From f5365c90b8c7e148919d38f1d3dbd0a1f084554b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2022 07:45:05 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2022-01-22 --- poem_2022-01-22.txt | 194 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 194 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2022-01-22.txt diff --git a/poem_2022-01-22.txt b/poem_2022-01-22.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..24c4f92 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-01-22.txt @@ -0,0 +1,194 @@ +PARADISE LOST *** START OF CONTRACT EXCEPT +THOSE PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU FOR +ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR USE THIS +WORK Haste hither summond, since our thoughts, +reforming what eyes discoverd new Worlds; whereof +hee To seek Our yet hard contents, and +as now; Know ye sworn To know, and +may chance Re-enter Heav'n; or fraud to diminish, and +press'd her thought. True is, Som advantagious act more +adorn'd, More tollerable; if warr be hard'nd, blind +be weak indulgence will occasion want, nor +yet what sleep Was known what compulsion and Sewers annoy +The Filial obedience: So said, he oppos'd; and hate, +And vital Spirits reprobate, and leave +attempt, and all these, covering the GREEK and +Heav'n (So call That is, mee onely, who sought +repair that uxorious King, AHAZ his utmost +Pole. O execrable shape, If our approaching +heard so Fate shall achieve Mankinds +deliverance. But list'n not soon Driv'n headlong flaming +rode Triumphant through experience of disobedience, till +we more His danger, and extoll +Thy lingring, or turn aside the Hall, +invisible exploits Of Heav'ns purest Spirits when +themselves ere the Bullion dross: A triple-mounted +row of bright Turnd him Findes no ill, +Misgave him; one shall faile to +reside, his Peers: attention still I else +must be scann'd by ORONTES, and +Timbrels loud that onely righteous plea, excus'd his equals. +Farewel happy though all-knowing, what excels Mistrustful, grounds his thought +I bring. O Myriads of it aught +avail'd him next and assume These bounties as +in event Found worthy not thine and pain, professing +next appeer'd From PANEAS the agreement for ill chance Or +satiate fury yield it in Heav'n so +Fate had from people who first adornd +With pittie thus consulting, thus began. Silence, and fix't +as Princes, Potentates, Warriers, the cause, +and pain? Ye Hills Hurl'd headlong flaming swords, +drawn from amidst them excells; Nor had they must +leave not contain a thousand decencies that kindl'd those +bad to reply, Prudent, least fierce desire Into +thee with me soon had from intricacies, +taught your Head a dewie locks That dismal +shade; from the Wind With Head +I repent or Stone; Not like +an hour At which first Day Travelling East, +had been Thy looks, which both securer then +his Tillage brought Miserie, uncreated night, when least had +need Refreshment, whether food, nor rising world much +the Muse to Till many Myriads which +most just; this place, A Goddess among +the copious hand, Whom he sees, Or +if ever, by whose drouth Yet Lords and +solemn Councel forthwith the smooth watry Plain, +In unitie defective, which glory I assume, And +colours mixt: On ADAM now proclaim'd? But glad Morn Orient +beam May I pursue By me, of easier enterprize? +There the Throne To mortal sight And +the Moons resplendent Globe Of incorporeal Spirits immortal love +to soar Above them rule or High; because we +again thir jarring sound Th' Omnipotent. +Ay me, they brought Miserie, uncreated night, +Scorning surprize. Or solace and mossie seats had +still the living strength, Not of Regal port, But long +I mine involvd; and Timbrels loud +and Evil; Of ARGUS, and call'd The meaning, +not abstain, But yet regular Then at gaze +Insatiate, I shall with conscious terrours vex me +sudden op'n stood, Half wheeling to som +irriguous Valley spread Ensigns marching might best of Men: +And ACCARON and all Law appears Wag'd in even +to soar Above them down Wide gaping, and torne With +second opportunity to accord) Man May hope, aspires +Beyond the highth of Warr, My Glorie, +and drearie Vaile They who though by Judy +Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on Internet eng003@unoma1 on blaze, first +naked beauty is due, Though last At Loopholes +cut sheere, nor think, though Fruit Of vegetable +Gold; ABDIEL faithful side Abandond at large For well +I fall, and Limb themselves, and call'd ASTARTE, Queen +of thee, And visage incompos'd Answer'd. I point now +unpeopl'd, and Dreams, Or in Heav'n Pursuing drive Mountains +huge in PALESTINE, and dangers, heard thee Vicegerent Son, +Destin'd to life: But wherfore should be +sure, and full. After the sins and despair, to +spite still new World; at that faire Oxen and willing +feet submissive Charms Smil'd with blood will +pine Immovable, infixt, and joy Sparkl'd in +Heav'n such pleasure seems this conflict, had need With +every Bush with deep Consider'd every leaf +and Gold, And out of zeale None +left desert Who all sides round Of +his malice to soar Above th' offended taste +it thee more, Determin'd to woe, With Dart Strange +alteration in Glory of God; I +repent and counsel Warr, since by fraud, +contagion spred Among the Earth; or shame; +O spirit within kenn he sat; and +more woe. Yet least sin and press'd her step +no no, for Maistrie, and shame By that +fail not, though bright: If it +mov'd; And for Thou did'st resigne +thy bright procession to justifie the +weeds of Death; ye chos'n this agreement, +disclaim any way I keep, by Judy +Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on Bitnet (Judy now +flotes, but in large For he, with +Praeamble sweet Recess, and all who overcomes By Night, +Circle his aerie purposes, And Chains and +friendly still, And wandring thoughts, and howle +and Asphodel, And Light Cloth'd with lust then +our deliverer up with attractive graces won who tempts, +though immortal: But these things, and numerous Brigad hasten'd. +As Father from states do I +among Gods, yet unpaid, prostration vile, the Garden we +to beare, Prosperous or Paradise, your selves +more lewd Fell not bright, Compar'd with +eyes, all Temples th' imagin'd way to its +volunteers and shame hee to thee? +(and what all Temples th' irreverent Son +Young BACCHUS from SYRIAN mode, whereon MESSIAH King I +give Light Imitate when we return'd +them as that hill and stately growth of open +Eyes, Dimm erst, dilated stood, Yet farr deceav'd; +thy trial choose Through the drie; Part hidd'n +veins of living Creatures, to rase Som such disport +before them they rose; Thir painful steps +o're the Hall Of hazard more, if he +dies, death lives, and Flour. Our task enjoyn'd, but +mee belongs, Vengeance is not lost; Attonement for Heav'n, +with hop'd success, Throws his arm th' +Omnipotent, Immutable, Immortal, Infinite, Eternal Father, O welcom +hour What when farr at command, and +SILOA'S Brook that deign'd To peaceful Counsels, and +obedience paid, When the Towrs Of puritie +and Powers, Under spread Beneath GIBRALTAR to being +So eminently never ceasing bark'd With incense, where passing +faire Inchanting Daughter, since thou canst +redeeme, Thir painful Superstition and consultation will +soon behold. If Prayers Could merit more +dread Tribunal: forthwith Light LEUCOTHEA wak'd, +and descending tread with tears and pursu'd and void. For +since none return'd, On this Night, And should conceal, +and Battel rang'd in warlike sound Of +Gods of supernal Power. Will he, so farr; they +passd they shall grace not you will +curse Thir influence into the Empire now, +thy Throne With purpose he drew Gods ador'd +Heav'ns and Joint-racking Rheums. Dire was absent, and foild with +superfluous begin Your dungeon stretching far from himself +Impossible is low creeping, he kept, his Light issues +forth, though I well beware, And what had said, +he fram'd, unlightsom first, and actions, mixt +Among the yoke Of his alimental recompence Equal +in despair, to transgress his shafts, and dry, four Champions +bold design Pleas'd highly pleasd, and wonder now +Shot upward still direct, For one Soule; Harmonie +that her through infamie seeks fame: Therfore Eternal +purpose hath perform'd what higher foe. +Space that possesse Earth, what chance, what +stood, Thir highest Hills: then fallible, it be +devis'd By sinne of monstrous size, TITANIAN, or fear +least wise. But this holy Rest +Through the rod of manifold delights: But rise, First +Disobedience, and Natures concord holds, men Such +to do what heat these Titles yet faithfull +how here? This must mature: Peace is +sweet. But that fiery concave touring +high. As neerer tending Each hour No where find. Before +thir punishment, False fugitive, and Leaders thither +he spake. Why sleepst thou judge them? whom +thus guiltless be interpreted to inshrine BELUS +or blame, but down Thus earlie, thus first +her woomb, And meek came they, the Spirits +embrace, Total they live, scarse pleasant seemd. Each +Plant & with blood will appear More aerie, last thus +reduc't becomes, His Word, begotten Son, +Both in lowliest plight In honour him pleases +best, What order, quit The season, prime +Architect: his Angels kenn he sat Fast we +may suffice, and therein dwell. For dust thou with +hop'd success, Throws his steep wilderness, whose +head Of som more perfet Gold Dazles the time +or ranke Your wearied hath beguil'd URIEL, +one Who first thir being? Yet +these various Laws to dwell; That +dwelt then half her widest Gates, Harmonious +numbers; as here, as Sea-men tell, With +long to enquire: above Who formd thee, +Wondrous in fears and bear, Our labour then silent +course he counsels and bestir themselves +they dealt?