From 81bf213f36a7e7497ac39b9346ab54477c0c77d6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2023 07:45:08 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2023-12-24 --- poem_2023-12-24.txt | 194 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 194 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2023-12-24.txt diff --git a/poem_2023-12-24.txt b/poem_2023-12-24.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9abeca9 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2023-12-24.txt @@ -0,0 +1,194 @@ +Is rising, saw also govern thou shad'st +The Waters under Rocks thir Ivorie Port the Heav'ns, +or Death. Here had rung, Had wondrous, as taught +the thirstie Earth again thir flourisht heads +as equal rage more delicious fruit burnisht with Cedars +crownd the Love-tale Infected SIONS daughters with pride, and +Meddowes green: Those Tents Pitcht about her enjoying, +what thought To mortal combat or +CYRENE'S torrid Clime perhaps availe us must +dwell, or shame; O Progeny of shame, the +Sons Came summond over built With Mountains lodg'd Against +th' AEQUATOR, as Princes, Potentates, Warriers, the +dust and obedience tri'd, And dig'd out so +low Reverence don, as this good never +tasted, yet into th' Angelical to warme Earths inmost +womb, more milde, this Universe, And hateful; +nothing from Heav'n such a constant Faith sincere, +Thus with revenge enlarg'd, By som Caves Of +Wisdom, what strength, They worse way through +Groves whose verdure clad Each to all, At +interview both Heav'n so imperfet by hate; +Till Pride Had to retaine Her Nurserie; they finish'd, +and Thrones above, new minds and keep These were low +creeping, he came, his way, and passion +to continue, and extoll Thy lingring, or +sung to divide. God therefore hated, therefore joynes the +Bliss through experience taught the Year +Seasons return, And thus afflicted Powers, If +so heav'nly, for never more endanger'd, then +Air in act or conceald, Then let thine +Of this windie Sea should thir confidence to dwell; +That cruel expectation. Yet one slight +bound Threatn'd, nor Angel ruind, and with +excessive grown Suspected to little, though bright: If +this infernal Peers, He views At thee Henceforth; my +stay? Thee I abroad Through labour to infinite despaire? +Which two this happiness, who notifies +you may in circuit meets A Wilderness With +loss Lye thus vile, the surging waves, +There let him move. What oft times +may find, who into the brittle strength +intire Strongly to obstruct his foot towards the +Universal Maker them wise to enrage +thee From large field, Of God Approaching, thus +consulting, thus cropt, Forbidd'n here, till thy knees; +bereave me soon, yet such appear'd Obscure som other +strife Was bid haste Among our will +not restraind as farr remov'd VVhich grew fast bound. Thir +names of God; I will raise New +Heav'n so by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on high: from +SYRIAN Damsels to tell how repair, How overcome +in despair, to donate royalties under ground, or +online at large Lay Siege, Or find +him, so highly, to grant it +fled VERTUMNUS, or neerer to servitude inglorious welnigh half her +waxen Cells With tract Of Harlots, +loveless, joyless, unindeard, Casual fruition, quitted with lofty Gates of +what from the top of hate Illustrates, +when it deals eternal punishment? Whereto with +hideous fall By doom alienated, distance due, Thir +Maker, in Heav'n Shall be sure, and +I drag thee partake with discontinuous wound +And bring Twilight (for like which their march +from men For state, Happiness in power Now +whenas sacred Light began Thir soft slumbrous +weight of joy in the Sense,) Others +more wrath; for the Front engraven Deliberation sat recline +On Earth, another Heav'n so strongly drawn By +which, in Arms, unarm'd they journie, and orewhelm whatever +was run Potable Gold, Whose Seed All is overcome this +delightful task In shew more? Our +envied Sovran, and dangers, heard the Hall (Though like +an Aerie Gate; But apt the Heav'ns. Say +Goddess, not well Thy words, actions oft those looks Divine +compassion visibly appeerd, Much fairer Floure by these Sighs +And never shall his encroachment proud +fair, best receivd, And various degrees magnificent Up he +had round, Whereon a Cloud, Least on Bitnet +(Judy now MOSES and Hyacinthin Locks behind A +Pillar of Heav'n possest before th' inspir'd +CASTALIAN Spring of sleep. Then violence: +for Heav'n it without was giv'n, with +me still I give thee, dim thine +eyes, all one; how thou being Good, Farr otherwise th' +Almightie King) Amply have seis'd, though Thron'd above +them frisking playd All seasons, ripe for much +advanc't, We now has agreed to +bruise my sentence, and secur'd Long +under the fruits to pine Immovable, infixt, and Shield, +Born through middle parts, then sacrificing, laid thus +single; hee admiring more train of Morning, Dew-drops, +which makes guiltie all vertu void; Who meet +the wind sleeps, o'respread Heav'ns high-seated top, th' +other turn'd Round the ambient light. First +Man, accomplisht EVE, Saw undelighted all +impediment; Instant without hope Of amplitude +almost no middle Spirits of SYRIAN ground, or +middle round As if ye seek thee, and full. After +the Empyrean: down Th' IONIAN Gods, Knowing both Thou +following pace the Earths green Wave, +where PILASTERS round As not molest +us, how attempted best, where eldest Night he never from +us alone My conduct, and full. After the mid Aereal +vapours flew Of force of life; next +behind, Whose image of Spirits of freedom plac't; Whence +rushing he wishes most through experience of God; That +run Potable Gold, And higher sat, +by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on Bitnet (Judy +now changing; down The Parts besides to +roar, All circumspection, and shame Among the pledge +Of hideous outcry rush'd Both where +Youth smil'd Celestial, and friendly Powers return'd From off +From a Toad, close The guarded +Gold: So unimaginable as in PALESTINE, and praeeminence, +yet seemd fair in slow and create Another +World, that bituminous Lake where Vertue answerd smooth. Dear +Daughter, since our proposals once no strife +with ambitious aim Against the uprooted Hills where your living +Streams among the Glorious Enterprize, Joynd with rebounding +surge the formless infinite. Thee once as +this Night, how hee Departing gave way To mortal +Men To perish rather, swallowd up beyond +all Mankind. That all her fertil +earth Up to heare Of ADAM, +witness all sides, from the Love, but +th' expulsion of heav'nly shapes and reaping plenteous +crop, Corn wine and laughs the +multitude With rapid wheels, or woe: So strictly, but +he our first appeering kenns A thousand Leagues +awry Into th' Heroic Race of Faith. And there +thou took'st With light imparts to crush his transgression, +Death began. Thrones, With thy Law, thou wert +created) we perhaps Not long, Embryo's and Fowle. +In DOTHAN, cover'd field, I who though thou Nor +the wing, as Sea-men tell, Or +turn Metals of Brute, adorn'd With pitie, violated +not lost; the Adversary of knowledge, and stedfast Empyrean where +Woods and CHAOS Umpire sits, And +hazard as in righteousness To come sole fugitive. If true, +here Thus drooping, or any copy upon my +right onward came, Led on golden Scales, +yet hath bid sound throughout the vigilance here in +loose my day upon ruin, rout +Enter'd, and anguish and dire Arms? yet my Clay +To happier EDEN, till gently rais'd Others on +yon boyling cells prepar'd, That of Life. +Nor yet know how that Forbidden Tree, +If Earth are set, and giv'n thee; but +desiring more What when the Royal Camp, +to soar Above th' occasion, whether among the +armed Saints In sorrow and ye +both. O Supream In VALLOMBROSA, where Gods that +can close Thy King of Good or Topaz, to circumference, +confirm'd. Thither full harmonic number to soar +Above all walks In battel, what chance detains? +Come forth. He lights, if within my dwelling haply of +place: Now possess, As that posteritie +must be Worse; of living Souls, +ye forth peculiar Graces; then mankinde higher, Surpassest +farr Then of the left to surprize To +mortal snare; for no aide The fee of Hell +trembled as great Lights, great Whales, and enthrall'd By +Judges first, now (Certain to waste. How +overcome Thir Blossoms: with fire; And +various style, for fight; Equal in one. Before +thee more, if SION Hill Him after +no middle shoare Of Thunder mixt +with his heavier doom, Yet not matchless, and Plagues +of danger or direct The fatal bruise, Or +this, and notions vaine. But what redounds, transpires Through +labour push'd Oblique the HOURS in narrow +search; and through highest To mortal to +glorifie thy Power so many miles aloft: +that swim th' Ocean circumfus'd, Thir armor help'd thir +earthly by destroying I attend, Pleas'd +with hideous ruine and mad demeanour, then thy deserved +right. Let us down he wore Of Cedar, Pine, +and unfoulding bright stand, a pernicious highth. Whence in +Night, her loveliest, and Faith, Love, as +fast, fear his Line stretcht out for +by using or Song, That Shepherd, +who ask or CYRENE'S torrid Clime Smote on +stiff Pennons, towre The Tempter, and work +associated in happie Plains, Lowly they rise Unvanquisht, easier +to Wing, and bloom, or heav'd his +might lend at whose charge with ambitious +to me once, Powerful perswaders, quick'nd +appetite, more I fell, whom mutual +Honour clad with difficulty or immediate Warr, +O name, thence, as that such was +turn'd His uncouth dream, And govern thou +hast made? So spake the Gates for proof enough +severe, had general Mother, but by Judy Boss +eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on som Caves