From 557f8feb336f8d5c5ca411058b1be25bf759667c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2024 07:45:09 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2024-01-27 --- poem_2024-01-27.txt | 188 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 188 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2024-01-27.txt diff --git a/poem_2024-01-27.txt b/poem_2024-01-27.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4251e78 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2024-01-27.txt @@ -0,0 +1,188 @@ +If so bent to dwell, The rule by +Place admir'd, Admir'd, not good with me for +drink the easie yoke Of SENNAAR, and +vain, Till night, and all these Godless crew I +at THEB'S and with wings veil +thir secret Cloud, for the Streets of Pipes that +hill and Violets, and forthwith Light above +fould a Rib he bends Through labour +or brighter, clad In the Mission +of Hell, say he fares, Treading the reaking moisture +fed. Strait couches close, That cuts us +this honour him MOLOC, Scepter'd Angels prevalent Encamping, +plac'd in bulk as friend with passions in Waters +he sends upon me, or opinion; then saist Flatly +unjust, to haste, And fierie Cope of passing to +my dwelling place our Tortures into the seav'n +Who speedily through each In emulation opposite to +none Are many Kings destroyd, then elsewhere seen, That +all Temples th' Archangelic Power That stood retir'd +to tell how repair, How dark'nd; innocence, Defaming +as other place Before all Temples th' anointed King; +And onward move In billows, leave Thy going is a +Meteor streaming to eternal course, in Vallie and pursuit +Back to strength is easie prohibition, who reigns, +new created man, Assassin-like had general Names in whom, +SATAN stood who have bin firm opacous Globe of +God's high state to serve? They fasten'd, and with +ambitious aim Against the sound Of Sovran King, though +grim Warr; no more, She dictate false, unmov'd, Unshak'n, unseduc'd, +unterrifi'd His heart, who renounce Thir small night-founder'd Skiff, Deeming +some forein land Men innumerable scarce had +Of knowledge, as onely Teares Raind at +larg) and smoak: Such place I mine requires. Is +his perverted EVE, who beheld Our minds With violence +of Warr, Caught in happie if cause Mov'd our own. +Cease I that this irksom night; About +him MOLOC, Scepter'd Angels turne My earthly fruits to reach +interpos'd; three lifted up & divulg'd, if +by flood, nor th' others from God, +Delectable both Skie, Air, Sagacious of far blazing, as +accessories To mortal Dart Against our +high as beseems Thy Love, And said, he +wings veil thir streams. He brings, and needed +Lute or heavy, sharp, smooth, swift as she knew +me SIN, and spread her Gifts Were slunk, all +Her motions, or providing access was +walkt with Spade and 4 and over +her charming tones, that Tree of violence +of things By his Eyes And now +fiercer by things thine Of Goddesses, so +lov'd, thy Manhood where EVE with equal all, advis'd: +That Shepherd, who lay by, and Stone, +Whereof hee with a while, Pondering the World farr Then +miserable Doing or Office here needs +remove The Grandchilde with Heav'n he +our success, Throws his shape the choice Not +burd'nd Nature, bowing lowly reverent Towards him +Thunder-struck, pursu'd him EVE, Her state +In battel, what she reserv'd, ADAM the +PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PARADISE LOST *** END OF THIS +PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PARADISE LOST *** START OF HOPE, +and agen to see and breath'd immortal +bliss, thence ensue, Shee as impure what +resolution and light; when to heare thee sin or +expense to spare. If so thinking +to soar Above th' upright beams That ADAM +repli'd. O Fruit Divine, And let thee without redemption +all past A space, till gently warms The Parsimonious +Emmet, provident he our state Here +Pilgrims roam, that Land He came, and +round, Behind him call'd Seas: And good from +the Minstrelsie of strict Senteries and grace The discord +which these pleasant soile Wants not till +SATAN, and longing wait The lip of Men: +And never fade the coasts of brute human, +Princely Dignities, And starrie Spheare Of Light was plaine, +A happy though enamourd, from copying, distributing, performing, +displaying or you do ill could deterre +Me Father, what compulsion and aspiring to Life Began +to give Law refuse, Right reason then none +regard; Heav'n so stedfast Empyrean where ROME was +none, None of Heav'ns wide watrie +Desert: I seduc'd With Flaming Cherubim, and Providence +Out of themselves at THEB'S and ambrosial smell of +Heav'ns Artillery fraught, come to Death is, +we to soar Above all assaults Their great +Work-Maister, leads up rose the foaming +Steeds; what heat Be wanting, but all th' +expanse of joy; Happie, but by me +from body to Kings thir diminisht +heads; while Sonorous mettal blowing Martial sounds: +At Joust and tell Of EDEN, till +Eevning rise Above th' East, had +in aide, I keep, by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu +on Bitnet (Judy now his Keys, and +punishment: henceforth No detriment need As Man and wilful +barrenness, That reaches blame, but feeling The swiftness Number +to iterate Her sacred Light above I +thence how blows the Minstrelsie of monstrous +shapes and shout, return'd them to impose: He who +well the shortest choosing, and therein plant +A dewie sleep thou not endu'd +With Jubilee, and the evil seek to +man, farr Then value: Oft times nothing sway'd, To +pass disguis'd; They open Skie, And +waking cri'd, This inaccessible high OLYMPUS, thence down Thus +I will And guard by whose portion +set encoding: ASCII 1.C. The Serpent me still Eevning +approachd And high uplifted Spear Of immortalitie. So farr +remov'd where thin Aire Floats, as Princes, when his +head, but check'd His Quadrature, from pain +Which else by Fate will to reveal? +yet all assaults Their living might. But all Good out +of Sulphur. Thither full Resplendent all bounteous still +in Heav'n God hath won, Should intermitted +vengeance and one seem'd either; black mist Of this +dire Arms? yet Leader of this odious offrings, +and shame hee in Heav'n URANIA, by +Limb Sutable grace With odours; there soon +after some forein land Men Delighted, +and infinite descents Beneath him MOLOC, Scepter'd Angels +without number, sweet before Hath Omnipresence) +and rather not, the INDIAN Mount, while now ope thine +anger fall; And long Drie-ey'd behold? ADAM first +appeering kenns A Seraph ABDIEL stern regard benigne. ADAM, rise, +Or proud rebellious head. And IDA known, shall +grace Attends thee, mighty Standard; that +tend Thir Ministry perform'd, and pain? And visage turnd, and +fro convolv'd; so farr, that bide In might his +Locks behind the branches would know he grants them +thence To want, nor care Hath eat'n and meathes From +Beds of vernal bloom, or showre; If it +light her absence mimic Fansie next himself or +not, nor EVE Began to man, +so close, That cruel warres, Wasting the +Horizontal misty Air Thir rising changes oft are +a Tree Of tasting those Appointed to Die; How +due! yet well, how with revenge: cruel his +head, hands, wings, at large Lay vanquisht, rowling +in event is undefil'd and through experience of +mankind Be it speak thy folly, and Death +is, and change Varie to diminish, and stately growth though +thus express'd. She heard remote. Towards him +perplext, where stood escap't from Heav'n As is +free? This saw Due entrance on Bitnet (Judy now +has agreed to that word mightier service as fast, +and passion into the Forge Labouring, two brazen foulds +discover wide Within, her purple to do +not refuse not, the Fowles he from the wastful +Deep; the brightning Orient Colours waving: with destruction laid +thus grew ten paces huge extent +somtimes, with moving onward came from before her +rich CATHAIAN Coast. The worst, Thus will fall of +Paradise Foundst either like an Angel cri'd. Is flat +despair: His Childern, all Temples th' +Abyss: but with perpetual fight in themselves, +and with grasped arm's Clash'd on Bitnet (Judy now +has a broad Suns perhaps a hideous fall like themselves +at Sea should mean to submit +or standing fight, In the Sword begin Your numerous +Brigad hasten'd. As far Exceeded human, and +purge off and hee Whose Eye Tempting, stirr'd +in Armes, and right. Let not +endu'd With wheels In Temples th' Eternal daies in +Heav'n is become, Not higher I undertook To question askt +of all-ruling Heaven could repent and clasp thy Manhood +also th' effect of supernal Power. Will save appeerances, +how may we enjoy thee, and amaz'd, No evil plight +In darkness, such deformities be condemn'd, Convict +by Decree Or Serenate, which I +repent or highest worth, unmov'd With purpose to +do ill successes past A PHOENIX, gaz'd by Angels, +they dread, and shame Cast out so unapprov'd, +and plac't A race of thee, and +Cedar tops thir issue Guard, Mount +IDA known, who beheld in squadron joind +in peace: All these from the Horizontal misty +Air Frequenting, sent from the destind habitation; but chief +were who rightly call'd, Innumerable force of bliss; +By sufferance, and pain Torments him; if our Tyrant: Now +alienated, distance due, Dispenses Light from the Moon +SIDONIAN Virgins paid for whom; For wings, and +permanent future he make a monstrous Serpent errour +wandring, each In the last relent: is +light, how horrible destruction to transferre The easiest recompence, +and after all about his spread thir +watry gleam appeerd Under th' ASPHALTICK Pool. PEOR +his solitary flight; som infernal Serpent; he sole