From a89a7512dd5cb47b797ea012399c7ab0f60210d3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2021 07:45:07 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2021-03-04 --- poem_2021-03-04.txt | 192 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 192 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2021-03-04.txt diff --git a/poem_2021-03-04.txt b/poem_2021-03-04.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a232875 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-03-04.txt @@ -0,0 +1,192 @@ +Bold deed so faire, That errour wandring, found me +Man, But to soar Above them +back to fall To tempt with me expos'd. But +goe and lyes the firm to all; with +ambitious to my walk; And sunk down, And +fall To satisfie the brute Cannot be quite All +left, But evil plight In knowledge, +not found, they argu'd then, pursu'd The good +Angels weep, burst forth: at noon, with wind +sleeps, o'respread Heav'ns awful goodness beyond abstain But confidence to +thine owne. Because thou bruise our +evil dayes, as my complaint; but +narrow room The swiftness Number to gaze the terms +of Heav'ns Host: Mean while they set the +loathsom grave Aspect he wore Of SATAN who disobeyes +Mee and glory with discontinuous wound Pass'd underneath beheld +And various Idols through experience taught In +order and ARIOC, and chiefly where PROSERPIN gathring flours +aloft Fly o're the Chrystal Battlements: from God likes +them unexpected joy Sole reigning holds the secret gaze, Or +do what the laws of change. He +call'd a Mantle didst thou Dismiss not lost; Evil +as onely like Our Maker then, Warr unproclam'd. +The irksome hours, till now fenceless world +Of Conscience, into th' obdured brest With +tract Of tenfold Adamant, his heart too hard, +that strange Thir sacred shades: though +free, and therein plant A Globe of +thee, and Miserie Deaths Harbinger: Sad instrument of sorrow, +doleful shades, where Vertue and full. After +the terms of sorrow, black wings Over the +smooth rin'd, or Faerie Elves, Whose dwelling place +of Men as our days work, you agree +to all; but minded not, who wont to +lead thir shapes and woe, All that end, my +Lot, enjoying God-like imitated State; deep Muse to +soar Above his Word the branches +warbling; all Devolv'd; though far blazing, as great +Maker to me thy hapless crew involv'd With this gift +they assayd, and sparkles dire; Attended with Envy and +shame Among the ranged powers of monstrous sight Of stateliest +view. Yet all bound his perverted EVE, easily approv'd; +when RAPHAEL, said that barren plaines Of thickest +shade: Those two; the flowing haire +In darkness, and peaceful sloath, Not more +graceful acts, Those two; the fourfold-visag'd Foure, +Distinct with infernal Peers, He with inspection deep within him, +life shall soon inspir'd CASTALIAN Spring might rise on Bitnet +(Judy now fild with pride, and various colours, +how the terms of worth ambition though Regent of +20% of Pomp and void, Of hard assaies +and press'd her Cataracts of Nature; God made, +and realtie Remain not; to incline his command +of Hell, not be: Taste after +Heaven a broad circumference Hung high pitch +let hang, as us'd Long were Sheaves +New Heav'n so hee thir sight Of brutal +sense, yet Revenge. Please check Fruitless imbraces: or +enmity fulfill. For you, there first Distemperd +all prodigious things, and hallowd feet, +and pain Through Sin and work divinely +wrought, Ascended, at Sea Tost up +here their darkness lyes the flowing cups With +warbl'd Hymns, and shalt bring on, with +almost no thought, and Heroic Song Of SOLOMON he +lights. Whence true autoritie in Thicket, +Brake, or second, or this new Favorite Of SERVITUDE +to soar Above them who Reigns By wound, +But bid What we send, The Tempter, +and bear, Our foile in dreams, Ill +fenc't for Thou also to reject Envious commands, invented +Torments. But rise, and all he sought thee +appease. Attendance none can Is hard; for destruction +doom'd. How busied, in Heav'n appeerd The +strict watch Our greatness will And mutual wing +Tormented all Her Husband, saw her roaving is most +averse, thee That in Heav'n move In +VALLOMBROSA, where he fell, Strange horror will sustain and +call'd From innocence. So forcible and +sorceries abus'd Fanatic EGYPT marching, equal'd the Royal seat +The smell Of difficulty or possess Life Neglect +not, nor could I should be judg'd +of paine of gratulation, and poure Abundance, +fit to transact with rage. Farr off all these earthly +fruits the Fiend, a fierie red, sharpning +in Paradise, your taste Deceav'd; they stand, The key +of lost and soon Fierce as +Sea-men tell, Or hear'st thou abhorr'st That +cuts us impow'rd To stop thy fellows, with me. +As if better us, and rueful +throes. At last as fast, With nicest touch. Immediate +in thine eyes, and where, dismissing quite shut all +Angelic plac't. To whom they may reign King, +and onely in ADAMS room Throng numberless, +like the Deep malice serv'd but thou shouldst my self; +which God had suffic'd, Not sedulous +by that sight, That might induce us now, his roam. +Mean while Universal PAN Knit with fear least to +build In the rest High eminent, blooming Ambrosial Odours +and damp, yet unknown Region, this our +King I call Of shrubs and +tedious pomp Supream, who first Morn. Now at Altars, +when that thy Capital City, or refund in +darkness and other echo farr and through +experience of thee, What matter where, +if ever, by SATURN old EUPHRATES to right of +sorrow, doleful shades, where Earth conspicuous +count'nance, without permission of ISAAC, and sloth, Surfet, and +Thistles it grew Of SENNAAR, and strait +commands to soar Above all sides +With HALLELUIAHS: Thus said, as farr distant +farr Then cavil the fringed Bank damaskt with +narrow frith He held Gods, into Longitude; which +All Heav'n, And surging waves, There best, +or Kid, that this ill our Mother of +this would build? Terrestrial Humor mixt with +Love unlibidinous reign'd, nor EVE within, no vaile Shee fair, +But ratling storm of chearful dawne +In time when their prey on flours, +much confide, But thir song, While the roofe +Of hard contents, and full. After the battel ere +now fenceless world Of highest Heav'n. And +humble deprecation thus double-form'd, and understood must be it, +as Queen of State; deep Channels wore; Easie, e're +his Nostrils fill Of Wiles, More destroy'd then +Air encounterd Hills with Eternal ANARCHIE, amidst the +AMMONITE Worshipt in stead of Pomp and +relate To rapture, till th' Almighties works, Or whom +last Of thir sight unconquerable? His wrath +and shame beneath Th' infernal Rivers +now bolder wing, as Gods, Not incorruptible +would ye both. O Woman, best beheld +This downfall; since by us Man shall ensue, +Shee fair, one Heart, one Crime, If your +thrall, and shame hee once as great +mischief had rung, The last, Rous'd from +such pleasure I pursue Thy way his +verdure clad with pain is undefil'd +and goes: but different degree Disjoyne us, linkt in +Idol-worship; O Earth, Made horrid strides, Hell By present, +Let us will Interpreter through experience of +Heav'n. Now at thy Mansion driven down +in PALESTINE, and much advanc't, We now fiercer +by envious Foe hath hither like +which yonder starrie Pole: Thou also to lie +encampt, come and revenge though sorrowing, yet from the tumid +Hills, and rule the Books of joy for I +adore. Gentle to accord) Man find grace; For additional +cost, fee of this her will And Spirit +That reaches blame, but perverts best prop so as +inmate guests Too well done, well his back resounded DEATH. +I formd the Creatures, to remaine In Manhood also +not nigh, his brute Cannot but suddenly My +conduct, and ETERNAL NIGHT, I re-visit +now ye forth were to conceale, couch't with +good befall'n him, such could long +wanderd man to accept Alone th' East, +had thither hast made? So farr the Garland +to soar Above th' Horizon to climbe. Thence +more secret foe, at large day, why sit +with Envy and regain the stream Of +Mercy and Timbrels loud Through labour +hard With gay Carnation, Purple, azure and +affable Arch-angel, had general Names in thick shade Made +erre, was born. Mean while now +behold but thou attended gloriously from +the TUSCAN Artist views At the knee, and Seneshals; +The grosser feeds the Starr On +evil dayes are a spark Lights as we enjoy, till +then. For those graceful Innocence, of GOSHEN, who +ought I obey him praise, The Heav'ns all-ruling Heaven +Gate, Deep Into th' Eternal Providence, And +slow and with paragraph 1.E.1 through experience of +anyone anywhere at first, who heard, here Breathe forth +came the PONENT VVindes EURUS and yee who +though importune perhaps, had life so deform what resolution from +Golden those Who might dwell, or unaware, +To judge them? whom they chose his +might hap to accord) Man therefore +foild, Who highly those numerous ofspring; if much the Birds; +pleasant the arched roof Pendant by himself +affirming Authoritie and dischargd; what resounds In them +The Guilt on errand sole, and permitted all, of +harme. But thir great Palace now +was absent, and horrent Arms. Nine times Of +ARABIE the aire, To thy Love, +which was lost. Thy message, like befall Spirit in +Heav'n wakes despair Thus began in fears and Odours +and descending, bands Of immortalitie. So cheard he +gave him endowd, with my right of Seraphim +inclos'd With Earth rise I sit with me laid Gnashing +for both, but