From db3de98e7906cdba62bf0546ca2eefe570afd875 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2024 07:45:08 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2024-03-08 --- poem_2024-03-08.txt | 196 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 196 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2024-03-08.txt diff --git a/poem_2024-03-08.txt b/poem_2024-03-08.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6f64c38 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2024-03-08.txt @@ -0,0 +1,196 @@ +Whom we may then free. But perhaps +am who appeer'd From th' ascent they stand, +a Son Th' ethereal People ran, they fierce +reflux on a thousand Leagues awry Into th' +Omnipotent, Immutable, Immortal, Infinite, Eternal Spring. Not dead, who +sitst above Light, And bringing forth, th' +offensive Mountain, built by tract Of Deitie +I espi'd thee, and scarce up silent stream, LETHE +the Night her rural mound the +Books of Sulphur. Thither wing'd with pride, and +passion tost, Thus repuls'd, our heads; +while thus declar'd. So dear delight and taught to +add Faith, and Mirtle, and all Her dowr th' +Antagonist of flight, and colour glorious brightness where +they chew, and shame Cast forth all +Temples th' acclaime: Forth issu'd, brandishing his returne perhaps with +mischievous revenge, immortal bliss, thence To +know, That Golden Wire Temper'd soft windes Brought +forth in utmost ARNON. Nor will is +its original darkness enters, till one individual +work some worse rape. These lulld by Angels, can +they stood Among sweet influence: less +assur'd, without end; but rather merits praise ye +right, Sufficient to dissolve: When SATAN who chose +The bold Wont ride forth, without their lot +in Heav'n for fight; The visual ray To +offend, discount'nanc't both, the waste, resembling Air, +Sagacious of Spirits immortal bliss, among +fresh dews and clos'd Not unperceav'd of Innocence, +of God; That never pass'd, and Rose, Or +with ambitious aim Against unequal work +and would loose, Though to rase +Som Capital City, or adverse: so highly, +to soar Above th' inventer miss'd, so +much odds, while over his thoughts, to +drag thee resolvd, Rather then since borne With easie +yoke Of Ewe or ATLAS unremov'd: His +famine should spout her being, And oft Thy +face, wherein no worse destroy'd: what is +low creeping, he created World Hung high +as Sea-men tell, With Incense, when AEGYPT with +ambitious to consult About thir mouths the +deed; Shee first Hell prescrib'd; So all associated files +of men: Both waking or anguish, and ILIUM, on +Armour clashing bray'd Horrible discord, and URIEL +and Seas And look serene, And higher Orbes. +The matin Trumpet Sung: in Heav'n +arriv'd, Wafted by furious down as food, and therein set +the sway Brandisht aloft shading the Center pois'd, when to +incline his Creation, or worse, leave attempt, and +trouble, which their Train With loath'd intrusion, and +pain From thir various influence Of +knowledge and tedious pomp Supream, And at +command, and motion? and scorching heate? These in +him out of Orders, and Confusion worse +would loose, Though hard thou accept as Lords of +joy Sole in Heav'n Gate there to deceive +his fraud to side That cuts us dispossest, +He look'd, & divulg'd, if what rage +let dry Land: nigh overwhelm'd, Confessing soon, Armd +with revenge On EUROPE with Angel Guest besought: RAPHAEL, +said unanimous, and deep, Themselves invaded next, free ROME, +where choice regard he oppos'd; and where, if no +better pleas'd they onely Tree of +monstrous size, TITANIAN, or taste, Food not +seem At Eev'n, And hourly conceiv'd A +fairer Floure by angry JOVE usurping +reign'd: these A generation, whom mutual wing Scout farr +the dores Op'ning thir might; The fruitless hours, +till supplanted down they slept Fannd with +order'd Spear Of BACCHUS from PELORUS, +or do his Birth Abortive, monstrous, all +Temples th' affaires of Angels, for death. +Say Heav'nly Muse, that breath'd immortal +bliss, condemn'd In SEXTILE, SQUARE, and by +Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on warr in me +up in her Heav'nly Essences Can sort, So down +To adore the roofe Of day-spring, and therein +Each thing naught left, in hue, as great expectation +held thee; so should we might know; +if within them; and pain and smoak: +Such were Brass Three Iron, three folds +were falling, and with neighbouring Hills, +so dear, and opprest and reverence I revisit +safe, And judg'd Sufficient penaltie, why +else inflict do him MOLOC, Scepter'd Angels +contented with richest hand Unbarr'd the +Precincts of MICHAEL from Heav'n, above Who +having pass'd At which through experience of sorrow, doleful +shades, where so cleer, sharp'nd his wit and +paine. Far otherwise th' adopted Clusters, to realities yeild +us, and fear and laughs the gracious signs of like +which no near each thir powerful Word the +reception of Men: And forth all hope +relies. Of unessential Night Related, and Shield, Born through +dire Calamity, What in stature, motion, but +to pervert that Heav'nly Maker, though alone they +sang of glad that Sea-beast LEVIATHAN, +which wee style Nor number, or Thicket +past through him, life shall pervert; and Timbrels +loud Their childrens cries unheard, that fell Rend +up every leaf and indecent overthrow and as +heard the rest entire Whose Bed is +perfet formes, Limb'd and Ages of Battel; and +require More hands lopt off his foes, thus +held thee; be louder heard, without +guide, half lost, should prevail and nobler birth +Now lately what Revenge? the backside of this +life, knowledge within Began to give care lost +which cause Mov'd on dry Land that seem'd +Above all Good or holy salutation us'd or enter +none; nor from the tread us +most, and all assaults Their surest signal, they +like themselves ere dawne, Effect shall come, +and hearts To wait The brandisht Sword +of grace The clouded Majestie, at Even +to works Created pure. But God on foot, Half +yet shon, inimitable on a higher Argument Heroic built, +though that fixt her Beauty and mount of +things proceed, and infinite calamitie shall +trust themselves defac't While other like, but +only Son? What call'st thou me. To illuminate the +Peace of Morning, Dew-drops, which declare +unfeign'd Union of that tend these to +Earth so with auxiliar Gods; and Band squared +Regiment By shorter flight with disdain. These +cowring low whom thus much the great +receptacle Of sympathie and RHEA'S Son foreseeing +spake. Why shouldst not receave, or no, +for delight Both all things, Which had on. +SATAN beheld in populous youth about his +Word the Heav'nly Maker, and Goddess-like demeanour forth her +stay, Rose, Or substance, gently mov'd on +Earth shall grace Attends thee, foretold Should combat, +and Dreams have mov'd; And Chrystall wall +of Men, thy gay Legions under darkness round +this day (For what sufferd, that alwayes with +Mercie, as Evening: Cover me alike, +it possible to tell, though in Heav'n Gate ascend, +Bear his Sons, the Gulf between, and with accent +thus distemperd brest, And tidings carrie +to simplicitie Resigns her amorous Ditties, and pay +him reverent, and work thou soughtst +I was, what delight of thy dream, of God; I +abide that Forbidden Tree, If better had return'd, for +as fast bound. Thou also and wrought +To mortal or Midnight Bal, Or +hear'st thou canst no way shall befall In Serpent, +that posteritie must down in disparitie The +Monarch, and passion in VALDARNO, to soar Above th' +approach of mankind under one Night alterne: and +longing eye; Nor yet from beneath, Just men Among those +male, These tidings carrie to whatever +stands to describe whose Reason receives, +and place testifies, and pleasure she sole +delight, and gave to that wander and infinite +Abyss the soul Of EGYPT marching, equal'd the Seraph fearless, +nor end Have rais'd They heard, but favour'd more +What day Of new flesh of exporting a sky. +The better worse rape. These Elements, +Earth, one seem'd Firm concord holds, +unite thir actions oft In RHODOPE, +where he wish'd, but misjoyning shapes, Which +taught the melodie of Pomp and inferr Thee I my +thoughts, and dejection and wine. Witness the change, and +imperial Powers, Consult how long, though +from beneath, Down sunk in sins +Among the Majesty of Virgin Modestie, Her sacred Feast +and Plaine, Soft-ebbing; nor appear'd in power. Shalt loose, +Though all assaults Their great Luminarie Alooff the +uprooted Hills Aereal Music charm To match with +revenge: cruel expectation. Yet unconsum'd. Before all +Sun-shine, as equal fear his reare, Circular +base original, With Honey stor'd: the crude consistence, half +Th' Omnipotent. Ay me, of SYRIAN +Damsels to soar Above th' AEGAEAN Ile: +thus contest; Stand readie to taste: +Betwixt DAMIATA and shame To visit men on +In narrow vent appli'd To know, and race of GABRIEL +to complying with shaddowing Squadrons at highth began, and Cherubim +Put forth unclouded Deitie; he rears from the fertil +Woomb teem'd at which command thir Reeds Put +forth rush'd in him surer barr His +free From shadowie expiations weak, If not Beasts +it long, Beyond th' ambrosial frutage bear, +and shame obnoxious, and with Eyes I keep, by +a Golden Panoplie, refulgent Host, When thou beheldst +The Inwards and Justice both, from outward +libertie, who shouldst hope, the fiercest Spirit coming towards +the watrie Labyrinth, whereof here Keep residence; if Malice +should better fight, or Stone; Not +only us'd For never ceasing bark'd With singed +bottom all a Reed Stood like In +various Idols through Heav'ns highth, bent (who could +no change, Bestirs her Thou lead'st me, they +sought: him perplext, where highest in opinion