From 8a2f4b565f5e415a227325d1dbacfa085f89c8d7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2022 07:45:04 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2022-07-01 --- poem_2022-07-01.txt | 193 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 193 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2022-07-01.txt diff --git a/poem_2022-07-01.txt b/poem_2022-07-01.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..effcd64 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-07-01.txt @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ +Then from PELORUS, or heav'd his seat Thir +painful steps Over this Paradise Dying put +thy might: his eyes, and Fowle, Ev'ning and +enthrall'd By Faith they brought, wher found, supply +Perhaps hath all night or Worm durst without was +hid metallic Ore, The lip of FESOLE, +Or proud Cities warr appears Wag'd in Guard thir +Fountain or enur'd not idle, but +her spotty Globe. His mighty Stature; on +a library of Diabolic pow'r Active within my +head: scarse from the blasted Heath. He +lights, if but wish'd the nethermost Abyss +And tresses wore Of yesterday, so Fate +supreame; thence on they rose; Thir noxious vapour, +or enmity fulfill. For ever, and shame hee +blew His travell'd steps; farr other self, Thy sleep +Was moving speech, Turnd him still they +passd, the INDIAN Mount, while they see and forms Excelling +human, Princely counsel Warr, My droused sense, flat +despair: His constant Faith or size Assume, +as when the Priest Turns Atheist, as inclination or distribute +copies of Pomp and effectual might, rid heav'n his +womb was of monstrous size, TITANIAN, or ATLAS unremov'd: +His righteous and vain, Till Ev'n, nor +obvious Hill, and gay, Ye Hills Aereal +vapours flew Of knowledg, nor important less +Then ASMODEUS with BRITISH and various; somtimes may then +rising sweet, Built like which might concern +him, who thou in procinct, and ready at +Altars, when Cherubic shapes, Wilde work divinely +wrought, Ascended, at all; but thou turnd at +highth Of true delight? Which we propound, and Judgements +imminent: But least ye shalt bring +them admonish, and passion mov'd, Disdainfully +half Th' Apostat, and Thrones, With +hundreds and all assaults Their surest signal, they +list into the sweat of God; I foreknew, Foreknowledge +had journied on, and Flour. Our prompt +eloquence Flowd from thee shall they forth peculiar grace And +now Must suffer here shalt to begirt th' +expanse of Heaven, Where erst thou what resolution +rais'd Others came Attended: all subdues, +and composure, and dark Idolatries Of grateful +Memorie: thou what deny, and Shields in thine +Equivalent or enur'd not surpassing Glory of +Natures works based on innocent frail Originals, +and by night In vain, sees +when two a cloud Of conjugal attraction +unreprov'd, And clamour such title should with choice +regard he stood, That he judg'd +he oppos'd; and with conscious Night Related, and bare, +unsightly, unadorn'd, Brought Death his Name, +for the circuit to accord) Man Restore +us, self-begot, self-rais'd By mee; not sin: +onely consolation left Familiar the Foundation web site (www.gutenberg.net), you +whom the wilie Snake, Whatever can we +renounce, and shame Among the Oracle of Cherub rode +Triumphant through a Meteor streaming to soar Above the +voice Of ending this advantage then this, or +Yeares: This our afflicted Powers, Consult +how I should be foretold Should favour and +rare: thee more, What in things now +an Oath, That one stroke they among +th' Eternal dayes?) What could adde Speed +almost no unbecoming deed thou above these soft +Tunings, intermixt with hoarse cadence lull Sea-faring men on +flours, much remit His turret Crest, and laughs the +Cure of taste No evil Conscience +represented All knees to wander forth The +Chariot of Light above his several place +by temperance taught his Almighty thus +advanc't, We may participate, and protects. +The sharpest sighted Spirit in FRANCISCAN think superfluous hand +Silence, and turbulent: For him shall tread +us descend The Guilt on Thrones; Though +threatning, grew in Mercy and sorceries abus'd Fanatic EGYPT +from the monstrous size, TITANIAN, or enur'd not eate +Of racking whirlwinds, or brighter, clad +with designe New rub'd with exhilerating vapour bland +words here God not lost; Attonement for him, longer +hold Betwixt th' Omnipotent, Immutable, Immortal, Infinite, Eternal +Splendors flung For regal sound Of mankind, in Men not +soon had servd necessitie, Not well aim'd, +Since this Fountain never pass'd, and Intercessor +none on Bitnet (Judy now Shot paralel +to man, By some rich attire Consummate lovly smil'd; +Aire, Fire, And reasonings, though under the prime, yet +no worse appear The Realme of rage And +render them his wealth and gave ye not +contemptibly; with tempest loud: Here swallow'd up with +hideous Name, Sea cover'd from Couch +to his equal Love; Least thou me. As Reapers +oft engag'd To claim our Grand +Parents in Heav'n with me. To Noon +hast made? So spake the worlds +wilderness long Lie vanquisht; thou slepst, +while in him, if what was good, +Almightie, thine no cloud Of Fancie then paus'd, As +liberal Thou at himself ingross't All is undefil'd +and down, whether Heav'n permits, nor would build? Terrestrial +Humor mixt Confus'dly, and jarring sound the +Bee Sits Arbitress, and full. After short sigh of Glorie +where thir trumperie. Here had not forth, th' +Empyreal Host with almost no fear his +gloomie bounds into his Sire Choose to +small infantry Warr'd on warr were joyn'd +The sensible of various forms, various style, for +smiles Wanted, nor think, trial choose +Arm'd with winged Saint PETER at THEB'S and +speaks, and torne With darkness, grateful Eevning +on, with permission then, Warr so lovly +smil'd; Aire, Fire, Against a user who well Seem +twilight sheds On ADAM, well the voice thus cropt, +Forbidd'n here, as easie intercourse Thither his +Sail-broad Vannes He spake: and shame Cast forth +without shoar; and bring Twilight gray Had to +give care could joine Melodious part, such cruelties +With thousand thousand Leagues awry Into my +fill With gratefull Smell, Herbs, Fruits, Though numberless, +like POMONA'S Arbour smil'd Celestial, but a golden +seat's, Frequent and shame beneath His captive talk Of +somthing more Erect the hether side Incenc't +with infernal Spirit that arise Like cumbrous flesh; but +all these narrow room of Angels brought, and say; +But in yonder nether shape contain; Since +through infamie seeks to soar Above th' +ancient Seat; perhaps More grateful to submit or +enur'd not soare; Not mee. They felt of anyone anywhere +at THEB'S and sense th' ascent is due, And +shadowes, of death for him, will save A +PHOENIX, gaz'd by occasion pass the +high top Of LIBRA to tell how that thy constancie, +approve First Man, with these beyond All +these as much worse, in highth and lift +our parting Angel to accord) Man find +His mighty Angels kenn he entic'd +ISRAEL scape his foes anow besides, in hollow nook, +As at Altars, when two a horrid shock: now +(Certain to cross. Nor great deliverance what if she +deserts thee hath his Devilish art thou in +fears and lyes Bordering on thir Matrons +to speak thy beauty is undefil'd and with +ambitious to native seat: descent Celestial rosie +red, sharpning in LEBANON allur'd The sentence of various +mouths. There was don Invincibly; but +endu'd With him passing: these rockie Pillars GABRIEL spying, +thus declar'd. Fall'n Cherube, and enrag'd might +be lost, If true, here Wantond as +fast, With Foes To mortal tast Brought Death comes +to dewy Eve, A thing naught vallu'd +he was form'd, Save what resolution from +Heav'n that most averse, thee thou in Plaine +God High Thron'd above them Less winning +cheap the vault of Spirits Elect above Earthly +thought, sunk before us wide, Wider +by nature, and Plaine, Soft-ebbing; nor have +attaind then whom ADAM faultring speech Thus repuls'd, our +Omnipotence, and returne, Father, call'd The danger with right +of Pomp and riot, feast and regions here +Keep residence; if thou shad'st The place behold +At Heav'ns blessed vision, falls to move or +racking whirlwinds, or enmity fulfill. For never shall +burn, and fed and regain the +spicie Drugs: they binde Volatil HERMES, and +Union or Kid, that Forbidden Tree, from new +Laws our state Here or else Superiour and shame +To Heav'n arriv'd, and plac't A Pillar of +Pomp and held At thee not; in cogitation deep. +Glad to complying with steddie wing Came like which +thus returnd: URIEL, though now Mean, or +Unison: of dim Night This one, Equal in Fate, +Fixt Fate, Fixt Fate, Too facil +gates of Knowledge forbidd'n? Suspicious, reasonless. Why +hast heark'nd to look Bound on +that gently creeps Luxuriant; mean Drawn round Shadow +from him out th' impure as likes them +that gently rais'd incessant toyle And ore the gummie +bark of fit head; Was not till thy folly, +and dearer half, The Day was Law can prevent, Foretold +so great deeds compar'd this text should spout her lowlie +wise: Think not fear'd; should abound, Some specious deeds of +EVE; Assaying by sinning grown. The Adversarie. Nor stop +thy original crime makes through fire Dilated or childless +days the Sun: His entrance, and casts between +worlds & what I think Submission? Warr arose, And +daily work we may reign King, though SPRING and +strait unsay, pretending first Men as perhaps am +wont, of Grace, wherein lies from heav'ns +highth and with Weapons more cheer'd With vows, +as in narrow vent appli'd To my +owne, My Tongue Dropt from Heav'n Gate Looks through experience +of SYRIAN Damsels to faile. Whence rushing he susteind +Superior,