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   1     V|                  His teeth with chills a-chatter. Therefore, 'tis~ The less
   2    VI|         Therefore, when this same wind a-fire~ Hath split black cloud,
   3    VI|             saw afar~ The skiey vaults a-fume and sparkling all,~ And
   4    VI|           intermittent, soaking sweat~ A-glisten on neck, the spittle in
   5    VI|                of verity,~ They're set a-going by poundings from elsewhere,~
   6    VI|              more would death~ Up-pile a-heap the folk so crammed in town.~
   7     V|               Or rearing up with hoofs a-paw in air.~ In vain - since
   8     I|                enough to set the trees a-reel~  Under the soak of bulking
   9    VI|              of earth,~ To set her all a-shake - even as a chill,~ When
  10    VI|            ourselves,~ A-shivering and a-shaking. Therefore, men~ With two-fold
  11    VI|      convulsively, despite ourselves,~ A-shivering and a-shaking. Therefore,
  12     V|               but some few they fled,~ A-skulk into their hiding-places...~ ~
  13     V|               Lo, this moulders down,~ A-slack with weary eld, and that,
  14    VI|               herself and rises, when, a-soak~ And beat by rains unseasonable
  15   III|            with charges foul attaint,~ Abased with every wretchedness,
  16    IV|           eyelids fall, and, as ye lie abed,~ Even there the houghs
  17   III|                 one fixed end~ Of life abideth for mortality;~ Death's
  18     V|    gladsomeness~ Than got the woodland aborigines~ In olden times. For what
  19    IV|               returned again,~ Retires abortively. And then since seed~ More
  20     V|              chariot;~ And yoked pairs abreast came earlier~ Than yokes
  21     V|             abide~ Nor ever prevail to abrogate the aeons'~ Inexorable decrees -
  22    VI|             that the earth, withdrawn~ Abruptly from under their feet, be
  23    II|           heaven from the lands away.~ ABSENCE OF SECONDARY QUALITIES~ ~
  24   III|              And even though these are absent, yet the mind,~ With a fore-fearing
  25    IV|            sharp smell -~ The nauseous absinth, or the panacea,~ Strong
  26   III|              eyes,~ Thereby, nor aught abstracted from its weight -~ No marvel,
  27     V|          reason, or by words~ To prove absurd - since, lo, so many things~
  28    II|       grain-crop Ceres, and prefers to abuse~ The name of Bacchus rather
  29    II|              existing things,~ Nowhere accepted in the universe,~ And nowise
  30   III|           creating sense - since mind~ Accepteth not that aught of these
  31     I|            more fitly to be called~ An accident of body, and of place~ Wherein
  32     I|           things created are,~ And how accomplished by no tool of Gods.~ Suppose
  33     I|                a nature frail,~ It ill accords that thus they could remain~ (
  34     I|       Wherefore to me he seems on both accounts~ To err no less than those
  35    IV|              ears? Again, shall taste~ Accuse this touch or shall the
  36    IV|              tidy habits,~ Will easily accustom thee to pass~ With her thy
  37    VI|          Shrinks from this stone away, accustomed~ By turns to flee and follow.
  38    VI|              are oft attacked,~ And in Achaean lands the eyes. And so~
  39    II|          surmise~ A blow inflicted can achieve besides~ Shaking asunder
  40     V|                their arts~ They've now achieved the supreme pinnacle.~
  41    VI|              fouled blood, oft with an aching head:~ Hither would stream
  42    VI|                 That often they gender achings of the head,~ If one but
  43     V|              Began the loathing of the acorn; thus~ Abandoned were those
  44     V|               Their simple hearts. Mid acorn-laden oaks~ Would they refresh
  45     V|            lust,~ Or from a bribe - as acorn-nuts, choice pears,~ Or the wild
  46     V|         grafter; since the berries and acorns,~ Dropping from off the
  47     V|                sometimes,~ When things acquired by the sternest toil~ Are
  48     I|                 As first Empedocles of Acragas,~ Whom that three-cornered
  49   III|                for outspread limbs not acres nine,~ But the whole earth -
  50    VI|               even there~ On summit of Acropolis, beside~ Fane of Tritonian
  51    VI|             the skiey clouds.~ For, in addition, lo, the heat on high~ Of
  52    II|             without the gods,~ In such adjustment to our human ways,~ Can
  53   III|              frames~ Have such complex adjustments that no shift~ In order
  54     V|              at sea~ Sweepeth a navy's admiral down the main~ With his
  55    IV|             big and bulky~ O she's "an Admiration, imposante";~ The stuttering
  56   III|          sundry parts divides, indeed~ Admits it owns no everlasting nature.~
  57    IV|                 kisses on the doors -~ Admitted at last, if haply but one
  58   III|          Democritus, when ripened eld~ Admonished him his memory waned away,~
  59     I|            prone~ That to bewonder and adore which hides~ Beneath distorted
  60     V|              All the terrain which men adorn and plant~ With rows of
  61     V|           least the business of a man~ Advancing step by cautious step, as
  62   III|               off~ All refuge from the adversary, and rout~ Error by two-edged
  63   III|                mark him as he is~ Amid adversities; for then alone~ Are the
  64    IV|             lovers gird each other and advise~ To placate Venus, since
  65    VI|              And once in Peloponnesian Aegium,~ Twain cities which such
  66    VI|          landscape, river sole~ Of the Aegyptians. In mid-season heats~ Often
  67    VI|                 O far away,~ Among the Aethiopians' lofty mountains,~ When
  68    VI|            abroad from vasty furnaces~ Aetnaean. First, the mountain's nature
  69    VI|                eager of life, of death afeard)~ Would then, soon after,
  70    IV|                And so we see how blows affect our body,~ As if one thing
  71     V|               Both perish too and have affirmed the same~ To be again begotten
  72    VI|                it puts to sleep~ A man afflicted with the falling sickness~
  73     V|            upon, and gulped by fangs,~ Afforded the beasts a food that roared
  74   III|               To hurry help to a house afire. - At once~ He yawns, as
  75     V|              and all the lands and sky aflood,~ And with its fiery exhalations
  76     I|             tender herbs, fresh hearts afrisk~ With warm new milk. Thus
  77    IV|                such interpretation~ Is aft-for-fore with inverse reasoning,~
  78   III|                must be,~ That thus the after-generations grow, -~ Though these, their
  79     V|                Grasses and shrubs, and afterward begat~ The mortal generations,
  80     I|             altar, virgin queen,~ With Agamemnon's daughter, foully slain.~
  81    II|              and off,~ As 'twere, with age-old time, and from our eyes~
  82    VI|               some prodigious bulk~ Of age-worn soil is rolled from mountain
  83   III|                other sundered, nor its agency~ Perform, if once divided
  84    IV|           things~ Can be thrown in and agitate the eyes.~ ~ And when from
  85    VI|              been uproused~ By violent agitation. When this air~ Is heated
  86     V|                 And possibly the sun,~ Agleam on high with rosy lampion,~
  87    IV|             lean upon the water, quite agog;~ For any portion of the
  88    II|              milk~ Yields in the mouth agreeable taste to tongue,~ Whilst
  89    VI|               Then dissipated, like an ague-fit,~ Through the innumerable
  90    II|                wax in size,~ Even when aided by our toiling arms.~ We
  91     V|                 Fostered by force, was ailing from its feuds;~ And so
  92    VI|              in fire?~ Nay, why, then, aim they at eternal wastes,~
  93    VI|               enemies? O why most oft~ Aims he at lofty places? Why
  94    VI|               in these twain~ Are near akin. Besides, from out all rivers,~
  95    II|              sound; and those the mind alert~ No less can apprehend than
  96     I|               coal~ Under the Phrygian Alexander's breast,~ Had ne'er enkindled
  97    IV|                The cloaks, or garments Alidensian~ Or of the Cean isle. And
  98   III|               we~ Sometimes don't feel alighting on our frames~ The clinging
  99    VI|             lofty mountains,~ When the all-beholding sun with thawing beams~
 100     V|            beyond a doubt,~ Earth, the all-mother, is beheld to be~ Likewise
 101    II|              motions which~ Kindle the all-perceiving senses - they~ That keep
 102    II|            knit,~ And Nature along the all-producing earth~ Feeding those dire
 103    VI|              to the sum entire~ Of the all-Sum.~ But now I will unfold~
 104    VI|                dead,~ As present shift allowed. And sudden stress~ And
 105     I|              seed imperishable, Nature allows~ Destruction nor collapse
 106    II|              silver, gifting her~ With alms and largesse, and shower
 107   III|              begins and undertakes~ To alter the mind, or meditates to
 108     I|       themselves are made~ By somewhat altering their elements,~ Although
 109     I|             void.~ And so, infallibly, alternate-wise~ Body and void are still
 110     I|                Thus rendering by these alternates the whole~ An infinite;
 111     V|             else because, as said,~ In alternating seasons of the year~ Fires,
 112    VI|                 Blow back and forth in alternation strong,~ And, so to say,
 113   III|             civic blood a fortune they amass,~ They double their riches,
 114     V|               The narrow path of man's ambition~ Since all their wisdom
 115    VI|                nectar-steeped and shed ambrosia;~ Than which is naught that
 116     V|               went to woeful death~ By ambuscades - and yet that hairy prize,~
 117    II|              to mortality~ To shun the ambush of the faithless main,~
 118    II|             worser part.~ For ever the ampler and more wide a thing,~
 119    II|              primal bodies; since~ (As amply shown and proved by reason
 120    VI|                And burdening downward, anchored in high repose,~ With the
 121    IV|             weary body to repose,~ Far ancienter than cushions of soft beds,~
 122   III|             thou mayst: "Lo, even good Ancus left~ The sunshine with
 123    VI|               last how yonder suddenly angered flame~ Out-blows abroad
 124    II|             bended barbs, but slightly angled-out,~ To tickle rather than
 125     V|              ORIGINS OF VEGETABLE AND~ ANIMAL LIFE~ ~ And now to what
 126    II|                thus doth death~ So far annihilate things that she destroys~
 127    VI|             intellects of men,~ As the announcers of their form divine.~ What
 128     V|             sky, and changed times~ On annual seasons, nor were able then~
 129    IV|              flowers and garlands, and anoints~ Her haughty door-posts
 130   III|                diest" -~ What were our answer, but that Nature here~ Urges
 131    II|                the wide nations, after antique rite,~ Do name Idaean Mother,
 132    VI|                their bosoms with dread anxiety~ Of what new thing Nature
 133     V|              they~ Allow, nor ne'er in anywise endure~ Perpetual vain dingdong
 134    IV|           Followeth in, and fills each aperture~ And thus blockades the
 135    II|              there is~ Whose nature is apparent out of hand~ That of one
 136   III|               For, beyond doubt, these apparitions come~ To us from outward.
 137    IV|              are,~ Cease not to change appearance and to turn~ Into new outlines
 138    VI|                during those many suns~ Appeared a fowl, nor from the woods
 139    II|                 And if to thee it then appeareth true,~ Render thy hands,
 140     V|               the golden~ And gleaming apples of the Hesperides,~ Coiled
 141   III|              doth smoky torch of wrath applied,~ O'erspreading with shadows
 142    VI|             stomach. Nor couldst aught apply~ Unto their members light
 143    II|              this,~ And what the speed appointed unto them~ Wherewith to
 144     V|            That in those days some man apportioned round~ To things their names,
 145     V|                Where neither one of us approacheth nigh~ Nor no barbarian ventures.
 146    IV|             see;~ Or thighs and knees, aprop upon the feet,~ Thuswise
 147    VI|              fountain far~ There is at Aradus amid the sea,~ Which bubbles
 148    II|             our members all;~ At whose arbitrament indeed sometimes~ The stock
 149     V|              the Boar~ Who bristled in Arcadia? Or, again,~ O what could
 150     V|               planted in the gods~ The archetype for gendering the world~
 151   III|               Under the aery coasts of arching heaven~ Shuddered and trembled,
 152     V|              the lands and over in two arcs,~ A longer and a briefer,
 153    VI|              His exhalations hot, with ardent rays.~ What, then, the principle?
 154   III|              hear how chariots of war, areek~ With hurly slaughter, lop
 155     V|              the main seas dash~ Whole argosies and crews upon the rocks.~
 156    II|            Constraining thee to sundry arguments~ Against belief that from
 157   III|              others,~ As sun, in ether arisen, all the stars.~ Wilt thou,
 158    II|               than the rest,~ Would be arising evermore. So, too,~ Into
 159    II|             view the mighty strife~ Of armies embattled yonder o'er the
 160    VI|              That force of blow itself arouses fire,~ When force of wind,
 161    VI|             kindled with fire,~ It yet arriveth warmed and mixed with heat.~ ~
 162    IV|              us~ Scarcely two thousand arrow-shots, indeed~ Oft scarce five
 163    II|              it on,~ That, through her artful blandishments of love,~
 164    IV|        artificer of words,~ Makes them articulate, and too the lips~ By their
 165   III|         unscathed~ From all the thews, articulations, bones.~ But, if perchance
 166   III|             pain and disease~ Are both artificers of death, - as well~ We'
 167    II|             next in size;~ Thus motion ascends from the primevals on,~
 168     I|               Since these philosophers ascribe to things~ Soft primal germs,
 169     V|           humankind unhappy! - when it ascribed~ Unto divinities such awesome
 170     I|                 if flame and smoke and ash~ Still lurk unseen within
 171     V|               Of heroes, now in ruins, asking us,~ In their turn likewise,
 172   III|               O even as here thou art, aslumber in death,~ So shalt thou
 173     V|              Their bodies three, three aspects so unlike,~ Three frames
 174     V|            returning~ Under the lands, aspires to seize the sky,~ Striving
 175   III|               or eye in us is smit~ By assailing pain, we are not tortured
 176    VI|       Extinguished but a moment since, assails~ The nostrils, then and
 177    II|               the primal germs can be~ Assaulted by no pain, nor from themselves~
 178     V|         against all engin'ries~ Of the assaulting aeons, with no crash.~ Again,
 179     V|              spurned the multitudinous assaults~ Of the immeasurable aeons
 180    IV|                 or after all the sky?~ Assemblies of the citizens, parades,~
 181    IV|             chords,~ And view the same assembly on the seats,~ And manifold
 182     V|              seek to get~ A fluttering assistance. Thus, to think~ That in
 183    II|                from one another much.~ Assume, we'll say, that of three
 184     V|               caprice - because I have assumed~ That earth and fire are
 185    II|            Hulks of mankind half brute astarting up,~ At times big branches
 186    IV|              fields~ Seem fleeing fast astern, past which we urge~ The
 187     V|             Nor need there be for men~ Astonishment that yonder sun so small~
 188     V|              that upsprung~ With their astounding visages and limbs -~ The
 189    IV|               hot.~ So dogs oft wander astray, and hunt the scent.~ ~
 190    II|                  Whence Neptune's salt astringent body comes),~ There is a
 191     V|              Refuting the art of Greek astrologers,~ Labours, in opposition,
 192     V|            FORMATION OF THE WORLD AND~ ASTRONOMICAL QUESTIONS~ ~ But in what
 193    IV|            dreamed~ Of hawks in chase, aswooping on for fight.~ Again, the
 194     V|               set,~ As strongholds and asylums for themselves,~ And flocks
 195    VI|               drained of citizens~ The Athenian town. For coming from afar,~
 196    IV|               His glowing self hard by atingeing them~ With his own fire -
 197     V|               inflict on us~ Along the Atlantic shore and wastes of sea? -~
 198     V|            last~ It shrivels in torrid atmospheres the world.~ And whilom water
 199    VI|              ourselves and change~ The atmospheric cloak, or whether Nature~
 200    IV|           turned back to float~ Almost atop the water. And when the
 201    IV|             nature of reality. And so~ Attach thou not this fault of mind
 202    VI|              to our own use~ Which can attack us soon as ever it come.~
 203   III|               Co-equally with body and attain~ The craved flower of life,
 204   III|              of men, with charges foul attaint,~ Abased with every wretchedness,
 205     I|               They thus at last, after attempting all~ The kinds of motion
 206   III|         Mounting again and on. A third attempts~ With leg dismembered to
 207    IV|                objects plain,~ If thou attendest not, 'tis just the same~
 208    IV|               all its nature, and pain attends its state.~ And so the food
 209    VI|               of thee~ A mind and ears attent.~ First, from all things~
 210    IV|              long to games have given~ Attention undivided, still they keep~ (
 211    VI|              and never otherwhere.~ In Attica the feet are oft attacked,~
 212    IV|               all the stage,~ And rich attire in the patrician seats.~
 213    VI|             main~ Can rise together to augment the bulk~ Of massed clouds.
 214     V|            Whilst nights do take their augmentations,~ Either because the self-same
 215    VI|                of prophetic skies~ For auguries, O foolishly distraught,~
 216     I|          impieties of men:~ As once at Aulis, the elected chiefs,~ Foremost
 217   III|          simple so.~ For an impalpable aura, mixed with heat,~ Deserts
 218     I|               beast~ To give the ships auspicious winds for Troy:~ Such are
 219    IV|              sounds,~ Though still the austere silence of the night~ Abides
 220    II|            forges ether;~ Till Nature, author and ender of the world,~
 221    IV|              shall defeat~ Through own authority the false by true;~ What,
 222    II|                Strengthened with large auxiliaries and horse,~ Alike equipped
 223    IV|            Seemed rounded, yet it more availeth us,~ Lacking the reason,
 224    II|            sense take on,~ What, then, avails it to assign them that~
 225    VI|            destruction, yet~ Him there awaited in the after days~ A wasting
 226   III|                or what the issue next~ Awaiting us. Nor by prolonging life~
 227    VI|              men to believe that there awaits~ The nature of the mighty
 228    II|                 We wish thee also well aware of this:~ The atoms, as
 229     V|                erthrown~ And sink with awful-sounding breakage down!~ ~ But ere
 230    VI|             doom.~ In those affairs, O awfullest of all,~ O pitiable most
 231    VI|              rains are wont~ To endure awhile and to abide for long,~
 232    IV|         colours too. And commonly~ The awnings, saffron, red and dusky
 233    VI|                tree~ With double-edged ax, it comes to pass~ Thine
 234   III|            gettest chance to hew~ With axe its length of trunk to many
 235    VI|                 Where totters awry the axis of the world),~ Or in what
 236     V|            empty argument on new)~ May babble with like reason many whims~
 237     V|           since, indeed,~ So many, oft babbling on amid their dreams~ Or
 238    IV|                have borne for them~ No babies in the house) are also found~
 239    IV|               they could conceive~ The baby-boys, and with sweet progeny~
 240    VI|              would lie~ Huddled within back-corners of their huts,~ Delivered
 241     V|             thickets hid their squalid backs,~ When driven to flee the
 242    II|           short all good to sense, all bad to touch,~ Being up-built
 243     V|            comes the many-rayed~ Round Badge of the day. Or else because,
 244     I|            ooze trickle from distended bags;~ Hence the young scamper
 245    VI|           first ensample: the sun doth bake and parch~ The earth; but
 246     V|            roots~ The forest trees and baked the earth with fire,~ Then
 247     V|              warfare, they contend~ In balanced strife the one with other
 248   III|           whatso can confounded be and balked,~ Gives proof, that if a
 249    II|       undertaking to prepare~ A liquid balm of myrrh and marjoram,~
 250    II|               of Zeus, what time their band,~ Young boys, in a swift
 251    VI|             forth a hideous crash with bang and boom.~ No marvel this;
 252    II|         tambourines~ Resound around to bangings of their hands;~ The fierce
 253     I|                at the fore -~ A notion banished from true reason far.~ For
 254     I|             the fall:~ First, because, banishing the void from things,~ They
 255     V|                 in vain,~ Since Nature banned with horror their increase,~
 256   III|    unavailingly, why not,~ Even like a banqueter, depart the halls,~ Laden
 257    VI|             big bulk of piled sand may bar~ His mouths against his
 258     V|               approacheth nigh~ Nor no barbarian ventures. And the rest~
 259    IV|          beyond a doubt~ The rough and barbed particles have got~ Into
 260    II|        altogether hooked,~ With bended barbs, but slightly angled-out,~
 261   III|                been on every side laid bare to man!~ ~  And since I'
 262   III|            that cleaves the bones~ And bares the inner thews hits not
 263     V|              of mad Molossian hounds,~ Baring their hard white teeth,
 264    II|               that Nature for herself~ Barks after nothing, save that
 265     V|             the door of doom, O nowise barred~ Against the sky, against
 266    IV|                for prize,~ As if, with barriers opened now...~ And hounds
 267    VI|                 about~ With caverns of basaltic piers. And, lo,~ In all
 268    II|          evermore. So, too,~ Into some baser part might all retire,~
 269    VI|              water's undulations; as a basin~ Sometimes won't come to
 270     V|              the young sky was fresh~ (Basing his empty argument on new)~
 271     V|                 The regions round with bastard beams, or throw~ From off
 272     I|               they run,~ That they may bate their journeying one whit:~
 273    VI|                if thou delayest in hot baths,~ When thou art over-full,
 274    II|                eternal strife,~ And in battalions contending without halt,~
 275     V|             may see the bearded goats~ Batten upon the hemlock which to
 276     V|               marching on~ Beneath the battle-banners, nor would then~ The ramping
 277    II|             horned kine,~ And brood of battle-eager horses, grazing~ Often together
 278    VI|              night.~ This fountain men be-wonder over-much,~ And think that
 279     V|                  Which sunder afar the beaches of the lands)~ Possess it
 280     V|            light.~ Indeed your earthly beacons of the night,~ The hanging
 281     I|            watery moisture seeps,~ And beady drops stand out like plenteous
 282    IV|                the stage, and call the beaming morn~ With clarion voice -
 283   III|               The stuff of dreams, and bearest a mind beset~ By baseless
 284   III|              since at flying-forth~ It beareth nothing of the weight away.~
 285     V|              and horse.~ For there the beasts-of-saddle tried to scape~ The savage
 286     V|                fair;~ For men, however beautiful in form~ Or valorous, will
 287    II|                years.~ A tale, however beautifully wrought,~ That's wide of
 288    IV|          futile years~ Under another's beck and call; their duties~
 289    VI|             too, of deities~ Had Death becrammed with the carcasses;~ And
 290    II|               lie~ Upon the poor man's bedding. Wherefore, since~ Treasure,
 291    VI|              every sea~ And every land bedew; add their own springs:~
 292    VI|               once in Syrian Sidon did befall,~ And once in Peloponnesian
 293     V|          origin,~ Thuswise have things befallen, so even now~ After a fixed
 294     V|              idol-apparitions~ That so befool intelligence when we~ Do
 295     V|                of gods with vows,~ And beg in prayer, a-tremble, lulled
 296   III|              man gazed upon~ Who walks begirt with honour glorious,~ Whilst
 297     V|             begotten with their stems~ Begrafted into one; but each sole
 298     V|              Earth, the all-mother, is beheld to be~ Likewise the common
 299    VI|               comes to pass~ Thine eye beholds the swinging stroke before~
 300     V|                 tis therefore duty and behoof~ To praise the work of gods
 301    VI|               In these affairs it much behooveth thee~ To look both wide
 302     V|            strewn~ And with the leaves beladen. Thus, again,~ Fell into
 303     V|                mouth from out the body belch~ Infuriate flame? Wherefore,
 304     I|            force anew to vomit fires,~ Belched from its throat, and skyward
 305    VI|             lands and burst apart,~ It belches forth immeasurable might~
 306    VI|         thirsty mariners timely help,~ Belching sweet waters forth amid
 307   III|                However he deny that he believes.~ His shall be aught of
 308   III|                with his cavalry,~  The bellowings of ocean - poured his soul~
 309    IV|             The ship and fly under the bellying sails.~ The stars, each
 310    IV|                Of scanty grace will be beloved by man;~ For sometimes she
 311     V|           might run~ The silvery-green belt of olive-trees,~ Marking
 312   III|              sickly plaints?~ Why this bemoaning and beweeping death?~ For
 313     I|             flows and flows~ In mighty bend and bay the Ionic seas,~
 314   III|                this life. No Tantalus, benumbed~ With baseless terror, as
 315   III|             that it would perish then, bereaved~ Of any life thereafter.
 316    IV|                roar,~ As when barbaric Berecynthian pipe~ Buzzes with raucous
 317    IV|             thinkest~ Air that is thus bereft of light can walk,~ Following
 318   III|        stuttering tongue, an intellect besoaked,~ Eyes all aswim, and hiccups,
 319    II|             and the times of the year~ Besprinkle the green of the grass around
 320    IV|              therefore, mind~  Doth so bestir itself that it doth will~
 321    II|           there in many a manner fly,~ Bestirred in everlasting motion there),~
 322     V|              his feet,~ Deep oceans to bestride; or with his hands~ To whirl
 323    IV|                lions straightway thus~ Bethink themselves of flight, because,
 324     V|         irrevocably some hidden power~ Betramples forevermore affairs of men,~
 325   III|            mind,~ Dying 'twould scarce bewail a dissolution,~ But rather
 326    VI|               if 'tis his will that we beware~ Against the lightning-stroke,
 327   III|                 Why this bemoaning and beweeping death?~ For if thy life
 328   III|        harrying pang. But we,~ We have bewept thee with insatiate woe,~
 329     I|                are ever prone~ That to bewonder and adore which hides~ Beneath
 330     V|                  So long as still they bicker clear, and still~ Their
 331    VI|      everything~ Which mortal sees the biggest of each class,~ That he
 332    IV|           where one from o'er-abundant bile~ Is stricken with fever,
 333     V|              the bottom,~ Like lees or bilge. Then ocean, then the air,~
 334     I|               gray-green waves.~ Here, billowing onward through the narrow
 335   III|             withered garmentings;~ Nor bird-feathers, nor vegetable down,~ Flying
 336    II|                mingling with the small birth-cries,~ The wild laments, companions
 337     V|              the shores of light~ With birth-pangs from within the mother's
 338     V|          nostrils off along the zones~ Bistonian and Ismarian? And the Snake,~
 339   III|                 After the hinder, with bite to stop the pain.~ So shall
 340     V|              saved, with bone and body bitten, shrieked,~ Pressing their
 341   III|            gnaw the old transgressions bitterly.~ Add, too, that frenzy,
 342   III|             ask the mourner what's the bitterness~ That man should waste in
 343    IV|                worst bane of all.~ The black-skinned girl is "tawny like the
 344    VI|               often also out at sea~ A blackest thunderhead, like cataract~
 345    VI|               marvel this; since oft a bladder small,~ Filled up with air,
 346    II|               And slays the honourable blameless ones!~ ~ Ere since the birth-time
 347    IV|            wives to use the motions of blandishment;~ For thus the woman hinders
 348    VI|           twain~ Red with suffusion of blank glare. Their throats,~ Black
 349     V|         loftier than the rest,~ Smoke, blasted as by envy's thunderbolts;~
 350     V|               sky,~ Striving to set it blazing with his rays~ Ere he himself
 351    II|             Moreover, tender kids with bleating throats~ Do know their horned
 352    IV|              And overlookest first all blemishes~ Of mind and body of thy
 353    IV|               of each shape, one equal blend~ Of parents' features, these
 354    II|              it becomes~ Green-emerald blended with the coral-red.~ The
 355    II|                for us seem blurred and blent afar -~ A glint of white
 356     V|            Upon Immortals and upon the Blessed~ That they should take a
 357    II|              mighty cities borne,~ She blesses man with salutations mute,~
 358    VI|             break!~ And lest the winds blew back again, no force~ Could
 359    II|               rest off.~ For since the blind-born, who have ne'er surveyed~
 360    II|               wretched minds of men! O blinded hearts!~ In how great perils,
 361    VI|            they borne wandering on~ By blindfold reason. And, Memmius, unless~
 362     V|                 fierce they flew,~ And blindly through the squadrons havoc
 363    IV|             gaze thereon; the sun even blinds,~ If thou goest on to strain
 364     V|                 When, as it were, they blink, and then again~ With open
 365   III|              sputter foam, and grunt,~ Blither, and twist about with sinews
 366   III|                and bloodless, o'er the bloated frame~ Bubble and swarm?
 367    IV|                each aperture~ And thus blockades the pathways of the eyes~
 368    VI|          shakes into shivers all~ That blocks its path, following on its
 369    VI|                 Oft brawling with much bloodshed round about~ Rather than
 370     V|           foods, too, in long ago~ The blooming freshness of the rank young
 371     I|          breathing creatures bears and blooms, and that~ The gliding fires
 372     V|                now in leaf, are now in blossom all,~ Either the skiey sun
 373     V|              three modes may block and blot her disk.~ Again, she may
 374    VI|               the Etesian blasts, and, blowing thus~ Upstream, retard,
 375    IV|                feminine Silenus";~ The blubber-lipped is "all one luscious kiss" -~
 376    IV|              idols that the air~ Makes blunt the idol of the angle's
 377    II|            sport:~ Yet all for us seem blurred and blent afar -~ A glint
 378    VI|                 and within those dens~ Bluster like savage beasts, and
 379     I|            against other, smote by the blustering south,~ Till all ablaze
 380    VI|            firmly too that oftener the boards~ Crack open along the weakness
 381    IV|            deserted. This is why~ They boast of marvels in their story-tellings;~
 382    IV|         thither, many, in many modes,~ Bodiless and invisible?~ But lest~
 383     V|        function, equal force~ In every bodily part - a fact thou mayst,~
 384     V|                remote -~ Some gruesome Boggles orphaned of the feet,~ Some
 385     V|              with fire,~ Then from the boiling veins began to ooze~ O rivulets
 386    VI|               in mere promises.~ ~ The bolts of thunder, then, must be
 387     V|                flight~ Had saved, with bone and body bitten, shrieked,~
 388   III|                mass of living things,~ Boneless and bloodless, o'er the
 389     I|               juice~ And yellow of the boney, in order that~ The thoughtless
 390    VI|            hideous crash with bang and boom.~ No marvel this; since
 391    IV|              pipe~ Buzzes with raucous boomings, or when swans~ By night
 392    VI|                hail-stones, breaks and booms...~ ~ Likewise, it lightens,
 393     V|              accord~ Created then, was boon enough to glad~ Their simple
 394    VI|                sky and land and sea to boot,~ Are all as nothing to
 395    VI|               ways and roundabout, nor boots it~ For me much toil on
 396    IV|             slothful years and ruin in bordels,~ Or else because she's
 397    VI|               the air~ Encompasses and borders on all things.~ Thus, then,
 398     I|             waste~ And burning all the boscage. Now dost see~  (Even as
 399    VI|       sparkling all,~ And filled their bosoms with dread anxiety~ Of what
 400    II|         innumerable in number, in sum~ Bottomless, there in many a manner
 401   III|           fables tell,~ Fears the huge boulder hanging in the air:~ But,
 402     V|           earth~ All portioned out and boundaried; already,~ Would the sea
 403     I|         straits,~ Swift ocean cuts her boundaries from the shores~ Of the
 404     I|                 With fixed coasts, and bounded everywhere,~ Then would
 405     V|              any means, were earth not bounden fast~ Unto the great world'
 406    VI|               Fane of Tritonian Pallas bountiful,~ Where never cawing crows
 407   III|             Just so, when vanished the bouquet of wine,~ Or when an unguent'
 408    VI|            bright~ The radiance of the bow.~ And as to things~ Not
 409   III|            That more for glory do they braggart forth~ Than for belief.
 410     V|             Nature would o'errun~ With brambles, did not human force oppose, -~
 411     V|             ponderous heft~ Of gnarled branch. And by the time of night~
 412    II|             deep within, as 'twere~ By branch-like atoms - of which sort the
 413    VI|              of clouds~ Rough-edged or branched many forky ways;~ And 'tis
 414    VI|              made manifest and by~ The brand-marks of their searing heat on
 415     V|               splendid sun of heaven,~ Branding with mortal talk immortal
 416     V|                Doth leave all there to brawl in wayward gusts,~ Whilst,
 417   III|               and hiccups, shouts, and brawls~ And whatso else is of that
 418    II|                threaten with a raucous bray;~ The tubed pipe excites
 419    VI|               touch unravels them~ And breaketh asunder as they move, those
 420     I|                been~ So far reduced by breakings in old days~ That from them
 421    IV|            slaver of their mouths, and breathe~ Into each other, pressing
 422     V|          fashions. For from sky~ These breathing-creatures never can have dropped,~
 423    VI|              to speak, through all the breathing-holes~ Of the great upper-world
 424   III|              there left behind~ In the breathless body, or not? If there they
 425     I|             religion oftener far~ Hath bred the foul impieties of men:~
 426    IV|           thorns - for oft we see~ The breres augmented with their flying
 427     V|             insatiate lust,~ Or from a bribe - as acorn-nuts, choice
 428     I|               parent felled her on her bridal day,~ Making his child a
 429     I|              trees;~ Nor can the solid bridges bide the shock~ As on the
 430     V|                 lest perchance,~ Still bridled by religion, thou suppose~
 431    VI|                fit~ It is in few words briefly to embrace~ Things many:
 432    II|                  That thus we'd see in brightness of the deep~ (Or in whatever
 433    II|           there,~ Phoenician red, most brilliant of all dyes,~ Is lost asunder,
 434    VI|             when we clasp in hand~ The brimming goblets. And, again, there
 435     V|              As feathers and hairs and bristles are begot~ The first on
 436     V|                 they would throw, like bristly boars,~ Their wildman's
 437    VI|           suppose the clime~ Among the Britons to differ from Aegypt's
 438    II|                 with a body soft;~ The brittle mortal, with a crumbling
 439     I|                for one soever question broached.~ NOTHING EXISTS per se
 440     V|          without~ The purple vestment, broidered with gold~ And with imposing
 441   III|                For the sad burial of a brother-born,~ And hatred and fear of
 442    VI|               dread~ Deranged, the sad brow, the countenance~ Fierce
 443    IV|                disarrange themselves,~ Bruised by labours hard. And in
 444     I|            silent lairs, though hid in brush,~ Of beasts, the mountain-rangers,
 445    IV|             eyeballs, and, as 'twere,~ Brushes athrough our pupils and
 446   III|                its parts, sink down to brutish death,~ Since more and more
 447    II|                And brazen bars, which, budging hard in locks,~ Do grate
 448    VI|            whirl~ With lashings and do buffet about in air~ A hanging
 449   III|           tears, and choke thy whines, buffoon!~ Thou wrinklest - after
 450    IV|              opposites! Again, as in a building,~ If the first plumb-line
 451    VI|          places would they crowd,~ All buildings too; whereby the more would
 452    VI|               the foot~ Grows blue and bulbous; often the sharp twinge~
 453    VI|             from heaven, and far away~ Bulging with murkiness, down on
 454     I|              heavier weight, but of no bulkier size:~ Indeed, if in a ball
 455    IV|              Graces sure"; the big and bulky~ O she's "an Admiration,
 456     V|            again,~ O what could Cretan Bull, or Hydra, pest~ Of Lerna,
 457     V|               his powers.~ Ere yet the bull-calf's scarce begotten horns~
 458    IV|              so that they at last~ Can bulwark their old age with goodly
 459    VI|             when without all power~ To buoy themselves and on their
 460    VI|            have come,~ Forthwith their buoyancy of pennons limps,~ All useless,
 461     V|            likewise, when the stud~ In buoyant flower of his young years
 462   III|               place, as if to drop the burden.~  The man who sickens of
 463   III|              gentle sleep and lies the burdened frame~ At random void of
 464    VI|             upon the other massed~ And burdening downward, anchored in high
 465    VI|            high~ Of constellated ether burdens down~ Upon them, and by
 466     V|              fixed time in all things: burgeon shrubs~ At fixed time, and
 467    IV|                the lights~ Of lampions burgeoning in flowers of flame,~ And
 468    VI|              Than which is naught that burgeons into leaf~ More bitter food
 469   III|               cruel laugh~ For the sad burial of a brother-born,~ And
 470     V|         overflow; in part because~ The burly winds (that over-sweep amain)~
 471     V|               heat~ The conflagrations burned the forest trees~ Among
 472    VI|            crawling on~ Over the body, burneth every part~ It seizeth on,
 473    IV|              of hot,~ Which cause such burnings in these bellies of ours,~
 474    VI|               flame around, until from bursted cloud~ In forky flashes
 475   III|                Forgetfulness, or maybe bustles about~ And makes for town
 476   III|           ancestral sacrifices there,~ Butcher the black sheep, and to
 477     V|              them he 'gins~ Enraged to butt and savagely to thrust.~
 478    II|            know their horned dams, and butting lambs~ The flocks of sheep,
 479    IV|               the breasts beneath~ And buttocks then upreared, the seeds
 480    IV|            barbaric Berecynthian pipe~ Buzzes with raucous boomings, or
 481    IV|       deceiving estimates: so too~ Thy calculations in affairs of life~ Must
 482    II|                Drops down the yearling calf, from out its breast~ Breathing
 483    VI|               working there.~ Do thou, Calliope, ingenious Muse,~ Solace
 484    IV|             shells,~ Or with the horny callus, or with bark.~ Yet this
 485     V|            Back to solstitial goals of Cancer; nor~ How 'tis the moon
 486     V|            staunch to bear,~ Under the canopy of the sky, the cold;~ And
 487    VI|              Made manifest in my first canto, too.~ For truly, though
 488    IV|              And therefore, since~ The canvas hangings thus discharge
 489   III|            Wherefore they must be also capable~ Of dissolution through
 490     V|               sleight to serve~ My own caprice - because I have assumed~
 491     V|              winter turning-points~ In Capricorn, the thence reverting veers~
 492    IV|            towns by storm,~ Succumb to capture, battle on the field,~ Raise
 493    II|               on other earth. Unto her car~ They've yoked the wild
 494    VI|              the sky - lean ominously, careening~ Into the same direction;
 495     V|             sun~ Arrive our senses and caress our limbs,~ Form too and
 496    IV|               must needs~ Have entered caressingly the palate's pores.~ And,
 497     V|              tis purple and gold~ That cark men's lives with cares and
 498    VI|              tenuous as they be),~ The carrier-winds will drive them up and on~
 499    VI|           itself~ Some smaller bodies, carries them along,~ And these,
 500    VI|           throughout, when jarred by a cart~ Of no large weight; and,