Book Iv - Part 04 - Some Vital Functions Poem Rhyme Scheme

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In these affairs	A
We crave that thou wilt passionately flee	B
The one offence and anxiously wilt shun	C
The error of presuming the clear lights	D
Of eyes created were that we might see	B
Or thighs and knees aprop upon the feet	E
Thuswise can bended be that we might step	F
With goodly strides ahead or forearms joined	G
Unto the sturdy uppers or serving hands	H
On either side were given that we might do	I
Life's own demands All such interpretation	C
Is aft for fore with inverse reasoning	J
Since naught is born in body so that we	B
May use the same but birth engenders use	K
No seeing ere the lights of eyes were born	L
No speaking ere the tongue created was	M
But origin of tongue came long before	N
Discourse of words and ears created were	O
Much earlier than any sound was heard	P
And all the members so meseems were there	Q
Before they got their use and therefore they	R
Could not be gendered for the sake of use	K
But contrariwise contending in the fight	S
With hand to hand and rending of the joints	T
And fouling of the limbs with gore was there	Q
O long before the gleaming spears ere flew	I
And Nature prompted man to shun a wound	U
Before the left arm by the aid of art	V
Opposed the shielding targe And verily	I
Yielding the weary body to repose	W
Far ancienter than cushions of soft beds	X
And quenching thirst is earlier than cups	Y
These objects therefore which for use and life	Z
Have been devised can be conceived as found	U
For sake of using But apart from such	A2
Are all which first were born and afterwards	B2
Gave knowledge of their own utility	B
Chief in which sort we note the senses limbs	C2
Wherefore again 'tis quite beyond thy power	O
To hold that these could thus have been create	D2
For office of utility	B
Likewise	E2
'Tis nothing strange that all the breathing creatures	F2
Seek even by nature of their frame their food	G2
Yes since I've taught thee that from off the things	H2
Stream and depart innumerable bodies	I2
In modes innumerable too but most	J2
Must be the bodies streaming from the living	J
Which bodies vexed by motion evermore	N
Are through the mouth exhaled innumerable	I
When weary creatures pant or through the sweat	K2
Squeezed forth innumerable from deep within	L2
Thus body rarefies so undermined	M2
In all its nature and pain attends its state	D2
And so the food is taken to underprop	F
The tottering joints and by its interfusion	L2
To re create their powers and there stop up	F
The longing open mouthed through limbs and veins	N2
For eating And the moist no less departs	O2
Into all regions that demand the moist	P2
And many heaped up particles of hot	Q2
Which cause such burnings in these bellies of ours	F2
The liquid on arriving dissipates	R2
And quenches like a fire that parching heat	E
No longer now can scorch the frame And so	S2
Thou seest how panting thirst is washed away	R
From off our body how the hunger pang	T2
It too appeased	U2
Now how it comes that we	B
Whene'er we wish can step with strides ahead	V2
And how 'tis given to move our limbs about	W2
And what device is wont to push ahead	V2
This the big load of our corporeal frame	X2
I'll say to thee do thou attend what's said	V2
I say that first some idol films of walking	J
Into our mind do fall and smite the mind	M2
As said before Thereafter will arises	Y2
For no one starts to do a thing before	N
The intellect previsions what it wills	Z2
And what it there pre visioneth depends	A3
On what that image is When therefore mind	M2
Doth so bestir itself that it doth will	I
To go and step along it strikes at once	B3
That energy of soul that's sown about	W2
In all the body through the limbs and frame	X2
And this is easy of performance since	C3
The soul is close conjoined with the mind	M2
Next soul in turn strikes body and by degrees	I2
Thus the whole mass is pushed along and moved	D3
Then too the body rarefies and air	Q
Forsooth as ever of such nimbleness	I2
Comes on and penetrates aboundingly	I
Through opened pores and thus is sprinkled round	U
Unto all smallest places in our frame	X2
Thus then by these twain factors severally	I
Body is borne like ship with oars and wind	M2
Nor yet in these affairs is aught for wonder	O
That particles so fine can whirl around	U
So great a body and turn this weight of ours	I2
For wind so tenuous with its subtle body	I
Yet pushes driving on the mighty ship	F
Of mighty bulk one hand directs the same	X2
Whatever its momentum and one helm	E3
Whirls it around whither ye please and loads	I2
Many and huge are moved and hoisted high	F3
By enginery of pulley blocks and wheels	I2
With but light strain	L2
Now by what modes this sleep	F
Pours through our members waters of repose	I2
And frees the breast from cares of mind I'll tell	I
In verses sweeter than they many are	G3
Even as the swan's slight note is better far	G3
Than that dispersed clamour of the cranes	I2
Among the south wind's aery clouds Do thou	H3
Give me sharp ears and a sagacious mind	M2
That thou mayst not deny the things to be	I
Whereof I'm speaking nor depart away	R
With bosom scorning these the spoken truths	I2
Thyself at fault unable to perceive	I3
Sleep chiefly comes when energy of soul	I
Hath now been scattered through the frame and part	V
Expelled abroad and gone away and part	V
Crammed back and settling deep within the frame	X2
Whereafter then our loosened members droop	F
For doubt is none that by the work of soul	I
Exist in us this sense and when by slumber	O
That sense is thwarted we are bound to think	J3
The soul confounded and expelled abroad	K3
Yet not entirely else the frame would lie	F3
Drenched in the everlasting cold of death	L3
In sooth where no one part of soul remained	M3
Lurking among the members even as fire	O
Lurks buried under many ashes whence	I2
Could sense amain rekindled be in members	I2
As flame can rise anew from unseen fire	O
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By what devices this strange state and new	L2
May be occasioned and by what the soul	I
Can be confounded and the frame grow faint	N3
I will untangle see to it thou that I	F3
Pour forth my words not unto empty winds	I2
In first place body on its outer parts	I2
Since these are touched by neighbouring aery gusts	I2
Must there be thumped and strook by blows of air	Q
Repeatedly And therefore almost all	I
Are covered either with hides or else with shells	I2
Or with the horny callus or with bark	O3
Yet this same air lashes their inner parts	I2
When creatures draw a breath or blow it out	W2
Wherefore since body thus is flogged alike	P3
Upon the inside and the out and blows	I2
Come in upon us through the little pores	I2
Even inward to our body's primal parts	I2
And primal elements there comes to pass	I2
By slow degrees along our members then	L2
A kind of overthrow for then confounded	Q3
Are those arrangements of the primal germs	I2
Of body and of mind It comes to pass	I2
That next a part of soul's expelled abroad	K3
A part retreateth in recesses hid	Q3
A part too scattered all about the frame	X2
Cannot become united nor engage	R3
In interchange of motion Nature now	H3
So hedges off approaches and the paths	I2
And thus the sense its motions all deranged	S3
Retires down deep within and since there's naught	T3
As 'twere to prop the frame the body weakens	I2
And all the members languish and the arms	I2
And eyelids fall and as ye lie abed	V2
Even there the houghs will sag and loose their powers	I2
Again sleep follows after food because	I2
The food produces same result as air	Q
Whilst being scattered round through all the veins	I2
And much the heaviest is that slumber which	U3
Full or fatigued thou takest since 'tis then	L2
That the most bodies disarrange themselves	I2
Bruised by labours hard And in same wise	I2
This three fold change a forcing of the soul	I
Down deeper more a casting forth of it	V3
A moving more divided in its parts	I2
And scattered more	N
And to whate'er pursuit	W3
A man most clings absorbed or what the affairs	I2
On which we theretofore have tarried much	A2
And mind hath strained upon the more we seem	X3
In sleep not rarely to go at the same	X2
The lawyers seem to plead and cite decrees	I2
Commanders they to fight and go at frays	I2
Sailors	I2

Lucretius

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