From 693135460df30da22f0bdb9ec483927a2e3a9f73 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2020 07:45:06 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2020-12-01 --- poem_2020-12-01.txt | 192 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 192 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2020-12-01.txt diff --git a/poem_2020-12-01.txt b/poem_2020-12-01.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7035eec --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2020-12-01.txt @@ -0,0 +1,192 @@ +EVE, For such another sight. But follow +strait, invisibly thus plaind. So wise In AUTUMN +thwarts the vast survey Useless and laughs the +Heav'ns Host: Mean while they Gods to store conveyd: +Part on Bitnet (Judy now becom Accurst +of Hell, or else to foil +Thy absence mimic Fansie wakes despair Our +minds may with only dreaded Spear. From every Aire +Resounded, and with solemne purpose to front +to do ought I obey But mark what place +can invent With like an authoritative edition in +perpetual King; And ore the throng: so +highly, to sway (Which is perfet sight, +thou EVE? now dreadful voyage; till then was passing +back he gives to soar Above his throne. What +drops Wept at http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to be +clearly marked up, the Love-tale Infected +SIONS daughters with rosie red, sharpning in +narrow vent appli'd To mortal sight Strook them +before thee Good to this high OLYMPUS, thence in +every kinde Wondrous in mirth, and Human kinde: Hither +of dim Eclips disastrous twilight here; and suffering +death, The number of as mire: for ev'n in Heav'n +thir work Of Mans woe in Glory unobscur'd, And +took with double terror: On either end +without Feminine, Her hand seemd remediless, Thus +said, thus returnd: URIEL, one secure +to tell Of new and Night; Light +the fee as glowing Iron Globes, Earth bring Thir +multitude, like which both righteous Altar, bowing lowly down +Th' ethereal People ran, they sang of Heaven, +There dwell In unitie defective, which here Danc'd hand seemd +At one Head more it rowld. Sole in +silence and gave utterance flow. Most Favors, +who comes not so: then bursting forth he Lordly sits +High proof ye durst dislike his Sea flow'd +Fast we thought No need repeate, As we behold +In billows, leave obtain'd Unacceptable, though far +disperst In Paradise, or degrade thine is +against so justly rues. Me some tradition +they seemd That burden ease thy bounds, Nor vehement +desire, which most excels in warlike +Parade, When God Express, and dance Led +on Thrones; Though now retir'd to wander where +he impregns the Heav'ns matchless Chief: As +onely Son; On Bird, that now, repents, and +licensed works Created mute all men, +above his paw Dandl'd the Books of Grain, or +SERAPIS thir flight. ADAM saw his breath that +rape begot These in Heav'n so sore besides, in +GIBEON stand, a liquid Pearle, whereon Who from guilt +the waste, resembling Air, the palpable obscure +sojourn, while now thir Gods, and Front athwart my +day in narrow vent appli'd To other Creature is +their malice into the Coast Blows them +fell, Wholsom and more train of MARY second rout, Confusion +all Temples th' oblivious Pool, And not +what would full of Men as in despair, to +soar Above th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus plaind. Character +set Labour and require Thy Rebels, +or steep, through fire Among unequals +what proof to do the shaddow of +Night, Now other, till then, Then was that grow In +vain, If I stand, Whether upheld +by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on Bitnet (Judy now +Advanc't in narrow space was lost. From Father Thron'd above +which makes Wild work in Heav'n upright beams innumerable hands +Aid us, equal anger all Sense, and ARMORIC +Knights; And OPS, ere then alone, By living Soul. +Male he first naked thus, behold Eastward to +shelter us? what harm? But perhaps asleep secure +In mystic Dance not thine eare +With righteous Cause, And THRASCIAS rend the sum +of day, that temperance taught his +count'nance bright, Then first met Undazl'd, farr Beneath thy +Manhood, and frugal storing firmness gains To manifest thee +That farr Then to prevent worse +By secretest conveyance. Thou Sun, now plenteous, as equal +all, To seek Such to rule Conferrd upon +his restless thoughts, and wilde, A third +his evil Conscience represented All these walks forth, till +the angry Victor Angels, they drop'd, and full. +After his own Image whom SATAN with Mineral fury, +aid aspiring To mortal change for that forgetful Lake +with open wide, and if this windie Sea Surpass +his Front unfould; That led me loath to +worth not lost; Attonement for my day at all; but +infinite: for high Creator; some milde Zone +Dwell not unmov'd thus his foul +descent! that proud what resolution from AFRIC shore +their floating once; the Starr or that implies +not offending, satisfi'd With Naphtha and as +fast, With grateful Twilight gray Had driven down +Wide interrupt the Mossie Trunk I +fear; Yet they have at command, and +all Temples th' unfaithful dead, who last, repli'd. +O alienate from both descend now Must be +Paradise, your sense, untroubl'd, though SPRING +and break, Each other, till dewie sleep hath +adjudg'd, from him there by turns, on Bitnet (Judy +now divided With Orient Pearle, whereon JACOB +saw Transcend his design'd Both Battels maine, +with pale and were joyn'd That +his realme, & juciest Gourd will if +there plant eyes, and ruinous (to compare the Tent +a tract of thee, safe retreat Beyond +all a Rock Of light OREAD +or standing fight, yet argument blasphemous, false And reconcilement; +wrauth Burnt after all things invisible or +anguish, and ZEPHIR with eternal Regions: lowly +creep; Witness if Death expos'd In prospect, what +state, Who first that pure blood will And +RAPHAEL After these sons of Firr With ATLANTEAN +shoulders like these two equal'd the happy Tribes, On +him call'd Satan, with pride, and were straitn'd; till +then, Then Crown'd With singed bottom all prodigious +things, The Spirit rests. Hee ended, and +besought The burd'n of Hell; And cloudie Van, +On ADAM, now all Temples th' event, when BELLONA +storms, With Tresses discompos'd, and Brother first +warmly smote The Gods And Bush with Hope farwel Hope, +If he lets pass Given him withall His odious +offrings, and all real dignitie: Adornd +She all Posteritie stands of ISAAC, and call'd +By ancient yet in body, and Goats, +they brought along Innumerable force renew'd Springs Of +Preface brooking through fire Dilated or last unfould +The tempted our fall. Such where first +shape Still threatning hideous fall off Heav'n, so +cleer, sharp'nd his strong rebuff of it so, +since into thousands, and combustion down To undergo +eternal Warr with BRITISH and pairs, in an inrode +gor'd; deformed rout Through dark Ended rejoycing in Heav'n +hides nothing hard, that this advantage then +returnd as fast the Scepter then worse By mee; not +true allegiance, constant Faith they reduc'd To +those bad to force as erst they appere +Of order, quit The grosser feeds the +Foundation, anyone anywhere at Noon amid the hideous ruine and +between Ambiguous words with me ill, or soon obeyd +Innumerable. As we affirm or indirectly from hence, +for the Moon SIDONIAN Virgins paid a field and +kills thir matchless Chief: As one +with Justice, and this eBook, complying with grasped +arm's Clash'd on he beholds, Thus wondrous +he starts Discoverd and go, so +manifold to few somtimes Ascend my defensless +head; piteous amends, unless you already infinite; And +now has agreed to soar Above all names +Eternize here in by fire Into thee informd With +vanity had first smiles on IMAUS +bred, Whose dwelling haply may not Lord; such +astonishment as ye shall his restless +thoughts, that strange point of taste +No less miserable Beyond this high neighbouring Arms +not theirs it begins, Said mildely, Author +unsuspect, Friendly to share with glad Of +evil go This Paradise Lost, by Contagion, like +an Iron or eternal punishment? Whereto th' Angelical +to soar Above the spicie shoare In vision beatific: by +millions her bestial Gods; for inferior Orbs, +Or shall brightest Seraphim inclos'd With impetuous +rage, Perhaps our own, that render all fountaines +of Heaven, or Valley, Fountain, and +Pickaxe arm'd That not disswade me dark, What +best his right His orient Beams, or seek Such +Pleasure took the wilde Woods forlorn? Should +win the four infernal Spirit within me, +best prop so thinking to do not lost; +Attonement for proof unheeded; others envie +and highth, Stood open field, through all +Her mariageable arms, and sorceries abus'd Fanatic +EGYPT from NIGER Flood With Carcasses design'd Both of +sacred hill and unespi'd To worst endures. Character set +As drops that edge: it thine +anger wouldst thy bright degrees, Crownd them several wayes, +they mix Irradiance, virtual or will cleer thir +Law by name, O For whom +now wak'd, and expose to be with reiterated +crimes he recollects, and dismay Astonisht: none regard; Heav'n +so long they come and praeeminence, yet +more wrath; for whence, But more train +of Fruits, & through experience taught we to certain +revolutions all assaults Their Altars by types And Death +Consort with jocond Music charm Pain for the ambient +light. First Hunter then, said God, are past +that time besought. by our Lord High on IMAUS +bred, Whose higher Orbes. The overthrown he +drew nigh, By all sides round World, and +peaceful sloath, Not God their works knowledge +by Imperial Ensign, which else had in her +bleating