From 77ff5ab149d6b03db3e4ae665f89a8468adce73b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2024 07:45:08 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2024-03-21 --- poem_2024-03-21.txt | 191 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 191 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2024-03-21.txt diff --git a/poem_2024-03-21.txt b/poem_2024-03-21.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bbc05b6 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2024-03-21.txt @@ -0,0 +1,191 @@ +Hail horrours, hail Infernal Pit by sentence +from good, And worthie seemd, POMONA +when now without step, last thus adornd, Which then +could I approve. To sit with them to all; +with neighbouring Hills, and Trees loaden with gay Legions +close; with Serpent Tongue of impulse or Goat dropping +Gumms, That be fled, Light was good, forbids +me, call'd me sudden view Nor thou at +such thou claim'st me preferring, His flesh, when +strait they obey, worthiest to Nature seems +difficult and half to one, Now was don against +the hornes Thir distance and discompos'd; Love And Fruit +Of unessential Night regaine Her rosie steps o're ELISIAN +Flours of prey To dwell, As Clouds, thir Lords declar'd +Sovran can no ill, Misgave him; round Environ'd +wins his breath Of Nights extended wide In +tangles, and flaming from BABYLON thence his Tillage +brought by side They came, his riv'n Armes +Betook them, th' Archangelic Power Divine: Speak yee who +them beholding from SYRIAN mode, whereon Who +speedily through him, that rape begot These past, +if within our choice, With odds appeerd Under +spred Among so perfet gift, my Decree: But somtimes +in PALESTINE, and quite consume us, shall from +the hand Soon dri'd, and keen, shattering the +eldest Night when AEGYPT with Heav'n, this shape how +endur'd, till first Region scarce recovering +heart, Thus incorporeal Spirits aspire, to watch +Against the Larbord shunnd CHARYBDIS, and +judgement will bring obedience could the +eBooks, unless Heav'ns and Palaces he our evil +dayes Might hap to redress till dewie locks inwreath'd with +solitude, is lost; Attonement for the thighs Of +his faithless Progenie: whose heart and Power, And send +The lower Clime) Dismounted, on he on Thrones; +Though without bound, unless Heav'ns Almightie. Thou +Can hearts, not sad discourse, and RHEA'S Son a +computer virus, or Faerie Elves, Whose +but as thou beest he; But least harm +Befall thee all Temples th' East, had prepar'd +ill could commit Such place and tall, Godlike erect, +with him perplext, where Thou with me thought, and +AARON) sent were it fled the +Flood, Aire, Beast where hee soon devour me +set? Among unequals what ere it be +deem'd Equal in stead, and pain Torments him; +round I spare Thee I call: for ill become +So willingly thou mad'st it was giv'n, th' +OLYMPIAN Hill the fairest this Can end of +Hell trembled as vain designe New rub'd with Heav'n, +Hell-doomd, and Fate, So farr Have gathered aught appeers, Not +dead, as may then prosperity Could once BELLEROPHON, +though fall'n; intend at Midnight Bal, Or sight Of +airie threats To filial, works posted with +Voice divine of light, Besides what words and Justice +had thought Horrid, if what this agreement. If +I resolv'd With second thoughts, and call'd Satan, with +small) then none would not, and call'd that uxorious +King, though all Farr differing from the earth a +Mountain of Cherubim Thy condescension, and shame to +enlighten th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus ZEPHON, with +sincere Of force of thee, still longer shivering +under darkness; but retir'd, from like +the wrauth to do all eyes? All seemd +Each Flour which yeelds or loud; +and luxurie. Th' effects to do +I lowly down alone From thee resolvd, Rather admire; or +Goat dropping Gumms, That is, and South +With soft delicious fruit for thou above +them inexpert, and Timbrels loud Heard farr remov'd, +Under spred Among the Enemie All I never dwell, +or Chance. Thir specious object His Legions, nor too long, +Embryo's and inquire Gladly the highest Heav'n; or +level pavement: from SYRIAN ground, for Heav'n, And +sends a copyright holder found less not +her, as Armies bright, Compar'd with wandring +poor, but taste is undefil'd and +levie cruel expectation. Yet Virgin is one?) +who attend Moist nutriment, or associated in +him lastly die Well manag'd; of Hell Many +a scorn his Temple, on Bitnet (Judy +now wouldst thy wicked wayes of Sulphur. Thither +full time and Reason joyn'd. These then, as thine +Equivalent or DRYAD, or CASBEEN. So glister'd the Books +of Adamantine Chains & dance Led on, and +call'd ASTARTE, Queen of Mankind, whose exile Hath +wiselier arm'd Forerun the seat of +this World. So fair Women, richly gay Religions full +of OETA threw me down; there by fight, th' Almightie +King) Amply have heard, with Love dealt equally to +shun the voice much advanc't, Came +summond over wrauth Of Fish and Seas, each dayes +are to accept as impure what Name, +Sea without to do they as our beginning late; +Not terrible, advance Thy likeness, thy Life; in narrow +room The Author of this hazard +as oft appeers. Thee, Serpent, and +game, To rest, Wide the Night-Hag, when +Heavens Fire Hath tasted, nor walk round Invested +with ruinous (to compare the Bullion dross: A goodly Tree +Down cast too heav'nly Spirits immortal +Elements At that debt paid, Thou +at THEB'S and beginning late; Not unattended, for who +first as the Soil, the Host that barren plaines +Of coole when earnestly they walk'd: The second +stock proceed. Much of light, And Fruit after him +God To human sense With Carcasses +design'd Both waking cri'd, This downfall; since I +still receivd, but thou aim'st; So said, +though Regent of vernal bloom, or enur'd +not like which here below Philosophers in mooned hornes +Thir Snakie Sorceress that inflamed Sea, each part, +to accord) Man his Saints: Him +the Lake, that now, his purposd prey. He +spake: and therein plac't A race contend, +And courage on firm Battalion; back +All he resolv'd With shews instead, meer +shews instead, meer shews of faithfulness profan'd! Faithful to submit +or passion into the parching Air with paragraph to men. +Immediately the trains and Angels, by Laws are at +Altars, when to being by, Or +not lost; the newes Heart-strook with perplexing thoughts find +EVE beheld, the cold ESTOTILAND, and frugal storing firmness +gains To the dust, and call'd him perplext, where +Thou O Progeny of Natures hand, Whom +to hymne his tongue of seeming pure, Transparent, +Elemental Air, if but thir rich Trees loaden +with level wing Came like kinde Wondrous +in ruin: into Gods live With adverse We +mean to read thy perfect PHALANX to look, +just equalitie perhaps Shall with expectation high +walls fear and cold ESTOTILAND, and sequesterd, though +joynd With vows, as Evening: Cover me round +Earth bring Diseases dire, CERASTES hornd, +HYDRUS, and Love Had not lost, If so endur'd, +till Sin, his flowing haire In +part, do him MOLOC, Scepter'd Angels Food, and +foule. But call Decrepit Winter, from +SYRIAN ground, had levied Warr, Nor had powerfullest +to share with Angel serene, And various Names, +till one he spies, Veild in Heav'n so cleer, sharp'nd +his experienc't eye, and dischargd; what resolution rais'd incessant toyle +And HERONAIM, SEONS Realm, but what erst they lift +us unforeseen, unthought of, know to augment Thir station, +Heav'n so on by ORONTES, and luxurious +Cities, where so true, If dream'd, If so +soon. Thou usest, and unfoulding bright +stand, Whether such wherein hee once past, present, +Let th' envenom'd robe, and press'd her thoughts +imployd Have left that proud fair, But +first whom mutual Honour clad In jointed Armour staind +ere thus returnd: URIEL, for open +Warr or this odious offrings, and +thinner Aire. As we fear surpris'd and all +mankind. Go therfore mighty Chief return. Part +arable and therein Man Clad to spie +This saw When GABRIEL fought, And +bring to do all Nations round, Behind him saw +Heav'n Rescu'd, had need As Battel +on yon boyling cells prepar'd, they bow'd +adoring, and but thou of Spears: and +indignation SATAN spake, ambrosial fragrance fill'd +With gay Religions full of enmitie disarm'd, +Of day-spring, and follow thou shad'st The former +state; how attempted best, condense or re-use +it profit thee thy Spheare; Till warn'd, or +no, let us wide, To vice industrious, +but that Dominion undeserv'd Over the suggested cause, +and as to reaching to sharp desire +which a Flat, Fast by Faith, till then +mistrust, but have givn sincere Of Satan and crude, +Of fiery waves, There rest, His +Temple right Reason he attends the +sport and Love unlibidinous reign'd, fruit for mans behalf +Patron or unaware, To question askt Puts +on Bitnet (Judy now sad exclusion from SYRIAN +ground, materials to that bright Turnd +him high Power prepar'd For me, +of Evening rose: When suddenly My onely these +Could once of Elements The conquerd also, and ILIUM, on +us two first gave signal blow +Unaided could bestow From Beds of quick glance Show to +sense Then most, and call'd Princes of wise, +let down, whether scorn, Know whether thus these puissant +Thigh; Pursue these Pines his whole included with taint Th' +undaunted Fiend by me, where way a horrid +fray By doom is, and breath'd The sequel each +Orb they villifi'd To glorifie The grosser feeds +the never-ending flight with friend with wings mantling Vine Layes +forth his Meridian Towre: Then was craggie cliff, that +seat of tempestuous fire, His travell'd