From f8298e7184f81325ac6ed011357b6bde9d24eb41 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2022 07:45:04 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2022-07-08 --- poem_2022-07-08.txt | 190 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 190 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2022-07-08.txt diff --git a/poem_2022-07-08.txt b/poem_2022-07-08.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..021312d --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-07-08.txt @@ -0,0 +1,190 @@ +End of Paradise He ask'd, but over ADRIA +to sustain me; but double ours +to dare The weal or limitation of +monstrous size, TITANIAN, or falling Star, On his +tongue Inspir'd with look down With Joy entire. +Then of longing wait The Cherubim Alone the toyl +of Principalities the calmest life: But pain +Torments him; round the waste, with +peril gone All left, But now True appetite, that +fallacious Fruit, she gaz'd, which God On each +In order, how farr extend, thus expell'd +to execute their Creator, and all assaults Their +living Creatures walk with genial Angel warr, provok't; +our Glory extinct, and shame obnoxious, and careering +Fires that wilde Among the Vision led His +fixed thought No rest: through experience taught to store +hereafter from mercy shewn On high repute Which but +with grasped arm's Clash'd on Bitnet +(Judy now rise Unvanquisht, easier business were straitn'd; till in +Array of war, Hurling defiance toward the compliant boughes +Yeilded with torrent fire To answer, and call'd Satan, with +grasped arm's Clash'd on him best witness +of electronic works Created hugest that +high thoughts, Vain glorious, in fears and +worthiest to manifest thee so, that +most needs, whether not, Wherein true allegiance, constant +Faith not all his Angels; to redress till thy giving, +I ask; Love thou beest he; +But thou what the Moon. Thither +to Synod met the frown of +shape Starr bright Luminaries that livd, Attendant on Bitnet +(Judy now fall'n he sees, while Sonorous mettal blowing +Martial sounds: At which both for both, had +rung, The works to submit or like +kinde By Parents, yet unfound most irregular they +fell To their heads Main reason to +soar Above them rejoyce, And rest shall enjoy PLATO'S +ELYSIUM, leap'd fondly thinking to do I think thee +conversing I flie is obvious Hill, and Drinks, which +thee along the Gates; three sev'ral wayes Of hazard +huge of donations to soar Above all perfections, +so beset And manifold to reascend, Though last +his head, possessing soon turns the Night Her long +absent, and Gold, Whose but cast +Thir course, but taste and most High, Thee what +intends thy seat Thir will, And join him +round about the Glorie abides, Transfus'd on +Bitnet (Judy now more, while Warr he created +like Armes Braunching so various living dores; +let pass disguis'd; They sat and shame beneath This +one, Now less Then such Fire to warne: +those that walk round Environ'd wins his fair +Moon, whose hand the Morning Planet guilds with +tears must be multiply'd on me, of SIBMA clad +Thir influence of life; All seemd Each +in All. But thee, safe shore their Generals +Voyce they have scap't the Hall (Though like which +their Creation round; on Bitnet (Judy +now In thee know; At first, on circumfluous +Waters glide, and cinders fill'd; so high, for thir +Reeds Put forth good, the Mariner From prone, nor +important less when he rear'd me, whom now hid, +Progressive, retrograde, or change Perplexes Monarchs. Dark'n'd so, since +the fixt Laws argue in Heav'n my +Head One day yet haply slumbring on it thee +is overcome this be dextrous to maintaining tax returns. +Royalty payments must be there, Or if, inspiring +venom, he our descent Celestial vertues rising, saw her +who reigns, new Earth, Which if our happie in +Glory obscur'd: As Tribute large, Nor shalt to +suffer more, That whoso eats thereof, my appointed bounds +Prescrib'd, no mate For Spirits of bliss Brooks In +billows, leave i'th' midst a Platan, yet to that +brightest shine. So spake th' Earths habitant. And +short pause Down sunk with a fierce intent +ITHURIEL and drearie Vaile They fasten'd, and interrupt +his Armour clashing bray'd Horrible discord, and various +motions, or present, Let her spotty Globe. His Thunder stor'd, +And hence a World; by glimps of misery, Passion and +submissive Charms Smil'd with lonely steps Over the Morning +CHORUS sung Omnipotent, Immutable, Immortal, Infinite, +Eternal daies in mooned hornes Thir specious +object that peopl'd highest Wall, and therein plac't A +gulf can fall, And Chains in +SITTIM on His people into the starv'd Lover sings To +visit all at highth Of his +utter dissolution, as farr remov'd may work (or +any and with unnumber'd as inclination or cannot hurt +ye, and Rocks had sacrific'd; Is lost, This would +come From Earth with vast vacuitie: all +mankind Be sure Of vertue infus'd, and +thronging Helms Appear'd, and gates of +mankind in thee, As we wake, and shame +beneath This day, While by angry JOVE +His Name I reign King, who appointed +work or asleep, Shot after LUCIFER from the starry +Sphear, Thir spicie shoare In Meats and +years, towards them had been reveal'd +What day droop; while Shee as ours) Have gathered +aught but favour'd more sublime Upon the +seav'n Who highly those odorous sweets the +sons of Arrows barbd with ease, and receaves, As +likeliest by coming to view Of Heav'n +thick with GORGONIAN terror guards The +chief delight, Mankind drownd, before each other, +as mee. They sat high Temple to warn proud Cities +warr in Mercy and pain Can make appear +More terrible as ill our woe, That fought at Altars, +when th' HESPERIAN Gardens fam'd of vengeance +Arme again dissolve and missinforme the Vision led the +Firey Pillar of Panim chivalry To rule, No +inconvenient Diet, nor yet confest later then survey'd +Hell Explores his head, hands, wings, Least +Heav'n resembles Hell? As was form'd, Save +with me absolutely not too heav'nly brests? these, could +else) to havoc fabl'd Knights In +his Helme, gripe fast at Altars, when time this +profound, To wing under this LETHEAN Sound Both +of Honour clad with fire To dwell, Not free, +Equally free; th' Archangelic Power Divine The growing Empire; +doubtless; while offerd grace And various +shapes and call'd EGYPT, divided into fraud +Weening to this, and with me, the bait of +bones, Like his, or heav'd his Scepter rule +by the Sands Of Coral stray, or +shrink from that voluntarie move His Generation, and +Clarions be wonn, Or undiminisht brightness, nor EVE +Felt less Then first gave a means of wise, +let each kinde, and permitted all, receives From +my Heart Omniscient, hath decreed: Man +therein stand. For this with ambitious aim Against unpaind, +impassive; from whom mutual love, the +yoak, draw'st his Throne and tedious pomp Supream, +who from cruel warres, Wasting the +law Erre not, Wherein to regard, Must we need +With sent from the laws of Sea cover'd field, +which ADAM gratefully repli'd. O shame obnoxious, +and considerate Pride Had circl'd his servants feet, +and Morn: Nor think to execute What thing approach +farr Then was lost. From those +Whose taste, till peace obtain'd Unacceptable, though last, +and one small infantry Warr'd on JOVE, Hid AMALTHEA +and Intercessor none higher grew ten thousand Harpes that +they triumph'd once upright and Femal +charm. Earth onely Teares Raind at Even to have kept, +his Heart or enmity fulfill. For aught +appeers, And th' inventer miss'd, so seldom chanc'd, +when now True Paradise for flight, and Cedar tops +Up to Nobler deeds Had need All his +thralls By Fire, Against the fervid +Raies, a farr extend, thus expell'd to spie This +downfall; since by Nightingales imbraceing slept, nor would invade, but +all a defect Of a Forrest huge two-handed +sway Of Instruments that seem'd Above the Fowles he assayd, +and where, if in All. But chiefly assur'd us; +and therein Each hour stood obdur'd, And +broken Chariot drawn by OXUS, TEMIRS +Throne, which far remov'd where silence be sure, +In prison strong, this World. Say, Muse, that provided +that bide In sorrow I that shall +prove. UZZIEL, half appeer'd From Beds of Light as +since, but he wore Of his design'd +Both in Heav'n such I In tangles, +and spread thir Standard, so hee hath done +this, or message high Decree of +HINNOM, TOPHET thence from farr; they +shall high top of Life. Between the fruit, +and affable Arch-angel, had need not Thy terms +whatever, when now seems a rumord +Warr, the terms of thee, adorn'd With Men +though thus began. All he saves To +have feard By me, or fixt Laws our +just pretenses in disguise. Hee, after known to +win, Or tilting Furniture, emblazon'd Shields, +Helmes, and all day as farr From him, +though last, then appeer'd Spangling the Law; thy shape it +self; Then such another world, and laughs the hour +No second multitude Might yeild us, the conscience +wakes with BRITISH and hostile scorn, Or end, and +Power, and foe, Though single. From what is large. +So threatn'd hee, as his coming seen that fixt +her societie Can else inflict do practically ANYTHING +with me. Some disadvantage we hold Over the +torturing houre Shed thir meeting, and Timbrels +loud Their surest signal, they quit The +waters forcing way Sidelong, had stole JOVES +authentic will leave them, to wander here, Not +obvious, not lost; the rest what +had been reveal'd What fury yield it +light Sent from