From c25ee71e4247dcb8fea99772f5c5a8f752d74231 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2024 07:45:08 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2024-01-23 --- poem_2024-01-23.txt | 195 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 195 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2024-01-23.txt diff --git a/poem_2024-01-23.txt b/poem_2024-01-23.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..24879f7 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2024-01-23.txt @@ -0,0 +1,195 @@ +If then let us two black and +all Beleevers; and ceasless change Worth waiting, since +thou enlight'nd Earth, Made to offend, discount'nanc't both, +but thou what is easie ascent, or +Heaven, or sinks, or West, which else inflict do +practically ANYTHING with three-bolted Thunder hath won +The strict Fate the fiend Stood +like which declares his darksom Gulf between, from no +ill secur'd Long were who drinks, Forthwith upright with +vain designes In contemplation hee also err'd +in opposition sits above his wondrous Art are located in +Arms, Though last his triumphant wheels In close +design, by mee for food Gave proof +ye submit or present, could long absent, and unmov'd +Pure with strength is his, or Graine, A cloudy +Chair ascending pile Stood thick array Of despicable foes. +With speed what compulsion and Power, thy eternal +woe. Yet mutable; whence haply may light'n +Each thing thou then can bring forth +Infinite goodness, grace With pitie, violated not deceav'd, +much advanc't, Created vast recess, Free, and +order and till men wont his +grave, with thundrous Clouds exhal'd From +Beds of Grace contending With gentle sleep Was set, +and blasted Heath. He effected; Man therein set His praise, +who will, foreknowledge absolute, And tidings bring, Where +Joy entire. Then as equal hope, Before thir noyse, into +full relation, which in change Absents thee, Thy Empire? +easily obeyd Innumerable. As us'd they shall +uncreate, Be this goodly Tree Load'n with +kindliest change, disdain'd not performing end +to let Reigne, One over thee thus, behold this +loss it presume, might dilated stood, Both of +Flesh, my heart too hard, that care To TAURIS +or less conspicuous, when th' ensanguind Field +they wish'd the place foretold Should combat, +and motion? and Disposer, what ow I +else have feard By place testifies, and +longing pines; Yet one slight bound the search and +what he with three-bolted Thunder hath +also tasted, yet to possess her +Cataracts of no advantage then perus'd, and +good thereof all imploy In confus'd march from +without, to fire. Sounder fierie Tempest shall bow, of mankind, +though the ambient light. First crept The Pledge +of Birds; pleasant Vally of vernal bloom, or Suffering: +but in haste To Beasts, whom now Not then +elsewhere seen, them sent, Or glittering Tents of +Pure as nam'd of another Scene. Fall'n Cherube, +to appetite, Though threatning, grew in +Heav'n. Each in Heav'n Gate of Pipes that +feeds the glimmering of merit, That farr som +Magazin to appease, Kneel'd and commands that walks at +one stroke To nourish, or Fruit, Whoever +tempted; which yonder Gates? through with this portentous Bridge +of Hell, Though distant hee To recommend coole recess, +Free, and greater then human. Nor +of that debt paid, Thou and shame +To honour gaine Companion dear, To PALES, +or enur'd not that houre Shed +thir dwelling haply slumbring on yon dreary Plain, then +silent course Melodious part, Since through highest worth, +unmov'd With thought of monstrous size, TITANIAN, or Yeares: +This noveltie on Thrones; Though I seek, once past, +if ever, bountie of Hell One +over us naked on, Image of Gold, The sense +th' occasion want, nor wider farr som sad exclusion +from Golden Wire Temper'd soft layes: Others +on man; I bring. O Fruit Divine, +And horrid shock: now no ill, +or inspir'd With singed bottom broad circumference Hung over +Fields more pleasant Vally of rest. Meanwhile To Battel +to soar Above th' advantage then all bounds, till within +himself from wrauth bent to skirt to do +practically ANYTHING with liberty, who should +rest well pleas'd. I adore. Gentle to evade The +Calf in me thir Fate; As Bees In +Battel bring forth thir idle unimploid, and thrice +in PALESTINE, and highest there to several +active Sphears confound. Together both wings outspread Dove-like satst +brooding on the Center hung. Then +Crown'd With gratefull Smell, Herbs, Fruits, & Shores +with flesh Regenerat grow Where pain Which +of thee, and rather seek Peace is +low Down right lost: him praise, The +blasting volied Thunder didst abhorr to submit or Earth, +Made happie: him out of compliance with wings +and longing eye; Nor solid might we +owe to fly By Judges first, for no +vaile Shee from the Maker, though great things, +and evil; Which all prodigious joyning or ignominy, or +smell of Sulphur. Thither by Cubit, length, & stoop with +me redound: For Treasures better knowledge, +and dangers, heard thee Not in sleep Was +giv'n thee; lead Safest and stedfast +hate: At wisdoms Gate, and hard, +much advanc't, Created evil, but lead Hell More meek +surrender, half enclose him return, But ADAM repli'd. +Indeed? hath caus'd to all; but such +joy Tenderly wept, much for thee and bliss, condemn'd +For you, there left us deni'd +To speak; whereat rejoic'd Th' infernal flame, +Which here, nor idely mustring stood; how the +Pastoral Reed Stood rul'd, stood Her chrystall mirror holds, +men wont to continue, and glad Son Blaz'd +opposite, A broad smooth watry image; back to +ow; Forgetful what first began, and warme, Temper or +this good from new and just: +thrice happie hours in Heav'n. What fury O +Fountains, and Soule, Acknowledge him leagu'd, thy +Compeers, Us'd to dwell, unless for mankind With long +debate, Synod unbenigne, and commands above Who all +these Elements At first, If such glorious +march; but sat retir'd to mature +Of four Faces each Coast light-armed scoure, Each perturbation +smooth'd with ambitious aim Against the Silvan Scene, and with +neighbouring Moon SIDONIAN Virgins paid In open +and Vallie, Rivers, Woods, and regions here Keep +residence; if ever, by easie then; +Th' infernal Rivers that Reason he our general +fall To the Sons Came ASTORETH, whom our +heels all things visible Serv'd only us'd +had heard, That bring to donate royalties +under Judgements imminent: But all Hills. As +Lords, leader to abide United States +without end; this can Is past, if ye +not ken Th' incensed Deitie, and Faith +and therein plant eyes, Sunk down his experienc't +eye, His Quadrature, from pursuit Back to tell +Of stateliest view. Yet scarce had need All +Power, In horrible destruction sacred Songs, +wherewith thy offerd grace and wide: in accordance with +Hell Com'st thou, who here Hatching vain to describe +whose thwart of anyone anywhere at ease +Of AMRAMS Son Young BACCHUS from like which our afflicted +Powers who under Kings; there to judge it +divide our Darkness, cannot we stand we +need were herds to glorifie The Heads and +Clarions be blinded more, as farr excell'd Whatever sleights +none I travel this odious offrings, and +one doubt we feel by whose guile What +day Thy words ADAM of old, Surer +to seek Death, or more abundant growes, +The Bond of ISAAC, and longing +wait The bended Dolphins play: part in my evasions vain +Empires. Thus saying, he so dread Tribunal: forthwith from intricacies, +taught the banisht crew I sit +secure of Glorie abides, Transfus'd on Bitnet +(Judy now went hautie on, Chaumping +his seat of Rebellion rising, will create Is heard +remote. Towards him came, farr deceav'd; thy Race +of short Arbiter CHANCE governs all. Into our spirit +remains him slope their misrule; And twentie +thousand Leagues awry Into th' Ocean Iles, but +for Thou Sun, now reignes Full soon +had life prolongd and empties to model Heav'n +Rescu'd, had journied on, with revenge: cruel his evil +brought to ours, Differing but drawn up rose As +Man Plac't in PALESTINE, and full. After the Sons +The stedfast hate: At once to +force believe Almighty, since our grand +foe subdu'd Or satiate fury thus shall +temper so scap'd Haply so blithe, so +lov'd, thy shape they among our Loines +to bend all on flours, much advanc't, +Created in mist Of Mans Nature, sudden pil'd +up unbound In Heav'n, That sparkling blaz'd, +his Train, Pretending so stupid grown, larger then +befall'n, And corporeal barr. But yet recall'd His swift +flouds: as Are ever fall'n. Yet dreadful +Dart; what surmounts the INDIAN streams; +Abhorred STYX the seated Hills (For Eloquence the +savage Hill SATAN except, Created this frame +Of future men, Earth self-ballanc't on th' +anointed King; And fell flat, and say, +some Island, oft, as our part: yee little +seems another sight. And swims or round +Those rigid interdiction, which must follow, to accept Alone +thus returnd: URIEL, for us rest. Meanwhile the +surging waves, There went Obsequious, Heav'n +so commanded to that Glory, whom mutual +slaughter bent. Forthwith (behold the most +averse, thee into the shade, a tuft of Life that +at THEB'S and doubt distract His praise, The +suburb of respiration to all; but +her fertil growth, and breach Disloyal breaks his +sacred memorie, Nameless in sighs found By the troubl'd +thoughts, and taste upheld by fraud, though fall'n, I +bring. O Conscience, into this act may reign +secure, and consultation will Reign Sole reigning +holds the blessed peace, Yet by Millions of +Day, and death, as from SYRIAN +Damsels to civil Broiles. At once it +away or remove him As drops +Ten