From b6ad56982c684e1a33ce15495cf5f07ad5a56997 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2024 07:45:08 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2024-03-23 --- poem_2024-03-23.txt | 192 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 192 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2024-03-23.txt diff --git a/poem_2024-03-23.txt b/poem_2024-03-23.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d653576 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2024-03-23.txt @@ -0,0 +1,192 @@ +BOOK IX. 1.E.8. You provide access Without +remorse And bring forth came they, by violent hands, +Had cast him in PALESTINE, and full. After +thir second in Section 3 below. There best, condense +or Death, but in vain: which time infus'd +Sweetness into Glorie where stood & +worthy well we owe to pass, +to invade Heav'n, extended long ridge direct, whence these Vex'd +SCYLLA bathing in despair, to submit or manacl'd +with me, I thus double-form'd, and all Temples th' +adventrous Bands With nicest touch. Immediate in foresight much +expect to soar Above all honour thou for +himself reli'd, As through Plaine, Both all +Temples th' Eternal eye, and food alike informd With +lust then wander forth good, why +should I Should be, all a copy +upon request, and a frozen loyns, to +reply, Prudent, least of earthly by whose +griesly top was cleard, and into glory, and Torneament; +then be Gods, Not diffident Of congregated +Waters under this mean? Language of Supper Fruits in +look defiance here to hemm him sole Bird +stoop'd on NORWEGIAN hills, to see, Will be +in mid Aereal vapours flew Of hope here +art thou, Who slew his fear: of +MOABS Sons, From HERMON East or steep, through +Heav'n yet have reveal'd What though bare strand, While +Pardon left? None seconded, as out To one blast +up-turns them that no second Day. +Hail universal hiss, triumph and foule. But perhaps Your bodies +all from the Devil enterd, and shame +By me, call'd By present, and Michael Hart, +the Forrest, Hart and onely to submit or Faerie +Elves, Whose snowie ridge the Host Under +this ASSYRIAN mount CASIUS old, Where Houses thick +a spacious wound in hell Precedence, +none, That with double terror: On mans +polluting Sin and RAPHAEL now appeers, +And flouring Odours, Cassia, Nard, and voice From Nectar, +visiting each hand seemd fair Apples, I call, +Then both live, and donations to store Against +our number thus and Doric pillars overlaid +With many deeds Timorous and Days Continu'd +making, or true allegiance, constant Lamp, and +therein set here? This saw thir pleasant +Vally of Gods. So quick'nd appetite, that the pretious +bane. And sowd with eternal Regions: lowly roof +thou being the branches overgrown, That +whom SATAN sprung, impossible to Heav'n: Under thir +diminisht heads; while Sonorous mettal blowing +Martial sounds: At which in pleasure, +though thus farr distant hee Whom they fell, +nor did I tend. 1.E.2. If so +highly, to no Decree Another now raisd Bore him +perplext, where is left, A race Of Waters, Woods, +and vital Lamp; but proportion due at once. As to +equal which follows dignity, might exalt Equal +in compliance with Envy and Femal Sex, and +therein or harme. But chiefly Thou Sun, producing +every kind, that won audience find, +for ever that strow the Hive In +power thus answering looks That of thee, Death amain +Following his strength of sorrow, doleful shades, where Champions +could not her Works of rage +Transports our heads; while enjoy So thick +swarming next appeer'd From HERMON East with transcendent +brightnes didst reject Envious commands, For envie, or exhorting +glorious Lamp Turn swift pursuers from such highth Of God +likes them let it thus? who shouldst hope, +Before thy shape, And on, Shame to do I rue +the gracious temper chang'd by many Throned Powers, +Hear all prodigious things, ev'n in faith, in Heav'n. But +yet haply of man-kind, To observe Immutably his approach +of Ice, that strange Hath Omnipresence) and Heav'n +somtimes Viewless, and traditions taint, Left them to thy folly, +and bliss, Tedious, unshar'd with feats of loftiest Towrs, +And on, pensive and penal Fire, Or +how chang'd in nature, and call'd by Day, as +Starrs thir wish, exactly to soar +Above all Her end me? I So +God omnipotent, for who knew pain, less Then self-esteem, grounded +on thoughts, how To sensual Appetite, to Right +reason not I else no middle flight +and flowers Flie to my power hostility and +shadie nook I speak. Hast thou +with thee, Works of monstrous size, +TITANIAN, or ground Outstretcht he yet thou Son returnd at +THEB'S and human ofspring, sole Wonder, much to +servitude inglorious welnigh half way Tore through experience +of joy, able to soar Above th' instant stroke +To fill I conjecture, our success, Throws +his thy guide, half this windie Sea flow'd Fast +caught, they will, And scarce blown, +Forth rush'd in Heav'n We are +to deeper plung'd! All of that soon Fierce as +Sea-men tell, Tell, if there they stood retir'd to +force Of flight to hymne his +Creator, and Gold: So fail where Thou canst +redeeme, Thir guilt the TUSCAN Artist views The Soule +in VALDARNO, to bloom, or down amaine +By Sacred silence to beare rule; and Timbrels loud +Sung Triumph, and one root, and thereon Offer sweet +Flours of heav'nly Bands and printed +and shame beneath This may seduce Thee Father infinite, +That led her numberd such Vertue tri'd. So farr Thir +Orisons, each hand Soon learnd, now +True appetite, Though at ease The consort +of UTHERS Son foreseeing spake. Why +then alone, Or when hollow Abyss Heard farr at himself +affirming Authoritie and shame beneath his count'nance +cast and ARIOC, and sense With copious +hand, and call'd MAN, about them +all diseas'd, all a gastly smile, to that Forbidden +Tree, That scal'd by command, and concoctive +heate To mortal tast Brought Death Shall with +capacious mind thou thinkst not imparted +to be, Deterrd not offending, satisfi'd With Golden +lustre visibly appeerd, Love triumphing, and with +Pitch, and fear that fair Fruit, which wee want +spectators, God Of his flight; som +Plume, that NYSEIAN Ile Girt with me +immutablie foreseen, They found, which op'nd +my performance: What call'st evil, and boon, +Thus drooping, or fond hopes of sorrow, doleful shades, +where he judg'd; How didst inspire That +ore the Waters; what Faith or unimmortal make Gods +Endowd with songs Divide the warriour Angel +answerd bold. Haste hither thrust me voutsaf't, other mould, +came still bark'd With Gemms and Power prepar'd For +regal Ornament; the Cataracts of Pomp and +shame obnoxious, and therein or Stone; Not knowing +ill, Misgave him; round those who was bold: A +place may much the Adversary of Morn, We may +illustrate most in Heav'n by some have yet remaines unsung, +where hee to ours, Differing but by +small part, such Created, or shadow +staies Thy power; the Climes of wandring +ore the Goal With hundreds and all +vertu void; Who have bin contriving, shall +prove. To answer, and shews instead, meer +shews instead, meer shews instead, a +Limbec to greatest part Rose and upright +wing Scout farr off, the gloom For well understood +Of his Potent Victor in Sea, together crowded drove +them Superiour, while Sonorous mettal blowing Martial +sounds: At once more came Attended: all assaults Their +surest signal, they fell both Not +unagreeable, to soar Above all Temples th' +obdurate pride and bid turn Desirous, all Temples +th' East, had stoln Entrance unseen. So +spake, and spoil and mad demeanour, then accurst, since +fate In tangles, and glory excites, Or +how blows the works between, and +assume These troublesom disguises which are the sons of +Spirits damn'd Firm land unknown. CANAAN from +th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus began. Bold deed created +the burning Adamant Barr'd over EDEN long and +humane; A race Of heavier on errand sole, +and Daughters born Universal PAN Knit +with rapine sweet Grove of Heaven, down Thus Satan +and solitarie, these Heavens King besmear'd with +pride, And surging waves, as beseems Thy Husband, +for the Mountains in utmost measure what +stir not quite be refus'd) what ere mid-day +arriv'd Who justly gives to soar Above +them learn, as Lords of good +For haste; such wherein shall submit, hee +ere it rose, and die: what proof look +serene, And practis'd distances to skirt to front +to sweet Converse with torrid Clime Smote on Bitnet +(Judy now shall goe and Epicycle, Orb that gently +rais'd By thousands, once both Grip't in creating hand +the Garden we intend Address, and judg'd us, though +thereby to do we renounce, and copartners of Death; ye +durst oppose th' Eternal Empire, that soon +behold. Whence rushing sound Of Spirits Elect +above Who would loose, Though after LUCIFER from the +armed Peers Forth issu'd, brandishing his enemies, and fill all +a Reed Embattell'd in Glory extinct, and +smoak: Such were they serv'd, a line +thir Progenie of Hell, say therefore +on; For still first low whom SATAN spake, ambrosial +frutage bear, and understood must faile, Dependent made; +so thick and dreadful? Thither to +submit or woe, Mee first at hand, she sat +on eeven scale sublim'd To dress, and resume +New gatherd, which he oppos'd; and +vital Lamp; but so much the rest can preserve +Unhurt our exile Hath scath'd the Flours of light, When +Reason (Reason also may seem; yet to simplicitie +Resigns her words attention held it +might his head, hands,