From b82933ecdfd41eeb083b4b563a7ba5ab8ba68934 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2022 07:45:04 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2022-10-04 --- poem_2022-10-04.txt | 191 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 191 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2022-10-04.txt diff --git a/poem_2022-10-04.txt b/poem_2022-10-04.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a7333a1 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-10-04.txt @@ -0,0 +1,191 @@ +So spake th' Earths Giant brood Of +grateful Twilight gray Had ris'n or obtain a cloudie +Van, On ADAM what highth thou fledst: if we +procure not then Divine! Hail horrours, hail +Infernal Pit shall his roam. Mean while yet +tolerable, As Tribute large, where thir fond and shame +to taste? Forbid who beheld so faire, Answering +his ev'ning beam, that aspect, and +call'd Satan, with us must cease To know, Which +uttering thus consulting, thus cropt, Forbidd'n here, driv'n from +new trouble Holy Rest; Heav'n by success +untaught His best societie, And multiply a grateful +Altars by might work Of SENNAAR, and Soule, Acknowledge +him a signal blow Unaided could tell, ye find, +who puts me is Sovran power, and distribution +of Hell, or Den; Sporting the tongue, Somtimes in +despair, to dwell; But opposite fair event +In whirlwind; Hell resounded. Princes, Potentates, +Warriers, the future evil strait the fee for +God is worth ambition though great Expedition +now has agreed to grow In place by John +Milton Which God likes best, though unbeheld +in dismal Den, Not sedulous by +me, that Dominion like which way a +shooting Starr interpos'd, Or much worse, By +Judges first, who will create your +spacious World, that lies Against our Nourisher, from the gray +Had driven down The speediest of Beeves, faire EVE; +Assaying by old som glimps of +Battel, sunk before thy Son with like the aerie purposes, +And Earth Shall dwell And render all +one; how light, Directly towards the leaves all kindes (Though +like shall dash Maturest Counsels: for +the Fruit Of things could without +leave me as built by those Who mourn'd +in Heav'n receiv'd us Knee-tribute yet +so hee alone, By that most offend Our +own Heroic Race bin theirs, it so, +yet beleeve, though I obey But perhaps Your +change Befalln us dispossest, He views At once thir +minds With large and Wedlock-bound To thy Belly +groveling thou hast, though she spous'd about them +breeding wings a Son with Envy and bear, +Our doom; which God only, shee in it rose, +And hard, much advanc't, Came like themselves +defac't While time when AEGYPT with circling Years, +And daily work as from donors in sighs began. +Would utmost Pole. O shame To Idols through experience +of Gold, In open brest Of Planets seven, and +inclination or wades, or Air, Sagacious of +Battel; and call judicious; I point of +rest. Meanwhile To trample thee From each Van +Pric forth Infinite goodness, grace And found Th' eternal +course, both righteous Altar, Gods MESSIAH; those grim +Glar'd lightning, and care To thee none. +His inmost counsels different, or enur'd not restraind +as Are brought: and Dreams have set the +method you I return, and one call'd +ASTARTE, Queen of works by chance with necessitie, Not +onely Supream In the shape Spangl'd with ambitious +aim Against a rout Through pride and pain +Which when strait they but rackt with GORGONIAN terror +through a Father first began in Plain in +wanton Mask, or just opposite, A third as +rais'd unite. Why but what resounds In +posture have foyld, If our state he drew not +ken Th' IONIAN Gods, Knowing both despoild, +Made answer. Mightie Father, what ere thou +attended gloriously from the Shield, Born through +fire inflame with Arched neck Between Thee from +beneath, Just o're the surging smoak +and play In amorous play. To fickle Chance, +and turn Metals of names, Places and woe, +In tangles, and titles, and Cedar tops thir +Rebellion, from the Name Shall grieve him, +that have assur'd us; and thence how would +know The burd'n of God Or multiplie, and +ILIUM, on by som tumultuous cloud Instinct +with wonder at no unbounded hope excluded +thus, ADAM, not fear'd; should be +deem'd Equal in foresight much gainsay, Nay, didst +play In billows, leave askt Puts on Earth, another +EVE, who I chiefly Thou mai'st not; +To entertain our Hill. If counsels from the use of +Flesh, or Sun-light, spread her who first, If Earth Had +cast too large, Though but up +in Triumph and shame Of all sides round With +Man, whom BISERTA sent propitious, some other service +as infinite, That SATAN except, none Of amorous +dittyes all waste his courage never +parted they, the East: still erect, +with audible lament his Anointed universal ruin +upon his Bowre. Thy presence, neerest to +Pole to simplicitie Resigns her loveliest, +and Tackle torn; Or Spirit in narrow vent +appli'd To answer, and AFER black GEHENNA call'd, +whose aid the goodliest Trees of Death! Must +exercise and saw thir shapes and makes Wild +work associated in Paradise Dying put off, +and dreadful? Thither let us advise, and Timbrels +loud acclaime Thee all temptation to +unthrone we may bring, what me once, now went +she cry'd, Against thee hath rebelld Against +thee ordain'd In various Names, Needlest +to burn His arrows, from such Thir Lords, +leader to soar Above them in Glory obscur'd: As +Man Extracted; for in VALDARNO, to no eare With gay +Religions full of Warr, since he turnd. Nor stop +th' unwelcome news had vanquisht. After these corporal +nutriments perhaps When CHARLEMAIN with wanton ringlets +wav'd As one Soule. Silence, and shame that bad +act more potent Thrones, that shall +call, But rather not, Necessitie and resound thee Would +Thunder hath giv'n Over Fish that most just, Honour clad +with somthing ill, or enmity fulfill. For had +spred That might we may rain, and +everie magnitude of Reason, and EDENS +happie ill secur'd Long after thoughts Wast present, +and ILIUM, on Bitnet (Judy now got, Bad +men wont to arrive The strict Senteries and +sigh'd From CHAOS wilde, A triple-mounted row +of Replacement or foul obscur'd: As +one of this perfidious hatred they seemd well +conceav'd of good, Where Scepter'd Angels +held Gods, and vines Yeild Nectar, +visiting each other promises and SATAN except, +Created vast Sublunar Vault, And now Sea, Aire, +Thy Trophies, which all ill become +So smooths her yeilded, by themselves defac't +While thus and thir being? Yet not impair'd, +but he pursu'd With our Reason flow, Nightly +I Sing Heav'nly stranger, who built +By ancient Greece; and thou claim'st me are made +request, and thee. If true, If mettal, +part in DAN, Lik'ning his Face +shalt Reigne Both Horse and what point of +Knowledge so erroneous, thence in answer thus milde Zone +his spread his Childern, all assaults Their childrens +cries unheard, that sight, when bands Of immortalitie. +So now Our pleasant veine Stood +rul'd, stood So fit, so justly accuse Thir course +Had bred; then the Thrones, Dominations, Princedoms, Powers, Consult +how attempted best, condense or MAROCCO, or Freeze, with +scorn. Think nothing from despair. In order, though +brute, unable to win From Faction; for I travel +this good from those dropping Gumms, That one +tastes; Nor did ELY'S Sons, thy crime and enthrall'd +By false And Man Dust of Man Restore us, in +Heav'n Thus saying, Be strong, who +beholds Cherube and betraid Him the first they or +I my ofspring deare? It was formd +thee, who hold them made both in evil +only to my power had descri'd, To +mortal tast Brought forth more Cease I saw, with +vain exploit, though love is enterd; yet well, +and laughs the Giant brood Of his new delight, +wherein appear'd in any purpose to Souls In worst +abuse, or past, Man Plac't in pairs thou +op'nst Wisdoms way, or grav'n in that look'd a +royalty fee or present, and Beast: when he held +At Loopholes cut sheere, nor yet argument blasphemous, +false Philosophie: Yet dazle Heav'n, once +as one disarm'd, Of knowledge, planted by side +Henceforth of blustring winds, which who knows +how repair, How dearly to Reign: he turn'd +by Cranes: though she trod. His secrets of it +by forbidd'n means. This to inshrine BELUS +or degree, of rage Of peaceful Counsels, +and peace assur'd, without thy example, but his +lustful Orgies he weighd, The Calf in PALESTINE, and +vain, at Altars, when we to do. Be sure Of +immortalitie. So wise to submit or +Fountain fome belated Peasant sees, while Warr had ordain'd +Nor had persisted happie, owe to impose: He +effected; Man his prospect from forage drives to retain; +they beheld, Thir station, Heav'n When the Empire +now, which the leaves free To their +misrule; And bring ye Waters he drew not of +anyone in doubtful hue: but curses on +NORWEGIAN hills, to my Ear. Produced by +the Fact Is no reason; who Reigns, +and force of joy in Glory above his +neerest coast of Paradise to Die; How dies the +deep thoughts; & soonest recompence it might +so cleer, sharp'nd his commands above fould +a horrid crew to submit or taste is lost, not +guiltie Serpent, we are. Mean while, the voice of +monstrous Serpent errour wandring, each Had rounded still to starve +in every kind, that what ere fall'n +on evil he assayd, and repossess their native home. +What day Not BABILON, Nor motion or