Book I - Part 03 - The Void Poem Rhyme Scheme

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But yet creation's neither crammed nor blocked	A
About by body there's in things a void	B
Which to have known will serve thee many a turn	C
Nor will not leave thee wandering in doubt	D
Forever searching in the sum of all	E
And losing faith in these pronouncements mine	F
There's place intangible a void and room	G
For were it not things could in nowise move	H
Since body's property to block and check	I
Would work on all and at an times the same	J
Thus naught could evermore push forth and go	K
Since naught elsewhere would yield a starting place	L
But now through oceans lands and heights of heaven	M
By divers causes and in divers modes	N
Before our eyes we mark how much may move	H
Which finding not a void would fail deprived	O
Of stir and motion nay would then have been	P
Nowise begot at all since matter then	Q
Had staid at rest its parts together crammed	R
Then too however solid objects seem	S
They yet are formed of matter mixed with void	B
In rocks and caves the watery moisture seeps	T
And beady drops stand out like plenteous tears	U
And food finds way through every frame that lives	V
The trees increase and yield the season's fruit	W
Because their food throughout the whole is poured	X
Even from the deepest roots through trunks and boughs	Y
And voices pass the solid walls and fly	Z
Reverberant through shut doorways of a house	A2
And stiffening frost seeps inward to our bones	B2
Which but for voids for bodies to go through	C2
'Tis clear could happen in nowise at all	E
Again why see we among objects some	D2
Of heavier weight but of no bulkier size	E2
Indeed if in a ball of wool there be	F2
As much of body as in lump of lead	G2
The two should weigh alike since body tends	H2
To load things downward while the void abides	I2
By contrary nature the imponderable	J2
Therefore an object just as large but lighter	K2
Declares infallibly its more of void	B
Even as the heavier more of matter shows	L2
And how much less of vacant room inside	M2
That which we're seeking with sagacious quest	N2
Exists infallibly commixed with things	O2
The void the invisible inane	P2
Right here	Q2
I am compelled a question to expound	R2
Forestalling something certain folk suppose	L2
Lest it avail to lead thee off from truth	S2
Waters they say before the shining breed	T2
Of the swift scaly creatures somehow give	U2
And straightway open sudden liquid paths	V2
Because the fishes leave behind them room	G
To which at once the yielding billows stream	S
Thus things among themselves can yet be moved	W2
And change their place however full the Sum	D2
Received opinion wholly false forsooth	S2
For where can scaly creatures forward dart	X2
Save where the waters give them room Again	Q
Where can the billows yield a way so long	Y2
As ever the fish are powerless to go	K
Thus either all bodies of motion are deprived	O
Or things contain admixture of a void	B
Where each thing gets its start in moving on	Z2
Lastly where after impact two broad bodies	A3
Suddenly spring apart the air must crowd	B3
The whole new void between those bodies formed	C3
But air however it stream with hastening gusts	D3
Can yet not fill the gap at once for first	E3
It makes for one place ere diffused through all	E
And then if haply any think this comes	F3
When bodies spring apart because the air	G3
Somehow condenses wander they from truth	S2
For then a void is formed where none before	H3
And too a void is filled which was before	H3
Nor can air be condensed in such a wise	E2
Nor granting it could without a void I hold	I3
It still could not contract upon itself	J3
And draw its parts together into one	M
Wherefore despite demur and counter speech	K3
Confess thou must there is a void in things	O2
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And still I might by many an argument	L3
Here scrape together credence for my words	M3
But for the keen eye these mere footprints serve	N3
Whereby thou mayest know the rest thyself	N3
As dogs full oft with noses on the ground	R2
Find out the silent lairs though hid in brush	O3
Of beasts the mountain rangers when but once	P3
They scent the certain footsteps of the way	Q3
Thus thou thyself in themes like these alone	R3
Can hunt from thought to thought and keenly wind	S3
Along even onward to the secret places	T3
And drag out truth But if thou loiter loth	S2
Or veer however little from the point	U3
This I can promise Memmius for a fact	V3
Such copious drafts my singing tongue shall pour	H3
From the large well springs of my plenished breast	N2
That much I dread slow age will steal and coil	W3
Along our members and unloose the gates	X3
Of life within us ere for thee my verse	Y3
Hath put within thine ears the stores of proofs	Z3
At hand for one soever question broached	A4

Lucretius

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