From a36553649ccde89bc436effa7a60c86c5ad9487c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2022 07:45:06 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2022-01-05 --- poem_2022-01-05.txt | 195 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 195 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2022-01-05.txt diff --git a/poem_2022-01-05.txt b/poem_2022-01-05.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2d5806f --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-01-05.txt @@ -0,0 +1,195 @@ +Fall'n Cherube, to work Divine Mends not +be: Taste this, and Lord, as +Rocks of sorrow, doleful shades, where stood +unmov'd With his Tents farr som new Worlds; whereof +in despair, to know, and passion +dimm'd his Decree Or open and shall surprise The +season, prime Wisdom, what deny, and dangers, heard +no end, and shame Of PHARAO: there +He gave way up here Breathe forth disclos'd +Into her Armes to force upon our faults, +and calamitous constraint, Least with scornful +turn'd, But Knowledge in honour done to +soar Above the flames and paine Infeebl'd me, +or Months, or re-use it self: To fickle Chance, and +call'd by ill become So warnd me, that +mortal foe, who first appeering kenns +A bough and shame him wrought In battel, what +forbids me, the while. God so lov'd, thy flesh, +when to share with tears and distribution of joy: +the Thunder made him call'd MAN, +about thee reconcil'd, at choice and shame to +approve not back Despoild of Faith to +Nature of Light of God; That Shepherd, +who ought Rather then Gods. BELIAL +came last, Rous'd from Heav'n hides nothing +from Night; Light back with vain designes In +favour deign'd. Thee all these works, the Quire +stood retir'd to submit or say, what +behooves From their Essence pure, conformitie +divine. Those balmie Reed, How art +naked, and sheer within my wondring tell how endur'd, +till the fourfold-visag'd Foure, Distinct with richest hand the +INDIAN streams; Abhorred STYX the Name +I else according to believe Those Leaves +together crowded drove them easier shunnd? +God Of light of thee; but +of Men as equal to their +various colours, how that word mightier service +he so call Of CERES all kinds that may +eate, Yet mutable; whence warne him +endowd, with surpassing Glory above Earthly thought, +Wrought still destroyes In prospect; there to men, And +gathers heap, and as that wisdom +infinite descents Beneath what resolution from neighbouring +Hills, and Faith they rose, impossible to let mee +also to inshrine BELUS or Days, months, +and South as fast, With Angels disarraid. Back to +succeed. Whence heavie pace the Lee, while +Warr had return'd, On ADAM, by +thy face, the branches hung Like instrument of God; +I abroad Through labour must forgoe, To settle +here Chains in mortal foe, By LEO and +her bestial herds Attest thir infant +blood, to supply Perhaps thou op'nst Wisdoms way, +till one continu'd reaching th' Olympian Games or Man +seduc't. However insupportable, be judg'd of +mee with thundrous Clouds may Faith to promote. +Yet fell; confounded CHAOS and Gold; Nor sinn'd thy punishment, +False fugitive, and pursuit Back to possess A space, +till wandring ore the Firmament: So farwel +Hope, If such wonder now reignes Full to +simplicitie Resigns her countenance triform Hence +fills All his head, but that live again His good +proceeds, I sought not. Hast thou +becam'st a horrid strides, Hell Draw +after long delay'd; Yet unconsum'd. Before him His single +or presaging, from the South, and Bird, They +swim th' Eternal spirits; or Earth, when I will +betide the torturing houre Of dalliance had general +Names Of Paradise He onward com ADAM now +great Work, that most To intellectual, give his high +Shall hast'n, such appear'd A herd +of Angels kenn he stears his rebellious rout Fell +with thundrous Clouds exhal'd From skirt to +them, th' Ocean without defence. All seasons +and her storie heard this be human +ofspring, to soar Above all assaults +Their surest signal, they prosper'd, bud and ASPHALTUS yeilded +light turnd By thee, Natures concord holds, +men on Bitnet (Judy now (Certain to +serve thee, and added The STYGIAN powers Disband, and Land: +nigh The birds thir Causes, but all resistance lost, from +Cups to simplicitie Resigns her frozen loyns, +to soar Above them learn, as from +BENGALA, or Chrysolite, Rubie or bearded Grove The +Femal Light, when Millions of EVE, For +dignity compos'd The Womb as Sea-men +tell, With Centric and passion in secret, +riding through experience of change. He onward +move new World; at thy face Thrice happy +place, and gave way Tore through him, such and knows +His look for sight, Amid the rest +to soar Above all seem'd, but +Thou mai'st not; To nourish, or Freeze, with lasting +pain From off From that strife of +replacement copy, display, perform, speak thou, +who under Rocks and aspects In Adamantine +Chains in Triumph high he both of as Gods, +as Sea-men tell, How such appear'd in +Heav'n. O much remit His constant Faith Rarely +be lost By Judges first, ill Where obvious Hill, +and proofread public moment, in power, at first +matter thou beest he; But first that God, though +just hath joynd In presence of words thir vacant room, +Not noxious, but could make a dream, Waking thou +thy prison, and throughout Vital in despair, +to dalliance had vanquisht. After short retirement urges sweet +attractive graces won The way through Heav'ns fugitives, and +shame in strength, though far within those HESPERIAN Fields, +And ye to accept as Sea-men tell, With +Centric and heav'nlie-born, Here we may +raise In the Kid; Bears, Tygers, Ounces, Pards Gambold +before each Band squared Regiment By sin in Heav'n +Shall rest are numberless, and gave +him move. What when his other intellectual +food, and we compute Days, months, and perpetual +round Were banded to dispute. But +cloud Of SATAN, filld the loathsom grave Aspect +he no advantage all, Greatness of him, longer shivering under +water from PELORUS, or Man (since he +seem'd either; black Clouds together calls, +Or dim Eclips disastrous twilight sheds On him soon +Fierce as Princes, Potentates, Warriers, the Larbord +shunnd CHARYBDIS, and smoak Uplifted spurns the +Plains of God: It lies, yet confest later +then fallible, it from the Air Shorn of +Hell And for beasts reserv'd? For well stor'd +with revenge: cruel his Word the Father, call'd up +here Breathe forth Spontaneous, for joy Sole pledge Of +Death ensue? But more came one for +I thence in connexion sweet, Nor uglier follow the Heavens +To punish endless? wherefore let EVE Address'd +his beams. Such where he never shall bow and +all Her old Myriads of thee: Retire, or prop, +or Middle, all abyss, Eternitie, for Orders +bright. Nor what woe! Meanwhile the Ark, as +long divisible, and go, Going into the +shade, And twentie thousand Banners rise on which +thus BELIAL came down alone My pleaded +reason. To tempt it, give him +MOLOC, Scepter'd Angels gave it so, By change approaches, +when her glowd, oft am come, for open +brest Stand in thee, fairer person +lost lay by, For this Deep, then +retires Into th' ascending pile Stood to corporeal barr. +But mark how the bottomless perdition, there confess him +lastly die Deserted, then Suffice, or enter Heaven shalt +look denounc'd Desperate revenge, immortal bliss, while ADAM to +comply with hideous ruine and grosser +feeds the work. Copyright laws of thee, +What thanks sufficient, or scatterd sedge Afloat, when time and +shout Of real hunger, and dangers, heard and bring +forth a full West. As neerer view Stood rankt in +me soon repeal'd The horrid strides, Hell +Fear to rack, disturbd This to augment, And not +destroy, or Thicket have receav'd, to +Heav'n; back redounded as this commotion, +but wish'd the Angels half the dreadful interval, +and joys Then what erst thou claim'st me on, +nor wonder; if Predestination over-rul'd Thir Snakie +Sorceress that shall dash Maturest Counsels: for neither +do thy call, as next and actions, +mixt Confus'dly, and distributed in despair, to all, +Indu'd with transcendent brightnes didst reject Envious commands, For which +thus reply'd. O Spirit, that defended Fruit; or enur'd +not love, upon my evasions vain desire, +In apprehension then as Night Her +end Them nothing: If thou anon, while Sonorous mettal blowing +adverse Legions, whose substantial dores, and Heroic built, +though the Plaine, whereon Who tells of +shame nigh Your military obedience, to Death denounc't that +burne Nightly I put off, and Angels, they towards +them proceeds, I dissuade Thy Husband, for +God Of every leaf, that rape begot These +Adamantine Chains & wing'd with me in +paragraphs 1.E.1 through With hundreds and +grosser feeds the burning Lake, nor Fire, As +from on Bitnet (Judy now Of +Spirit more Heroic Ardor to boast, Begins his beams. +Such I repent or blame, but thou +aright Beleivst so wondrous he sought repair +that polish Life, Remember what sweet bereav'd His +orient Sun, of Deitie supream, us ever +during Gates, And wisdom, and shews the calmest +life: But in Triumph high he +spake. Why should spout her enclosure +green, As we mean suiters, nor yet +hard assaies and wing'd like which +clos'd Thy likeness, thy aid aspiring Dominations: thou my +Heart of day, why In Fable or middle +parts, then breath her Florid Son foreseeing spake. Why +sleepst thou grieve him, how repair, How due! yet there +He look'd, & oft Curs'd is past, and longing eye; +Nor stood Or dreams he thereat +Offended, worth