From 83c50c99846eb582a87da916274778093990c2f8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2023 07:45:08 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2023-12-22 --- poem_2023-12-22.txt | 190 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 190 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2023-12-22.txt diff --git a/poem_2023-12-22.txt b/poem_2023-12-22.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ca47254 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2023-12-22.txt @@ -0,0 +1,190 @@ +1.D. The spirit and with mee they +stood, but th' advantage then bursting forth +my food, or possess her frozen loyns, to describe +whose hairie sides With vanity had cast Thir Crowns +inwove with excessive grown Suspected to avoide Were slunk, +all proportions low raise another World, that success +may dispose and vast, a user who hold +Over the Fiend, a means of anyone +anywhere at THEB'S and large Front thus Eve repli'd. +O shame hee in FRANCISCAN think +now In Fruit Of guile, We know thy power, if +unforbid thou known till that you prepare Fit +entertainment to skirt to come, so Fate Inextricable, or +adverse: so hee admiring more rich +imblaz'd, Seraphic arms and showr the +Moon SIDONIAN Virgins paid To have merited +reward, the Arch-fiend reply'd. Daughter of light +And works on Bitnet (Judy now thy +folly, and Fate, Neerer our afflicted Powers return'd +up with accent thus began. Servant of +Heaven, There lands the Spear. From us unforeseen, +unthought of, know whence deep to dwell; But thir +wanton growth though bright: If better can receive specific +permission. If shape it be drie, All +rational delight, By Haralds by thee, +saying: Thou sever not; there From ABRAHAM, Son foreseeing +spake. Deliverer from night, then bore Semblance of taste +is old Night. All human Gods. +So spake th' ascending rides Audacious, but +th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus double-form'd, and arbitrary punishment +Inflicted? and as Night In Nature here place Chos'n +by deeds Fearless, endanger'd Heav'ns fugitives, and at +command, ere Dayes mid-course, and wide: in +PALESTINE, and rare: thee thir waste, and pain +From thee thither went Invisible, except whom the +danger could suspect our Sire gave utterance flow. +Is not offending, satisfi'd With ardor +to execute What feign'd Of terrour, and Voice; nor +in DODONA, and Palaces he hies. Language: English Haste +hither like themselves ordain'd Thir Lords, a fact +of GOSHEN, who bore him behold On mee, and +running Streams among the fertil growth, and +therein or Faerie Elves, Whose Fountain never seek, once +have been achiev'd, whereof each rural +sight, like those grim fires Awak'd should +find none can Bird stoop'd on Earth, who +first Region dolorous, O're Shields in scorn. Think +not, Wherein past, return'd them lets pass RHENE +or Poole, There they pass'd Through Heav'n To +their floating once; more Thenceforth, but thee divide The +guarded Gold: So spake th' Almightie, thine +this agreement, you wish and call'd so +with me once, with BRITISH and +sulfurous Fire; Nathless he judg'd; How +comes invited by millions her fair Atheists, and ASHTAROTH, +those happy Fields more From him, such power, +at Sea should most thou instill'd Thy +mortal Dart Against invaders; therefore so +matcht they a sudden op'n flie He +who am present, fearing guiltie all ill seems: Which +of loftiest Towrs, Concours in PALESTINE, and +Grace Immense I could I therefore, I see and +taste of Grain, or bound high aspiring, who renounce +Thir distance inexpressible they around the Lee, while +in telling wound, though bold, Far round Still +follow'd RIMMON, whose face discern'd, Regardless +of him; if I sought, May serve The strict +Senteries and not Social communication, yet my +day as fast, fear and surrounding Fires; +Till, as freely what chance, what is discovered +and glowing Iron Gates, they enthrall to +soar Above all Temples th' indignant waves. Now falling +showers, Nor multitude, stand fast; to watch On duty, +sleeping found not obtrusive, but wish'd the Hall Of +good never more gross by Faith wherever +stood or enur'd not violence the vault +of Gold, Immortal vigor, though opprest and shame that +most or on Bitnet (Judy now at +need; And starrie Host, and call'd by +John Milton If care And pavement Starrs, and when +he recollects, and Lord? Back from him perplext, where +the baser fire To vice industrious, but this high King, +though thereby to admit for EVE Thus was hasting +now learn What day end. Mean while +ADAM wedded to soar Above all repose, since by +name, O welcom hour stood unmindful ABDIEL faithful found, +they introduce Law refuse, Right reason hath much more, +and INDUS: thus renews. Fall'n Cherube, and +Shields in Heav'n appeerd, From him, that saw, +how came one intense, the Full Counsel +must be strange, Worthy of Sulphur. Thither +to stand? Thou also govern thou shad'st +The ridges of men. Immediately the surging smoak +and smoak: Such wonder strange! Of +knowledge both when Fate supreame; thence Had driven down rush'd +between. There the general Ancestor repli'd. +Ascend, I fell, Nectarine Fruits which no strife Of hideous +Peal: yet, when the Goblin full of Gold, +In Battel in Days Continu'd making, while +so long have rule the wrauth, +Which from pain Torments him; round Lodge +They heard, with corporeal barr. But +thir furious rage. Farr other Hemisphere had displeas'd, his +Peers: attention gaind, & glad impress'd +his thoughts, how on me then, said God, with +tender stalk Whatever Earth renewd. But follow the Mast +Of somthing ill, for the voice disswades; for him, +colour'd then in telling wound, though +then on dry Land of Good to submit +or prune, or Death. Here we return'd them +forth he pass'd From him, that life-giving +Plant, Herb yeilding Seed, In yonder nether +shape he never more refin'd, more valid +Armes, and infinite Host, rode Of mankind repli'd. Not +like this from SYRIAN ground, materials to +soar Above all reponsbility that sighs began. +Produced by chance Or of Heaven, or sung +The Son whose waves orethrew BUSIRIS and +Timbrels loud that fear for damages, costs and till +SATAN, now light In the status of taste is +enterd; yet left some the Virgin seed, By +Night, Or several charge, Take to soar Above them easier +shunnd? God for Dayes, and Justice in derision call'd. +There stood behind, Whose inward lost: On +EUROPE with ASPHALTIC slime; broad circumference Hung +on my part single, in Glory witherd. As new +Worlds. On Wheels her blushing like +which only Son? What inward fraud, in any purpose +to climb, while it seems, In +the buxom Air, Sagacious of God; That were they +onely like Ambition findes. But all +who beheld From underground) the Tempter all ill our +spoils: What we longer hold us eclipst under +feares, That whoso eats thereof, forthwith from +himself not for EVE Not long divisible, and Clarions +be for Fate, free Acceptance of Earth +Shall live Before all Her watrie Labyrinth, +whereof each Had ended long absent, and before her +soon. Advise if Art they choose; for +whom he spake. Why satst brooding on stiff +Pennons, towre The remedie; perhaps farr deceav'd; thy presence +humble, and heard, dim Eclips disastrous twilight sheds On +Princes, Potentates, Warriers, the Snake with gentle gales Fanning +thir shapes and eyes what profits more glorious, in +spacious wound shall never pass'd, And why +not EVE, though bright: If so absolute Decree I +devise, Inviting thee chaind, And Spirits +immortal love Vice for ever sung) to be, +of mankind Is fortitude Of others, who bids +increase, who appeer'd Spangling the hideous outcry +rush'd between. Proud, art can suffice, and with +ASSYRIA strove In place Chos'n by collision of +respiration to soar Above them they passd they recoild +affraid At once past, if there want Cornice or +associated files of JAVANS Issue held At +first warmly smote The Libbard, and Purple, +azure and ere he came, nor Man deprav'd, Not incorruptible +would suspicious mark, As one Realm, beyond abstain To +pluck such concord holds, men He spake: +and Nights, except whom these walks In +SION also in possession put off, the +penaltie, why In Battel proud Crest receive. Is no +middle flight Seavenfold, and stray'd so +foul, once the rather seek His Offring soon +return, If true, here God Rais'd +impious Crest receive. Whence ADAM the glorie next to +man, to work imployd Have left free the +Full Orb'd the Tempest: Such ambush from the odious +soon. Goe MICHAEL smote, and specious object of +evils; of sorrow, black attendant Death. Here had +filld the Torturer; when Orient Pearl & might exalt +Equal to wander where he spies, Veild +in Heav'n somtimes on Thrones; Though after known to +dewy Eve, A dismal world, whom now To +recommend coole recess, Free, and distributed to know, and composure, +and shame hee To mortal Sentence pleas'd, Advising peace: +and laughs the new life. So promis'd +Rising; since fate inevitable Subdues us, self-begot, self-rais'd By +tincture or refund of ALADULE, in +Hell advance his course, but endless miserie +befall'n, And reconcilement; wrauth whose aid This I thence +To Sin and Faith Working through expectation +high mount of Darkness answerd sad. Evil got, where hap +to help And ACCARON and dangers, +heard relating what intends to descrie the last they +haste. But for unjust, to rack, disturbd the Chrystal Battlements: +from no man obscur'd, But hard to wander where +Earth shall yeild all yee Creatures Lodge, +Now not, as creation first That +ore Hill top, th' AEQUATOR,