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1001 III| winds of air at the coming dove,~ And men would dote, and 1002 II| sunlight shows the down of doves~ That circles, garlanding, 1003 III| sink with load of earth~ Down-crushing from above.~ "Thee now no 1004 VI| their sails,~ And, with down-drooping of their delicate necks,~ 1005 VI| thereafter, when they're once down-fallen~ Into the poison's very 1006 I| rolls beneath its waves~ Down-toppled masonry and ponderous stone,~ 1007 VI| Trembleth above, jarred by big down-tumblings,~ When time hath undermined 1008 VI| the cloud it tries to, but down-weighs~ That cloud, until 'tis 1009 III| may harm~ With its white downfall: ever, unclouded sky~ O' 1010 I| abounding floods,~ Which a wide downpour from the lofty hills~ Swells 1011 IV| Whereafter a monstrous beast dragging amain~ And leading in the 1012 V| a lion she;~ And aft, a dragon; and betwixt, a goat -~ 1013 VI| red levin - unto men~ A drastic lesson? - why is rather 1014 VI| grateth on our ears,~ So long drawn-out, until the clouds have passed~ 1015 V| gone - for erst o'er-much~ Dreaded, thereafter with more greedy 1016 VI| disease. And some there were,~ Dreading the doorways of destruction~ 1017 II| dread, with cares at heels,~ Dreads not these sounds of arms, 1018 I| break from us. Ah, many a dream even now~ Can they concoct 1019 IV| gentle slumbers they have dreamed~ Of hawks in chase, aswooping 1020 V| powerless~ To dure and dree the mighty forces there~ 1021 IV| their frame entire~ And drench the Babylonian coverlets,~ 1022 VI| single night the highways dried~ By winds, and soft mud 1023 IV| winds~ Carry the scattered drifts along the sky~ In the night-time, 1024 V| besides to bore~ And punch and drill. And men began such work~ 1025 I| with years and suns;~ The drippings from the eaves will scoop 1026 II| this pomp at last~ Is but a drollery and a mocking sport,~ And 1027 IV| then our loosened members droop.~ For doubt is none that 1028 III| With eyelids closing and a drooping nod,~ In heavy drowse, on 1029 III| tongues, with thirst and arid drought,~ Or chafe for any lack.~ 1030 VI| too,~ At the heavy castor drowses back in chair,~ And from 1031 III| touched the threshold,~ Or drowsily goes off in sleep and seeks~ 1032 I| Hence cattle, fat and drowsy, lay their bulk~ Along the 1033 VI| doth the circumambient air~ Drub things unmoved, but here 1034 VI| vexed motion,~ And therefore drubs upon the ring sans doubt~ 1035 VI| beforehand we~ Of water 've drunk. But when a burning fever,~ 1036 VI| along with it~ That cloud of ductile body. And soon as ever~ ' 1037 III| How can a wise become a dullard soul?~ And why is never 1038 IV| chambers of a house,~ Is dulled, and in a jumble enters 1039 II| see from out the stinking dung~ Live worms spring up, when, 1040 III| expiations~ For evil acts: the dungeon and the leap~ From that 1041 IV| base passion - miserable dupes~ Who seldom mark their own 1042 III| more that they can have~ Duration and birth, wholly outside 1043 V| Companioned is by Ceres, dusty one,~ And by the Etesian 1044 IV| another's beck and call; their duties~ Neglected languish and 1045 V| And that 'tis therefore duty and behoof~ To praise the 1046 IV| Lest they be thought to dwell in lonely spots~ And even 1047 III| see that in man's members dwells~ Also the soul, and body 1048 II| last those seeds together dwelt,~ Which, when together of 1049 II| red, most brilliant of all dyes,~ Is lost asunder, ravelled 1050 III| retain our life.~ ~ Now in my eagerness to tell thee how~ They are 1051 V| else,~ The mind exists of earth-born frame create~ And impotent 1052 I| throws~ Down to the bosom of Earth-mother; but then~ Upsprings the 1053 VI| Arises, too, this same great earth-quaking,~ When wind and some prodigious 1054 V| new light.~ Indeed your earthly beacons of the night,~ The 1055 VI| come, and what the law of earthquakes is~ Hearken, and first of 1056 V| sun, and on the side~ To earthward thrust her high head under 1057 IV| through limbs and veins,~ For eating. And the moist no less departs~ 1058 III| love, whom anxious anguish eats,~ Whom troubles of any unappeased 1059 I| The drippings from the eaves will scoop the stone;~ The 1060 II| from things~ Many a body ebbeth and runs off;~ But yet still 1061 II| things perish, when with ebbing~ They're made less dense 1062 II| no more~ Than that which ebbs within them and runs off.~ 1063 I| girls;~ And leafy woodlands echo with new birds;~ Hence cattle, 1064 V| food that roared alive,~ Echoing through groves and hills 1065 VI| cease to seep~ The varied echoings athrough the air.~ Then, 1066 V| Likewise, the sun's eclipses and the moon's~ Far occultations 1067 V| again,~ Upon its outer edges (so that then,~ Being thus 1068 IV| Whether a boy with limbs effeminate~ Assault him, or a woman 1069 VI| Out-streams with all these dread effluvia~ And breathes them out into 1070 VI| death. And by about the eighth~ Resplendent light of sun, 1071 II| And flavours of the gummed elecampane.~ Again, that glowing fire 1072 I| As once at Aulis, the elected chiefs,~ Foremost of heroes, 1073 VI| kind by kind:~ There is the elephant-disease which down~ In midmost Aegypt, 1074 II| fact,~ Of sapient seeds and eloquent, why, then,~ Cannot those 1075 V| And since they've ever eluded touch and thrust~ Of human 1076 II| they assign~ The Galli, the emasculate, since thus~ They wish to 1077 II| mighty strife~ Of armies embattled yonder o'er the plains,~ 1078 VI| Much yet remains to be embellished yet~ In polished verses, 1079 II| shoot the sparks and scatter embers wide.~ If, with like reasoning 1080 II| before them knives,~ Wild emblems of their frenzy, which have 1081 I| to fools,~ What they've embraced with reasoning perverse~ 1082 V| Wherefore thou mightest risk embracing one~ More than the other 1083 IV| as ye may be sure)~ Big emeralds of green light are set in 1084 VI| riches, honour, praise,~ And eminent in goodly fame of sons,~ 1085 V| Our gratefulness,~ O what emoluments could it confer~ Upon Immortals 1086 I| breath, and rain;~ As first Empedocles of Acragas,~ Whom that three-cornered 1087 V| affairs~ And ownership of empires. Be it so;~ And let the 1088 II| Must differ widely, as enabled thus~ To cause diverse sensations.~ 1089 I| slopes,~ And whatsoever are encased, as 'twere,~ In earthen 1090 III| itself,~ And in that air enclose those motions all~ Which 1091 V| without~ Confines them and encloseth at each end;~ And that, 1092 IV| around the wet and trickling~ Enclosures of the tongue. And contrariwise,~ 1093 VI| framework porous, and the air~ Encompasses and borders on all things.~ 1094 VI| Of the great upper-world encompassing,~ There be for the primordial 1095 V| And weights, and blows, encounterings, and motions,~ Because, 1096 I| connections,~ Weights, blows, encounters, motions, whereby things~ 1097 VI| supreme good whither we all endeavour,~ And showed the path whereby 1098 V| Arrive at the end of their endeavouring.~ Breathing such vasty warfare, 1099 II| Till Nature, author and ender of the world,~ Hath led 1100 II| what they part from, but endow~ With increase those to 1101 I| whatever things~ Have still endured from everlasting time~ Unto 1102 IV| Cannot become united nor engage~ In interchange of motion. 1103 IV| been the wont~ Of men to be engaged-nor only men,~ But soothly all 1104 II| strike the lighter, thus engendering blows~ Able to cause those 1105 V| had prevailed against all engin'ries~ Of the assaulting 1106 IV| moved and hoisted high~ By enginery of pulley-blocks and wheels,~ 1107 VI| the land, and in the sea~ Engulfed hath sunken many a city 1108 I| take the proof that things enlarge and feed~ From out their 1109 II| but are all~ Entangled and enmassed, whereby at once~ Each is 1110 IV| Aphrodite.~ Yet even when there enmeshed with tangled feet,~ Still 1111 II| and gave forth at birth~ Enormous bodies of wild beasts of 1112 VI| abroad (yet not in numbers enow~ As to make hot the fountain). 1113 V| brows, with them he 'gins~ Enraged to butt and savagely to 1114 VI| And men contending to ensepulchre~ Pile upon pile the throng 1115 V| were wont to be exposed,~ Enshackled in the gruesome bonds of 1116 V| days; for force and fraud ensnare~ Each man around, and in 1117 VI| the unseen poison, 'tis ensnared,~ And from the horizontal 1118 III| upon our road,~ Its net entangles us, nor on our head~ The 1119 I| blow,~ Or inward craft, entering its hollow cells,~ Dissolve 1120 II| Then, too, the reason which entices us~ At times to attribute 1121 II| Forever, nor eternally entomb~ The welfare of the world; 1122 V| viewed his living flesh entombed~ Within a living grave; 1123 VI| primordial elements~ Exits and entrances.~ Now come, and how~ The 1124 V| shores of light~ And to entrust unto the wayward winds.~ ~ 1125 VI| earth shall be~ Inviolable, entrusted evermore~ To an eternal 1126 I| depart at any time,~ The envious nature of vision bars our 1127 III| his head to death.~ Even Epicurus went, his light of life~ 1128 IV| Indeed, where one from o'er-abundant bile~ Is stricken with fever, 1129 VI| disease and death~ Were they o'er-given. At first, they'd bear about~ 1130 V| Glide on, defying the o'er-mighty powers~ Of the immeasurable 1131 III| the man in genius who o'er-topped~ The human race, extinguishing 1132 V| then into our breasts,~ O'erburdened already with their other 1133 VI| steps within,~ Collapse, o'ercome by its essential power,~ 1134 VI| on, and Aetna's fires o'erflow,~ And heaven become a flame-burst. 1135 VI| back his waves,~ Fill him o'erfull and force his flow to stop.~ 1136 I| the thing itself is not o'erhard~ For explanation. First, 1137 VI| seest how motion will o'erheat~ And set ablaze all objects - 1138 III| Is fallen away, at no o'erlong remove~ Is that, I trow, 1139 VI| when a burning fever,~ O'ermastering man, hath seized upon his 1140 V| around, o'ertake her and o'erpass.~ Therefore it happens that 1141 IV| his,~ The female hath o'erpowered the force of male~ And by 1142 III| truth make head~ 'Gainst errors' theories all, and so shut 1143 V| force of Nature would o'errun~ With brambles, did not 1144 III| torch of wrath applied,~ O'erspreading with shadows of a darkling 1145 V| signs,~ Circling around, o'ertake her and o'erpass.~ Therefore 1146 V| by the time of night~ O'ertaken, they would throw, like 1147 VI| following hard upon,~ O'erthrew of old. And many a walled 1148 VI| forever out of men,~ And to o'erthrow the cattle everywhere, -~ 1149 II| fixed, and by like law~ O'ertravelled backwards at the dawn of 1150 V| And haughty sceptres lay o'erturned in dust;~ And crowns, so 1151 II| that sight.~ The which o'erwearied to behold, to-day~ None 1152 V| to other?~ ~ But night o'erwhelms the lands with vasty murk~ 1153 III| roaring burst the breast o'erwrought,~ Unable to hold the surging 1154 IV| each and all~ Have quite escaped the sense, the stones appear~ 1155 V| particles of heat and air~ Escaping, began to fly aloft, and 1156 IV| to open mouth to tell;~ Especially, since on outsides of things~ 1157 VI| Pallas, grieved at that espial old,~ As poets of the Greeks 1158 VI| true: lo, if thou shouldst espy~ Lying afar some fellow' 1159 V| war's grim business; and essayed to send~ Outrageous boars 1160 IV| not observed~ How eyes, essaying to perceive the fine,~ Will 1161 VI| Collapse, o'ercome by its essential power,~ As if there slaughtered 1162 III| And this same argument establisheth~ That nature of mind and 1163 IV| sick; and meantime their estates~ Are lost in Babylonian 1164 IV| indeed~ By first deceiving estimates: so too~ Thy calculations 1165 | ETC 1166 II| death prevail~ Forever, nor eternally entomb~ The welfare of the 1167 I| primal bodies are solid and eterne.~ Again, if Nature, creatress 1168 I| the rains perish which Ether-father throws~ Down to the bosom 1169 VI| and not, O not~ To unwind Etrurian scrolls oracular,~ Inquiring 1170 I| untroubled, nor mid such events~ The illustrious scion of 1171 V| caught up in hand~ The ever-blazing lampion of the world,~ And 1172 V| Outstand this strain of ever-roused motion,~ Or whether, divinely 1173 VI| divine~ Renowned of old, exalted to the sky.~ For when saw 1174 I| And us his victory now exalts to heaven.~ I know how hard 1175 I| soever do go on,~ Let us examine if it finite be~ All and 1176 IV| sound.~ Besides, since shape examined by our hands~ Within the 1177 I| view, of which~ The bodies exceed in number all the rest,~ 1178 V| thinkest~ Labours of Hercules excel the same,~ Much farther 1179 V| colours and with odours excellent;~ Whereafter follows arid 1180 VI| crowds them, and the very excess~ Of storm-clouds (massed 1181 VI| times~ The force of wind, excited from without,~ Smiteth into 1182 II| raucous bray;~ The tubed pipe excites their maddened minds~ In 1183 VI| Ensamples still of things exclusively~ To one another adapt. Thou 1184 IV| approaching, he would seek~ Decent excuses to go out forthwith;~ And 1185 III| infamy, the stripes,~ The executioners, the oaken rack,~ The iron 1186 VI| perchance, even so~ To exercise their arms and strengthen 1187 IV| Are through the mouth exhaled innumerable,~ When weary 1188 VI| breaking down~ With sheer exhaustion men already spent.~ And 1189 III| years, nor yet the frame exhausts~ Outworn, still things abide 1190 IV| crave~ With plainness to exhibit facts. And first,~ Why doth 1191 III| For mark these very same:~ Exiles from country, fugitives 1192 V| thou deemest that ere this~ Existed all things even the same, 1193 IV| understandest their utility.~ EXISTENCE AND CHARACTER OF~ THE IMAGES~ ~ 1194 I| not~ To admit these acts existent by themselves,~ Merely because 1195 III| void of name;~ Than which existeth naught more mobile, naught~ 1196 VI| the primordial elements~ Exits and entrances.~ Now come, 1197 II| the things are not~ So far expanded that they cast away~ Such 1198 VI| the waves in such a wide expanse~ Abundantly. Then, further, 1199 I| Yet worth of thine and the expected joy~ Of thy sweet friendship 1200 V| practice and the mind's experience,~ As men walked forward 1201 V| one~ Passion for strange experiment? Or what~ The evil for us, 1202 III| Of retributions just and expiations~ For evil acts: the dungeon 1203 III| indubitable facts:~ For who'll explain what body's feeling is,~ 1204 I| itself is not o'erhard~ For explanation. First, then, when he speaks~ 1205 V| a truth, were wont to be exposed,~ Enshackled in the gruesome 1206 VI| That by contracting it expresses then~ Into the wells what 1207 II| no bound nor measure, and extends~ Unmetered forth in all 1208 II| least~ The whole in being externally a cube;~ But differing hues 1209 II| by little till 'tis quite extinct;~ As happens when the gaudy 1210 VI| cloud, if full of wet,~ Extinguishes the fire with mighty noise;~ 1211 III| er-topped~ The human race, extinguishing all others,~ As sun, in 1212 VI| and wreckage of a world.~ EXTRAORDINARY AND PARADOXICAL~ TELLURIC 1213 II| there~ Betwixt the two extremes: the things create~ Must 1214 II| food at last will fail~ Extremest eld, and bodies from outside~ 1215 IV| returned.~ ~ Further, our eye-balls tend to flee the bright~ 1216 IV| speedy motion, and with eyeing heads~ Repeat the movement, 1217 IV| Desirable dame. For so men do,~ Eyeless with passion, and assign 1218 IV| such things~ As hit the eyesight and assail the vision.~ 1219 VI| needed by the cloud~ For fabrication of the thunderbolt.~ For 1220 III| cause~ Of that disease has faced about, and back~ Retreats 1221 IV| Thus then by these twain factors, severally,~ Body is borne 1222 V| To him alone primordial faculty~ To know and see in mind 1223 II| more thou see its colour fade away~ Little by little till ' 1224 V| Leave the sweet light of fading life behind.~ Indeed, in 1225 III| into mouth;~ But feels it failing in a certain spot,~ Even 1226 IV| confounded and the frame grow faint,~ I will untangle: see to 1227 III| That man's quite gone," or "fainted dead away";~ And where there' 1228 I| Spontaneous generations, fairer forms.~ Confess then, naught 1229 II| To shun the ambush of the faithless main,~ The violence and 1230 IV| For well-nigh each man falleth toward his wound,~ And our 1231 IV| All reason also then is falsified.~ Or shall the ears have 1232 VI| things;~ And so it never falters in delay~ Despite innumerable 1233 III| no disease,~ Nor cold nor famine; for the body labours~ By 1234 I| comes~ That Heraclitus, famous for dark speech~ Among the 1235 V| halloweth in all lands~ Fanes, altars, groves, lakes, 1236 III| jerked about by jaw and fang~ Of the wild brutes, I see 1237 II| glowing fire and icy rime~ Are fanged with teeth unlike whereby 1238 III| er roofs, and laughs with far-diffused light.~ And nature gives 1239 I| won;~ And forward thus he fared afar, beyond~ The flaming 1240 V| from true reasoning thou farest.~ For what could hurt us 1241 II| the strength~ Of sturdy farm-hands; iron tools to-day~ Barely 1242 V| until at last~ The rugged farmer folk jeered at such tasks,~ 1243 IV| out; and far and wide the farmer-race~ Begins to hear, when, shaking 1244 I| finite to be,~ If some one farthest traveller runs forth~ Unto 1245 I| hinder thy gaze on Nature's Farthest-forth.~ Thus things for things 1246 V| innumerable -~ After diverging fashions. For from sky~ These breathing-creatures 1247 V| fangs and hooked claws~ Fasten upon them. Bulls would toss 1248 VI| scanty couplings, yet be fastened firm,~ The one on other 1249 I| stock. But now~ Because the fastenings of primordial parts~ Are 1250 I| from a thing~ Without a fatal dissolution: such,~ Weight 1251 II| Whence is it wrested from the fates, - this will~ Whereby we 1252 VI| arrive~ In region far from fatherland and home~ Are by the strangeness 1253 IV| slumber which,~ Full or fatigued, thou takest; since 'tis 1254 IV| d damn himself~ For his fatuity, observing how~ He had assigned 1255 IV| construction then~ Must turn out faulty - shelving and askew,~ Leaning 1256 IV| And tells ye there be fauns, by whose night noise~ And 1257 I| and unless~ The season favour at propitious hour~ With 1258 V| to gape and snap,~ They fawn with yelps of voice far 1259 IV| to themselves again. And fawning breed~ Of house-bred whelps 1260 VI| To engulf the earth. Then fearfully a quake~ Pervades the lands, 1261 II| the lights for evening feasts,~ And if the house doth 1262 II| Just as we see the eggs of feathered fowls~ To change to living 1263 V| aloft into the air.~ As feathers and hairs and bristles are 1264 III| another rises ever;~ And in fee-simple life is given to none,~ 1265 V| above; for just so far~ As feebler is the whirl that bears 1266 IV| sighs the woman always with feigned love,~ Who links her body 1267 I| sinfully foredone,~ A parent felled her on her bridal day,~ 1268 VI| thou~ Some man far yonder felling a great tree~ With double-edged 1269 IV| Two-fold the visages of fellow-men,~ And twain their bodies. 1270 IV| lady-love~ "A Satyress, a feminine Silenus";~ The blubber-lipped 1271 V| or Hydra, pest~ Of Lerna, fenced with vipers venomous?~ Or 1272 VI| Then, verily, all the fences of man's life~ Began to 1273 IV| confounded as they are~ By ferment of their frame. The thirsty 1274 IV| own wives,~ Although of fertile wombs, have borne for them~ 1275 III| in no mean part are kept~ Festering and open by this fright 1276 V| then, no alien substance fetched amain,~ And from no alien 1277 V| force, was ailing from its feuds;~ And so the sooner of its 1278 II| yet the quicker will hot fevers go,~ If on a pictured tapestry 1279 VI| smitten, the elements of fiery-stuff~ Can stream together from 1280 III| body gone,~ The outward figuration of the limbs~ Is unimpaired 1281 III| Unless themselves they filched it otherwise,~ To serve 1282 VI| rings leap up,~ And iron filings in the brazen bowls~ Seethe 1283 I| round her maiden locks~ And fillets, fluttering down on either 1284 III| prudent soul?~ And the mare's filly why not trained so well~ 1285 IV| contrariwise, when such a tenuous film~ Of outside colour is thrown 1286 IV| well believe~ That these film-idols step along with us~ And 1287 II| How the sweet water, after filtering through~ So often underground, 1288 IV| tawny like the honey";~ The filthy and the fetid's "negligee";~ 1289 III| horse? Our father thou,~ And finder-out of truth, and thou to us~ 1290 III| villein in the house.~ Add finders-out of sciences and arts;~ Add 1291 VI| stone, and in that iron~ Findeth all spaces full, nor now 1292 I| how much may move,~ Which, finding not a void, would fail deprived~ 1293 I| Or which is rouged in finely finished phrase.~ For how, 1294 V| drawn~ To sharpest points or finest edge, and thus~ Yield to 1295 VI| parts,~ Even to the tiniest finger-nails. Likewise,~ Through solid 1296 IV| whene'er we thump~ With finger-tip upon a stone, we touch~ 1297 VI| Aye, and the sinews in the fingered hands~ Were sure to contract, 1298 I| which is rouged in finely finished phrase.~ For how, I ask, 1299 VI| through~ The very nature of fire-fraught thunderbolt;~ O this it 1300 VI| black cloud, it scatters the fire-seeds,~ Which, so to say, have 1301 V| And the night-wandering fireballs of the sky,~ And flying 1302 VI| with wood is joined -~ So firmly too that oftener the boards~ 1303 II| world, ere since~ The risen first-born day of sea, earth, sun,~ 1304 I| Have still in matter of first-elements~ Made ruin of themselves, 1305 V| what modes that conflux of first-stuff~ Did found the multitudinous 1306 I| But rather of sort more fitly to be called~ An accident 1307 III| man's not more given to fits of wrath,~ Another's not 1308 V| wet.~ And hence, where any fitting spot was given,~ There ' 1309 III| supreme hour were there;~ And flabbily collapse the members all~ 1310 V| facts: when first~ Huge flabby jowls of mad Molossian hounds,~ 1311 III| the countenance becomes~ Flaccid, as if the supreme hour 1312 II| The meteors, midnight flambeaus of the sky,~ How after them 1313 VI| erflow,~ And heaven become a flame-burst. For that, too,~ Happens 1314 II| burns in many a spot her flamed crust,~ Whilst the impetuous 1315 IV| to the bulge of our own flank~ Send back to us their idols 1316 V| foot, and from beneath~ Rip flanks and bellies of horses with 1317 IV| Who's wont with wings to flap away the night~ From off 1318 VI| pitch-pine torch will kindle and flare round~ Along its waves, 1319 V| each effulgence, foremost flashed forth,~ Perisheth one by 1320 V| and burst across the open flats.~ As yet they knew not to 1321 I| forth drops~ Of sweet milk, flavoured like the uddered sheep's;~ 1322 VI| nightly lamps~ Thou bringest a flaxen wick, extinguished~ A moment 1323 I| scaly breed,~ And, fowl full fledged come bursting from the sky;~ 1324 V| to wings~ And from their fledgling pinions seek to get~ A fluttering 1325 VI| mighty sea,~ Like hanging fleeces of white wool. Thuswise,~ 1326 II| thou beholdest forth~ Thy fleets to swarm, deploying down 1327 V| and yet in vain,~ Since fleshed with pell-mell slaughter, 1328 VI| Because the liquid fire flieth along~ Athrough their pores. 1329 IV| frame to be enjoyed~ Save flimsy idol-images and vain -~ 1330 II| all blows,~ And stalwart flint and strength of solid iron,~ 1331 VI| of mortals~ Upsprang and flitted deviously about~ (Whether 1332 II| other,~ They needs must flitter to and fro with shapes~ 1333 II| And those that throng, flitting from tree to tree,~ Through 1334 V| and liquid of the three,~ Floats on above the long aerial 1335 VI| on other and swarm in a flock~ And grow by their conjoining, 1336 IV| Wherefore, since body thus is flogged alike~ Upon the inside and 1337 IV| conjoining ceiling with the floor,~ And the whole right side 1338 V| Zephyr's foot-prints Mother Flora,~ Sprinkling the ways before 1339 V| season - rites which still~ Flourish in midst of great affairs 1340 V| through every landscape flowed,~ That trees were wont with 1341 V| only then doth youth with flowering years~ Begin for boys, and 1342 V| proves -~ That sea which floweth forth with fixed tides,~ 1343 III| once wont to be create~ In flowing streams, nor cold begot 1344 V| And that perennially the fluids well.~ Needeth no words - 1345 IV| The open reeds, - lest flute should cease to pour~ The 1346 III| The tiniest ever, since at flying-forth~ It beareth nothing of the 1347 VI| the falling sickness~ And foamings at the mouth. A woman, too,~ 1348 III| disease.~ ~ Confounds, he foams, as if to vomit soul,~ As 1349 V| Rent into rags by greedy foemen there~ And splashed by blood, 1350 V| shoots;~ Hence too men's fondness for ingrafting slips~ Upon 1351 III| Forgetful that this fear is font of cares,~ This fear the 1352 II| fixed law:~ For from all food-stuff, when once eaten down,~ 1353 V| Their first nomenclature, is foolery.~ For why could he mark 1354 VI| prophetic skies~ For auguries, O foolishly distraught,~ Even as to 1355 V| where reason~ Shows us a footprint.~ Sailings on the seas,~ 1356 V| weakened state,~ At fixed time for-lose his fires, and then,~ When 1357 III| death precludeth this,~ Forbidding life to him on whom might 1358 VI| the dead on dead:~ For who forbore to look to their own sick,~ 1359 II| in form,~ Lest thus thou forcest some indeed to be~ Of an 1360 I| prepare~ Men of a bulk to ford the seas afoot,~ Or rend 1361 VI| following after, utterly fordone,~ Till be but wrack and 1362 III| absent, yet the mind,~ With a fore-fearing conscience, plies its goads~ 1363 V| implanted in the teacher, then,~ Fore-knowledge of their use, and whence 1364 V| gendering the world~ And the fore-notion of what man is like,~ So 1365 III| the sod,~ And there the fore-part seeking with the jaws~ After 1366 VI| sullen heart,~ Would, in fore-vision of his funeral,~ Give up 1367 IV| goodly strides ahead; or forearms joined~ Unto the sturdy 1368 I| sinless woman, sinfully foredone,~ A parent felled her on 1369 VI| host more dense~ The clouds foregather, thence more often comes~ 1370 VI| murk, and make,~ By slow foregathering, the skiey clouds.~ For, 1371 V| And with a threat'ning forehead jam the sod;~ And boars 1372 II| ground~ Throws off those foreign to their frame; and many~ 1373 V| men could not~ With mind foreknow and see, as sure to come,~ 1374 I| create.~ ~ Yet he and those forementioned (known to be~ So far beneath 1375 IV| saviour of the Roman citadel,~ Forescents afar the odour of mankind.~ 1376 I| the mountain tops~ With forest-crackling blasts. Thus on they rave~ 1377 V| legs,~ They'd chase the forest-wanderers, the beasts;~ And many they' 1378 I| a question to expound,~ Forestalling something certain folk suppose,~ 1379 V| hath been stablished by the Forethought old~ To everlasting for 1380 I| smit to the heart by thee,~ Foretoken thy approach, O thou Divine,~ 1381 III| be~ By medicine, this is forewarning to~ That mortal lives the 1382 III| new delight that may be forged~ By living on. But whilst 1383 V| and thus~ Yield to the forgers tools and give them power~ 1384 II| out new fire; and ether forges ether;~ Till Nature, author 1385 III| destruction with a gloomy heart -~ Forgetful that this fear is font of 1386 III| off in sleep and seeks~ Forgetfulness, or maybe bustles about~ 1387 VI| see~ Through some pores form-and-look of things to flow,~ Through 1388 VI| funerals, uncompanioned, forsaken,~ Like rivals contended 1389 VI| there none. Their frames~ Forspent lay prone. With silent lips 1390 I| in all good things, and fortified~ With generous strength 1391 I| creates, and multiplies~ And fosters all, and whither she resolves~ 1392 VI| would there ooze along~ Much fouled blood, oft with an aching 1393 IV| rending of the joints,~ And fouling of the limbs with gore, 1394 VI| forth~ Athrough that other fount, and bubble out~ Abroad 1395 III| souls entire~ In all those fractions? - but from that 'twould 1396 III| Thou'lt see each severed fragment writhing round~ With its 1397 III| frankincense~ To tear their fragrance forth, without its nature~ 1398 III| easy 'tis from lumps of frankincense~ To tear their fragrance 1399 V| wicked days; for force and fraud ensnare~ Each man around, 1400 V| paws and bites are at the fray~ Already, when their teeth 1401 IV| they to fight and go at frays,~ Sailors to live in combat 1402 I| pauperhood, and wealth,~ Freedom, and war, and concord, and 1403 IV| they're fresh, by wandering freely round~ After the freely-wandering 1404 IV| freely round~ After the freely-wandering Venus, or~ Canst lead elsewhere 1405 IV| members waters of repose~ And frees the breast from cares of 1406 VI| hoar-frosts chill,~ And freezing, mighty force - of lakes 1407 IV| With all their frame, are frenzied in their fright;~ And after 1408 II| often underground, flows freshened forth~ Into some hollow; 1409 V| in long ago~ The blooming freshness of the rank young world~ 1410 II| to the lyre resound~ No fretted and gilded ceilings overhead,~ 1411 III| once known to thee,~ Good friend, will serve thee opportune 1412 V| a-tremble, lulled winds~ And friendly gales? - in vain, since, 1413 I| expected joy~ Of thy sweet friendship do persuade me on~ To bear 1414 V| foes~ Had hurled fire to frighten and dismay,~ Or yet because, 1415 V| havoc wrought,~ Shaking the frightful crests upon their heads,~ 1416 II| lambs~ Well filled, are frisking, locking horns in sport:~ 1417 V| jollity, for, lo,~ Such frolic acts were in their glory 1418 V| themselves in leaves and fronded boughs.~ Nor would they 1419 V| still to be seen to turn~ Fronting a stone, and ever to approach~ 1420 VI| mass, or to retain within~ Frore snows and storms of hail. 1421 V| plant~ With rows of goodly fruit-trees and hedge round~ With thriving 1422 II| herself~ Gave the sweet fruitage and the pastures glad,~ 1423 III| same:~ Exiles from country, fugitives afar~ From sight of men, 1424 VI| stores of bane around them fume.~ Again, at times it happens 1425 VI| nobler soul would meet.~ The funerals, uncompanioned, forsaken,~ 1426 V| or flaws of winds with furious whirl~ Torment and twist. 1427 VI| the brazen bowls~ Seethe furiously, when underneath was set~ 1428 VI| to oar with wings, they furl their sails,~ And, with 1429 IV| and track~ She throws the furrow, and from proper places~ 1430 V| since, often up-caught~ In fury-cyclones, is he borne along,~ For 1431 VI| rush~ Of the wild air and fury-force of wind~ Then dissipated, 1432 V| infinite, can fell~ With fury-whirlwinds all this sum of things,~ 1433 V| When, too, fierce force of fury-winds at sea~ Sweepeth a navy' 1434 VI| melt the copper and will fuse the gold,~ But hides and 1435 III| perish, being thus~ With body fused - for what will seep and 1436 VI| Brass it unbinds and quickly fuseth gold,~ Because its force 1437 IV| added too, they spend their futile years~ Under another's beck 1438 V| the Plebs.~ So man in vain futilities toils on~ Forever and wastes 1439 III| doubtful 'tis what fortune~ The future times may carry, or what 1440 VI| differ Pontic clime~ From Gades' and from climes adown the 1441 II| generations, stained~ With spotted gaieties, would lie o'erthrown~ By 1442 IV| now death and earth have gained~ Dominion over. And Nature 1443 IV| can walk,~ Following the gait and motion of mankind.~ 1444 III| He races, driving his Gallic ponies along,~ Down to his 1445 I| gusts,~ Can yet not fill the gap at once - for first~ It 1446 V| antic Mirth~ Prompt them to garland head and shoulders about~ 1447 II| of doves~ That circles, garlanding, the nape and throat:~ Now 1448 IV| girl's "modest"; and the garrulous,~ The spiteful spit-fire, 1449 III| about with sinews taut,~ Gasp up in starts, and weary 1450 VI| these regions stands~ The gate of Orcus, nor us then suppose,~ 1451 IV| re torn asunder, nor have gateways straight~ Wherethrough to 1452 VI| forever - nay, though thou gavest toil~ To restore the same 1453 III| man is lordly, that man gazed upon~ Who walks begirt with 1454 IV| sinewy and wizened's "a gazelle";~ The pudgy and the pigmy 1455 V| Snake,~ The dread fierce gazer, guardian of the golden~ 1456 IV| and the sky.~ Again, to gazers ignorant of the sea,~ Vessels 1457 IV| eyes~ Too much about and gazes at another,~ And in her 1458 II| combine anew~ In such a way as genders living things.~ ~ Next, 1459 II| it is~ One member of some generated race,~ Among full many others 1460 IV| too, and hair.~ A female generation rises forth~ From seed paternal, 1461 I| properties required~ Of generative stuff - divers connections,~ 1462 I| things, and fortified~ With generous strength of heroes, she 1463 V| power of her~ The three-fold Geryon...~ ~ The sojourners in 1464 V| Compel young children unto gesturings,~ Making them point with 1465 III| And lashing its tail, thou gettest chance to hew~ With axe 1466 VI| what a look,~ And what a ghastly hue they give to men!~ And 1467 II| hold with steady hand the giant reins~ Of the unfathomed 1468 II| not taken by service or by gift.~ Truly is earth insensate 1469 II| coin of brass and silver, gifting her~ With alms and largesse, 1470 V| man was born~ With such gigantic length and lift of limbs~ 1471 IV| even her handmaids flee and giggle at~ Behind her back. But 1472 II| resound~ No fretted and gilded ceilings overhead,~ Yet 1473 V| his brows, with them he 'gins~ Enraged to butt and savagely 1474 V| The half-fish bodies girdled with mad dogs -~ Nor others 1475 VI| neighbours on the seas, girdling their shores,~ The water' 1476 VI| where corselet of the sky girds round~ ~ And at same time, 1477 I| cities thrive with boys and girls;~ And leafy woodlands echo 1478 II| care of parents. They have girt about~ With turret-crown 1479 II| thus~ That not to all thou givest sounds and smells.~ So, 1480 IV| burns abounding and with gladness takes~ Once more the Venus 1481 V| Do get a larger fruit of gladsomeness~ Than got the woodland aborigines~ 1482 V| beneath,~ Whilst the moon glideth in her monthly course~ Athrough 1483 II| blurred and blent afar -~ A glint of white at rest on a green 1484 IV| bright suffusion of strange glints,~ The daylight being withdrawn. 1485 V| but wide open stands~ And gloats upon them, monstrous and 1486 V| Of sun and moon, whose globes revolve in air~ Midway between 1487 II| fact, though rough, they're globular besides,~ Able at once to 1488 II| and round - because~ Their globules severally will not cohere:~ 1489 IV| members; and in night's blind gloom~ We think to mark the daylight 1490 IV| What many men suppose; and gloomily~ They sprinkle the altars 1491 I| song~ I may at last most gloriously uncloud~ For thee the light 1492 IV| summertime~ Put off their glossy tunics, or when calves~ 1493 I| along the region skies,~ Glowering on mortals with her hideous 1494 VI| stones: how wood~ Only by glue-of-bull with wood is joined -~ So 1495 VI| earth,~ Make water boil and glut with fiery heat? -~ And, 1496 V| with the ponderous heft~ Of gnarled branch. And by the time 1497 III| are of the past,~ Still gnaw the old transgressions bitterly.~ 1498 IV| cries and wild, as if then gnawed~ By fangs of panther or 1499 IV| waste~ And end itself by gnawing up its coil.~ Again, fierce 1500 IV| flowers - when haply mind~ Gnaws into self, now stricken


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