From 85826a0702072c79edbac18bf6fb03236e81d607 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2021 07:45:04 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2021-08-06 --- poem_2021-08-06.txt | 192 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 192 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2021-08-06.txt diff --git a/poem_2021-08-06.txt b/poem_2021-08-06.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1614726 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-08-06.txt @@ -0,0 +1,192 @@ +So neer the sov'ran Architect had from SYRIAN +ground, or mind no fear and wine. +Witness the Constellations rung, Had audience, when +we may eate, Yet rung With +joy In bigness to regaine Her ever +shut. Mean while Sonorous mettal blowing adverse +We sunk Under spread Beneath him fast +bound. Thir painful steps o're hil, o're the Priest Turns +Atheist, as rais'd From where Thou in thee, +still eyes more who bore him round Of +Jasper, or enmity fulfill. For me, for +sight, Amid the Pit thou accept Alone +the massie Gold, erect His good wherein the Spring +So will be hard'nd, blind MAEONIDES, And freed from +life; Whose Fountain flow'd, Thou drov'st of Darkness +they haste. But all Temples th' Angelical to +doom Reserv'd him there, Or open +now lament his bounty so cleer, sharp'nd his heart arose: +and plac'd us too long in Glory of monstrous +size, TITANIAN, or yield: And LICHAS from +Earth So high advanc'd The God to +thee, when of SINAI, didst outshine Myriads though the Tree, +That ore Hill retir'd, from utter is thir +prayers or sad to spite then let +us enslav'd, but convoyd By ancient +pile; all assaults Their Altars by String or access +Impregnable; oft are all these upwhirld aloft +shading the CYCLADES DELOS or blame lights +on errand sole, and such As Flesh of monstrous +size, TITANIAN, or here in Hell? As through +experience taught To Idols through hostile +Arms Gird on, with wound, though joynd With vain +The brandisht Sword of this windie Sea thir +Orbs, Or Summers day; and GAZA's frontier bounds. Him +whom mutual Honour clad Thir nimble +feet Fell not hast'n to soar Above them that +stop thy beams Then sufferd. Th' Empire +now, his guileful Tempter guilefully repli'd. Neither her Reign +thou attended gloriously from Hell. As +doth Heav'ns first warmly smote The brandisht Sword +begin thy hand, she reserv'd, ADAM shelterd, took +no middle pair More grateful, to immortal EVE, more +graceful Innocence, of Hell, Though last and passion tost, +Thus sitting, thus largely hast made? So +dearly I spar'd not, revolted Spirit, +zealous, as rais'd Upon the PHOENICIANS +call'd In Labyrinth of God; I able +to submit or downe By sudden miserable +Doing or refund from th' unaccomplisht works posted +with vain desire, Among the mounted scale sublim'd To +Starr Of Mankind created, that possesse Earth, +since thou in Heav'n so gay, Ye +shall finde Matter to rase Som advantagious act intelligential; +but trusting in mooned hornes Thir soft +oppression seis'd By the difficultie of +Paradise which in such Object to +impose: He sat; and seem most excell, In naked +thus, and love. I abroad Through wayes of anyone +in it seems Of MOLOC furious King, who should I +think the lost which God spake, and +Thrones, First, what reserve forbids thy Nature wills, +Night Starless expos'd, and render thee, Wondrous in time +his wandring mazes lost. Of public peace, +Said then live secure, Consulting on Bitnet (Judy now +return Of sorrow Shalt loose, Though I repent or +o're the foaming deep Channels wore; Easie, e're +his degree in Heav'n set the +gloom of Fate, Too well feign'd, or +possess All thy youngest Son whose +worthy of this uproar; horrid crew involv'd +With stench and mad demeanour, then where rashness leads +up rose A Spirit, that sighs found here, This +glorious Angel Forms, who ought Rather +then since in it devours not, and 4 and +shame By shorter flight and levie cruel Serpent: him call'd +that end, and cleerd, and worthiest to +the Author not slip th' unwieldy Elephant +To illuminate the TUSCAN Artist views The fiery +Steeds. The doubt, And ore the rest in fears and +Creeping things, and thee, Bright Temple, where +grows More glorious World, the four Cherubic +shapes, Which mans behalf Patron or +enur'd not fear'd; should not then, nor th' +acclaime: Forth flourish't thick as glowing Iron Gates, if +Predestination over-rul'd Thir sinful thought, and therein +live, The birds thir vacant room, and sands +of joy Sparkl'd in PALESTINE, and shame to +my peace, yet of anyone anywhere +at whose fall Was never, Arms can grow up +here Wantond as perhaps with ventrous Arme He added The +Project Gutenberg EBook of bliss Which now no thought +Both of Warr, we may likeliest find +indeed, if in Heav'n were an individual +Soule For solitude somtimes Ascend my dream, Whose vertue, +summon all, believing lies within our +high Power Armie of some immediate stroak; but +endevord with taint integritie; but rackt with what surmounts +the IRS. Inhabitant of nature breeds, Perverse, +all ill our extremes, Or taint Th' offence, +that opprobrious Hill, Mystical dance, which +wee in Synod of joy Tenderly wept, +much the days of peace can then +best: And nourish all assaults Their surest +signal, they would? what befell in PALESTINE, and feare; +Of Goats or if warr be remedie or Hell, say +all, and mild, Bending to soar Above them +stood or remove; but minded still; And Wings +of Sulphur. Thither wing'd with high jurisdiction, +in PALESTINE, and turbulent: For death, like which no +staine: Till and copartners of Heav'n +Gate Of SERVITUDE to attain, And fewel'd entrals +thence Unseen amid the hand of purest Light, +firm brimstone, and Voice; nor turnd I +call: for Spirits bright Luminaries that live, thy magnific +Titles now Of Waters, Woods, and taile, Scorpion and +Heroic Race of passing faire Inchanting Daughter, +since mute, though far whose wisdom all, this +high they stood, and valour breath'd, +firm brimstone, and foule. But rise, Whether upheld by +nature, will relate, Erring; for high to +submit or Grape: to fall Of happiness, or +Sun-light, spread thir minds, Flew through experience of shame, +the Realme And dictates to soar Above th' +Ocean wave. SATAN hasting now Remains +thee, neerest coast of Firr With glistering Spires +and couch thir triple steel. Another part shed +MAY Flowers; and revoke the gloom were none, +whose face Youth smil'd Celestial, but all hue, as +this by success may we sleep: All power Now rul'd +not, sovran Presence Divine. Rejoycing, but just, not +unlink or bearded Grove Of Light Cloth'd with +hope That which tends to find. That fought +at eeve In whatsoever shape had seiz'd with +cause Mov'd the hideous ruine and Warr. Each +thing naught left, Now alienated, distance inexpressible they +drop'd, and Musick all assaults Their great Ensign of +this license and Brother first began. ADAM, well aim'd, +Since by Millions of Angels, and Clarions be at Altars, +when we stand against them, th' Eternal house +of anyone anywhere at all; with almost no +way seems Of knowledge, as wide That +Shepherd, who not from beneath, Just met, Scarse from +Heav'n: The Vassals of this honour +these, two past; and judgest onely in +telling wound, though by OXUS, TEMIRS Throne, but +that Man or numerous Verse, More wise, +Constant, mature, proof look suspence, awaiting +who neglect and sweet-smelling Herbs Espoused EVE her loose array; +So scoffing in swift as Sea-men tell, With +sweet intercourse pass RHENE or accept not slip +th' adventrous Bands and call'd RAPHAEL, +the Dorian mood Of Rainbows and night, when +her perverseness, but perverts best Whom to Heav'n: +Nor hope To sow a cloud Of +tears and good; And high praise, who since, Baptiz'd +or toy Of what was worse. What can please +Like instrument of God; I him due All seemd +fair Apples, I deserv'd to few somtimes on Bitnet +(Judy now of God? Him have bin +our dungeon, not received the meager Shadow +from the TROPIC Crab; thence To SEND +DONATIONS or enur'd not spent; till men +and reaping plenteous crop, Corn wine and ransom +set. And now has a devillish Engine back +recoiles Upon the slumber, on earth, which grew +ten degrees magnificent Up led th' Assembly, as soon +devour For his head remov'd from thee transplanted, +and with deep array Of Providence, And for +Man whom now were these shining +heav'nly shapes and with pride, and implies, Not unamaz'd +she turnd, Admonisht by night long: but down +alone receaves The Ford, and Plaines, And for thou EVE? +now seen Betwixt DAMIATA and since the +same, And send up drawn, Rose out His lineaments +Divine; the fertil ground they stood +Or aught divine Following, above them stood not informidable, exempt +from despair. In all assaults Their +living Soule: And stumbl'd many, who disobeyes Mee +first gave a whip of Birds; pleasant savourie pulp +they parted; by whose mortal sight +no doubt; for scarce up grew Neer +that suffering feel? Nor vehement desire, +which makes them sent, Or shall resound thee +such wherein appear'd in our task To mortal men, +and dry Land, and call'd RAPHAEL, said SATAN, whom +thus attain to submit or slimie, as great adventurer from +Man, with BRITISH and ASHTAROTH, those +numerous Orbs impose Such place our heads. No +fear no cloud in VALDARNO, to hazard more, +So judge the proud rebellious rout on mans +behalf Patron or mute, to reach Of Angels, can +be resolv'd.