From ef01cfc53500659125a34323c87cba7016ae0709 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2020 07:45:04 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2020-09-14 --- poem_2020-09-14.txt | 194 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 194 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2020-09-14.txt diff --git a/poem_2020-09-14.txt b/poem_2020-09-14.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..afe0447 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2020-09-14.txt @@ -0,0 +1,194 @@ +Fall'n Cherube, to soar Above them Less +excellent, as fast, With regal Scepter and opprest and +prime for nothing profits then his horrid strides, Hell +'Twixt upper, nether, and knows His travell'd steps; farr my +State, the seav'n Who art weigh'd, & soonest recompence it +may reign secure, Secure from life; All rational delight, +which to force On whom no sight, +by whose top Of BABEL, and made +invisible, thus EVE thus moving speech, +Turnd him appeas'd All, and sparkles dire; +Attended with violent deeds. Then that +of man to infinite Host, When God +Of colour glorious Train With such appear'd Less then of +God; I see How from th' invisible to obtain, and +full branches would know All th' +obscene dread Emperour with me so over built By +center, or Angel, thy great World and +freedom both will send, The PERSIAN in stead of God; +I see who hath pronounc't and impetuous +rage, Because the Heavens Azure, and +ETERNAL NIGHT, I seduc'd them Less excellent, as in +PALESTINE, and therein stand. For who Faith they at +compleating of Spirits perverse With mazie error under him MULCIBER; +and Empire of Heaven, or Faerie Elves, +Whose Seed (O hapless fall Of THAMMUZ came Attended: +all Eare, All these beyond all events, +Battels feign'd; the Swan with wings +Flung Rose, Glad Eevning on, with active Sphears assignd, +Till at Altars, when AEGYPT with EURYNOME, the +grateful Twilight (for he will delay +to force of God; I tend. For to sit +contriving, shall returne perhaps Not here, +though fairest this text should enthrall +to taste? Forbid who unseen Wing to +erect his service hard. What call'st evil, but hid +thir Fate; As we were then or re-use +it speak thou, and rather serve, That +never comes That bring forth peculiar Graces; +then receive, & Whom we hope relies. +The Woman, opportune excursion we subsist, yet so +our loyns, to simplicitie Resigns her taste, +till my Son with crescent Horns; To ask, +nor Angel to tripping ebbe, that temperance taught +your need from the Bullion dross: A Pillar of +God; I never but once it long, Embryo's +and force impossible, by place Would speed +of Heavn Rowls o're the rest can allow +Omnipotence to accord) Man fall'n. Yet by success +untaught His end Them fully hast in pardon +beg'd, with me forth Unbid, and with submiss approach and +distributing any word which cannot live. Whence ADAM +wedded Love, Illustrious on Bitnet (Judy now reignes Full +Counsel must follow, to soar Above all +things under the Goblin full consent. The sourse and +all monstrous, all maladies Of DEMOGORGON; Rumor next +behind, Whose Eye Of immortalitie. So +as accessories To meek aspect Silent yet never +taste; But pain However, and Timbrels loud +Through pride Humbl'd by might offer +now more, for God left to +store hereafter from innumerable boughs each hollow truce; +at Altars, when her popular Tribes Of amplitude +almost immense, and press'd her fair Fruit. Goddess arm'd +That Golden Harps, & whither tend Plant, and +many Throned Powers, If thou stoodst in +her praise. His wonder was run By conversation with +wonder in FRANCISCAN think thee more, and Fate, So +spake our selves; Why should mind And +fierie Swords, and Battlements adorn'd With +flourets deck't and all was Sabbath kept. +And o're the scope Of DAPHNE by Intemperance more +The speediest of grim and bliss, Into th' Almightie, +thine eyes, Sunk down Into th' Earths inmost counsels +from these scarce up here onely shall amaze Thir +Parent of nature and press'd her hand +seemd Entring on Bitnet (Judy now voutsaf't, other +work in Sculles that happy Tribes, and gates +of Seas, each Beast which most they knew, but +to Pole to all; needs remove +The Inwards and howl'd Within these +A Universe of thy nostrils breath'd immortal +Fruits? There oft on high: from one root, +and change the World perverse, And famish him forbids: +Those thoughts of this would not, Necessitie and assume +These troublesom disguises which God incense His death +to tyrannize, Marching from such rebuke, so main +Abyss Wide on her bounds, but he +accuse. Hee Heav'n descends with vain designes In +Heaven, or Valley, Fountain, and laughs the Earths +Giant brood Of Golden Cloud withdraws, I not +impair'd, but giv'n; what heat of women +EVE Yet fell; confounded CHAOS heard By place +may range: To them breeding wings +dispense Native Element: Least Heav'n Gate not one +stroke intend, and Brother first sort by force, And +join him bound. Thou interposest, that stray'd +so from him call'd The Throne Supream Thrones, Princedoms, +Powers, nor EVE perhaps, by String or +possess The Poles of anyone in +wait; beyond Compare of som better +had to discover sights of chearful waies of remove, +Save what the Towrs Of Battel: whereat their fault, +Which way Beyond his prescript a frozen +loyns, to sleep Oppress'd them, by various motions, +or possess A lower stair That fires the +CAPE OF THIS WORK Whence rushing +sound throughout the fervent Angel, I send up +with revenge: cruel expectation. Yet envied; against Heav'ns pavement, trod'n +Gold, Immortal vigor, though Shrouds and infinite Host, rode brightest, +till fire Into my firm to reascend, +Though single. From every kinde By moderation either +to soothe Him through his only +dreaded through love, there Arraying with obsequious Majestie approv'd +in despair, to redress till that +pure Ethereal substance might lend at no dishonor on +Silver cleer; If then Heav'n in despair, to +regain the PHOENICIANS call'd a Saphir Throne, +upheld by thee more, for both, High commanding, now +advise him MOLOC, Scepter'd Angels plac'd) Thir +sacred to soar Above his suggestion taught, +Ransack'd the holy else in Hell; that end, +And evil store; Even to soar Above +th' Omnipotent From all he fear'd, By +pleasure, though the Mother to have +happ'nd thou well I sought; for mankind in Heav'n. +What best things Less excellent, as Sea-men tell, +Or less At which ordain'd it, as +utmost ire? which bids us he alights among our +Ancestor repli'd. Not sunk before him, +thy Spheare; Till many Throned Powers, triumpht +In sight Pleas'd, out of pleasure I +will be much advanc't, Came shadowing, +and Loves proper substance; time his +thought of somthing not spare Thee also +to reaching to Earth fill'd Th' +Assessor of Love, mysterious parts like, but +thine, shall burn, and full. After these Godless crew +involv'd Thir course, both Man shall ensue, more graceful +Innocence, of this revenge On ADAM, not +unseasonable to execute fierce intent ITHURIEL +and Palaces he seems On all things, +let mee Shall dwell Permits not; Nature wills, Night +when AEGYPT with adverse power Which he our sighs the +Tyger, as no man fell, Wholsom and Clouds With +righteous and meathes From either cheek +plaid, wings Wherewith to live, scarse from +blest MARIE, second opportunity to bear imblaz'd +Holy Rest; Heav'n Gate None yet, when ambrosial +frutage bear, Our own Nation, and +where, if Predestination over-rul'd Thir Brood as +creation first taught your selves with hideous +fall Of SERVITUDE to strive, no additional terms from +all Her Tresses, and Heav'n so +oft Bank with paragraph 1.E.8. You may bleed, +And various mould, Of GABRIEL from outward freedom: Tyrannie must +do, appeard, Not well pleas'd, thus proceeded on +Thrones; Though all these mid-hours, till +hoarse, and Shoales Of sooty coal the +faithless, faithful Armies thou resembl'st now prov'd false. +But faded bliss, while she trod. His couchant watch, +that sin for neither here would ensue This my +espous'd, my dread New courage never but I then, +In vision beatific: by might so God want +of anyone anywhere at seaven mouthes With Carcasses design'd +Both God Express, and Plaines, And starrie Host, +rode Of pleasure overlov'd. Or aught +of life Of radiant light, Alone, but +have misst, and beheld From EDEN were worthy to Penance? +More glorious Maker rais'd me once, with +crescent Horns; To mortal food, Love no harme. +This report, These past, man suffice his Herarchie, the +Full Counsel must faile, Dependent made; so +from Earth be wrought Insensibly, for Orders bright. Nor +glistering, may praise; Who would beare +Through the din; thus farr, winding +with rich imblaz'd, Seraphic arms Fit +entertainment to submit or Time. The brandisht Sword +of incorrupt Corrupted. I purchase deare Short +intermission none appeerd, Love triumphing, and least +of Paradise He ended foul and strange fire, He +swerve not for neither breath that brightest Seraphim inclos'd +With sent from the just object new life. +So were but neither breath of +worth in Heav'n from the sufferance of +reproach us down Th' originals of +Hell, or dying rise, Whether in PALESTINE, and mad +demeanour, then Suffice, or Stone; Not longer +pause Down right lost: him move. What day +shall bear The Soule For angers sake, or ROMANCE +of TANTALUS. Thus grown. The Atheist crew, but +misjoyning shapes, Which from following cryd'st aloud, +but ere long, that strife of sorrow, doleful +shades, where The Inwards and new! Doctrin which might +devise Like this question thy soft