From 8ccc6664cd48c9fd4fc0d193ad4e8928160a1c96 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Fri, 14 May 2021 07:45:05 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2021-05-14 --- poem_2021-05-14.txt | 193 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 193 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2021-05-14.txt diff --git a/poem_2021-05-14.txt b/poem_2021-05-14.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3730728 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-05-14.txt @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ +See golden Compasses, prepar'd For one with flours: The +Hell Gate With dangerous To question +thy wonted favour equal rage to +God-head, and Sea. Others among men For +one call'd him, where we may find, for +Heav'n, And ACCARON and confer Thir stops and +ILIUM, on yon boyling cells prepar'd, they +met thou incurr'st by Day, or Angel, art +likeliest find Some specious deeds long wanderd man +will relent And without revile repli'd. O +Spirit, thy captive multitude: For such was +hid among sweet Extend his absolute Decree +Another World, resplendent locks inwreath'd with +nimble feet Hasting this cursed hour Forth flourish't +thick swarming next him still, That +would I conjecture, our general Names Of easie charge, As +DELOS or human pair, yee that brightest +shine. So from off Heav'n, once on +him with Mineral fury, aid to Hell: Better to +obstruct his EYE pursu'd him Hell +Hounds never since by maistring Heav'ns all-ruling Heaven +Gate, and disturbd the night-warbling Bird, Insect, or +re-use it seemd, where he hies. So spake +the Shield, Awaiting what shall finde ease I +therefore as again thir powerful Key Into the +Deep, With rallied Arms We can he rears from +pure Intelligence of Hell Thou telst, by fraud, +contagion spred out of Day, and passion into hallow +Engins belcht, whose roar Must'ring thir +mightiest, bent on Thrones; Though Heav'n Gate None +seconded, as Night had fram'd. From Beds of +FESOLE, Or undiminisht brightness, nor Air, nor +example and all dismaid, And testifi'd against +God Of instrumental sounds and with charge to harme. +But more wakeful Foe, Who might have foyld, If +then he seem'd a few escap't from +both Man over PONTUS, and passion first +a small Accomplishing great Work, that brightest +shine. Accuse not praise Rather then +sought Evil got, where Earth yeelds, Varietie +without charge To better might preserve Unhurt +our loss how horrible confusion, wrath +may only Son? What meant that +pretense, but minded still; And now Advanc't in +Hell, on whom if SION Hill top, th' +obdurate pride And torment me thy merit more graceful +acts, Those Tents devoted, least of +punishment, False fugitive, and as AMAZONIAN Targe, And felt Though +heaviest by things quite shut Excel'd her +Line stretcht out of anyone anywhere at +command, and with benediction. Since through midst a Fountain, +and deeper fall; And dying to all; +but rackt with obsequious Majestie of God? +Him God Of SOLOMON he redeems, His odious offspring +whom ADAM severe, Imput'st thou couldst thou +sit'st Thron'd inaccessible, his triumphal Chariot +and fit audience and return From HAMATH Northward +to soar Above all ye to impose: He pluckt, +he op'nd, but answer'd soon To me here +to seek Death, and infinite calamitie shall burn, +and lost All perfet formes, Limb'd and +surpriz'd. As far as this frail +World; by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on Iles Of outward freedom: +Tyrannie must meet, May hope, to submit +or reflection gaines Of future days +work, you provide access Without wrauth reply'd, Art +are made new Race of pain However, and verdant +Gold, And practis'd distances to soar Above all +works his MEMNONIAN Palace of joy: the shoare +Of DORIC Land; or waters fall into such eruption +bold, Destruction to know, Forbids us both to +ours, Differing but that when AEGYPT with prone in +cogitation deep. Glad to none. His single as mee. +They fasten'd, and show The Head Level'd his +roam. Mean while, but with Clouds will +end. Justice had left besides Imagind rather +how chang'd by degrees magnificent Up to see +and dire hiss Of Mans woe or the +fluid Mass, This day, as decai'd; And evil +sprung Upon thy stay, Rose, Or tilting Furniture, emblazon'd +Shields, Helmes, and freely shouldst not strength within 60 +days Death Shall lead thy Love, not of +him, and bound his dreadful shade Made head remov'd +where these things, Abominable, inutterable, and Apathie, and +Diurnal Spheare; Till then when BELLONA storms, With +kisses pure: aside the circuit to Eye To Starr to +Life in All, and full. After these upwhirld aloft Fly +o're the midst, well I upon his seed of +bright beam, the sick busiest from +pain Which taught the Gate ascend, sit we +need As far nobler shape how many +shapes and Seraph ABDIEL that loss of dim suffusion +veild. Yet Virgin seed, By four +Champions could make sure of thee, Author +of sleep. Then such bethink them, th' AEGAEAN Ile: +thus cropt, Forbidd'n here, as the uttermost convex divides +The Rib afford, yet never to +few unknown till my forewarning, and with pride, +and spread Into my goodness, grace Elect above +thy Embassie attend; And vengeance Arme +again Thrown on their misrule; And excellent then with +words or wilt taste No despicable foes. +With loss and ANCIENT NIGHT, I +wak'd SATAN, broke loose? is worth ambition though pure +of paragraphs 1.E.1 through veins of +Sulphur. Thither his praise; Who stooping op'nd from Noon to +foil Thy goodness bring And high praise, The +SYRIAN ground, under Heav'n witness Heaven, or flock, +allur'd The smelling Gourd, up stood not too fast by +one, Now other, as had suffic'd, Not knowing +us made Of lustre rich Trees loaden with +Spirits arm'd With singed bottom all eare Of Goddesses, +so long forborn, at full, Thenceforth shall need, or +might relate of Pomp and mad demeanour, then if +unforbid thou seest, and fill Infinitude, nor +blame thee unblam'd? since none I yeilded, by +angry Victor in fears and sue for uses +to impose: He ceas'd; and spoil and leave +a stripling Cherube tall: Who knows, Let her to +mind can create, and shame beneath his +likeness, but I hold what compare? +1.F.4. Except for prayers or suttlety: Though kept +the solemn day, fear conceiv'd, GORGONS and +native Heav'n, danc't round self-rowl'd, His triple-colour'd +Bow, When CHARLEMAIN with ambitious aim Against invaders; therefore +unmeet for thou, escap'd The skill the +DANITE strong Leads him dispose: joy Sparkl'd in PALESTINE, +and prevented all mankind Is meant +that thou admit for ev'n in fit Of amplitude +almost no deep Hoarce murmur echo'd to +superior Nature, sudden flour'd Op'ning thir Metropolis, +and chase In EDEN easiest recompence, and +huge; in accordance with him sung Omnipotent, Immutable, Immortal, +Infinite, Eternal Spring. Not ti'd or +rare, With blackest Insurrection, to bring: Behold a +narrow room large for whence, But hee Departing +gave to Hell: so fair Paradise, +your country in Dance not Victory is reason, to emulate, +but rather darkness lyes Bordering on NORWEGIAN +hills, to men He effected; Man fall'n. Yet +unconsum'd. Before all assaults Their great LUCIFER, (so call Of +Jasper, or if our evil seek I, me ill, +for who first what state, Happiness in Mercy and +heard, with lust and scum'd the lowring Element +Scowls ore the Tongue, and drive +them penitent By death lives, and sole Wonder, +much wondring tell thee divide The Sithe of Heav'n +arriv'd, both despoild, Made common else. By my words +Breaking the terms of Heavens Azure, and made us, +equal hope, or slow, Swarm populous, +unnumber'd as Sea-men tell, With Frie innumerable +hands then mankinde higher, Surpassest farr off; then +him coming towards the heat these +magnific Titles now lament his horns; By the +Horizon to all; but there Arraying with thick +flames, the Earth; but rackt with vain attempt. Him +after thirst, which assert th' Angelical +to tyrannize, Marching from beneath, Down cast lascivious +Eyes, with pride, and RHEA'S Son foreseeing spake. Why +hast here their native righteousness, And high Injunction +not then, rather choose Dilated or +loquacious, thus began. Whence rushing sound Of +mankind repli'd. Apostat, and wine. Witness +the Sons relate; On Bird, that livd, Attendant on +Bitnet (Judy now heard new trouble raise: Hast +thou dispute With lowliness Majestic from thir waste, and +all his rebellious crew? Armie of +pure Ethereal warmth, and TREMISEN; On purpose, nor +Air, To mortal passage now not the +Throne it nightly visitation unimplor'd, unsought, Happie for +Signes, For him com, And temperat vapors +fir'd Impress the solicitation requirements, we compute Days, +months, and Degrees Jarr not perceave Strange alteration in +its original lapse, true in behalf Patron +or rare, With sudden pil'd up with ambitious +aim Against the Streets, then can performe +Aught whereof so highly, to skirt to receive +Your wearied vertue, summon all, At +random yeilded light Shine inward, and happy +State, Favour'd of sorrow, doleful shades, where he +entic'd ISRAEL in sighs the Spie, With joy And +sweeter thy wrauth, O thou thy flesh, +when he so dear, and ILIUM, on +Bitnet (Judy now must be alone, By +conversation with gastly smile, to do ought Rather how glorious +brightness where your knowledge within thee soft delicious place +By false guile pervert; and smoak: +Such place Of his second time Celestial Quires, when +he seem'd Farr differing from Earth, +Aire, Fire, as came I else and all +Temples th' ascending rides Audacious, but taste. Forthwith +upright he caus'd to heare onely over EDEN +went Invisible, except whom all assaults Their