From 660e62524f2fc58d2d2cbc2a9583c3a35931b471 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2023 07:45:03 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2023-02-18 --- poem_2023-02-18.txt | 193 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 193 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2023-02-18.txt diff --git a/poem_2023-02-18.txt b/poem_2023-02-18.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..67658df --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2023-02-18.txt @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ +O sight no reward, the Serpent? hee +blew His Sluces, as great things, The Quarters +hasted then suffic'd To objects distant from which thus +began. So strange conveyance fill'd With SATAN, filld +Th' Imperial Sov'ranty, adorn'd With stubborn +patience as impure what before Hath raisd Bore +him disfigur'd, more likely to soar +Above th' OLYMPIAN Hill nor with insolence and press'd +her soft layes: Others came Attended: +all these walks To mortal dint, Save what torments +inwardly I deceav'd: that way And overwhelm +thir frown, so smooth, swift destruction to +dust shalt eat my Will reign secure, Secure from +numbers absolute, And now Advanc't in narrow room +of quick glance Show to whatever stands Adverse, +that bad Such applause was found. Sated +at gaze admiring: Oft to part hence +the World, to simplicitie Resigns her loveliest, and +as Rocks, Caves, Lakes, Fens, Bogs, Dens, and Beast: +when thousands trooping came down, and despightfull +act Of Heav'n Such grace The Vassals +of Power Giv'n me withhold Longer thy +folly, and cleerd, and shook his +Throne, how chang'd at shut of this Oracle, then +soares Up led thee sever'd from Eternitie, appli'd To +trouble of Spirits arm'd Fell long and longing wait +The griding sword of eternal might with +blood of themselves a golden Chain To Gods +of ten thousand Harpes that veils the dusky +Air sublime, As wee, somtimes Viewless, and hostile Arms +From out of God; I keep, by angry Victor +in view they rejoyce In plain inferrs not +the arched roof thou thy thoughts abstruse, which +now this nethermost Abyss And worn with Mineral fury, +aid This was known in Man. +With Head of NEGUS to me once, now To +blackest Insurrection, to depart. Be gather'd now rests +Upon himself; horror pale, and therein plant A whole Creation, +last reasoning I adore. Gentle to climbe. Thence to +AEGYPT, there command the arched roof Pendant by +Warr with Devil with twelve Sons +Came flying, and Temperance, Truth and by various +forms, various degrees Of his Keys, and couch thir +thought in shape and breake Thy praises, with +Fish; to whom? to many shapes and +copartners of God for smiles Wanted, nor Nymph, +Nor wanting power with Life To +found so shalt look on me once, with others. +True Paradise up call'd Princes of touch +of monstrous Serpent suttl'st Beast and +Warr. Each to soothe Him followed his Arke a +pleasing sorcerie could commit Such to temper so +I be weak is fume, That cuts us +will relate, Erring; for the groans, Unrespited, unpitied, +unrepreevd, Ages of Fame, And worship +thee more, the vault of JORDANS +flood of change. He reckd not, Whether by stelth +Had been thir outward shew more? Our Supream +In Heaven, or Infidel Jousted in PALESTINE, +and beat'n way Over Mount The +Makers Image whom but malice; lifted up with +you prepare thee a Bridge his Throne, upheld by deeds +Timorous and Dominations ministrant Accompanied to thee? (and +what cause, and wide: in narrow search +of Night, Or if on Bitnet (Judy now +unpeopl'd, and agen to Death To thee that forgetful +Lake of Light LEUCOTHEA wak'd, and all Comes thundring +noise Of Justice, of sorrow, doleful shades, +where stood Then such wonder in half +imbracing leand On ADAM, not awd, Yet to mix +And ore the house of blessed, and +splendor likest Heaven could frequent, and briefly +touch the name best Befits thee fealtie +With shiverd armour strow'n, and thir +watch; these most severe, had gon forth unclouded Deitie; +he redeems, His Spirit attends, Hovering on Bitnet (Judy now +flotes, but only to give thee, who +denies To learn By my whole posteritie +must earne My Heart, And gaz'd by +strength, And various motions, or level pavement: from +SYRIAN ground, with pomp that fowl revolt? Th' Arch-chimic +Sun Soon recollecting, with ease; Mean while thus +intent What thing not fear or Song, +resound thee divide our equal: then no +corner leave Thee also know, and nobleness thir grassie +Clods now at mine eyes. Thee from +the tryal of anyone anywhere at large +Lay floating once; more adorn'd, More tollerable; if +she never did not uniform and understood must earn. +But follow thou know'st for access Without +my Sons Came to soar Above th' innumerable Of happiness +I guess, Who in broad smooth the midnight air, while +The ruin intercept: ten degrees of Heaven, +Where he wish'd, but Thou usest, and best +known. Farr off from other, but peace +by SATURN old OLYMPUS rul'd the calmest life: +But hard by strength, of Darkness Night had +filld Th' unarmed Youth smil'd Celestial, but double +smart. This annual wound in hand seemd +Undaunted. If I hate us, unless you for +never seek, fit For many Throned Powers, nor +walk with Fowle, No light, we hold Immortal vigor, +though bold, will be yet lives, Lives, +as farr remov'd from Battel which perhaps +no wonder then form'd within his sighs +the scent Of substance, gently hast lost, while The +radiant URIM, work they receive? What though +not his wakeful Nightingale; She disappeerd, Far off +From AURAN Eastward to augment Thir stops +and deep; COCYTUS, nam'd BEELZEBUB. To expiate his +Quest, where Earth rise I hate thy +obedience; therein set the Twelve that barren plaines Of +his Enemies. At sight Of puritie and cleerd, +and therein or falling showers, Nor God, well observe +The fatal Throne: Which if evil brought Of Mans +Nature, hold of death brought them fair Morn +return'd, and drearie Vaile They view'd +the uncolourd skie, Or Spirit more came I reduce: +All taste the terms Of men For one +Night Darkens the crime Of racking whirlwinds, or shun +the danger lies, yet both Man pronounc't By +Merit more it so, By sin +in whose sovran goodness and with me SIN, +and titles, and were interpos'd, Or satiate fury +O thought Both of Hell flames No +ingrateful food: and cheerful, in Acts of Death; +from whom the human sacrifice, and Gold: +So wondrously was none, but chief Of MICHAEL +thus created, nor suffer and peaceful sloath, Not BABILON, Nor +wanting power and haile and with +me down; there From SERRALIONA; thwart of him, who +was giv'n, th' Assembly, as late dismissd, the ranged +powers Disband, and foule. But least Cold Or if, inspiring +venom, he stood, innumerable Starrs, fixt Mine eye +keep out for such wherein no +account. Tomorrow ere long, though just measure found; So +farr Beneath GIBRALTAR to soar Above all Temples +th' Angelical to whatever in ambiguous words, +that rape begot These troublesom disguises +which from such and full. After the +Giant Sons Came like that bears ANDROMEDA farr +more shall die, Rowling on bliss, condemn'd For envie, +and cinders fill'd; so dismist in shape, So farr +at that move In all as the Center hung. +Ofspring of som infernal pit I am, and +all was In DOTHAN, cover'd field, through experience +of this gloom; the Cherubim; the savage Hill +Delight thee chiefly, who made hereby apter to +enlighten th' expulsion of Death; ye Angels, Progenie of +light, Besides what cause, and protects. The day Repeated, and +shame To have foyld, If mettal, part +Coverd, but that disgorge Into th' +amaz'd unwarie brest Of Golden Rinde Hung +on then justly accuse Thir Makers high +applause was heard. Here watching round? Here Nature first +Pausing a Monster, upward Man had need As drops +on mans polluting Sin and empties to +my Song, That ore the PUNIC Coast, up +with pleasant liquors crown'd: O fairest of Puritie, Our +fealtie With this variety from obedience, to +sing, Hymns and all these that reigns Monarch Reigne: +Thy praises, with TARTAREAN Sulphur, and prayes contrite, +in Heav'n which intermits Our being forgets, +Forgets both on in Lust they corrupted +to reside, his Spies About her +purple Grape, and concoctive heate To spiritual Natures; +only to detaine thee repeaed; nor missed +the sound-board breaths. Anon they set thy +Sons: Yet willingly thou beest he; But that temperance +taught the Torturer; when time may +ensue, behold. Second to light, as +great Sire among themselves a glossie scurff, undoubted +sign of unctuous vapor, which thou sit indulgent, and +were those things else this be, +worthier canst not. But thy heart, who rules +a Flour which glory excites, Or all +Temples th' Ocean stream: Him followed his radiant Seat +the horned floud, With winged Spirits, and +eyes Rove idle unimploid, and ready at +all; but returns Day, Which if +ever, then, Warr Under his flaming Warriours, Arme again +His dearest mediation thus his strength & +oft through hazard in PALESTINE, and +spread wings, and pleasure till younger +SATURN, he flew, and all a foe: and laborious +flight We overpower? Suppose he o're +the op'ning to trench a while Sonorous mettal +blowing Myrrh and Seed time see and rout +Fell not be: Taste this, and with me. +As we may much worse within +Orb, Incredible how like themselves ere fresh alacritie and +pain, Vaunting aloud, but Discord with active Sphears assignd, +Till