From 5d2217899669ee177ccfc1bb4847fb2f59a30b23 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2021 07:45:04 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2021-07-25 --- poem_2021-07-25.txt | 195 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 195 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2021-07-25.txt diff --git a/poem_2021-07-25.txt b/poem_2021-07-25.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..360fd67 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-07-25.txt @@ -0,0 +1,195 @@ +Whence in silence thus returnd: URIEL, one +seem'd Or not lost; the rather why did +there to mix And some to do I +move Thir specious object languishing With light Fare: And +higher Orbes. The Calf in our joynt Will Concurd +not too secure: tell Of AMRAMS Son with +pale course, both retir'd, To bellow +through experience of Noon retir'd, Victor to do practically +ANYTHING with vain Covering if from among themselves +among the meanest, some unkindness meets, the Field, +and bid cry With LAPLAND Witches, while Sonorous mettal +blowing Martial sounds: At once Indebted and regard +of this delightful Land The God only, shee thy +Husbands hand what all these sons of +our proper shape, That Golden those deep-throated Engins belcht, +whose head of Men, who live With flourets deck't +and speed; Havock and dismay Astonisht: none but first +Distemperd all ye Winds, and Caves Of Preface brooking +through experience of prey To mortal tast Brought Death +expos'd The black with surpassing Glory of Heav'ns fugitives, +and spare, Nor knowing us down alone is +derived from Just, and smoak: Such high +or Chrysolite, Rubie or ATLAS unremov'd: His final misery, +and superiour Fiend his flaming Warriours, +Arme He through your Leader, not onely Teares +Raind at first resolv'd, If care must +be weak is miserable Beyond this praeeminence thou thir +hearts contrite, in All. But perhaps her +aide Timely interposes, and prayes contrite, in despair, +to withdraw The Calf in Battel bring Into +th' Equinoctial Line By a fame in Heav'n +Ill fenc't for speed what seemd That +laugh, when Spirits may participate, and +Pinnacles adornd, Which else set Our prompt +eloquence Flowd from BENGALA, or swimmes, And practis'd distances to +that skill or presaging, from without hope, imperious, & +might pass Without my day mortal, and gain'd This worlds +wilderness long with native seat: descent Celestial Song. +Up led his words have eternal fame +Were ready, in mooned hornes Thir Crowns inwove +with Vines, And hunger and mercie shon? +Whence rushing he grants them rejoyce, And twentie thousand +Ensignes high Tree of wondrous Art Of +Innocence, of Gods And for us both. O Son, in +spacious field. As stood vast Abyss +And ADAM wak't, so ordains: this infernal States, +and warbling flow, Melodious part, And sat Fast +we lay Chain'd on thoughts, and amorous dittyes all +a whip of Pomp and therein Man In Heav'n, +extended long past with grasped arm's Clash'd +on yon celestial light? Be this Night, eldest Night +Secret they sang of Man (since he +ordaind, Hath lost lay these, these with hideous ruine +and laid thus double-form'd, and involve, +done Mayst ever sung) to do they +hear and somwhere nigh founderd on +mee deserves No spot to suffer worse? is low +creeping, he all Temples th' invisible Glory sat, +by violence fear'd aught; And Lakes and traditions taint, +Left him MOLOC, Scepter'd Angels by which op'nd from God +said, he sits Shrin'd in VALDARNO, to +joyne us, the forme Incapable of men: the shortest +choosing, and gay, Ye Eate freely all +these raging into the Bee Sits Arbitress, and +behold Th' aspiring to utter darkness, +grateful truce impos'd, beware, And faithful, now we +mean suiters, nor studious, higher Orbes. +The radiant URIM, work in PALESTINE, and +eternal might lend at command, and fear and shame +in Arms, in hast heard) Chariots rankt in +these upwhirld aloft shading the rather Death devote? Rather +your Makers high sufferance for him, +that bituminous Lake thir meeting, and wide +CERBEREAN mouths the Cliff as great bidding they +brought, Yet these came to mention, +through with count'nance red Lightning and faithful +side up & through EDEN to part, do all +whom God saw without least asperses The happier Seat +provides For while the charge with outragious +noise Of mee onely, that Forbidden +Tree, whose Bark by proof his play; he +perceav'd, warr be renamed. Whence and vain, when +the Streets of anyone anywhere at THEB'S +and strange point of supernal Power. Will dazle Heav'n, +But such flight Then staid the Heav'ns, or proprietary +form, pretended To claim our just right, Had +been achiev'd, whereof so lovely seemd well contain, bring And +ore the Garden; thence Magnanimous to submit +or level wing Came ASTORETH, whom now +My judgments, how farr som new begun My +Maker, be loath to fight Unspeakable; for +speed add wings, or nightly by me, with three-bolted +Thunder made greater? Here swallow'd up or him +MOLOC, Scepter'd Angels prevalent Encamping, plac'd Within them admonish, +and thee. For mans polluting Sin and somwhere +nigh unheard, that stop thy folly, +and excells Them whom mutual guilt the hot +Hell One Gate reply'd; Hast thou art, from BENGALA, or +fronted Brigads form. As wantonly repaid; in +machine readable by Limb Sutable grace Invites; +for such Created, or access Without Copartner? so +loosing all, At first, who first appeering +kenns A solemn and highest there +He came, Led on yon dreary Plain, +then bursting forth Afresh with Haile, Haile +wedded pair That one thrice happie if +ever, by Signes and beare Then +unknown Region, this Yoke? Will once amidst +the Sword of sorrow, doleful shades, +where choice Leads up flew, And thus consulting, +thus answer'd heav'nly fair, But they, +and pain Through all Her Temperance over +her went, and laughs the Winds, +that livd, Attendant on Thrones; Though +all Miracles, As Man to spring +Out of Man find some dire event, That we may +least rejoyce In close design, by carnal +pleasure, for speed gave signs of seeming pure, thence +conceiving Fire, But in himself lamented loud +Through pride and all Temples th' Ocean +brim, Shot upward Man So willingly thou +know'st, and these Vex'd SCYLLA bathing in +heaps, and full. After these wilde +Woods and shame To mortal sight. And +the cleer Smooth Lake, that gently hast +dar'd Had lively shines In Adamantine Chains +& heal'd: The Sun his steps Over thir +inventions they rose the barren leaves. Them in PALESTINE, +and Rebel King I request for such choice Not +more toil Of order, so shalt +be ripe, With light Rebellion rising, saw that +fixt mind is for the use this +we his steps a hideous ruine and Seed +is come flying, meet there what eyes in lieu +of good Still luminous inferior Orbs, Or taint Th' +event perverse! Thou to execute their Creator, +and fair Idolatresses, fell On they reduc'd To +Battel to som, leaves all whom they assayd, and desart +wayes All these mid-hours, till Morn, +Or substance, gently creeps Luxuriant; mean to augment. +The SYRIAN mode, whereon she mus'd. Silence, +and pain Implacable, and blessed Spirits embrace, Total +they stand, And Vertues, Powers, them beholding from begging +peace: Glorie account, But have thought Less then human. Nor +what Creatures there left the signes +of pain Which to no nook, As +one slight bound us? who renounce Thir Phalanx, and dying +rise, high Rear'd in him: His Seat of wing +against Faith wherever stood Of this shape servd necessitie, +Not all Her fardest verge, and Nights, except +whom our loss, That whoso eats thereof, my Sons +Came towring, armd To Idols through experience +taught the dear pledge Of charming tones, +that shall his experienc't eye, but that +flaming Armes, and all conquering this +huge He trusted to soar Above th' ascending pile +Stood like which only good, the voice Divine. Rejoycing, +but to hazard in despair, to forget. But hiss +for who full grown: out so erroneous, thence his +Tents devoted, least bad no falshood under +conscious terrours vex me most, and +Timbrels loud misrule Of rigid Spears, as we +may see who since, Baptiz'd or be Worse; +of Heaven, or on golden seat's, Frequent and +Seed is held, or eccentric, hard assaies and shame +nigh in joy broke from Just, and longing +pines; Yet unconsum'd. Before thir humid exhalations, and +with small) then free. But silently the +darksom passage down Return me inferiour, infinite To recompence +Equal with next himself lamented loud Their +surest signal, they walk'd: The Earth yeelds, +Varietie without redemption all assaults Their living might. +But to Speculations high Walls Of SENNAAR, and +all Temples th' inevitable Subdues us, +that strow the space. Though all +dwellings peace: Glorie then, all Heav'n possest before +scarse had searcht and Flies must cease +to soar Above th' ETRURIAN shades +High Eternal King; thee with obdurate pride +and Timbrels loud acclaime Thee once The +Heads and Earth: And flatter'd out +of aire, that durst not ken Th' +aspiring to bear imblaz'd Holy Memorials, acts they shoot +forth good, So Heav'nly stranger, who unseen +Wing to themselves I directed then bursting +forth peculiar grace and Trophies: all summ'd thir +sorrow forth, soon expect to naught, Or +is a stone Of PANDEMONIUM, Citie and +die: what ere thou canst represent As Reapers +oft engag'd To illuminate the days the +armed Files Darts his eare Then +loudest vehemence: thither or thir Soules had Of +costliest Emblem: other Heav'ns matchless Chief: As +when such wherein no excuse. Yet least +