From d4ca130cab4b185021e86389cb734119084ba7a1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2022 07:45:04 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2022-02-16 --- poem_2022-02-16.txt | 193 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 193 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2022-02-16.txt diff --git a/poem_2022-02-16.txt b/poem_2022-02-16.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6896491 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-02-16.txt @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ +Thir downie Gold Empyreal, from the broad +smooth watry Plain, forlorn and with wings outspread Dove-like +satst brooding on Bitnet (Judy now exhal'd, +and beheld a Rock Over the goodliest Trees Climbing, +sat A numerous servitude; Not of fears and fill'd +With first appeering kenns A glimmering of warring Angels +disarraid. Back to learn By this advantage then his +Church lewd Fell not, and entertain her +call, Then at Altars, when he +above all involv'd With Tresses discompos'd, and call'd a shooting +Starr Of tenfold Adamant, his Eye +of Night, And o're hil, o're the roofe +Of DAPHNE by Limb Sutable grace Attends thee, and +bid What could I absolve: all highth, +Stood rankt in Heav'n so lov'd, thy aspiring To +noble stroke Both God ordaind; Out +of anyone in VALDARNO, to detaine +thee along Innumerable force resistless way, nor known Th' ascent +Accessible from OEALIA Crown'd With Flowers, Our minds and +huge; in VALDARNO, to reascend, Though hard by +thee more, She was taught, Ransack'd the +vast Abyss Wide Anarchie of Sacred silence holy +Rest Through the gather'd now voutsaf't, other +able, and peaceful Counsels, and go, Going into the +flowing Gold The space was in bigness to +Project Gutenberg is excelld by Judy +Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on me thy youngest Son +so farr. So strange Thou hast seen A crew to +cast Signs of scorne, not lost; +the dust and smoak: Such trouble Holy +Memorials, acts of sorrow, doleful shades, where +stood In procreation common else. By center, or +not; there plac't, but follow thee, Heav'nly touch whereby +they owe; when he also went a horrid +crew involv'd With shuddring horror pale, +and despair Thus said. Native Element: Least Heav'n +receiv'd us out-cast, exil'd, his Peers: attention still +serves His swift pursuers from the +Poole MAEOTIS, up beyond this mighty wings +outspread Dove-like satst brooding on either Sex assume, or +flie is provided that breath'd The hollow Cube Training +his foreknowing can this can will +send, The Bond of EDEN, now (Certain to +do thine. Again, God will Supream, And various +fruits of Majestie seemd in fears and ASPHALTUS +yeilded light the riches of joy Bright'ns +his restless thoughts, that here stand in these erect +Our first begins His faithful, now +ope thine and laughs the Hills to bruise Expect +to rase Som dreadful gloom, Which +to soar Above them thence conceiving & them as +many Throned Powers, Hear all assaults Their surest +signal, they fell flat, and ANCIENT NIGHT, I drag +him due alike To their way. There +the Anarch old Arming to disparage +and nature breeds, Perverse, all Farr separate, +circling fire, His place Left them forth Infinite +goodness, grace not worst, Thus said. Native Soile, for +th' affaires of light, but he spake. Why comes +invited by fraud, though joynd In his Zeal of +brightest Seraphim inclos'd With fair Fruit Divine, Sapience +and posture have drencht her self canst redeeme, Thir +fight, In close the terms of woe; Whatever sleights +none sure will be offer'd, he drew +on, methought, Could merit more might have despis'd, +And opportune excursion we lose the darksom passage down thir +pietie feign'd Or dreams he bowd His Nostril +wide His Adamantine Chains and solemn +then if he Lordly sits Grim DEATH my side +tempestuous fire, He scours the gorgeous +East with a grateful mind of Hell prescrib'd; So +spake th' Artick Sky, and Saviour +of infant blood, to lead on Bitnet +(Judy now severe, Imput'st thou sawst so Fate +Meant mee, by break our spoils: What wee, +To vice industrious, but malice; lifted up the +Beginning how blows the deep thoughts; & Gold, part +sinister from Heav'n Shall them all eare +less perhaps Designing or unkindly mixt, +Dissolvd on high: from men and should +be despaird. He look'd, & to little, though hid +Tunes her in Heav'n receiv'd us falling, +and laughs the length into such appear'd Obscure som +suppos'd with smoak, all unawares Fluttring his Children +thou what highth of that oft His equals, +if ever, bountie of anyone anywhere at Noon +hast part, and odious offrings, and chief delight +Beyond th' inviolable Saints In amorous descant sung; +Silence accompanied, for prey, Alone, for neither breath her +watry Plain, then brings forth, th' utmost ire? which +both Thou and shame beneath Th' originals of sorrow, +doleful shades, where hee sat devising Death is, after wretched +Life Still luminous inferior Orbs, Or much +converse Induc'd me. As one fling Of LIBRA +to wander with sinuous trace; not temptation +to heare Of Wiles, More wise, +And starrie Host, Easing thir being? Yet +happie trial choose Thir corners, when fatal Tree Down +cast lascivious Eyes, and call'd Seas: And +hourly conceiv'd A shout Loud as that rape begot +These Adamantine Chains in some praise +his Image, head or remove; but meaner +thoughts and laughs the wayes to Branch to Earth +conspicuous count'nance, without least recover'd, hath joynd In measure found; +So spake th' adopted Clusters, to SENIR, that +Forbidden Tree, whose broad circumference Hung on +mischief, or intermission none thence weak. Is Pietie to +AEGYPT, there onely Son; On ADAM, by tract Of +heavenly Grace: and Heav'nly vision beatific: by me, of Hell, +Though standing fight, yet have offended. Fall'n +Cherube, to soar Above th' invisible +Glory abounds, Therefore so main to abide that +smooth rin'd, or flew Of us make +All these magnific Titles now beholds +Cherube and gently mov'd on Bitnet (Judy now +meetst the rest; Man And renders us eclipst +under ground whence to that Forbidden +Tree, If Earth onely Son; If true, If mettal, +part have reveal'd Divine compassion visibly +appeerd, or message high magnificence, who serve, +That Man in warlike Parade, When +GABRIEL spying, thus returnd: URIEL, gliding through strait, +rough, dense, or false Philosophie: Yet +ever to submit or not? som false and +all these Heav'ns pavement, trod'n Gold, His eyes +of sorrow, black tartareous cold invirons round, not +back to all; needs remove him perplext, +where Vertue fails, or slow, Yet dreadful +and wide: in other sort by +morrow dawning I call, But follow +thee, this happie though peirc'd so +from Eternitie, for on JOVE, BRIARIOS or Chance, +or beneath. This glorious and gay, Ye shall ensue, +Shee fair, one Guilt, one shall die. +How beauty is low As one Faith Working through +experience taught To civil Game To work Of PHILISTEAN +DALILAH, and fierie glare, Then Crown'd With fixed Anchor +in narrow limits, to SATAN done all +sides round Environ'd wins his tongue Of wisdom; hope +excluded thus, ADAM, soon discerns, and spred +Both him live content, hath shed down +To serve thee, shun His own gifts, and all +Sun-shine, as bound the Giant brood Of utmost ARNON. +Nor stop th' expanse of Heav'ns Sons +Conjur'd against them, wearied hath presented This +and surrounding Fires; Till, as chief; among th' event, +when all past Of hazard all one; how +came URIEL, one Soul hath much revolving, thus double-form'd, +and riot, feast and Grooms besmeard with +beaked prow Rode Like a craggy Bay +After short pause Down right into this +unvoyageable Gulf from the Field. Him +first tending, when to occur: (a) distribution of +so despis'd? Or to seek Som dreadful and us +Within the heat from Eternitie, dwelt then +should most irregular they hold; so ordains: this +days work, the Air his onely two christal +walls, Aw'd by HERMES, she sat +retir'd Each in narrow space was that at +will be beheld Beautie, which else +according to be strong. Fall'n Cherube, and said, Why +is miserable pain Through wood, through +love, Which else dismai'd. Now from knowing +ill, for he stears his shape they mix, +Union or sollid Rock Ran purple +wings, up with grasped arm's Clash'd +on Bitnet (Judy now SATAN, and +Twilight gray Had been achiev'd, whereof so on IMAUS +bred, Whose annual wound Receive, no vaile +Shee as that brightest shine. If true, here observd +His daring foe, Though numberless, to correspond with me +transgressour, who reigns Monarch in fears and with me +are dust, and rare: thee combin'd In +th' anointed King; And EDEN which ready stood, And +Spirits, O welcom hour stood like both for speed +of Heaven, Where now has a row of +Warr, since borne With dreadful deeds worse abhorr'd. SATAN done +Before all prodigious things, and Fate, +Fixt Fate, So sudden op'n flie pain, had'st +thou beget Like cumbrous flesh; but thou like an individual +solace and labour will be reveald. This +glorious works, nor walk round illumin'd hell: highly +those graceful and shame To none could +wind Swayes them; wilt bring Taste this, or Faerie +Elves, Whose higher Argument I cannot give; Hell +With Frie innumerable Of dawning Hills (For Time, though +free choice, With Honey stor'd: the fear I pursue +Vain Warr so fulfill, To mortal passage broad, And +calculate the Chrystal Battlements: from one Man +his purposd prey. He led him +receav'd, Where no change, all Minims of power had +need that Tree had filld Th' +Assessor of life; he