Book Iii - Part 02 - Nature And Composition Of The Mind Poem Rhyme Scheme

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First then I say the mind which oft we call	A
The intellect wherein is seated life's	B
Counsel and regimen is part no less	C
Of man than hand and foot and eyes are parts	D
Of one whole breathing creature But some hold	E
That sense of mind is in no fixed part seated	F
But is of body some one vital state	G
Named harmony by Greeks because thereby	H
We live with sense though intellect be not	I
In any part as oft the body is said	J
To have good health when health however 's not	I
One part of him who has it so they place	K
The sense of mind in no fixed part of man	L
Mightily diversly meseems they err	M
Often the body palpable and seen	N
Sickens while yet in some invisible part	O
We feel a pleasure oft the other way	P
A miserable in mind feels pleasure still	Q
Throughout his body quite the same as when	R
A foot may pain without a pain in head	J
Besides when these our limbs are given o'er	S
To gentle sleep and lies the burdened frame	T
At random void of sense a something else	U
Is yet within us which upon that time	V
Bestirs itself in many a wise receiving	W
All motions of joy and phantom cares of heart	O
Now for to see that in man's members dwells	X
Also the soul and body ne'er is wont	Y
To feel sensation by a harmony	Z
Take this in chief the fact that life remains	A2
Oft in our limbs when much of body's gone	B2
Yet that same life when particles of heat	C2
Though few have scattered been and through the mouth	D2
Air has been given forth abroad forthwith	E2
Forever deserts the veins and leaves the bones	F2
Thus mayst thou know that not all particles	G2
Perform like parts nor in like manner all	A
Are props of weal and safety rather those	H2
The seeds of wind and exhalations warm	I2
Take care that in our members life remains	A2
Therefore a vital heat and wind there is	J2
Within the very body which at death	K2
Deserts our frames And so since nature of mind	L2
And even of soul is found to be as 'twere	S
A part of man give over harmony	Z
Name to musicians brought from Helicon	M2
Unless themselves they filched it otherwise	N2
To serve for what was lacking name till then	R
Whate'er it be they're welcome to it thou	O2
Hearken my other maxims	P2
Mind and soul	Q2
I say are held conjoined one with other	S
And form one single nature of themselves	R2
But chief and regnant through the frame entire	S
Is still that counsel which we call the mind	L2
And that cleaves seated in the midmost breast	S2
Here leap dismay and terror round these haunts	T2
Be blandishments of joys and therefore here	S
The intellect the mind The rest of soul	Q2
Throughout the body scattered but obeys	U2
Moved by the nod and motion of the mind	L2
This for itself sole through itself hath thought	V2
This for itself hath mirth even when the thing	W
That moves it moves nor soul nor body at all	A
And as when head or eye in us is smit	W2
By assailing pain we are not tortured then	R
Through all the body so the mind alone	X2
Is sometimes smitten or livens with a joy	Y2
Whilst yet the soul's remainder through the limbs	Z2
And through the frame is stirred by nothing new	A3
But when the mind is moved by shock more fierce	B3
We mark the whole soul suffering all at once	C3
Along man's members sweats and pallors spread	J
Over the body and the tongue is broken	D3
And fails the voice away and ring the ears	E3
Mists blind the eyeballs and the joints collapse	F3
Aye men drop dead from terror of the mind	L2
Hence whoso will can readily remark	G3
That soul conjoined is with mind and when	R
'Tis strook by influence of the mind forthwith	E2
In turn it hits and drives the body too	A3
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And this same argument establisheth	E2
That nature of mind and soul corporeal is	J2
For when 'tis seen to drive the members on	M2
To snatch from sleep the body and to change	H3
The countenance and the whole state of man	L
To rule and turn what yet could never be	Z
Sans contact and sans body contact fails	I3
Must we not grant that mind and soul consist	J3
Of a corporeal nature And besides	K3
Thou markst that likewise with this body of ours	L3
Suffers the mind and with our body feels	M3
If the dire speed of spear that cleaves the bones	F2
And bares the inner thews hits not the life	N3
Yet follows a fainting and a foul collapse	F3
And on the ground dazed tumult in the mind	L2
And whiles a wavering will to rise afoot	O3
So nature of mind must be corporeal since	P3
From stroke and spear corporeal 'tis in throes	H2
Now of what body what components formed	Q3
Is this same mind I will go on to tell	R3
First I aver 'tis superfine composed	S3
Of tiniest particles that such the fact	T3
Thou canst perceive if thou attend from this	U3
Nothing is seen to happen with such speed	V3
As what the mind proposes and begins	W3
Therefore the same bestirs itself more swiftly	Z
Than aught whose nature's palpable to eyes	N2
But what's so agile must of seeds consist	J3
Most round most tiny that they may be moved	X3
When hit by impulse slight So water moves	Y3
In waves along at impulse just the least	Z3
Being create of little shapes that roll	Q2
But contrariwise the quality of honey	Z
More stable is its liquids more inert	A4
More tardy its flow for all its stock of matter	S
Cleaves more together since indeed 'tis made	B4
Of atoms not so smooth so fine and round	C4
For the light breeze that hovers yet can blow	D4
High heaps of poppy seed away for thee	Z
Downward from off the top but contrariwise	Y3
A pile of stones or spiny ears of wheat	C2
It can't at all Thus in so far as bodies	Y3
Are small and smooth is their mobility	Z
But contrariwise the heavier and more rough	E4
The more immovable they prove Now then	R
Since nature of mind is movable so much	F4
Consist it must of seeds exceeding small	A
And smooth and round Which fact once known to thee	Z
Good friend will serve thee opportune in else	Y3
This also shows the nature of the same	T
How nice its texture in how small a space	Y3
'Twould go if once compacted as a pellet	G4
When death's unvexed repose gets hold on man	L
And mind and soul retire thou markest there	S
From the whole body nothing ta'en in form	I2
Nothing in weight Death grants ye everything	W
But vital sense and exhalation hot	I
Thus soul entire must be of smallmost seeds	Y3
Twined through the veins the vitals and the thews	Y3
Seeing that when 'tis from whole body gone	B2
The outward figuration of the limbs	Y3
Is unimpaired and weight fails not a whit	W2
Just so when vanished the bouquet of wine	H4
Or when an unguent's perfume delicate	G4
Into the winds away departs or when	R
From any body savour's gone yet still	Q
The thing itself seems minished naught to eyes	Y3
Thereby nor aught abstracted from its weight	G
No marvel because seeds many and minute	G4
Produce the savours and the redolence	Y3
In the whole body of the things And so	Y3
Again again nature of mind and soul	Q2
'Tis thine to know created is of seeds	Y3
The tiniest ever since at flying forth	E2
It beareth nothing of the weight away	P
Yet fancy not its nature simple so	Y3
For an impalpable aura mixed with heat	C2
Deserts the dying and heat draws off the air	S
And heat there's none unless commixed with air	S
For since the nature of all heat is rare	S
Athrough it many seeds of air must move	I4
Thus nature of mind is triple yet those all	A
Suffice not for creating sense since mind	L2
Accepteth not that aught of these can cause	Y3
Sense bearing motions and much less the thoughts	Y3
A man revolves in mind So unto these	Y3
Must added be a somewhat and a fourth	E2
That somewhat's altogether void of name	T
Than which existeth naught more mobile naught	V2
More an impalpable of elements	Y3
More small and smooth and round That first transmits	Y3
Sense bearing motions through the frame for that	J4
Is roused the first composed of little shapes	Y3
Thence heat and viewless force of wind take up	K4
The motions and thence air and thence all things	Y3
Are put in motion the blood is strook and then	R
The vitals all begin to feel and last	L4
To bones and marrow the sensation comes	Y3
Pleasure or torment Nor will pain for naught	V2
Enter so far nor a sharp ill seep through	A3
B	Z

Lucretius

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