Book Vi - Part 02 - Great Meteorological Phenomena, Etc Poem Rhyme Scheme

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And so in first place then	A
With thunder are shaken the blue deeps of heaven	B
Because the ethereal clouds scudding aloft	C
Together clash what time 'gainst one another	D
The winds are battling For never a sound there come	E
From out the serene regions of the sky	F
But wheresoever in a host more dense	G
The clouds foregather thence more often comes	H
A crash with mighty rumbling And again	A
Clouds cannot be of so condensed a frame	I
As stones and timbers nor again so fine	J
As mists and flying smoke for then perforce	K
They'd either fall borne down by their brute weight	L
Like stones or like the smoke they'd powerless be	M
To keep their mass or to retain within	N
Frore snows and storms of hail And they give forth	O
O'er skiey levels of the spreading world	P
A sound on high as linen awning stretched	Q
O'er mighty theatres gives forth at times	R
A cracking roar when much 'tis beaten about	S
Betwixt the poles and cross beams Sometimes too	T
Asunder rent by wanton gusts it raves	U
And imitates the tearing sound of sheets	V
Of paper even this kind of noise thou mayst	T
In thunder hear or sound as when winds whirl	W
With lashings and do buffet about in air	X
A hanging cloth and flying paper sheets	V
For sometimes too it chances that the clouds	Y
Cannot together crash head on but rather	D
Move side wise and with motions contrary	M
Graze each the other's body without speed	T
From whence that dry sound grateth on our ears	Z
So long drawn out until the clouds have passed	T
From out their close positions	A2
And again	A
In following wise all things seem oft to quake	B2
At shock of heavy thunder and mightiest walls	C2
Of the wide reaches of the upper world	T
There on the instant to have sprung apart	T
Riven asunder what time a gathered blast	T
Of the fierce hurricane hath all at once	D2
Twisted its way into a mass of clouds	Y
And there enclosed ever more and more	E2
Compelleth by its spinning whirl the cloud	T
To grow all hollow with a thickened crust	T
Surrounding for thereafter when the force	K
And the keen onset of the wind have weakened	T
That crust lo then the cloud to split in twain	F2
Gives forth a hideous crash with bang and boom	G2
No marvel this since oft a bladder small	H2
Filled up with air will when of sudden burst	T
Give forth a like large sound	T
There's reason too	T
Why clouds make sounds as through them blow the winds	I2
We see borne down the sky oft shapes of clouds	Y
Rough edged or branched many forky ways	J2
And 'tis the same as when the sudden flaws	K2
Of northwest wind through the dense forest blow	L2
Making the leaves to sough and limbs to crash	M2
It happens too at times that roused force	K
Of the fierce hurricane to rends the cloud	T
Breaking right through it by a front assault	T
For what a blast of wind may do up there	X
Is manifest from facts when here on earth	N2
A blast more gentle yet uptwists tall trees	O2
And sucks them madly from their deepest roots	P2
Besides among the clouds are waves and these	O2
Give as they roughly break a rumbling roar	E2
As when along deep streams or the great sea	M
Breaks the loud surf It happens too whenever	D
Out from one cloud into another falls	C2
The fiery energy of thunderbolt	T
That straightaway the cloud if full of wet	T
Extinguishes the fire with mighty noise	Q2
As iron white from the hot furnaces	R2
Sizzles when speedily we've plunged its glow	L2
Down the cold water Further if a cloud	T
More dry receive the fire 'twill suddenly	M
Kindle to flame and burn with monstrous sound	T
As if a flame with whirl of winds should range	S2
Along the laurel tressed mountains far	T2
Upburning with its vast assault those trees	O2
Nor is there aught that in the crackling flame	I
Consumes with sound more terrible to man	U2
Than Delphic laurel of Apollo lord	T
Oft too the multitudinous crash of ice	V2
And down pour of swift hail gives forth a sound	T
Among the mighty clouds on high for when	A
The wind hath packed them close each mountain mass	W2
Of rain cloud there congealed utterly	M
And mixed with hail stones breaks and booms	X2
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Likewise it lightens when the clouds have struck	Y2
By their collision forth the seeds of fire	D
As if a stone should smite a stone or steel	Z2
For light then too leaps forth and fire then scatters	X2
The shining sparks But with our ears we get	T
The thunder after eyes behold the flash	M2
Because forever things arrive the ears	X2
More tardily than the eyes as thou mayst see	X2
From this example too when markest thou	A3
Some man far yonder felling a great tree	X2
With double edged ax it comes to pass	X2
Thine eye beholds the swinging stroke before	E2
The blow gives forth a sound athrough thine ears	X2
Thus also we behold the flashing ere	X
We hear the thunder which discharged is	X2
At same time with the fire and by same cause	X2
Born of the same collision	B
In following wise	X2
The clouds suffuse with leaping light the lands	X2
And the storm flashes with tremulous elan	B
When the wind hath invaded a cloud and whirling there	X
Hath wrought as I have shown above the cloud	T
Into a hollow with a thickened crust	T
It becomes hot of own velocity	X2
Just as thou seest how motion will o'erheat	X2
And set ablaze all objects verily	Z2
A leaden ball hurtling through length of space	X2
Even melts Therefore when this same wind a fire	D
Hath split black cloud it scatters the fire seeds	X2
Which so to say have been pressed out by force	X2
Of sudden from the cloud and these do make	B2
The pulsing flashes of flame thence followeth	A3
The detonation which attacks our ears	X2
More tardily than aught which comes along	B3
Unto the sight of eyeballs This takes place	X2
As know thou mayst at times when clouds are dense	X2
And one upon the other piled aloft	X2
With wonderful upheavings nor be thou	A3
Deceived because we see how broad their base	X2
From underneath and not how high they tower	D
For make thine observations at a time	C3
When winds shall bear athwart the horizon's blue	Z2
Clouds like to mountain ranges moving on	D3
Or when about the sides of mighty peaks	X2
Thou seest them one upon the other massed	X2
And burdening downward anchored in high repose	X2
With the winds sepulchred on all sides round	X2
Then canst thou know their mighty masses then	A
Canst view their caverns as if builded there	X
Of beetling crags which when the hurricanes	X2
In gathered storm have filled utterly	Z2
Then prisoned in clouds they rave around	X2
With mighty roarings and within those dens	X2
Bluster like savage beasts and now from here	E3
And now from there send growlings through the clouds	X2
And seeking an outlet whirl themselves about	X2
And roll from 'mid the clouds the seeds of fire	D
And heap them multitudinously there	X
And in the hollow furnaces within	N
Wheel flame around until from bursted cloud	X2
In forky flashes they have gleamed forth	A3
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Again from following cause it comes to pass	X2
That yon swift golden hue of liquid fire	D
Darts downward to the earth because the clouds	X2
Themselves must hold abundant seeds of fire	D
For when they be without all moisture then	A
They be for most part of a flamy hue	Z2
And a resplendent And indeed they must	X2
Even from the light of sun unto themselves	X2
Take multitudinous seeds and so perforce	X2
Redden and pour their bright fires all abroad	X2
And therefore when the wind hath driven and thrust	X2
Hath forced and squeezed into one spot these clouds	X2
They pour abroad the seeds of fire pressed out	X2
Which make to flash these colours of the flame	I
Likewise it lightens also when the clouds	X2
Grow rare and thin along the sky for when	A
The wind with gentle touch unravels them	F3
And breaketh asunder as they move those seeds	X2
Which make the lightnings must by nature fall	Z2
At such an hour the horizon lightens round	X2
Without the hideous terror of dread noise	X2
And skiey uproar	E2
To proceed apace	X2
What sort of nature thunderbolts posses	X2
Is by their strokes made manifest	X2

Lucretius

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