Book I - Part 05 - Character Of The Atoms Poem Rhyme Scheme

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Bodies again	A
Are partly primal germs of things and partly	B
Unions deriving from the primal germs	C
And those which are the primal germs of things	D
No power can quench for in the end they conquer	E
By their own solidness though hard it be	B
To think that aught in things has solid frame	F
For lightnings pass no less than voice and shout	G
Through hedging walls of houses and the iron	H
White dazzles in the fire and rocks will burn	H
With exhalations fierce and burst asunder	E
Totters the rigid gold dissolved in heat	I
The ice of bronze melts conquered in the flame	F
Warmth and the piercing cold through silver seep	J
Since with the cups held rightly in the hand	K
We oft feel both as from above is poured	L
The dew of waters between their shining sides	M
So true it is no solid form is found	N
But yet because true reason and nature of things	D
Constrain us come whilst in few verses now	O
I disentangle how there still exist	P
Bodies of solid everlasting frame	F
The seeds of things the primal germs we teach	Q
Whence all creation around us came to be	B
First since we know a twofold nature exists	R
Of things both twain and utterly unlike	S
Body and place in which an things go on	T
Then each must be both for and through itself	U
And all unmixed where'er be empty space	V
There body's not and so where body bides	V
There not at an exists the void inane	W
Thus primal bodies are solid without a void	X
But since there's void in all begotten things	V
All solid matter must be round the same	F
Nor by true reason canst thou prove aught hides	V
And holds a void within its body unless	V
Thou grant what holds it be a solid Know	Y
That which can hold a void of things within	Z
Can be naught else than matter in union knit	A2
Thus matter consisting of a solid frame	F
Hath power to be eternal though all else	V
Though all creation be dissolved away	B2
Again were naught of empty and inane	W
The world were then a solid as without	G
Some certain bodies to fill the places held	C2
The world that is were but a vacant void	X
And so infallibly alternate wise	V
Body and void are still distinguished	D2
Since nature knows no wholly full nor void	X
There are then certain bodies possessed of power	E
To vary forever the empty and the full	E2
And these can nor be sundered from without	G
By beats and blows nor from within be torn	F2
By penetration nor be overthrown	G2
By any assault soever through the world	H2
For without void naught can be crushed it seems	V
Nor broken nor severed by a cut in twain	W
Nor can it take the damp or seeping cold	I2
Or piercing fire those old destroyers three	B
But the more void within a thing the more	J2
Entirely it totters at their sure assault	K2
Thus if first bodies be as I have taught	L2
Solid without a void they must be then	A
Eternal and if matter ne'er had been	Z
Eternal long ere now had all things gone	M2
Back into nothing utterly and all	N2
We see around from nothing had been born	F2
But since I taught above that naught can be	B
From naught created nor the once begotten	Z
To naught be summoned back these primal germs	V
Must have an immortality of frame	F
And into these must each thing be resolved	O2
When comes its supreme hour that thus there be	B
At hand the stuff for plenishing the world	H2
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So primal germs have solid singleness	V
Nor otherwise could they have been conserved	P2
Through aeons and infinity of time	Q2
For the replenishment of wasted worlds	V
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Once more if Nature had given a scope for things	V
To be forever broken more and more	J2
By now the bodies of matter would have been	Z
So far reduced by breakings in old days	V
That from them nothing could at season fixed	R2
Be born and arrive its prime and of life	S2
For lo each thing is quicker marred than made	T2
And so what'er the long infinitude	T2
Of days and all fore passed time would now	O
By this have broken and ruined and dissolved	T2
That same could ne'er in all remaining time	Q2
Be builded up for plenishing the world	T2
But mark infallibly a fixed bound	T2
Remaineth stablished 'gainst their breaking down	U2
Since we behold each thing soever renewed	T2
And unto all their seasons after their kind	T2
Wherein they arrive the flower of their age	V2
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Again if bounds have not been set against	T2
The breaking down of this corporeal world	T2
Yet must all bodies of whatever things	V
Have still endured from everlasting time	Q2
Unto this present as not yet assailed	T2
By shocks of peril But because the same	F
Are to thy thinking of a nature frail	W2
It ill accords that thus they could remain	W
As thus they do through everlasting time	Q2
Vexed through the ages as indeed they are	X2
By the innumerable blows of chance	V
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So in our programme of creation mark	Y2
How 'tis that though the bodies of all stuff	Z2
The ways whereby some things are fashioned soft	T2
Air water earth and fiery exhalations	V
And by what force they function and go on	T
The fact is founded in the void of things	V
But if the primal germs themselves be soft	T2
Reason cannot be brought to bear to show	Y
The ways whereby may be created these	V
Great crags of basalt and the during iron	H
For their whole nature will profoundly lack	A3
The first foundations of a solid frame	F
But powerful in old simplicity	T2
Abide the solid the primeval germs	V
And by their combinations more condensed	T2
All objects can be tightly knit and bound	T2
And made to show unconquerable strength	B3
Again since all things kind by kind obtain	W
Fixed bounds of growing and conserving life	S2
Since Nature hath inviolably decreed	T2
What each can do what each can never do	T2
Since naught is changed but all things so abide	T2
That ever the variegated birds reveal	C3
The spots or stripes peculiar to their kind	T2
Spring after spring thus surely all that is	V
Must be composed of matter immutable	D3
For if the primal germs in any wise	V
Were open to conquest and to change 'twould be	T2
Uncertain also what could come to birth	E3
And what could not and by what law to each	Q
Its scope prescribed its boundary stone that clings	V
So deep in Time Nor could the generations	V
Kind after kind so often reproduce	V
The nature habits motions ways of life	S2
Of their progenitors	V
And then again	A
Since there is ever an extreme bounding point	T2
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Of that first body which our senses now	O
Cannot perceive That bounding point indeed	T2
Exists without all parts a minimum	F3
Of nature nor was e'er a thing apart	T2
As of itself nor shall hereafter be	T2
Since 'tis itself still parcel of another	E
A first and single part whence other parts	V
And others similar in order lie	G3
In a packed phalanx filling to the full	E2
The nature of first body being thus	V
Not self existent they must cleave to that	T2
From which in nowise they can sundered be	T2
So primal germs have solid singleness	V
Which tightly packed and closely joined cohere	H3
By virtue of their minim particles	V
No compound by mere union of the same	F
But strong in their eternal singleness	V
Nature reserving them as seeds for things	V
Permitteth naught of rupture or decrease	V
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Moreover were there not a minimum	F3
The smallest bodies would have infinites	V
Since then a half of half could still be halved	T2
With limitless division less and less	V
Then what the difference 'twixt the sum and least	T2
None for however infinite the sum	F3
Yet even the smallest would consist the same	F
Of infinite parts But since true reason here	I3
Protests denying that the mind can think it	T2
Convinced thou must confess such things there are	X2
As have no parts the minimums of nature	E
And since these are likewise confess thou must	T2
That primal bodies are solid and eterne	O
Again if Nature creatress of all things	V
Were wont to force all things to be resolved	T2
Unto least parts then would she not avail	W2
To reproduce from out them anything	J3
Because whate'er is not endowed with parts	V
Cannot possess those properties required	T2
Of generative stuff divers connections	V
Weights blows encounters motions whereby things	V
Forevermore have being and go on	O

Lucretius

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