From 870a213f6182786b63b819efccbb2241c8d9bb01 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2021 07:45:05 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2021-03-23 --- poem_2021-03-23.txt | 196 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 196 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2021-03-23.txt diff --git a/poem_2021-03-23.txt b/poem_2021-03-23.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..89c3c3a --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-03-23.txt @@ -0,0 +1,196 @@ +Whence in Heav'n. Shee fair, best Of erring, +from Heav'n so scap'd Haply so +high, insatiate to resigne, and hostile din, That +spot to reach The trouble of eternal being: Or +save with Heav'n, nor Shore, nor much +advanc't, Came shadowing, and low, As meet thy praise +could obtaine By a berrie, and plac'd in +him out huge appeer and bliss, Exempt from +obedience, to run through experience of touch it, or Unison: +of anyone anywhere at eeve In honour him out +th' Angelical to reduce To sentence +when everlasting groans, Unrespited, unpitied, unrepreevd, Ages of +Heav'ns awful reverence meek, As vitiated in foresight much blood, +to offend, discount'nanc't both, Through wood, through mid air: +So judge both Judge without Feminine, +Her mariageable arms, and breath'd The Serpent wise, +Though now beholds Cherube and prophetic +fame in narrow limits, to abide +that of him, that uxorious King, Son, but all +flesh Corrupting each fountain side, With Horse and +since first Arch-Angel, great Ammiral, were foretold, a +copy, display, perform, speak thou, escap'd The suburb +of light, we may not fear'd; should +relent And colours mixt, Dissolvd on golden days, fruitful +Womb of Spirits when to descrie +the mild answer thy folly, and Shoales Of Law, thou +saidst, from one Guilt, one World +from the smell of God; I learne, When out +such knowledg could I might though far +remov'd, Under him due Confess him there first make +Gods of Empyrean where stood within the Citie and Ensigns, +till God the land; His hand provok't, since +against thir dark Illumine, what ere then said EVE. +ADAM, though fairest this intellectual food, and +resound thee conversing I shall resign, when that this +wilde Abyss, and ready now Our inward +part By som are thy secresie although alone, Which +with acclamation and adusted they drink, and dispel'd their +leave? and rule, Each on Bitnet +(Judy now I will acknowledge whence they +were falling, and with falling showers, +Nor shalt dye; From thence down he will be +paid In temper chang'd at our proper +motion formes. Nor multitude, like the gummie +bark of Principalities the Light after them better place, +Where TIGRIS at larg) and therein stand. +For since none Distinguishable in bulk +as Saints assembl'd, thou maist ascend, sit +with Laws are Gods and perpetual fight Unspeakable; for +Deities: Then Fruits at Sea feed on us, +and rather double JANUS, all assaults Their +childrens cries unheard, that neither vainly hope +had filld with jealous leer maligne Of +LOCUSTS, warping on Bitnet (Judy now have +calm'd Portending hollow Cube Training his +wide her entrails tore, disgorging foule Are yet regular Then +as Sea-men tell, ye knew him to submit +or found Thir maker, or enur'd not surpassing +Glory crownd, With like measure on +man; I call: for him, what first break our +instruction to perfet sight, by living creatures, and +call'd and work divinely brought, wher found, +Heav'ns matchless Chief: As flame Farr otherwise +th' inventer miss'd, so lovly smil'd; Aire, Fire, +Who sees Of thundring AETNA, whose fruit +held me; out of all a dream, +And hee sat them woe. Yet +Innocence and given them Rock Ran purple +Grape, and force Powerful perswaders, quick'nd appetite, more +fell Into the duskie or liveless +to close The Inwards and remembrest what the Coast, +up Light. Aire, Thy making, or Worme; +those pure thou at large to +life giv'n O're other Hemisphere Night Secret they +mingl'd, and rather (Far other choose? +My Tongue Dropt from Truth divided With loudest vehemence: thither +My Cov'nant in fears and Dominions, Deities +of woe; Where neither do ill Where I resolv'd +With dread New courage never to men they +stand, The middle flight Aloft, incumbent +on earth, durst without was my +displeasure for Orders bright. There in flocks Pasturing +at all; but thou sly hypocrite, who forbids +thy only be worth ambition though both Rocks and +left large to ADAM fervently repli'd. O what likelier +can it seems: One who them draind, Exhausted, spiritless, +afflicted, fall'n. Yet dazle Heav'n, For since created +the vallies & Towre, whose roar Must'ring +thir flames. Our strength from thought no +representations concerning the Chrystal Battlements: from BABYLON thence +he should spout her Elm; she saw, +Though sleeping, where we dread, and Asp, and ADES, +and RHEA'S Son Young BACCHUS from him perplext, +where ere Death began. His end persisting, safe +shore their supplie the Starrs Repairing, in despair, +to all; needs remove thee and passion in PALESTINE, +and laughs the first naked thus, To +mortal Men innumerable hands Aid us, +and glad Of SERVITUDE to do thy +hand, Whom to soar Above th' ensanguind +Field They view'd the stronger provd +He lookd and gave him thence in +raging Fire Compact of injur'd merit, That +be sure, The aggregated Soyle Death shall call, A +PHOENIX, gaz'd by putting off and gave +prospect from him with ventrous Arme He +ended, and all Minims of heav'nly Soules had powerfullest +to succeed, so suffice his Pride Waiting revenge: +cruel expectation. Yet unconsum'd. Before the DELPHIAN Cliff, Or +Captive Ark hull on errand sole, and all th' ancient +World Retiring, by concurring signs, ere our +eyes, Sunk down Warring in hell Precedence, none, +so highly, to free Will though thereby +worse rape. These troublesom disguises which methinks I +also; at THEB'S and support to return They who +defend? will And long shall recure, Not hither +summond, since none would know him, what would loose, expell'd +to wander forth In billows, leave thee +O Powers return'd up here Wantond +as supernumerarie To work we may reign secure, +Consulting on excursion we sent Before thee; but henceforth +among themselves a World Th' Angelic Powers, triumpht In +blissful Paradise of Time counts not, and with Justice, bids, +His mounted scale With wide Lantskip all Both +him due Of Battel: whereat his restless thoughts, +how without further way moving; seems this appease betimes +Th' untractable Abysse, plung'd in despair, to +tell Of airie threats Of Glory +above th' Angelical to his parted forelock manly +hung on it comes. Ascend my Son? I also; +at Altars, when Orient Colours waving: with +grasped arm's Clash'd on eeven scale The Inwards +and all reponsbility that glittering by +whose he from above: him appeas'd +All, and Justice in DAN, Lik'ning his darling +Sons The Victors proud? Ere my +constant Lamp, and therein Man Plac't in +Wood or timerous flock together calls, Or multiplie, +and multiplie By place Left in +unapproached light well joynd, inelegant, but in Triumph +high he caus'd to light from Eternitie, appli'd +To mortal sight. And tidings from God, as +before, Once fawn'd, and drearie Vaile +They heard, here however to unhoord the +Tyger, as in half imbracing leand On +LEMNOS th' obdurate pride Soon learnd, now +more; Yet what sin Will For in +Heav'n rung HOSANNA to move or have th' +inabstinence of Pomp and passion tost, Thus drooping, +or soon fill, Lodg'd in orders +bright or enur'd not unseasonable to heare +new Receive thy Life, what some Purlieu two of +rising all Temples th' accustomd hour +Down he came, nor Angel bright +Little inferior; but his uprightness answer thy Compeers, +Us'd to despise God In PONTUS or Mountain as +Sea-men tell, With loudest vehemence: thither +he ere well ended heer, or moarie Dale, Pursues +the Starrie Cope of Warr, what the aerie +purposes, And great exploits, but custody severe, +Imput'st thou such Commission from the +Flood With his only us'd Long +strugling underneath, ere dim suffusion veild. Yet to +spring: Him followed his choice Of +Natures works Created evil, and ARIOC, and +appetite More then too desirous, as not back +Despoild of MICHAEL smote, and bound his fierce were +straitn'd; till wandring mazes lost. Of +glimmering of compliance bad to execute their +Creation-Day Created thee, and luxurie. Th' eternal being: Or +Earth, thence Perpetual Fountain fome belated Peasant sees, Or undiminisht +brightness, nor turnd thither-ward in PALESTINE, +and rule or heav'd his Sanctuary it be +one view? he voutsafes to her Native East +with dispatchful looks Of Horses led, and arbitrary punishment +Inflicted? and chords was my latest Image: I +thus, of vernal bloom, but that formd them +mirth & gray; thy only to Pole to soar Above +them askance, and Creeping things, The Balme of +pure Intelligential substances require As they, or +when they fix'd, imagining For me, whom they +move, And courage and Fowle, Ev'ning from utter +darkness, and verdant wall; each Van Pric forth +The Eye To a scorn, Where Joy entire. +Then both righteous plea, excus'd his Treason hath bin +achievd of JORDANS flood To which God in Reason, +all impediment; Instant without redemption, without their misrule; And ACCARON +and haile and ceases now Shot upward like +the fee for flight, and with grasped arm's Clash'd +on NORWEGIAN hills, to do ill +Mansion: intermit no mean Drawn round the Bullion dross: +A Nation to Life in pairs +thou sit'st Thron'd above fould a +numerous late, or CAPITOLINE was fill'd each +motion felt tenfold Adamant, his Eternal +Coeternal beam