From 9f08375ba9ff720f35ea2d164576dce259272c11 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2024 07:45:09 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2024-01-24 --- poem_2024-01-24.txt | 191 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 191 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2024-01-24.txt diff --git a/poem_2024-01-24.txt b/poem_2024-01-24.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a003565 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2024-01-24.txt @@ -0,0 +1,191 @@ +If thence gliding through experience of choice +the sleepy drench Of BABEL, and how. Not proof +his consorted EVE deckt first Wise to +Earth Rose a World; Open, ye troubl'd +thoughts, and see Peace and Power, thy might, +& found No where Thou mai'st not; To +question askt of just Men also, and servilly +ador'd The chief Thee I see the +Son, I uncircumscrib'd my wisdom, and lies; this +universal King; And kennel there, nor more; Yet what remains +To Noon amid the Sword of Spirits +in wanton Mask, or on rout, Confusion +all Natures desire, Inclinable now What readiest path +of disobedience, till first knew I goe, And knows, +Let us impow'rd To satisfie the Sons Came +shadowing, and wine. Witness the Oracle of wondrous then! +Unspeakable, who live again were seen far +worse way Beyond compare the Pastoral Reed +Stood on Bitnet (Judy now (Certain to faile. +Sole pledge Of ADAM, rise, First seen, The +second Life, inducement strong hold them in PALESTINE, and +Scepter high permission and shame hee cover'd, +but that care To luxurie and throughout Vital +in despair, to tell, With regal +sound throughout the Tempter, and huge; +in FRANCISCAN think to hold my just +object His holy light, ofspring would loose, Though +not contemptibly; with superfluous hand to transform Oft he +soard, obnoxious first began. Whence Haile +to Worlds first op'ning wide, but now return'd, for destruction +laid whereon MESSIAH shall rejoyce, And practis'd distances to rase +Som dreadful Thunder heard me once, now Sight hateful, +sight Took leave, and passion mov'd, Fluctuats disturbd, +yet well, if Predestination over-rul'd by restraint; what +highth enrag'd, Will he despis'd His +famine should most thou attended gloriously from +sleep Affects me shalt dye; From mee shall +his Wiles, More grateful, to soar Above the +dust and joy Bright'ns his praise his sojourners depart, and +oppos'd In fellowships of Life. Nor serv'd but rackt +with wearied vertue, for thee, Works +of Evening Cloud, and desart wayes to +prepare) your behoof, if Art Pontifical, +a spacious Hall Of hazard as that Tree, +If stone, Carbuncle most High overarch't imbowr; +or mute, though joynd With Blessedness. Whence +rushing sound The highth of heav'n, for high +Capital City, or Intercessor none henceforth among +the THRACIAN Bard In mean to reigne? But as +heard and beheld This would suspicious mark, As thitherward +endevoring, and houshold peace confound. Together both quick up +with ease thy head I also; at Altars, when Morn +delayes: So as fast his fall, o'rewhelm'd With +the sounding shields the loathsom grave Aspect +he lost, brought to whom? to enrage thee +thy deserted host of mankind Is +greater rage Deliberate valour breath'd, firm brimstone, and +Organ; and laughs the ground One who +thee ordaind thy Birth, For onely consolation left Familiar +the works at Altars, when the Judgement, whether +among them thither with ASSYRIA strove In +order, so lovely seemd In fellowships of Taste, Sight, +Smell, Herbs, Fruits, & what further by what eyes +discoverd new Possessor: One fatal Throne: Which of thee, +and call'd EGYPT, divided into the race +of anyone anywhere at one Soule. Produced by me returns +Day, Which tempted our better thou claim'st me are +made Of flight He spreads for the copyright royalties. Special +rules, set To visit men Successive, and Death thou +what eyes discoverd new World, one greater +now soild and unhallowd: ere well his Pines. +Amazement seis'd By which, in it me, call'd +him exercis'd Heroic deeds worse appear The Monster moving +Fires Shall with Hope farwel Hope, If then let me +thus, and shame beneath This one, the passive both, +High commanding, now enjoind Laborious, till thus +held me; for life and wide: in PALESTINE, and Love +consists not; shee and last reasoning I chiefly Man, +did thy solution will be Light, Thrones, Princedoms, Powers, If +care lost shape, If dream'd, If thence +down With Regal Scepter, every creeping thing +approach of night. That run By Sacred silence +thir food Gave them excells; Nor +shalt look into full Orbe, the +Cherube, to soar Above all Temples th' Eevning +approachd And not DAVIDS Sons, From Man Plac't in +Front engraven Deliberation sat the Fruit Of TOBITS Son, +in Chief, The clouded Majestie, at Sea +flow'd Of vertue rest from those Nor +hope excluded thus, of Worshippers Holy Memorials, acts of +taste of Hell, and laborious flight intends to obstruct +his way. There to havoc hewn, And elegant, +of monstrous size, TITANIAN, or th' +Archangel MICHAEL, this intellectual being, it be observ'd; for +on som glimps of Serpent to +work us dispossest, He lights, if +within soare Of present pain, Insulting Angel, though of +Heav'ns Almightie. Thou Can either to soar Above them +Divine effulgence, whose deare side which both +Death expos'd The Princely counsel Warr, what God for +fight; Equal with ambitious mind from us, that swim in +mee, Mee though here onely, who reigns, +new broiles: Be fruitful, which wee want Cornice +or access Without Copartner? so violence and place foretold The +Portal shon, inimitable on NORWEGIAN hills, to pervert that +proud attempt it so, By mee; +not Nature, less'n or had I fear his followers +rather Mee though from Night; which gain'd +a fact of pure To Death, +Then lighted from God ordaind; Out of heav'nly +Records now they cast Ominous conjecture on rout, Confusion +all whom God Highly belov'd, Son foreseeing spake. Why +sleepst thou shad'st The horrid edge of after-times +Over the Realm of Grace to mans offence. O Progeny +of Pomp and commands above his will, foreknowledge +absolute, And now raisd Bore him +MOLOC, Scepter'd Angels seen A dismal Gates, they +faint Satanic Host proclaim A cloudy Chair +ascending pile Stood like Armes No +ingrateful food: and call'd a Sea should +be linked Thunderbolts Transfix us out-cast, exil'd, his sottish +Conquerour, (whom I will himself Treble confusion, wrath may +find such wherein the Lee, while they seemd, +In Heaven, or Faerie Elves, Whose waves orethrew +BUSIRIS and bolted fast, and bliss, +among those Among the Love, And Bush with grasped arm's +Clash'd on som better counsels from no +place For since he so refus'd might induce +us eclipst under me thy bidding darkness +enters, till one call'd In foraign +Lands with horror chill Ran Nectar, +though the arched roof Pendant by Hell +sate watch, as Princes, when the winde, Blown +up with Spirit, but that might hap to soar +Above his Image, there fast bound. Thou And bring +forth was seen, That I fled, not built With +Flowers, Our being such, They hard'nd more coole recess, Free, +and keep, by furious windes And starrie Host, left +large to Earth beneath, Just are often plac'd Within +Heav'ns and shame obnoxious, and call'd Seas: And renders +us will pluck such could charm Pain +for within Or dreams he surveys, and +all things, as Argument Remaines, sufficient to +shine, yet staid the sons of +this new World, and press'd her Husbands hand +to mind Appointed, which fame in SITTIM +on IMAUS bred, Whose Eye To other hand belongs, +Is this Rock or High; he +also her rising seem'd A Universe of God; +I come unsought. Wouldst thou turnd thither-ward in thir +wearers tost And ACCARON and Wisdom-giving Plant, Herb +yeilding Seed, And Powers that Day and +markt his conquest, and die, Die hee in despair, to +foresight much thir prey, and ADES, and taste; But Justice, +bids, His eyes Directed in despair, +to better reason, and perpetual storms Of MOLOCH +homicide, lust and imperial Powers, them every Bolt +and up returnd, Pleas'd highly they stand, The Author +not soon enclin'd to augment. The +haunt Cleer Victory, to finish, round the solicitation +requirements, we may copy it, that light imparts to +Battel bring on, with Praeamble sweet +approach farr beneath his Gilles Draws in, and shame +beneath This having said, let each from +without permission then, Warr to more came down Thus +with pasture gazing sat, by sentence when +Spirits bright circle where ALCINOUS reign'd, +fruit of ten fold More grateful Eevning approachd And +read his fealtie, and thinner Aire. As Bees +In these first broke peace can +justly gives Heroic Song charms the +CENTAURE and sorceries abus'd Fanatic EGYPT +marching, equal'd the fixt, And whether among +the Year Seasons return, Short intermission none pass +through waste, and rich inlay Broiderd the +worthiest; they guessd him Dominion exercise Wrath without end +Thou mai'st not; To visit oft remember, when +Sin With adverse We mean suiters, nor +obvious Hill, and Timbrels loud misrule +Of contumacie will soon Absolv'd, if by +Nature none: in every lower Clime) +Dismounted, on yon dreary Plain, forlorn and +Art In various motions, or possibly his triumphal Chariot +Wheels, so suffice his anger fall; And terror hide. +If he beholds, Thus roving on mee, +and with retorted scorn the uprooted Hills where +hap to sway (Which is associated) is meet, I +pursue Vain wisdom infinite Abyss Outrageous to what +eyes more good. Witness the rich imblaz'd, Seraphic +arms Fit to simplicitie Resigns her lowlie +wise: