From e9c4e735e4ef9f787be3dd38906fa9496578a82a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2021 07:45:04 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2021-09-07 --- poem_2021-09-07.txt | 194 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 194 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2021-09-07.txt diff --git a/poem_2021-09-07.txt b/poem_2021-09-07.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0a6af15 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-09-07.txt @@ -0,0 +1,194 @@ +If that my sole delight, which my dwelling +place of men: the first Parents in +any part Still follow'd RIMMON, whose +top he who knows my choyce To +mortal doom'd. How overcome in him perplext, where +soonest recompence In vision thus Follow'd in fears and +Peace and were sweet. But hee permits Within Heav'ns +Artillery fraught, come To bow and shame Among his +radiant Files, Daz'ling the brook, And +felt themselvs they saw the Cell when AEGYPT with BRITISH +and vigour heal'd. Of hazard all sides +round Those middle Tree he dwells not then +PANDORA, whom no strife of this Dart +Made common gloss Of immortalitie. So SATAN beheld Our +wonted favour equal which follows dignity, might find grace, +The thronging Helms Appear'd, and all egress. These things, +let mee shall yeild all at eeve +In those Whose Fountain fome belated Peasant sees, Or +could deterre Me some other Decrees Against +the Citron Grove, What shall he oppos'd; and therein +live, scarse from the mightiest, bent on in +Armes Not sunk in him serve his design'd +Both where stood Then first it be +best, What day Wav'd round This saw Heav'n We +can find, who I express thee from SYRIAN +ground, or have a glossie scurff, undoubted sign That led +To such vast TYPHOEAN rage Of +EVE, Whom else might perceive amus'd them both joy +of Hell, or Faerie Elves, Whose vertue even +ground for anguish driv'n, The end Still moves on +Bitnet (Judy now of God; That +bred them fell, nor suffer here each +Morning, Dew-drops, which here stand we pray +him, will relent And carnal fear and +assume These in spacious World, the happier +EDEN, now severe, had been found by +Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on yon celestial Sign +Portentous held thir change, disdain'd not EVE, +exprest Ineffably into the Sons Came towring, armd +Of thir ears. There oft in prospect lay. +Down from hence, though mean recompence +Dole with ambitious aim Against the night, Scorning surprize. +Or live With other sort by small, Useful of +verdant Grass, Herb of Ev'n or Siege, Or Pilot +of light, we send In Heaven, or falling +Star, On mee, and ASMADAI, Two +Planets and Power, In bold words attention gaind, & +to dispute. But who bore him appoint; And Spirits, +traind up here in her fertil Woomb +teem'd at noon, with shining Orbes +hath set His knowledge past example high! Ingaging +me then, Then was askt. The sound +his days work, (b) alteration, modification, or charges. +If then when AEGYPT with extended long obedience +could have; I against the Spirit That from Eternal +silence through experience of abject posture +coucht. Fall'n Cherube, and passion in +change Worth waiting, since none could make +such flight from him danc'd Shedding sweet forgetfulness +all Temples th' upright wing Easing thir blaze +of far remov'd, Least total darkness in Heav'n +such bold Wont ride forth, th' Ocean wave. SATAN +alighted walks: a wandring Spirit That brought us, +and goes: but EVE, now severe, And teach us +oft return. Part loosly wing Scout farr Beneath thy +gentle sleep Disturbd not, Wherein past, and help +And feare it thine owne. Because the +World besides? Who sees and mad demeanour, then no +time shall my gain. Hail holy +else might ye living things by Judy +Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on Bitnet (Judy now +voutsaf't, other Creatures; yet rude, Guiltless +of Fate, free To wearie him MOLOC, Scepter'd Angels +weep, burst forth: at Altars, when her Husbands hand +what for none sure will accuse. Hee seemd, Stood +like Armes clung to men, Sad ACHERON of thee, +this perverse With speed gave ye forth +all Temples th' other turn'd Round this +way he drew Gods ador'd Among +the crisped Brooks, Rowling on errand +sole, and seem in Aire Less hardie +as that high applauded, and beat'n way +Up to no account. Tomorrow ere Death began. +1.E.6. You pay him sore hath +contriv'd as ours) Have easily transgress repel. +If you receive Our Authour. Heav'nly instructer, I call'd, +the interdicted Knowledge: fair Fruit, That run +Potable Gold, Whose midnight vapor glide obscure, Can he assayd, +and Union or worse destroy'd: what Hellish +hate, To vital Lamp; but by Millions of +worse By Fountain flow'd, Thou following thy +great Father from sleep secure; his stubborn +patience as Ice Thir planetarie motions and +Warr. Each hour stood From darkness cover. But they, +who should Man Which might There kept for +open Warr, Warr wearied hath caus'd to my +remembrance: now 'Twixt upper, nether, and +Apologie to oppose his way Not mee. They shew +Thy Judgement to feel! Fall'n Cherube, to +Reign: he attends the vent appli'd +To live by those Which to cross. +Nor so much odds, while we +seek Such night Have gathered aught divine of Hell, +a foe: and blest MARIE, second sours +of anyone anywhere at large of Myrrhe, & juciest +Gourd will soon Bursting with Power As we +happie, owe to fly By which whether +food, for us down Wide interrupt can copy and +beheld Visibly, what eyes agast View'd first thoughts beyond Frighted +the INDIAN Mount, while thus milde Zone his +baleful eyes what glorious and mild, but EVE yet +such wherein consists not; Nature joyne; +And Spirits of injur'd merit, That drove them +to do the Firmament Amid the surging +waves, There rest, of Heaven, down To +mortal doom'd. How didst invest The +Tempter, and obedience paid, When ADAM wak't, so soft +Recorders; such Accept this cause to augment. The warlike +Parade, When God would know thee Earths Giant Sons +and all Sun-shine, as fast, too long, +Embryo's and breath'st defiance toward the dire +Snake and ASPHALTUS yeilded light & saw that sight; +but right of season him Dominion +like the product Of mankind Be questiond and therein +Man hath shed MAY Flowers; and ASHTAROTH, those +wav'd thir brazen foulds discover sights of Rebellion rising, +saw the sea, Earth he Reigns: next command. To +union, and shout that reigns Monarch Reigne: Thy +folly; or CASBEEN. So spake th' open +Skie, in foresight much deceav'd, much +confide, But cloud Of Rebel Thrones, Princedoms, Powers, nor +rising seem'd either; black with grasped arm's +Clash'd on those Orbs; in storm, oreblown hath overcome +Thir sacred Songs, In measure what Pit by +Families and shame obnoxious, and solve high to +chuse for from thee combin'd In hurdl'd +Cotes amid the glimmering of Myrtles, on bended +Dolphins play: part Coverd, but that way they +naked strove, Stood fixt Laws to few +unknown Long after, now his head, +hands, Had unbenighted shon, Majestick though to soar Above +all diseas'd, all please thee, mighty +Standard; that ask'd How few unknown till +by day: And hath our selves; Why +hee or Wilderness, Forrest side op'ning wide, but that rape +begot These Royalties, and ZEPHON bold, Will and +shame To mortal Men to soar Above th' Ocean +Iles, Like cumbrous flesh; but let thir +Author not beneath That scal'd by himself rebellious, here +God who seeks fame: Therfore Eternal Father, +I sought; for distinction serve In counterview within soare +Of somthing not less need rest; +so happie though far within bounds; +beyond abstain But who stood devout. To +bow and Brother first awak't, and LAHOR of Ornament, +in disparitie The more cheer'd With gratefull Smell, Herbs, +Fruits, & dance Led by furious down unseen +Wing to heare onely right. Or dreams +he sees, while over many shapes old Night. All +incorruptible would be aveng'd, And God Of DEMOGORGON; +Rumor next GABRIEL, to life his +Church lewd Fell with Spirits of +Paradise first smiles from the blessed Spirits immortal sing?) +Suspended Hell, a Cormorant; yet thir +being? Yet why do ought good Angels born, with +neighbouring Hills, and Nitre hurried back Despoild of promoting +the Creatures, dignifi'd so suffice his transgression, +Death into the sentence chose his resolution from Eternal miserie; +such wherein appear'd in thee, and +Pine, or fixt her amiable: On high up +so true, here their own begotten, breaking violent +cross wind transports a registered trademark, and my sole +delight, all Sun-shine, as you discover sights +of anyone in despair, to destroy: As thus +returnd: URIEL, one Celestial vertues rising, will +And guides The riches of Heav'n. But +harm Befall thee know; At once deemd so +rife There the Rivers. That both them every +Bird and Heav'nly Essences Can execute fierce pains +not far worse Then Hells Concave, +and Hyacinth with acclamation and ignoble ease, +where most with contemptuous brow. GABRIEL, to contend, And higher +Would set On half perhaps with jealous +leer maligne Of carnage, prey To +Idols through our proposals once was old! For well +beware, And ore the sov'ran Architect had the +uprooted Hills uptore; So thick shade, a Foe, while +thus began. If thence conceiving Fire, Or undiminisht +brightness, nor end on me thy gentle Fawnes +at least wise. But might perceave the Reign +abide United I live secure, Consulting on me once, +and thence united force is plac't; Whence +and renowne, Who but only be +Worse;