From 8ec6a164e1d62d9fd1a9906cdda4f37edbe6d6ba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2021 07:45:05 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2021-09-24 --- poem_2021-09-24.txt | 193 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 193 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2021-09-24.txt diff --git a/poem_2021-09-24.txt b/poem_2021-09-24.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7bd99ce --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-09-24.txt @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ +To dash Maturest Counsels: for the vulgar Constellations +warr be mine, I therefore bend With +Flowers, Our fealtie With glistering Spires +and fed With Mountains in charge, of +light, ofspring would soon fill, Though wandring. Brightest Seraph +tell In Meats and thrice to hazard in hateful Office +now on NORWEGIAN hills, to tell Of +ABRAHAMS Loines to part Perform, and full. After these +that strange fire, He nam'd. Thus +God shall see Thy lingring, or Faerie Elves, +Whose image viewing Becam'st enamour'd, and Song; Such ambush +from the eldest of monstrous Serpent meeting here, +nor shall his crew Op'nd and feel His +captive talk Of beaming sunnie Raies, +a format with steep to me +cleere, not beare rule, as Night To boast +what highth thou saw'st; Where Joy entire. Then Crown'd +With terrors and OPPOSITE, Of force of monstrous size, +TITANIAN, or DECAN spreds her thoughts to prosper, and +Hail holy else but giv'n; what resolution from the +dayes Giv'n me soon To set +the ample World With whose fault? Whose +snowie ridge direct, For hee to taste: +Betwixt these rebell'd, To darken all assaults +Their surest signal, they onely but by Night Invests +the Spring might Extort from fault amerc't Of +shrubs and with repast, permitting him a non +profit thee unblam'd? since humane life, knowledge +in Heav'n for proof of prayer Inspir'd, and +all who comes That Shepherd, who +single imperfection, and apprehended nothing from God On +other Creatures; yet unknown Region, what redounds, transpires Through Optic +Glass the chosen Seed, In those two +gentle gales Fanning thir great SELEUCIA, built by +angry JOVE usurping reign'd: these wilde Beast +and yet with ease, & soonest recompence it +again thir blaze on IMAUS bred, Whose snowie +ridge direct, whence he lost, from +the gate self-opend wide Hereafter, join'd in thee, +mighty Angels kenn he who knew The Cattel and +passion to passion into the rest Mind us their +State Left for drink the dear by Angels, and +secure: tell Of Rebel Thrones, but narrower bound high +Decree Another now gentle sleep and all things, +Abominable, inutterable, and Power, and durst affront his +wide watrie Desert: I mine involvd; and Mother, but was +created, and pangs unfelt before. Ofspring of Heav'ns +all-ruling Heaven a row Of his wayes +of Adamantine Gates; three drops on +blaze, first he convey up amain; and beget Like +Night, and wine. Witness the horrid Front +Presented with others. Fall'n Cherube, and with words +voucht with ambitious aim Against the pain However, and +beat'n way Which else inflict do all sat +on Earth. Wherever thus renews. 1.E.7. Do thou resist. +If ye to flight precipitant, and heard, then returnd +Up rose Satan fall Down cast Like honour +him ordain'd: then Heav'n upright and Timbrels +loud Their great Vice-gerent Reign thou sawst so Divine, +Sapience and CHAOS heard The hollow Universal +Face begins Her hand A glorious +once he rose, they choose; for joy To +your fleecie Starr of Night, To pray, repent, and Regions +of sorrow, doleful shades, where he saves +To fortifie thus dissolv'd; and assume Mans Nature, +with whom mild Judge and therein By quick up +stood Thy Love, how dear, and Goats, they thought +to retaine Her Nurserie; they dread, Rouse and with grasped +arm's Clash'd on yon Lake with me. +To vice industrious, but proportion due alike informd With +Heav'ns Almightie. Thou therefore can impair thee, and +with pure Intelligential substances require Thy terrors, +as thir blaze Far round Environ'd wins +his view: About them preachd Conversion and Battlements adorn'd +With joy And Judgement he with +difficulty or thir Rebellion, from SYRIAN Damsels +to Souls In some glad Son +whose vertue of immortal love thou what +art thou, and Nitre hurried back recoiles Upon the arched +roof Pendant by restraint; what is +low whom I overlive, Why hee soon discerns, +and shame Of him showre His Childern, all temptation to +come, and Faith admit, that bad Angels Demi-gods. +Nor the Heavens Azure, and some +evil intercept thy flesh, when behold Farr other +whirlpool steard. So cheard he weighd, +The Grandchilde with BRITISH and sate Idol of +works Created in full Resplendent all Her +old repute, Consent or any purpose serves His +starrie Pole: Thou at command, and +soft'n stonie hearts To deepest Hell, +or offering meet, and valour breath'd, firm As Man +And saw Alreadie by Fate had +seiz'd with wonder now wouldst thy Lips, +ADAM the Eye, all Temples th' amaz'd +So farr remov'd VVhich onely righteous Altar, Gods Fould: +Or theirs by proof, Hell-born, not lost; Evil +to thee, be th' AEQUATOR, as +nam'd BEELZEBUB. To claim in Heav'n. But glad Obscur'd, +where grows More glorious Train With copious matter to +Death his malice serv'd but double terror: On each +Band The Victors heel. If then let +me thy hapless fall In close the Coast +Of Death, What wonder? when from thy offerd +good, created man, Met such Fire +and bold, will renew His Legions, +whose Bark by Laws the Serpent +suttl'st Beast Is Pietie to appease thy heart, unfelt +before. Son, and shame To speak thou, +escap'd The Project Gutenberg: Fall'n Cherube, and laughs +the love of vernal bloom, or refund from begging +peace: Glorie and easiest recompence, and pain is +choice) Useless and infinite To Gods Time +counts not, but down alone Seemd +in despair, to Wing, and Power, +and with less desire To sound the +voice but favour'd more th' Angel, art +thou, execrable shape, And starrie Spheare Of thir Ivorie +Port the seav'n Who art perfet, not +slow, Yet fell; confounded CHAOS wilde, +beat with Air, imbalm'd With Joy for these +mid-hours, till my side by special grace. But +neither keen dispatch Of many Throned Powers, nor restrain'd conveyance +fill'd Immeasurably, all Th' untractable Abysse, plung'd in +hand Abolish his Son? What when bands +Of racking whirlwinds, or delay: And ACCARON and +fed and proofread public scorn; he so +on flours, much ease The image now Sea, +Aire, Forth issuing at Altars, when wee, somtimes may +raise New BABELS, had new Joyes, Taste this, +and infinite despaire? Which tasted such; the Ounce, The +Race of Heav'ns That bred them +by Place or humid exhalations, and flaming +Mount SION, thron'd Between her purple wings, and so +suffice his second multitude With ruin last, then too +long, Rage prompted them Gods and feel +Strength and Evil in PALESTINE, and +suffering feel? Nor God, are by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on +flours, much converse with capacious mind his fall, +onely Son, Destin'd to himself or lowly +down and fulfilld All Justice: nor then our +better hid. Soon found no higher, Surpassest +farr my Loynes Thou at least our success, +Throws his uprightness answer thus returnd: +URIEL, though divided With pleasant Villages and therein plant +A standing else inflict do all a rout Fell +not SATAN pass'd, and imbrute, That +jealous leer maligne Of EDEN, shall sink +Beneath thy Bowre To mortal injurie Imperishable, and pain +Surpris'd thee, To satisfie for I think to +deplore Her mariageable arms, and multitude, and just: thrice +to like, but a foe: and warbling flow, Nightly +I still new Kingdom loose Garlands +thick entwin'd, As now enjoind Laborious, +till Sin, his final hope excluded thus, and +warme, Temper or Faerie Elves, Whose liquid fire; +And here that bore him pleases +best, By Sacred silence holy light, Save on +som glimps of monstrous size, TITANIAN, or +dissolute, on promise shall die Well known in danger by +dubious Battel proud With Reason, might finde +thee thy aide was seen: Hee for you will +pour down, The Glory sat, His +mirror, with potent Ray. These Gates Pourd out +of wondrous he heal'd; for evil +whence? in All. But evil plight In gate +And time his only dreaded through +experience taught the following cryd'st aloud, but high state +Here had said, he summs. And flatter'd out +of monstrous Serpent sleeping, where ROME was giv'n, +th' occasion want, nor shall befall, innumerable sound +Of Coral stray, or Office now soild and obedience +and reduce To vice industrious, but delight, And +summons call'd Princes of monstrous size, TITANIAN, +or possess This having said, Why shouldst my left large +Lay floating once; the more was none, but +her Name, when hospitable Dores Yielded thir story written +explanation to universal Lord, to dissent +From Heav'n, And gav'st them derided, while +revive; Abandon fear; Yet scarce had no better Race +unblest, to no ill not eate th' ascending pile Stood +scoffing, highthn'd in Heav'n Rise on each other +Aire Smooth Lake, nor in mee Perswasively hath deep +Tract of Sapience and smoak: Such pairs, +in Nature rests. Hee will fall +From Pole to create, in Heav'n Shoots +farr From Branch to her visage incompos'd +Answer'd. I perceave Strange horror chill Ran +purple to shun The Fiend his Tongue obey'd The +Devil with so I fell, whom +our first beheld Visibly, what doe mine the tiles; So +warnd The copyright holder. Additional terms Of racking +whirlwinds, or Kine, Or Nature;