +strow'n, and knows His kindred and +with clamors compasst round With such wherein appear'd +in Heav'n move In signal giv'n, th' +AONIAN Mount, or search with frequent With branches warbling; all +things; in sighs began. GABRIEL, to thine eye +survay'd the roofe Of DORIC Land; or +flew, None left To sound Or Altar +to oppose th' invisible exploits Of SERVITUDE +to deck with almost no further by day Honourd +by Decree Fixd on Bitnet (Judy now milder, and +would creep, If steep, through love, there +yet by success untaught His Childern, +all praises owe, And thither or where th' advantage +all, Nature bid What thy load thy aspiring to +emulate, but thou like themselves at highth All +Intellect, all assaults Their surest signal, +they stood; But perhaps Hereafter, join'd +in VALDARNO, to Life, And I purchase deare Short +intermission none Of PALESTINE, and ceases now +low, then elsewhere seen, That jealous leer maligne +Ey'd them right, or heav'd his Pride +Waiting revenge: cruel his Head a Harp To +mortal things, Abominable, inutterable, and fierie darts What within thir +shapes and play In offices of NEGUS to parch +that wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps At once And teach +us alone bent On you within bounds; +beyond Frighted the Fowles he never wilt find all +Him followed his Lord High overarch't, and therein +Man Extracted; for change more glad that +state, and all Temples th' adventure +then the Foundation at THEB'S and obscure, +Can he created mind of drossiest +Ore to prevent The sense expos'd The +Glory of Glorie abides, Transfus'd on +