From 84c6412634ed7bd46d02b10f97b4ccd5dab61def Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2021 07:45:05 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2021-04-16 --- poem_2021-04-16.txt | 196 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 196 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2021-04-16.txt diff --git a/poem_2021-04-16.txt b/poem_2021-04-16.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..49513af --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-04-16.txt @@ -0,0 +1,196 @@ +Alas, both wings Over Fish of life the +harmony (What could deterre Me overtook his thy +call, A dismal Situation waste and pain? Who +can Bird and all reponsbility that rape +begot These past, if they shoot forth Triumphant through +experience taught the yoke Of Conscience, into the +weight of anyone in wanton wreath in +sudden view On Earth, of joy +Sole partner and fell flat, and pursu'd in +heav'nly Records now what higher sat, +His Seasons, and massie Gold, Hung ore +the fleecie Starr Of Knowledge, knowledge by +day Thy equal all, on golden seat's, +Frequent and pain, Millions that bright procession to +soar Above all things with vast vacuitie: +all dispraise: But first met thou +sit'st Thron'd above compare, And without thee +set, and vast, a Mountain Pines, With Mountains +in narrow search and regain the great Mother of +Life. Nor chang'd in PALESTINE, and one thrice threefold +the VVell of Hell, Though Heav'n hides +nothing wants, but favour'd more haughty +thus MAMMON spake. Why shouldst dislike, And corporeal +substances require As far whose gay Carnation, +Purple, azure and proclaimd MESSIAH King I felt, Commotion +governd thus, ADAM, rise, Wings were +low and Seed shall need, hee +Whom us falling, and repossess their Creation-Day Created thing +naught left, Now possess, As we then? what +further knew) Nor chang'd From mee That kept +the dawning I admonish'd thee, against the Arke a +Covenant never shall his head, hands, by +more wonderful indeed all Her bearded Grove or +eternal Warr Open or once past, and therein +or Worm durst oppose his head, devouring fire. Sounder +fierie spume, till one faithful Armies to forget Those +Blossoms and descending from thee from the +rest his Carcass glut the Bullion +dross: A numerous then if Art +thou Once fawn'd, and taste No inconvenient +Diet, nor Man; is low creeping, he gives me +Henceforth; my state. But whom SATAN except, +Who but with scalding thurst and Asthma's, +and lowd lament, and perturbation, and plaid +at noon, with dispatchful looks Divine Interpreter, +by Moon, whose command thir state reserv'd? +For such deformities be no unbounded hope +the gloom For such wherein no middle pair That +proud will and sequesterd, though perhaps more wonderful Of +present pain, that voluntarie move th' upper World; at +thir lost Arch Angel, who forbids me, the branches +overgrown, That sparkling blaz'd, his own +brood, and with Amarant and dischargd; what change +Worth waiting, since perhaps Not all these tidings bring, Fruits +and render me not so: then her silent +stream, LETHE the PHOENICIANS call'd EGYPT, divided With thousand +Banners rise Victorious, and faire Light, Thrones, that +strow the unwiser Son foreseeing spake. Deliverer from no +shadow seem'd, For Spirits perverse With Warr +so cleer, sharp'nd his restless thoughts, +and sorceries abus'd Fanatic EGYPT from SYRIAN +Damsels to raise At once deemd however +to soar Above his head, but rather Mee who +bore SCIPIO the rest; so cleere, not +lost; where choice Leads up Light. Aire, +Fire, Flood, extended wings outspread Dove-like satst brooding on a +wakeful Foe, Who first thir strength, Not well to soar +Above th' impure as one Head I by +our Necks. Remember what ere th' anointed King; And +hairie sides With tumult less rejoyc'd His +great Commander; Godlike shapes and shout, return'd From +thir being by, Knowledge grew ten Furies, terrible +Example the smooth watry Plain, In mutinie had +bid haste Of each Beast and howl'd Within +Heav'ns awful Monarch? wherefore let fall. +Such wondrous works, to prosper, and Heav'n hides nothing this +gloom; the Harlot-lap Of Warriers old now Such as +thou mad'st the Books of violence and smoak: Such +happy State, which God heard, and guile. What order, +so main Abyss And my crime, +Long after to Project Gutenberg is perfectly +accurate. No detriment need All I pursue Thy coming, +and with ardent look he from the +lowest deep Of ugly Serpents; horror Plum'd; +nor unsung By Prayer th' only to conceal, and +full. After thir shame nigh founderd on +Thrones; Though all assaults Their great +behest from such companie as over built +in appearance, forth So strange Hath Omnipresence) +and yet more remov'd, Least with their liveliest +pledge Of Heav'n Seek not molest us, and +thrice threefold the Son, but could hav orepow'rd such +dear life. So on yon Lake with deeds +What though not deprav'd from the INDIAN streams; +Abhorred STYX the tongue, Somtimes in despair, to +sustaine His massie Spear Of coole recess, +Free, and pain is then these, Above +all assaults Their childrens cries unheard, that tasted +such; the thighs Of mee then, mee expung'd and +pale, ire, Belike through Pond or +Foreland, where ALCINOUS reign'd, fruit burnisht with +fury all Beleevers; and QUILOA, and press'd +her numbers full, Thenceforth shall his restless thoughts, +that Milkie way Up to found them +all, Greatness of hundreds and Waters, and +all prodigious things, who should injure us, unless for +ever With terrors and wild, under feares, +That I fell, whom then springs +as thir wanton passions in Heav'n +Gate With lust and hearts shall +rejoyce, And gav'st me; but lead forth all assaults +Their surest signal, they who scap'd Haply so huge affliction +and wrought In ADAM, well I unpittied: +League Banded against mee the Sword upon us, we +would loose, Though huge, and therein stand. For dissolution wrought +by sad overthrow and press'd her Cheek distemper the +Vision led The lip of chearful face, +wherein no excuse. Yet dreadful and as fast, +and Miserie Deaths Harbinger: Sad ACHERON of waters dark +opprobrious Hill, Smit with feats of endless pain? Ye +Cedars, with ASPHALTIC slime; broad Suns thir limber +fans For one anothers arms and Bowers +doubt distract His fair In jointed Armour +clashing bray'd Horrible discord, and suttle, but EVE, Saw +where find. Before him, what was not, and ruinous +(to compare Great things proceed, But all sides round +Environ'd wins his Aerie wheele, Nor God, as +sons of Morn, Or hollow'd bodies may +offend Our eye-lids; other calls Justice, +bids, His course intended; else according +to unite thir resplendent Globe Of +sympathie and Gold: So gloz'd the deep, a +registered trademark, and valour breath'd, firm +ground Thir specious deeds well to +themselves decreed Thir nimble feet might learn True +Paradise In signe Of painful steps we +choose, what I yeilded, by command thir wanton wreath in +faith, in darkness do his breath +that name O thought Mov'd on, pensive and at +th' anointed King; And mutual amitie so fresh +Fountain other echo farr less ancient Seat; perhaps thus +expell'd to me now raisd Bore him call'd +Princes of Woman: Virgin is else delight +and well I as Sea-men tell, How +many Throned Powers, Under her spirits +beneath, Down the happier Seat he views +At Loopholes cut sheere, nor shall returne perhaps I +be ever during Gates, And for whom now +hid, Leave them who live there, nor turnd thither-ward +in Heavn, & whither the Lee, while +offerd himself rebellious, here Varied his defects. +No inconvenient Diet, nor Heav'n Of evil much +wondring lookt, beside it was, whence light & +Rocks of Spirits of this agreement. If counsels from within +them, by maistring Heav'ns wide With tumult +less hostile scorn, Where TIGRIS at http://gutenberg.net/license). Powers return'd them +rose BELIAL, flown with crescent Horns; +To dash Maturest Counsels: for our joynt +Will covet more. So spake th' expanse +of Day and shame obnoxious, and return Diurnal) +meerly titular, since God Of hazard +huge extent somtimes, with perplexing thoughts Firm concord +holds, unite thir Banners rise on by nature, +and shot forth Infinite goodness, grace +With all these Herbs, Fruits, & juciest Gourd will +be fill'd, before the blanc Of +things common else. By Angels numberless, +to roave Uncheckt, and sorrow. Sternly he passd, +the use and thought Horrid, if all eare shall +to soar Above all assaults Their Altars by +farr Then shall need, not hellish mischief had been +falling, and down, and God Was death or +second, or MAROCCO, or level pavement: from +Eternitie, dwelt happy though damnd I +drag thee unblam'd? since by fraud Drew audience and all +assaults Their living strength, and dejection +and Asthma's, and spread his Glorie they or not Nature, +she mus'd. If he makes Wild work +divinely wrought, Ascended, at random, as Princes, Potentates, +Warriers, the Bullion dross: A monstrous +Serpent kinde Wondrous in Heav'n call'd aloud. 1.E. Unless +th' only Son except, Created thee, and with +pride, and considerate Pride Waiting revenge: cruel warres, Wasting the +Bullion dross: A dewie locks distill'd Ambrosia; +on Bitnet (Judy now To Noon +amid the Royal State, Favour'd of +monstrous shapes and full. After these his work, +you follow what form and green: These +then, when I at Table was, +whose broad circumference Hung ore the South +to inshrine BELUS or accept My obvious to Earth beneath, +Down sunk with brazen Dungeon, armd To +ADAM or Poole, There kept for Heav'n +arriv'd, both ascend The Foundation at Altars, when +all Comes unprevented, unimplor'd, unsought, Happie for +