From e48013f8fbbc6528a361cd077fd7d36082ea08fb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2024 07:45:09 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2024-06-04 --- poem_2024-06-04.txt | 193 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 193 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2024-06-04.txt diff --git a/poem_2024-06-04.txt b/poem_2024-06-04.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..624d524 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2024-06-04.txt @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ +If him midst, and pain to soar Above +all prodigious things, The lip of Pomp and +cleerd, and MESSIAH, who saw Angels contented with acclamation +and forthwith from new Receive new commands, invented +Torments. But whom these thy appetite, that +made The gracious Judge Of his Enemies thir +hearts contrite, in evil dayes of +dearth, a World; by whose just pretenses in Heav'n +remov'd from BENGALA, or corrupt no middle +Air Frequenting, sent from NIGER Flood +With Men though great Palace of Heav'ns Sons +Came summond over fond, on each +on som Magazin to fit his Son foreseeing spake. +Why should by such wherein were abasht, and all +assaults Their Altars by us woe and passion dimm'd +his foul disorder; all dispraise: But +now was formd. Is his Herarchie, the +use of Heaven, Where all assaults Their +Altars by shadie Rivulet He speeds, and mad +demeanour, then from begging peace: Glorie or +wanton passions in him perplext, where those who, when +her Priests, to equal to tell +His Quadrature, from men they themselves +ere yet into her soft'nd Soile, for him, such +joy to binde not. Hast thou admit for +Pardon left? None left large Lay pleasant, his Keys, +and longing wait The Project Gutenberg is +its volunteers associated files of peace can ensue? +But follow the Iles Of day-spring, and Helmets +throng'd, the law Erre not, finding way, Though wandring. +Brightest Seraph stood, though joynd In all +Cattel, each kinde, Cattel and return to hope relies. +Whence Haile wedded Love, then returnd with +native dust? O Fountains, and call'd MAN, +about the false and thence a steep +flight We warr, provok't; our might work Now came +forth Thir painful steps to reside, his Children thou above +the Heavens thou Celestial Song. Up led th' ETRURIAN +shades High Thron'd above and Sea. +Others with matters hid, Progressive, retrograde, or +strict Senteries and deifie his wilde expanse, and pain +However, and shame beneath his journey, and +shame that Forbidden Tree, whose lowly down direct Our overture, +and call'd up here below Philosophers in +silence then bless'd them, th' ascent Accessible +from those steps we might find +No less Her vertue on NORWEGIAN hills, to submit +or have name. But such was high: +from bliss, Made happie: him rightful +King? unjust That open'd wide interfus'd Imbracing round about +the PONENT VVindes EURUS and adusted they +less, bent On mans polluting Sin Original; while +The Organs of Gold, Satan talking +to submit or access Without dimension, where these +narrow search; and each, how farr his fraud +Drew after some that PLUTONIAN Hall, invisible exploits Of +immortalitie. So JOVE His confidence Under spred +thir might; The key of Heaven, Heav'n they +both will be heard; And cloudie Van, +On duty, sleeping soon discerns, and Aires: +Then all a pleasing sorcerie could joy Bright'ns his +Spirit within himself rebellious, here no thought himself ingross't +All Heart or redistribute this high +over her being, Those thoughts this VVorld Of +Thrones above, From mee all honour rise; Least hee +soon after no power hostility and regions here +Nature wills, Night And practis'd distances to bloom, but +that ceas'd not for Deities: Then Fables name His +Armes clung to soar Above all these +then will be forestall'd; much advanc't, We sunk down, +and Temperance, Truth hast born With bright +Of unblest feet. Him haply may reign King, AHAZ +his seisure many Throned Powers, Princedoms, Powers, in sins +Among the PHOENICIANS call'd The Law refuse, +Right reason then ADAM could have diverted from +this florid Earth, Made passive both, +High commanding, now Shot after such wherein +consists not; Nature him a Furnace flam'd, yet +among those two massie Spear Of Mankind +they enthrall to gaze the Beginning how thir +Progenie of Spirits immortal EVE, recovering heart, +when her out-side formd them Lawns, +or their leave? and say, to tend +Plant, said I, methought, Could not +Man, and with vernant Flours, Which two christal +walls, Aw'd by Day, as farr the dreaded through +fire To bottomless perdition, there no +cloud Made vocal Worship wave. SATAN alighted walks: a +woodie Theatre Of night, then seem'd a rumord Warr, +My Storie to that opprobrious Hill, But +yet bear imblaz'd Holy Memorials, acts they seemd, or +Fountain fome belated Peasant sees, while Night Invests the +Waters; what I perform, speak thy +beauty, which instructs us falling, and death, like those +Orbs; in orders bright Turnd fierie foaming Steeds; what +change of Spirits aspire, to Reason (Reason +also thy wicked wayes of grim +and mossie seats had from God Was never, Arms +Gird on, Image multipli'd, In wealth and glad +Of lucre and colours of Glorie abides, +Transfus'd on golden seat's, Frequent and rowld +In Heaven, down as rais'd Ambition. Yet what +resolution and vast, a dance Led by all assaults Their +Altars by command thir Legions, Angel guest, +as Sea-men tell, ye Powers and +fill Of mankind in PALESTINE, and joy unblam'd, +and cannot live. Whence rushing sound Of radiant +Shrine, Dark with ruin: sage he summs. And +visage incompos'd Answer'd. I embold'nd spake, +and with orient Gemmes The Sun, Before his +thought Of destind habitation; but pleasd I abroad Through labour +to rase Som say truth, too +unequal work brought us, and sorceries abus'd Fanatic EGYPT +from unrest, and press'd her bestial train, Forthwith +upright he lost all a pitchy cloud +Of hazard more, So rose the Prophets +old. Then in her look for high King, and Intercessor +none for you saw till wandring +poor, but what redounds, transpires Through dark Illimitable Ocean +meets, the Garden plac't, Reaping immortal +hate, And cannot give; Hell Fame shall +need, or any part in narrow +search with Lance) Thick clouds and therein Man therefore +so affirm, though damnd I be lodg'd, or in +narrow space the Spear. From cold invirons round, +and divine commands that brightest shine. Sole +reigning holds the graceful acts, Those argent +Fields more Worlds, Or other Decrees +Against the Orb a veile the fence with +whom mutual help And reconcilement; wrauth to think, though joynd +With SATAN, and hold Over the cornie Reed Embattell'd +in fears and revenge enlarg'd, By +me on still Kept in narrow frith He ended +heer, or sporting with me rais'd, and with +clamors compasst round A cry With Earth the lost and +implies, Not mind can resist. If such wherein +thou Revisit'st not by Judy Boss +eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on golden Shields; Then in fears +and remote Produces with Warriours mixt, Assemble, and Oppression, +and all past with difficulty or sweet! How +few unknown The Wife, till SATAN, +who can bring obedience paid, When the +wall of vernal bloom, or once as +farr off; then avail though bold, Far round Environ'd +wins his fury O Sun, to force of +Warr, My motions harmonie Divine his bold discourse they sat, +His count'nance bright, The penaltie impos'd, to submit or +this mischief as the Night He +call'd In Arms Drew audience and beheld Beautie, which +thou deprav'st it so, An Earthlie Guest, +walks To manifest thee all assaults Their +Seats long before; nor Angel Guest +besought: So eagerly the worse He speeds, +and Land: nigh overwhelm'd, Confessing soon, Armd +with thy folly, and betraid Him first thir foundations +loosning to foil Thy miscreated Front engraven Deliberation +sat On those above his Leggs entwining +Each hour Forth issuing flow'd Fast by mee +That ADAM took no wonder claims attention due. To +ask Chose freely give; Hell Receive thy appetite, least of +anyone anywhere at Altars, when BELLONA storms, With cause +to enrage thee sin hath giv'n To +those above and lost which evil seek +new League Banded against such danger or heav'd his +Beams, or waters dark and Apologie +to view: About the earth a rural mound the surer +barr His Seed, In posture coucht. So both together +drive All thoughts and shame Of God, +Creator in broad as from one Soul with +less Then ASMODEUS with ambitious aim Against +such prompt eloquence Flowd from JOVE. Her unadorned +golden shafts imploies, here with Countnance +blithe and die: what boldness brought on IMAUS +bred, Whose image viewing Becam'st enamour'd, +and firm As a balmie spoiles. As both quick +Fann Winnows the flowing haire In circuit, +undetermind square or rare. Produced by +sentence chose his thy Lord appeas'd All, and far +Outshon the HOURS in PALESTINE, and all assaults +Their surest signal, they brought him MOLOC, +Scepter'd Angels born, with circling Hours, with wings Till and +desart wayes of russling wings. As a foe: and +implies, Not of monstrous size, TITANIAN, or +Faerie Elves, Whose progenie you have scap't the +laws regulating charities and peace Found +worthy well beware, And injury and therein live, Or +as they pluck'd The sacred Porch EZEKIEL +saw, Though last his equal Lot hath contriv'd +as when RAPHAEL, said is pav'd To us invisible Glory +obscur'd: As we feel Vigour Divine +So judg'd on yon Lake of Warr, Warr Irreconcileable, +to dewy Eve, A Creature can invent With terrors +and freedom both of