Book I - Part 07 - The Infinity Of The Universe Poem Rhyme Scheme

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Now learn of what remains More keenly hear	A
And for myself my mind is not deceived	B
How dark it is But the large hope of praise	C
Hath strook with pointed thyrsus through my heart	D
On the same hour hath strook into my breast	E
Sweet love of the Muses wherewith now instinct	F
I wander afield thriving in sturdy thought	G
Through unpathed haunts of the Pierides	C
Trodden by step of none before I joy	H
To come on undefiled fountains there	I
To drain them deep I joy to pluck new flowers	C
To seek for this my head a signal crown	J
From regions where the Muses never yet	K
Have garlanded the temples of a man	L
First since I teach concerning mighty things	C
And go right on to loose from round the mind	M
The tightened coils of dread religion	N
Next since concerning themes so dark I frame	O
Songs so pellucid touching all throughout	P
Even with the Muses' charm which as 'twould seem	Q
Is not without a reasonable ground	R
But as physicians when they seek to give	S
Young boys the nauseous wormwood first do touch	T
The brim around the cup with the sweet juice	C
And yellow of the boney in order that	U
The thoughtless age of boyhood be cajoled	V
As far as the lips and meanwhile swallow down	J
The wormwood's bitter draught and though befooled	V
Be yet not merely duped but rather thus	C
Grow strong again with recreated health	W
So now I too since this my doctrine seems	C
In general somewhat woeful unto those	C
Who've had it not in hand and since the crowd	V
Starts back from it in horror have desired	V
To expound our doctrine unto thee in song	X
Soft speaking and Pierian and as 'twere	I
To touch it with sweet honey of the Muse	C
If by such method haply I might hold	V
The mind of thee upon these lines of ours	C
Till thou see through the nature of all things	C
And how exists the interwoven frame	O
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But since I've taught that bodies of matter made	V
Completely solid hither and thither fly	Y
Forevermore unconquered through all time	Z
Now come and whether to the sum of them	A2
There be a limit or be none for thee	B2
Let us unfold likewise what has been found	V
To be the wide inane or room or space	C
Wherein all things soever do go on	C2
Let us examine if it finite be	B2
All and entire or reach unmeasured round	V
And downward an illimitable profound	V
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Thus then the All that is is limited	V
In no one region of its onward paths	C
For then 'tmust have forever its beyond	V
And a beyond 'tis seen can never be	B2
For aught unless still further on there be	B2
A somewhat somewhere that may bound the same	O
So that the thing be seen still on to where	I
The nature of sensation of that thing	D2
Can follow it no longer Now because	C
Confess we must there's naught beside the sum	E2
There's no beyond and so it lacks all end	V
It matters nothing where thou post thyself	S
In whatsoever regions of the same	O
Even any place a man has set him down	J
Still leaves about him the unbounded all	F2
Outward in all directions or supposing	D2
moment the all of space finite to be	B2
If some one farthest traveller runs forth	G2
Unto the extreme coasts and throws ahead	V
A flying spear is't then thy wish to think	H2
It goes hurled off amain to where 'twas sent	V
And shoots afar or that some object there	I
Can thwart and stop it For the one or other	I
Thou must admit and take Either of which	I2
Shuts off escape for thee and does compel	J2
That thou concede the all spreads everywhere	I
Owning no confines Since whether there be	B2
Aught that may block and check it so it comes	C
Not where 'twas sent nor lodges in its goal	K2
Or whether borne along in either view	S
'Thas started not from any end And so	C
I'll follow on and whereso'er thou set	V
The extreme coasts I'll query what becomes	C
Thereafter of thy spear 'Twill come to pass	C
That nowhere can a world's end be and that	V
The chance for further flight prolongs forever	I
The flight itself Besides were all the space	C
Of the totality and sum shut in	L2
With fixed coasts and bounded everywhere	I
Then would the abundance of world's matter flow	C
Together by solid weight from everywhere	I
Still downward to the bottom of the world	V
Nor aught could happen under cope of sky	Y
Nor could there be a sky at all or sun	N
Indeed where matter all one heap would lie	Y
By having settled during infinite time	Z
But in reality repose is given	N
Unto no bodies 'mongst the elements	C
Because there is no bottom whereunto	V
They might as 'twere together flow and where	I
They might take up their undisturbed abodes	C
In endless motion everything goes on	C2
Forevermore out of all regions even	L2
Out of the pit below from forth the vast	V
Are hurtled bodies evermore supplied	V
The nature of room the space of the abyss	C
Is such that even the flashing thunderbolts	C
Can neither speed upon their courses through	S
Gliding across eternal tracts of time	Z
Nor further bring to pass as on they run	N
That they may bate their journeying one whit	V
Such huge abundance spreads for things around	V
Room off to every quarter without end	V
Lastly before our very eyes is seen	M2
Thing to bound thing air hedges hill from hill	N2
And mountain walls hedge air land ends the sea	C
And sea in turn all lands but for the All	F2
Truly is nothing which outside may bound	V
That too the sum of things itself may not	V
Have power to fix a measure of its own	O2
Great Nature guards she who compels the void	V
To bound all body as body all the void	V
Thus rendering by these alternates the whole	K2
An infinite or else the one or other	I
Being unbounded by the other spreads	C
Even by its single nature ne'ertheless	C
Immeasurably forth	G2
Nor sea nor earth nor shining vaults of sky	Y
Nor breed of mortals nor holy limbs of gods	C
Could keep their place least portion of an hour	I
For driven apart from out its meetings fit	V
The stock of stuff dissolved would be borne	P2
Along the illimitable inane afar	I
Or rather in fact would never have once combined	V
And given a birth to aught since scattered wide	V
It could not be united For of truth	Q2
Neither by counsel did the primal germs	C
'Stablish themselves as by keen act of mind	V
Each in its proper place nor did they make	R2
Forsooth a compact how each germ should move	S
But since being many and changed in many modes	C
Along the All they're driven abroad and vexed	V
By blow on blow even from all time of old	V
They thus at last after attempting all	F2
The kinds of motion and conjoining come	E2
Into those great arrangements out of which	I2
This sum of things established is create	V
By which moreover through the mighty years	C
It is preserved when once it has been thrown	O2
Into the proper motions bringing to pass	C
That ever the streams refresh the greedy main	S2
With river waves abounding and that earth	T2
Lapped in warm exhalations of the sun	N
Renews her broods and that the lusty race	C
Of breathing creatures bears and blooms and that	V
The gliding fires of ether are alive	S
What still the primal germs nowise could do	S
Unless from out the infinite of space	C
Could come supply of matter whence in season	N
They're wont whatever losses to repair	I
For as the nature of breathing creatures wastes	C
Losing its body when deprived of food	V
So all things have to be dissolved as soon	U2
As matter diverted by what means soever	I
From off its course shall fail to be on hand	V
Nor can the blows from outward still conserve	S
On every side whatever sum of a world	V
Has been united in a whole They can	L
Indeed by frequent beating check a part	V
Till others arriving may fulfil the sum	E2
But meanwhile often are they forced to spring	D2
Rebounding back and as they spring to yield	V
Unto those elements whence a world derives	C
Room and a time for flight permitting them	A2
To be from off the massy union borne	P2
Free and afar Wherefore again again	V2
Needs must there come a many for supply	Y
And also that the blows themselves shall be	C
Unfailing ever must there ever be	C
An infinite force of matter all sides round	V
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And in these problems shrink my Memmius far	I
From yielding faith to th	W2

Lucretius

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