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But now again to weave the tale begun	A
All nature then as self sustained consists	B
Of twain of things of bodies and of void	C
In which they're set and where they're moved around	D
For common instinct of our race declares	E
That body of itself exists unless	F
This primal faith deep founded fail us not	G
Naught will there be whereunto to appeal	H
On things occult when seeking aught to prove	I
By reasonings of mind Again without	J
That place and room which we do call the inane	K
Nowhere could bodies then be set nor go	L
Hither or thither at all as shown before	M
Besides there's naught of which thou canst declare	N
It lives disjoined from body shut from void	C
A kind of third in nature For whatever	O
Exists must be a somewhat and the same	P
If tangible however fight and slight	Q
Will yet increase the count of body's sum	R
With its own augmentation big or small	S
But if intangible and powerless ever	O
To keep a thing from passing through itself	T
On any side 'twill be naught else but that	U
Which we do call the empty the inane	K
Again whate'er exists as of itself	T
Must either act or suffer action on it	V
Or else be that wherein things move and be	W
Naught saving body acts is acted on	X
Naught but the inane can furnish room And thus	Y
Beside the inane and bodies is no third	Z
Nature amid the number of all things	A2
Remainder none to fall at any time	B2
Under our senses nor be seized and seen	C2
By any man through reasonings of mind	D2
Name o'er creation with what names thou wilt	E2
Thou'lt find but properties of those first twain	K
Or see but accidents those twain produce	F2
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A property is that which not at all	S
Can be disjoined and severed from a thing	G2
Without a fatal dissolution such	H2
Weight to the rocks heat to the fire and flow	L
To the wide waters touch to corporal things	A2
Intangibility to the viewless void	C
But state of slavery pauperhood and wealth	I2
Freedom and war and concord and all else	J2
Which come and go whilst Nature stands the same	P
We're wont and rightly to call accidents	K2
Even time exists not of itself but sense	L2
Reads out of things what happened long ago	L
What presses now and what shall follow after	O
No man we must admit feels time itself	T
Disjoined from motion and repose of things	A2
Thus when they say there is the ravishment	C
Of Princess Helen is the siege and sack	M2
Of Trojan Town look out they force us not	C
To admit these acts existent by themselves	N2
Merely because those races of mankind	C
Of whom these acts were accidents long since	O2
Irrevocable age has borne away	P2
For all past actions may be said to be	W
But accidents in one way of mankind	C
In other of some region of the world	C
Add too had been no matter and no room	Q2
Wherein all things go on the fire of love	R2
Upblown by that fair form the glowing coal	S2
Under the Phrygian Alexander's breast	C
Had ne'er enkindled that renowned strife	T2
Of savage war nor had the wooden horse	U2
Involved in flames old Pergama by a birth	V2
At midnight of a brood of the Hellenes	U2
And thus thou canst remark that every act	C
At bottom exists not of itself nor is	U2
As body is nor has like name with void	C
But rather of sort more fitly to be called	C
An accident of body and of place	U2
Wherein all things go on	X

Lucretius

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