Book I - Part 01 - Proem Poem Rhyme Scheme

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Mother of Rome delight of Gods and men	A
Dear Venus that beneath the gliding stars	B
Makest to teem the many voyaged main	C
And fruitful lands for all of living things	D
Through thee alone are evermore conceived	E
Through thee are risen to visit the great sun	F
Before thee Goddess and thy coming on	G
Flee stormy wind and massy cloud away	H
For thee the daedal Earth bears scented flowers	I
For thee waters of the unvexed deep	J
Smile and the hollows of the serene sky	K
Glow with diffused radiance for thee	L
For soon as comes the springtime face of day	H
And procreant gales blow from the West unbarred	H
First fowls of air smit to the heart by thee	L
Foretoken thy approach O thou Divine	M
And leap the wild herds round the happy fields	N
Or swim the bounding torrents Thus amain	M
Seized with the spell all creatures follow thee	L
Whithersoever thou walkest forth to lead	H
And thence through seas and mountains and swift streams	O
Through leafy homes of birds and greening plains	P
Kindling the lure of love in every breast	H
Thou bringest the eternal generations forth	Q
Kind after kind And since 'tis thou alone	M
Guidest the Cosmos and without thee naught	H
Is risen to reach the shining shores of light	H
Nor aught of joyful or of lovely born	M
Thee do I crave co partner in that verse	R
Which I presume on Nature to compose	S
For Memmius mine whom thou hast willed to be	L
Peerless in every grace at every hour	T
Wherefore indeed Divine one give my words	U
Immortal charm Lull to a timely rest	H
O'er sea and land the savage works of war	V
For thou alone hast power with public peace	W
To aid mortality since he who rules	X
The savage works of battle puissant Mars	B
How often to thy bosom flings his strength	Y
O'ermastered by the eternal wound of love	Z
And there with eyes and full throat backward thrown	M
Gazing my Goddess open mouthed at thee	L
Pastures on love his greedy sight his breath	A2
Hanging upon thy lips Him thus reclined	H
Fill with thy holy body round above	Z
Pour from those lips soft syllables to win	M
Peace for the Romans glorious Lady peace	W
For in a season troublous to the state	H
Neither may I attend this task of mine	M
With thought untroubled nor mid such events	B2
The illustrious scion of the Memmian house	C2
Neglect the civic cause	D2
Whilst human kind	H
Throughout the lands lay miserably crushed	H
Before all eyes beneath Religion who	E2
Would show her head along the region skies	F2
Glowering on mortals with her hideous face	G2
A Greek it was who first opposing dared	H
Raise mortal eyes that terror to withstand	H
Whom nor the fame of Gods nor lightning's stroke	H2
Nor threatening thunder of the ominous sky	K
Abashed but rather chafed to angry zest	H
His dauntless heart to be the first to rend	H
The crossbars at the gates of Nature old	H
And thus his will and hardy wisdom won	M
And forward thus he fared afar beyond	H
The flaming ramparts of the world until	I2
He wandered the unmeasurable All	J2
Whence he to us a conqueror reports	K2
What things can rise to being what cannot	H
And by what law to each its scope prescribed	H
Its boundary stone that clings so deep in Time	L2
Wherefore Religion now is under foot	H
And us his victory now exalts to heaven	M
I know how hard it is in Latian verse	R
To tell the dark discoveries of the Greeks	M2
Chiefly because our pauper speech must find	H
Strange terms to fit the strangeness of the thing	N2
Yet worth of thine and the expected joy	O2
Of thy sweet friendship do persuade me on	M
To bear all toil and wake the clear nights through	E2
Seeking with what of words and what of song	P2
I may at last most gloriously uncloud	H
For thee the light beyond wherewith to view	E2
The core of being at the centre hid	H
And for the rest summon to judgments true	E2
Unbusied ears and singleness of mind	H
Withdrawn from cares lest these my gifts arranged	H
For thee with eager service thou disdain	M
Before thou comprehendest since for thee	L
I prove the supreme law of Gods and sky	K
And the primordial germs of things unfold	H
Whence Nature all creates and multiplies	F2
And fosters all and whither she resolves	Q2
Each in the end when each is overthrown	M
This ultimate stock we have devised to name	R2
Procreant atoms matter seeds of things	D
Or primal bodies as primal to the world	H
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I fear perhaps thou deemest that we fare	S2
An impious road to realms of thought profane	M
But 'tis that same religion oftener far	T2
Hath bred the foul impieties of men	M
As once at Aulis the elected chiefs	U2
Foremost of heroes Danaan counsellors	I
Defiled Diana's altar virgin queen	M
With Agamemnon's daughter foully slain	M
She felt the chaplet round her maiden locks	V2
And fillets fluttering down on either cheek	W2
And at the altar marked her grieving sire	T
The priests beside him who concealed the knife	X2
And all the folk in tears at sight of her	T
With a dumb terror and a sinking knee	L
She dropped nor might avail her now that first	H
'Twas she who gave the king a father's name	R2
They raised her up they bore the trembling girl	Y2
On to the altar hither led not now	M
With solemn rites and hymeneal choir	T
But sinless woman sinfully foredone	M
A parent felled her on her bridal day	H
Making his child a sacrificial beast	H
To give the ships auspicious winds for Troy	O2
Such are the crimes to which Religion leads	Z2
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And there shall come the time when even thou	M
Forced by the soothsayer's terror tales shalt seek	W2
To break from us Ah many a dream even now	M
Can they concoct to rout thy plans of life	X2
And trouble all thy fortunes with base fears	A3
I own with reason for if men but knew	M
Some fixed end to ills they would be strong	P2
By some device unconquered to withstand	H
Religions and the menacings of seers	B3
But now nor skill nor instrument is theirs	C3
Since men must dread eternal pains in death	A2
For what the soul may be they do not know	M
Whether 'tis born or enter in at birth	D3
And whether snatched by death it die with us	E3
Or visit the shadows and the vasty caves	F3
Of Orcus or by some divine decree	L
Enter the brute herds as our Ennius sang	G3
Who first from lovely Helicon brought down	M
A laurel wreath of bright perennial leaves	H3
Renowned forever among the Italian clans	I3
Yet Ennius too in everlasting verse	R
Proclaims those vaults of Acheron to be	L
Though thence he said nor souls nor bodies fare	S2
But only phantom figures strangely wan	M
And tells how once from out those regions rose	S
Old Homer's ghost to him and shed salt tears	C3
And with his words unfolded Nature's source	J3
Then be it ours with steady mind to clasp	K3
The purport of the skies the law behind	H
The wandering courses of the sun and moon	M
To scan the powers that speed all life below	M
But most to see with reasonable eyes	F2
Of what the mind of what the soul is made	H
And what it is so terrible that breaks	L3
On us asleep or waking in disease	M3
Until we seem to mark and hear at hand	H
Dead men whose bones earth bosomed long ago	M

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