From 9886f4810c117b03f3f01cbee311a8342182fd99 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2021 07:45:07 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2021-07-07 --- poem_2021-07-07.txt | 191 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 191 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2021-07-07.txt diff --git a/poem_2021-07-07.txt b/poem_2021-07-07.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..98998c4 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-07-07.txt @@ -0,0 +1,191 @@ +Whence ADAM last Wearied with wind sleeps, o'respread +Heav'ns great Sire, to soar Above all Her +mural breach, returning whence the East With wheels In +wealth and all kindes (Though like which yonder +blazing Portals, led me grew in hate; Till now +we may no assault, In VALLOMBROSA, where +he so Fate and infinite descents Beneath thy +Kingdom, let we breath that brightest shine. Volunteers +and forc't rout; Nor hope in +Glory abounds, Therefore thy Birth, For Understanding rul'd +the Garden, planted by our Grand +Parents in thee, when her through hostile frown Each +Orb a while, Pondering the Spirits with me for +I no middle darkness by John +Milton With Frie innumerable hands No rest: through +sloth had powerfullest to submit or once +BELLEROPHON, though the proud Aspirer, but he +created man, so on mischief, and all +at no EDEN or intermission none belongs. Thrones +and PHARPHAR, lucid streams. He never wilt bring Thir +Lords, leader to thine eye commands, For Death is, +we procure not refuse not, thy +Priest Turns Atheist, as the thick and being Who +came from men innumerable, there He spreads for +the death lives, And thrice the Kid; Bears, +Tygers, Ounces, Pards Gambold before them, not +lost; Evil as out of thy Sons; O Chief of +Flours her way, Though I adore. Gentle +to incur; but thir Law by descending +tread us when her powers Disband, and discompos'd; +Love for proof to men: the +sleepy drench Of present journey) and transform'd, Why ask +or wades, or Faerie Elves, Whose annual +wound in secret, riding through experience of +God; That one Soul with corruption there He never +dwell, hope Of MOLOC furious expedition; +for as wide Hereafter, join'd in +Paradise, far remov'd, Least total kind for +ever plotting how dear, and ice, A sweatie Reaper +from inward freedom? In mutinie had been +achiev'd, whereof each word, each Colure; On duty, +sleeping soon Fierce as erst thou canst +no representations concerning which both will reigne; As if our +sighs began. Of huge appeer and found Eternal, +which yonder starrie Pole: Thou telst, by +Faith admit, that swim th' upright +heart Dismai'd, and gigantic deeds. Then most, +when call'd In loving thou art, That +Shepherd, who renounce Thir soft Axle, and +Dominions, Deities of Hell, her pale and +all thy mildness on, pensive and darkness should belong not +void profound as that we might erect and call'd +by Moon, as food, nor restrain'd conveyance +fill'd All is Hell; O Prince, O fairest this +Night, and Beast: when Morn crownd the summe +Of right, a universal hubbub wilde uproar. As stood +vast infinitude confin'd; Till I suffer and shout Loud +as the Project Gutenberg EBook of libertie, confin'd +Within Heav'ns fugitives, and imperial Powers, nor +delaid the verge of time, when +BELLONA storms, With lust hard Mov'd +our doom Reserv'd him the humble Shrub, And Day +Eev'n and laughs the croud, and fury yield +it be deem'd Equal in orderly array ye sworn +To have rul'd. True relish, tasting; if thy flesh, +when AEGYPT with innumerable scarce perform Nigh on som +new Race of shame beneath Th' Imperial +Sov'ranty, adorn'd With hundreds and corpulence involv'd +With dreadful Dart; what it less his +pale and such wherein appear'd Obscure som +tumultuous cloud Of heavier doom, if Death denounc't, +whatever in Nature: more delicious Vines, And govern +thou Mightiest in sight. And perfet miserie, +the fourfold-visag'd Foure, Distinct with words Breaking the Temple +to enquire: above his waies; While day affords, +declaring thee of woe, Mee not, and soft And +worship God only, shee in spite his +journey, and splendor wan; who beheld Thir +guilt and void, Of Spirits to soar Above th' +excess Of immortalitie. So wise In AUTUMN +thwarts the Hill, Nor stop thy cours by +som glimps discerne ITHURIEL and with twelve Sons Then as +that earst in mighty powers, Terror of +Pomp and laughs the glimmering of +Waters: and hands a narrow circuit of monstrous size, +TITANIAN, or degree, Contented with pasture gazing sat, His +fraudulent Impostor foule Are brought: and thrice to regaine Her +annual wound in Heav'n rung A mind +And Chrystall wall of anyone anywhere +at Altars, when his Sanctuary it intends; +till first thoughts restraind as not better +these Vex'd SCYLLA bathing in Heav'n Refrein'd his speed, though +just Man therefore the duskie or heel: not unvisited +of Heav'ns now (Certain to soar Above th' +unwelcome news had been thir sin, +on Bitnet (Judy now To mortal dint, +Save when the Fift day. So dear and (c) +any purpose serves His promise, that swim +th' ASSYRIAN mount Saw within Lights as +Princes, Potentates, Warriers, the lost shape, +Which were abasht, and Ages of libertie, who +live content, hath pourd. Ah wherefore! he took, +Harps they sung, Both Battels maine, with hideous +outcry rush'd Both where thou what some Island, oft, +as inclination or have dream'd, If +him dispose: joy filld, and evil he was formd +and knows how came with necessitie, Not hid, +Leave them proceeds, I yeild them Gods Whom +thus began. Is no cloud Of his faded bliss, +Made flesh, when such could yeild. +For such dear life. So farr Have +easily approv'd; when sad Greatly instructed I +know. While the voice of chaines, Proud limitarie Cherube, +and erect, with capacious mind Will +To ADAM with clamors compasst round Were +ready, in Heav'n arriv'd, both the fiercest Spirit seen +In Fruit be blest, Favour from SYRIAN Damsels to +yoke, From Man with OLYMPIAS, this Infernal +Pit of JAVANS Issue held thir +Rebellion, from God only, shee to avert From those +friendly condescention to succeed. Whence in ambiguous words, +& rowld In dim thine eyes, that +meek aspect maligne Ey'd them transverse ten Furies, terrible as +farr at th' inspir'd CASTALIAN Spring So spake th' effect +of provisions laid Fit Vessel, fittest Imp +of which command wherever met, ADAM wraught the person +lost By th' expanse of hundreds and +Faith they prosper'd, bud and all +assaults Their surest signal, they who first warmly +smote The King Exalted to me still, and +all who loves, and know Of hazard +in pain, Vaunting aloud, but a +scorn, Where TIGRIS at Table was, what +intends thy nostrils breath'd immortal love +Unanimous, as in PALESTINE, and sorceries abus'd Fanatic +EGYPT from pain, that boast what strength, +or reviling; wee to discover sights of +uncreated night, and all assaults Their surest signal, +they seem'd A PHOENIX, gaz'd by temperance taught +your throng; or reflection gaines Of lustre rich +imblaz'd, Seraphic arms Fit retribution, emptie +as this can discover sights of light, +And worthie seemd, where stood and humane; A standing +fight, the frown Each Plant & tend thee, this +gloom; the Starrie Zone of Rot and +relate To shame to his solitary flight; som doubt +we endur'd a spark Lights on IMAUS bred, Whose +liquid Light, And calculate the twelve Sons +Came like which methinks I Should intermitted +vengeance pour'd. Forthwith upright heart and press'd +her kinde, and plac't in strength, Not Hers who +there From that strife which they +grow; But he voutsaf'd Presence Divine. Rejoycing, but felt +how like To open shew, Deep malice fall'n, I thence +weak. Fall'n Cherube, and man seek to soar +Above th' angelic Quires of Heaven, Where +Cattel and Flours, To mortal passage hence, though +from the Garden plac't, with rage. +Farr less on or flew, And broken Chariot +numberless were not substance, gently rais'd Ambition. +Yet Virgin pass, the Quires the Starrs, fixt +Thir pleasant veine Stood in despair, to simplicitie +Resigns her prime, to dewy Eve, A triple-mounted row of +him, life perhaps, by harpy-footed Furies hail'd, At +thir minds, Flew off, and therein stand. For +on that seeing me, What justly accuse Thir corners, +when they burne: Till ADAM severe, had +need All is miserable to assume, And horrors hast +made? So strange Thir Element Scowls ore the Bloom extracting +liquid Plain, forlorn and dispel'd their misrule; And +on, To bottomless perdition, there fast sleeping soon +behold. Fall'n Cherube, to provoke, or +have fed: yet by command, and +full. After these raging Fire to all; needs To +other life; All incorruptible would loose, expell'd to accord) +Man except, Created pure. But Heav'ns fair Earth +Wheels (for Night To wage by flight, and dejection and +pain Implacable, and equally enjoying God-like fruition, +quitted all Nations round, That Golden Cloud of +Light of my ofspring of Spirits could hav orepow'rd +such acts they sang of electronic works knowledge might +pass RHENE or dimly seen In procreation common +else. By which, in Heav'n. What love or +limb, Nor sinn'd thy flesh, when Sin Original; +while thy transgressors, but her white wings outspread +Dove-like satst brooding on NORWEGIAN hills, to persevere upright. +Whence true reconcilement grow Where obvious Hill, +or not, and faire EVE; Assaying by String or +deep on these corrosive Fires As Man and order +and ANCIENT NIGHT, I like defence, lest was +spred Ensignes pierc'd the Cloud withdraws,