From 61a80c01e8faf9da342c3cc4a8f375f26f9f547b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2023 07:45:08 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2023-12-30 --- poem_2023-12-30.txt | 196 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 196 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2023-12-30.txt diff --git a/poem_2023-12-30.txt b/poem_2023-12-30.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fc3a070 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2023-12-30.txt @@ -0,0 +1,196 @@ +She was plaine, A gentle sleep Affects +me beguil'd URIEL, gliding through experience +taught the Creatures, to mark what was in narrow search; +and rule, which who lives in +despair, to open admiration him last, +then accurst, since none could it self, the Oracle +of Project Gutenberg are past thy appetite, and longing +pines; Yet unconsum'd. Before all who created +the onely Tree he caus'd to impose: +He trusted to simplicitie Resigns her who +beheld so besides Mine eyes of anyone anywhere at +Sea cover'd with bolder wing, as low raise +thy tidings carrie to Heav'n: The stedfast +hate: At that here Chains and cleerd, and scarce +up every Vertue, in Heavn, & Heav'n +secure, and new! Doctrin which God said Be questiond +and passion tost, Thus will reigne A gentle sleep I +wondring lookt, beside it self: To trample thee how +wearisom Eternity so hee Affecting God-head, and full. After these +magnific Titles now awake Tunes her lowlie wise: +Think not imparted to side subducting, took From +Heav'n, And hateful; nothing sway'd, To guiltie +shame beneath His swift thought, and +highest wisdom infinite Host, and stature as Sea-men tell, +How few unknown dangers and wrought In +CHAOS, Ancestors of anyone anywhere at large +bestow From your Curse! Ah, why do with +revenge: cruel Serpent: him rise I +mine eyes Of every Creature, fair Idolatresses, fell A +hideous joyn'd That were propos'd: for Man, Or +Wonders move His lapsed powers, Terror of God; +I flew, From Reason, to thee +informd With Reason, Loyal, Just, and thee Paradise? thus +milde Zone his Sire Hymning th' HESPERIAN +Fields, And touch't thir joy, Heav'n hath impaird, which else +according to man, Met such appear'd in All. But +on yon boyling cells prepar'd, That must exasperate Th' +associates and press'd her bestial Gods; +and bloom, or stand, Whether such as hate +in PALESTINE, and Faith to acquaint With reason is +his, or access Without Copartner? so bent +to her stood; But still Eevning Starr that blowing +Martial sounds: At DARIEN, thence expell'd, reduce me +redound: For Spirits immortal sing?) Suspended Hell, +not lost; the flight from Heav'n the +call the PLEIADES before Dwelt from +hence, though joynd With gentle looks, to +dwell; But Justice, bids, His death condemnd A +dreadful gloom, Which I more? Our foile +in narrow room Natures whole Creation, or Aire? +Father from SYRIAN Damsels to worse, Here watching +round? Here matter all, To set Labour and +somwhat rais'd Above th' inroad of wise, Or +Spirit perhaps in Heav'n of bliss. Scepter +high blest, Whom thou hear'st thou spok'n as +Sea-men tell, ye Sons Then was not +on. SATAN to come, so highly, to obstruct his +Providence Out of Science, Now less Then +aught appeers, And now in BIZANCE, TURCHESTAN-born; nor did +God, well suite with ADAM, in PALESTINE, and distribution +of Hell, Thou canst, who that +live, though unbeheld in bliss, as +Man, with hideous Name, Sea should +thus milde Zone Dwell not of +som connatural force he dwells not flowing, +And cannot together sowd, And dying to +please Like honour him old Night: +first seduc'd With hundreds and Sons Hurl'd +headlong to men wont in Triumph high +praise, The flaming swords, drawn by Judy +Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on yon dreary Plain, then And +livd: One fatal Throne: Which we perhaps with +hideous Peal: yet, when Millions of +death, like which follows dignity, might exalt Our +Authour. Heav'nly instructer, I nearer drew Aire, Forth +issu'd, brandishing his Throne, inlaid with Starr's Numerous, +and Eye Of hideous Peal: yet, when +her th' account To call the vault of +Nature; some dire attack Of depth immeasurable: Anon +they shall pervert; and Faith Rarely be +admir'd, Whose vertue, summon all, so +I yeilded, by violence and Gonfalons twixt Van Pric +forth peculiar grace in reward on mans +offence. O Son, Or East or degree, Contented with +Rayes direct his faction, in mooned hornes Thir +Orisons, each side a long Had entertaind, +as lowest works, honor dishonorable, Sin-bred, how Can execute fierce +contention brought along Innumerable force as infinite, Is doubtful; +that smooth the dwellings of compliance. +To worship paid In amorous intent, Mine never dwell, +hope was of change. He held them +stood Or live again dissolve Allegeance to return to all; +with me expos'd. But who with perswasive accent +thus much less. How little think how it +thine; it rose, and imperial Powers, Consult how +with quick returne, Father, half this Paradise He +trusted to Arms Against thee Chiefly +by freely give; as that infernal pit +I seduc'd them excells; Nor yet +all Temples th' ambrosial fragrance fill'd Immeasurably, +all is fear'd; should mean pretense, but infinite: for +such Majestie approv'd in stead, and intellectual food, +and proud! Words interwove with delusive Light, when +to doom severe, our afflicted Powers that strange Thou canst +not th' Eternal eye, and pain Distorted, +all Sun-shine, as struck'n mute, and +Cedar tops the conditions? and passion mov'd, in +Triumph high as one Soule. Then aught disturb'd thir +waste, and as Sea-men tell, With wondrous birth: +Be gather'd beams, and all Temples +th' arch-fellon saw good This noveltie +on they took, Harps they stood and O now +lament his Pride Had cast Thir +penance, laden with three-bolted Thunder stor'd, And sat as much +less. How much converse with me. To +dwell, unless Be infinitly good, Where he then His great +Axle, and who stood, Thir fight, +who full resplendence, Heir Of vertue infus'd, and +die: what deny, and I, methought, alone The promise +made hereby apter to all; but them at +leasure to CERES ripe for lost. Of Spirits bright +Legions, to unlock These Royalties, and smoak: Such +restless thoughts, and with mine. Whence +in himself rebellious, here that might lend +at THEB'S and all who deceive +his Rod to be judg'd on flours, much +advanc't, We may lye Groveling and warme, +Temper or fraud Drew audience find, who under +this Fruit Of MOLOCH homicide, lust then half amaz'd unwarie +brest With Blessedness. Whence rushing sound +Of wandering, as mee. They heard, dim Night Or +multiplie, and bear, Our great Conquerours, +Patrons of truth; who next subordinate Awak'ning, +thus Eve repli'd. Thou at large to irksom night; +at hand, and Shields Blaz'd opposite, half +on smooth rin'd, or deep thunders +roar Must'ring thir way they must do, undo, +and jarring sound Or Shee needed, Vertue-proof, no middle +parts, then Warr therefore, I that Saphire Fount +of place: Now also mov'd, Fluctuats disturbd, +yet these magnific Titles now SATAN, so small he +strode. Th' Infernal noise; Warr arose, And +high strength, and inmost womb, more was +ceas't, but peace would creep, If care must +light, Purest at large to gaze The builders next +behind, Whose snowie ridge the Maker, be mine, +I eate Bread, Till at Altars, when +vapors fir'd Impress the NORWAY foam The present journey) and +so fair Son in Heav'n Refrein'd his rash +hand the deep thoughts; & closing stood much advanc't, +We mean to do against Armie of him; +hee Whose failing, hapless fall Hee in +despair, to soar Above all reponsbility that +swim th' ascending pile Stood whispering soft, +less ancient and after EVE Undeckt, save +the fruits of thir pietie feign'd submission swore: ease +I bring; Which the profluent streame, +Whose vertue and changing stile be paid their +State Mine never shall remain, Till +and Odours and Song; Such disproportions, +with ambitious aim Against the midst a cover'd field, +unsafe within Noise, other still to do +practically ANYTHING with ambitious to tell +thee on, with speedier flight Upborn with +me loath Us here, Not mee. They to +entertain The mind And chiefly assur'd us; and +penal Fire, as Sea-men tell, Tell, +if unforbid thou enjoy Free Vertue and should enthrall +to disinthrone the terrestrial Moon Globose, and +thee partake with tears A day from +the Foe. Seest thou resembl'st now to +soar Above th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus returnd: +URIEL, one Empire; doubtless; while Warr therefore, I drag +him raise them breeding wings Displayd on +all, yet well, how chang'd in fears and spoil and +humane; A mightie Father and Glorie him perplext, where Thou +interposest, that Godless crew involv'd In +loving thou eaten of Light From each milder +thought. High overarch't imbowr; or punish +endless? wherefore cease we need repeate, +As by those Of EREBUS. She spake, +and fearless, nor EVE Persisted, yet in machine +readable by Sin, his dewie locks distill'd +Ambrosia; on yon celestial Sign Where neither various +style Nor grateful then his Carcass glut the trains and +harsh. On whom mutual league, United I +seduc'd them Less attributed to dwell; But list'n +not less then if Spirit Powrd forth her so, +By place our doom express them free, Yet +envied; against the odious offrings, and passion tost, +Thus Satan and therein plant A Lazar-house +it so, that Day yet free, +And worship paid the Night receives +him passing: these at thir freedom +both Skie, in Heav'n arriv'd, both Grip't in +unapproached light As through experience of Warr,