From c03fa0be214747012c5aed304c2a6380f93b06a6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2020 07:45:04 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2020-10-02 --- poem_2020-10-02.txt | 191 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 191 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2020-10-02.txt diff --git a/poem_2020-10-02.txt b/poem_2020-10-02.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d11969a --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2020-10-02.txt @@ -0,0 +1,191 @@ +Bold deed created first Region scarce holds the +Books of anyone anywhere at THEB'S and pain +Torments him; round Ninefold, and lyes the +unwiser Son foreseeing spake. Why stand Before +thir Ivorie Port the Tree, whose +operation brings them thus led? Till thir Watch the +flowing haire In ATHENS or Earth, Through labour I +less At Loopholes cut sheere, nor studious, +higher intellectual being, it brought: and denounce To know, Forbids +us now seen Hovering and moist, +and obedience paid, When GABRIEL from SYRIAN Damsels to +sight Of Union without contest; Stand +ready stood, Both Good to tell how, if unforbid +thou deprav'st it pregnant: What fury thus farr, That +proud Crest Sat on AEGYPT with me SIN, +and bless'd them, to sense th' AEQUATOR, +as hee Who but pleasd I will +Whom thus cropt, Forbidd'n here, it was, +whose excellence he saves To vital Lamp; +but I describ'd his presence, agonie and +traditions taint, Left so fair Virgin pass, fann'd +with Amarant and relate of Fame, And +DIPSAS (Not so faire. Round from God on +IMAUS bred, Whose image viewing Becam'st +enamour'd, and passion not, who created World, +another World, and call'd a horrid +fray By center, or Fish of Hell +shall abound. But this advantage gaine. What oft forsook +Their Altars by various view; Groves whose mortal dint, +Save what resolution from this ASSYRIAN mount Saw +where he rear'd me, though now Must exercise us +made him less could seduce Thee I +advise. Author of God; I move +th' Arch-Enemy, And ore the Roses bushing +round by angry Foe hung Clustring, but +meaner thoughts Assur'd me that in +Triumph and dangers, heard Now was thy +Seed: the partner and whelmd Thy sorrow unfeign'd, and +punishment: henceforth not prone in unapproached light +At first, who receives him not rapt +above his transgression, Death his Revellers, the Front a +frozen Continent Lies dark suggestions hide me on, +Or theirs by merit thine, to soar Above +them came, but that distance keepes Till The +Deep Encamp thir course Melodious murmurs, warbling flow, Nightly +I upon me, the terms of such destruction doom'd. +How busied, in PALESTINE, and CHAOS and taile, +Scorpion and be sure was plaine, A long time this +abject posture have sustaind and dangers, heard We can +create, and ruddy flame. Before him no friendly +Powers Militant, That farr remov'd Not proof his rebellious +disappeerd, Far off In six wings +Displayd on golden Compasses, prepar'd ill in +Child-bearing were known. Farr more His praise, The hollow +Deep Encamp thir fall Down thither My droused +sense, Fansie next and strict Fate Meant mee, +Mee who knew me already vain aimes, inordinate +desires can invent With loudest vehemence: thither he +despis'd His day, that strife can it stood and +sparkles dire; Attended with like Lightning see +him bound. Thou with refection sweet +renewd. But follow thou attended gloriously from ESAU +fled the World, and shame Among the champain head +both Skie, and by whose hither thrust me his +Sanctuarie of anyone anywhere at command, ere yet +from thee farr, that temperate Clime; else must +outlive Thy self with vast recess, Free, +and Towrs Of beaming sunnie Raies, a scorn, +shall his prospect high, Which all hue, +as Sovran voice, I started back, It +may else set the wall of +God; I forewarn thee, safe Through Heav'n much to +deck with transcendent brightnes didst converse, Wisdom gain'd +a Quire stood within our sole Of stunning +sounds and vast, a Frozen, many Myriads though far +renown'd, Th' inclement skie; Save what surmounts the +Snowy top Belch'd fire had much +to disburd'n sought Where now prepare Fit +retribution, emptie as numerous ofspring; if on +main Abyss And no cloud Of contraries; +all unobserv'd, unseen. Farr off th' imagin'd +way Up to redeem Mans First seen, Hee +for who hold The Woodbine round this file should +have grown Prodigious motion of these receave +Access deni'd; and all may praise; +Who formd them unexpected joy The vigilance here each +kinde, and drearie Vaile They worse would I yeilded, +by whose hither summond, since denounc't that brightest shine. +If so farr; So pray'd they fix'd, imagining For +since no sooner in Heav'n Gate none for ever +fall'n. Yet thus, ADAM, rise, and full of mean +suiters, nor shund the angry Victor Angels, can +doe, Our purer essence then ADAM wraught the +first thoughts Firm concord holds, men Grow +up with thee, As at first low indeed, if +Malice should mean Drawn round World, and longing wait +The Figtree, not quite be deem'd Equal +in Heav'n We may best may reign +for other Decrees Against a written Records of +Glory, whom they must after his Image of +more. As drops that hill Pass'd frequent, +and with thee, neerest Mate With hundreds and CHAOS +and cool, the race of monstrous shapes and present pain, +Vaunting aloud, but he counsels from SYRIAN ground, or +aggravate His fiery Couch, these beyond Compare of +Heav'ns whol circumference, confirm'd. Thither by day: And Bush +with me. Some bloud of knowledg could hav +orepow'rd such discourse more likely habitants, or obscure, Can +comprehend, incapable of this which follows dignity, might +determine, and call'd RAPHAEL, said hee, as heard Celestial Panoplie +all assaults Their Altars by whose fruitful +of Summers day; and derides; Not well thy Fathers +dreadful revolution day roaving is not +all. That riches of Prime. Thou wouldst +thy World erroneous to obey him old possession, and ILIUM, +on Bitnet (Judy now proclaim'd? But might +induce us try once with strength +of Pomp and look'd a Harp +To one Returnd not refuse to transferre +The swiftness Number to all; but of unkindly mixt, +Ruddie and firm brimstone, and paine, Till now +prepare Fit entertainment to place From entrance on Bitnet (Judy +now learn by a copyright in view, +calling forth unclouded Deitie; he sees, +Or enemie, but down The sound Of Spirits be +assur'd, And worship paid In thoughts +with words addressd. Whence Haile Mother thus began. Thrones above, +none regard; Heav'n Into the tongue, Somtimes in power. +Shalt thou mad'st the unsleeping eyes +That so wondrous works, Or when among the +midnight Revels, by a stripling Cherube tall: +Who might ye die. How overcome +Thir small store conveyd: Part arable and Harangues +are a black Air and bid his feet. +Him the blanc Of beaming sunnie Raies, a +wakeful Nightingale; She was thickest covert was +the fount of Men, thy Embassie attend; And understood not +walkt, when he had levied Warr, since none +of no worse By Fowl, Fish, Beast, +was this would surpass Earths freshest +softest lap. There oft forsook Their Seats long +past through Darkness, drive out of chearful waies of +swift or fresh Flourets Hill not safe. Assemble thou +belong not sad. Evil into glory, +and mixt Confus'dly, and levie cruel his Spirits in +EGYPTS evill day I question askt Puts on +IMAUS bred, Whose progenie you 'AS-IS' WITH NO REMEDIES +FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR REFUND - +Except for Lightning glimps of God; I obey him a +foe: and gnaw My conduct, and Providence Out +of peace can suffice, and with crescent Horns; To +recommend coole recess, Free, and into Glorie and +gross and Peace of thee, and Miserie +Deaths Harbinger: Sad ACHERON of dim suffusion +veild. Yet thus, behold all Posteritie stands +to lop thir crime. Thus thou appeer, +and passion tost, Thus in dismay, yet +inflicted, as soon reduc'd To prune these delicacies I +obey But ever tun'd, that shape or +deficient left him this our selves, and mild, +nor can yet shon Above all assaults Their surest +signal, they thir Rebellion, from the bright Legions, nor +Nymph, Nor motion formes. Nor wanting power sufficient to +simplicitie Resigns her seeming, and hymning spent. Mean while +Warr had been your selves more came they, who +fill'd Immeasurably, all assaults Their Altars +by Fate will be returnd Up lifting +bore them to Spirit, zealous, as beseems +Thy going is just Decree Of destind +Walls Of tenfold Adamant, his uprightness answer +none for the mighty leading Angel, who reason +just, Hinder'd not fill I knew, but this be +indeed all assaults Their Altars by EVE, easily +destroy'd, and heat of shame, and Cedar tops +the spirit accurst, the angry Victor hath Hell to +sleep Was bid sound the HOLY LAND to +appease, Kneel'd and Art Of Paradise +of Pomp and whereof in Glory above +the use this darksome desart, as that +this happy Tribes, On duty, sleeping found none, But +O Spirit, but still longer will +leave i'th' midst a Creature can +grow in joy, Heav'n Resounded, and happy rural seat Of +mankind With Regal State Put forth peculiar grace +With thir way Tore through Plaine, whereon Were banded +to tell Of huge must the files +of sweets; for flight, and deep, who comes to +pursue Vain wisdom back All would dance, +To less remorse: they see who fell. Not +long, Embryo's and obedience left hand Soon +learnd, now has a Rib, with Heav'ns