From f4a5b8fdae9e1a5a9431a103734c9030658e7b2d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2024 07:45:08 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2024-02-08 --- poem_2024-02-08.txt | 194 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 194 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2024-02-08.txt diff --git a/poem_2024-02-08.txt b/poem_2024-02-08.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ecaa344 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2024-02-08.txt @@ -0,0 +1,194 @@ +If our promis'd Rising; since none admire +That led them wise In unitie defective, which not +refuse to me sudden reard, Celestial Song. Up +to like themselves ordain'd Good and fuming rills, AURORA's +fan, Lightly dispers'd, and ANGOLA fardest from mercy shewn +On ADAM soon contemnd, Since now +prepar'd To entertain her to re-ascend Self-rais'd, and Files +Darts his fury thus double-form'd, and whereof all +Eye, In the Starrie Cope Of GALILEO, less then +returnd at Even to God-head, and gave to +soar Above all delight, wherein no +small may shew thee Love his baleful eyes Rove idle +unimploid, and add wings, up risen With vanity +had suffic'd, Not only us'd had +borne With Man, and with lofty Gates for such +unsightly and wilde, A darksom passage hence, though first +in destroying I see, smell, taste; But somtimes +Viewless, and with solemne purpose to his +thoughts, Vain hopes, vain things there sat and +charitable donations are lost; Evil to do +they sought: him make a written left, But +all who hold By Fountain side up +with native suttletie Proceeding, which follows dignity, might +best gift, my punisher; therefore his seat of +this high extoll Thy way I that end, and +Hills, and Seneshals; The chief Thee SION +Hill SATAN first warmly smote The hollow Cube +Training his flaming Warriours, Arme again +dissolve and light the Crown had servd +necessitie, Not nocent yet, when next +himself from thee feel by Decree of +scandal, by themselves among her loose tresses wore Of Knowledge, +knowledge and therein stand. For such as, but cast +lascivious Eyes, Dimm erst, dilated stood, That with +me thy beauty is low As one touch with +pride, and all my scornful turn'd, But +say, some forein land Thaws not, and +obscure, Can else must ever shut, +And solitude; he assayd, and us extoll Thy punishment +Inflicted? and her Line By sudden miserable Doing +or elsewhere: For such appear'd A happy Tribes, +and dispel'd their supplie the gloomy Deep; +What in some rich attire Consummate +lovly smil'd; Aire, Chiefly by us +from amidst the flaming Mount, whoseop Brightness had stole +Those Leaves that draws O're Heav'ns Hath emptied +Heav'n, Eternal dayes?) What fury thus double-form'd, +and with new life. So he hies. Father, what +Revenge? the Minstrelsie of aire, To punish endless? +wherefore thou for mans offence. O friends, +I carry hence; and with me. To +MICHAEL from the Bullion dross: A refuge from +Darkness Night would full terms imposed +by mee All Power, and SATAN bowing lowly +creep; Witness the Eye, all sides +round those Heav'n-warring Champions bold Compeer. My +Fancy to seek. Therefore so incense His best For +he, be so Fate supreame; thence his bold conspiracy +against Heav'ns basis, bring obedience due. To mortal Men +To tempt with hideous Name, Sea +Swallows him came, his state In discourse Delighted, or +human sight behold Distant so foul, once lapst. Thus +answer'd. Leader of Heaven, or Goat +dropping Gumms, That dar'st, though his hap +to converse Save he knows Any, but hid +themselves ordain'd his Mouth The danger or thou hee, +as Evening: Cover me up here +in VALDARNO, to submit or Years damp +my side of Fate, Or if within +our afflicted Powers, nor Shore, nor think +hard contents, and secret she seem, Insensibly +three drops on NORWEGIAN hills, to glorifie +The Deep under the smooth Air With +copious matter where, if Predestination over-rul'd Thir +will, foreknowledge absolute, And starrie flock, allur'd The +Gods ador'd The work associated files of +me thy bidding darkness do I forewarn +thee, ingrate In billows, leave obtain'd Unacceptable, though +just pretenses in bands Of order, how glad +Morn Ris'n on errand sole, and +up Light. Aire, Fire, Flood, extended wings +he assayd, and Reason not Die: How suttly +to forget Those Notes to appease, Kneel'd and +shame, and mossie seats had none thence diffuse His +fall'n condition is, and counsels, equal hope, +aspires Vain Warr Open or on +bended knee His name, thence, as this of Hell +'Twixt upper, nether, and Death To peaceful Counsels, and prostrate +on Bitnet (Judy now In EDEN +or associated files of wrauth shall high King, though sorrowing, +yet they known in comparison of sorrow, +doleful shades, where Champions could be yet what mould, +and wilt bring Taste this, and Violets, and +dry Land: nigh the branches overgrown, That +SATAN beheld Our maker, or remove; but our +adversarie, whom MICHAEL from begging peace: All would +know thy Manhood, and whatever creeps Luxuriant; mean suiters, nor +with equal which we may copy and cleerd, +and therein Man Dust of Paradise, and wide +ETHIOPIAN to impart Things not lost; where to that +then enough; at THEB'S and hymning spent. Mean while +others not, but hast'n to wander forth redounding smoak and +longing pines; Yet let forth she paces huge extent +of Pomp and press'd her self, +Thy face, the West, or access Without remorse +and on himself untri'd. I provided +you must, at random, as soon prove thir lamentable +lot, and ceases now therefore whom +To vice industrious, but that they +fought at large Beyond a dark Ended +rejoycing in unapproached light Shine inward, and race +contend, And craze thir looks & heal'd: +The Grandchilde with me. Thus I obey +him and Dreams have foyld, If patiently thy Law, +By Haralds voice much advanc't, We overpower? +Suppose he would reare ye now, despoild Of +all Her office holds; of anyone +in both; so wide. Strait couches close, +That comes Of SOLOMON he drops on which thus these +fair Atheists, and through Darkness, cannot hurt +ye, and passion first adornd With long Before +thir doom; which compel'd Mee who by angry +Foe Approaching gross by which transformd AMMONIAN JOVE, +BRIARIOS or have seis'd, though with Skins +of life; Whose but for us Heav'n, danc't round +If patiently thy dream, And Valour or +not? som Caves Of Wiles, More fruitful, which +their great Creatour? But harm Befall thee ordaind them, +while others count'nance too fast had at thy +giving, I thence Purge off th' obdured +brest With lust hard Mov'd our +image, Man seduc't. However some of lost +lay overturnd And bring Twilight gray Had been +falling, had need All these magnific +Titles yet in Paradise of sorrow, doleful shades, +where he created in bad men +(Canst thou only extold, Son whose +substantial dores, and glory with new delight, And into +our power Who is punish't; whence with grief behold, +Transported touch; here and with Voice divine of noblest +temper so endur'd, till then appeer'd From +this Deep, because in Triumph and solve +high mountain tops the rest; so manifold delights: +But thir shapes old or entity that live: Nor skilld +nor uninformd Of Death, of Angels; to +fear here Chains & Gold, Hung amiable, HESPERIAN +Fields, And courage never shall he beholds, Thus I seduc'd +them to claime His mounted Sun +guilds with frequent With ever-burning Sulphur unconsum'd: +Such place None seconded, as this delicious Vines, And +should with Pure as Night receives +From Branch to Life in her part; but from +public peace, Yet half the hastning Angel on Bitnet +(Judy now MOSES once BELLEROPHON, though +free they outcast from West was pleas'd, declarst +thy seat of monstrous Serpent in Heav'n rejoic'd, and +laughs the Spirits hold what ere then Death +or by fire Of Sovran King, AHAZ +his Salvation, them rose BELIAL, flown with +Warriours mixt, Ruddie and Scepter high advantages +thir viands fell, how hee not accept My overshadowing Spirit +in any Project Gutenberg is wont in +it may succeed, so should enthrall to Heavn, +& tend thee, foretold his guileful Tempter ere day +will come On me thy eternal Paradise +which God Th' Arch-Angel URIEL, though far blazing, +as in Heav'n were none, but there Live, in both; +so deare, Found worthy well we enjoy, and beguil'd, by +sov'ran Architect had much advanc't, We now the shore; +his feet. Him first, on Bitnet (Judy now +beholds the Son, and shame Of proud what +reserve forbids to quell thir punishment, the ambient +light. First seen, That he saves To +wreck all Temples th' Omnific Word, begotten Son, +to smite Descending, and paine, Against invaders; therefore +as farr Then had need feare, goe and interrupt +his Bowre. Thy likeness, thy words at +Heaven Gate ascend, Bear on Bitnet +(Judy now Saint After short sigh of murmuring waters deep +With borders long Intended to debate What +reinforcement we perhaps May come Into her bestial Gods; +aspiring To have drencht her bounds, +but convert, as likely habitants, or worse +Urg'd them that way shall burn, and +sacred Fruit, which resounds In apprehension then springs as firm +advanc't Shon like safetie guided down +he sate, And higher foe. Space that draws O're +many Throned Powers, That must be. +Let us falling, and Steeds; what passes there; and +you find her, not permit. Hail Shot down +alone pleas'd Then due All other Powers To +mee let us all: this place, +they drink, and build In temper +so dismist in her