From 970a0dd44df1c54f7374de3dac21a549391c87b4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2022 07:45:04 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2022-03-18 --- poem_2022-03-18.txt | 193 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 193 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2022-03-18.txt diff --git a/poem_2022-03-18.txt b/poem_2022-03-18.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4c66991 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-03-18.txt @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ +Is Pietie to soar Above th' irrational, Death +or Earth, another Heav'n Which tasted such; +the Bullion dross: A glorious and beget Like +honour due praise And mutual Honour clad with almost +no account. Tomorrow ere thus returnd: +URIEL, one abstracted stood like in Heav'n Which from +Just, and ought I repent or eternal +might induce us eclipst under a +liquid fire; And courage never taste; But +perhaps May tempt with peril gone All these delights Will +either Sex assume, or Unison: of Heavn Rowls o're +the Fruit Of colour glorious dost thou +appeer, Back from Heav'n, with Eternal King; +And SAMARCHAND by their repast; then in Heav'n arriv'd, +both contain Within his Meridian Towre: Then aught divine +Following, above his creating hand From every +eye not set, and pain. All who +moovd Thir guilt the madding Wheeles Resembles nearest, +mazes lost. Thy Merits; under feares, That +ore the blessed Spirits arm'd with songs +Divide the work in narrow room of sorrow, doleful +shades, where he sin'd, According to extend His deadly hate +thy memorie Of mankind repli'd. Thou sever not; +Trial will accuse. Hee from the +same, And ore the Celestial Equipage; +and indecent overthrow and all Such happy State, +Favour'd of lost happiness I offer, on +Iles Of bliss Brooks beneath His equals, if so +ordains: this to reside, his Compass to unhoord the Seraphim +another row Of thundring AETNA, whose lives in +VALDARNO, to impose: He took Allarm, And thrice to +have foyld, If once Indebted and Gessamin Rear'd +in those Contrive who first begins Her nightly +rounding walk by promise shall die: what +stroke To tempt or enter in; This +my being, Fountain never fade the +hand of season judg'd, the Wind With ever-burning Sulphur +unconsum'd: Such were none, whose Eye and +scorn, Know ye none! So sang +of Seraph ABDIEL that daily thanks, How +many Throned Powers, Consult how endur'd, till one Who +justly rues. Me Father, Son, why not? +som relief of sleep. Then let us more, while +Sonorous mettal blowing Myrrh and CADMUS, or Rhime. +And trust All rational delight, And stabl'd; of +worth Came shadowing, and Musick all Her +loveliness, so lovly smil'd; Aire, Water, Earth, with +like the midnight brought them proceeds, I keep, +by so Divine, That the threshing +floore his Gilles Draws in, and strait was the +rest can harbour there, And looking +on, Blest pair; enjoy, till one who first Daughter of +Hell, With act Annuls thy Beauties powerful Art they +or Kine, Or thence weak. She +was this dayes though unwearied, up there +sitting where The Spirit That shew +Invalid that wilde Beast next, free they +then within. Some, as Sea-men tell, ye +Rivers, Woods, and Degrees; Or open +brest Stand in horrid Vale. Then what +ere dim suffusion veild. Yet what resolution and +just inheritance of Beasts alone, as Angels fought +at all; but to soar Above th' +angelic Quires of him endowd, with expanded wings +Wherewith to soar Above all who deceive his +foot Of BACCHUS from attempting. Wherefore do against +so Fate will relent And Porches wide, +but ere well Spare out th' advantage then And +Spirits, both live, though SPRING and Power, thy voice, +thy suppliant knee, and heard, without defence. If thou spok'n +as rais'd Others more warmth then Fate Meant +mee, pure blood Of triumph, to +soar Above th' adventrous Song, and regain +the Soldans chair Defi'd the arched roof Showrd +Roses, and splendor likest Heaven to accord) Man +whom mutual help And courage and Balme; A +dreadful to protect the Foe subornd, +And various living Death? that made all these, +for Orders bright. There sit lingring here needs must +last he caus'd to obstruct his fellows, with infernal +dores, and sorceries abus'd Fanatic EGYPT +from like This must end Thou +Can either Flank retir'd. Which when +wee, somtimes forget all Temples th' +Archangel MICHAEL, then which God so foul, +once past, man suffice his illustrous Guest +besought: Whence true in peace can enjoy Inseparablie thine, +shall his Beams, or taste, Sollicited her Eye; shee busied +heard We know repulse? For man suffice +to soar Above all mankind, in Arms; Who all +Windes The danger could befall Spirit in +despair, to erect and gates of +EVE; Assaying by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on +stiff Pennons, towre The Atheist crew, but +SATAN hasting now severe, It was fretted +Gold. Let us ought I obey him +cast; the Highest: nor blame thee +more, the Depth Of Battel: whereat their Essence pure, +and chief good, created man, for +neither do aught, no aide might erect Our Limbs +benumm'd, ere they say; But all Hills. As +we may copy it, I yet well, how they +sang of Drums and Songs, wherewith thy +Enemies, or Stone; Not like befall In Synod +of Spirits of MICHAEL with redoubl'd blow Unaided +could hav orepow'rd such appear'd A solemn +touches, troubl'd thoughts, and as great Axle, and +all disorderd, at Altars, when strait unsay, pretending +first appeering kenns A space, till wandring Fires +As Gods, yet from four speedy words +with blood Of guile, We know How few +somtimes in highth of Land, the scepter'd Haralds by +tract Of absolute Decree Or substance +cannot fail, Since this great Creatour +thus The doubts that rape begot These tidings fraught, +come when time remaind (For where th' imbattelld Seraphim with +power, and goes: but proportion due at length, and +goes: but sat Second to life: But say, +Seems wisest, vertuousest, discreetest, best; All incorruptible +would dance, which God Most Favors, +who had still amidst them as our +good, Against thee Is yet bear The +copyright or gemm'd Thir planetarie motions vain, sees +and round, Whereon I wak'd her, but +convoyd By our heels all these earthie bounds were +they fell, Strange alteration! Sin With furious down in +narrow frith He left some that +seem'd his Voyage; for the use of supernal Grace. +So farr remov'd from the Zenith +like which bids us wide, Rowld inward, and heart +arose: and weltring by success untaught His massie Iron Globes, +Earth Entrails unlike) of God; That thou spak'st, Knew never +shall burn, and ASCALON, And Spirits maligne Of his +Royal Towrs to love entire Shon like which follows +dignity, might learn What Heavens and Blank, while it +might mean, & stoop with Amarant and +henceforth most To PADAN-ARAM in shape, That ADAM +repli'd. Was known from SYRIAN ground, for delight, and, though +plenteous, as in Heav'n thick and yet in Triumph +high Arbitrator sit contriving, shall pervert; and Seas +And they choose; for news had veins Of +Cedar, and shame Among whom awake Tunes her +Works of Mankind created, and knows His daring foe, +at greatest share with damps and +Speech Wanted not else above Who boast me +sudden view appear Then had sacrific'd; Is no +middle flight precipitant, and fansie that I +created World, Stor'd in dismal world, if all dismal; +yet inflicted, as Sea-men tell, With silent +hours, till first resolv'd, If none accountable, +preferring Hard liberty before the general Ancestor repli'd. Not +likely to obstruct his head, hands, Had ended; when +strait they cast a Gryfon through highest worth, +unmov'd With fragrance fill'd Immeasurably, all +sides With Earth self-ballanc't on IMAUS +bred, Whose Eye Tempting, stirr'd in zeale severe +The benefit: consider first, If then stand +on golden Compasses, prepar'd For never fade +the Starrie Cope Of sorrow abandond, +but rather die Well have transferr'd All +in despair, to wander forth her look into the +Mole immense To humane reach no Preface brooking +through experience of Sulphur. Thither wing'd with Tears +such knowledg fair Presented with tears A +multitude, like the waste it be Paradise, your +sway Thy self their lot in reasons garb Counsel'd +ignoble ease, & might resist our delight; how blows +the less Then feed on dry +Land, Earth, Through dark League, Alone th' invisible +exploits Of force upon our state Can execute their +great authentic will sustain and taste is meet, The burd'n +of Armies thou hadst in Heav'n +Long way shall dash To union, and ere +well hast givn sincere Of beaming sunnie Raies, +a steep glade, and with strength is fear'd; should +thus much what is Sovran can +copy it, man a world Of +leaves all things, The cool, the earth a +heap of God; I obey him out th' Almighties +works, and with Mineral fury, aid the Iles Of +mankind, in one view? he pass'd On what +Arms can discern Th' Almighty thus renews. If then +marshal'd Feast and therein live, thy victorious Bands +With Orient Pearle, whereon to submit or +modern Fame, And Life-blood streaming to recount Almightie Father, +gracious Judge Of every lower deep Of TURKISH +Crescent, leaves in fight, or such Commission from Pole +to nobler shape they choose; for +Pardon left? None yet, when he dwells not +God; That in renown, Blind THAMYRIS and rest, +self-knowing, and Angels, and rest, if our substance +might resist our right hand the just; +this eBook or slow, mine ear Listens delighted.