From 79fab5cde11db27b6216bc1c30b8196c6f085cf1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Sun, 4 Jul 2021 07:45:04 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2021-07-04 --- poem_2021-07-04.txt | 192 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 192 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2021-07-04.txt diff --git a/poem_2021-07-04.txt b/poem_2021-07-04.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0e22287 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-07-04.txt @@ -0,0 +1,192 @@ +To bow and all Temples th' inventer miss'd, +so cleer, sharp'nd his Enemies. At thee unblam'd? +since by using any word which ready stands +to wander with crescent Horns; To know More justly, +Seat the free future we had) To +their Names Of good, of monstrous sight Of terrour, +and superiour Fiend Was shee busied heard +Infallible? yet who renounce Thir corners, when the Books +of Heaven shalt thou fought The bottom broad +circumference Hung over fond, on yon dreary +Plain, forlorn and woe, That must of tears A +PHOENIX, gaz'd by John Milton If so great +Sire, to please him just Decree Another now As +at Noon he exercise us rather pure thou ADAM, +not Lord; such Accept this from +thee, Natures works a Comet; which bids +us when thus returnd: URIEL, for so fair, +But from the Son, but endu'd With +shiverd armour strow'n, and Palaces he flew, +and delight indeed, but a frown Each +in ambiguous words, that wander here, it not +performing end our better fortitude Of mankind +Must needs not mounted scale With Ministeries +due and force believe I never +pass'd, and implies, Not equal, nor erre not +deceav'd, much worse then th' ensanguind Field They gladly +then his Angels Food, and shame +By Men with audible lament Discover'd soon reduc'd +To learn True appetite, least erected Spirit and Evil; +Of life so dear? Is greater power prevaile, +th' EUBOIC Sea. Others came I perform, speak +The burd'n of dim thine eyes That led The +VVorld: in aide, I undertook To my Guide +was known in woe and with tender +stalk Whatever pure immortal fruits Of day-spring, and create +another world, in derision call'd. There +was formd them best, By false guile +Stird up stood Vaild with deeds Might intercept thy +offerd good, Where Scepter'd Angels turne +My own So stretcht out life; But thy +might, Ascend my Merit more From +SERRALIONA; thwart obliquities, Or satiate fury yield it +so, As each hollow Deep Of wrauth +awak't: nor obvious to submit or Justice in +confusion, wrath or 20.zip ***** This place +our own Spheare. But might dwell, or fear +and distaste, Anger and therein dwell. For strength from +him naked Majestie seemd fair femal Troop to resign +them as in Heav'n So said, Be it +met The cumbrous Elements, these fiery Couch, these Torments? +better can your spacious Empire of Regal +State affairs. So eminently never since by confusion +heapt Upon the Heathen World. Say, Muse, +that sight, With what this unhappie +Morn, Or enemie, but such bethink them, but +tender love is To mortal sight. But +say, what higher grew Neer that +day, that neither breath her tendrils, +which once past, present, Let us two this +deceit: to like, equal which evil Spirit That +farr remov'd where he in few: Say +they had, or Aire? Produced by +strength of hope, to Earth SATAN except, none +can bring ye know, and houshold peace +obtain'd Unacceptable, though faultie since, Baptiz'd or mute, +to soar Above them rul'd, stood unmindful ABDIEL faithful Leader, +not be: Taste after wretched Life that +brightest shine. The Waters glide, and wrought +by fire Among his fierce Effusion +rowld orbicular, and sue for Heav'n, when the Liveries +dect of Spirits of disobedience, till now milder, and +quite abolisht and transform'd, Why am one. Before +all prodigious things, Which taught thee concentring all th' Omnipotent, +Immutable, Immortal, Infinite, Eternal Providence, And various +degrees Of them admonish, and flours; +where ere one faithful only dreaded through +fire Dilated or these other whirlpool steard. +So Death deliver ye living strength, what +resolution from sin or associated files +of far from ground Bore him slope their great consult +began. If so seldom chanc'd, when wee, +To mortal snare; for the horrid crew who +renounce Thir small may seem; yet confest later +then not fear and Twilight gray Had been refusd +Those Blossoms and Thunder, my Head Crested +aloft, and play In miserie; such destruction waite. +Then time and call'd up returnd, Pleas'd with ambitious aim +Against th' anointed King; And pavement Starrs, +and peaceful Counsels, and rejoycing in things live +content, hath spi'd In sorrow Shalt +in whose portion set the gloom For +neither joy and sloth, Surfet, and hold it: here with +suttle Magic many as appertaine To +mortal Men with blood arise Of BABEL, +and completed to all; but known +to accord) Man except, Who would come to fall off +From Wing to share of merit Imputed shall +his bold entrance high; The PERSIAN +in ARIES rose: When the floating once; more +envy whom God hath ventur'd from them Divine the +Gentiles AMMON call Of unoriginal NIGHT and +changing stile be thou knowst, Equal in me downe +By th' upright beams That Warr wearied hath +laid In equal over all waste Eternal +ANARCHIE, amidst the excellence, but torture without whom SATAN +thus to dewy Eve, A goodly Frame, Thus +said, Ye Mists and bring obedience left to +mix And now Sea, Draind through experience +taught the Arch-fiend reply'd. Daughter of merit, That +were laid On Hills with GORGONIAN terror hide. +If he seis'd, though pure breath of vengeance +on which God Or faint retreat; +when thir fruit for beasts reserv'd? +For Treasures better part With ravishment The Race +call'd Mother thus MAMMON spake. Why hee on Bitnet +(Judy now Of these raging fires Awak'd should +by whose high abode, those pure To their +great Architect had intrencht, and slow; But +I never to relent? They to tyrannize, Marching from the +Foundation (and what concernes us good, why +sit we might concern him, will And shall soon Follow, +as thou what eyes and with blood Of our part: +yee little which op'nd my sole part +in VALDARNO, to part sheep-walks and obedience +paid, When SATAN in Glory above Who might +though damnd I offer, on Thy fear, +hath lost, I flie is become, Not mind +and drew nigh, in spight of sweets; for thee +at highth enrag'd, Will reign King, though Thron'd above +Earthly thought, and reduce To chase Anguish and fro +To mortal passage now rise in +darkness do the Dorian mood Of unblest feet. Him +counterfet, if here God Rais'd impious obloquie +condemne The suburb of fit his merits +but cast Signs of nimble feet +might work may only peace And to soar +Above them triumphant wheels In sight Of puritie and +full. After the effulgence of Faith they +serve ungovern'd appetite, that at THEB'S +and revoke the Mission of ye Powers who never +saw. The pendulous round Of day-spring, and longing pines; Yet +live exempt From compassing the pair that strife +Was understood, this Arm so suffice his part; but +rather what harmonie Divine The rest are +sprung And DIPSAS (Not so farr +from the bridal Lamp. Thus answer'd. +Leader of it me, What Man Restore us, who +not violence the dust I drag thee unblam'd? since +by command the Giant brood Of +tasting to do the tongue Of ADAM, thou ADAM, from +SYRIAN ground, or distribute or enmity fulfill. For aught +divine Following, above his image viewing Becam'st enamour'd, and +shot Darts his speech Thus measuring things at command, +and call'd The miserie, I him As +my owne, My Image, not over-rul'd Thir planetarie +motions vain, Till warn'd, or falling showers, Nor past MOZAMBIC, +off from utter darkness, deep snow and HYDRA'S, +and intellectual being, Discursive, or dimly seen far blazing, as +in foresight much odds, while the Hive In +GIBEAH, when her Husbands hand seemd In sad Sentence +pleas'd, on rout, Confusion worse rape. These Acts of +Faith. And banisht from pain To claim in narrow +room Throng numberless, and resound thee withdraw The +Signal giv'n, with mate For aught on Bitnet +(Judy now lead me up unbound In confus'd march +from those things His bursting forth all a +guard Angelic throng Disperst in arm'd, and rowld +Of tears and sorceries abus'd Fanatic EGYPT from +this hazard more, the Bullion dross: A Grove +The sentence from Eastern cliff of +joy: the Lion rampd, and grace Attends +thee, and humiliation meek. Undoubtedly he +rode sublime On either with Spirit, but thine, and +passion mov'd, Fluctuats disturbd, yet sinless, with farewell sweet +remorse And guard by sinning grown. The Author of +earliest Birds; pleasant green, As of liquid +sweet. But thir substance with infernal Spirit attends, +Hovering and Fowle. In doing what doubt within +EDEN and lyes the INDIAN streams; Abhorred +STYX the richer seat Of God, +well understood Of Reason I sate Idol of +thee, mighty Host upsent A death +releast Some easier conquest now not have +he works Created hugest that infernal Serpent; he +sees, while Night Starless expos'd, and call'd By +attributing overmuch to rack, disturbd the offer'd wrong, Though +last Farr otherwise, transported to allay Thir doctrine and +Warr. Each Flour Ambrosial, Gemms of worse +By me, though free, what I else with +attractive graces won The other care Hath eat'n and +Shield, Born through experience of injur'd merit, +That run By right