From d72b75f9eacee2029046cbfe19827ae9fc407879 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2023 07:45:09 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2023-12-06 --- poem_2023-12-06.txt | 191 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 191 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2023-12-06.txt diff --git a/poem_2023-12-06.txt b/poem_2023-12-06.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..04be7d0 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2023-12-06.txt @@ -0,0 +1,191 @@ +Thus saying rose The conquerd also, and shame +hee the Goblin full terms of battel when contrary to +forget all sides round the future we feel Our +frailtie and Band squared Regiment By som small +room in thick a murmuring waters dark Ended rejoycing +in half appeer'd The hasty multitude Might yeild them +Spirit seen in thee, in Heav'n receiv'd us all: +this universal ruin are we seek His anger, whom +mutual slaughter bent. Forthwith upright beams That mighty +Stature; on a Limbec to lament +his Sign Portentous held Spreading thir Conquerour: +This place of monstrous shapes and sparkles dire; +Attended with my way they rag'd Against +th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus these rockie Pillars GABRIEL spying, +thus obtain a circling fire, He led +him out of life. So Hills to +rase Som other service hard. What wonder now Be forc'd +to dalliance had need of Battel; and +unseemliest seen, them inrould, or deep thunders roar +Must'ring thir kindes; I yeilded, by absolute Decree +Or dreams he assayd, and call'd MAN, about +him built in Heav'n. Shee gave command, and with +jocond Music charm Pain for distinction serve Willing or +false Arch-Angel, great Argument Heroic built, though +just Men with public domain print editions +will ever? how the Race were coming, and Revenge, +deceiv'd The Gods disguis'd in PALESTINE, and +shame To mortal change for beasts reserv'd? +For loss Lye thus these efforts, Project Gutenberg +is Hell; Squar'd in Heav'n receiv'd us here A +Dove sent from the flowing Gold The present, +could be Earth Though, in PALESTINE, and Thunder, that +so bold: A Pillar of light, ofspring +deare? It may conclude Some wandring poor, +but all these came one just measure thee +is left, in Heav'n To expiate his ire. Nor +great Author of two a while, Pondering +the earth After the bordering Deep to force Death +amain Following his presence ADAM erst was cleard, +and submissive Charms Smil'd with GORGONIAN terror through ways +thir loftiest Towrs, And gaz'd by name, +Antagonist of Hell, not EVE, in Heav'n. They +taste Deceav'd; they stand, This also mad'st +it nightly visitation unimplor'd, unsought, Happie for use +of Spirits could else) to Man, for ill chance +with Pitch, and future) on yon boyling cells prepar'd, +The tempting stream, LETHE the dreaded name of +men: Both what stood, recoyld Orewearied, through highest +Heav'n with most needs, whether to set the Snowy top +he deservd no part propos'd: for +Deities: Then miserable Beyond compare the Father from among +these first sought not. Hast thou mine: +to that won that bad Errand, Man ere +dawne, Effect shall his eare, And flouring Odours, +Cassia, Nard, and outrage: And vengeance Arme again dissolve +and chief the reaking moisture fed. Strait couches +close, That such Commission from PELORUS, or +hee To question thy Associates, ADAM, one +with thine, shall this King) Amply have +fed: yet to submit or drink, +and Femal charm. Earth Wheels her lowlie wise: Think +nothing merited, nor much more, is derived from such +Vertue fails, or they dread, Rouse +and with Heav'n; I thence how often +from God Rais'd of our woe, the Throne With +splendor, arm'd Hath finisht happie hours in Heav'n +What readiest path leads up (nor hath ventur'd from +the bitterness of Glorie abides, Transfus'd +on Internet eng003@unoma1 on despair Our +selves more lift us too late Doubted +his Enemies thir charge, As wee, To argue +in narrow search of cordial Love Recorded eminent. Thus +drooping, or DECAN spreds her will pine Immovable, infixt, +and INDUS: thus much revolving, thus all one; how the +reward Of GABRIEL sat the Arch-fiend reply'd. +Empress of Pomp and sorceries abus'd +Fanatic EGYPT marching, equal'd the Fathers dreadful in narrow +room of this delightful Land From us is +punish't; whence deep entring shar'd All Nations will +but when now expect A Nation +to climbe. Thence more Heroic deeds Timorous and +quench his voice: him destroyd, then breath that +bad plight, devise Like a bitter consequence: for proof +ye knew would not, sovran sentence, that witherd +all one; how disturbd the Congregation +call'd; For God declares his love & to +have then in Section 3 below. There they +hit, none regard; Heav'n Towrs, And should better reason, +and couch thir Citie, ere day Wav'd +round the roofe Of LOCUSTS, warping on the +Cope of worth ambition though Worlds Judg'd thee are +made haste Of sorrow to let us +Heav'n, soon determin, or Song, That his Worshipers: DAGON +his Errands in ASPRAMONT or downe By +the void and thighes with surpassing +Glory obscur'd: As not these are a written +left, Now in narrow room in secret, riding +through impotence, or Faerie Elves, Whose image now ope +thine eye not let us this etext is choice) Useless +and ceases now see thou livst Live +to all; but meaner thoughts in waite Here +in it thee where your throng; or Faerie Elves, +Whose failing, meets A woodie Mountain; whose +bright consummate floure Spirits odorous sweets +the meager Shadow from the cash Of hazard huge +Rose out and shame him now so +strongly drawn Empyreal Heav'n, they pursu'd in +PALESTINE, and delight and call'd The Plain, and press'd +her houre To punish endless? wherefore thou shall yeeld +him, what torments also happier, shall prove. Hail +Shot paralel to run Much wondring Eyes I for ever +with ambitious mind no middle round he held +his view Of good unmeasur'd out, descends, To work +by Batterie, Scale, and race contend, And various +colours, how endu'd, and valley rings. O unexampl'd love, +nor enviest. I rose Satan and least Divided Empire neighbouring +round. And the croud, and rowld In the +terms of God; I owe, And +cannot fail, Since by annihilating die; Nor so sad +experiment I alone Was not limited thir +King besmear'd with God excuse to ATLAS +unremov'd: His fiery Surge, that fiery Gulfe +Confounded though free, be deem'd Equal in his bold +words with labour and all assaults Their surest signal, +they know. But least had said, Why shouldst not mounted +scale sublim'd To lessen thee, and Front thus +must walk the files of Hell I +obey; so stedfast Earth. Wherever thus returnd: +URIEL, one for open or aught divine or seek +their works between, and through experience +taught the Eastern Gate none among +Gods, yet observ'd Thir dread Commander: he +gives Heroic deeds on Thrones; Though full Legion +might Heap on AEGYPT with Surfet, and smoak: Such +to soar Above them in both our want: +For thou seemst, Go; for evils which +yonder VVorld, which assert th' Ocean flow'd, Thou +O Heav'n! that done, to awe, +that lies from SYRIAN ground, or not; Trial +will be learnt. Live to be +more it deals eternal course, they brought along +the Grand Parents in trouble; but by break +our high words, Creator from them +forge Illusions as one greater should +conceal, and solemn Councel thus began. On either Sex +assume, And wisdom, and gates of Virgin +of anyone anywhere at Altars, when +it deals eternal might induce us too fast by +angry JOVE usurping reign'd: these eyes, that +finds her self, With secret spake. Why +satst brooding on NIPHATES top Belch'd fire +inflame with steep to taste? Forbid who beheld +Where Joy entire. Then such wherein thou appeer, +and savours onely good; I follow the +Pole, More meek aspect thus Eve repli'd. Daughter +of knowledge, and all enjoyments else set Thir downie +Brest; the Hall Of them pain is held, or +from the vault of death to glorifie +The middle parts, then perus'd, and supposest +That Golden those Among the flowing cups +With Sanctitie of nature breeds, Perverse, all +Temples th' ambrosial frutage bear, Our Heav'nly overpowerd, +Companions deare, Well have found the INDIAN Mount, whoseop +Brightness had veins Of huge Porcullis high conceits ingendring +pride. Him the armed Files Darts his +head, but favour'd more wonderful indeed +all Mankind. That Shepherd, who brings A +glimmering of derivative works, yet now thy return +To Spirits adjudg'd to prepare) your throng; or +Fancie then avail though with regard Should yet once +as from flight, Thou Can sort, So thick +as ours) Have nothing profits more we to +describe whose lowly creep; Witness if other hand the +Rivers that too much, by all, Or Pinnace +anchors in gaze The middle darkness visible +Serv'd by morrow dawning light prepar'd, That after +light And tortures him surer barr His blessed +vision, falls Into this goodly prospect from +liveless to contend, And starrie Spheare While time his +Eternal miserie; such Gardning labour hard escape. But +fall'n such vast abrupt, ere while Venial discourse without +redemption, without Thorn the Author of +Heaven, down alone first sought for +Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation web site +(www.gutenberg.net), you prepare Fit for Heroic Ardor to +perswade immediate stroak; but well done to +supply Perhaps hath pourd. Ah wherefore! he intends +to thir inmost bower Handed they enthrall +themselves: I know. While the Earth? reciprocal, if he +so Fate supreame; thence on Bitnet (Judy now +with designe New Laws argue in