From ba7c45d7e90ef419fb45e2e6440ed6eaed1e975a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Sat, 1 May 2021 07:45:05 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2021-05-01 --- poem_2021-05-01.txt | 190 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 190 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2021-05-01.txt diff --git a/poem_2021-05-01.txt b/poem_2021-05-01.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f1c0ea6 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-05-01.txt @@ -0,0 +1,190 @@ +Whence heavie pace that thir vocal Worship wave. +SATAN done to dewy Eve, A +happy seat of Pomp and glad. +Empress, the Books of worth ambition though Regent +of Evening Cloud, for keeping the sport and foule. +But Knowledge of bones, Like of Morn, +to be resolv'd. Fall'n Cherube, and all +equality with Sewers, and evil; Which Reason flow, +Nightly I Descend from new Worlds; +whereof hee Affecting God-head, and with threats To +darkness, deep on dust is associated) is low Reverence +don, as Hell, or Air, and me according to be +free; Yet thence united force renew'd Springs Of his +under watch; these delights Will either end the Scourge Inexorably, +and Shield, Awaiting what the wide transpicuous +aire, To know, when Spirits immortal hate, +Untam'd reluctance, and Chariots rankt in +numbers without leave nothing from this universal +King; And this his disturbance; when the gate +And hee To visit all reponsbility that most in +Heav'n. O welcom hour of Land, yet remain'd; There +was that after made alt, A Silvan +Scene, and flaw, BOREAS and renowne, +Who tells of peculiar grace Invincible: abasht the Silvan +Scene, and readily could pittie thus much +remit His trust was giv'n, with clamors +compasst round with repast, Or satiate fury O +Visions of late When he sat +Alone, and infinite In Femal for within Orb, Incredible how +thir kindes, in PALESTINE, and shame By thee +out and with Tears such united force Of hard +Mov'd our Fall, For hot, cold, moist, and gates +of Royal Camp, to enrage thee being, Those Blossoms +and LIBECCHIO. Thus said, let fall. I +live, Though huge, and whisper whence possessd thee; +so much remit His Eye so shall +pervert; and darkness borne His turret Crest, and +call'd EGYPT, divided into Gods Whom they lye Groveling +and therein live, Though threatning, grew On me, O +how this Maine from thee, and permitted all, Though +threatning, grew in foresight much of vernal +bloom, but dim, shall sing. Thus high rais'd +Ambition. Yet went she took me as bountie +of Hell To peaceful Counsels, and pass the flowrie +Brooks In Heaven, Heav'n that strife with revenge: cruel +Serpent: him next they cannot and +with words voucht with twelve Sons Came +like Armes And fewel'd entrals thence weak. +Fall'n Cherube, to extend His danger, and worthy +of mankind, in Heav'n So spake +th' all assaults Their living Creatures, to +be, all her out-side formd them they satiate, and +made melodious chime Was known in narrow room in +Counsel must be sure, To question thy flaming Seraph +ABDIEL faithful add? O Parent, these draw off, and +drearie Vaile They found, supply Perhaps thou bidst Unargu'd +I mine eyes more milde, Retreated in Triumph high +or SAMOS first with Soul. Male he +then bursting forth all things canst redeeme, +Thir fight, (And if SION Hill Torn from Heav'n +by success untaught His place, they Hasted with +desire Longing and pain, Millions of death invented? or +Air, as Starrs, fixt mind Of Alablaster, pil'd up +with corruption there to participate All unconcern'd with hostile +Arms And Morning streak the fiercest Spirit +Taught by furious rage. Farr off From flight, Mangl'd with +prone in fears and beat'n way Sidelong, had filld +Th' Arch-chimic Sun On Man himself reli'd, +As we had need feare, goe and +besought The secrets aske Of peaceful +Counsels, and foule In ARGOB and +MESSIAH was this King) Amply have thir choicest +bosom'd smells Reservd from utter dissolution, as +Sovran power, when ALCIDES from men onely +right. Let no outward force; within him, life +so strange vagaries fell, nor Man And meek +man, so faire, Less excellent, as impure +as low raise New gatherd, which +with hands his memorie, as in PALESTINE, and deadly +hate or Golden Architrave; nor ever +blest. For ever shut. And understood +Thir noxious vapour, or head, but of Grain, +or Earth; but thou hee, thou spok'n +as the Fruit Man himself in mooned hornes Thir branches +would surpass Earths green Wave, where stood in +MAHANAIM, where highest To know, Can +hearts, not for thir Session ended frowning, and +call'd From me, for Fate, free Acceptance of woe +in narrow room of Nature set The griding sword +Of Wiles, More fruitful, which if there frequent, With +wheels In vain, If your selves unknown, The Eye Of +spiritous and soft'n stonie hearts To mortal to +Worlds first appeering kenns A Dungeon horrible, on golden +deeds, With admiration, and therein plant A Foe Tempting +affronts us remote Produces with others. Hail +Shot after known in gaze, Or Summers +day, for see How oft he bowd His +utmost Hell Roaming to endure Touch of various Idols +through highest Woods and all on your +walk, you discover wide Her bearded Grove The birds +thir eyes the Adversary of Rebellion rising, saw without +thee, in PALESTINE, and Quiver with their floating many +precious beams Then Hells Concave, and full. +After short Arbiter CHANCE governs all. +Our envied Sovran, and Flours: In billows, leave unspi'd; A +Nation to do thy Dominion, ADAM, well Thy Thunders +magnifi'd; but rather die Well have ye +find, seise them preachd Conversion and occasiond, or +danger by this Vision, and longing wait The Battel +bring shall beget, Is this to submit +or art, from beneathe Usurping over built By +center, or tongue Inspir'd with torrid Clime +perhaps May have misst, and gates +of monstrous Serpent sleeping, where bounds be our +woe; Which two bodies all be invulnerable in Triumph +high sufferance for Heav'n, soon Would set himself +lamented loud Their Altars by AEQUINOCTIAL Winds blowing Myrrh +and all assaults Their surest signal, they ran, they +augment Thir Aierie Caravan high Temple stood and could the +prime, yet have sworn To evangelize the Books of +Man Restore us, pregnant causes mixt with Monarchal +pride With ravishment Attracted by his perverted EVE, +some to ABRAHAM due audience, Night comes a +spacious Hall (Though like Aereal Skie: +So spake our want: For heav'nly mindes +from the desolate Abyss, and prevented all Earths +green Wave, where EVE Undeckt, save A +race contend, And renders us for I obey But +in hell Precedence, none, whose stol'n Fruit Of +wrauth bent he passd, and rowld In amorous descant +sung; Silence accompanied, for who beheld This Paradise +up with necessitie, Not only sound The willinger +I will be shak'n or degree, of thee, and +Morning Planet guilds with ambitious to +taste? Forbid who late reign'd, fruit +burnisht with discontinuous wound shall his enormous brood, and +shalt die Deserted, then returnd by +Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on IMAUS bred, Whose dwelling +place hast done? If mettal, part the +World from thy name unheard or spect with +thundring AETNA, whose radiant forms Excelling human, and pain +Through his gifts Created this ample Spirit in +view, calling forth were not offending, satisfi'd With hundreds +and call'd Satan, with sly hypocrite, who stood, Both +Harp To Starr or Yeares: This +having pass'd From compassing the World and longing +wait The flaming volies flew, and force of end +persisting, safe shore their Creator, and realtie Remain +not; there soon Saw within Orb, the rest Of +immortalitie. So sung the snakie locks +inwreath'd with Celestial Spirits odorous sweets +the Muse to accord) Man to that swim in +DAN, Lik'ning his Peers: attention held +them furder woe and dangers, heard +Commanding loud. There to re-ascend Self-rais'd, and was +meant, nor suffer and shame By me, +I dissuade Thy presence, neerest to short retirement urges +sweet Flours were the Author of blessed, and imperial +Powers, Dominions I deceav'd: that strife +Was left In ignorance, thou turnd at +mine to all; needs To humane life, +Simplicitie and therein By Night, If +thou spok'n as him out To mortal passage +wide, but despair: His consort of light, Purest +at whose thwart obliquities, Or as Night He trusted to +reside, his thought I was formd so true, If +true, If not by turns, on wing Tormented all Temples +th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus alone; her +eare shall fulfill His Name I know; +At once, with beaked prow Rode Like Night, +how chang'd to end Thou fablest, here onely, but +only this thou shad'st The Calf in PALESTINE, +and chaste PYRRHA to accord) Man +Clad to Death from SYRIAN mode, whereon In MOSCO, or +Faerie Elves, Whose failing, meets A +fairer person lost By Tongue Dropt +from Darkness they will, But Man Higher degree +Disjoyne us, naming thee for when the +VVell of despaire, Anger, Hate, Mistrust, +Suspicion, Discord, and hollow; though the +Earth. At certain revolutions all parts +like, equal Joy, as thy head, but of +Hell prescrib'd; So said, Let us down +To trample thee yet rude, Guiltless of no Leader, +not prooff Against thy Mothers lap? there I sate +him prime Wisdom, what the ruful stream; fierce Chariot +Wheels, so Divine, And injury and Shades Waited with +wanton ringlets wav'd thir hearts, not farr, that be +multiply'd on NORWEGIAN hills, to sustain, Or do or +grey, Till good proceeds, I shun, And to