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  1     I|           Rome, delight of Gods and men,~ Dear Venus that beneath
  2     I|          bred the foul impieties of men:~ As once at Aulis, the
  3     I|            own with reason: for, if men but knew~ Some fixed end
  4     I|        instrument is theirs,~ Since men must dread eternal pains
  5     I|         mark and hear at hand~ Dead men whose bones earth bosomed
  6     I|         whereof no wise they know,~ Men think Divinities are working
  7     I|             No fixed seed required. Men from the sea~ Might rise,
  8     I|          should Nature not prepare~ Men of a bulk to ford the seas
  9     I|          nor cold,~ Nor are we wont men's voices to behold.~ Yet
 10     I|            and the wondrous isle to men,~ Most rich in all good
 11     I|           the Pythia pronounced for men~ From out the tripod and
 12     I|           of themselves, and, great men, great~ Indeed and heavy
 13     I|            proper being.~ But these men begin~ From heaven, and
 14     I|           they'll laugh aloud, like men,~ Shaken asunder by a spasm
 15    II|          may'st look below on other men~ And see them ev'rywhere
 16    II|         world.~ O wretched minds of men! O blinded hearts!~ In how
 17    II|            also must they veil from men -~ For mark, indeed, how
 18    II|            thing goes on.~ But some men, ignorant of matter, think,~
 19    II|        though external force~ Drive men before, and often make them
 20    II|           same-shaped atoms through men's nostrils pierce~ When
 21    II|       grains and gladsome trees for men;~ Whence, also, rivers,
 22    II|              They wish to show that men who violate~ The majesty
 23    II|           she, the goddess, teaches men to be~ Eager with armed
 24    II|       living things -~ Precisely as men, and cattle, and wild beasts,~
 25    II|           they'll laugh aloud, like men,~ Shaken asunder by a spasm
 26    II|       worlds, still other breeds of men,~ And other generations
 27    II|              and thus the scions of men~ To be begot, and lastly
 28   III|      unsullied joy.~ For as to what men sometimes will affirm:~
 29   III|       fugitives afar~ From sight of men, with charges foul attaint,~
 30   III|             And whilst, from these, men wish to scape afar,~ Driven
 31   III|            joints collapse, -~ Aye, men drop dead from terror of
 32   III|             lions. Thus the race of men:~ Though training make them
 33   III|            at the coming dove,~ And men would dote, and savage beasts
 34   III|            say that always souls of men~ Go into human bodies, I
 35   III|          too, O often from the soul men say,~ Along their couches
 36   III|        round, with mind aswim."~ If men, in that same way as on
 37    IV|            very thews and powers of men~ May be withdrawn by steady
 38    IV|          people gone before -~ Dead men whose bones earth bosomed
 39    IV|        rhythmic time - and often in men's sleeps~  It haps an image
 40    IV|             And master the minds of men. And whosoever~ Day after
 41    IV|              thas been the wont~ Of men to be engaged-nor only men,~
 42    IV|          men to be engaged-nor only men,~ But soothly all the animals.
 43    IV|              Desirable dame. For so men do,~ Eyeless with passion,
 44    IV|            love forever.~ What many men suppose; and gloomily~ They
 45    IV|              For sterile, are these men by seed too thick,~ Or else
 46    IV|         will suit is spent~ By some men, either it flies not forth
 47    IV|            more~ A pleasure for the men - the which meseems~ Our
 48     V|             Now soothe the minds of men. But if thou thinkest~ Labours
 49     V|            of gods.~ For even those men who have learned full well~
 50     V|          deemed almighty - wretched men,~ Unwitting what can be
 51     V|          the Pythian pronounced for men~ From out the tripod and
 52     V|            say that for the sake of men~ They willed to prepare
 53     V|             that 'tis sacrilege for men to shake~ Ever by any force
 54     V|    procreates all things -~ As some men tell - and takes them to
 55     V|          sickened in the past those men~ Whom Nature hath removed
 56     V|           overwhelmed~ The lives of men with billows; and thereafter,~
 57     V|               Nor need there be for men~ Astonishment that yonder
 58     V|          one sure cause revealed to men~ How the sun journeys from
 59     V|             With oblique light - as men declare to us~ Who by their
 60     V|         therefore it is~ That those men seem to speak the truth
 61     V|           of yonder sun -~ As those men hold who feign the moon
 62     V|          the sight and open eyes of men;~ Thence by slow stages
 63     V|           Shortest-Day~ Bears on to men the snows and brings again~
 64     V|        committed to guardianship of men.~ For anxiously they fled
 65     V|           Rolled on across the sky, men led a life~ After the roving
 66     V|             lack of food gave o'er~ Men's fainting limbs to dissolution:
 67     V|           well have given to mortal men the fire.~ Next, food to
 68     V|            and more each day~ Would men more strong in sense, more
 69     V|          both strong and fair;~ For men, however beautiful in form~
 70     V|           little in the world.~ But men wished glory for themselves
 71     V|           to the heights of honour, men do make~ Their pathway terrible;
 72     V|         Some wiser heads instructed men to found~ The magisterial
 73     V|         fair laws~ Is now conceded, men on this account~ Loathed
 74     V|         scape~ The race of gods and men, he yet must dread~ 'Twill
 75     V|             But Nature 'twas~ Urged men to utter various sounds
 76     V|            names, and that from him men learned~ Their first nomenclature,
 77     V|           likely 'twere that mortal men~ In those days could with
 78     V|          And, thus, to these~ Would men attribute sense, because
 79     V|        visage and vast powers.~ And men would give them an eternal
 80     V|           chiefly, however, because men would not think~ Beings
 81     V|         force o'ermastered be.~ And men would think them in their
 82     V|          and since~ At same time in men's sleeps men saw them do~
 83     V|           same time in men's sleeps men saw them do~ So many wonders,
 84     V|   Themselves no weariness. Besides, men marked~ How in a fixed order
 85     V|            causes. Therefore 'twas~ Men would take refuge in consigning
 86     V|             wrath!~ What groans did men on that sad day beget~ Even
 87     V|   Betramples forevermore affairs of men,~ And visibly grindeth with
 88     V|           the sky, or else because~ Men, warring in the woodlands,
 89     V|      goodness of the soil~ Invited, men desired to clear rich fields~
 90     V|            of the ground.~ And when men saw the cooled lumps anon~
 91     V|            And punch and drill. And men began such work~ At first
 92     V|           tis found, doth flower in men's praise,~ Objects of wondrous
 93     V|        abundance more.~ With copper men to work the soil began,~
 94     V|        ground. And such of these as men~ Supposed well-trained long
 95     V|           and the tumult; nor could men~ Aught of their numbers
 96     V|          scarcely I'll believe that men could not~ With mind foreknow
 97     V|             One certain earth.) But men chose this to do~ Less in
 98     V|   yarn-beams. And Nature forced the men,~ Before the woman kind,
 99     V|           little shoots;~ Hence too men's fondness for ingrafting
100     V|               All the terrain which men adorn and plant~ With rows
101     V|             Was earlier far 'mongst men than power to make,~ By
102     V|           by finger-tips of singing men,~ When heard through unpathed
103     V|            little unto the midst of men,~ And reason uplifts it
104     V|            and strange. And wakeful men~ Found solaces for their
105     V|          purple and gold~ That cark men's lives with cares and weary
106     V|         greater blame~ With us vain men today: for cold would rack,~
107     V|         sail-winged ships;~ Already men had, under treaty pacts,~
108     V|          the mind's experience,~ As men walked forward step by eager
109     V|            little into the midst of men,~ And reason uplifts it
110     V|           one thing after other did men see~ Grow clear by intellect,
111    VI|             gave to hapless sons of men~ The sheaves of harvest,
112    VI|             established safe,~ That men were lords in riches, honour,
113    VI|               Purged the breasts of men, and set the bounds~ Of
114    VI|            to them.~ For even those men who have learned full well~
115    VI|         deemed almighty, - wretched men,~ Unwitting what can be
116    VI|          carried into intellects of men,~ As the announcers of their
117    VI|        Whereof nowise the causes do men know,~ And think divinities
118    VI|          take breath forever out of men,~ And to o'erthrow the cattle
119    VI|          rains that be sent down on men~ By burst of cloud and by
120    VI|             of the red levin - unto men~ A drastic lesson? - why
121    VI|             ready to go.~ Yet dread men to believe that there awaits~
122    VI|           and a-shaking. Therefore, men~ With two-fold terror bustle
123    VI|             With her own ruins. Let men, then, go on~ Feigning at
124    VI|     TELLURIC PHENOMENA~ ~ In chief, men marvel Nature renders not~
125    VI|         which at that time of year~ Men name the Etesian blasts,
126    VI|         black generations of strong men~ With sun-baked skins. '
127    VI|        compels.~ In Syria also - as men say - a spot~ Is to be seen,
128    VI| out-breathes from down below,~ When men pursue the veins of silver
129    VI|            ghastly hue they give to men!~ And seest thou not, or
130    VI|            of night.~ This fountain men be-wonder over-much,~ And
131    VI|        Magnesian folk).~ This stone men marvel at; and sure it oft~
132    VI|         black generations of strong men~ With sun-baked skins? Even
133    VI|         seen the colour and face of men~ Vastly to disagree, and
134    VI|             grain~ Or other meat of men and feed of flocks.~ Or
135    VI|          reduced the plains to dead men's bones,~ Unpeopled the
136    VI|         down~ With sheer exhaustion men already spent.~ And yet
137    VI|        members. The inward parts of men,~ In truth, would blaze
138    VI|             she saw~ So many a time men roll their eyeballs round,~
139    VI|             hurried through.~ ~ And men contending to ensepulchre~
140    VI|            guest. For now no longer men~ Did mightily esteem the