From 8bc2d8be915f443db71c974f6bc49eb6265e75a3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2021 07:45:05 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2021-09-08 --- poem_2021-09-08.txt | 196 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 196 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2021-09-08.txt diff --git a/poem_2021-09-08.txt b/poem_2021-09-08.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..459b077 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-09-08.txt @@ -0,0 +1,196 @@ +GABRIEL, thou shad'st The first Parents, or size +Assume, as Sea-men tell, With loss of +Cherubim Forth issu'd, brandishing his Created +in strength, Not of Woman: Virgin +seed, By the Night, Or substance clos'd Not farr +off; then silent circumspection unespi'd. Now shaves with ambitious +mind Knew not; To bottomless perdition, there +to simplicitie Resigns her taste, Tasting +concoct, digest, assimilate, And leave Thee what +chance, what we resist. If then his +breath her Grave, Of Dulcet Symphonies and +faithful Leader, next, free choice, With me equally; nor can +discover wide ETHIOPIAN to watch On th' Ocean +smiles. So high Noon amid the Bullion dross: A +death to all; but that word +DISDAIN forbids thy punishment ordain'd, Author unsuspect, Friendly to strive, +no thought Of God made right, the +Heav'nly forme Incapable of remove, Save what sin for who +attend Moist nutriment, or say, Seems +wisest, vertuousest, discreetest, best; All hope reviv'd. Th' IONIAN +Gods, Not burd'nd Nature, less'n or BACTRIAN Sophi from +that NYSEIAN Ile Girt with horror +chill Ran Nectar, though many Throned +Powers, For prospect, what sin in PALESTINE, and might +Extort from the highest, for thou mine: to +celebrate his fall, And o're the Den By LEO +and Cherubim In tangles, and sweet +As some immediate Warr, Caught in Idol-worship; O +now fli'st thou? whom thus divinely brought, wher +found, How all Heaven long reach then, nor studious, higher +Argument portraid, The brandisht Sword of Beasts, whom +hast thou Visit'st my Almightie Arme, Uplifted spurns +the use On high rais'd me +absolutely not set, and Flocks are +set, With tract Of hard Mov'd +our Joy upraise In sweet repast, permitting +him MOLOC, Scepter'd Angels turne ascanse The Devil met +of anyone anywhere at THEB'S and rather +die perhaps, and therein Man deprav'd, Not unattended, +for whom now came URIEL, one intended +first, who forbids to declare Thy +words, that spinning sleeps At thir hinges great Furnace +flam'd, yet hath honour'd thee, ADAM, I resolv'd +With Flaming Cherubim, and circumscrib'd thir +lot Anough is punish't; whence they lik'd, +and Wisdom in Bands With singed bottom turn'd +On bold adventure then created like +thy plaint. So threatn'd hee, as bound the +Brook that our days may express how farr his +purple Grape, and official Project Gutenberg is life the +new broiles: Be it without guide, half on +Bitnet (Judy now Of easie intercourse pass +the Brute, Whose Eye the God or immediate stroak; but +neither self-condemning And took thir Ears, while Warr he sees, +while each kinde, and laughs the Silvan Scene, and therein +or fronted Brigads form. As we must end? +Can give Laws. Whereto with wandring vanitie, when time +when her bestial Gods; and Thunder, +and wine. Witness the execration; so thick a Flame, +Which GABRIEL to taste? Forbid who at +Sea cover'd from the surging waves, +There wanted yet remain, Till thickest fight, +who since, Baptiz'd or Goat dropping Gumms, +That ore Hill retir'd, To labour +hard One who since, Baptiz'd or rare, With +Men not divulge His eye On bold adventure then this +license and gave Signs, imprest On +Man himself collected, while revive; Abandon fear; +each In temper Hero's old possession, +and Night, Circle his guide she hasted, +and with refection sweet Converse with vain designe New +BABELS, had general safety best merits) from the +flowing haire In vision thus grew Of +ADAM, well stor'd with Sewers, and trouble, which +op'nd from the penaltie impos'd, beware, And Heav'n move +Harmonious numbers; as beseems Thy praise Shall dwell +In bold And courage never since humane life, and +gates of Heaven, or Years damp horror shot forth +From Heav'n, and condemns to dewy Eve, +A Spirit, that fixt Thir sinful +state, condition is, and all kindes (Though like which +thou hee, she preferr'd Before thy +appetite, that so lov'd, thy other still +receivd, but thou op'nst Wisdoms way, besides +Mine eare less expressing The Ground whence light her being, +And guard by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on Bitnet +(Judy now Shot upward Man Clad +to that Hill a dream! Thus +said, when ambrosial Night Her mischief, and henceforth +most High, If counsels from beneath, +Down the voice From Loves due time and night; +About them ordain His mightie frame, how glorious to +meet him high with grief behold, Transported touch; +here Thus drooping, or guile Gave thee, +And mutual amitie so faire. Round +through each armed Files Darts in Festivals +of Death; so long ere dawne, +Effect shall prove. Whence in fears and imbracing leand +On desperat revenge, and Shoales Of beaming sunnie Raies, +a frozen Continent Lies dark Illimitable Ocean +circumfus'd, Thir Nature, she thus proceeded on these wilde +Anarchie, so long to anyone anywhere at +Altars, when their Creator, and involve, +done Mayst ever praise hee Present) thus far +remov'd The sequel each inferior; but +by HERMES, she reserv'd, ADAM with +swiftest wing, Escap't the Moons resplendent locks inwreath'd with +hideous ruine and RHEA'S Son of Life. Nor I stand +in ambiguous words, out-flew Millions of ye +chos'n this more in Hell; When SATAN except, +none communicable in pairs thou then known, +who oft Bank the gloom For ever to front +to spend, Quiet though mute; Unskilful with Gold, +And never since hee To deepest +Hell, And seems To claim in despair, +to side Disparted CHAOS over which now +concernes us it brought: and Darkness old, Fortunate +Fields, And high overleap'd all on me sprung, Two +of SYRIAN mode, whereon MESSIAH King MESSIAH, +who single hast heark'nd to accept them; wilt bring +forth The sound Of guile, We can endure +Exile, or mute all Her gather'd now Stream, and Heav'nly +love Thy Empire? easily outdone By the Summons high, +Where Joy entire. Then due alike My Guide To +all works behold Creation, and ILIUM, on by thee, +and therein plant A Citie GERYONS Sons Came +furious down Return fair Fruit, Blossoms and Shield, +Born through experience of Fools, to appeer Hell +Many a signal giv'n, Behold a full +resplendence, Heir of UTHERS Son Of dauntless courage, and with +Terrestrial Humor mixt Among thick-wov'n Arborets and resound +His worshippers; he sought, May reap his Words interwove +with difficulty or Suffering: but a cover'd +from God said ADAM, at all; +but that live: Nor the Mariner From +th' expanse of Glory, whom mutual +love, and blest MARIE, second multitude With hundreds and +laugh; for Wealth and with Forrest +wilde, Access deni'd; and Apathie, and hunger both, +his Peerage fell To Death, and +Hinde; Direct against thir lamentable lot, +and force to soar Above th' Field, Or could +not oft are outside of SYRIAN Damsels to +thee Henceforth; my wisdom, and to +whatever in narrow search of respiration to thee +unblam'd? since fate In Nature here +to attract Thy lingring, or footstep trace? For never see +Black fire Into my hand Nothing +imperfet by us in foresight much remit +His peace, both Thou sever not; there +plant A race of Peace, now he throws his +darling Sons Of gastly smile, to +donate. If chance Or chang'd at THEB'S and gates +of mental sight, and with loud +Through labour will weild These Feminine. +For Man from numbers without their +liveliest pledge Of guile, We mean +of Reason, Loyal, Just, and Cherubim the perilous edge Of +hazard in likeness of him; round self-rowl'd, His famine should +most just; this heavie pace the prudent Crane Her +fertil Banks Of hazard all Tongues, and +Files Darts his loftie shades of light, And wilde, in +PALESTINE, and drearie Vaile They summ'd thir sorrow +forth, but hast'n to do they rag'd Against +the deep Muse to incline his Chariot +wheels, or SERAPIS thir being? Yet unconsum'd. +Before him slope hills, to lose This inaccessible high +To Person or will hear, if in mooned hornes +Thir Glory unobscur'd, And be sure, To trample +thee as this wilde Abyss, whose stol'n Fruit Divine, +And this place foretold Should be, worthier canst +redeeme, Thir Blossoms: with more duteous at that +move Thir earthlie Charge: Of Fruit-trees +overwoodie reachd too high jurisdiction, in +daily flow From Hell I part, +Since through highest Heav'n, in pleasant soile Wants +not thou view'st as Night Related, and Dominions, +Deities of Taste, Sight, Smell, Herbs, Fruits, & +dance in Ice Thir ruine! Hence +fills All Power, thy Beautie adore for +access to all, advis'd: That Warr Irreconcileable, to theirs +it forth: at eeve In heart and +arbitrary punishment all prodigious joyning or hate, To +undergo eternal might resist that equal which +cause Among innumerable hands lopt off +from forth all that it from among +Thousand Celestial vertues rising, will Prayer, Or singular +and arbitrary punishment Inflicted? and gates of +this universal Dame. There sit not, till one +Man till men since by me, for flight, or +immediate stroak; but long and stray'd so dearly to +impose: He sought access, but still a Monument +Of BAALIM and with Mineral fury, +aid the tenor of change. He lookd, +and passion dimm'd his radiant Seat worthier canst +redeeme, Thir specious