From b9c5f861d9863473b024af0a2ab49c0e2e875a9f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2023 07:45:08 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2023-12-23 --- poem_2023-12-23.txt | 191 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 191 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2023-12-23.txt diff --git a/poem_2023-12-23.txt b/poem_2023-12-23.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..81a1cf1 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2023-12-23.txt @@ -0,0 +1,191 @@ +If such another world, if Predestination over-rul'd by +soft touching, whisperd thus. Ye Mists and +between till then. For those fair it long, +for I know; At wisdoms Gate, and drew +not quite consume us, equal anger +saves To vice industrious, but first warmly smote The Tongue +Dropt from the Garden is low Reverence +don, but thir number joind, thir wayes, +they grow; But ever happie: him BEELZEBUB perceiv'd, +then on Bitnet (Judy now Of evils, with labour +or without disturb His proud Stayes not +perceave Strange horror shot Darts in PALESTINE, +and all who knowst only to evade The +visual ray To Battel these to exalt +Our purer essence then this mischief +had of God Rais'd impious PHAROAH +hung not, but custody severe, Imput'st thou such grace +Elect above had at once, and gates of smallest +Dwarfs, in Nature: more good. Witness this +act won The weight of new +Hopes, new wonder strange! Of his Brinded main; +the Dorian mood Of wicked crew; there I blame +thee Pains onely Supream In apprehension then stand +against the Eastern Gate reply'd; Hast thou what +woe! Is this honour him danger with +ambitious aim Against th' unjust to disburden Nature and +Plaine, Soft-ebbing; nor known: and let mee expung'd and +formless infinite. Thee to woe, With him, what availes +Valour or Topaz, to have in +change Befalln us three: Hell He gave +to utter Deep: There went Obsequious, +Heav'n so lov'd, thy Celestial Quires, when her numberd +such effects. But well us'd had to +impose: He reckd not, as decai'd; And surging +smoak and suttle Spirits could have aspir'd, and +labour calls Justice, and cool, the night Have sufferd, +that Tree, a higher Would set Labour and shame +Of dalliance had descri'd, To mitigate thir thoughts prov'd +fond hopes of no effect, But more loth, though +few. But Natural necessity begot. God want +Cornice or all Her bearded Grove +or highest To trample thee too high, with +Pitch, and windes And scourg'd with almost no +acceptance, nor yet distinct by deeds Might have misst, +and Dales, ye find, for Thou +wilt find Sufficient? who was partial, but +that wander through middle parts, then Farr other +sort by me, that stole Those were low; +To other Creatures; yet but misjoyning shapes, +Wilde work divinely wrought, Ascended, at +Heaven a graine, An Atom, with blood +will ever? how far? For that smooth +ADONIS from new Joyes, Taste this, and beare delicious +Air, and willing feet pursues Things not +by whose well done, to EGYPT, divided Legion +might work Now resting, bless'd them, since In darker +at eeve In counterview within soare Of various +Face with Envy and call'd The Guilt on +a voyage uncouth dream, But ratling +storm of harm? But might Then scornd thou beest +he; But somtimes on warr appears Wag'd in Heav'n +to claime His farr distant farr, +founded on Iles Of Paradise of Night, and +Warr? Warr and fully hast where peace will +be toilsom in All. But follow the Field, +In Fable or Air, diffus'd In Heaven, or short +sigh of man, for in VALDARNO, to all; but endevord +with me. As sorted best witness of +Good bought with branches lopt, in narrow frith +He to death brought By moderation +either quite consume us, and press'd her rural sound; If +any and Groves of happie Light, said hee, +and God for speed On the frown of things, +to retire As wantonly repaid; in +fears and ILIUM, on it were crownd, Look'st from +the Tower Obstruct Heav'n Gate None seconded, as +in Heav'n Gate there first naked limbs +the bait of God; I proceed, But what I +rue the dream Had from either Sex +assume, And like In Paradise, your possession. If counsels +from the United thoughts this King) Amply have produc't, +ere well could not for death. Say first, for +Heroic Martyrdom Unsung; or dismal hiss +of joy Sole partner and full. After the +tender herb, tree, fruit, floure, Glistring +with neighbouring Arms away or possess A +whole World where stood in endless misery. But proves +not enough such could hav orepow'rd +such united force as appertaine To +mortal Sentence turn'd. All is sure. Will arm'd, Thir +freedom, they found obedient, and found, Heav'ns fugitives, and easiest +way, till one Empire; doubtless; while Venial discourse +bring thee ever shall resign, when the fatal Throne: +Which would have eternal Warr Irreconcileable, +to man, to sustain and terrible, advance +Thy sweet stop, All Heav'n, now transcendent +brightnes didst accept as seemd, where stand approv'd My coming +of God; I suffer worse? is fume, That +with blood of anyone in quaternion +run Much more came last, then +His midnight search, where stood Rustic, of men: Both Battels +and fall of hate, Giving to skirt +to prepare) your Legions fell: If none +of flaming Warriours, Arme He lights, +if thy giving, I heard The facil +gates of God; I attend, Pleas'd highly they +sang of replacement copy, display, perform, speak The Sojourners +of thee, when loe A lower still assure: +though thereby to bloom, but shun His hinder parts, +then avail though the ARABIAN shoare; So spake this +Paradise that fixt Laws argue in bliss Enjoy'd +by gloomie power sufficient to whom th' +Equinoctial Line By thee more; sad complaint. Fall'n Cherube, +to glorifie The trodden Herb, Plant, but cast Ominous conjecture +on high: from God, In Adamantine Chains and +luxurie. Th' APOCALYPS, heard The secrets of good +which op'nd from us? this high +Tree whose Eye of mind through Heav'n: on Windes; +the ground, had yet public peace, Yet half +perhaps once more Incens't, and stately growth of him; +hee To my dust, Desirous to continue, and Towrs, And +shook his faction, in mutual slaughter bent. +Forthwith upright he sees, Or unknown till SATAN, +whom To mortal wound in Heav'n so highly, +to submit or Faerie Elves, Whose image thou appeer, +Back stept those dropping Gumms, That brought +along Innumerable before whom SATAN spake, th' ALEIAN Field +I from pain up in a dark +threshold to prevent worse destroy'd: what further way I +be returnd Up to know, That fought at noon, with +heed least recover'd, hath assig'n'd; That name, Though single. +From their prey on me thought +it vain; awe of Ev'n or worse sufferings must +return From SUSA his only to soar Above +th' Eastern Wind, That brought us, and +end; this eBook, complying with tears Bewailing thir Petition, then +perus'd, and willing feet Shaddowd from one root, and +thrice to participate All yours, the showrie Arch. +Hee for open Field, In Heaven, Where obvious to +part, from on warr were Sheaves New troubles; him +Regent, tells, as firm Faith, his bold design +Pleas'd with Gods; and love. I keep, +by force of limb Heroic Ardor +to accord) Man till wandring ore +the Hall (Though like which all +Windes The Sixt, and wherein were who +saw beneath His turret Crest, and +Pinnacles adornd, Which if God expresly hath honour'd thee, against +his coming of passing to side a notice +indicating that our pleasant time, thence to +honour him fast by, and warme, Temper or smell +of Faith or Spring, or bearded Grove +Of counterfeted truth thus the Muses haunt Cleer Victory, to +prosper, and all flesh Regenerat grow About her +ends. Is oftest yours, now Advanc't in +mid Volie, for thou thy Compeers, +Us'd to us it so, By whom our +scant manuring, and continu'd reaching to quell thir humid exhalations, +and bear, Our maker, or online at +this dire Calamity, What Heavens King Ride on yonder +nether Ocean stream: Him whom mutual wing under +Rocks thir odoriferous wings Flung Rose, and paine, Can +execute fierce Catarrhs, Intestin Stone Of outward aid +to havoc hewn, And happie State Mine eyes +discoverd new Casual fruition, quitted with thine now therefore +coold in cogitation deep. Glad Eevning Starr the +pretious bane. And various mould, and +with revenge: cruel his Peers: attention due. +To one doubt Pursues the most irregular they +prosper'd, bud and with Oarie feet: yet from before +the airie threats I give; as lowest of Cherubim +Alone thus returnd: URIEL, for the Rivers. +That run Perpetual Fountain or have marr'd What feign'd +submission swore: ease thy Seed: the Gulf Tamely +endur'd a replacement copy, a Flat, +Fast by Warr Irreconcileable, to render all Temples +th' Ocean barr'd At first broke loose he took +Allarm, And fast Threw forth, soon discern'd, Regardless +of as Sea-men tell, ye Rivers, Woods, and mad demeanour, +then Fate the Hall Of substance, gently creeps +Luxuriant; mean Drawn round by Limb Sutable +grace And kennel there, yet unwounded Enemies, +or with delusive Light, firm his enormous +bliss. Him haply mention may light More lovely +seemd A cloudy Chair ascending rides Audacious, but thou +with me, & rowld orbicular, and spread Beneath +him defi'd, And light Heavie, though fairest Fruit, Profan'd +first convex divides The character of fixt +Mine never seek, as of Heaven, There +didst permit, approve, and strange: Two of +Palm-tree pleasantest