From 7cd13357515224bca3cea350e13cc6e362a97274 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2022 07:45:03 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2022-08-25 --- poem_2022-08-25.txt | 192 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 192 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2022-08-25.txt diff --git a/poem_2022-08-25.txt b/poem_2022-08-25.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5725633 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-08-25.txt @@ -0,0 +1,192 @@ +Whence rushing he scarce blown, Forth issuing flow'd +Fast by gloomie power left side +They sate Idol of Warr, we happie, and jarring +sound throughout the Son, who shouldst my +constant Lamp, and know that Traitor Angel, well may +obtain a Towr; his Created this frail World; at +command, ere well contain, bring shall his seed renewd; +So disinherited how wearisom Eternity so cleer, +sharp'nd his hopeful sheaves Prove chaff. +On my sense, Plac'd Heav'n Gate With +such knowledg fair enticing Fruit forbidd'n! som Caves +Of som Plume, that bright Pomp and play +In blissful Bower; it is punish't; +whence they thir flying vaulted with me once, +Powerful perswaders, quick'nd appetite, that charm'd Thir Parent would +sustain me; but feard To dress, and vast, +a golden Scales, yet Of order, how here? This +saw Transcend his displeasure; in Sculles that rowle in +our promis'd clearer sight More Angels many Throned Powers, +That gave prospect wide Territorie spred All is +one?) who to submit or present, and me ye +shall burn, and haughtie strides advanc't, +We now are sprung I would +I know withall, Since to forewarne Us both To Man, +is low From MEDIA post to +that name unheard or bound the deep +Her dark threshold to assay If rightly +thou maist ascend, sit and thrice to her bounds, +till then smallest Dwarfs, in answer thy transgressing? +not God; That dust and acclamations loud, that shall +die For hot, cold, moist, and fulfilld All +are sprung Upon the difficultie of paragraphs 1.E.1 through +fire had seiz'd with accent thus imploid beheld +thir mouths the tumid Hills, so doubtful hue: but +all assaults Their great exploits, but rather +Mee who shouldst hope, Before had changd To pray, repent, +and future, in Heav'n from servil fear +What thing approach of Pure as farr +off the Hill; let fall. Henceforth to dare The +fluid Aire: So send his perswasive +accent thus presum'd. Now not, finding way, Turning our +proper motion of bad plight, And gladlier shall endure +Exile, or Chance, and ARGESTES loud misrule Of MOLOC +furious windes blow SABEAN Odours and LIBECCHIO. Thus said, +let thee conversing I should mean +to let ther who never wilt +bring forth to that rape begot These are +those Gardens fam'd of ANCIENT NIGHT, I oft Bank +with songs Divide the unwiser Son thus ABDIEL stern +repli'd. O miserable Doing or expense to +erect Our doom; which would I admonish'd thee, safe +with almost no higher, Surpassest farr +be the Grave, Of ARGUS, and Golden +Harps, & hymning spent. Mean while or +both; so faire. Round from SYRIAN Damsels +to that fiery Deluge, fed With singed bottom broad +circumference Hung ore the same watrie Desert: +I see the happier Seat Of Battel: +whereat their liveliest pledge Of interdicted Knowledge: fair Creatures, +but giv'n Over the DANITE strong To +Noon he could make us unforeseen, +unthought of, know what was ADAM +took Allarm, And ignominie, yet never to doubt +To God only, shee in hast made? +So saying, on they were it light +Dwelt from the work. You comply with others. +Is this windie Sea of pain. All her Matron +lip of Virgin seed, By wound, Soon as +Lords and Brass Three Iron, three different +degree in Woods, and therein dwell. And +inward Faculties, which God onely, that such disport before +her slowest pace the works calculated using +or Morn, Or Bedward ruminating: for Heav'n set To +veile the Earths Giant brood Of Truth, +Wisdome, Sanctitude severe and copartners of sorrow, doleful shades, where +PROSERPIN gathring flours aloft shading the steep savage Hill +of Spirits Elect above th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus +guiltless be deem'd Equal to force of Supper +Fruits which By our Eyes to weep, burst +forth: at our task, But other viewing Becam'st +enamour'd, and Revenge Descend to? who Reigns, and +good; I obey But self-destruction therefore joynes the grassie +Couch, these things, and end; this ignorance of +the void immense To a Cloud, +for Maistrie, and breath'st defiance toward the rest +are his anointed King; And plunge +us live: Nor yet had perplext All my +words, he despis'd His odious offspring +whom hast thou, and sorceries abus'd Fanatic EGYPT +marching, equal'd the walls fear his windows shut. +And honour due Giv'n and call Decrepit Winter, +from Darkness ere dawne, Effect shall faile +to descrie the bottom turn'd On +to submit or Beast which methinks +I conceale. This one, the Field. Him whom SATAN +pass'd, and with revenge: cruel his restless thoughts, +how had first Wise to Heav'n. What day Honourd by +fight, the dusky Air sublime On EUROPE with utter darkness, +and Gold; and vital vertue even ground +appeers, And never since I thither with pride, +and cleerd, and gates of like Lightning and I, +me loath to execute What thou with me are +my Guide And swims or prune, or flight Aloft, +incumbent on slime, This saw them by +putting off From Heav'ns fugitives, and obey him into full +exprest Ineffably into Glorie abides, Transfus'd on Thy way +a World; by deceit and interrupt his Proem tun'd; +Into my Redeemer voluntarie, And look +Bound on Armour clashing bray'd Horrible discord, and highth, +Stood like state to boast, Begins his Potent +Victor in Heav'n, now advise him know, when the difficultie +of electronic work divinely fair, fit +strains pronounc't By center, or ROMANCE of +sorrow abandond, but pleasd I suppos'd, Invisible else but +obedient at seaven mouthes With him due +and coast of seven continu'd Nights +extended wings Over the night-warbling Bird, +that of body or steaming Lake, that +bituminous Lake where peace recoverd sad. Evil one tastes; +Nor great deeds Timorous and with his looks, +which might dilated stood, That singing up +they seise fast, With Orient Colours waving: +with Arched neck Between the Judgement, whether +our dignitie How dies the Serpent sly +circumspection, and bleating rose, they sat A dismal Den, +Not lawful to heare Of absolute Decree +Unchangeable, Eternal, which else no cloud Made passive both, +and shame Among the ancient TARSUS +held, Even to accord) Man may praise; Who +might concern him, brighter once With spots of +Paradise Dying put off, and Trees in Heav'n +on my change, Bestirs her aide +The fellows of mankind, in PALESTINE, and smoak: Such +as Spirits Elect above Dividing: for +thou becam'st a River of this license, apply +to ride in Prose or Chance, and stray'd +so farr, whose sovran sentence, that debt paid, +When JESUS son he descended strait; +the Rain Impetuous, and thee. Author of +Pomp and throughout the choice and +shame Cast forth all works knowledge and everie +magnitude of strict necessitie Subdues us, equal much to +participate All now gentle voice, nor fragrance filld Th' +aspiring To meet My coming thus Follow'd in mee +thou thy being; Dream not Mystic, where +your discord which wee in PALESTINE, and ras'd +By force, And ore the Mariner +From mee let mee from mans offence +To argue in me exercise us long +is happiness and Bar Of Knowledge in one. Before +his Aerie light, but known as came flocking; but +gathers heap, and therein plant A +space, till one restraint, Lords of sweetest Fenel, or +Festivals, and with like themselves from soundest sleep Oppress'd +them, while over EDEN which grew Insuperable highth All +persons concerned disclaim any agent or Goat dropping +Gumms, That Shepherd, who art thou, what ere the deep +With loss Created evil, for Orders bright. +Nor can sustain, Or much the fatal course to +sweet kernels prest She turns, on Bitnet (Judy now divided +into the Mole immense To Idols through midst +exalted as one faithful only to SATAN +stood One night measur'd with ambitious aim Against a +savorie odour blow'n, Grateful vicissitude, like +which follows dignity, might induce us their Names in +Heav'n ruining from my envie, or CAPITOLINE was formd +them best, By Act of Arms, Though late +How little which under the safe with +wings veil thir Head I else set +them more. As is there plac't, Reaping +immortal minds. Thus while th' occasion, whether +not, as great behest from night, when their doubl'd Ranks +they sought: him behold but our great Harsh +Thunder, Wing'd with Beast that sight More +grateful Evening mild, nor hope never dwell, hope excluded +thus, and highest To entertain you from the baser fire +had veins of Arms, Though for God On duty, +sleeping soon In Courts and through Plate and +glad. Empress, the odious dinn of mankind +in fight, who last, Though pleasant, his +wilde Abyss And stabl'd; of Man, Or hollow'd +bodies may reign is low indeed, but +a physical medium on th' Accuser of brightest shine. +To spiritual Creatures rational, though under shade retir'd, +To us, how op'nd, but a pleasing +sorcerie could I overjoyd could be +lost, If he is, mee it devours +not, and Ulcer, Colic pangs, and all +Mankind; whom mutual league, United States copyright or might +affect the Snow From compassing the happier EDEN, +for damages, costs and sunnie Raies, a +signal