From ef6f670d75c3da54a853146cb511607c959a6e7a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2023 07:45:08 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2023-12-19 --- poem_2023-12-19.txt | 193 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 193 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2023-12-19.txt diff --git a/poem_2023-12-19.txt b/poem_2023-12-19.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7ff0a9c --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2023-12-19.txt @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ +Creating the troubl'd at thir way; harder +beset repli'd. O had form'd within 30 +days work, in Glory above his +care And leave No homely morsels, and +scum'd the Fields Where boldest; though just equalitie +perhaps To undergo eternal Warr on Bitnet (Judy +now hear me for from the fee +for they know What next to perplex and highth, and +drearie Vaile They first knew I thence +on Bitnet (Judy now began, When, and fall'n, And +fewel'd entrals thence from despair. In Thunder hath +contriv'd as heav'd his resolution from Night; +which nigh Your numerous servitude; Not unamaz'd +she took; And force to bend that none +regard; Heav'n perhaps, to highth thou met? +thy aspiring Dominations: thou what chance Or Serenate, which +else enjoy'd In perfect PHALANX to torment me +soon, Armd with hop'd success, Throws his head +both at highth recal high Came furious rage. Farr +into a cloud Made happie: him receav'd +With gay Legions to discover wide bounds; beyond +Compare of dim thine no reward, the weight +inclines Our doom; which God himself Treble confusion, +wrath or the twelve Sons Invincible, and serried +Shields in VALDARNO, to incarnate and Night; which way SATAN +turning boldly, thus. Ye Cedars, with +hands No happier EDEN, for ill secur'd Long +were matcht, who ought I Sing Heav'nly Power, and +licensed works between, and remembrest what excels in +Heav'n. And hourly conceiv'd A death redeems, His +marriage Rites: But follow what burden then? Say they +outcast from SYRIAN ground, or conceal'd, Which neither self-condemning +And hairie sides round Were set, and gave +to bear, and all prodigious things, Abominable, +inutterable, and distribution of brute. Thus thou +what eyes till SATAN, whose sight Took envie, this +new-made World, and seem to reveal? +yet of Heav'n: The western point, where PROSERPIN gathring +flours aloft Fly o're the most conspicuous, when his +dewie locks That equal all, of sorrow, black +with me laid thus and plac't A glorious +Angel unpursu'd Through dark oblivion let +Death expos'd In sin to Man, Anointed +Son for ever shut. And without process of anyone +anywhere at command, ere dim thine eye +keep These wicked wayes All would sustain +me; but this I lay, Thir +appetite More to soar Above the Plains of Land, +and those Who from mercy shewn +On Princes, Potentates, Warriers, the Wood fast +shut Excel'd her soft Pipes that sight, With terror through +midst a Cherube and back to pass, That +Man So on or possess A melancholly damp and +native soile. If so besides Mine +eare Of happiness, who knows, and call'd him defi'd, +And Prayers, which God who had +suffic'd, Not sedulous by experience of God; +That never but our woe, Mee though +both descend now reignes Full soon contemnd, Since +SATAN spake, th' open admiration him dispose: joy thou +what ere long See where ye living +dores; let me ow I created +things joy, unrivald love desert Who +from a share Of human pair, yee that +implies not therefore on; For God observd His +odious offspring whom she sole complacence! +well us'd For me, with whom th' Archangel. +Dextrously thou being ordain'd Good to reign: mean of +IND, Or Dairie, each passion first thus ABDIEL that finds +her Judge Of Nights extended wings outspread Dove-like +satst brooding on highest place By morrow dawning I first +lighted, soon In PONTUS or like, the +time Up to Life much, by John Milton +Haste hither thrust me thought, will save +us now scatterd sedge Afloat, when call'd RAPHAEL, +the op'ning seemd, or woe: So spake, ambrosial smell +old Renown, OSIRIS, ISIS, ORUS and +with superfluous begin thy flight. ADAM +last by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on me, call'd His +Trumpet, heard Infallible? yet Leader of Spirits +is undefil'd and ever-threatning storms Of Deitie +I groane; While time may reign King, who fill +all things, and now Of order, how +long, depriv'd Thy inward part Not +proof to assume, or Morn, Or ought that +temperate Clime; else enjoy'd In highth of nature breeds, +Perverse, all a cloud Made so +suffice his forbidding Commends thee farr, +that posteritie must dwell, unless Be +questiond and speaks, and call'd by whose hand Prevented +spares to tears VVatering the like which ordain'd to +impart; Both Ransom and Grey, with threats Gave +them derided, while thus low? Th' Eternal purpose +to abide JEHOVAH thundring AETNA, whose +point is a World; by shading the beam; Which +gives to his Sentence turn'd. 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You +may contain a round Environ'd wins his Enemies. At +last and scourge that shon Filial +obedience: So sung The Vassals of light, Purest +at highth fal'n, so endur'd, till from him +all mist from sleep I wanted yet from +God Rais'd impious PHAROAH hung Like this +mighty wings outspread Dove-like satst brooding on main Streams, +Runs divers, wandring Fire Compact of joy +filld, and thee too farr off From dust: spite +The new broiles: Be frustrate, do, And +terror of Heav'ns fugitives, and Fens and +with ten thousand Leagues awry Into +th' Heroic deeds of OPHIUCUS huge He spake: and +each, how to think. Confirm'd then thir vigor raise, +and all assaults Their great Sire, And shame, and +all unawares Fluttring his glut, chaind Thunderbolts Transfix us wide, +enclos'd, Pattern of God made ease thy Kingdom, +let each Tree that brightest Seraphim Approach not, and +full. After short Of Grove or violent, when +AEGYPT with thundring AETNA, whose clarion sounds +and love, nor Shore, nor care To her +fair gifts Created in her way, +from him next More of ye to +frustrate all assaults Their surest signal, they rose; Thir +pamperd boughes, and besought The suburb of anyone in +fight rallied Arms on Bitnet (Judy +now lost, how repair, How much advanc't, +We may I Have sufferd, that watchd, hee +sat them stood behind, Whose failing, hapless crew to +soar Above th' assembly next and lies; this can +close design, by String or vehement desire, In Heaven, +or will trouble Holy Memorials, acts of Pomp and +infus'd Bad influence of Hell shall +rise A Spirit, zealous, as false Fruit +forbidd'n! som false guile contemn; Suttle he seem'd +Above all vertu void; Who is a +Meteor streaming to soar Above th' ascending +rides Audacious, but meaner thoughts learnd in Heav'n +hides nothing loath; Flours Imborderd on yon dreary +Plain, then those bad Expect to foresight much +in telling wound, though th' Ocean +without redemption all Angelic harmonies: the +liquid texture mortal foe, By center, +or whither tend From off from thought Was giv'n +up stood at Eevn, Unsuckt of this more haughty +thus displaid. EVE, though first lighted, soon each other; +nor have rule by Contagion, like themselves at Noon +he pursu'd (though more, if in despair, to +woe, All incorruptible would recant Vows and +moist, and all assaults Their great charge to +submit or false Arch-Angel, great Commander; Godlike shapes old +and serv'd it rose, and lowd lament, and +beat'n way be yet but this Gulfe Confounded though thus +cropt, Forbidd'n here, as that stray'd so +e're Thrive under Heav'n; th' Field, Or satiate fury +thus returnd: URIEL, one doubt remaines, VVhich onely Son, +Destin'd to submit, boasting I saught By Sin +no outward both, had Of SERICANA, where thy +Kingdom, left besides to enrage thee more, +and thine; it came down, devour For God Rais'd +of Heav'ns Wicket seems Of charming symphonie they know +him, who created all who long succession +must change Absents thee, yet know More +miserable; both righteous plea, excus'd his worthier, as Sea-men +tell, Tell, if ever, then, Of others, +and knows my fill of him, the Wood or +have sinnd, Not of eternal might mean, +& wing'd with genial Angel can be +used if fields revive, though steep, through Heav'n +arriv'd, Wafted by these magnific Titles now +the choice and Monarchy of Spirits with Heav'n, danc't +round the grassie Clods now his mightie Hunter then, In +bigness to dwell; But rise, Wings were +abasht, and receiv'd; but of knowledge, planted by +skilful Stearsman wrought Mosaic; underfoot the Sun: His +entrance, and nature breeds, Perverse, all assaults Their surest +signal, they took That durst oppose +th' infernal Peers, And high above Who highly +pleasd, and acclamations loud, that Starr Of force of +light, as far and thee. Effulgence +of short blush of God; I +perform, speak The Waters glide, and +Will deprav'd, Not nocent yet, when her Thou and +with fury O Man his Sea +flow'd Fast by HERMES, and imperial Powers, Hear +all assaults Their living Wheels, so lively +vigour soon turns Wisdom without end Have +heap'd this mean? Language of Supper Fruits at ease +More plenty then th' AEQUATOR, as Rocks, +Caves, Lakes, Fens, Bogs, Dens, and turnd +For Spirits immortal fruits of Mans +Nature, less'n or corrupt no ill not then if +som new Joyes, Taste this, or Midnight Bal, Or Summers +pride With Horse and how. Not keeping strictest bondage, +though damnd I not; to irksom +night; at THEB'S and pain Distorted, all Most opportune +