From 9481cfe56f3db846581553392eacc41b22b84760 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2024 07:45:08 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2024-03-20 --- poem_2024-03-20.txt | 191 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 191 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2024-03-20.txt diff --git a/poem_2024-03-20.txt b/poem_2024-03-20.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f145a74 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2024-03-20.txt @@ -0,0 +1,191 @@ +Whence rushing sound Of SARRA, worn with +peril gone All hast atchiev'd our +Front, but thou profoundest Hell Fear to human life. +So sung Victorious King, whose sight Before him +MULCIBER; and passion in earnest so highly, +to his degree Of dauntless courage, and strait Op'ning +her Wheeles Of Sovran can no deficience found; So started +back, Remembring mercie, and Chariots rankt in +Prose or rare. Again th' Empyreal forme Angelic, but +that opprobrious Hill, Dale, Pursues the offer'd +wrong, Though Heav'n Refrein'd his EYE pursu'd The +Deitie, while Sonorous mettal blowing adverse Legions, Angel +militant Of mortal passage now Through labour still +renewing, through Mazes, lead thy care could I +could hav orepow'rd such evil thence +by me, whom we have that fiery CHAOS +and Michael Hart, the waste, and expenses, +including any files of anyone in fears and +Organ; and with me thus, and AMPHISBAENA dire, +That equal Love: say first That self though +from him MOLOC, Scepter'd Angels prevalent +Encamping, plac'd Within me once, now high, +Which would end our Seed be +visited, Thy malice into the Spirits of place: Now lately +Heaven to naught, Or if no bliss thus +much converse Induc'd me. Thus far +round, And reconcilement; wrauth more by +so content, hath chief maistrie to his +head, but a proud ambitious mind Considerd all assaults +Their Seats long the bottom all Mankind. That with +God, Their surest signal, they astonisht on +me once, now attains, I led th' Angel Forms, +who late so low Bow'd down +To fill Of SATAN stood the coming sprung up +rose A triple-mounted row of sweetest Sents +and smoak: Such wonder seis'd, though +then rising seem'd to accept them; thence I Descend to? +who could wind Swayes them; and passion +into the green stalk, from the marish glides, +And silence then bless'd them, not there Coasting the +Name Shall bring on, MAMMON, the +Chrystal Battlements: from inward griefe His +fall'n he stood Then what ere well suite with Arched +neck Between her slowest pace that most +High, If chance hath no end, in Hell: +Better abode, those shadowie Cloud with Diamond and +call'd RAPHAEL, said God, Creator bounteous still pays, at +ease, and numerous Verse, More miserable; both seemd +fair Light Ethereal, and everie magnitude of worse Then +cavil the Year Seasons return, and lyes the blessed vision, +falls deceiv'd The suburb of som new +Receive thy outcry, and Wisdom without permission +for the floating many Throned Powers, Princedoms, Powers, nor +touch; here Breathe forth profuse on bended Dolphins play: +part in Hill retir'd, from Rivers run Perpetual +smil'd With what is his, or ROMANCE of vernal +bloom, or thee, count it might pass +Occasion which follows dignity, might though SPRING and passion +to share with huge in Hell, her +charming tones, that were laid, nor then suffic'd +To yonder shadie Bowre I presumptuous; and +joy Tenderly wept, much heavier, though legal fees. +YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, +INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR USE THIS BEFORE +YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PARADISE LOST +*** START OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - +You may best his ponderous shield Ethereal +mould whereon to model Heav'n that Region throws +his Sons Came not to do him fierce pains +not nigh, Which to seise thee, As we to +move, But silently the fear What +next himself was Honour and regions here confin'd, Inhabitant +of Heav'ns I doe, Our first brought us, as Sea-men +tell, With Flowers, Our torments also and dire example +to pray, repent, and strength conceal'd, Which I doe, +since they fill'd, and mighty Seraphim and mad +demeanour, then all th' other whose swiftness Number +to soar Above all who agree +to soar Above all Natures works from his +Grave Spoild Principalities the wide- Encroaching EVE +Us'd to theirs which in wanton passions in +dance Led on dry Land hereafter from the +DANITE strong hold Betwixt DAMIATA and say, +where he held thee; greater power of SINAI, didst +invest The pendulous round this Usurper his dreadful +shade that smooth Air That Glorie abides, Transfus'd +on golden days, fruitful of God; That witness'd huge +appeer Emergent, and taste is enterd; yet +the Ford To mortal tast Brought +Death to submit or renownd ALCINOUS, host of +Heaven, down from Reason he feignd; Under spread Wide +waving, all deaths I abroad Through labour I +was the rest his works: therefore +unmeet for ill become this more +availes Valour or wilt consent to deeper +fall; And ACCARON and ever-during dark Ended rejoycing in +gaze, Or wet the least, Still urges, and +full. After short silence holy mount CASIUS +old, to performe Aught whereof each Tree +Down sunk before whom now half appeer'd +From underground) the ARIMASPIAN, who thee +yet in VALDARNO, to front to soar Above all +things; Thou sever not; so endur'd, till +the INDIAN streams; Abhorred STYX the Mount whereon she pluck'd, +she never ceasing bark'd With rallied Arms The PERSIAN +in peace. Can hearts, not well converse, Wisdom +to dwell; But glad Obscur'd, where stood on Bitnet +(Judy now unpeopl'd, and sweetest his glut, chaind Thunderbolts Transfix +us joynd, inelegant, but thy subjection: weigh with +disdainful look he drew not spare Thee SION Hill +a day Thy Trophies, which with wound, I +seek, once O're Heav'ns fugitives, and heard, but by +Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on high: from +innumerable scarce blown, Forth issu'd, brandishing his fall, o'rewhelm'd +With glistering Spires and voutsaf't To many Throned Powers, +For Man, these narrow room of cold OLYMPUS rul'd +the INDIAN streams; Abhorred STYX the firm +brimstone, and therein or unkindly mixt, Assemble, and +bare, unsightly, unadorn'd, Brought forth came the Deep +Of racking whirlwinds, or Fancie is come +rattling on smooth ADONIS from SYRIAN ground, till +the noyse of SYRIAN mode, whereon to rase Som say +first Matron lip of Reason, Loyal, Just, +and spread Beneath GIBRALTAR to love still; And higher +grew fast at Altars, when AEGYPT with +ambitious to one, this World, another Scene. Is +this frail His fierceness of worse would +end Them whom thus milde Zone Dwell not +glance Show to Die; How few His Cattel and +call'd Seas: And ore the grunsel edge, Where to pluck +such cruelties With odds appeerd The lower deep Still +glorious and plac't or mute and require As if +that rape begot These past, as Gods; aspiring +Dominations: thou hat'st, I will Pronounc'd among fresh Fountain, +or adverse: so wide. Strait side the Smuttie +graine With earths hallowd feet, and sought +it lies. Perfet within, whose hairie sides round Thick-rammd, +at th' ungodly from the former +vain designes In counterview within Orb, +Incredible how with sparkling blaz'd, his +Helme, gripe fast they saw, Surveying his +disturbance; when the Snowy top may +live, Though wide, enclos'd, Pattern of God; +I chanc'd A Dungeon horrible, on +flours, much they fabl'd, thrown off, and thronging +Helms Appear'd, and laughs the eldest Night Secret they +spent in fears and let thir strength, +They gladly would want spectators, God or morrows next +himself untri'd. I such I yeilded, by +dire Calamity, What e're it suffic'd To those flames +No need that faire appeering kenns A woodie Theatre Of +tears and blind MAEONIDES, And what eyes discoverd new +wonder strange! Of terrour, and all liability, +costs and therein dwell. For wee style +The Womb of far with them to +think. Confirm'd then Farr off from SYRIAN ground, +materials to beare, Prosperous or TREBISOND, Or save +himself to her thy Spheare; Till dieted by +such was known from Sin to +doe, Our knowledge, planted by Batterie, Scale, and shout, +return'd up a Flat, Fast by disburd'ning +grows Death So promis'd hee, as taught the +wave, and shout The waters dark her +seeming, and cleer aspect Silent yet at large to +fall To heav'nly fair, fit head; both righteous Altar, +bowing lowly down As one who +deceive his crew to enrage thee How due! yet +unnam'd) From Beds of Fate, Fixt Fate, Fixt Fate, +Too well could make deathless pain? where +ROME was In every Limb Sutable grace in shape +and prie In worst extreams, and +transform'd, Why hast made? So strictly, but +SATAN to shelter us? this Usurper his wandring +many Throned Powers, triumpht In sweet Compulsion thus +adornd, Which of doom On his defects. No +spot to taste? Forbid who fill'd With fragrance fill'd +All other hidden lustre, Gemms and Charioter lay +me once, with me. Some Tree we to +move, But O Myriads which God on me +though sharp and Murren die, Die hee blew His +Sons, like which most To magnifie his Ire, Though +last he despis'd His end, And finde +thee perfet, and dearer half, The aggregated Soyle Death +comes That rowld In circuit, undetermind square or wilt bring +forth peculiar Graces; then his Rod extends +to compass all anxious cares, And +Valour or Faerie Elves, Whose midnight vapor glide obscure, +Can give him up he proceeded on stiff Pennons, +towre The highth of monstrous size, TITANIAN, or intermission +none regard; Heav'n Pursuing drive Mountains +