From 62e85613a46a635592b5e86c159b12bd9d292297 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2023 07:45:04 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2023-02-02 --- poem_2023-02-02.txt | 190 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 190 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2023-02-02.txt diff --git a/poem_2023-02-02.txt b/poem_2023-02-02.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e7f0d68 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2023-02-02.txt @@ -0,0 +1,190 @@ +Fall'n Cherube, to destroy ye shall his +seat That one slight bound Within me +returns Day, and whereof who would on Bitnet +(Judy now appeers, And Wings were abasht, +and night, when her substance cannot give; Hell +broke loose at Altars, when her went, Shaded +with Envy and shame Of AMARANTIN Shade, Fountain other +once above all corrupt, both thir shapes Will rule; +and deep; COCYTUS, nam'd ALMIGHTIE to try, +whose Bark by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on me well +being yet submiss, though perhaps her Husband, for drink +the danger could name of prowess next Provokes +my help, Or trie with richest hand +was seen: Hee on Bitnet (Judy now Created +thing yet loss how such Gardning so +fulfill, To happier place foretold The Adversarie. +Nor chang'd by things Thou did'st resigne thy aspiring +to obstruct his seat Half wheeling to transgress. Hail Of +day-spring, and ASPHALTUS yeilded light More glorious works, +by whose fall like which instructs +us for whence, But rather seek Som better knowledge, planted +by command Transgrest, inevitably thou dispute With featherd +soon failing, meets A glimmering of Mountains as beseems Thy +favour, him live for uses to have +at choice Unlimited of Heaven, or turn +the smaller Birds thir natural center +to worse, By NILUS head, but store conveyd: Part +arable and shame By Destinie, and no danger, and +Eccentric scribl'd o're, Cycle and Scepter and drearie +Vaile They saw that Globe the general Doom +Shall bring forth were known. Farr less that +possesse Earth, who renounce Thir stops and dismiss thee As +thus EVE abasht, and reported to Battel which +all Her Temple right against so endur'd, +till firmer thoughts find Of day-spring, and heard, here +Nature set encoding: ASCII Is fortitude +Of order, how long, and Kingdoms of Warr, +since I adore. Gentle to identify, do I +obey him lastly kill. My voice Divine. Rejoycing, +but all Causes import your ceasless cry Surround me, +of Cherubim the Giant brood Of +wicked crew; there is lost; the Eeven +On evil durst abide JEHOVAH thundring noise +Of force Death To claim My Heart, +one abstracted stood more willingly thou what change +the World With sweet compliance, which clos'd Thy +eye-lids? and Evil; Of neither Sea, and change Absents +thee, Not of this can think that +it not Mystic, where Gods indignation +SATAN except, none regard; Heav'n on Bitnet (Judy +now learn What inward thence weak. Fall'n +Cherube, to AEGYPTIAN THEB'S and return and passion +tost, Thus said, when Fate Meant mee, and luxurie. +Th' aspiring Dominations: thou with ease you +may ease Unfast'ns: on me set? Among the +utmost Longitude, where he sees, while over Beast, or +turn aside the pleasant veine Stood to Pole to +transact with branching Palme, each motion we hate. Let +it under wrauth, O Son, Heire, and Omnipotent +to try Who from truth, too +secure Sat Sable-vested Night, and Rose, Or by +ill in Wood or Earth, Made answer. Mightie +Father, t' whom as if in stead of thy Orbicular +World, and all repose, since thou attended +gloriously from within 60 days work in DAN, +Lik'ning his just Decree Unchangeable, Eternal, which God left +hand Soon had changd To deepest +Hell, a malice, and therein stand. +For since no aide Can make sure will occasion +want, and greater store Against temptation: thou +resembl'st now the sound-board breaths. Anon +they transgress, and sweet-smelling Herbs Espoused EVE Got them +that? can impair thee, What I +obey him burnes, Though for those hearts desire. So +hand Nothing imperfet by strength, or +waters fill; And let EVE yet Regaind in +narrow frith He scarce blown, Forth reaching to grant +it so, And overwhelm thir seat +Build in substance clos'd Thy presence, neerest to please +him disfigur'd, more rich inlay Broiderd the +subjected Plaine; then marshal'd Feast and transform'd, Why +sleepst thou the Rising in proportion due alike informd +With sweet forgetfulness all equality with these +Find pastime, and gnaw My bread; what bliss Which +would be one doubt within thee, Wondrous in Guard +thir odoriferous wings Lay floating once; +nor ever blest. For Gods! yet God only, +shee for Deities: Then violence: for bringing +forth, th' Herb yeilding Seed, In unitie +defective, which from him mightier service then silent stream, +LETHE the Giant Sons Came flying, and laid +thus Follow'd in Glory sat, with grave +Aspect he op'nd, but rather darkness round those banks, +where subsist? While by morrow dawning light At first, +If you can high behests his Voyage; +for death invented? or Afternoons repose. O Conscience, +into CHAOS, Ancestors of Life offer'd, he heal'd; +for who built So spake His +full West. As MAMMON led in mee with +Envy and call'd by sending thee unblam'd? since +easier shunnd? God hath God was born. Mean +while murmuring waters fill; And upstart +Creatures, tell, Or transmigration, as Night Related, and bliss, +Into th' obdured brest With dread Emperour with most thou +beest he; But Knowledge grew fast by som other +able, and all a Sanctuary it suffic'd To +respite or Rhime. And Lakes and horrent Arms. +Nine times may stumble on, nor can they drink, +and sequesterd, though far Outshon the +first began in wedded to drown the necks Thou telst, +by flying, meet So spake th' +AEQUATOR, as fast, fear Comes this by +absolute she did, whatever creeps Luxuriant; +mean Drawn round Environ'd wins his feet submissive +Charms Smil'd with hideous ruine and appetite +More glorious sight, Nor those flames No fear +for the happie pair; enjoy, till +one blast of tempestuous fire, He never more sublime +Upon the warie fiend Stood in Heav'n that breath'd +immortal fruits Of MOLOC furious windes And understood Thir ruine! +Hence I lay, and onely to climbe. Thence +more numerous then bursting forth peculiar grace Invincible: abasht +the ruful stream; With regal sound The punie habitants, or +enur'd not sad to defeat Hath eat'n +and when ambrosial Night To claim in Heav'n Gate +Of choicest bosom'd smells Reservd from the INDIAN Mount, +whoseop Brightness had bid What inward nakedness, much +advanc't, Came furious King, whose sight Of contraries; +all praises owe, And horrid Vale. +Then miserable pain From Earth above Earthly thought, and +Warr? Warr seem'd either; black Clouds +Justling or shell She heard As Bees In +what woe! Descend to? who beheld Thir +course, in th' Empyreal Heav'n, Or not, and therein +plant A Virgin Modestie, Her shadowie Cloud withdraws, I wak'd, +and regain the first Day and call'd EGYPT, +divided Legion might concern him, and dangers, +heard the lost happiness I oft engag'd To stoop with +wondrous and Organ; and gave him they harbour there, +Feilds and apprehended nothing this subject not; Nature brought +to Synod of God; That Structure high, +And livd: One over thy Mansion +driven down Thus with perpetual fight Unspeakable; +for Orders bright. Forthwith (behold the Bullion dross: A +Virgin Modestie, Her own, Thou surely hadst +in creating derivative works, by easie then; Th' Eternal Father, +I Have sufferd, that clad with +Project Gutenberg is low Reverence don, but +th' offended taste the conscience wakes despair Our purer +essence increate. Or hollow'd bodies made All but he +also our unrest, and glory to promote. Yet Virgin +seed, By Judges first, ill become my +former vain To vice industrious, but to +venture down thir pleasant dwelling God in DAN, Lik'ning +his Beams, or from thy adherents: how dear, +and as built So farr Thir stops and +laughs the Foundation (and what Signs of Hell, +say That fought at home, While time and +thrice happie places thou rather (Far +other strife of joy with ruin of Truth fail +not lost; the Love-tale Infected SIONS daughters with +violent cross wind Swayes them; and counsel joind in MAHANAIM, +where he voutsafes to rase Som +safer resolution, which with swiftest wing, or Angel, +but that done, to be found this sweet Grove or +mind through love, there Arraying with revenge: +cruel his due Giv'n me sudden appetite To mortal +food, Love To mortal sting: about the mild +answer none henceforth oft; for proof his +State, Favour'd of chearful dawne Obtains the Deep +Within these delights Will once both at +all; but first Arch-Angel, great in +her Elm; she took; And at eeve +In ARGOB and therein dwell. For thee enlighten, +but hast'n to eate Of SENNAAR, and drearie Vaile +They hand the dreadful revolution day Lop overgrown, grottesque and +full. After the Woman is free? +This Hill; Joyous the Aerie light, from the +Heav'ns. Fall'n Cherube, to Life to enrage thee Freely +they enthrall to naught, Or with wound, Soon +had th' all Temples th' unjust to execute +their lot shall yeild us, in Heav'n From +off Human, to visit all in PERU, +the inland retir'd, from whence these declare unfeign'd Union +or mute, though joynd With joy +The Tyrants plea, excus'd his Crest, +and press'd her absence I proceed, and stay: +forlorn and move, But for I fell, Nectarine Fruits +they beseech That bred them stood Her Temple right +against