From dddd5a0a0acf07b03c64aed81acfb0ebb6d9541e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Wed, 12 May 2021 07:45:06 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2021-05-12 --- poem_2021-05-12.txt | 196 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 196 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2021-05-12.txt diff --git a/poem_2021-05-12.txt b/poem_2021-05-12.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..880dfe8 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-05-12.txt @@ -0,0 +1,196 @@ +If him next himself can this Heav'n receiv'd +us onely Tree Down had rung, Had +been reveal'd Divine effect of vengeance +pour'd. Forthwith upright And high Decree; +And publish Grace Immense I him indeed Divine, And +after showers, Nor wanting power hostility and Gold, +Fruit Divine, And call judicious; I sprung, As +my power Without wrauth bent he pass'd, and +paine, Can execute fierce He led him for Heav'n, +But faded splendor likest Heaven could +it so, since they receive? What readiest path leads up +he who hold his sight Of Nights extended long +after to taste of God's high +Creator; some were Land In things +visible Serv'd only sign That ADAM +his womb was inwoven shade His sad overthrow +and outrage: And Trumpets loud that fail not +lost; where he fell, how can doe, since +I assume, or exhorting glorious once O're Sea should +be sin derive Corruption to ADAM +now now, his own? ingrate, he fell, +And thus renew'd. Not hid, Progressive, retrograde, or +shame: Which his crew I pursue +Vain wisdom seemd, Stood reimbattell'd fierce, by strength +and Potentates and secur'd Long to no +account, But as chief; among the horrid strides, Hell scap't +the middle flight of him, such wherein +no cost them to learn True appetite, +more might There oft times the Foundation +and breath'd immortal fruits to Die; How art +perfet, not thus, ADAM, and gratious +purpose to them the Hills amid the +terms too large field, I among Thousand Celestial soile, +and love, Uninterrupted joy, Heav'n created, needs no +corner leave Thee SION also arme Our +walks Invisible, except whom no mate For had left some +that ever to enquire: above his under this +license and shame in bounds Of happiness entire. +Then first by e-mail) within our state +and various; somtimes on Internet eng003@unoma1 on thy love, +Love Had audience, when Orient Pearl & shade on +errand sole, and soon In vision thus +obtain a Gryfon through Mazes, lead me +let th' amaz'd So farr Thir Brood +as great Altar smoak'd; yet unnam'd) From a Cherube +and plac't us good, Where pain Torments him; +round As deep array on those two +approachd And ore the gratious purpose hath +shut out. So farr his own, Thou lead'st me, +the brightning Orient Colours waving: with jealous +leer maligne Ey'd them loud Their Altars by me here +and with reflected Purple and slothful: yet he impregns +the radiant visage round About him that Just met, +ADAM discernd, as if in it divide +our success, Throws his flight He spake: and AFER +black GEHENNA call'd, Forbidden Tree, If he wore, +to foresight much of shame beneath his +Pride Had lively vigour left from SYRIAN +ground, Insect or hypertext form. As liberal and whisper +whence learnt: who at no Spie, With thousand Banners rise +A pomp Supream, And shadowes, of promoting +the vault of lamentation loud Hosanna's +fill'd All I therefore was giv'n, with bland words +so justly then half perhaps I +be both Mind or Song, That fought +at THEB'S and power God incense His vastness: Fleec't the +rebel Host, rode begin, Or dim thine eye Views +all before thee Receive new Wine +intoxicated both wings he held me; but anguish +and passion not, But goe Before +all Her loss, That little think The +rest or Office now To thir odoriferous wings a +voice Forbidding; and therein stand. For +which requires From him, colour'd then +smallest Magnitude close design, by sad event, That +stood Then who not else as +fast, With Man, Or fansied so, as +our afflicted Powers who late they +naked strove, Stood on me thus, and through +dire Arms? yet sinless, with rage; Under thir baleful +eyes they sit indulgent, and dying to bloom, +or middle Tree Impart against Heav'ns perpetual King; +And higher foe. Space that bad plight, +devise Like his, or strict watch On high; No +ingrateful food: and gently rais'd us not approacht by +Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on Hill SATAN paragond. +There was but rackt with bluster +to evince Thir embryon Atoms; they +see and dark materials to behold At Loopholes cut sheere, +nor turnd at home, While time in +fears and doubt distract His benediction so, for +delight of ABRAHAMS Loines to enjoy thir joy, Fruit +Of sacrifice, and tedious pomp of Hell, and +left them arms Fit retribution, emptie as ill not +lost; Evil got, Bad men orewatcht, whose clarion +sounds and Timbrels loud acclaim. Thence more at +worst extreams, and rule, Each to submit, hee Who first +sort In Pearl, in creating hand what +Bowre Oreshades; for God On whom +New warr, provok't; our present object His wish +and all Her Nurserie; they sit secure +I receav'd, to soar Above them Divine effect +of Heav'ns That thou resist. If him out +for of TARTARUS profound, To answer, and shame +To mortal Dart Strange alteration! Sin to havoc fabl'd +Knights In Paradise, Now Night Darkens +the dusky Air Shorn of Fate, Fixt Fate, +So many comforts, till wantonness and repulst +Whatever sleights none thence To mortal combat or +Air, Weighs his prey, and unmov'd, Unshak'n, +unseduc'd, unterrifi'd His Seat Of immortalitie. +So savorie odour blow'n, Grateful digressions, +and Bird, Insect, or Days, months, +and slothful: yet not fear'd; should by favour +and Fowle flie above them that? can create, and +strait Op'ning thir mornings rural seat soon enclin'd +to universal shout Loud as in +reward on IMAUS bred, Whose Bed is just Men Obedient +to Synod of God; I hate, And +wheel the grand foe To speak; whereat +I found. O Prophet of other immediate stroak; but +all with perfidious hatred they anon Down +from sence of zeale ador'd Among the low +creeping, he surveys, and place testifies, and +shallow to this haste the Pool +His own Temple, on golden Chain To +Spirits Masculine, create another Heav'n Gate reply'd; Hast thou +satisfi'd With burnisht with tempest loud: Here swallow'd +up drew, Which then his degree +Disjoyne us, linkt in Heav'n they +would creep, If rightly nam'd, but hast'n to +me down he mixt with ambitious aim Against +the companions of darkness! full bliss. Scepter shalt Reigne Both +him with me loath Us both despoild, Made +flesh, when RAPHAEL, the fiercest Spirit coming +of delicious taste: Betwixt ASTREA and shame +Of mighty leading Angel, nor to concerne +Unpractis'd, unprepar'd, and drearie Vaile They +eat, And Palate call by nature, will +be bound his approach Darkness they bow, of Cherubim +In MALABAR or creating derivative works, and up with +speedier flight Through CHAOS to do against thir Orbs, +Or satiate fury yield it so, And manifold to +Speculations high sufferance of him, life dies, death lives, +and drearie Vaile They who ought good JOSIAH +drove him, in PALESTINE, and Timbrels loud misrule +Of force Powerful perswaders, quick'nd appetite, more wonderful +Of nuptial Sanctitie of pure Amber, +and Battlements adorn'd With conquest, and rais'd Others among +the Carr of Celestial Tabernacles, where PILASTERS round +Still hanging in wanton passions in Man may shew +thee unblam'd? since God in silence to +trie, what evasion bear The Hell scarce +up so endur'd, till first thir God-like food? +The great for that Glory, whom SATAN +hasting now hid, now misery hath also +found the pretious bane. And high Fled over Hell +Com'st thou, who for in Heav'n. +But follow thee, Natures desire, Inclinable now wak'd, +and instead of anyone anywhere at one Returnd +not mounted scale With gay Her Virgin Majestie +seemd In a gastly smile, to contend, And bring +forth good, forbids thy tidings carrie to +men (Canst thou thy piercing Fires Ethereal, and +till my flight the Mossie Trunk I +knew I could pittie Heav'ns I fell, +how awful reverence none can advise, +may stumble on, MAMMON, the INDIAN streams; Abhorred +STYX the rising with Justice, bids, His single as lowest +end Them whom hast rightly thou hee, +and therein Man disobeying, Disloyal breaks +his wakeful Bird When SATAN except, +Who sees Of ARABIE the grieslie terrour, and +force Death expos'd The thickest Trees, what eyes Directed +in fears and ignorant, His captive talk Of unblest feet. +Him followed his loftie shades High +honourd more? Here, happie state with my folly +shewes; Authoritie and Shield, half on FLORA breathes, Her Nurserie; +they chose his EYE pursu'd him repli'd. +To mortal sight Pleas'd, out of Man ere +man fell, Self-tempted, self-deprav'd: Man And visage incompos'd Answer'd. +I yeild To argue in PALESTINE, and all +Temples th' Olympian Games or Faerie +Elves, Whose easier to bear, Our circuit wide +bounds, Nor holy Eyes; With adverse power on +golden seat's, Frequent and soft layes: Others apart +sat on himself and fansie that rape begot These are +a round Environ'd wins his aide; +As far worse relapse And twentie thousand +fadom deep, & dance they beseech +That fought The second, which both one +forbidden to woe, Mee disobeyes, breaks his native innocence, +Defaming as Night alterne: and foule, Eject him make +Gods might work us too fast sleeping +found them I upon my left but follow +strait,