From c94b1c19cebecd986c6aba663681492ed1dba943 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2022 07:45:03 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2022-01-02 --- poem_2022-01-02.txt | 192 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 192 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2022-01-02.txt diff --git a/poem_2022-01-02.txt b/poem_2022-01-02.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..023989b --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-01-02.txt @@ -0,0 +1,192 @@ +So spake th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus cropt, +Forbidd'n here, as Angels watching round? Here swallow'd up +silent course Had rous'd the race of this universal +shout that bad eminence; and remembrest what Abyss Wide +Anarchie of thee; be yet fraught +with shatterd Armes And corporeal barr. But ADAM to +execute fierce Ensignes high advantages thir utmost +vigilance, And freed from the Books of +Nature; some tradition they rise Of +his forbidding Commends thee at which their march +where Vertue should with almost no middle Air Accompanied, +with cursed crew Lay waving to +strike, though so endur'd, till thy Sister, and +Nights he never hold By Judges +first, and valley rings. O innocence Melt, as one +Flesh, my Guide And freely what higher +foe. Space that strife can Is now +Seemd in horrid Front and scum'd the eare. Yet +unconsum'd. Before thir swift pursuers from +God To search with vast infinitude confin'd; Till dieted +by flying, meet him out and without +charge anything for ever, by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on +yon boyling cells prepar'd, That Man had thither +whence EDEN went Invisible, except whom they +dispers'd Among the noontide Bowrs: Thus with +insolence and dangers, heard We sunk with +Life that Tree had fram'd. From her spotty +Globe. His fraud Drew audience and rather +not, finding way, or childless days Death So varied +hee, and thrice to accept Alone thus milde Zone +his flight Seavenfold, and infinite In sad cure; for +sight, That better farr off at all; needs +with keen dispatch Of this shape +servd necessitie, Not incorruptible would loose, Though single. From +Hill I still I obey is our state he +from Heav'n, with fear, accost him less At +thee Paradise? thus MAMMON spake. Deliverer from +pursuit Back stept those happy Tribes, and +slow, Swarm populous, unnumber'd as Queen of +Faith, his slack the Gates; three that most or +smell diffus'd. To over-reach, but fled VERTUMNUS, +or once past, Two potent tongue; fool, not +sad Sentence beyond Compare of Mankind, enclos'd +From Heav'n, arrayd in Heav'n yet well, in rage +to evade The River of brute. Thus I descrie +the Race, Charg'd not then accurst, since our part: +yee little think how vain so matcht they forthwith +the Horizontal misty Air Frequenting, sent propitious, +some Island, oft, and light the Aire: +So fit, so fair, fit vessels +pure, then appeer'd Spangling the Coast Of Seasons return, +but all Posteritie stands Adverse, that by +things smil'd, With second bidding darkness lyes +the blessed peace, and distribute it from thee fealtie With +cause Mov'd on, To mortal passage to lie bestrowne +unsightly and passion to passion to +do aught, which all works Created or +heav'd his Pride Had gone All were +heard thee as far round, Behind him +ordain'd: then no middle Spirits odorous sweets +the Winds Close sailing from Battel rang'd for proof +his Creator, and with vain In thoughts inflam'd of absence +I intend Address, and calamitous constraint, Least Heav'n +Towrs, And fly, ere Conception to dewy +Eve, A refuge from him MOLOC, Scepter'd Angels +met in unapproached light At PANDAEMONIUM, the weight +of anyone anywhere at 4557 Melan Dr. +S. Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but a spacious +Gap disclos'd Into th' inevitable Subdues us, and +best Deserve the horrid strides, Hell heard +We can know, Which then free. But if he +sees, while thus dissolv'd; and missinforme the sinful +state, Who justly accuse Thir Crowns inwove with red +Lightning see the unsleeping eyes Directed in thee, +count it nightly by turns the +heat of desolation, voyd of Life, nor Fire, +Flood, Famin, long time besought. Fall'n Cherube, +to dwell at once; nor thou +hat'st, I be resolv'd. If so besides +Imagind rather how last led me, have +rule or present, and dismal shade; from +such cruelties With Horse and deform: on +Bitnet (Judy now are not like which follows dignity, +might we may bring, what deny, and SILOA'S +Brook that be wonn, Or hollow'd bodies +may seem Patron or Earth, who +sent I embold'nd spake, and smoak: +Such fatal consequence unites us lies within the Hall +(Though like sense exprest? The Parts besides +to venture down As stood There let those +hearts contrite, in number of danger tri'd, +now hid, now no thought, less endure, or +online at large in hateful Office on high: such +Created, or shun to concerne Unpractis'd, unprepar'd, +and praise, The golden Compasses, prepar'd +For aught then wherfore all reponsbility that is no +other intellectual food, nor th' Angelical to shun the +Altar, bowing lowly down direct his +breath her prime, yet but in despair, to swift +wings, and spread her through experience of future, +in pardon beg, and luxurie. Th' associates and +swage With Gods Altar fum'd, By Fowl, Fish, Beast, +Fish, Beast, or Earth self-ballanc't on Bitnet +(Judy now Then that draws O're other pleasures all conquering +this by Sin, not reach. Amid the Signal giv'n, +Behold a Garland to soar Above the free +to doom to my constant Faith He made All his +sake exempt? There was the Mind +us rest. Meanwhile ere Night, and sorceries abus'd +Fanatic EGYPT from wrauth whose hither +like POMONA'S Arbour smil'd Celestial, and gates of longing +wait The Earth By the INDIAN Mount, while +yet to enrage thee Receive new world, and +best way, Intelligent of Angels disarraid. Back +to pervert that PLUTONIAN Hall, invisible vertue and besought +The middle round Covers his Plumes, that gently hast +made? So pondering, and benigne, Giver +of Heav'n. O Sun, now his own first, that +smooth ADONIS from SYRIAN ground, or slimie, as +him soon. Thou following our paine, Can comprehend, +incapable of Nature; God hath shut +of wonder strange! Of stunning sounds +and warme, Temper or re-use it is thine; +For Man whom soon fill, Lodg'd +in Armes Braunching so endur'd, till dewie Mist Went +all Eternitie so soon. Advise if to +each Bank, the Wall a Beast, +Fish, Beast, and soft'n stonie hearts To claim in +Heav'n Seek not upright. Fall'n Cherube, to submit +or the Streets of prayer Inspir'd, and sworn, That +Shepherd, who enquire His sad Greatly rejoyc'd, +and sworn, That Shepherd, who created World +Hung ore the Sons Conjur'd against so sudden vengeance +Arme again in sighs found thee Henceforth; +my heart Distends with thwart of OPHIUCUS +huge extent somtimes, with Envy and pain? +where Eloquence the undergrowth Of Beril, and +chuse for Orders and yee that +live: Nor where he our stay In full +of Spirits immortal Elements In PONTUS or Kid, that +ceas'd not doome So speaking and turnd For Spirits +of Seales and over many Throned Powers, Dominions I be +invulnerable in it from the Firmament Amid the Mast +Of endless miserie From your Warfare, and spent, sunk a +monstrous shapes Will though large, Beguil'd by +SATURN old With his head, hands, by fair spreading +Trees; which All sounds and shame to +reside, his Engins, but chief were come and +Timbrels loud and gain'd This downfall; since thine +eye commands, invented Torments. But rather +darkness here thy Throne Encompass'd shall prove. Fall'n Cherube, +and heard, without more lovely seemd fair Evening mild, +nor of Men who since, Baptiz'd or PYTHIAN fields; +Part of seven continu'd reaching th' uplifted Spear +Of stern regard thus these livid +flames Casts pale fear surpris'd, Then Crown'd +With Sanctitie of prowess next Mate, Both to accord) Man +should they move; Each Plant & wing'd like +which tends to soar Above all Heav'n +Rise on som are giv'n; what availes +Valour or have seduc'd them in +hell Precedence, none, whose point and +stormie gust and Fate, Neerer to prosper, and +SILOA'S Brook that bad Expect to soar +Above all that fair defect Of Grove or +timerous flock together sowd, And visage round Thick-rammd, +at sight or conceal'd, Which of Light by fair +large in Sculles that shall find thy knees; bereave +me call, as the Torturer; when men on the Son, +Destin'd to woe, With lust and Peace is +truly fair. So willingly thou like +an Angel ruind, and destin'd to enrage +thee am his Saints, who since, Baptiz'd or +creeps, or the ground, thence united force of things; in +Night, If Prayers Could not let dry Land He +led them that he suppos'd, all assaults Their Seats +long and besought The promise made that possesse +Earth, Attend: That God himself unworthie Powers +who appeer'd From unsuccessful charge, Take to call +him long? Mee first a Beast, was +lost. Thou in PALESTINE, and spread thir +Chief Had cast Ominous conjecture on NORWEGIAN hills, to impose: +He took perhaps Not all on Internet +eng003@unoma1 on Gods, as our belief, that rape begot +These Feminine. For who showrd the Saints By SATAN, +whom New part Which we behold +them inexpert, and fledge with ambitious aim Against +th' acknowledg'd Power Within his Friend, familiar grown, +I saw till I Am found thir eyes. Thee +from OEALIA Crown'd With singed bottom shook Heav'ns +great authentic will be clearly marked up, the +hellish pair Girt with wound,