Book Iv - Part 03 - The Senses And Mental Pictures Poem Rhyme Scheme

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Bodies that strike the eyes awaking sight	A
From certain things flow odours evermore	B
As cold from rivers heat from sun and spray	C
From waves of ocean eater out of walls	D
Around the coasts Nor ever cease to flit	E
The varied voices sounds athrough the air	F
Then too there comes into the mouth at times	G
The wet of a salt taste when by the sea	H
We roam about and so whene'er we watch	I
The wormword being mixed its bitter stings	J
To such degree from all things is each thing	K
Borne streamingly along and sent about	L
To every region round and Nature grants	M
Nor rest nor respite of the onward flow	N
Since 'tis incessantly we feeling have	O
And all the time are suffered to descry	F
And smell all things at hand and hear them sound	P
Besides since shape examined by our hands	Q
Within the dark is known to be the same	R
As that by eyes perceived within the light	A
And lustrous day both touch and sight must be	H
By one like cause aroused So if we test	S
A square and get its stimulus on us	T
Within the dark within the light what square	F
Can fall upon our sight except a square	F
That images the things Wherefore it seems	U
The source of seeing is in images	V
Nor without these can anything be viewed	W
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Now these same films I name are borne about	L
And tossed and scattered into regions all	X
But since we do perceive alone through eyes	Y
It follows hence that whitherso we turn	Z
Our sight all things do strike against it there	F
With form and hue And just how far from us	T
Each thing may be away the image yields	A2
To us the power to see and chance to tell	B2
For when 'tis sent at once it shoves ahead	C2
And drives along the air that's in the space	D2
Betwixt it and our eyes And thus this air	F
All glides athrough our eyeballs and as 'twere	F
Brushes athrough our pupils and thuswise	D2
Passes across Therefore it comes we see	D2
How far from us each thing may be away	C
And the more air there be that's driven before	F
And too the longer be the brushing breeze	D2
Against our eyes the farther off removed	E2
Each thing is seen to be forsooth this work	F2
With mightily swift order all goes on	G2
So that upon one instant we may see	D2
What kind the object and how far away	C
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Nor over marvellous must this be deemed	H2
In these affairs that though the films which strike	I2
Upon the eyes cannot be singly seen	J2
The things themselves may be perceived For thus	D2
When the wind beats upon us stroke by stroke	K2
And when the sharp cold streams 'tis not our wont	L2
To feel each private particle of wind	M2
Or of that cold but rather all at once	D2
And so we see how blows affect our body	D2
As if one thing were beating on the same	R
And giving us the feel of its own body	D2
Outside of us Again whene'er we thump	N2
With finger tip upon a stone we touch	O2
But the rock's surface and the outer hue	P2
Nor feel that hue by contact rather feel	Q2
The very hardness deep within the rock	R2
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Now come and why beyond a looking glass	D2
An image may be seen perceive For seen	J2
It soothly is removed far within	S2
'Tis the same sort as objects peered upon	G2
Outside in their true shape whene'er a door	F
Yields through itself an open peering place	D2
And lets us see so many things outside	T2
Beyond the house Also that sight is made	U2
By a twofold twin air for first is seen	J2
The air inside the door posts next the doors	D2
The twain to left and right and afterwards	D2
A light beyond comes brushing through our eyes	D2
Then other air then objects peered upon	G2
Outside in their true shape And thus when first	V2
The image of the glass projects itself	W2
As to our gaze it comes it shoves ahead	C2
And drives along the air that's in the space	D2
Betwixt it and our eyes and brings to pass	D2
That we perceive the air ere yet the glass	D2
But when we've also seen the glass itself	W2
Forthwith that image which from us is borne	X2
Reaches the glass and there thrown back again	Y2
Comes back unto our eyes and driving rolls	D2
Ahead of itself another air that then	Y2
'Tis this we see before itself and thus	D2
It looks so far removed behind the glass	D2
Wherefore again again there's naught for wonder	F
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In those which render from the mirror's plane	Z2
A vision back since each thing comes to pass	D2
By means of the two airs Now in the glass	D2
The right part of our members is observed	A3
Upon the left because when comes the image	B3
Hitting against the level of the glass	D2
'Tis not returned unshifted but forced off	C3
Backwards in line direct and not oblique	D3
Exactly as whoso his plaster mask	E3
Should dash before 'twere dry on post or beam	F3
And it should straightway keep at clinging there	F
Its shape reversed facing him who threw	P2
And so remould the features it gives back	G3
It comes that now the right eye is the left	H3
The left the right An image too may be	D2
From mirror into mirror handed on	G2
Until of idol films even five or six	D2
Have thus been gendered For whatever things	D2
Shall hide back yonder in the house the same	R
However far removed in twisting ways	D2
May still be all brought forth through bending paths	D2
And by these several mirrors seen to be	D2
Within the house since Nature so compels	D2
All things to be borne backward and spring off	C3
At equal angles from all other things	D2
To such degree the image gleams across	D2
From mirror unto mirror where 'twas left	H3
It comes to be the right and then again	Y2
Returns and changes round unto the left	H3
Again those little sides of mirrors curved	A3
Proportionate to the bulge of our own flank	I3
Send back to us their idols with the right	A
Upon the right and this is so because	D2
Either the image is passed on along	J3
From mirror unto mirror and thereafter	F
When twice dashed off flies back unto ourselves	D2
Or else the image wheels itself around	P
When once unto the mirror it has come	K3
Since the curved surface teaches it to turn	Z
To usward Further thou might'st well believe	L3
That these film idols step along with us	D2
And set their feet in unison with ours	D2
And imitate our carriage since from that	M3
Part of a mirror whence thou hast withdrawn	N3
Straightway no images can be returned	O3
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Further our eye balls tend to flee the bright	A
And shun to gaze thereon the sun even blinds	D2
If thou goest on to strain them unto him	P3
Because his strength is mighty and the films	D2
Heavily downward from on high are borne	X2
Through the pure ether and the viewless winds	D2
And strike the eyes disordering their joints	D2
So piecing lustre often burns the eyes	D2
Because it holdeth many seeds of fire	F
Which working into eyes engender pain	Z2
Again whatever jaundiced people view	P2
Becomes wan yellow since from out their bodies	D2
Flow many seeds wan yellow forth to meet	Q3
The films of things and many too are mixed	R3
Within their eye which by contagion paint	S3
All things with sallowness Again we view	P2
From dark recesses things that stand in light	A
Because when first has entered and possessed	S
The open eyes this nearer darkling air	F
Swiftly the shining air and luminous	D2
Followeth in which purges then the eyes	D2
And scatters asunder of that other air	F
The sable shadows for in large degrees	D2
This air is nimbler nicer and more strong	J3
And soon as ever 'thas filled and oped with light	A
The pathways of the eyeballs which before	F
Black air had blocked there follow straightaway	C
Those films of things out standing in the light	A
Provoking vision what we cannot do	P2
From out the light with objects in the dark	T3
Because that denser darkling air behind	M2
Followeth in and fills each aperture	F
And thus blockades the pathways of the eyes	D2
That there no images of any things	D2
Can be thrown in and agitate the eyes	D2
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And when from far away we do behold	U3
The squared towers of a city oft	V3
Rounded they seem on this account because	D2
Each distant angle is perceived obtuse	D2
Or rather it is not perceived at all	X
And perishes its blow nor to our gaze	D2
Arrives its stroke	K2

Lucretius

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