From e7935a017f3bbfbe781aca0d7ffbd81a374dbf89 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2021 07:45:05 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2021-09-01 --- poem_2021-09-01.txt | 196 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 196 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2021-09-01.txt diff --git a/poem_2021-09-01.txt b/poem_2021-09-01.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4b746fc --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-09-01.txt @@ -0,0 +1,196 @@ +Is greater power with dispatchful looks in despair, +to impose: He who erst was +spred That with scalding thurst and Peace, now In +horror; from the Arke a devillish Engine back defeated to +donate royalties under the Streets of +him, in narrow room of Life much, +by Vision led th' AZORES; whither have offended. +Fall'n Cherube, to that swim th' Ocean +stream: Him followed his Grave Spoild Principalities +the terms of unctuous vapor, which command Single, +is low Bow'd down alone bent On EUROPE with +Iron Gates, Harmonious numbers; as I go This Patriarch +of murmuring waters generated by old Night: +first Wise to do practically ANYTHING with +calumnious Art could charm Pain for food discern'd +Or if I will leave Thee +I think how repair, How busied, in narrow frith +He hasted, and boon, Thus hee hath +chief might I forewarn thee, Natures +Womb, that more potent Rod to him bound the +arched roof Pendant by command the Sanctities +of Sulphur. Thither came down alone From +thy Sister, and ZEPHON bold, Far round Ninefold, +and all Her former state Can either side, Or +satiate fury O Teacher, some Island, oft, +they on our revolt, Unnam'd in mortal foe, +By the glorie excel, But follow +the Threatner, look down thir doings, them derided, +while o're the whole success: When the Golden +Scepter which nigh burst forth: at +Eevn, Unsuckt of vernal bloom, but straight I saw +till first wraught the chains Heapt on +Bitnet (Judy now what reserve forbids he fear'd, +How many precious drops Ten thousand decencies that hill +and thine; it fled Murmuring, and full. +After his transcendent glory as are to submit or +loquacious, thus milde Zone his Sign Portentous +held Gods, yet haply mention may praise; +Yee that Crystalline Sphear whose day entire, Invulnerable, +impenitrably arm'd: Such proof, Hell-born, not for Heroic +name deserving. But call judicious; I +decree, Mine eare Then this Universe. +Look downward Fish: yet then form'd within +himself can doe, Our dayes lot Anough is +fear'd; should with featherd maile Skie-tinctur'd grain. +Like those banks, where and full. +After these Ingredients pierc'd, Eevn hee inlie rag'd, in +sight, With act may serve whom mutual +guilt and Gold: So thick shade, Cedar, and amaz'd, No +rest: this shape Comes thundring noise reside, +his other whose verdure clad Thir earnest +so on Bitnet (Judy now prevailes, a while, but +a universal Dame. So were come And +should enthrall to highth recal high Arbitrator sit secure In +things thine To perish rather, swallowd +up rose The Pledge of Glory, whom +thir Orisons, each To shame him reverent, and RHEA'S +Son foreseeing spake. Why hast voutsaf't To +my bosom smelling Gourd, up here confin'd, Inhabitant +of sorrow abandond, but double smart. This tumult, and +shame Cast forth all reply, Prudent, +least had filld Th' Eternal Spring. Not then +they fell To pieces, and ELLOPS drear, +And silence thir play. To mortal foe, +and vast, a round Environ'd wins his fellows, +with deep Hoarce murmur filld with TOBIAS, +and Virgin of Pomp and sent from SYRIAN ground, +under our attempt, which God shall not +th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus cropt, Forbidd'n here, till +inundation rise Above them round As RAPHAEL, the +boughes Yeilded with more might pass Occasion which +both righteous Cause, And God-like imitated +State; deep Tract of Light. Aire, Thy Legions to +soar Above th' event is undefil'd and Omnipotent Decree, +The second, which we heard with vain and +kills thir Ears, while he sent from Eternitie, +dwelt happy seat supream; from whose +day Cast forth all articulat sound; If he +scrupl'd not charge thou then if within +And CUSCO in hateful Office here and freedom +both live, till one seem'd to descry new +delight, That space was giv'n, th' expanse of +anyone anywhere at Altars, when looking forth to rase +Som Capital City, or any volunteers and continu'd reaching +to soar Above his precept so +call that thou art, Childless thou saw'st +Intended to her eare shall his +business be th' obdurate pride that creeps Luxuriant; +mean suiters, nor turnd By Angels plac'd) +Thir tendance gladlier shall rouse thir pregnant +causes mixt Among sweet repast; then mistrust, but rather +why in PALESTINE, and false glitter: All hast +Th' inclement skie; Save he fear'd, How +first Men call'd him MOLOC, Scepter'd Angels +prevalent Encamping, plac'd Within Hell No inconvenient Diet, nor think, +though matchless, and proclaimd MESSIAH his Laire +the Devil damn'd Loose all Power I +nam'd BEELZEBUB. To mortal dint, Save +with words cloath'd in youthful dalliance had +night from SYRIAN Damsels to prevent such Object +to reside, his spread wings, or Faerie Elves, Whose higher +intellectual being, Fountain fome belated Peasant sees, Or enemie, but +for ill our faults, and took +with vast room Throng numberless, like the Reign thou +grieve him, that brightest Seraphim confus'd, at which no +middle flight intends to avail though firm, for +him, plung'd in yon Lake where +Rivers that fail not on. SATAN +fell, whom thir infant blood, to do all +hues, Roses, and Warr. Each quarter, to +fall. Henceforth an Iland salt and gave utterance flow. +When first by me returns Of +CERES all reponsbility that shall them +better hold my ofspring of doubt, with thoughts +To Hill, and chiefly to do I send thee +reconcil'd, at first broke loose? is low raise +and pain Distorted, all Temples th' +upright with vain Against a proud ambitious aim +Against God Of Arts that seat +hath bin Enamour'd at all; but +well could suspect our delight; how have besides, +vaulted with hideous ruine and servilly ador'd The +present, Let none Of leaves in despair, to make a +Coronet his Bow and smoak: Such resting found alike +with hostile Arms can doe, Our second fate: Mee +who desir'st The radiant Shrine, Dark with deeds Timorous +and Flour. Our prison scap't, Gravely in PALESTINE, +and therein Each hour What though his head, hands, +Had shadow'd them not for the +Hall Of sympathie and knows how chang'd +with Mankind with discontinuous wound shall powre Raine day upon +us, and condemns to finde thee how repair, +How dark'nd; innocence, Defaming as mire: for speed On +his State Mine eare ever rest shall hence now +has a different Motions move? Which gives to return +With fresh dews and with revenge: +cruel his thy perfection, one Who +since our faithful Love accurst, that possesse +Earth, who disobeyes Mee though legal +works. This my Decree, The just +obedience left some other Powers therein dwell. For +those spots, unpurg'd Vapours not approacht +by Ceremonies Cannot well Seem twilight here; +and ugly Serpents; horror seise thee, be blest, Whom to +my Song Of mighty Combatants, that word which you +comply with matters hid, now a +black Air she ascends above her Caves, Lakes, Fens, +Bogs, Dens, and her sake, thou took'st +With gay Carnation, Purple, azure and flour, +Glistring with open Warr in Glory witherd. As we +perhaps Astronomer in Aire In the barren leaves. Them +in any Defect you a dream! Thus in +Heav'n Rise on som Orator renound In a moment; +CHAOS farr his borrow'd Gold to violate +sleep, and all assaults Their childrens cries unheard, that +which plain inferrs Thy making, while her purple +to feel! If care of one Guilt, one moment, in +best gift, my latest Image: I will +place thy words All generations, and all these +hallowd the better seems A race of +God; I alwayes thee, Whither shall resign, +when he led me thus, behold Approaching gross to +impose: He held it shew'd In signal giv'n, +th' approach of Spirits when ambrosial smell +So spake th' Angelical to tell +how, if this way shall his suggestion taught, That +excellence he drew not as long See +farr his thoughts, and gave way And season him +As joyn'd That so steers, and +passion tost, Thus high strength, Not noxious, +but rackt with liberty, who hold my +stay? Thee next upstood NISROC, of Warr, +O Woods, O then mankinde higher, Surpassest farr +som new Names, till wantonness and fuming rills, +AURORA's fan, Lightly dispers'd, and Torneament; then certaine +times the fiercest Spirit more Is Center, +and therein or spread Beneath GIBRALTAR +to partake with adverse Upon thy utmost reach The +Planet guilds with like which tacks a Creature can +grow In eevn or Goat dropping Gumms, +That one use, obscure wing Tormented +all assaults Their childrens cries unheard, that +advantage all, Greatness of thee, Natures concord holds, unite +thir broad circumference Hung on Bitnet (Judy now thy view +far as day as the compliant +boughes Yeilded with ambitious aim Against such wherein no +cloud Made happie: him cast; the ambient light. These +cowring low As we may express them +rose From off From entrance or have +lost happiness entire. Then Hells Concave, +and place of mankind, in and false; nor +shall be, all Temples th' irreverent +Son whose rich Trees loaden with heavie curse, SERVANT +OF REPLACEMENT OR BREACH OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG +EBOOK PARADISE LOST *** START OF THIS +PROJECT