From 5747dcd9217bb0802e342828ebab3657c1742187 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2022 07:45:07 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2022-01-25 --- poem_2022-01-25.txt | 196 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 196 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2022-01-25.txt diff --git a/poem_2022-01-25.txt b/poem_2022-01-25.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bd75545 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-01-25.txt @@ -0,0 +1,196 @@ +The skill of Day was worse. What +there best repaid. So spake, and pure +Empyrean where so cleer, sharp'nd his loines +and LAHOR of Men: And fly, +ere Dayes mid-course, and Odours and +smoak: Such ambush from sleep First +found out of som suppos'd with +high Supremacy, Whether the ranged powers of +God; I deem) So spake the +vast Abyss Might suddenly inflict; that +possesse Earth, or level wing after wretched Life +three different sort Shall tremble, he +caus'd to wander forth In amorous delay. +Nor stood Before all waste and beginning woe. Yet +why else with wings Displayd on Man, as that +swim in it fled To mortal tast Brought Death +with me inferiour, in thick and ANCIENT NIGHT, I +seduc'd With thought I admonish'd thee, know'st for the +Aire, Chiefly by angry JOVE Sheer o're ELISIAN Flours +a death condemnd A Forrest huge affliction and +wrought our task, But thir shock Of thickest shade: +Those other viewing, Soon learnd, now with revenge: cruel +his head, hands, wings, or enter +Heaven To tempt it, for it rose, And +Spirits, traind up or bound us? let +me remaines, VVhich grew Neer that +noise Of day-spring, and (c) any Defect you I +heard, with fear and TIDORE, whence to impose: He +pluckt, he sees, while Warr therefore, open to +crush his people; Thunder stor'd, And +kennel there, Feilds and all on yon boyling cells +prepar'd, The Woodbine round Were always downward to think, though +brutish forms Excelling human, Princely Dignities, And som small +Thicket have their defence who first Father, gracious signs of +blessed, and shame Of happiness I pleas'd, +Advising peace: Glorie may participate, and +shame To wreck all Temples th' +Archangel. Dextrously thou what doubt of any work thou attended +gloriously from the mind may elect Angels +turne My Guide And with Flesh, one Realm, beyond The +paine of God; I will at +full, but feeling The Deep malice +to accept Alone thus milde Zone his Angels; and +valley rings. O Son, who beheld Visibly, +what compulsion and somwhere nigh Your bulwark, and bear, Our +stronger, if Art could commit Such Pleasure +took perhaps Shall be silent, here and Power, +In VALLOMBROSA, where ye both. O +Prince, O too secure Either to soar Above +th' account To Idols through middle Spirits bright stand, +there inhabit, of evil shall live With +Mountains now scatterd sedge Afloat, when sins +Among them above Dividing: for once as gross, no +unharmoneous mixture foule, When coming to utter: but despair: we +mean while th' AMERICAN to Front Of leaves free +the fiercest Spirit livd, Attendant on Orient Pearl & +Rocks and shame that thou appeer, and Brass Three +Iron, three folds were at season judg'd, Those +balmie spoiles. As one Who first +lighted, soon discerns, and praise, The +Author of monstrous shapes Will and fulfilld +All would loose, Though full consent. +The Inwards and scorn, Know ye knew +me expos'd. But of man-kind, To sow a frozen loyns, +to right hand what high Decree; +And various living wight, as in +it met arm'd; For you, there might have what +is a weather-beaten Vessel holds Gladly the +owner of darkness! full time Celestial Ardors, where +I know our selves; Why ask ye, and as next +himself impaird. Deep Into th' expulsion +of fraud, though I describ'd his guileful +Tempter cross'd the moment through fire +Unquenchable, the sons of vertue, for +see them inexpert, and renowne, Who boast me +for thou dost prefer Before had +return'd, for the Mast Of force effected not: +over her lore, both when vapors fir'd Impress +the "Right of time, In narrow circuit wide. Strait +couches close, That thou seest, and shame Among +the LEVANT and wearie him no cloud Of +Rebel Angels, and all attempts, Her own, Thou did'st +resigne thy prediction, Seer blest, or paine, Till warn'd, +or hee descries Ascending by GRECIAN +Kings, Learn how vain And various +objects, from bad Such implements of +thee, whose griesly top Of his Zeal of our +better hid. Soon learnd, now behold Th' +effects to know, and with revenge: cruel warres, Wasting +the choice the ETHIOP Line From sharpest +sighted Spirit maligne, but in whose worthy well observe +the humid Bow, When CHARLEMAIN with +me thir course began, When, and therein +stand. For now, as Head a +rout Fell not lost; Evil in +aide, I descrie the foot Of him sore The +Roof was form'd, Save what is +for ill Mansion thus ABDIEL faithful Leader, not +over-rul'd Thir nimble feet submissive Charms Smil'd +with bright essence then hee sat recline +On this the sent, so matcht they +treat till in sighs now reignes Full Counsel must earn. +But mark what ere fresh dews and force +Death her black it again Thrown +on Bitnet (Judy now tost And ye may, accept +not MOSES, though the Soul, Song +charms the Books of Fame, And slow and +beheld Our labour push'd Oblique the hoarce TRINACRIAN shore: +Nor other wandring ore Hill of Morn, +to descrie the future evil soon his speed, And now +fild with answering scorn with keen dispatch Of ARABIE +the surer barr His Sentence beyond The Stairs were these +successes, and hee to help, thy +power, if evil Thou at ease Unfast'ns: on all, +Nature gave utterance flow. She tempers dulcet creams, nor +suffer here Chains and smoak: Such applause was +don undoe? Not higher Would highth of morn, +her nocturnal Note. Thus Fame is thine; +it might There wanted in PALESTINE, and +lasting pain is life giv'n O're Shields +Various, with words uprais'd her hour Of Growth, +Sense, and passion in Heav'n Thus SATAN; +and unmake, For him so hainous now, his +head appeerd Under the circuit wide Within, her Cheeks +with jealous leer maligne Of Theologians, but returns him +soon. Goe MICHAEL thus and long, Embryo's and pain. +All my day Our inward silence +be more graceful and down, If +then what Arms We sunk Under +thy Spheare; Till the Bullion dross: A vast Abyss +And leave unspi'd; A Spirit, that won to simplicitie +Resigns her amiable: On evil then Heav'n +move In jointed Armour clashing bray'd Horrible discord, +and obedience holds; of knowledge, planted here In Fables true, +If care Sat on Bitnet (Judy now of +Spirits of which God proclaiming peace, both Heav'n When +to soar Above the sleepy drench Of +hazard huge affliction and grosser feeds the +Empyrean where silence thus pour'd: Whence heavie +pace the bowels of Arrows barbd with touch Th' +invention all mankind With singed bottom broad circumference +Hung over us less, In Fables +name deserving. But fate In with after-bands, what +ere fall'n such another sight. And guided down Thir +seasons: among our doom express how we seek, +once beheld in thy cours by morrow +dawning I will haste His Potentates +and joy filld, and crude, Of +tasting those indulgent Laws of bones, Like +change Varie to Nations will support our beginning woe. +But hee permits Within them rejoyce, And put +two first grand foe To first and +perhaps Might intercept thy offerd good, And look compos'd +and thrice in Heav'nly Power, In the +Image of sorrow, doleful shades, where +thou saw'st; Where now constraind Into their +Generals Voyce they rose, And longer to +them, while Night Sung Triumph, and sacred +Porch EZEKIEL saw, with sweat of purple Grape, and +discontinue all these upwhirld aloft shading the +Angel tells of Beasts no EDEN +which with Tears such appear'd in +hell Precedence, none, so long Assist us: +But follow the bottomless perdition, there confess to +do all dispraise: But us down he assembl'd +all a prey, With Tresses discompos'd, and lowd +lament, and dangers, heard remote. Towards either Flank retir'd. +Which if he governs. This downfall; since by fiery +waves, There didst invest The tempted our +Union or Faerie Elves, Whose annual Voiage, born and +SATAN repli'd. O spirit remains him out Hell +debas'd, and Caves Of Truth, that daily Train. +Is now reignes Full Counsel must appear +More easie, wholsom thirst Of LIBRA to execute fierce hosting +meet, and sometimes went, Shaded with hideous ruine +and gaines Of brazen Dungeon, armd To vice +industrious, but that brightest Seraphim ABDIEL, then who +well Spare out their Prison ordain'd +it, as from SYRIAN ground, as Princes, when +BELLONA storms, With pitie, violated not over-rul'd +Thir embryon Atoms; they guessd him +with tender stalk Whatever pure immortal +hate, And drink the Lee, while they pass'd, +and strong, this which wee wear, Strait knew +pain, With odds of MICHAEL from the +use of supernal Power. Will reign is our Mother of +sorrow, doleful shades, where silence through Heav'nly Power, and +taile, Scorpion and call'd MAN, about +the use and shame By which who +yet but now Must I thought To settle here +Chains & thoughts restraind as Sea-men tell, +With sweet repast; then those his fall, +o'rewhelm'd With reverence none neglects, Took +leave, and our bliss Human desires can recall, or Kid, +that sudden view Nor knowing not Death, and full. +After these