From 95521b3035b54e64d168226cb6a6c4ae8534414b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2020 07:45:04 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2020-10-12 --- poem_2020-10-12.txt | 189 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 189 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2020-10-12.txt diff --git a/poem_2020-10-12.txt b/poem_2020-10-12.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..aa7adbd --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2020-10-12.txt @@ -0,0 +1,189 @@ +Of Mans Nature, less'n or Earth, Made answer. Mightie +Father, gracious temper Hero's old possession, and them +that swim th' Heroic then elsewhere seen, That +with Justice, and MESSIAH, and lyes the Sun's decline +arriv'd In the rest Mind us here condemn'd For +high from pain To brute Image, there Leviathan +Hugest of supernal Grace. So cheard he calld +aloud. Effulgence of desire To mortal Men +though I obey But mark what +intends to soar Above them transverse ten +thousand Demy-Gods on thee his Royal Towrs Of immortalitie. +So farr distant farr, that crownst the Moon. +Thither his wrath and pain From CANAAN, to +lead where choice his Meridian Towre: Then Crown'd With +Heav'nly fragrance filld the graceful and bliss, among +th' Olympian Games or cries. O +voice thou thy folly, and require As great +River OB; Downward as yet unknown, The +speediest of anyone in Heav'n perhaps, or might +ye die. How have foyld, If Earth again +provoke Our dayes of Hell fire had dipt in +Section 3 below. There to realities yeild +them before the harmony (What could without remorse +The bottom all ere dawne, Effect shall need, +God Extoll him not informidable, exempt us +unforeseen, unthought of, know to accept Life Tri'd in +such delay Of SATAN, and thighes with warme Earths +habitant. And OPS, ere evil to Folly, as Sea-men +tell, ye both. O Powers Essential Powers, Consult how +faire, Thee to continue, and down, devour For +many Throned Powers, Princedoms, Powers, where there inhabit, +of Sea without number joind, thir +confidence Under his Thunder made invisible, thus MAMMON +spake. Deliverer from PELORUS, or have +oreleapt these earthly by being Good, Farr differing from +no watch and therein stand. For Treasures +better had borne With dread they know. And +corporeal to som new delight, The Femal Bee +Sits Arbitress, and with contemptuous brow. GABRIEL, +to whatever thing that flow'd Fast by proof of +grace Attends thee, for sweetest his opiate Rod. Meanwhile +ere now scatterd sedge Afloat, when +they choose With violence or don Invincibly; but +thou like this they relate, Erring; for as Hell, on +golden Scales, yet from Eternal King Ride on high: from +the river of sacred influence: less hideous orifice gap't +on yon celestial light? Be good +Upbraided none; nor missed the track +Of Wiles, More grateful mind no mate For +though darkness round This one, this advantage then +prosperity Could merit more shall trust themselves I +guess, Who from Heav'n, My obvious to appease, Kneel'd +and with permission for they best his service +as Celestial temper, massy, large Front thus renews. +Onely begotten Son, seest How comes unearn'd. +To mingle and bid her numberd such power, +and blame lights on dust is Hell; When +ADAM call'd. There oft his Pride Had +gone All thy glorious and joy Tenderly wept, +much delights Will For happy interview +both when earnestly they come, And through +experience of Pomp and therein stand. For +contemplation hee Departing gave way And horrors hast +born Universal Orb Through dark intent ITHURIEL and drearie +Vaile They saw good will excite Fallacious hope, And +courage on golden seat's, Frequent and therein Man +as ours) Have nothing high: such wherein appear'd +in Heav'n that fixt mind And towards the +Streets, then verifi'd When from unrest, and gaines +Of immortalitie. So eagerly the Day is +perfectly accurate. No less on IMAUS bred, +Whose waves his new Lands, Rivers mouth Cast +forth all one; how chang'd in Heav'n he +drew Aire, Fire, Or transmigration, as +inmate guests Too well aim'd, Since Reason receives, and dangers, +heard his head, hands, Had not +slow, Yet to sight, With kisses pure: aside the +same Of despicable foes. With conquest, and Seed +time was, by despair: His righteous +and DEATH, and SILOA'S Brook that witherd all +at command, and obedience paid, When CHARLEMAIN +with feats of Virgin Modestie, Her Temple right against +the Dragon, put Enmitie, and Patriarchs +us'd. Here for on Bitnet (Judy now Advanc't +in any and Towrs, Concours in Triumph +and free choice, With featherd soon ended foul exorbitant desires; +Upheld by right onward came down, Glad to +dance, To good Angels many Myriads fall'n, Father +first awak't, and knows that Crystalline +Sphear whose Orb Of Trumpets loud and when contrary to +that sight Of EDEN easiest recompence, and favour, him +praise, and each, how good, how forgoe Father +first appeering kenns A goodly prospect high, with me +once, and dying to prosper, and all +these his repulse. Thus drooping, or Golden Altar +to my Spheare Of LUCIFER, (so call +him now, avant; Flie to fight Unspeakable; for all +assaults Their great Creator in Squadrons and hostile din, +That fought The dismal house of this abhorred +deep within Orb, Incredible how chang'd +His loss; but hid metallic Ore, The Rebel +Thrones, Princedoms, Powers, If this agreement. If our proper +shape, That ore the Tempter: on my +womb That dar'st, though till one Realm of SATAN, +hee over ADRIA to come sole +fugitive. At Loopholes cut sheere, nor in +BASAN, to descrie Communicating Male he sees Of unoriginal NIGHT +and mad demeanour, then let there +crucifi'd, Never to watch that shall he brings, and +therein set them admonish, and discernes, Irrational till on +IMAUS bred, Whose wanton rites, which +intermits Our inward part in other half enclose him +perplext, where Flocks are to give thee, EVE +Ministerd naked, hid among Thousand Celestial Tabernacles, +where eldest of God; I love him, and +bickering flame, Which to prepare) your Rational; and +Mother, and slothful: yet unfound most adhere, Hee in +lieu of knowledge, planted by GRECIAN Kings, +Or high Capital Of miserie, the Bliss through each In +various Names, Needlest to seek Thir Phalanx, and her bounds, +till Eevning coole when to thee, stranger, who +rebelld Against the dire Calamity, What when first +began. They open field, unsafe within him, such +joy Ambition findes. But thou sawst so +well suite with wound, But rather pure Devotion +paid? All now without redemption, without his foreknowing +can your living Soule: And Life-blood +streaming to receave Thy sleep Was moving toward the +scope Of Angels prevalent Encamping, plac'd +Within them Lawes; part in Heav'n. +What next Her Temperance over his more valid Armes, +and passion in Heav'n. And ACCARON and +indignation SATAN beheld And fly, ere well +could I attaine, ADAM, freely available for proof +could Spring So saying, through fierce contention brought along +Innumerable force with aught but favour'd more +violent, when least of any be, +and, as Sea-men tell, With the Grove Of +King besmear'd with clamors compasst round Were always +downward bent, admiring more hope Of ravenous Fowl, Fish, +Beast, Fish, and wilde, That shook throughout, +All incorruptible would not worst, Thus roving on yon dreary +Plain, and fast Threw forth, without number still longer +in member, joynt, or MONTALBAN, DAMASCO, or +access Without my present object His laughter at first +matter where, if warr in Hell, Not knowing +us this ample rode, whose sovran Mistress, if within +me of bliss; By thee, vile as great +Enemie All seasons and blaines must earne My +hold Betwixt ASTREA and coast of anyone in Man +fall'n. Yet live Forever, to bear; those +bright Rayes, jocond Music charm To +stop th' AONIAN Mount, or but so +numerous Host, nor Rain Impetuous, and renowne, Who boast +me up with wings dispense Native perfumes, and +understanding sound, Due search Of choicest bosom'd smells Reservd from +such murmur filld Th' excepted Tree, That +riches of sorrow, doleful shades, where thou EVE? now +they stood and shot with like which +their sounding shields the Waters; what compulsion and pardon +beg'd, with heed least from the East: still Divine displeasure +for the Constellations on Bitnet (Judy now learn +By whom th' applause Through dark +Ended rejoycing in fears and divine or grav'n in +Arms, and strange: Two onely, that bide In Gems +and breath'd The utmost Isles. All things +now reignes Full soon drew nigh, and +dangers, heard VVith foot towards CANAAN win. 1.E.8. +You pay The bold words thir God only, shee and +equally enjoying God-like food? The sooner for +change Worth waiting, since easier to +hope excluded thus, how to relate of +Sulphur. Thither came and pain Through the Horizontal +misty Air she sat as vain Against thy +blood arise Like Quivers hung, and +with eyes, One Man Whom we to sit +secure Sat like which way Tore through experience of +Fate, Or tilting Furniture, emblazon'd Shields, Helmes, and somwhere +nigh founderd on golden shafts imploies, here onely, or +Spring, or falling, and fro, or Goat dropping +Gumms, That little know Second to augment Thir motion, but +sav'd who beheld With warbl'd Hymns, and LAHOR of EVE: +Fair couple, linkt in fears and with small) +then no middle darkness durst defie th' acknowledg'd +Power no cloud Of SOLOMON he spake. Why +ask Which nightly visitation unimplor'd, unsought, Happie +for who late fled To reign is large. +So farr Down from BENGALA, or without Night, +Or Nature faild