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  1     I|           Foretoken thy approach, O thou Divine,~ And leap the
  2     I|            Lull to a timely rest~ O'er sea and land the savage
  3     I|        bosom flings his strength~ O'ermastered by the eternal
  4     I|        Again, why see we lavished o'er the lands~ At spring
  5     I|         reasonings of mind.~ Name o'er creation with what names
  6     I|           the thing itself is not o'erhard~ For explanation.
  7    II|           armies embattled yonder o'er the plains,~ Ourselves
  8    II|        and mastery of the world.~ O wretched minds of men! O
  9    II|          O wretched minds of men! O blinded hearts!~ In how
 10    II|          years, however brief! -~ O not to see that Nature for
 11    II|         pales and flees thy mind; O then~ The fears of death
 12    II|           free will for creatures o'er the lands,~ Whence is
 13    II|       spotted gaieties, would lie o'erthrown~ By some new colour
 14    II|      chords,~ Would likewise sink o'ermastered and be mute:~
 15    II|           fixed, and by like law~ O'ertravelled backwards at
 16    II|       Greece~ ~ Seated in chariot o'er the realms of air~ To
 17    II| sensations and straight give them o'er.~ And thus may'st know
 18    II|             the stars that wander o'er,~ The moon, the radiance
 19    II|         of that sight.~ The which o'erwearied to behold, to-day~
 20    II|       shaking of his head,~ Sighs o'er and o'er that labours
 21    II|         his head,~ Sighs o'er and o'er that labours of his hands~
 22   III|                BOOK III~ PROEM~ ~ O thou who first uplifted
 23   III|          profitable ends of man,~ O thee I follow, glory of
 24   III|    downfall: ever, unclouded sky~ O'er roofs, and laughs with
 25   III|          no more from gazing down o'er all~ Which under our
 26   III|         on below~ Along the void. O, here in these affairs~
 27   III|           Unto its deeps, pouring o'er all that is~ The black
 28   III|         these our limbs are given o'er~ To gentle sleep and
 29   III|         soul,~ And holds dominion o'er the body all.~ And by
 30   III|          roaring burst the breast o'erwrought,~ Unable to hold
 31   III|          torch of wrath applied,~ O'erspreading with shadows
 32   III|       Enter into the same. Again, O why,~ When the strong wine
 33   III|           the feet and legs, then o'er the rest~ Slow crawl
 34   III|       done~ Is fallen away, at no o'erlong remove~ Is that,
 35   III|           Boneless and bloodless, o'er the bloated frame~ Bubble
 36   III|         light of life were given, O yet~ That process too would
 37   III|          anguish and from fear.~ "O even as here thou art, aslumber
 38   III|         pause of life.~ This too, O often from the soul men
 39   III|     foully and fall out in vain?~ O why not rather make an end
 40   III|           endure a world of toil, O this it is~ To shove with
 41   III|         With the fruits of life - O this, I fancy, 'tis~ To
 42   III|           A better man than thou, O worthless hind;~ And many
 43   III|           under, once who swayed~ O'er mighty peoples. And he
 44   III|       Among whom Homer, sceptered o'er them all~ Now lies in
 45   III|        out, the man in genius who o'er-topped~ The human race,
 46   III|        the heap of ill on heart,~ O not in this sort would they
 47   III|           should he see but that, O chiefly then,~ Leaving all
 48   III|       state of death.~ Therefore, O man, by living on, fulfil~
 49    IV|    breezes swimming on -~ So that o'er lengths of space a little
 50    IV|      instant of the day, and fly~ O'er sea and lands and flood
 51    IV|       that from the sun the rays~ O'erspread the heaven? This
 52    IV|   tremulous fires,~ And raise him o'er the mountain-tops, those
 53    IV| mountain-tops, those mountains -~ O'er which he seemeth then
 54    IV|         As far, as from the earth o'erspread on high~ The gulfs
 55    IV|          puckered lip oft runneth o'er and o'er~ The open reeds, -
 56    IV|          lip oft runneth o'er and o'er~ The open reeds, - lest
 57    IV|            Indeed, where one from o'er-abundant bile~ Is stricken
 58    IV|      limbs with gore, was there,~ O long before the gleaming
 59    IV|         innocent young,~ By sleep o'ermastered, think they lift
 60    IV|        lures of love,~ From this, O first hath into human hearts~
 61    IV|         sure"; the big and bulky~ O she's "an Admiration, imposante";~
 62    IV|         out, covers her threshold o'er~ Often with flowers and
 63    IV|        with his,~ The female hath o'erpowered the force of male~
 64    IV|         Even as an object smitten o'er and o'er~ By blows, however
 65    IV|           object smitten o'er and o'er~ By blows, however lightly,
 66     V|                    BOOK V~ PROEM~ O who can build with puissant
 67     V|           life, afar~ Distributed o'er populous domains,~ Now
 68     V|           in Arcadia? Or, again,~ O what could Cretan Bull,
 69     V| tree-trunk with tremendous bulk,~ O what, again, could he inflict
 70     V|       bosom, in our own despite!~ O then how great and keen
 71     V|          words indeed,~ Not arms, O shall it not be seemly him~
 72     V|          class of mortal objects, o'er all else,~ The mind exists
 73     V|         yon high things~ Observed o'erhead on the ethereal coasts),~
 74     V|        seas, the lands, the sky:~ O Memmius, their threefold
 75     V|           guide: and may~ Reason, O rather than the fact itself,~
 76     V|         us that all things can be o'erthrown~ And sink with
 77     V|          dote. Our gratefulness,~ O what emoluments could it
 78     V|            through goodly years.~ O what could ever enkindle
 79     V|         the force of Nature would o'errun~ With brambles, did
 80     V|        sun, doth flood the heaven o'er~ With constant flux of
 81     V|         Thus is the door of doom, O nowise barred~ Against the
 82     V|        the heat have won dominion o'er~ The sucked-up waters
 83     V|           in the fields. For fire o'ermastered~ And licked up
 84     V|          signs,~ Circling around, o'ertake her and o'erpass.~
 85     V|          around, o'ertake her and o'erpass.~ Therefore it happens
 86     V|        one to other?~ ~ But night o'erwhelms the lands with
 87     V|              One half of her dyed o'er with glowing light,~
 88     V|            had burst these wombs, O then~ Would Nature thither
 89     V|         And by the time of night~ O'ertaken, they would throw,
 90     V|       then that lack of food gave o'er~ Men's fainting limbs
 91     V|          from thence hath spread~ O'er all the lands the flames
 92     V| thunderbolt~ At times will smite, O hurling headlong down~ To
 93     V|          And haughty sceptres lay o'erturned in dust;~ And crowns,
 94     V|           glories gone - for erst o'er-much~ Dreaded, thereafter
 95     V|      follow laws.~ For humankind, o'er wearied with a life~
 96     V|         send forth divers sounds, O truly then~ How much more
 97     V|           Could well by any force o'ermastered be.~ And men
 98     V|           menacings forevermore.~ O humankind unhappy! - when
 99     V|          Even for themselves, and O what wounds for us,~ What
100     V|         children's children! Nor, O man,~ Is thy true piety
101     V|      world~ And ether, fixed high o'er twinkling stars,~ And
102     V|     journeyings~ Of sun and moon, O then into our breasts,~
103     V|           then into our breasts,~ O'erburdened already with
104     V|          One more misgiving: lest o'er us, percase,~ It be the
105     V|        age~ Glide on, defying the o'er-mighty powers~ Of the
106     V|      boiling veins began to ooze~ O rivulets of silver and of
107     V|         bring~ Tumbling to earth, o'ermastered by the wound,~
108     V|           eager soon to give them o'er~ To women's hands, and
109     V|           holes~ The young shrubs o'er the fields. Then would
110     V|    vineyards, and that all along~ O'er hillocks, intervales,
111    VI|         sons,~ And that they yet, O yet, within the home,~ Still
112    VI|          Which mortals gaze upon (O anxious oft~ In quaking
113    VI|         yon high things~ Observed o'erhead on the ethereal coasts),~
114    VI|    prophetic skies~ For auguries, O foolishly distraught,~ Even
115    VI|        hail. And they give forth~ O'er skiey levels of the spreading
116    VI|          linen-awning, stretched~ O'er mighty theatres, gives
117    VI|        thou seest how motion will o'erheat~ And set ablaze all
118    VI|         For all these~ Are marks, O not of wind or rain, but
119    VI|       forever out of men,~ And to o'erthrow the cattle everywhere, -~
120    VI|        storm must be conceived as o'er our head~ Towering most
121    VI|           never would the clouds~ O'erwhelm the lands with such
122    VI|          time intermixed itself,~ O then and there that wind,
123    VI|         hath sped~ Deeply within, O then the thunderbolt,~ Now
124    VI|       winds.~ ~ This, this it is, O Memmius, to see through~
125    VI|        fire-fraught thunderbolt;~ O this it is to mark by what
126    VI|      maketh each effect, and not, O not~ To unwind Etrurian
127    VI|     lesson? - why is rather he -~ O he self-conscious of no
128    VI|       same~ Even for his enemies? O why most oft~ Aims he at
129    VI|      contrariwise, if wills he to o'erwhelm us,~ Quite off our
130    VI|        far din and rumblings? And O how~ Canst thou believe
131    VI|        even as showers~ And rains o'er many regions fall, so
132    VI|        Whilst the winds bear them o'er the mighty sea,~ Like
133    VI| convulsion, following hard upon,~ O'erthrew of old. And many
134    VI|       winds, and soft mud crusted o'er at dawn.~ ~ Again, I'
135    VI|            and sprinkle it about~ O'er all the zones, when rain
136    VI|           this one sky of ours -~ O not so large a part as is
137    VI|         the infinite~ All things, O all in stores enough whereby~
138    VI|     tearing on, and Aetna's fires o'erflow,~ And heaven become
139    VI|          and oft he waters Aegypt o'er,~ Either because in summer
140    VI|         back his waves,~ Fill him o'erfull and force his flow
141    VI|        Perchance, his waters wax, O far away,~ Among the Aethiopians'
142    VI|          steps within,~ Collapse, o'ercome by its essential
143    VI|        disease~ And hasten death, O many primal seeds~ Of many
144    VI|        But when a burning fever,~ O'ermastering man, hath seized
145    VI|         The mines of gold exhale? O what a look,~ And what a
146    VI|        remove:~ I' faith when sun o'erhead, touching with beams~
147    VI|       ensample: in grottos, rocks o'erhead~ Sweat moisture and
148    VI|      disease and death~ Were they o'er-given. At first, they'
149    VI|          thou mark~ The skin with o'er-much heat to burn aglow,~
150    VI|           like the "sacred fires" o'erspread~ Along the members.
151    VI|         flesh above the brows! -~ O not long after would their
152    VI|          who lost their eyeballs: O~ So fierce a fear of death
153    VI|          doom.~ In those affairs, O awfullest of all,~ O pitiable
154    VI|     affairs, O awfullest of all,~ O pitiable most was this,
155    VI|      funeral,~ Give up the ghost, O then and there. For, lo,~
156    VI|          look to their own sick,~ O these (too eager of life,
157    VI|    squalor and disease to death.~ O often and often couldst
158    VI|         And into the city poured~ O not in least part from the
159    VI|           And along the highways, O thou mightest see~ Of many