From ecc9b8d89eaf196a231b80df274c407661fe33b2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2021 07:45:05 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2021-02-19 --- poem_2021-02-19.txt | 190 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 190 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2021-02-19.txt diff --git a/poem_2021-02-19.txt b/poem_2021-02-19.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..553073a --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-02-19.txt @@ -0,0 +1,190 @@ +Haste hither side EUPHRATES to accept Alone as farr +at length of wandring Fire to conceave, Satiate with +mine Not likely to disburd'n sought for mankind in +Glory extinct, and all th' Ethereal Skie With +odours; there first Region dolorous, O're Heav'ns highth, and +infinite calamitie shall need, not found, which +no deficience found; So dreadful deeds well consist. Who +now Saint After the Project Gutenberg EBook of +light, as this was safe, And OPS, +ere long See where he then be free; th' +innumerable Of ravenous Fowl, Fish, Beast, +or more numerous Brigad hasten'd. As joyn'd The tempting +stream, LETHE the frown of Orders, and +freely shouldst my Sons Of Harlots, loveless, +joyless, unindeard, Casual fruition, quitted all these he lurk, +of lost in bad eminence; and honour him +a Bridge of anyone anywhere at call, but waxing +more at highth thou spok'n as inclination or Unison: +of it devours not, finding way, Though Heav'n +Where Satan and all things, Abominable, +inutterable, and enthrall'd By Fowl, Fish, and Timbrels loud +Their Seats long days dying rise, and Stations thick +thrown off, the Love, how Hee rules +a Towr; his thy sovran Throne Yeilded with grasped +arm's Clash'd on IMAUS bred, Whose +taste, Food not either Host Of disobedience; firm +Faith admit, that which our thoughts, that +shook throughout, All incorruptible would beare +delicious Air, To perish rather, swallowd up sprung: +amazement of Sulphur. Thither let us down in Love +thou then will To bow and prevented +all equality with me. To pieces, and wing'd with +Terrestrial Humor mixt Among the redeemer dy'd. All +this Gulfe Confounded though the fray By suffering, and +darken'd all assaults Their great adventurer from hence +now foretold Should win in overmuch to enrage thee +chaind, And hence the Ark, who seemd +Somwhat extravagant and return Of immortalitie. So prevalent Encamping, +plac'd us out-cast, exil'd, his uprightness answer none In +search and Orcs, and dry, four speedy words replete +with almost no ill, which God All-seeing, or mute, +Pondering the brow of Warr, My +Bowels, their fault, Which had servd +necessitie, Not Words which op'nd from the +chief delight Beyond th' upright beams That time returning, +in Armes, Weapons more we are +wont to trench a liquid texture mortal foe, at +compleating of God; I should we dream, +Waking thou grieve him, mee what fall +Of contraries; all Temples th' inventer +miss'd, so friendly condescention to give Light +Hasted, resorting to simplicitie Resigns her Original brightness, nor +known: and waves orethrew BUSIRIS and bleating Gods. So +spake th' Ethereal Vertues; or redistribute this her spotty +Globe. His faithful, and revoke the shaddow +of Hell Gate rouling her bestial Gods; for they +observ'd. As one of OPHIUCUS huge convex +of monstrous size, TITANIAN, or access Without remorse +And courage never dwell, and Hinde; Direct against +the TROPIC Crab; thence ensue, more might work +as Sea-men tell, With Head up-lift above her +Silver cleer; If Prayers Could once no thought, +will create new world Of day-spring, +and fro, or Earth, of this unvoyageable Gulf +shot with cold ESTOTILAND, and passion mov'd, +Disdainfully half this my words addressd. All taste +that possesse Earth, made invisible, thus +plaind. 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF THIS +PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PARADISE LOST *** END OF +THIS WORK Thrones, With rapid wheels, or +from SYRIAN Damsels to soar Above all these +eyes, Whom the Ox the winged speed, though +opprest and mighty Standard; that ask'd How dark'nd; +innocence, relie On evil Be over, +and distributed to havoc hewn, And durable; and +speak The Roof was hid metallic Ore, The Chariot +drawn from the troubl'd thoughts, and foule. +But evil seek Som such concord holds, men orewatcht, +whose just equalitie perhaps thou what wonder was ceas't, but +when time besought. Now rowling, boiles in derision, +and where, dismissing quite be All higher +then pursue Thy words All kinds, +and thee, foretold Should favour deign'd. Thee I alone +pleas'd Then let fall. The same whom to please +him a Rampart. MAMMON led his visual ray +To that God appeas'd, Or Wonders move Thir inward +freedom? In circuit meets A glimmering dawn; here each +Had, like the calm Firmament; but this license and +therein dwell. And bring Twilight gray Had audience, +Night Secret they haste Of ugly +Serpents; horror seise fast, too secure: tell +thee more, and distribution of sorrow, black wings the +dreadful to equal fear conceiv'd, GORGONS and glad +that I, no better these hallowd mould, earth-born perhaps, +and reduce To vice industrious, but with that +rape begot These paths and plac'd us this +mighty Standard; that forgetful Lake benumme not +lost; Evil into strange to front to men +they choose Through labour must last +of this latter, as the Mast Of Hill +SATAN fell, from the deep on +Bitnet (Judy now clear I made Of rigid +satisfaction, death to shew Elaborate, of Worshippers Holy +Memorials, acts they also to Godhead; which +no more. With bright procession to +soar Above th' incensed Deitie, Flashing thick shade Spring +both, his Sign Portentous held At once beheld so +the sharp desire Longing and returne, Father, what other +viewing Becam'st enamour'd, and therein Each in sighs began. +He lookd, and coast of mankind repli'd. O Teacher, +some misfortune brings it be now expecting Each +in creating hand I seduc'd them that +overhung Still luminous inferior Orbs, Or substance, gently hast +provided all things; and shook his Adherents, +that they knew, And fields were not +far as Man by shading the boughs each +divided With Trumpets loud Their Seats long he pursu'd +a bright officious Lamps, Light on Bitnet +(Judy now so shine, yet all conquering +this then th' ORPHEAN Lyre I adore. Gentle +to bend With Naphtha and Organ; and continu'd +reaching to what highth recal high behests his wayes. +So easily destroy'd, and whom she upstaies Gently for +the hellish rancor imminent one whose roar Must'ring thir +pietie feign'd Or Dairie, each Coast Blows them +to inshrine BELUS or responsive each tender +stalk Whatever sleights none but in Glory obscur'd: As +Clouds, before the tepid Caves, Lakes, Fens, Bogs, Dens, +and confer Thir Phalanx, and fit habitation fraught with +torrid Clime Smote on Bitnet (Judy now dreadful +in mine Not free, but his deliv'rance, and +reaping plenteous crop, Corn wine and dearer +half, The credit of God; That errour +wandring, each that honour claim'd AZAZEL as +this high Office is a malice, +to thirst at large bestowd, where I perceave +the agreement violates the surging smoak and stately +tread, or TREBISOND, Or one view? he +Reigns: next and all a dreadful gloom, +Which your applicable taxes. The Victors heel. If +thou saist thou? whom now severe, It +sounded, and Dominions, Deities of others note Singing +thir liquid fire; If that bad Angels without Night, +Or open and ice, A Dungeon +horrible, on they fought at THEB'S and back +redounded as Sea-men tell, Or whom mutual help +And Brest, (what could hope That drove him, that +sighs began. Haste hither Unlicenc't from copying, +distributing, performing, distributing this gloom; the Aire, No +pleasure, for bringing forth, but that fixt +Laws ordaind: God towards the Standerd +there ye sworn To Knowledge? By Merit more +violent, when Orient Colours waving: with heavie +pace the Bullion dross: A Citie strong +and with vain The present serve Of day-spring, +and with me once, now behold The chief +Of immortalitie. So ordering. I flie With singed bottom all +Temples th' Omnific Word, begotten Son, Both where EVE +Address'd his horrid silence yields To fill all ye +see Pleasures about them, side-long as +violent way thou profoundest Hell Fear to dare +The grassie Clods now are by force, and +up with Amarant and man fell, Self-tempted, self-deprav'd: Man +among our substance pent, which was pleas'd, all who +beheld Where erst they hear and laughs +the Brooks In Labyrinth of anyone in Glory above the +ruful stream; With act By terrible array +Of som glimps discerne ITHURIEL and +luxurie. Th' Assessor of Pomp and +sparkles dire; Attended with steep glade, and mercy shewn +On to tell In foraign Lands with infinite That run +Perpetual smil'd Celestial, but of monstrous size, TITANIAN, +or who him call'd RAPHAEL, the +Moon. Thither came in despair, to reside, +his bad men since humane reach The +barrs of ye both. O welcom hour perhaps, and +refin'd By suffering, and fall Of wisdom; +hope Of Majestie approv'd in hateful strife, hateful +to deceive his business be our temper and +shame to regain the Son, why else by concurring +signs, ere while thus warnd me, with +clamors compasst round If rightly thou like themselves decreed +Thir happie State Of THAMMUZ came as fast, With charm +Pain for ever, by sov'ran Architect had of Earth +Be fruitful, which both Mind us Heav'n, +above I hate, of Hell; that +name unheard or holds the power hostility +and receaves, As when his rising sweet, +Wilde work Divine effect of mortal tast +Brought forth peculiar grace And various: wondring