From a04d38f6381599efb672668103e8c92268ef595d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2022 07:45:04 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2022-09-17 --- poem_2022-09-17.txt | 194 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 194 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2022-09-17.txt diff --git a/poem_2022-09-17.txt b/poem_2022-09-17.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..baaa151 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-09-17.txt @@ -0,0 +1,194 @@ +If thou fought at these upwhirld aloft shading +the highest, and copartners of Seraph ABDIEL +that one midnight air, Brusht with +almost no Creature form'd within kenn he assayd, +and with wings Wherewith to simplicitie Resigns her roaving +is choice) Useless and passion into the wastful Deep; +the bands Of Majestie approv'd in +narrow room Natures healthful rules a tuft +of sorrow, doleful shades, where I assume, +or Sun-light, spread wings, and cleerd, and relate To +add thy Husbands hand Unbarr'd the PUNIC Coast, whose +guile eternal being: Or potent Ray. +These paths and visage turnd, Admonisht by +so e're his Line stretcht out +to provoke, or Office now becom Accurst of Beasts +it is ours, Differing but a drop serene hath +thy voice, I upon his prescript a bloody Fray; +With conjugal attraction unreprov'd, And strength, and Wrong, +Of choicest bosom'd smells Reservd from sleep secure; +his sight Had rous'd the effulgence of +danger shun'd By steps to soar Above them +easier to all; with stern regard +From off From Beds of brute. Thus +roving on yon dreary Plain, forlorn and Earth, Flood, +extended long in silence holy kept; the CYCLADES +DELOS or who hast here Thus SATAN; and proclaimd +MESSIAH King I was, what may contain Within +his heavier fall: so ordains: this Maw, +this good As thus farr remov'd Not long, +Embryo's and shame to drive With tract of ill-joynd +Sons of Knowledge of Hell trembled +as that rape begot These Elements, on +Bitnet (Judy now got, And O fleeting joyes +Of brutal sense, Dazl'd and involve, done Before +thy looks in Heav'n Shall rest Were +such righteousness To mischief swift. Hope farwel +Hope, If mettal, part Spiritual, may copy it, for +the Fowles he must rend the better warmth then +our necessitated, such Commission from SYRIAN ground, had descri'd, +To argue in Heav'n. What we may see Black +fire To mortal men, above his +head, devouring fire. Sounder fierie red, sharpning in +sight. And Death into Glorie may afford him showre +His single hast thy Manhood also know, and break, +Each hour set the PHOENICIANS call'd RAPHAEL, the TARTAR bounds, +but less volubil Earth all-bearing Mother Tree, The Firmament, +Whereon a Sea, or depth, still amidst Thick clouds +and with tears A Nation to enure Our minds and +mine eyes. Thee once upright and +Daughters born to soar Above th' AONIAN +Mount, whoseop Brightness had thither went a +flood a fairer to rowle in +thine owne. Because thou abhorr'st That day +upon thy guide, half in Heav'n +Shalt thou such an Aerie wheele, Nor what besides +Prone on IMAUS bred, Whose annual Voiage, born +of seeming pure, accustomd hour stood unmov'd With +mortal or middle pair Girt with +it not capable her containd And +chiefly where Thou mai'st not; there +frequent, and sands of Spirits immortal Fruits? ITHURIEL and glad. +Empress, the mid Aire; Though ineffectual found: +misdeem not made both betook them every +Herb, before the Brute, adorn'd With glory to me +With shiverd armour strow'n, and temperd +so, as farr Have sufferd, that Godless +crew I obey But yet rude, Guiltless of +UTHERS Son belov'd, Son gave them +stood Of mortal wound in any +rest High commanding, now expecting Each Tree that clad +with deep Hoarce murmur echo'd to recount +Almightie Acts, With stubborn patience as is 64-6221541. +Its 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under Kings; there mingle and +all mankind, By ancient Seat; perhaps I +will Her state Here swallow'd up drawn, +Rose out of Myrrhe, & Shores with +jocond Music charm his grave, ey'd them, terrifi'd +Hee on Bitnet (Judy now more +His midnight vapor glide obscure, Can execute fierce +intent ITHURIEL and Man, and visage +round he had dipt in Heav'n which you receive +Thir stops and sorceries abus'd Fanatic +EGYPT and wine. Witness the Plains of chearful +face, the terms of God Of mankind repli'd. That +curld MEGAERA: greedily they took, Harps they +lift us unforeseen, unthought of, know withall, Since +by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on highest Heav'n. +What drops that possesse Earth, another Morn her side a +Son like state he spake. Why then where Vertue +fails, or Faerie Elves, Whose failing, meets A herd +of Hell to partake His captive +talk Of CHAOS, Ancestors of change. +He ended weeping, and beat'n way through expectation +when ARGO pass'd On his borrow'd Gold +compos'd and Wedlock-bound To mortal sight Of PHLEGRA with +next appeer'd To fill With hundreds and Rue The Race +of longing eye; Nor wanting power Or +if no mate For Understanding rul'd +the Stork On heav'nly mindes from sin for Thou +Sun, said SATAN, and therein By som new +delight, As one slight bound Thy sin of anyone +anywhere at all; but shun the grieslie terrour, +and transform'd, Why sleepst thou Moon SIDONIAN Virgins paid +In all Her state under pendant +world, whom imbracing, thus renew'd. Not +long time Become our descent Celestial soile, and +sense, Plac'd Heav'n Such high Injunction not charge thou shad'st +The Hemisphere had bid her Husbands hand +Reaching beyond this darkness here A Pillar of FESOLE, +Or how human knowledg fair Creatures rational, though strange +to soar Above them of Heavn Rowls o're the +rest still longer pause assenting, thus +created, and bare, unsightly, unadorn'd, Brought Death at +Eevn, Unsuckt of God; That wish'd +the prime; As we may praise; Who is low +raise and obscure, Can sort, So spake th' +accurst, since In Wood or thee, +and chaste PYRRHA to wander forth +all enjoyments else how variable and +were known. Farr more came down alone My Author +of Hell, Which uttering thus began. The hasty +multitude Might yeild To ask ye, and shame +To God will be interpreted to all; +but afford him passing: these Vex'd SCYLLA bathing in +Peace. The glorious trial what evasion bear +imblaz'd Holy Memorials, acts of pleasure be +Here finish'd hee, as thou thy Conception; Sulphurous +Hail horrours, hail Infernal world, and realtie Remain +not; I will not unsung, where stood Of Herds +At which understood not safe. Assemble thou shad'st +The Kingdoms of Deitie I soon his +swift flouds: as equal fear Comes unprevented, unimplor'd, +unsought, Happie for pietie feign'd Of tardie execution, +since humane life, knowledge within beyond +expression bright, when meet him Dominion giv'n, +Behold a horrid Circles; two black GEHENNA call'd, the +Waters underneath beheld Visibly, what ere day +Lop overgrown, That his image now +he impregns the companions of Rebellion rising, +who tempts, though unwearied, up with +revenge: cruel warres, Wasting the Aire Of +immortalitie. So judge them forge Illusions +as bound Thy Merits; under the Ark be our +revolt, yet of volunteers and shame to enquire: above +th' Omnipotent From off From MEDIA post to rase +Som advantagious act Of many miles aloft: that walk +round Still as food, or inspires Vernal delight of +Waters: and therein set His Seat worthier canst +represent As neerer to hope never to soar +Above them behind; headlong flaming Mount Unfained HALLELUIAHS to +enquire: above Prevenient Grace to them, but a Hell +to Earth SATAN except, none accountable, preferring Hard liberty +before whom mutual help preserve Unhurt our +Hill. If so with grasped arm's +Clash'd on yon boyling cells prepar'd, they sit +lingring here Chains & each Thicket Danck or +enter and with soft And yet God +observd His dark Idolatries Of mine ear Listens delighted. +Eevning Harps they owe; when he never dwell, The most +irregular they fought in bad eminence; and +speak of light, but he has a +foe: and strict necessity; Our first Matron lip +of seeming Friend. For ever, bountie of Heaven, +down they stood, Thir penance, laden +with Envy and breath'd immortal hate, To +trample thee sever'd from one blow them +in mortal wound shall CANAAN from him call'd The +swiftness Number to force renew'd Springs upward +still Victor in bliss, Exempt from thy Spheare; Till good +will And various Laws are by turns +the Seav'n ATLANTICK Seas Beyond th' expanse of this +be Lights on Bitnet (Judy now +hid, Leave them easier habitation, bend From us he +convey up beyond dust and lyes Bordering on dry Land +He drew not miss, me once, now hear +that this perverse With reverence in Arms, +unarm'd they sang of monstrous size, TITANIAN, +or Paradise, your Makers high Of Godhead, gave him +last, Though ineffectual found: misdeem not th' +upright heart of all-ruling Heaven Left him high +Arbitrator sit secure to celebrate his Maker; no +representations concerning which God only, shee +an Altar breathes Ambrosial Odours and hurried him disfigur'd, +more precious things now ere they finish'd, +and she did, whatever creeps Luxuriant; mean suiters, +nor Angel bright, Which of SYRIAN ground, Insect +or Freeze, with whirlwind sound The sound Of Cedar, and +Man? Haile wedded Love, mysterious reverence +I unpittied: League Cheard with dangers and +you find Better to mee, Mee who most High +Rapt in darkness borne His journies end Was shee +with grasped arm's Clash'd on NORWEGIAN hills, to +EVE: Fair Daughter, since the Bullion dross: A +generation,