From bc0f47e4e5caebd14da0656b8162106b716fe54b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2021 07:45:05 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2021-03-17 --- poem_2021-03-17.txt | 194 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 194 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2021-03-17.txt diff --git a/poem_2021-03-17.txt b/poem_2021-03-17.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a0e6521 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-03-17.txt @@ -0,0 +1,194 @@ +Whence and Fruits which they will, dispos'd by +one, Equal in contempt, At last +Rose out Hell Grew darker at large +bestowd, where SODOM flam'd; This said, +thus cropt, Forbidd'n here, it divide The Portal +shon, And in CREET And growing up with +heed least they thought can high behests his +Altar, bowing lowly down Into th' +envenom'd robe, and rais'd unite. Why am Hell; +that our life, Is open? or impulse of +Hell, or spect with scalding thurst and Brake, +or Palme, each milder thought. High honourd sits? +Go therfore mighty Standard; that Great triumph and left of +Heaven, or Chrysolite, Rubie or POMONA, thus renews. UZZIEL, +half to Councel forthwith from Eternal wrauth +Burnt after thaw, till now, While time and Monarchy +of Life. Nor alter'd his Children thou +solitude, is low Down cast at Altars, when +lo, to Light; Our servile offerings. This +Paradise could it not be: Taste after some +that earst in Heav'n upright beams +That Son, but in OREB: and return unto the Winds, +And uncompounded is punish't; whence he sees, Or envie, +yet what will appear With hundreds +and Daughters born Universal PAN Knit with me +most, and Grandchild both, had made that +way Tore through fire Victorious. Thus when sleep Was +understood, the CYCLADES DELOS or CASBEEN. So glister'd +the golden seat's, Frequent and sublime, As far blazing, as +now, though steep, suspens in sighs began. All +incorruptible would end Them nothing: If such appear'd in +doubt Pursues the ample rode, whose fall off +From Heav'n, Prince of doubt, with Glory, & +made Thee from the Arch-fiend reply'd. O fairest colours +of all. Into my Son? I will +the use of rage Transports our condition, +thus and blasted overthrew. I adore. Gentle to +soar Above them I eate thereof all +sides round those deep-throated Engins long Lie vanquisht; +thou motion'd, wel thy love, withheld Thy mortal change +Of Knowledge grew Of hazard huge extent of injur'd +merit, That which follows dignity, might in +waite Here sleep Disturbd not, and taile, +Scorpion and feed on yon Lake +thir Balls Of Preface brooking through expectation held +them wise deport, Though threatning, grew Neer that abortive +gulf. If thou sawst, hourly conceiv'd A Silvan +Scene, and all assaults Their Seats long +wanderd man fell, how here? This +Flourie Plat, the melodie of Clay, Son gave to +Heav'n so destroy The savourie smell of power, Of +sense, Fansie next himself and Michael +Hart, the dreadful Dart; what contentment find? Thus +at eeve In the dawn, Sure pledge +Of MOREB; there sat high reaching to +mortal men, and therein stand. For happy Tribes, +On high repute Which hung to say first +by them not lost; the fray By Merit more successful +hope excluded thus, how thou fallst. Moon, +And him surer barr His free From HAMATH +Northward to soar Above the use On ADAM, and +Helmes, and circling Canopie Of hazard in +mighty Standard; that fiery Deluge, fed and worship +paid their liveliest pledge Of them preachd +Conversion and wave by stelth Had been +your Heav'n first-born, Or come when we may show +The circuit of God; I love of an +Aerie light, Save when it returnd with +clamors compasst round Environ'd wins his Angels; and with +freedom both together calls, Or save those +too severe and ANCIENT NIGHT, I sought access, but +EVE, some other sort Shall grieve him, +plung'd in PALESTINE, and with thick thrown That +witness'd huge As may offend Our walks In +others not, the welkin burns. Others +came to rebellious head. And flouring +Odours, Cassia, Nard, and Nature in dismal +Gates, and to all; needs remove Behinde +them, to soar Above all assaults Their living Soul. +Male he voutsaf'd Presence Divine. Rejoycing, but +different cause to better can harbour there, nor is +then PANDORA, whom in woe and Wrong, Of thy +love, Love triumphing, and parents tears, Though by +violence the Bloom extracting liquid murmur +echo'd to submit or expense to have met, Mine +eare Divine The Grandchilde with me sudden to soar +Above all Her Seed is left, Now +from knowing not temptation to all; but th' only +hee; But might determine, and depth immeasurable: Anon +out of DELIA's Traine, Betook them, th' EGYPTIAN +Spouse. Much less Man, these wilde Rout that sought +with what delight could wind sleeps, +o'respread Heav'ns free Love and therein Each at all; +but shun His knowledge and Warr. Each Orb Through dark +League, Alone the ground. But first taught your +Head Level'd his veins, and divine commands that +Hill Delight thee set, and shout, +return'd up unbound In factious opposition, till +I know mee That God to submit +or since created what follie overthrew, And through experience taught +the Son, I To sow a living +Soule: And Country whereof in Prose +or pain, Vaunting aloud, but down Must +exercise us seek Thir maker, or creating +hand with heavie curse, SERVANT OF SUCH DAMAGE. There wanted +in sighs began. Fall'n Cherube, to rase Som +Capital Of order, how repair, How Nature first resolv'd, +If better thou give it met the frown +of all-ruling Heaven a peal shall bow, +of vernal bloom, or High; because +I fear; each Band squared Regiment By doom On Earth, +in Man. With Serpent errour wandring, each wing +Came Prologue, and rueful throes. At one he +seis'd, though but peace within, Favour from sad demeanour +seems A Dungeon horrible, on Earth. +He ruind, for teachers, grievous pain? And to correspond, +opener mine Eyes, with ADAM, whom now great +Creator: oft be our small night-founder'd Skiff, Deeming +some glad that sweet Are yet when +BELLONA storms, With Sanctitie of sweet austeer +composure thus EVE. Under yon boyling cells prepar'd, +That wish'd the night-warbling Bird, nor +EVE Shall leave nothing from the +Will, his speed Thir visages and fixt +Laws thou fearst, alike Present, or heav'd +his head beholds Cherube and therein or using or +High; because we never shall unfould, To +visit all in Hell, her spirits beneath, +Down cast Thir Nature, she saw, how +long back to bruise thy request, and full. After these +A Foe or cold ESTOTILAND, and +don undoe? Not less for Heroic Song +charms the vault of Darkness, drive out +of Truth hast atchiev'd our Nourisher, from the force +of grassie Couch, At last they +took, Harps they slack thir flowing haire In miserie; +such effects. But yet mixt Among th' occasion +want, and your harmless innocence Deserving Paradise! if any +word DISDAIN forbids me, with loss Irreparable; tearms +of Men: And writh'd him surer barr His righteous +Altar, bowing lowly creep; Witness if +not th' Ocean circumfus'd, Thir planetarie motions +vain, nor end Them thus overjoy'd, O sacred things, +which makes Wild work which for these +piercing Fires Ethereal, as mire: for +the change, all praises owe, And thought Both +SIN, and passion to discerne Half yet +hov'ring o're dale his Meridian Towre: Then such wherein no +narrow vent appli'd To come rattling on Thrones; Though +wide, but few, And makes them behind; headlong flaming +Seraph fearless, nor shall resign, when it +thee appeer, and retain The grosser feeds the +latter quick returne, Father, what to seek +their Generals Voyce they as glowing +Iron Globes, Earth Wheels her blushing +like which these wilde uproar Stood +thick array ye bless Me Father, +what proof ye Pines, With Frie innumerable false, +unmov'd, Unshak'n, unseduc'd, unterrifi'd His eye commands, For +me, have sin'd, According to gaze; When God shall prove. +Whence and them that might dilated stood, +That Shepherd, who might work associated in +Women overtrusting Lets her black attendant Death. +Here in best way, EUROPE with me +opens wide, but rackt with high Came the Snowie +Plaines Retires, or cure or suttlety: Though heaviest by +Fate Meant mee, and pass triumphant, and worship God +On duty, sleeping found Already known to remaine In +utter darkness, such wherein the Quires the green +Wave, where length, and press'd her hour +stood vast Abyss the goodliest Trees ye see all Minims +of respiration to doom express how such wherein hee +should enthrall themselves: I unpittied: League with to +officiate light Flew through fire Sluc'd from Heav'n Must +exercise Wrath without redemption, without leave +Thee what is past, Man I +Liv'd ignorant of Pomp and honour +done this, and submissive Charms Smil'd with me +call, Then self-esteem, grounded on Bitnet (Judy now more +What force impossible, by thee thus, and grace Invincible: +abasht the hight of mankind With charm Pain for +ever power praeeminent; Tell them who hold Eternal +Splendors flung For dinner savourie pulp they +might see thy utmost ire? which most High, +If so refus'd might dilated stood, Like instrument to +shun the Vision led by such +title should conceal, and all Eye, all +Temples th' amaz'd So sung they, +and Heav'n of God's high Power and +regain the seventh from the deep +Her Temple right against the SCORPION signe, +Wherein to Heav'n Rescu'd, had forbid the deep +on himself collected, while Night A mind +may conclude