Book Iii - Part 05 - Cerberus And Furies, And That Lack Of Light Poem Rhyme Scheme

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Tartarus out belching from his mouth the surge	A
Of horrible heat the which are nowhere nor	B
Indeed can be but in this life is fear	C
Of retributions just and expiations	D
For evil acts the dungeon and the leap	E
From that dread rock of infamy the stripes	D
The executioners the oaken rack	F
The iron plates bitumen and the torch	G
And even though these are absent yet the mind	H
With a fore fearing conscience plies its goads	D
And burns beneath the lash nor sees meanwhile	I
What terminus of ills what end of pine	J
Can ever be and feareth lest the same	K
But grow more heavy after death Of truth	L
The life of fools is Acheron on earth	M
This also to thy very self sometimes	D
Repeat thou mayst Lo even good Ancus left	N
The sunshine with his eyes in divers things	D
A better man than thou O worthless hind	H
And many other kings and lords of rule	O
Thereafter have gone under once who swayed	P
O'er mighty peoples And he also he	Q
Who whilom paved a highway down the sea	Q
And gave his legionaries thoroughfare	R
Along the deep and taught them how to cross	D
The pools of brine afoot and did contemn	J
Trampling upon it with his cavalry	Q
The bellowings of ocean poured his soul	S
From dying body as his light was ta'en	J
And Scipio's son the thunderbolt of war	B
Horror of Carthage gave his bones to earth	M
Like to the lowliest villein in the house	D
Add finders out of sciences and arts	D
Add comrades of the Heliconian dames	D
Among whom Homer sceptered o'er them all	T
Now lies in slumber sunken with the rest	U
Then too Democritus when ripened eld	U
Admonished him his memory waned away	V
Of own accord offered his head to death	W
Even Epicurus went his light of life	X
Run out the man in genius who o'er topped	U
The human race extinguishing all others	D
As sun in ether arisen all the stars	D
Wilt thou then dally thou complain to go	Y
For whom already life's as good as dead	U
Whilst yet thou livest and lookest who in sleep	E
Wastest thy life time's major part and snorest	U
Even when awake and ceasest not to see	Q
The stuff of dreams and bearest a mind beset	U
By baseless terror nor discoverest oft	U
What's wrong with thee when like a sotted wretch	G
Thou'rt jostled along by many crowding cares	D
And wanderest reeling round with mind aswim	K
If men in that same way as on the mind	U
They feel the load that wearies with its weight	U
Could also know the causes whence it comes	D
And why so great the heap of ill on heart	U
O not in this sort would they live their life	X
As now so much we see them knowing not	U
What 'tis they want and seeking ever and ever	Z
A change of place as if to drop the burden	J
The man who sickens of his home goes out	U
Forth from his splendid halls and straight returns	D
Feeling i'faith no better off abroad	U
He races driving his Gallic ponies along	A2
Down to his villa madly as in haste	U
To hurry help to a house afire At once	D
He yawns as soon as foot has touched the threshold	U
Or drowsily goes off in sleep and seeks	D
Forgetfulness or maybe bustles about	U
And makes for town again In such a way	V
Each human flees himself a self in sooth	W
As happens he by no means can escape	B2
And willy nilly he cleaves to it and loathes	D
Sick sick and guessing not the cause of ail	C2
Yet should he see but that O chiefly then	J
Leaving all else he'd study to divine	J
The nature of things since here is in debate	U
Eternal time and not the single hour	Z
Mortal's estate in whatsoever remains	D
After great death	W
And too when all is said	U
What evil lust of life is this so great	U
Subdues us to live so dreadfully distraught	U
In perils and alarms one fixed end	U
Of life abideth for mortality	Q
Death's not to shun and we must go to meet	U
Besides we're busied with the same devices	D
Ever and ever and we are at them ever	Z
And there's no new delight that may be forged	U
By living on But whilst the thing we long for	B
Is lacking that seems good above all else	D
Thereafter when we've touched it something else	D
We long for ever one equal thirst of life	X
Grips us agape And doubtful 'tis what fortune	J
The future times may carry or what be	Q
That chance may bring or what the issue next	U
Awaiting us Nor by prolonging life	X
Take we the least away from death's own time	K
Nor can we pluck one moment off whereby	D2
To minish the aeons of our state of death	W
Therefore O man by living on fulfil	C2
As many generations as thou may	V
Eternal death shall there be waiting still	C2
And he who died with light of yesterday	V
Shall be no briefer time in death's No more	B
Than he who perished months or years before	B

Lucretius

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