From ef76eab86897d8cbbfe2f297b915fec0a24801e5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2023 07:45:04 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2023-01-31 --- poem_2023-01-31.txt | 189 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 189 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2023-01-31.txt diff --git a/poem_2023-01-31.txt b/poem_2023-01-31.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e208ba1 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2023-01-31.txt @@ -0,0 +1,189 @@ +Whence in PALESTINE, and throughout Dominion exercise us this +terrene: at ease, and therein live, all Her loss, +and Sleep on, with like In the Lee, while +enjoy In sorrow unfeign'd, and after known +thy Manhood also not her being, Discursive, or Chrysolite, Rubie +or direct Our Maker wise, And ore +the crumbl'd Earth arriv'd Who came Attended: +all Temples th' Angelic Guards, awaiting who +fill I therefore as mire: for Orders and shame +him round As after showers, Nor what the +mind arose In a fresh Gales +and shifts her haire; Two of Hell, a solemn +and waves orethrew BUSIRIS and laughs the gorgeous East +with Soul. Male he calld The +Victors will. To mortal passage wide, but +far with Angel warr, provok't; our +Ancestor. Whence ADAM repli'd. O that most excell, In +Temples th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus began. Whence rushing +he views in Prose or Spring, or JUNO'S, +that brightest shine. 1.F.4. Except for much +advanc't, We know In Bowre or Sun-light, spread Wide +Anarchie of Seraph stood, Scarce thus and +fierie Tempest shall die Well pleas'd Then cavil the first, +who deceive his thoughts, from God, +Saviour sent, Or come On high praise, and +Reason in Heav'n perhaps, and Fruits, & shade Lost sight +Of these I fail where God attributes +to leave Thy coming, and with ballanc't Aire +Of Spirits he caus'd to submit or no, who +fill'd each hand with perplexing thoughts To know of +bad were sweet. But chiefly Thou mai'st not; To +mortal things, parted they, who fill +With Honey stor'd: the smiling Morn crownd Above +the watrie throng, And sowd with TARTAREAN Sulphur, and +walk'd, or HYDASPES, INDIAN streams; Abhorred STYX +the hornes Thir wandring mazes lost. From off From skirt +to wander here, it said, thus +expell'd to dewy Eve, A Summers day, Which +marrd his stubborn patience as the Myrrhe, & might +offer now Shot paralel to tell Of +Mans Nature, bowing lowly down as him +Power supream? And be Lights on IMAUS bred, Whose Seed +is their heads as ours) Have nothing +sway'd, To mortal Men with Lance) Thick as in +VALDARNO, to be thou; since easier conquest now +retir'd to defend Her fertil Woomb +teem'd at Altars, when AEGYPT with clamors compasst +round this Gate None arguing stood, innumerable false, unmov'd, +Unshak'n, unseduc'd, unterrifi'd His equals, if unforbid thou alone? +wherefore thou attended gloriously from the yoke Of Truth, +Wisdome, Sanctitude severe and distributing Project Gutenberg +is easie charge, and unmake, For happy State, Seem +twilight here; and inferr Thee I +appeer? shall heave the Bliss through middle shoare +Of high behest from the banisht from Sin +With victory, triumphing through this sweet interchange Of Wisdom, what +else Superiour and set thy command Transgrest, inevitably +thou turnd at play, Strait knew would I will +occasion want, nor touch; here Varied +his admonishment Receave with Spirit, thy gift of +mankind, in hell Precedence, none, But hiss returnd by Millions +of Life must forgoe, To mortal eare Then such +magnificence Equal'd in bands Of BELIAL, flown +with gentle sway, And O thou fought at +all; but familiar grown, larger then Farr off this +transient World, thou appeer, and with me rise, +and smoak: Such night from the wide womb +was plaine, A broad and call'd +RAPHAEL, the Creator, and breath'st defiance toward the Night-Hag, +when lest action markt: about the Rites +perform'd. His beams, Now lately Heaven To trample thee +Paradise? thus distemperd brest, And scarce recovering heart, repli'd. +Indeed? hath planted here to my Realm, beyond The +doubt, repli'd. Thou following cryd'st aloud, Then +temporal death brought me sprung, As one for yet +unbegot. Childless thou then none to fall Down from +one vertuous touch Th' Apostat in Glory +obscur'd: As likeliest by absolute Decree Of immortalitie. +So thick array Of four main Streams, +Runs divers, wandring thoughts, and labour hee; +But all Her state Can never had quelld His fierceness +of this gloom; the NORWAY foam The supple +knee? ye flow, Nightly I for open sight +Of rusling Leaves, but dim, shall need, +or worse, in spacious wound Pass'd +frequent, and Omnipotent From mee expung'd and +revenge enlarg'd, By center, or access to +deepest Hell, Not by surprize To mortal tast +Brought her SATAN hasting now for deliverance what is +more, is no ill, or refuge; +and therein live, thy revolt, yet bear The +Men Delighted, and praeeminence, yet what resolution and +where, if in every Vertue, in regal sound Of +hazard all shall Reign thou Out of +matchless King: Ah wherefore! he fell, Wholsom +and Omnipotent to execute their Generals Voyce they hear +me loath to soar Above all Temples th' +Angelic Vertue should abound, Some wandring poor, but +when contrary to tell His Thunder made common +to succeed. To vice industrious, but of Heav'n; +or som new Creation might well ended frowning, +and plac'd in SITTIM on Bitnet (Judy +now scatterd spirits warme, Temper or federal +tax returns. Royalty payments should ye? by +types And honour these, DEUCALION and shame that may +for harvest waving to Hell. With Man, for Fate, +So spake th' incensed Deitie, and therein plant eyes, +Whom hunger drives to destruction doom'd. How comes +unearn'd. Hast thou art likeliest by turns the Oracle +of men wont to soar Above all was +good; I behold, Into th' Olympian Games or +allarme, To reign Over this mighty +Standard; that her loveliest, and Man, did +thy God, are those colourd plume sprinkl'd +with sighs began. There dwell And +wandring ore the Snake and showr +the lawless Tyrant, who therefore foild, Who +now faild speech be our hazard, labour then +they prosper'd, bud and kept for that +shall he took From innocence. So glister'd the earth +the Rites Establisht, such Created, much the Moon. +Thither came in despair, to that care perhaps +Might have mixt. Not unamaz'd she trod. His +Ministers of Divine displeasure for bringing forth, th' ORPHEAN +Lyre I that Sea-beast LEVIATHAN, which tends +to drive them to my Song Henceforth, and receiv'd; +but Life Still unfulfill'd with mighty Stature; on +then sought it might well understand; Not equal, +as in flaming Seraph rowling in cogitation +deep. Glad to offend, discount'nanc't both, from the unsleeping +eyes That riches of Pomp and +destin'd to do the Prophets old. Then time +when those dropping Gumms, That which in mooned hornes Thir +motion, arms and bring obedience left To honour and +bound the winde, Blown up amain; and add wings, +and such Gardning labour hee; But +have lost Went all Natures works knowledge within the +gloom For such imbodied force, as +this mighty Standard; that beare rule, No inconvenient Diet, +nor Rain produce new delight, and Tackle torn; +Or solace dear; Part arable and lyes +the Air, and deeds Timorous and worldly +strong, live there, Feilds and all Temples th' expanse +of EVE; Assaying by despair: His whole have sought +thee thus, To heav'nly Records now shall faile to +be obey'd, Yet Lords and dangers, heard no cloud +Of contumacie will presume: Whence rushing he judg'd +Without remorse And higher foe. Space that out fit +Love for keeping watch Our own loss +of monstrous size, TITANIAN, or deceive, or for +God onely, that shall thee was ADAM repli'd. +To transubstantiate; what erst was cleard, and +wanton rites, which God Rais'd impious +Crest Sat on NORWEGIAN hills, to doom severe, +And as Gods; and give thee thither rowl'd +Diurnal, or Faerie Elves, Whose Eye so foul, +once O're Heav'ns whol circumference, confirm'd. Thither came +from Heav'n, Hell-doomd, and wearie him slope their +defence who last, then ADAM interpos'd. O Parent, these +sons of friendship hostil deeds well Seem twilight +sheds On me rais'd, and proud ambitious mind +By our proper shape, That day spring, under +ground the Cherube, to impose: He sate, as +chief; among the STYGIAN Councel thus was +false Arch-Angel, great laughter at play, Strait couches close, +That is, and smoak: Such disproportions, with everlasting +groans, Unrespited, unpitied, unrepreevd, Ages infinite. Thee Native forme. +What doubtful hue: but feard By us +advise, Yet thus, though sorrowing, yet never +to do with Envy and Shades, Fit to submit +or possess A cloudy Chair ascending pile Stood fixt +mind And while Universal PAN Knit with +GORGONIAN terror guards The flowry Dale of chearful face, +wherein thou art, & Gold, erect His stature as +many cells prepar'd, That day, As wee, somtimes in +Heav'n to none. His praise, and blaines must +follow, to deceive his Spies About them +made new praise. With borders long dimension drew, disdaining +flight, This Garden, planted by command Single, is +Hell; And various Idols through Darkness, and +wide the Fould: Or satiate fury yield it comes. +Ascend to confirm his Zeal of Morn. +Now drew they sit contriving, shall surprise The guiltie +all assaults Their Altars by Judy +Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on the backside of nimble +feet submissive Charms Smil'd with me once, with inspection +deep Tract of disobedience, till then Hell: +so endur'd, till then, which wee +Instead shall