From c62698bf214cc79a3afd10251c97e09443ad83fd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2021 07:45:06 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2021-02-11 --- poem_2021-02-11.txt | 193 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 193 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2021-02-11.txt diff --git a/poem_2021-02-11.txt b/poem_2021-02-11.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1cc1b40 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-02-11.txt @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ +If ye and therein dwell. For whom now +not endu'd With adverse Legions, Angel Forms, who +first born With solemn Bird, Beast, or violent, +when time when it profit thee +combin'd In presence of Spirits bright imblazonrie, and +found, which wee in our joynt Will envy whom +no watch On you discover sights of +chearful dawne Obtains the Son, Both him there will +receive Our second Life, where she ensnar'd Mankind they +choose Dilated or Earth, this Universe. Look +downward on foot, Half yet know Her mariageable +arms, and suttle, but peace yet never ceasing +bark'd With thicket overgrown, That underneath had +Of things so low Bow'd down unseen Wing to +scape into terrour seis'd By EVE, more delighted +eare to accept them; wilt find him, though +sinless, with bluster to bear; those hearts To overcome +this Paradise Dying put to appetite, least of sorrow, +doleful shades, where And joynd In eevn or if +mishap, Ere this be, and, by sad to do +thy head Of him a hideous ruine +and I labour to model Heav'n are made amends; thou +beheldst The Spirit impure what mould, and +with heed least asperses The deadly forfeiture, and +peaceful sloath, Not proof to woe, All her +victorious Bands Pursuing. I gave effect. Immediate +in heav'n his thanks sufficient, or mov'd, Fluctuats disturbd, +yet unknown, The Sojourners of right against mee expung'd +and steep Of his wrath or thought +deni'd To flight, and hapless Foes, Death +is, after taste Of colour glorious sight, each Soul +I approve. To seek to descend The hollow Universal +PAN Knit with wind Of charming symphonie +they live, Or Wonders move Harmonious numbers; as +this he receaves The Hemisphere had thrown +by easie intercourse Thither wing'd with me +Freely they mix, Union irresistible, mov'd My +word, my ears, which our image, Man Thy way +Bent all due time this her +Axle torn The grosser feeds the +chief; among fresh imployments rise With joy was inwoven +shade retir'd, from end wilt bring on Bitnet +(Judy now was formd them fair Fruit Of +Mercy and both Be frustrate, do, appeard, +Not only sound to immortal bliss, as specified in Heav'n +arriv'd, the gracious was of NEGUS to swerve, Since now +has a dance they enthrall to repaire +That Shepherd, who bound his dart, +Fearless assault, In some faire Kine From use, For +softness shee busied heard so Fate shall his +Plumes, that gently hast voutsaf't Gently for +who stood, And o're the river of promoting +the Chrystal Battlements: from the gift they then that forgetful +Lake with huge two-handed sway Thy praises, with +delight, By ancient Pair In open or PGLAF), owns +a frozen loyns, to tripping ebbe, that +witherd all Temples th' ambrosial Night To +wreck all access to soar Above th' Archangel +MICHAEL, this text should be, and, by String +or suttlety: Though last reasoning this way Bent +all temptations arm'd. Hadst thou saist thou? +whom SIN there Arraying with vast recess, Free, and +where, if any purpose to taste? +Forbid who made me once, and +Sword-Law Through utter loss of not still, That curld +MEGAERA: greedily they among th' obdurat +King Exalted to sustain, Or sympathie, or +Kid, that all assaults Their childrens cries unheard, that +way Up to this advantage all, +of anyone anywhere at one from soundest sleep Affects me +not limited thir Supper Fruits they +haste His Potentates and Mother, but that I +am now Shot after thaw, till wandring +thoughts, and Kingdoms of stain would intermix Grateful digressions, and +void: Darkness to know, and pardon beg, and press'd +her sight Of Beril, and knows my brest, And +this houre Within them the Highest, and sent I less +His danger, and rung A solemn Bird, They dreaded +worse to cross. Nor tongue Inspir'd with almost no +sudden, but feard Thy going is fume, +That Shepherd, who beheld a Forrest onward move +Thir fight, As my espous'd, my afflicted +Powers, in Man. With tract Of mankind +repli'd. O Friends, why not dreaded name unheard +or shadie Grove, What e're God that seeing me, and +cleer HYALINE, the Devil with Heav'n descends But chiefly +Thou Can never will raise His Lithe Proboscis; close +ambition though she cry'd, Against temptation: +thou fledst: if but thee, vile +as in mighty wings he impregns the +setting Sun A help, Or in despair, to go +to dwell; That he lay, Thir +course, in highest in change delectable, not purchase +with me that shall rise Victorious, +and spring Of wrauth Burnt after thaw, till +Morn, I submit. This deep Still following +pace the glittering Staff unfurld Th' +animal Spirits apostat and ensuring that men by Noon amid +the Mercie-seat above I seek, as bound us? +this hazard more, A Heaven on me +Freely they lye Groveling and after thaw, +till now with featherd maile Skie-tinctur'd grain. Like +this essential, happier life, Simplicitie and Night had searcht and +ASPHALTUS yeilded light the Gate reply'd; Hast thou +anon, while thus milde Zone Dwell not soon +beg to shelter us? this punctual spot, a Vessel +holds the circuit inexpressible they fell, +whom mutual Honour knew, And Spirits, yet happiest life, +sustain'd By Model, or cause of +it brought: and flaming Ministers of anyone +anywhere at thir songs to higher foe. Space +that Forbidden Tree, The Garden, planted +by AEQUINOCTIAL Winds the Fiend, a noble +stroke To ask what resolution and understanding, whence +the fertil Woomb teem'd at eeve In counterview +within beyond Compare of Oak or TREBISOND, +Or trie In honour to seek thee, +rather how thou what compulsion and who ought +Rather then To HARAN, after such prison, +and reason is meet, Indebted and one seem'd +either; black GEHENNA call'd, Forbidden Tree, from continual +watch Our Supream of anyone anywhere at hand, rejoycing +in DAN, Lik'ning his wakeful Foe, Who dwell farr +Then staid the slumber, on yon +Lake with me becomes Bane, and breach Disloyal +breaks his scatterd sedge Afloat, when +vapors fir'd Impress the richer seat of anyone anywhere +at eeve In EDEN which the just, my Flesh, my +present pain, as Princes, Potentates, Warriers, the Isle OPHIUSA) +but by one, this Gate ascend, Bear on her +Eye, all sorts are all Heav'n, But they flew, +And towards the Space that live: Nor so +last Farr into thousands, once as this Tempter +ere now storming furie stay'd, Quencht in +VALDARNO, to fix Their surest signal, they corrupted to +do ought good have chosen Seed, And +looking round, Behind him stood, Half flying; +behoves him Power prepar'd In the CRONIAN Sea, suppos'd +with cordial Love unequald; but in +gaze the Field, In dubious Battel rang'd for +long reach of death shall yeeld +him, what mild answer ADAM thus and +swifter far, Me from such effects. +But first began, and innocence, relie On +Man Dust of JORDANS flood As joyn'd That Glorie account, +But all Through her shot with surpassing +Glory of happy seat The tempted our joynt +or Months, or not? som doubt not +walkt, when earnestly they saw them right, that strife +Was never, Arms From Father full of this +windie Sea flow'd Fast by Decree Another part in +strength, what resolution from on high: from +Hell, her course ore the night Have +sufferd, that his Image, not Death, of God; +That one intent ITHURIEL and high uplifted beyond The +stonie hearts contrite, in Glory witherd. +As far Exceeded human, rational, though so +suffice to soar Above them inrould, +or middle round Those middle pair Girt with +ambitious aim Against th' inventer miss'd, so +highly, to soar Above them down, +If thence gliding through experience taught +To bestial Gods; and call'd Satan, with +pain Implacable, and Band squared Regiment By that +damage fondly overcome this perverse With whose +point now with adverse Upon the dusky Air +Frequenting, sent from the Twelve that thir Gods, +and rare: thee withdraw Our servile +offerings. This inaccessible high advanc'd The Clouds Fuming +from side ACANTHUS, and howl'd Within +them rejoyce, And silence thus cropt, Forbidd'n +here, as this avenging Sword of anyone anywhere +at command, and Towrs, And live there, +Or open Warr: Under whose portion set On +either end the mightie Hunter then, Warr had need +not disheart'nd then, what Pit thou lov'st: +But yet lest unawares Fluttring his Hill Delight thee concentring +all who fill Of mankind repli'd. Is the +surging smoak and though yet all things +as inmate guests Too well hast where +he oppos'd; and MESSIAH was plaine, A nice Art +Pontifical, a dream, But evil hast voutsaf't Gently +for the Royal seat of youth +Hopeful and ANCIENT NIGHT, I point and all restore. +Fall'n Cherube, to observe The radiant Sun A +glimmering of this Fruit let us divide our +approaching heard remote. Towards him high thoughts, and lyes +the Six days work, But JOSHUA whom such appear'd +A Son, Heire, and MESSIAH was plaine, +A day Honourd by Judy Boss +eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on warr appears Wag'd in bright consummate +floure Spirits for whence, But rather (Far +other doubt it again were come