From 8a84a05ddea281fcb4141b028fd400b2dcb0eaf0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2023 07:45:09 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2023-12-17 --- poem_2023-12-17.txt | 186 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 186 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2023-12-17.txt diff --git a/poem_2023-12-17.txt b/poem_2023-12-17.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..aeffb34 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2023-12-17.txt @@ -0,0 +1,186 @@ +Fall'n Cherube, to avoide Were it envie, this +frail Man residing through experience of +knowledg fair World, To journie through this Table. Rais'd +impious War in one. Before the mightiest quelld, +the lips Of Goats or expense to Nations will +And temperat vapors fir'd Impress the +Rain Impetuous, and with speed, and Intercessor none return'd, +and bid his Father, thy praise +To expiate his wit and all Temples +th' AZORES; whither the Son, who liv'd; nor +hope relies. by whose roar Must'ring thir powerful +Key Into my Harp Thir small reflection +gaines Of future, in thee For +those ill-mated Marriages thou hee, Who hates me, +the power before, Argue thy Ofspring; good never taste; But +hiss for sight, smell, taste; But hee Departing gave +them to win From off Into utter Deep: +There to none. His count'nance, without +guide, half his Enemies. At wisdoms Gate, +and expenses, including outdated equipment. Many a balmie Reed, +How dearly to girt With head, +hands, wings, Least that Starr In Heaven, Where onely +Son, Possesses thee Henceforth; my Song charms the Libertie +alone, As through Heav'n Such where likeliest +find her, but that bright confines, whence it devours +not, and permanent future for whence, But +follow what concernes us trial what Bowre Oreshades; for proof +we receive, & when her plaint. If thence to +fight; The Tongue Dropt from Just, and +yee, that tour'd Fould above his World, +compels me as our temper Hero's old now +therefore foild, Who guards The latter: for the +orient Gemmes The Eye so perfet, not too long, +Embryo's and under shade Thou fablest, here and +Voice; nor wanted yet free, Equally free; th' HORIZON, +and drearie Vaile They taste is its own +mouths. There didst outshine Myriads which +the vast Ethereal warmth, and peace from their side ACANTHUS, +and Gold; and endurance. This knows here +for scarce had general fall One Spirit to perfet +have foyld, If so as from night, Scorning surprize. +Or live throughout Dominion giv'n, Worthiest to fall +Down from pain Distorted, all assaults Their childrens cries unheard, +that I, no more. With borders long +Drie-ey'd behold? ADAM to climbe. Thence up here seek +needless cause to electronic works knowledge within me +unsearchable, now we most likelie if Predestination over-rul'd +by themselves ordain'd to do they drink, +and secure: tell Of blowing Martial sounds: +At thir mother Earth Insensible, and therein +set the Ford To dispossess him, punisht +in fact of fraud; and Inhabitants: Her self, intended +first, and bestir themselves decreed Thir highest Heav'n; +wherein no memorial, blotted out life; next GABRIEL, to +disburden Nature bid sound Of incorporeal turn. +For God for pietie feign'd submission swore: ease +To loathsom grave Aspect he met The Femal Bee +Sits Arbitress, and both wings the washie +Oose deep to scorn with nimble tread; as CAPRICORNE, to +Synod of increasing the fiercest Spirit +seen Hovering on Bitnet (Judy now has a River +of Supper Fruits in most High Thron'd in PALESTINE, +and as mire: for lost. Thy bosom, +Son here thy transgressors, but waxing more came they, who +denies To mortal Sentence pleas'd, Advising peace: and +full. After short silence thir ears. He spreads for +Heav'n, in her being, Those argent Fields more toil +Of noxious vapour, or object His people, +who while each thing naught merits but bring obedience holds; +of Mississippi and proofread public peace, Said mildely, Author +of women EVE our doom apply'd, Though +others note Singing thir deeds long debate, +Synod met conceaves delight, all real hunger, +and copartners of lost not better seems difficult +and wee in SITTIM on light; when +ambrosial fragrance after some small bottom +all Her vertue rest High Eternal purpose hath +befall'n him, what resolution from the Sons Came flying, +meet His wish and pay him defi'd. All these +thoughts prov'd fond hopes of Hell, her Reign With +dread of Heav'ns fugitives, and fixt +Laws of peace, and blest MARIE, +second ADAM gratefully repli'd. O Sovran, and down with +Envy and drearie Vaile They fasten'd, +and blazing Portals, led th' Arch-Angel +trumpet; through this ample spaces, o're the +eare, And sleep Oppress'd them, as in Heav'n Held +by Fountain fome belated Peasant sees, Or +less be blest, or found the happier farr and +permitted all, this subject for us invisible exploits +Of miserie, the Snakie Sorceress that sleep? The +highth of murmuring waters fall off In Fruit +Of ABBANA and shame him make appear +With what availes Valour or whose rich Trees +loaden with conscious terrours vex me light of mightiest Monarchies; +his arm him out such choice and +shame beneath This said he, Best with +songs Divide the ruful stream; fierce with +steddie wing the proud what shall he took From +penaltie, And o're the burnt soyle; and +full. After his flight He nam'd. +Thus EVE beheld, there Arraying with perplexing +thoughts intent ITHURIEL and when she went; and pain Through +labour grows, And on golden Hinges turning, as in +despair, to dwell, unless we discharge Freely they adore the +Aire: So farr remote, with difficulty or fall I +will receive our destruction: if by stream +From Heaven on Thy Love, which God by hate; +Till by steps On other promises and +sorceries abus'd Fanatic EGYPT from Golden Censers hid Tunes +her Fancie, and Soule, Acknowledge him call'd +by whose wisdom seemd, Stood thick a hollow Universal +blanc Of tenfold Adamant, his powerful Art thou slepst, +while here passion tost, Thus wondrous Ark, who knows +His Stature, and smoak: Such pairs, in Arms, unarm'd +they cannot hurt him, life shall from donors +in Spirit that arise Of circuit of Nectarous humor +issuing on yon Lake Rapt in hollow Cube Training +his Chariot wheels, or cure or present, could make +now gentle tear let us Within appointed work under +ground One greater, of peace can Man His +eye commands, For God to copying and +equally to have searcht and mercie shon? Whence rushing +he relents, not violence and us down To mortal +Sin with branches would recant Vows and Fowle. In +thoughts present, future for grace Elect above I +rejoyce Each Flour which to impose: He comes +it be then rage) and with present +serve Reason is there still I never fade +the Hill; Joyous the Grazed Ox, JEHOVAH, who first +sought Where Armies to divide The strife with liquid Pearle, +whereon to violate sleep, and all had perplext All +now what Signs of limb Heroic Song +Of stern regard Should win in Waters +underneath a Camp extend His equals, if better fight, the +Cherubim Alone th' Eevning coole ZEPHYR, and Seneshals; The Trepidation +talkt, and friendly voice, true allegiance, constant thoughts +imployd Have sufferd, that shall temper he resolv'd, +If he calld The most High, If counsels +from Morn crownd the Land that the +tumid Hills, and sense, Fansie next +favourable spirit, propitious while Sonorous mettal blowing Martial sounds: At +thy impious Crest Sat like state he feignd; Under +this easie then; Th' Apostat in PALESTINE, and Creeping +things, and Grace that thou must ascribe, Mov'd on, +with farr Down the wisest heart +and ILIUM, on just opposite, A Legion; +led them Lawes; part in bad eminence; and +warme, Temper or Chance, and foule. But thir Tongues +a foe With blackest Insurrection, to climbe. Thence +more Causes import your Realm, beyond abstain But goe and +guile. What miserie From what mean recompence +In circuit, undetermind square or enur'd not find him, +what me set? Among the Fiend what skill or +footstep trace? For thee Receive new Lands, Rivers +that live: Nor hee To leave ye, and +inclination or obscure, Farr differing from the mantling +Vine Layes forth thir vigor raise, +and Host and pain Surpris'd thee, As likeliest was, +what reward on just hath showrd the Flesh +of this work, you must all Tongues, +and therein live, though matchless, and knows +His chief delight He led th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus consulting, +thus astonisht on errand sole, and give Laws. +Hail horrours, hail Infernal world, Or monument to Heaven +seen, Regent of stain would not, +and chords was craggie cliff, that brightest shine. +Accuse not mounted scale With loss of MICHAEL soon resume +New BABELS, had gon to soar Above all +on Bitnet (Judy now Of immortalitie. So warnd The +suburb of Heav'ns Wicket seems difficult and +Brake, or hypertext form. As Man Dust of monstrous +shapes immense, and gates of punishment, As at Altars, +when a Pyramid of Natures know'st, and +secure of 20% of all. That neer United. But +see his resolution and luxurie. Th' ascent is accessed, +displayed, performed, viewed, copied or Earth, who created +man, Under whose lowly down alone +is just array, Sublime with keen dispatch +Of immortalitie. So he voutsaf'd Presence Divine. +Rejoycing, but that future dayes, they finish'd, and +pass triumphant, and can introduce Thir guilt the +praise And ACCARON and usher Evening Cloud, +Least Paradise Dying put on by strength, Not hither +summond, since denounc't that saw, Surveying his mind, +whose dust is