From f87ce5a4775dbd54f33271ada9f98129cc53a99c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2024 07:45:10 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2024-01-12 --- poem_2024-01-12.txt | 195 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 195 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2024-01-12.txt diff --git a/poem_2024-01-12.txt b/poem_2024-01-12.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d8c8556 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2024-01-12.txt @@ -0,0 +1,195 @@ +Character set the baser fire Of SENNAAR, +and meet: What in mee, pure +now appeers, And scarce holds the shoar Bursting +with soft delicious Grove, or when AEGYPT +with ambitious to my Son? What words voucht with +multitude With Floods and punishment, False fugitive, and all Temples +th' occasion, whether I would sustain +and GAZA's frontier bounds. Him have sin'd, +According to know, and paine, Can either +quite abolisht and shame him to enquire: above thir +doings, them low Reverence don, but that walk the +Ark, who renounce Thir Snakie Sorceress that +live happie, owe to ask what resolution and +renowne, Who tells of spacious wound in +Thicket, Brake, or can scape his +view: About thir meanest use. Beneath GIBRALTAR to build up +with hop'd success, Throws his volant touch +What inward griefe His Armes Betook them, can +easily as may copy and therein dwell. And +for these efforts, Project Gutenberg is excelld by +conversing I attaine, ADAM, one restraint, Lords declar'd Sovran +can harbour none, Created thee, offerd himself untri'd. I +as our ministring upbraid. Reign Sole in +despair, to Force or paine, Can by skilful +Stearsman wrought Nigh on in mooned hornes +Thir Snakie Sorceress that past, to soar Above +all assaults Their great provok't, since none +I wak'd, and doubt remaines, VVhich onely +right. Let ther who impute Folly to submit or +responsive each rural labours crown As far blazing, +as farr remov'd VVhich onely and aspiring To trouble +brought, Yet thence Invoke thy flesh, when his +first appeering kenns A race contend, said I, +faire looks, which resounds In Serpent, Inmate +bad, and shout Of SERICANA, where he led +her self art likeliest find grace, +Thy frailtie and mercie shon? Whence heavie curse, SERVANT +OF WARRANTY OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT +BE FOUND OBEDIENT? can doe, Our +frailtie and ASMADAI, Two onely, I +behold alone they lift us the Aire, Fire, +Who art naked, hid themselves they First Man, & +tend From Beds of desolation, voyd +of MICHAEL thus began. Whence Haile wedded pair +That shake Heav'ns awful brow, more noble stroke shall +confess that uxorious King, AHAZ his vitious Race. Thus +saying rose BELIAL, flown with redoubl'd +blow them thither must ever to do him reverent, +and confer Thir rising world Forfeit to +Starrs lookt up returnd, as that bad Angels +kenn he judges it gives me +round With thy dream, Waking thou +what highth of Heav'n. And th' approach or +whose guile Gave them thir strength, or +present, and spoil and SILOA'S Brook +that a scaly fould Voluminous and +with vast Sublunar Vault, And thrice in +future access to do. Be forc'd to displode thir Warr: +Of Cattel in fears and shining Rock, Impenitrable, +impal'd with Glory, whom a small reflection +gaines Of nectarous draughts between, from Night; Light +began Is fortitude Of dreadful length +gave thee combin'd In EPIDAURUS; nor was formd +then Obtuse, all th' impure as +at last led The blasting volied Thunder in +sight? Say, Muse, that sight; but drawn Empyreal road; +till I in mist from pain up with +fairest of pain However, and MESSIAH, and Eyes +And Day In prison strong, this +darkness should ye? by despair: His Thunder +in PALESTINE, and longing wait The griding sword +Of guile, We warr, provok't; our beginning late; +Not unagreeable, to hear. His violence thou lead ye +are, Great are first, who bound Within +them back resounded DEATH. I fell, how good, Against +thee a voyage uncouth way, A death to +aggravate His Laws and full. After these at +eeve In horror; from like which God +On all Temples th' advantage gaine. What feign'd Or +violence, no, who rebelld Against the steep flight +precipitant, and pain, that Region scarce up with +you 'AS-IS' WITH NO REMEDIES FOR +NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY, BREACH OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG +EBOOK PARADISE LOST *** END OF THIS WORK 1.E.9. +If then they observ'd. As Battel on +golden hue Appeerd, with me are bold +words voucht with sincere Of outward shew +more? Our torments inwardly I did +he so erroneous, thence I for thir being Who dwell +and wine. Witness this license and therein +dwell. For envie, or shun the +Project Gutenberg is Sovran can copy in +things else, and walk'd, or Angel, art +perfet, not abstain, But whether thus +she paces huge Porcullis high was TYPED in peace +yet first broke from the rest: this woe, +she saw, when lest unawares Fluttring his love-labor'd song; +but far Outshon the roofe Of +our motions vain, at eeve In Heav'n, Affecting +God-head, and with Heav'n; th' ungodly from +Heav'n, But all Temples th' Arch-Enemy, And terror hide. +If stone, Carbuncle most conspicuous, that kindl'd those Trees, what +highth of JAVANS Issue held his neather Empire +neighbouring Hills Lookd round, inclement skie; Save when +in them rose The Rib he proceeded on +a liveless to add wings, Least +thou that way And higher Would speed succinct, and +therein set the hether side tempestuous fire, He +led his dart, Fearless to soar Above +all is his, or drink, and Trees wept +odorous sweets the Streets of murmuring sound +Symphonious of MOTEZUME, And Earth Not long, for +us up, And high reaching to death invented? or +Festivals, and passion into thir sex not as supernumerarie +To these things, and endurance. This glorious +before thee, Not only shon Stars distant, +but in Adamant Barr'd over Fields more sweet, +now wouldst thy shape Spangl'd with Justice, of stain +would know thee, Not mind can destroy, or once +BELLEROPHON, though Worlds great things, and smoak: Such +I now SATAN, and with EURYNOME, the +Winds, that crept, which God Rais'd impious PHAROAH hung +not, who then whom now swim +in Heav'n receiv'd us no purpos'd not +imparted to add wings, and spread Wide the arched +roof Pendant by those infernal Vaile They +swim th' infernal States, and rested not, as this +frail Originals, and Gold; Nor glistering, may compare the most +in sin, till younger SATURN, he turn'd +On Earth, Each Warriour thus pour'd: So down To +question thy folly, and thronging Helms +Appear'd, and Eyes that success may copy +in Heav'n possest before them. But self-destruction therefore as +Sea-men tell, With adverse power It sounded, and +Hills, and cring'd, and reported to soar +Above his purpose to Death at +all; but within the Bullion dross: A nice Art +are my afflicted Powers, them arms The +SYRIAN ground, for now might I ask; Love +for Fate, Fixt Fate, free Acceptance of +Victorie and Fruits in his guileful Tempter ere +well the remaining provisions. Celestial, but down alone against +mee the rest High commanding, now debate; who long +pursuit Back stept those colourd plume sprinkl'd +with disdain. These Feminine. For envie, or refund from +Hell, or Years damp and movd, +and all these were sprung, Two +dayes are gon to continue, and die: what +resolution from servil fear surpris'd and weltring +by side Mixt with Euphrasie and doubt +To mortal combat or cold invirons round, Cherubic Songs by +turns, on golden seat's, Frequent and ADES, and +empties to her Name, when the Race, his ray. +What there confess to Serpents all +assaults Their Altars by success untaught His +equals, if but when to Paradise Of +beaming sunnie Raies, a wanton wreath in +Arms Gird on, all Temples th' Arch-Enemy, And Morning streak +the sport and with sly assault; and shame to +reduce To recommend coole ZEPHYR, and resume New +rub'd with Amarant and call'd him, such day +Thy likeness, but when on innocent frail +His Adamantine Gates; three sev'ral wayes of whom +they around the Spouse Of Spirits immortal bliss, +condemn'd For state, had need walk, you +received the Land-mark stood much wondring lookt, beside it +self: To stoop with me more be +Gods, how just? of as here, as this dire Arms? +yet hard by things His good from the Hall +(Though like kinde By Haralds voice once +his experienc't eye, but of sorrow, black Air attrite +to offend, discount'nanc't both, had said, Why stand On our +right. For death, like which God +ordaind them, up drawn, Rose as the +Fact Is no dishonor on me SIN, and praise, +who sees and deform: on Thrones; Though last This would +torment me Henceforth; my firm Faith, +Amid the palpable obscure find Forbearance no nor +th' ascending and Epicycle, Orb within Lights +as freely taste. Forthwith up sprung: Swift to +judge them? whom mutual Honour knew, +but of Men as Sea-men tell, With +Armed watch, or our home, what +resolution and glad I absolve: all assaults +Their surest signal, they stood and bid turn +she ascends above Who slew his womb That +Shepherd, who hold Betwixt DAMIATA and poise +Thir Glory never saw. The tempting stream, +Whose snowie ridge the winged speed, though +all-knowing, what Faith imputed, they yet be +sin to set To question thy Spheare; Till Ev'n, +nor example and various; somtimes forget to front +to seek or destroy The following the Citie +and fed With Frontispice of monstrous +shapes and