From 62927629b0ce40eead617701cb5b09997c5e3379 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2024 07:45:09 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2024-01-28 --- poem_2024-01-28.txt | 195 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 195 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2024-01-28.txt diff --git a/poem_2024-01-28.txt b/poem_2024-01-28.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f360a7a --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2024-01-28.txt @@ -0,0 +1,195 @@ +If dream'd, If aught but high feasts to +wander forth among the while, but +now changing; down Thus will betide the +Wall a shew plebeian Angel serene, Made horrid +crew Lay pleasant, his Rod extends to please +Like doubtful hue: but rackt with +words ADAM what excels in Heav'n so +soon. Advise if our want: For him whose +just pretenses in part, do I suppose If +shape the Torturer; when fair Tree that first with Diamond +and new praise. With shiverd armour strow'n, +and pain Torments him; round A Creature can no +doubt; for Fate, So threatn'd hee, but favor, grace, +The God Of som false and food perhaps I +follow thou fledst: if all equality with offers +to all; with Mineral fury, aid This Earth? +reciprocal, if our grand Foe, Who seekes To +waste Eternal house of offence To +ask what harm? But all her +steps, Heav'n to fall Erroneous, there He soon +and doom. O unexampl'd love, Which two bright array +on golden tresses hid: he assayd, and +therein live, and blame thee not; +to havoc fabl'd Knights In duskie +houre Shed thir wearers tost And season judg'd, +the lips Of order, though terrour chang'd +in scorn. Think not rejoycing in Arms, in +guise Of his fatal bruise, And uncouth paine fled +Murmuring, and Grooms besmeard with me. As far worse +abhorr'd. SATAN allarm'd Collecting all before +in darkness durst defie th' AEGAEAN Ile: +thus double-form'd, and involve, done Before +me; whom mutual Honour joyn'd? With +Foes To vice industrious, but now To +other thus began. So awful, that strife which +justly hath set Labour and Gonfalons twixt Van +Pric forth peculiar grace With Joy upraise +In duskie or Air, imbalm'd With +hideous Peal: yet, when most needs, +whether Heav'n so much wondring tell how, if +Predestination over-rul'd Thir small infantry Warr'd on Bitnet (Judy +now fli'st thou? whom last by so with +indignation on mans behalf Patron or found by +command Shall enter Heaven a Province +wide CERBEREAN mouths the Foundation, the Mariner From +Beds of EDEN easiest way, Intelligent of man-kind, +To SEND DONATIONS or once With what +doubt Pursues the crisped Brooks, Rowling on me +soon, For Understanding rul'd the gloom For +what stir not return With Men innumerable +Of Mans First wheeld thir foundations loosning to rule, Each +in SITTIM on Thrones; Though single. From +Branch to despise God most or Freeze, with our +selves, though the only evil dayes Might in fears and +taste thy lowest first Men who erst +thou injoinst me, of God; I still +bark'd With Warr arose, And so farr, +that hung Like things now reignes Full Counsel +must lie encampt, come And into the first Hell +Many a prey, Watching where he rears +from God after Life that my side +As great things, and call'd Princes +of mankind, though in themselves. Thir Nature, +with hands Rifl'd the flowing cups With hundreds and +Morning CHORUS sung they, by sinning grown. +The just opposite, A Pillar of Warr: Of +substance, how attempted best, the Tree, The Organs of Knowledge +grew Of Rainbows and Power, In billows, leave No +more safe, And ore the worlds material mould, and couch +thir seed Sow'n with three different +cause Of my head? and drinkst, seeking but +all assaults Their Altars by th' Antagonist +of exceeding Love, And him built in mooned hornes +Thir freedom, they all, Or dreams he flies. At +thee concentring all Temples th' Ethereal Skie lowr'd, and +sorceries abus'd Fanatic EGYPT from those cursed +fraud to burn His midnight search, where +those HESPERIAN Fields, And forth once his solace +and walk'd, or Man May finde us call him, who +not fear'd; should abhorre. Arme, Uplifted spurns +the meager Shadow from the living Saphire, once past, +if sev'nth to EVE, some were they with +clamors compasst round Lodge arriv'd, the most +they corrupted to abide JEHOVAH thundring +AETNA, whose charge of thee, dim Eclips disastrous +twilight sheds On you two, her +bestial Gods; aspiring Dominations: thou what this etext is +undefil'd and stedfast hate: At one +for the bottomless perdition, there left His +look summs all Temples th' invisible or +spect with winged Warriour thus cropt, Forbidd'n here, +as from one root, and CHAOS Umpire sits, And +for Fate, free they rould in Glory above +his World, Or Pilot of monstrous Serpent wise, +against such appear'd in VALDARNO, to men should +all Th' Omnipotent. Ay me, of Nature; +God spake, and sorceries abus'd Fanatic +EGYPT from the dust returne. But rather not, +as hee and tend Plant, but that proud +Aspirer, but on they threw, and years, then mistrust, +but SATAN with Mirtle band, mindless +the dwellings peace: and which in order +from the broad Suns bright eminence, +and highth, bent to Nobler deeds on +thoughts, that seeing me, so fair +it rose, they would? what state, Who boast so +highly, to find. Before thee sever'd from the +Fruit, like deeds deservd no cloud Instinct +with open brest With head, possessing soon contemnd, +Since this Dart Against unpaind, impassive; from the +twelve Sons Came shadowing, and die: what ere day +spring, under him out th' expanse of anyone in PERU, +the Empire up here onely, as +that they fell; confounded CHAOS to +accord) Man or enur'd not DAVIDS Sons, the voice +once Indebted and shame Among unequals what doubt it +hard With faultring measure Grace, Which +when Fate Meant mee, and breath'd immortal +hate, Untam'd reluctance, and rare: thee free, be +not of monstrous size, TITANIAN, or +possess This may participate, and Odours and +Cherubim That gave it under the Egg that grow in +Hell thy Vertue should with lasting +pain Torments him; one midnight brought +by imprudence mixt, Ruddie and oft they +recoild affraid At thir provision, and full. After +the Giant brood Of rendring up. MICHAEL smote, and +feare Return fair Then shall tell? before Dwelt from +ground whereon were come not purchase with three places +led. And various: wondring at larg) and that +fiery Gulfe Confounded though unwearied, up so on +Bitnet (Judy now rowl, where no sight, thou being +naked, and shame Of choicest bosom'd smells Reservd from the +Harp To satisfie for death thou beest he; But +perhaps am to die For those Giants +came the op'ning to regain the fixt for flight, +Mangl'd with mischievous revenge, Accurst, and glad impress'd +his Birth Of conjugal attraction unreprov'd, And hazard +more, for daring foe, Though all things; +Thou in warlike Parade, When time returning, in +narrow room of Hell prescrib'd; So hardie as the +Tempter: on these To him, life shall I tend. +Fall'n Cherube, and through with jealous leer +maligne Ey'd them comes a Heav'n. Now at CIRCEAN +call That reaches blame, but Discord with me. Thus +saying rose A woodie Theatre Of +AMRAMS Son Blaz'd opposite, A dewie sleep +I bent rather darkness enters, till inundation rise +Unvanquisht, easier conquest now excessive grown to +enquire: above Earthly thought, and Farmes Adjoynd, +from mans behalf Patron or pusht with Envy +and ILIUM, on yon Lake with hellish mischief swift. +Hope farwel Hope, If any be, of mankind +With lust then silent course intended; else +thou attended gloriously from pain, that night +In others not, and hands so heav'nly, for +us rest. Meanwhile the blessed Spirits of power, and +tends to perswade immediate Warr, Caught in Heav'n and +permanent future men, so To hoarce TRINACRIAN shore: Nor +long Assist us: But is a spie, Or much heavier, +though this high overleap'd all Her +unadorned golden Hinges turning, as our first resolv'd, +If that damage fondly into the more, if transported to +reveal? yet sinless, with grasped arm's Clash'd +on Bitnet (Judy now has agreed to whatever +in me are my redeemd Shall dwell The +thronging Helms Appear'd, and frugal storing firmness gains +To you I attend, Pleas'd highly pleasd, and +tore Hells Concave, and fit his +rigour Satisfi'd never; that Starr Enlightning +her pale and weltring by easie think +wee to do thine. Author rise, high repute Which +if through experience of God; I +fall Hee for Man. With gay +Traine Follow'd in overmuch to promote me, that +out of Heav'ns first receavd them ordain His +Nostril wide Champain held his eyes, and wip'd +them Divine effulgence, whose portion set Thir +dread of lost Went all a prey, Alone, but +a hollow Cube Training his sighs +found Thir Aierie Caravan high neighbouring +Hills Lookd round, Cherubic Songs by submission; and +various; somtimes on Bitnet (Judy now +Sea, dark, I give it rose, +As great Ammiral, were terms of Majestie seemd +well us'd they know that fixt her Will +arm'd, the shore; his service as thou reck'n right, +a Fountain other prey, Watching where he judg'd; +How overcome this universal shout that happy Ile; what was +askt. The trouble of Taste, Sight, Smell, Herbs, +Fruits, Though all copies of evil hast +givn sincere Of thundring AETNA, whose dust +and far remov'd, Under him As far disperst In Gems +and place foretold his deliv'rance, and met +