Book V - Part 07 - Beginnings Of Civilization Poem Rhyme Scheme

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Afterwards	A
When huts they had procured and pelts and fire	B
And when the woman joined unto the man	C
Withdrew with him into one dwelling place	D
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Were known and when they saw an offspring born	E
From out themselves then first the human race	D
Began to soften For 'twas now that fire	B
Rendered their shivering frames less staunch to bear	F
Under the canopy of the sky the cold	G
And Love reduced their shaggy hardiness	D
And children with the prattle and the kiss	D
Soon broke the parents' haughty temper down	H
Then too did neighbours 'gin to league as friends	D
Eager to wrong no more or suffer wrong	I
And urged for children and the womankind	G
Mercy of fathers whilst with cries and gestures	D
They stammered hints how meet it was that all	J
Should have compassion on the weak And still	K
Though concord not in every wise could then	L
Begotten be a good a goodly part	G
Kept faith inviolate or else mankind	G
Long since had been unutterably cut off	M
And propagation never could have brought	G
The species down the ages	D
Lest perchance	D
Concerning these affairs thou ponderest	G
In silent meditation let me say	D
'Twas lightning brought primevally to earth	N
The fire for mortals and from thence hath spread	G
O'er all the lands the flames of heat For thus	D
Even now we see so many objects touched	G
By the celestial flames to flash aglow	O
When thunderbolt has dowered them with heat	G
Yet also when a many branched tree	P
Beaten by winds writhes swaying to and fro	O
Pressing 'gainst branches of a neighbour tree	P
There by the power of mighty rub and rub	Q
Is fire engendered and at times out flares	D
The scorching heat of flame when boughs do chafe	R
Against the trunks And of these causes either	B
May well have given to mortal men the fire	B
Next food to cook and soften in the flame	S
The sun instructed since so oft they saw	D
How objects mellowed when subdued by warmth	T
And by the raining blows of fiery beams	D
Through all the fields	D
And more and more each day	D
Would men more strong in sense more wise in heart	G
Teach them to change their earlier mode and life	U
By fire and new devices Kings began	C
Cities to found and citadels to set	G
As strongholds and asylums for themselves	D
And flocks and fields to portion for each man	C
After the beauty strength and sense of each	V
For beauty then imported much and strength	W
Had its own rights supreme Thereafter wealth	X
Discovered was and gold was brought to light	G
Which soon of honour stripped both strong and fair	F
For men however beautiful in form	Y
Or valorous will follow in the main	Z
The rich man's party Yet were man to steer	A2
His life by sounder reasoning he'd own	B2
Abounding riches if with mind content	G
He lived by thrift for never as I guess	D
Is there a lack of little in the world	G
But men wished glory for themselves and power	B
Even that their fortunes on foundations firm	C2
Might rest forever and that they themselves	D
The opulent might pass a quiet life	U
In vain in vain since in the strife to climb	D2
On to the heights of honour men do make	E2
Their pathway terrible and even when once	D
They reach them envy like the thunderbolt	G
At times will smite O hurling headlong down	H
To murkiest Tartarus in scorn for lo	O
All summits all regions loftier than the rest	G
Smoke blasted as by envy's thunderbolts	D
So better far in quiet to obey	D
Than to desire chief mastery of affairs	D
And ownership of empires Be it so	D
And let the weary sweat their life blood out	G
All to no end battling in hate along	I
The narrow path of man's ambition	F2
Since all their wisdom is from others' lips	D
And all they seek is known from what they've heard	G
And less from what they've thought Nor is this folly	P
Greater to day nor greater soon to be	P
Than' twas of old	G
And therefore kings were slain	Z
And pristine majesty of golden thrones	D
And haughty sceptres lay o'erturned in dust	G
And crowns so splendid on the sovereign heads	D
Soon bloody under the proletarian feet	G
Groaned for their glories gone for erst o'er much	G2
Dreaded thereafter with more greedy zest	G
Trampled beneath the rabble heel Thus things	D
Down to the vilest lees of brawling mobs	D
Succumbed whilst each man sought unto himself	H2
Dominion and supremacy So next	G
Some wiser heads instructed men to found	G
The magisterial office and did frame	S
Codes that they might consent to follow laws	D
For humankind o'er wearied with a life	U
Fostered by force was ailing from its feuds	D
And so the sooner of its own free will	K
Yielded to laws and strictest codes For since	D
Each hand made ready in its wrath to take	E2
A vengeance fiercer than by man's fair laws	D
Is now conceded men on this account	G
Loathed the old life fostered by force 'Tis thence	D
That fear of punishments defiles each prize	D
Of wicked days for force and fraud ensnare	F
Each man around and in the main recoil	I2
On him from whence they sprung Not easy 'tis	D
For one who violates by ugly deeds	D
The bonds of common peace to pass a life	U
Composed and tranquil For albeit he 'scape	J2
The race of gods and men he yet must dread	G
'Twill not be hid forever since indeed	G
So many oft babbling on amid their dreams	D
Or raving in sickness have betrayed themselves	D
As stories tell and published at last	G
Old secrets and the sins	D
But nature 'twas	D
Urged men to utter various sounds of tongue	K2
And need and use did mould the names of things	D
About in same wise as the lack speech years	D
Compel young children unto gesturings	D
Making them point with finger here and there	F
At what's before them For each creature feels	D
By instinct to what use to put his powers	D
Ere yet the bull calf's scarce begotten horns	D
Project above his brows with them he 'gins	D
Enraged to butt and savagely to thrust	G
But whelps of panthers and the lion's cubs	D
With claws and paws and bites are at the fray	D
Already when their teeth and claws be scarce	D
As yet engendered So again we see	D
All breeds of winged creatures trust to wings	D
And from their fledgling pinions seek to get	G
A fluttering assistance Thus to think	L2
That in those days some man apportioned round	G
To things their names and that from him men learned	G
Their first nomenclature is foolery	D
For why could he mark everything by words	D
And utter the various sounds of tongue what time	D2
The rest may be supposed powerless	D
To do the same And if the rest had not	G
Already one with other used words	D
Whence was implanted in the teacher then	L
Fore knowledge of their use and whence was given	F2
To him alone primordial faculty	D
To know and see in mind what 'twas he willed	G
Besides one only man could scarce subdue	G
An overmastered multitude to choose	D
To get by heart his names of things A task	M2
Not easy 'tis in any wise to teach	V
And to persuade the deaf concerning what	G
'Tis needful for to do For ne'er would they	D
Allow nor ne'er in anywise endure	N2
Perpetual vain dingdong in their ears	D
Of spoken sounds unheard before And what	G
At last in this affair so wondrous is	D
That human race in whom a voice and tongue	K2
Were now in vigour should by divers words	D
Denote its objects as each divers sense	D
Might prompt since even the speechless herds aye since	D
The very generations of wild beasts	D
Are wont dissimilar and divers sounds	D
To rouse from in them when there's fear or pain	Z
And when they burst with joys And this forsooth	D
'Tis thine to know from plainest facts when first	G
Huge flabby jowls of mad Molossian hounds	D
Baring their hard white teeth begin to snarl	O2
They threaten with infuriate lips peeled back	P2
In sounds far other than with which they bark	Q2
And fill with voices all the regions round	G
And when with fondling tongue they start to lick	R2
Their puppies or do toss them round with paws	D
Feigning with gentle bites to gape and snap	J2
They fawn with yelps of voice far other then	L
Than when alone within the house they bay	D
Or whimperi	N2

Lucretius

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