Book Iii - Part 03 - The Soul Is Mortal Poem Rhyme Scheme

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Now come that thou mayst able be to know	A
That minds and the light souls of all that live	B
Have mortal birth and death I will go on	C
Verses to build meet for thy rule of life	D
Sought after long discovered with sweet toil	E
But under one name I'd have thee yoke them both	F
And when for instance I shall speak of soul	G
Teaching the same to be but mortal think	H
Thereby I'm speaking also of the mind	I
Since both are one a substance interjoined	I
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First then since I have taught how soul exists	J
A subtle fabric of particles minute	I
Made up from atoms smaller much than those	K
Of water's liquid damp or fog or smoke	L
So in mobility it far excels	M
More prone to move though strook by lighter cause	N
Even moved by images of smoke or fog	O
As where we view when in our sleeps we're lulled	I
The altars exhaling steam and smoke aloft	I
For beyond doubt these apparitions come	P
To us from outward Now then since thou seest	I
Their liquids depart their waters flow away	Q
When jars are shivered and since fog and smoke	L
Depart into the winds away believe	R
The soul no less is shed abroad and dies	S
More quickly far more quickly is dissolved	I
Back to its primal bodies when withdrawn	T
From out man's members it has gone away	Q
For sure if body container of the same	U
Like as a jar when shivered from some cause	N
And rarefied by loss of blood from veins	V
Cannot for longer hold the soul how then	W
Thinkst thou it can be held by any air	X
A stuff much rarer than our bodies be	Y
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Besides we feel that mind to being comes	Z
Along with body with body grows and ages	A2
For just as children totter round about	I
With frames infirm and tender so there follows	K
A weakling wisdom in their minds and then	W
Where years have ripened into robust powers	B2
Counsel is also greater more increased	I
The power of mind thereafter where already	Y
The body's shattered by master powers of eld	Y
And fallen the frame with its enfeebled powers	B2
Thought hobbles tongue wanders and the mind gives way	Q
All fails all's lacking at the selfsame time	C2
Therefore it suits that even the soul's dissolved	Y
Like smoke into the lofty winds of air	X
Since we behold the same to being come	P
Along with body and grow and as I've taught	Y
Crumble and crack therewith outworn by eld	Y
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Then too we see that just as body takes	D2
Monstrous diseases and the dreadful pain	E2
So mind its bitter cares the grief the fear	F2
Wherefore it tallies that the mind no less	G2
Partaker is of death for pain and disease	H2
Are both artificers of death as well	I2
We've learned by the passing of many a man ere now	J2
Nay too in diseases of body often the mind	Y
Wanders afield for 'tis beside itself	K2
And crazed it speaks or many a time it sinks	L2
With eyelids closing and a drooping nod	Y
In heavy drowse on to eternal sleep	M2
From whence nor hears it any voices more	N2
Nor able is to know the faces here	O2
Of those about him standing with wet cheeks	P2
Who vainly call him back to light and life	D
Wherefore mind too confess we must dissolves	Q2
Seeing indeed contagions of disease	H2
Enter into the same Again O why	R2
When the strong wine has entered into man	S2
And its diffused fire gone round the veins	V
Why follows then a heaviness of limbs	T2
A tangle of the legs as round he reels	U2
A stuttering tongue an intellect besoaked	Y
Eyes all aswim and hiccups shouts and brawls	V2
And whatso else is of that ilk Why this	W2
If not that violent and impetuous wine	X2
Is wont to confound the soul within the body	Y
But whatso can confounded be and balked	Y
Gives proof that if a hardier cause got in	Y2
'Twould hap that it would perish then bereaved	Y
Of any life thereafter And moreover	Z2
Often will some one in a sudden fit	Y
As if by stroke of lightning tumble down	A3
Before our eyes and sputter foam and grunt	Y
Blither and twist about with sinews taut	Y
Gasp up in starts and weary out his limbs	T2
With tossing round No marvel since distract	Y
Through frame by violence of disease	H2
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Confounds he foams as if to vomit soul	G
As on the salt sea boil the billows round	Y
Under the master might of winds And now	J2
A groan's forced out because his limbs are griped	Y
But in the main because the seeds of voice	B3
Are driven forth and carried in a mass	C3
Outwards by mouth where they are wont to go	A
And have a builded highway He becomes	Z
Mere fool since energy of mind and soul	G
Confounded is and as I've shown to riven	D3
Asunder thrown and torn to pieces all	E3
By the same venom But again where cause	N
Of that disease has faced about and back	F3
Retreats sharp poison of corrupted frame	U
Into its shadowy lairs the man at first	Y
Arises reeling and gradually comes back	F3
To all his senses and recovers soul	G
Thus since within the body itself of man	S2
The mind and soul are by such great diseases	A2
Shaken so miserably in labour distraught	Y
Why then believe that in the open air	X
Without a body they can pass their life	D
Immortal battling with the master winds	G3
And since we mark the mind itself is cured	Y
Like the sick body and restored can be	Y
By medicine this is forewarning to	Y
That mortal lives the mind For proper it is	H3
That whosoe'er begins and undertakes	D2
To alter the mind or meditates to change	I3
Any another nature soever should add	Y
New parts or readjust the order given	D3
Or from the sum remove at least a bit	Y
But what's immortal willeth for itself	K2
Its parts be nor increased nor rearranged	Y
Nor any bit soever flow away	Q
For change of anything from out its bounds	J3
Means instant death of that which was before	N2
Ergo the mind whether in sickness fallen	D3
Or by the medicine restored gives signs	K3
As I have taught of its mortality	Y
So surely will a fact of truth make head	Y
'Gainst errors' theories all and so shut off	L3
All refuge from the adversary and rout	Y
Error by two edged confutation	D3
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And since the mind is of a man one part	Y
Which in one fixed place remains like ears	M3
And eyes and every sense which pilots life	D
And just as hand or eye or nose apart	Y
Severed from us can neither feel nor be	Y
But in the least of time is left to rot	Y
Thus mind alone can never be without	Y
The body and the man himself which seems	N3
As 'twere the vessel of the same or aught	Y
Whate'er thou'lt feign as yet more closely joined	Y
Since body cleaves to mind by surest bonds	O3
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Again the body's and the mind's live powers	B2
Only in union prosper and enjoy	P3
For neither can nature of mind alone of itself	K2
Sans body give the vital motions forth	Q3
Nor then can body wanting soul endure	R3
And use the senses Verily as the eye	R2
Alone up rended from its roots apart	Y
From all the body can peer about at naught	Y
So soul and mind it seems are nothing able	S3
When by themselves No marvel because commixed	Y
Through veins and inwards and through bones and thews	B2
Their elements primordial are confined	Y
By all the body and own no power free	Y
To bound around through interspaces big	T3
Thus shut within these confines they take on	D3
Motions of sense which after death thrown out	Y
Beyond the body to the winds of air	X
Take on they cannot and on this account	Y
Because no more in such a way confined	Y
For air will be a body be alive	B
If in that air the soul can keep itself	K2
And in that air enclose those motions all	E3
Which in the thews and in the body itself	K2
A while ago 'twas making So for this	B2
Again again I say confess we must	Y
That when the body's wrappings are unwound	Y
And when the vital breath is forced without	Y
The soul the senses of the mind dissolve	U3
Since for the twain the cause and ground of life	D
Is in the fact of their conjoined estate	Y
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Once more since body's unable to sustain	D3
Division from the soul without decay	Q
And obscene stench how canst thou doubt but that	Y
The soul uprisen from the body's	B2

Lucretius

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