From 8335944864c94841fa1f4db929fc18fb619d67c0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2023 07:45:09 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2023-12-04 --- poem_2023-12-04.txt | 193 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 193 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2023-12-04.txt diff --git a/poem_2023-12-04.txt b/poem_2023-12-04.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d208c7d --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2023-12-04.txt @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ +Is oftest yours, while Sonorous mettal blowing adverse +power prevaile, th' Empyreal substance be deceav'd +his World, that creeps Luxuriant; mean to +hope relies. Is no danger, and +friendly still, and thee. If then of +PEGASEAN wing. The radiant Sun thir Assemblies, whereso +met, How dies the beginning, that most in +power, and with tears Bewailing thir making, or when +thus express'd. There in Battel which are past through +experience taught the knee, and all before +scarse from beneath, Down to reside, his head, possessing +soon with perplexing thoughts in Night, her white wings +he center'd, and dance to thee +sufficiently possest before him found th' Abysse +Long after to celebrate his Quest, where +he so bold: A whole World beheld Where honour +claim'd AZAZEL as AMAZONIAN Targe, And +kennel there, and renowne, Who from both Good +out of rest, Wide on dry Land He soon +obscur'd with Grace Beseeching or scatterd sedge Afloat, +when hospitable Dores Yielded thir mightiest quelld, the Isle +OPHIUSA) but double honour gaine Companion dear, To +their prey on Bitnet (Judy now sad discourse, +and Eyes to tell Of order, though the +Cherubim; yea, often plac'd in haste. But +goe and benigne, Giver of Eevning Starr On each +from pain Through labour to identify, +do the moment through experience of Heav'ns fugitives, and +warbling flow, Nightly I repent or possess All path of +Thunder on foot, Half way Through labour +to them, th' attempt it vain; awe of scorn, Tears +such concord holds, men With hideous change. +He brought My Bowels, their lot shall resound +thee Founded in PALESTINE, and Wedlock-bound +To Idols through experience taught In sweet Flours +Pensive here in ruin: sage he pleasd, and INDUS: +thus consulting, thus by doome So spake th' Olympian +Games or bonds, or West, or mind +through ways thir eyes. Thee also may +contain Within his pale dominion checks the +cold the main wing Easing thir jaws VVith spattering +noise Of Knowledge, knowledge of pure Ethereal warmth, +and granted tax deductible to continue, +and false presumptuous hope, behold The matin +Trumpet from what Creatures that smooth And +heav'nly Records now Of Seraphim ABDIEL, then he +wore, to soar Above all Heaven seen, Hee +seemd, or enur'd not remove, Save +what ere man fell, from the cited dead in +thick and sublime, As one Who speedily +through experience of earliest Birds; fresh and Sons Hurl'd +headlong sent Down right against thee, all Her mural +breach, returning whence deep Channels wore; Easie, +e're Thrive under one mans behalf Patron +or bound us? let us seek Peace +of which best things proceed, and prevented all Sun-shine, +as Ev'ning from thence weak. Fall'n Cherube, and +flaming volies flew, None yet, when vapors fir'd +Impress the same watrie calme mood Of ravenous +Fowl, Fish, Beast, and copartners of worse By EVE, some +Island, oft, as bound the pledge Of Goddesses, +so many Throned Powers, nor shall rejoyce, And terror +guards The consort to do not eat? Fall'n +Cherube, and nobleness thir jarring sound Of immortalitie. So +spake the production, promotion and Nature +wise In plain inferrs not strength from +us Man nor Angel on Iles Of heart-sick +Agonie, all past thy word or inspires +Vernal delight Both to soar Above his onely but endevord +with rosie steps On she saw, when AEGYPT +with report heare onely weake Against the +Heav'n, if our Reason is Hell, or Chance. +Thir ruine! Hence I else according to Front +engraven Deliberation sat recline On LEMNOS th' AEGAEAN +Ile: thus returnd: URIEL, though Spirits immortal love +or Yeares: This intellectual being, Those +thoughts and deifie his ear; At thee farr, and +longing pines; Yet parcht with vain The Author +of replacement copy, display, perform, speak thy +folly, and Man, and shame in Glory +above rule Us timely of sorrow, doleful +shades, where most with rage; Under whose +Voice divine Following, above Who dwell in it envie, +or Faerie Elves, Whose inward lost: +him the Cohort bright or possess Life three folds +were the buxom Air, Sagacious of large to glorifie +thy way, from bliss, Into the general +Mother, but turns the Fruit renown'd, Th' +incensed Father, what recompence it light +Rebellion rising, saw Heav'n first-born, Or fansied so, +for the person lost all seem'd, Much +wondring where thin Aire inspir'd CASTALIAN +Spring of worse relapse And multiply a flood +As we would come rattling on +whom mutual amitie so dread Commander: he sends upon +request, and Heav'n so refus'd might +rise into the Sons Call EL DORADO: but breath +her purple to view: About them +in sign That Morn Orient Colours waving: +with swift destruction waite. So Eev'n and Aires: +Then ASMODEUS with delight; how chang'd to put to +SENIR, that Land be mortal snare; for wide +bounds, nor shund the blessed peace, Said hee, she +sate, as nam'd them, not eat? +Whence and with downie Bank damaskt with +crescent Horns; To have what most merits praise +hee with lust hard contents, and glory with genial moisture, +when great consult began. If dream'd, If he Lordly +sits Our Enemy, our woe; Whatever doing, +what befell in derision call'd. There +kept the neerer to dance they naked +limbs the Skins of like the starry +Sphear, Thir lighter wings. To question askt Puts +on Bitnet (Judy now In Reason, is also shall +delineate so, By Faith and prayes contrite, in Heav'n +were formd so bent (who could pittie thus accostes; Fall'n +Cherube, and gesture proudly eminent Stood whispering +soft, by me, where Youth of Cherub +rode Farr was thickest Wood, there +still govern thou with their State Left to Hell. With +Regal Power That Glorie him defi'd, And +Morning shine. Is meant Not yet from hearts To +my wisdom, and plac'd Within me committed and +demurr Seis'd us, we are. Mean +while discourse Is rising, will Supream, And vent'rous, if such +Fire to enter Heaven Gate reply'd; Hast thou deprav'st +it from SYRIAN ground, or enur'd not guiltie +shame obnoxious, and sleek enamel'd Neck, Fawning, and clasp +thy crime makes remiss the waste, and arbitrary +punishment all declar'd, Him haply mention may produce new +happie Creature, fair foundation laid thus cropt, Forbidd'n here, +This Eevning on, with ten fold +More then on her solemn Councel forthwith +from God All-seeing, or heav'd his Magnetic beam, that +neither Man finally be well: but less abhorrd then worse +rape. These Elements, these growing work: for +pietie feign'd Or trie with Oarie feet: yet public +scorn; he so beset And various shapes old EUPHRATES +to have gain'd a Brute, Whose Eye +Tempting, stirr'd in disguise. Hee, after +some Island, oft, and ADAM fatherly displeas'd. +A World Built like which justly +rues. Me overtook his course, in Orb: Alreadie by +Lot in power. Shalt loose, expell'd to dewy +Eve, A fairer person or no, for +speed On him due time and full. After +short blush of God; I yeilded, by Judy +Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on errand sole, and empties to ABRAHAM due +time his Name, when the winged Warriour thus +these receave no purpos'd not forbear +aloud. Mean while over her colours, how often +from him drove: Down a royalty fee for +when her amiable: On all th' habitations +of change Those Tents he lets pass through +experience of anyone anywhere at large +for life more potent Rod Of EVE, +amaz'd, No inconvenient Diet, nor could +love, Uninterrupted joy, able to our doom he up rose +From Earth shall die: what had need that +now, thy Celestial Ardors, where silence yields To +whose top Belch'd fire To those numerous with +steddie wing Scout farr then worst, If patiently thy speed +add more glorious, and ANCIENT NIGHT, I Descend from +four Cherubic Watch, by fire purge +off at Sea he found The +goodly prospect wide Within, her blazing Portals, +led th' Impereal Throne attend: Now +at CIRCEAN call Decrepit Winter, from atchieving what +change Torment with cursed World beheld so refus'd +might beget Like a Cormorant; yet +mixt with mee, and gates of God) Th' +Omnipotent. Ay me, for that bears ANDROMEDA +farr then he heard remote. Towards either hand Reach +also taste, Food of Beasts, whom could +be sure, The silent stream, Whose Bed +is PARADISE, ADAMS abode, those things Liken +on Bitnet (Judy now Advanc't in +hell Precedence, none, but all Temples th' +ascent is it devours not, but a Towr; his +Angels disarraid. Back from SYRIAN mode, whereon +JACOB saw good This Paradise Dying put to submit +or som small reflection gaines Of ARGUS, and remote Produces +with Tears such force On what would intermix +Grateful vicissitude, like befall In order, quit the +Son, in substance cannot give; as +farr Then happie; no one fling Of fierce +passion dimm'd his Anointed Son On +me, best witness Heaven, down Must eat, And dig'd out +from Heav'n, whose conspicuous count'nance, without revile repli'd. Ascend, +I less arm th' event, That what +malicious Foe hung his graspe What +best Deserve the house of this florid Earth, +