Book Iii - Part 01 - Proem Poem Rhyme Scheme

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O thou who first uplifted in such dark	B
So clear a torch aloft who first shed light	C
Upon the profitable ends of man	D
O thee I follow glory of the Greeks	E
And set my footsteps squarely planted now	F
Even in the impress and the marks of thine	G
Less like one eager to dispute the palm	H
More as one craving out of very love	I
That I may copy thee for how should swallow	J
Contend with swans or what compare could be	K
In a race between young kids with tumbling legs	L
And the strong might of the horse Our father thou	F
And finder out of truth and thou to us	M
Suppliest a father's precepts and from out	N
Those scriven leaves of thine renowned soul	O
Like bees that sip of all in flowery wolds	M
We feed upon thy golden sayings all	P
Golden and ever worthiest endless life	Q
For soon as ever thy planning thought that sprang	R
From god like mind begins its loud proclaim	S
Of nature's courses terrors of the brain	T
Asunder flee the ramparts of the world	U
Dispart away and through the void entire	V
I see the movements of the universe	M
Rises to vision the majesty of gods	M
And their abodes of everlasting calm	H
Which neither wind may shake nor rain cloud splash	W
Nor snow congealed by sharp frosts may harm	X
With its white downfall ever unclouded sky	Y
O'er roofs and laughs with far diffused light	C
And nature gives to them their all nor aught	C
May ever pluck their peace of mind away	Z
But nowhere to my vision rise no more	A2
The vaults of Acheron though the broad earth	B2
Bars me no more from gazing down o'er all	P
Which under our feet is going on below	J
Along the void O here in these affairs	M
Some new divine delight and trembling awe	C2
Takes hold through me that thus by power of thine	G
Nature so plain and manifest at last	C
Hath been on every side laid bare to man	D
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And since I've taught already of what sort	C
The seeds of all things are and how distinct	C
In divers forms they flit of own accord	C
Stirred with a motion everlasting on	D2
And in what mode things be from them create	C
Now after such matters should my verse meseems	M
Make clear the nature of the mind and soul	O
And drive that dread of Acheron without	C
Headlong which so confounds our human life	Q
Unto its deeps pouring o'er all that is	M
The black of death nor leaves not anything	E2
To prosper a liquid and unsullied joy	F2
For as to what men sometimes will affirm	G2
That more than Tartarus the realm of death	H2
They fear diseases and a life of shame	S
And know the substance of the soul is blood	C
Or rather wind if haply thus their whim	I2
And so need naught of this our science then	J2
Thou well may'st note from what's to follow now	F
That more for glory do they braggart forth	K2
Than for belief For mark these very same	S
Exiles from country fugitives afar	L2
From sight of men with charges foul attaint	C
Abased with every wretchedness they yet	C
Live and where'er the wretches come they yet	C
Make the ancestral sacrifices there	M2
Butcher the black sheep and to gods below	J
Offer the honours and in bitter case	M
Turn much more keenly to religion	N2
Wherefore it's surer testing of a man	D
In doubtful perils mark him as he is	M
Amid adversities for then alone	O2
Are the true voices conjured from his breast	C
The mask off stripped reality behind	C
And greed again and the blind lust of honours	M
Which force poor wretches past the bounds of law	P2
And oft allies and ministers of crime	Q2
To push through nights and days of the hugest toil	R2
To rise untrammelled to the peaks of power	V
These wounds of life in no mean part are kept	C
Festering and open by this fright of death	H2
For ever we see fierce Want and foul Disgrace	M
Dislodged afar from secure life and sweet	C
Like huddling Shapes before the doors of death	H2
And whilst from these men wish to scape afar	L2
Driven by false terror and afar remove	S2
With civic blood a fortune they amass	M
They double their riches greedy heapers up	T2
Of corpse on corpse they have a cruel laugh	U2
For the sad burial of a brother born	V2
And hatred and fear of tables of their kin	W2
Likewise through this same terror envy oft	C
Makes them to peak because before their eyes	M
That man is lordly that man gazed upon	D2
Who walks begirt with honour glorious	M
Whilst they in filth and darkness roll around	C
Some perish away for statues and a name	S
And oft to that degree from fright of death	H2
Will hate of living and beholding light	C
Take hold on humankind that they inflict	C
Their own destruction with a gloomy heart	C
Forgetful that this fear is font of cares	M
This fear the plague upon their sense of shame	S
And this that breaks the ties of comradry	L2
And oversets all reverence and faith	X2
Mid direst slaughter For long ere to day	C
Often were traitors to country and dear parents	M
Through quest to shun the realms of Acheron	D2
For just as children tremble and fear all	P
In the viewless dark so even we at times	M
Dread in the light so many things that be	K
No whit more fearsome than what children feign	D2
Shuddering will be upon them in the dark	B
This terror then this darkness of the mind	C
Not sunrise with its flaring spokes of light	C
Nor glittering arrows of morning sun disperse	M
But only Nature's aspect and her law	P2

Lucretius

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