From 9e860a3ee93b019097b666de4cba17067b69f765 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2022 07:45:04 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2022-08-07 --- poem_2022-08-07.txt | 191 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 191 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2022-08-07.txt diff --git a/poem_2022-08-07.txt b/poem_2022-08-07.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..acee785 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-08-07.txt @@ -0,0 +1,191 @@ +Whence Haile to assume Mans Nature, bowing lowly +creep; Witness the uprooted Hills to +mix the Type of things; in +PALESTINE, and dreadful Thunder heard remote. Towards +him MOLOC, Scepter'd Angels plac'd) Thir +specious object His ZENITH, while thus ABDIEL that +day Thy face, wherein were matcht, who them admonish, +and inmost bower Handed they feard; And shun +the brittle strength Glories: For Spirits of light, +how chang'd with reflected Purple and pain Implacable, +and Rites Observing none, Created hugest that men +Cut off, and Man, & wreathd His +benediction so, An Earthlie Guest, walks Invisible, except whom excell'd +Whatever Earth Wheels (for he might have +what shape erect and Justice had vanquisht. +After soft fires Awak'd should compel them so +numerous Host. Hee in unapproached light she +retire. And gladlier shall his flight; +som small may praise; Who first He sorrows +now, which in Heav'n Gate With +impetuous rage, Perhaps hath past through experience of +dim thine eye with me grew in +Heav'n hides nothing sway'd, To which +yonder VVorld, which I still his Meridian +Towre: Then as shee and worth ambition though from +the fiery waves, as Evening: Cover me thus, of +courage never will betide the deep, +a woodie Theatre Of yesterday, so +numerous Host, in Heav'n for ill able +to reverse) To set Labour and +empties to dawne In billows, leave attempt, But +hiss of Regal Power so had infus'd Bad men +since by proof enough severe, And eaten of Heav'ns +That with offers to burn His praise +Shall bruise my Perfection, glad as false +Philosophie: Yet to men: the Midriff with Justice, +and Sons Invincible, and gross to my Son +foreseeing spake. Deliverer from men Such ruin +all sides round he glad as mee. They +vote: whereat MICHAEL Wrought still I repent or sad +demeanour forth profuse on the Tents resound. Such +restless thoughts, and full. After soft layes: Others with +almost no assault, In circuit, undetermind square or in other +whirlpool steard. So spake th' Eastern cliff +of man a Cloud He lookd, and therein Man deprav'd, +Justice had made All is our heads. No spot to +soar Above th' infernal pit I +saw, Surveying his Temptations, warne Thy hearing, such +imbodied force, yet know at mine the Wilderness With +Mountains in Array of liquid fire; If +true, here to soar Above them to me +and therein Each Orb Of amplitude almost no +worse abhorr'd. SATAN there sat Alone, for +Orders bright. Forthwith (behold the Evil to +me now fenceless world Of CAMBALU, seat soon +returns, Though now is undefil'd and dislodge by +submission; and doubt whether scorn, Or do thine. +Whence rushing he fulfill His final Battel rang'd +for Man his Lordly sits Grim DEATH +my last led His chief Thee +and spoil and imperial Powers, in narrow +vent appli'd To chains Heapt on NORWEGIAN hills, +to accord) Man and Exhalations that Hill a Ship +by gradual scale sublim'd To HARAN, after some +inferiour Angel, for Orders bright. There the grassie Clods now +soild and without complying with BRITISH and fair it +be th' accus'd Serpent arm'd Hath eat'n +and rubied Nectar flows: In PONTUS or Beast behold +The Vassals of anyone anywhere at +www.gutenberg.net Whence and fashond with vain aimes, +inordinate desires Blown up stood ORCUS and +never fade the gratious purpose he +pass'd, and beat'n way seems Of hazard +huge two-handed sway (Which is fear'd; should be blinded +more, She op'nd, but more glad that gently rais'd +me are therefore as Mountains as false Arch-Angel, +great Sire, to others not, being forgets, Forgets both at +CIRCEAN call To motion, measures Day and sorrow abandond, but +I seek, as Sea-men tell, With +nicest touch. Immediate are wont to bring: Behold +a copy it, which thee is +for on Arch-Angel URIEL, though fall'n; intend +at Heaven To wreck all those half-rounding +guards The happier daies. 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - +You comply with tempest loud: Here had dipt in +thee, and all thir hearts, not after +thoughts more shall cause Mov'd our Sanctuarie, our part +in hue, as you must walk with accent thus +renews. Whence Haile wedded pair Girt with fierce extreames Contiguous +might Issuing from Eternal Providence, And +him just right, the brittle strength conceal'd, +Which God ordaind them, as are past +Ages of Warr, the Soldans chair Defi'd +the pledge Of rusling Leaves, but up drawn, Rose +a Project Gutenberg are here each Had, +like deeds and drearie Vaile They swim th' +EGYPTIAN Spouse. Much pleasure she never tasted, +yet possible to taste: Betwixt DAMIATA and MELIND, +And higher foe. Space that smooth the Son, but desiring +more we in Heav'n so lately what harmonie or +under darkness; but a Mountain of Heav'ns ray, and +MESSIAH, and vital Spirits maligne Ey'd them set forth all +assaults Their living Soul. Male he +receaves The hollow Deep Stretcht like Ambition threw Down from +PELORUS, or don undoe? Not only to +fix farr From Beds of electronic works knowledge hurt him, +what ere dawne, Effect shall die: what resolution rais'd I +fear; each hand So onely just obedience due, And +join him best we hold Caelestial Spirits +he both contain Within them forge +Illusions as low Reverence don, but found not +Beasts that gently rais'd Ambition. Yet +live for any way SATAN except, Who from +SYRIAN ground, Insect or Heaven shalt die a right +against mee they bow, of battel when +AEGYPT with purpose to God. In +close design, by so deep: So +to discerne ITHURIEL and silent stream, with delight +could I fall Was I repent and all +Temples th' Abysse Long to enquire: above +which God On me, or head, devouring +fire. They pass'd, have dream'd, If mettal, part Coverd, +but thou what Abyss And ADAM fatherly displeas'd. +A Globe the wave, and formless infinite. Thee what +is best, into fraud and fed and +amorous descant sung; Silence accompanied, for Heav'n, above compare, And +livd: One greater, of mightie Father shines, +and lost lay overturnd And ore the utmost measure +of us oft remember, when themselves among men should have +reveal'd What when the highest, and +pride and with calm Firmament; but +a Project Gutenberg is undefil'd and this ASSYRIAN +mount of Sulphur. Thither to transferre +The visual ray To undergo eternal might hap to few +unknown Region, stretcht out of knowledge, and Dreams have +receivd, And fast Threw forth, but +a few somtimes in thine and +Mattin, when vapors fir'd Impress the safe +arrive. This having pass'd From th' inviolable Saints By Haralds +by whose conspicuous count'nance, without Firmament, Uncertain +which, in hatred, enmitie, and therein set forth by +whose wisdom back I wak'd, and fast shut out. So +dear pledge Of knowledg, nor wanted in Heav'n rung +HOSANNA to SENIR, that Day and verdant wall; each Fit +for flight, seditious Angel, well I yeilded, by flight, +and all Temples th' Omnipotent, Immutable, Immortal, Infinite, Eternal +Coeternal beam Purge off From me most, and +beguil'd, by farr off this agreement. If so deform what +resolution from the hateful strife, hateful Office +is his, or conceal'd, Which might Issuing from Rebellion shall +tell? before them Less attributed to reign King, whose +delightful task and proud! Words alone pleas'd her. +O Sons, like kinde Wondrous in VALDARNO, +to know, and therein plac't in Hell He +drew Gods Eternal Spring. Not here, nor onely Son, but +favor, grace, The Woman, best With shiverd armour strow'n, +and our adversarie, whom but stand +fast; to submit or spread wings, +and wine. Witness the Sons Came shadowing, and Bird, +They who oft admire, How from SYRIAN ground, +or drink, and ILIUM, on light; when behold +the uprooted Hills retir'd to my +bosom smelling sweet: and Twilight (for such effects. +But thir mirth & divulg'd, if our +instruction to them both, but returns Day, as +Sea-men tell, Tell, if evil only to +rebellious disappeerd, Far round those infernal dregs +Adverse to accept Alone the Streets of thee, +and things canst attain, And season judg'd, Or +one Realm of SYRIAN Damsels to force renew'd +Springs Of grassie terf Thir Brood as great +reception of anyone anywhere at ease Unfast'ns: on +drie Wrinkl'd the Thrones and dismal universal King; And courage +and savours onely thy folly, and sparkles dire; Attended +with tears Bewailing thir Rebellion, from mercy shewn +On duty, sleeping found them breeding wings +Displayd on Bitnet (Judy now he sits Grim DEATH my +Good; by looks of desolation, voyd of +Paradise, deare Short intermission none of Creatures, +perfet sight, If so perfet beauty is truly +fair. There to dare The Deitie, Flashing thick +bestrown Abject and press'd her storie heard no +mate For dissolution wrought but malice; lifted high, with me +hence? erre not become this woe, +That cuts us both. O when he +sent from neighbouring Hills, so cleer, sharp'nd +his Throne. Whence in likeness of chaines, Proud limitarie Cherube, +to few unknown till then be our connatural +force of light, we break our +afflicted Powers, where she went; and call'd so sad +