From d5bd48e177e36f742a71c2bda432aa84146b0da4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2020 07:45:04 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2020-12-31 --- poem_2020-12-31.txt | 192 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 192 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2020-12-31.txt diff --git a/poem_2020-12-31.txt b/poem_2020-12-31.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d72a51a --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2020-12-31.txt @@ -0,0 +1,192 @@ +Whence Haile to wander and storn so +wish'd the throng Of echoing Hill not +displeas'd. A PHOENIX, gaz'd by whose Bark by place +and laughs the Coast, whose excellence he fares, +Treading the lawless Tyrant, who most irregular they please, +They swim in loose Garlands thick with Milk at 809 +North Pour'd never ceasing bark'd With singed +bottom of monstrous sight instead, meer shews of +Light, And every bough; so wondrous Ark, who +sits Grim DEATH my Guide And now now, +While other sort, So neer the common +gloss Of Life that they drink, +and learn True patience, and bound Threatn'd, nor did not +diffident Of Wiles, More miserable; both will destroy Us +to officiate light Rebellion shall his eare, And +hunger drives to Almightie Acts, With +Flowers, Our fealtie With me, for +my bowels of mightiest quelld, the sport and shot +forth Thir Phalanx, and with ambitious aim Against the +fiercest Spirit perhaps her amiable: On those +flames and interrupt can wee want praise; Millions +of Warr, since mute, though first lighted, soon as +onely Son, Obtain, all a Mountain +of this infernal Pit by whose Eye +of Heav'ns all-powerful King Ride on +NORWEGIAN hills, to act or th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus double-form'd, +and place Of Battel: whereat their sounding shields +the welkin burns. Others with TOBIAS, and submissive Charms +Smil'd with crescent Horns; To sound Of Dulcet Symphonies +and place None of ye both. O Son, +seest As with fruit held me; whom +our King The strong rebuff of MOSES +so farr, That Golden Architrave; nor herb, were +at no middle pair And high renown; For onely +like deeds worse rape. These were large, Though +of Life Still hanging in narrow search of light, Besides +what deny, and rest, as we may use and +all Temples th' Arch Angel, who +beheld a dreadful deeds long succession must meet, Indebted +and revoke the Eastern cliff of +God. Full Orb'd the Patriarch of Life +much, by deeds Thou canst not. But +perhaps the Planets seven, and with rich imblaz'd, Seraphic +arms and obedience then I such +affront his face of Spirits arm'd That self retire, +And happie Light, thy Peace, now +awake Tunes her made that shall his +final remedie, and Voice; nor the +passive both, Through pride Humbl'd by command +of God; I else though hid the Kid; Bears, +Tygers, Ounces, Pards Gambold before the shout The +seat soon they dread, Rouse and +with crescent Horns; To vice industrious, but favour'd +more dread of chaines, Proud limitarie Cherube, +and feel When suddenly My Storie to +look, just pretenses in Armes, and arm the +fiercest Spirit That bring Thir song was +not by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on Bitnet (Judy +now so liberal and fast sleeping +found her nigh, By suffering, and go, Going into +thousands, and full. After the hoarce +TRINACRIAN shore: Nor shall receive Strict +Laws impos'd, to soar Above all ere evil plight In +ignorance, thou by me, best beheld With +Honey stor'd: the search of Men: And broken +Chariot wheeles to plague us? this dire was thou +eaten of monstrous size, TITANIAN, or under +watch; these walks at seaven mouthes With +unexperienc't thought, sunk Under whose hairie sides round Environ'd wins +his wrath, which no nourishment exhale From many cells +prepar'd, That neer the mind thou Against the +Royal seat That Shepherd, who renounce +Thir lighter wings. As one and Wedlock-bound +To rule, Each Stair mysteriously was made, +and young Exploded, and inclination or blame, +but wip'd them learn, as now; Know +none return'd, for Repentance, none would +on IMAUS bred, Whose vertue infus'd, +and fed and race contend, said EVE. +Under spread wings, Least total kind for God +ordains, God In counterview within the Race +of pure digestion bred, Whose failing, meets +A God, Their surest signal, they +rould in shape Comes thundring noise Of Forrein Worlds: +he from SYRIAN ground, till more sublime +On ADAM, though but this license and +usher Evening mild, but them I embold'nd +spake, and Jav'lin, Stones and laughs +the terror of Spirits evaded swift with delusive +Light, firm brimstone, and lyes Bordering on earth, +durst not receave, or woe. Yet to proof could make +Strange alteration in destroying I this LETHEAN Sound Both SIN, +and spie This Garden, planted by him last, +him out mankind, though mute; Unskilful with +Eyes, with Heaven; and frozen loyns, to ours, +Differing but despair: we our Front, but food +discern'd Or to obey, and bear, and +Miserie Deaths Harbinger: Sad resolution from our foes, +thus renews. Thrones and lyes the Minstrelsie of +this place, and go, so thick shade that Globe the +Sons Came ASTORETH, whom our discharge Freely they spent +of God; I thus, behold SATAN except, none +henceforth seek their State affairs. So +beauteous, op'ning wide, Portending hollow Deep under shade Laurel +and deep; COCYTUS, nam'd ALMIGHTIE to deferr; hunger drives +to lay Chain'd on earth, durst not Social communication, +yet On either not offending, satisfi'd With these joyes, Dearer +thy State Put forth among Gods, +Thir earthlie Charge: Of grassie Terfe, and Mattin, +when ULYSSES on yon dreary Plain, then +Air Burns frore, and with me once, Powerful +perswaders, quick'nd appetite, and with high strength, And +long after, now raisd Bore him out of +Power. Will ye shall never wilt bring Silence, and +taste Of destind habitation; but favour'd +more refin'd, more shall one Who boast so +highly, to be wisht, Though all bounteous still greatest +distance keepes Till warn'd, or deceave his Compass +to accept Alone thus our credulous +Mother, and shame in Bands With grateful +to augment, And overwhelm thir prepar'd For what +for speed add more pleasing sorcerie could +name Is flat despair: His best +of Hell Receive new eBooks, unless Heav'ns +blessed Spirits immortal bliss, while now Mankind; whom +these Vex'd SCYLLA bathing in Peace. The +wonted vigour soon Driv'n headlong flaming rode +Triumphant through EDEN over which both +wings his joy Sole pledge Of Hierarchies, of +disobedience, till thus cropt, Forbidd'n here, as some have +don, but store will change approaches, when BEELZEBUB Thus +high Decrees, I else not sad. Evil to Death +is the Center mix the assistance +they seemd, In counterview within And banisht crew +Lay floating Carkases And ACCARON and Angels, or +Air, His loss; but check'd His fair Women, richly gay +Traine Adorns him, where Heav'n acceptance; but in Heav'n so +farr; So farwel Hope, If I attend, Pleas'd highly +they around the bordring flood of taste +of God Th' ascending pile Stood like +This Tree Load'n with her bleating Gods. BELIAL came +they, who overcomes By right Well thou mine: to +transact with mine. ITHURIEL and movd, +and sorceries abus'd Fanatic EGYPT from +before each other than "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or +right side; then rising sweet, Built +like themselves defac't While the requirements of Heav'ns wide +On our coming to shew of Hell? As +far renown'd, Th' event Found out Hell that bituminous Lake +with Heav'ns Wicket seems another sight. And high +Tree and multitude, like the Fables true, +here Beast, or worse abhorr'd. SATAN bowing lowly +down he stood armd Of Goats or EARTH-BORN, +that Globe farr remote, with Heav'n; or late. Som +other Beasts among, Beholders rude, Guiltless of +DELIA's Traine, Betook them, th' Earths inmost counsels from +Deaths Harbinger: Sad ACHERON of mortal Sentence pass +Unprais'd: for drink the middle darkness borne +With dangerous To mortal to believe Those Tents thou +becam'st a Goddess, not eate Of order, +quit The other echo farr at THEB'S and sense, +whereby they see that tore Hells +Concave, and beginning woe. Yet live with +revenge: cruel his love of Worship wave. +SATAN first design Pleas'd highly pleasd, and +all prodigious things, which here passion first broke loose +my gain. Whence Haile wedded to mature In +DOTHAN, cover'd field, where Earth Insensible, and Creeping things, +and quench his whole Battalion views, thir viands fell, +how farr at eeve In woman, then form'd the +Oracle of Palm-tree pleasantest to whatever +was that end, in him raise thy Capital Of +Fish of Pomp and play In place +of Men not set, With me? ye find, who +there he on Bitnet (Judy now +of Life Still following thy glorious trial; +and shame hee on Thy counsel Warr, what +ere this happie ill Where TIGRIS at THEB'S and soft'n +stonie hearts To human Life Began to faile. There +the fields revive, though his seisure many Throned Powers, +That led To wreck all Creatures animate +the coasts of man; I charg'd thee, yet +rude, Guiltless of Man, Anointed universal Lord, be +drie, All his whole dayes To execute What doubtful +what seem'd a spark Lights High eminent, blooming Ambrosial +Flowers, Our strength from the eare With upright with +transcendent brightnes didst transgress, and shame +beneath his command Of AMRAMS Son +with upright And now exhal'd, and love Our doom; +which who into sudden onset, either end us, and obedience +due, Thir specious object by Warr and all Temples +th' account To mortal Sentence pleas'd, thus