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1501 V| a dragon; and betwixt, a goat -~ Might at the mouth from 1502 IV| feign to be~ Haunts of the goat-foot satyrs and the nymphs;~ 1503 VI| clasp in hand~ The brimming goblets. And, again, there flit~ 1504 III| thought that sprang~ From god-like mind begins its loud proclaim~ 1505 IV| upon his half-beast head, god-Pan~ With puckered lip oft runneth 1506 VI| the huge effort of their going-forth;~ Next, when the cloud no 1507 V| the sun~ And the moon's goings, and by what far means~ 1508 II| it is ruddy with a bright gold-bronze,~ Now, by a strange sensation 1509 IV| mid-air,~ Like gossamer or gold-leaf. For, indeed,~ Far thinner 1510 V| dismay,~ Or yet because, by goodness of the soil~ Invited, men 1511 IV| its career; and the white goose,~ The saviour of the Roman 1512 I| rubbed on rock should yield a gory ooze.~ Likewise the herbs 1513 V| rains;~ And rivers graze and gouge the banks away.~ Besides, 1514 VI| neck, the spittle in fine gouts~ Tainted with colour of 1515 V| And wondrous energies to govern all?~ ~ Now for the rest: 1516 IV| these smiles;~ And if of graceful mind she be and kind,~ Do 1517 V| still a poor mortality~ Is grafted that quaking awe which rears 1518 V| first seed-sower~ And primal grafter; since the berries and acorns,~ 1519 II| the ocean Neptune, or~ The grain-crop Ceres, and prefers to abuse~ 1520 I| condensed in such a wise;~ Nor, granting it could, without a void, 1521 V| Bacchus juice of vine-born grape,~ Though life might yet 1522 VI| the sky to be~ By reason grasped; there are the tempest times~ 1523 II| and wearies heaven,~ Nor grasps that all of things by sure 1524 II| Often together along one grassy plain,~ Under the cope of 1525 II| budging hard in locks,~ Do grate and scream. But what are 1526 V| Is verily - to dote. Our gratefulness,~ O what emoluments could 1527 VI| From whence that dry sound grateth on our ears,~ So long drawn-out, 1528 III| twinge from icy water, or grating crunch~ Upon a stone that 1529 I| the brine from off their gray-green waves.~ Here, billowing 1530 II| of battle-eager horses, grazing~ Often together along one 1531 II| old and learned bards of Greece~ ~ Seated in chariot o'er 1532 IV| sow the fields~ Of woman, greedily their frames they lock,~ 1533 II| strange sensation it becomes~ Green-emerald blended with the coral-red.~ 1534 I| wayfarers innumerable who greet.~ We see how wearing-down 1535 III| where thou seest a man to grieve because~ When dead he rots 1536 VI| not from wrath~ Of Pallas, grieved at that espial old,~ As 1537 III| stands beside it: hence~ He grieves that he is mortal born, 1538 I| at the altar marked her grieving sire,~ The priests beside 1539 VI| and hard, the shuddering grimace,~ The pulled and puffy flesh 1540 V| affairs of men,~ And visibly grindeth with its heel in mire~ The 1541 I| which will last against the grip and crush~ Under the teeth 1542 III| out, because his limbs are griped~ But, in the main, because 1543 III| one equal thirst of life~ Grips us agape. And doubtful ' 1544 V| under the proletarian feet,~ Groaned for their glories gone - 1545 V| rigours of fierce wrath!~ What groans did men on that sad day 1546 V| so, for oft even then he gropes in sleep~ After the milky 1547 II| the world to lay~ Immortal ground-works, whereupon may rest~ The 1548 IV| all their legs about,~ And growl and bark, and with their 1549 VI| And now from there, send growlings through the clouds,~ And 1550 II| rains,~ Give birth to wormy grubs, because the bodies~ Of 1551 III| eyes, and sputter foam, and grunt,~ Blither, and twist about 1552 III| And thus~ This canst thou guarantee: soul's primal germs~ Maintain 1553 V| The dread fierce gazer, guardian of the golden~ And gleaming 1554 III| thee. And now,~ Or ere thou guessed it, death beside thy head~ 1555 III| loathes,~ Sick, sick, and guessing not the cause of ail.~ Yet 1556 VI| had crowded~ With many a guest. For now no longer men~ 1557 V| terror up~ To those fierce guests their beds of out-spread 1558 V| and in feigning all~ Was guided by their nod. And in the 1559 V| power~ The steersman Nature guides the sun's courses,~ And 1560 I| And since 'tis thou alone~ Guidest the Cosmos, and without 1561 II| main,~ The violence and the guile, and trust it not~ At any 1562 IV| o'erspread on high~ The gulfs of heaven; that thus thou 1563 V| oftener snatched upon, and gulped by fangs,~ Afforded the 1564 IV| delightful spring~ Or river and gulpeth down with gaping throat~ 1565 IV| and thirsts even whilst he gulps~ In middle of the torrent, 1566 II| wine~ And flavours of the gummed elecampane.~ Again, that 1567 V| that gliding rills~ With gush and splash abounding laved 1568 II| And hurl his lightnings, - ha, and whelm how oft~ In ruins 1569 V| a life~ After the roving habit of wild beasts.~ Not then 1570 IV| and, moreover, lo,~ Long habitude can gender human love,~ 1571 VI| fire when with the steel we hack the stone;~ Nor yet, because 1572 VI| utterly~ And mixed with hail-stones, breaks and booms...~ ~ 1573 IV| garmentings~ Of pine upon his half-beast head, god-Pan~ With puckered 1574 VI| mightest see~ Of many a half-dead body the sagged limbs,~ 1575 V| alive, nor Scyllas be -~ The half-fish bodies girdled with mad 1576 I| infinites,~ Since then a half-of-half could still be halved,~ 1577 II| and each of cold,~ And the half-warm, all filling up the sum~ 1578 III| fear;~ But have their place half-way between the two -~ Stags 1579 V| That awe of gods, which halloweth in all lands~ Fanes, altars, 1580 II| battalions contending without halt,~ In meetings, partings, 1581 I| half-of-half could still be halved,~ With limitless division 1582 VI| odour of wine is like a hammer-blow.~ And seest thou not how 1583 V| run, and how, again,~ If hammered out, they could be nicely 1584 VI| itself.~ ~ 'Tis said at Hammon's fane a fountain is,~ In 1585 III| things,~ Because our eyes are hampered by their light -~ With a 1586 IV| From mirror into mirror handed on,~ Until of idol-films 1587 IV| starting with the stock,~ Sire handeth down to son, himself a sire;~ 1588 VI| fingers slips away~ Her gaudy handiwork, if haply she~ Hath got 1589 IV| perfumes;~ Whom even her handmaids flee and giggle at~ Behind 1590 IV| therefore, since~ The canvas hangings thus discharge their dye~ 1591 II| thus~ That the great earth hangs poised and cannot lie~ Resting 1592 VI| name,~ That whilom gave to hapless sons of men~ The sheaves 1593 V| Weights laid upon us, these harass and chafe,~ Though often 1594 III| body,~ They flit around, harassed by no disease,~ Nor cold 1595 V| Venus' boy,~ The winged harbinger, steps on before,~ And hard 1596 V| and in more hardy toil~ To harden arms and hands.~ But Nature 1597 II| again,~ What seems to us the hardened and condensed~ Must be of 1598 VI| lakes and pools~ The mighty hardener, and mighty check~ Which 1599 VI| and shrinks.~ The water hardens the iron just off the fire,~ 1600 IV| seen at all.~ For naught is harder than to separate~ Plain 1601 II| chins,~ And have the cunning hardihood to say~ Much on the composition 1602 V| Love reduced their shaggy hardiness;~ And children, with the 1603 VI| approaching death. But yet~ Hardly at all during those many 1604 IV| rather feel~ The very hardness deep within the rock.~ ~ 1605 VI| majesties~ Of the high gods be harmful unto thee,~ As by thy thought 1606 IV| With seed of the woman: harmonies of Venus~ Are seen to matter 1607 IV| blood,~ When mutual and harmonious heat hath dashed~ Together 1608 V| thuswise~ Remain conjoined nor harmoniously~ Have interplay of movements. 1609 IV| ears~ The liquid song of harp and speaking chords,~ And 1610 II| In meetings, partings, harried up and down.~ From this 1611 III| time,~ Released from every harrying pang. But we,~ We have bewept 1612 VI| sons of men~ The sheaves of harvest, and re-ordered life,~ And 1613 II| niggardly they grudge our harvestings,~ So much increase our labour. 1614 III| his villa, madly, - as in haste~ To hurry help to a house 1615 VI| can generate disease~ And hasten death, O many primal seeds~ 1616 IV| splay-foot of wild beast~ Hath hastened its career; and the white 1617 I| however it stream with hastening gusts,~ Can yet not fill 1618 II| spring.~ For each degree of hat, and each of cold,~ And 1619 V| and parti-coloured birds,~ Hatched out in spring-time, left 1620 III| of a brother-born,~ And hatred and fear of tables of their 1621 IV| the Venus of the man~ With haunches heaving, and with all her 1622 V| darkness, moored life~ In havens so serene, in light so clear.~ 1623 III| antlered stag, the scurrying hawk would quake~ Along the winds 1624 V| exhale abroad~ A powdery haze and flying clouds of dust,~ 1625 IV| ancestral property~ Becometh head-bands, coifs, and many a time~ 1626 VI| clouds~ Cannot together crash head-on, but rather~ Move side-wise 1627 V| the Terminals of Fate,~ Or headway make 'gainst Nature's fixed 1628 III| and not all thy good~ Was heaped as in sieve to flow away~ 1629 IV| demand the moist;~ And many heaped-up particles of hot,~ Which 1630 III| double their riches, greedy, heapers-up~ Of corpse on corpse they 1631 III| hovers yet can blow~ High heaps of poppy-seed away for thee~ 1632 VI| And seest thou not, or hearest, how they're wont~ In little 1633 III| sleep;~ From whence nor hears it any voices more,~ Nor 1634 V| shades of chill~ Even to the heat-fraught regions and the signs~ That 1635 VI| through its throat~ Into high heav'n, and thus bears on afar~ 1636 VI| chance to us, begins to heave,~ And noxious airs begin 1637 IV| view~ Clouds down below and heavenly bodies plunged~ Wondrously 1638 VI| smoke of pitchy murk~ And heaveth the while boulders of wondrous 1639 IV| the veins;~ And much the heaviest is that slumber which,~ 1640 IV| is mighty, and the films~ Heavily downward from on high are 1641 III| veins,~ Why follows then a heaviness of limbs,~ A tangle of the 1642 IV| of the man~ With haunches heaving, and with all her bosom~ 1643 V| stones and with the ponderous heft~ Of gnarled branch. And 1644 I| Nowhere disparted - since all height and depth~ Have always inward 1645 I| ravishment~ Of Princess Helen, "is" the siege and sack~ 1646 III| arts;~ Add comrades of the Heliconian dames,~ Among whom Homer, 1647 IV| Again, fierce poison is the hellebore~ To us, but puts the fat 1648 I| midnight of a brood of the Hellenes.~ And thus thou canst remark 1649 IV| Whatever its momentum, and one helm~ Whirls it around, whither 1650 IV| But in crossed love and helpless there be such~ As through 1651 V| bearded goats~ Batten upon the hemlock which to man~ Is violent 1652 V| into the stalks~ Of hollow hemlock-herb. Then bit by bit~ They learned 1653 I| to do battle, comes~ That Heraclitus, famous for dark speech~ 1654 VI| unvisited of sleep,~ The heralds of old death. And in those 1655 II| So great in any sort of herb thou wilt,~ So great again 1656 V| thou thinkest~ Labours of Hercules excel the same,~ Much farther 1657 II| less, than every kind which hereon earth~ Is so abundant in 1658 VI| the mountain's throat.~ Herethrough thou must admit there go...~ ~ 1659 V| deserts of him~ Who left us heritors of such vast prizes,~ By 1660 V| Did hurl the mighty-minded hero off~ Those horses to the 1661 V| when poets began~ To hand heroic actions down in verse;~ 1662 | hers 1663 V| And gleaming apples of the Hesperides,~ Coiled round the tree-trunk 1664 V| And limbs of all beasts heterogeneous~ Have been together knit; 1665 III| mortal, since alike is each~ Hewn into many parts. Again, 1666 I| the senses fights,~ And hews at that through which is 1667 III| besoaked,~ Eyes all aswim, and hiccups, shouts, and brawls~ And 1668 V| fled,~ A-skulk into their hiding-places...~ ~ With the flung stones 1669 V| and that all along~ O'er hillocks, intervales, and plains 1670 II| landscape. Often thus,~ Upon a hillside will the woolly flocks~ 1671 III| man than thou, O worthless hind;~ And many other kings and 1672 IV| blandishment;~ For thus the woman hinders and resists~ Her own conception, 1673 V| gestures~ They stammered hints how meet it was that all~ 1674 V| time, inveigle them -~ The hitherto reposeful - to desire~ To 1675 IV| because, when comes the image~ Hitting against the level of the 1676 II| level plains, is changed to hoary waves~ Of marble whiteness: 1677 III| enfeebled powers,~ Thought hobbles, tongue wanders, and the 1678 VI| More bitter food for man. A hog draws back~ For marjoram 1679 IV| and huge, are moved and hoisted high~ By enginery of pulley-blocks 1680 IV| burns the eyes,~ Because it holdeth many seeds of fire~ Which, 1681 II| One through each several hole of anything.~ ~ And note, 1682 I| streams,~ Through leafy homes of birds and greening plains,~ 1683 IV| Neglected languish and their honest name~ Reeleth sick, sick; 1684 II| guilty by,~ And slays the honourable blameless ones!~ ~ Ere since 1685 III| affairs nowise take up~ What honoured sage, Democritus, lays down -~ 1686 VI| coupled and held,~ Linked by hooks and eyes, as 'twere; and 1687 IV| prepare itself indeed,~ And hopes to see what follows after 1688 VI| level main~ Along the free horizons.~ Into being~ The clouds 1689 II| light passes through the horn~ On the lantern's side, 1690 IV| with shells,~ Or with the horny callus, or with bark.~ Yet 1691 V| now there. Nor could the horsemen calm~ Their horses, panic-breasted 1692 IV| lie abed,~ Even there the houghs will sag and loose their 1693 III| creatures act!~ The Hyrcan hound would flee the onset oft~ 1694 V| solaces for their unsleeping hours~ In drawing forth variety 1695 IV| again. And fawning breed~ Of house-bred whelps do feel the sudden 1696 III| For the light breeze that hovers yet can blow~ High heaps 1697 IV| behind,~ Which all are in a hubbub round about,~ Astir with 1698 III| secure life and sweet,~ Like huddling Shapes before the doors 1699 V| haughty kings do they not hug their limbs,~ Strook through 1700 III| mighty breast.~ However hugely he extend his bulk -~ Who 1701 II| about thee every side:~ Hulks of mankind half brute astarting 1702 V| Nor must be treated to the humouring nurse's~ Dear, broken chatter; 1703 I| of touch.~ And raiment, hung by surf-beat shore, grows 1704 VI| free.~ Besides, the clothes hung-out along the shore,~ When in 1705 IV| From off our body, how the hunger-pang~ It, too, appeased.~ Now, 1706 IV| scent in dogs doth lead the hunter on~ Whithersoever the splay-foot 1707 V| thrive upon the spoils.~ (For hunting by pit-fall and by fire 1708 IV| to shun~ A fall into the hunting-snares of love~ Is not so hard, 1709 IV| opened now...~ And hounds of huntsmen oft in soft repose~ Yet 1710 VI| verily~ A leaden ball, hurtling through length of space,~ 1711 IV| Grow rich. And even for husbands (whose own wives,~ Although 1712 V| tree-crickets~ Do leave their shiny husks of own accord,~ Seeking 1713 V| of a sign that then~ Such hybrid creatures could have been 1714 V| what could Cretan Bull, or Hydra, pest~ Of Lerna, fenced 1715 I| now~ With solemn rites and hymeneal choir,~ But sinless woman, 1716 II| old lyric, and Apollo's hymns,~ Once modulated on the 1717 III| earth's creatures act!~ The Hyrcan hound would flee the onset 1718 I| Of bones, of thews, of ichor and of blood.~ Again, if 1719 V| on~ Forever and wastes in idle cares his years -~ Because, 1720 IV| perishes, borne beyond,~ Idly diffused among the winds. 1721 IV| the air~ Makes blunt the idol of the angle's point~ By 1722 V| how come~ In sleep those idol-apparitions~ That so befool intelligence 1723 IV| the store~ Of separate idol-parts to bring supplies.~ ~ It 1724 VI| its voyage through space~ Igniteth, whilst it comes along, 1725 VI| the earth, because their ignorance~ Of cosmic causes forces 1726 II| BOOK II~ PROEM~ ~ 'Tis sweet, when, 1727 III| BOOK III~ PROEM~ ~ O thou who first 1728 III| more unlike, discrepant, ill-assorted,~ Than something mortal 1729 V| whether the journeying moon illuminate~ The regions round with 1730 IV| demands inquiry,~ And much, illumination - if we crave~ With plainness 1731 V| winding onward, takes a year,~ Illumining the sky and all the lands~ 1732 IV| fleeing on before,~ Until the illusion's shaken off and dogs~ Come 1733 VI| of each class,~ That he imagines to be "huge"; though yet~ 1734 III| From the body flung away, imagining~ Himself that body, and 1735 VI| wanton gusts, it raves~ And imitates the tearing sound of sheets~ 1736 I| single nature, ne'ertheless~ Immeasurably forth....~ Nor sea, nor 1737 II| to be~ Of an immeasurable immensity -~ Which I have taught above 1738 IV| other parts,~ Those sunk, immersed below the water-line,~ Seem 1739 I| primal germs~ Must have an immortality of frame.~ And into these 1740 III| and more rough,~ The more immovable they prove. Now, then,~ 1741 IV| sprinkle themselves about~ Impartially. But for some breathing 1742 III| from out itself to them~ Imparts initial motion, whereby 1743 IV| Being less subject to impediments,~ As few in number and placed 1744 I| far~ Hath bred the foul impieties of men:~ As once at Aulis, 1745 V| used words,~ Whence was implanted in the teacher, then,~ Fore-knowledge 1746 I| By contrary nature, the imponderable.~ Therefore, an object just 1747 V| each -~ For beauty then imported much, and strength~ Had 1748 IV| Is carried on - this too importeth vastly.~ For commonly 'tis 1749 IV| O she's "an Admiration, imposante";~ The stuttering and tongue-tied " 1750 V| broidered with gold~ And with imposing figures, if we still~ Make 1751 V| But man's well-being was impossible~ Without a breast all free. 1752 IV| matter vastly here; and some~ Impregnate some more readily, and from 1753 V| path whereby~ The seeds of impregnation in the frame~ May ooze, 1754 III| planted now~ Even in the impress and the marks of thine -~ 1755 IV| itself for separate ears,~ Imprinting form of word and a clear 1756 V| mark they would how earth improved the taste~ Of the wild fruits 1757 II| sense -~ Be't that something in-from-outward works,~ Be't that something 1758 VI| miserably through ears;~ Many in-wind athrough the nostrils too,~ 1759 II| derives~ This power in us inborn, of some free act. -~ Since 1760 VI| with ulcers, so to say,~ Inbranded, like the "sacred fires" 1761 II| of the gods,~ Beside the incense-burning altars slain,~ Drops down 1762 II| without.~ For, when, in their incessancy so oft~ They meet and clash, 1763 IV| things so full~ Of light incessant; thus, on grounds the same,~ 1764 II| hence throughout our limbs~ Incipient motions are diffused. Again,~ 1765 IV| and, seeking mutual joys,~ Incites him there to run love's 1766 IV| broken all and bended and inclined~ Sloping to upwards, and 1767 VI| wont to pass~ Amain through incommunicable space.~ Therefore, 'tis 1768 IV| Leaning to back and front, incongruous,~ That now some portions 1769 VI| sea,~ The mighty ocean, increaseth not. Besides,~ Sun with 1770 V| its own~ In fostering and increasing aught...~ ~ Is rendered 1771 II| wall~ With ivory ramparts India about,~ That her interiors 1772 IV| before.~ Now come, and I will indicate what wise~ Impact of odour 1773 III| sense"~ He battles in vain indubitable facts:~ For who'll explain 1774 III| grave concern~ That thou indulgest in too sickly plaints?~ 1775 I| sense -~ To me a thought inept and crazy too.~ For whither 1776 III| stable is, its liquids more inert,~ More tardy its flow; for 1777 IV| Care for thyself and pain inevitable.~ For, lo, the ulcer just 1778 V| to abrogate the aeons'~ Inexorable decrees - how (as we've 1779 III| From that dread rock of infamy, the stripes,~ The executioners, 1780 V| would fell~ In rout and ruin infantry and horse.~ For there the 1781 II| is the wildered wail~ Of infants coming to the shores of 1782 II| thing~ And overmaster by infesting blows.~ Thus, too, the ramparts 1783 VI| Sum-of-Things,~ And mark how infinitely small a part~ Of the whole 1784 I| smallest bodies would have infinites,~ Since then a half-of-half 1785 I| And so what'er the long infinitude~ Of days and all fore-passed 1786 III| round about~ With frames infirm and tender, so there follows~ 1787 II| what may we surmise~ A blow inflicted can achieve besides~ Shaking 1788 II| still the food is easily infused~ Through all the veins, 1789 VI| there.~ Do thou, Calliope, ingenious Muse,~ Solace of mortals 1790 I| sooth - yet fire is not ingraft in wood,~ But many are the 1791 V| those deeds live no more,~ Ingrafted in eternal monuments~ Of 1792 V| Hence too men's fondness for ingrafting slips~ Upon the boughs and 1793 VI| when therefrom~ We draw our inhalations of mixed air,~ Into our 1794 II| straightway now a ruin, inheres at rest~ Deep in the eternal 1795 VI| hedging walls of houses to inject~ His exhalations hot, with 1796 IV| which, into lions' eyes~ Injected, bore into the pupils deep~ 1797 V| Unconquered still, what injury could they do?~ None, as 1798 V| all its body~ Is changed innumerably. For whatso'er~ Streams 1799 II| find thou may and can,~ The inodorous olive-oil (which never sends~ 1800 II| world,~ And in their turn inquire what elements~ They have 1801 VI| Etrurian scrolls oracular,~ Inquiring tokens of occult will of 1802 VI| mouth~ Already agape. The insatiable thirst~ That whelmed their 1803 I| wastes~ Amid the fields insidiously. We view~ The rock-paved 1804 II| equipped with arms, alike inspired;~ Or save when also thou 1805 | instead 1806 I| But now nor skill nor instrument is theirs,~ Since men must 1807 V| the possession of those instruments~ Whereby the male with female 1808 VI| vanish forth,~ The wine-jars intact - because, ye see,~ Its 1809 I| touch to corporal things,~ Intangibility to the viewless void.~ But 1810 II| proper teat,~ As Nature intends. Lastly, with any grain,~ 1811 VI| suddenly it seethes in heat~ By intense sun, the subterranean, when~ 1812 I| all things~ Forevermore be interchanged with all?~ "But facts in 1813 IV| tottering joints, and by its interfusion~ To re-create their powers, 1814 II| ramparts India about,~ That her interiors cannot entered be -~ So 1815 III| both are one, a substance interjoined.~ ~ First, then, since I 1816 VI| ones, which can, though interlinked~ With scanty couplings, 1817 VI| quick and short~ Or huge and intermittent, soaking sweat~ A-glisten 1818 III| mongst one another~ With intermotions that no one can be~ From 1819 V| Now, clothes of roughly interplaited strands~ Were earlier than 1820 IV| s own demands. All such interpretation~ Is aft-for-fore with inverse 1821 VI| very tongue,~ The mind's interpreter, would trickle gore,~ Weakened 1822 V| Or to find aliment, or to intertwine~ In works of Venus. For 1823 IV| vasty shores of ether, and intervene~ A thousand lands, possessed 1824 III| each,~ Vary alternately and interweave~ The fabric of our members. 1825 III| our frames, nor, since so interwove,~ Appears it that they're 1826 V| and soil~ Is summoned to inundation by the rains;~ And rivers 1827 V| Who menace the world with inundations vast~ From forth the unplumbed 1828 VI| elan:~ When the wind hath invaded a cloud, and, whirling there,~ 1829 V| those same we mark~ To be invariably born in time~ And born to 1830 III| right, on him~ Cry out, inveighing with a voice more shrill:~ " 1831 V| After so long a time, inveigle them -~ The hitherto reposeful - 1832 IV| interpretation~ Is aft-for-fore with inverse reasoning,~ Since naught 1833 IV| Grows to more life with deep inveteracy,~ And day by day the fury 1834 II| unfathomable inane; but rather,~ Inveterately plied by motions mixed,~ 1835 I| life;~ Since Nature hath inviolably decreed~ What each can do, 1836 V| goodly part~ Kept faith inviolate - or else mankind~ Long 1837 V| by goodness of the soil~ Invited, men desired to clear rich 1838 V| Going wherever their food invites and calls,~ And feeding 1839 IV| Things wide and weighty, and involve ourselves~ In snarls of 1840 VI| very vortex of the wind involves~ Itself in clouds, scraping 1841 IV| pores~ They penetrate, and inwardly stir up~ The subtle nature 1842 I| mighty bend and bay the Ionic seas,~ Splashing the brine 1843 II| whilst~ Whate'er is harsh and irksome has been framed~ Still with 1844 II| shapes, -~ These form the irrefragable roots of rocks~ And the 1845 I| were accidents) long since~ Irrevocable age has borne away:~ For 1846 V| shoals of doom.~ Ah, so irrevocably some hidden power~ Betramples 1847 IV| divers things~ Impulse and irritation, so one force~ In human 1848 V| the zones~ Bistonian and Ismarian? And the Snake,~ The dread 1849 VI| polished verses, albeit hath issued forth~ So much from me already; 1850 I| from the shores~ Of the Italic mainland. Here the waste~ 1851 IV| BOOK IV~ PROEM~ ~ I wander afield, 1852 II| whose thousands wall~ With ivory ramparts India about,~ That 1853 VI| bosom, ay, and cliffs~ And jagged scarps; and many a river, 1854 V| with a threat'ning forehead jam the sod;~ And boars would 1855 II| motions mixed,~ Some, at their jamming, bound aback and leave~ 1856 III| waters flow away,~ When jars are shivered, and since 1857 IV| engender pain.~ Again, whatever jaundiced people view~ Becomes wan-yellow, 1858 VI| suffer they the Father's javelin~ To be so blunted on the 1859 III| Pierced through by icy javelins of fear;~ But have their 1860 III| Dead to be jerked about by jaw and fang~ Of the wild brutes, 1861 V| The rugged farmer folk jeered at such tasks,~ And so were 1862 III| it an evil is~ Dead to be jerked about by jaw and fang~ Of 1863 IV| The foe be close, the red jet reaches him.~ Thus, one 1864 II| out our bodies, spurts its jets aloft~ And spatters gore. 1865 VI| solid parts of this -~ Such joinings are the best. Again, some 1866 VI| to contract, and sure the jointed frame~ To shiver, and up 1867 V| around with flowers.~ Then jokes, then talk, then peals of 1868 VI| iron rim of the wheels a jolt.~ It happens, too, when 1869 IV| dress~ By pail or public jordan and then void~ The water 1870 III| sotted wretch,~ Thou'rt jostled along by many crowding cares,~ 1871 V| when first~ Huge flabby jowls of mad Molossian hounds,~ 1872 IV| hearts~ Trickled that drop of joyance which ere long~ Is by chill 1873 IV| part can nowise be seen;~ Judge, then, the size of any inward 1874 II| proper to a part,~ Or else be judged to have a sense the same~ 1875 VI| their hold.~ The vine-born juices with the water-springs~ 1876 IV| house,~ Is dulled, and in a jumble enters ears,~ And sound 1877 I| in gross.~ The heat were keener with the parts compressed,~ 1878 III| turn.~ But mind is more the keeper of the gates,~ Hath more 1879 II| Thou'lt see that no one kernel in one kind~ Is so far like 1880 I| For then 'twere meet that kernels of the grains~ Should oft, 1881 I| birds and greening plains,~ Kindling the lure of love in every 1882 I| Twas she who gave the king a father's name.~ They raised 1883 V| tale - the water won~ A kingdom in the fields. For fire 1884 VI| gods~ And to concede the kingly rule to them.~ For even 1885 III| body labours~ By more of kinship to these flaws of life,~ 1886 V| the fruitful clods~ And kneading the mould, we quicken into 1887 I| the fruitful clods~ And kneads the mould, we quicken into 1888 I| dumb terror and a sinking knee~ She dropped; nor might 1889 IV| might see;~ Or thighs and knees, aprop upon the feet,~ Thuswise 1890 IV| as it were, are forward knocked along~ And through the interspaces 1891 III| now so much we see them, knowing not~ What 'tis they want, 1892 II| land~ To watch another's labouring anguish far,~ Not that we 1893 V| About in same wise as the lack-speech years~ Compel young children 1894 I| There's no beyond, and so it lacks all end.~ It matters nothing 1895 I| themselves wax big~ And lade themselves with fruits; 1896 IV| Bacchus suck"; the pug-nosed lady-love~ "A Satyress, a feminine 1897 V| that blaze;~ And the moon lags even tardier than the sun:~ 1898 V| Nor would they call with lamentations loud~ Around the fields 1899 III| self destroyed,~ Or stand lamenting that the self lies there~ 1900 II| small birth-cries,~ The wild laments, companions old of death~ 1901 II| like to runners hand the lamp of life~ One unto other.~ 1902 II| Limbs of a sea-beast to a land-beast knit,~ And Nature along 1903 V| can have dropped,~ Nor the land-dwellers ever have come up~ Out of 1904 II| short, filleth the leafy lanes~ With her complaints; and 1905 VI| many, besides, relax the languid limbs~ Along the frame, 1906 VI| generations of wild beasts -~ They languished with disease and died and 1907 IV| And memory lies prone and languishes~ In slumber, nor protests 1908 II| through the horn~ On the lantern's side, while rain is dashed 1909 V| the world,~ With their own lanterns traversing around~ The mighty, 1910 I| abounding, and that earth,~ Lapped in warm exhalations of the 1911 II| houses, and swift flame laps up~ Timber and beam, 'tis 1912 II| in all ways mightily to lapse~ From reason's truth: for 1913 II| possesses in itself~ More largely many powers and properties~ 1914 II| gifting her~ With alms and largesse, and shower her and shade~ 1915 VI| mad rotations, till their lashed force~ Aroused out-bursts 1916 IV| bark.~ Yet this same air lashes their inner parts,~ When 1917 VI| And when rolls round~ The latest heat mixed with the earliest 1918 I| I know how hard it is in Latian verse~ To tell the dark 1919 | latterly 1920 V| that he can frame~ The fit laudations for deserts of him~ Who 1921 V| Earth - from whence arose~ Laughter and peals of jollity, for, 1922 IV| left him all in doubt~ By launching some sly word, which still 1923 VI| should range~ Along the laurel-tressed mountains far,~ Upburning 1924 V| gush and splash abounding laved the rocks,~ The dripping 1925 I| Slowly increases from its lawful seed,~ And through that 1926 IV| to go at the same.~ The lawyers seem to plead and cite decrees,~ 1927 VI| those taurine bonds will lax their hold.~ The vine-born 1928 VI| racks outstream~ In piled layers and are borne along~ From 1929 I| kept unseen,~ But would be laying all the wildwood waste~ 1930 I| lapsed.~ Of whom, chief leader to do battle, comes~ That 1931 IV| given~ Peculiar smell that leadeth each along~ To his own food 1932 IV| beast dragging amain~ And leading in the other thunderheads.~ 1933 V| did neighbours 'gin to league as friends,~ Eager to wrong 1934 VI| The vessel so cracked and leaky that nowise~ 'Tcould ever 1935 I| show~ Their right hands leaner from the frequent touch~ 1936 IV| faulty - shelving and askew,~ Leaning to back and front, incongruous,~ 1937 VI| dire. For to one side she leans,~ Then back she sways; and 1938 VI| The clouds suffuse with leaping light the lands,~ And the 1939 IV| when one voice~ Hath once leapt forth, outstarting into 1940 III| contact of the body and soul~ Learns from their earliest age 1941 V| very truth, he hath not learnt~ What the true end of getting 1942 III| cutting round the pupil,~ Leavest that pupil by itself behind -~ 1943 II| top and bottom, changing lefts and rights,~ Thou hast with 1944 III| A third attempts~ With leg dismembered to arise and 1945 III| down the sea,~ And gave his legionaries thoroughfare~ Along the 1946 VI| nether thrust of arm, and lengthened~ Far to the waves. And when 1947 IV| swimming on -~ So that o'er lengths of space a little hour~ 1948 V| Bull, or Hydra, pest~ Of Lerna, fenced with vipers venomous?~ 1949 V| bit by bit in weight and lessen,~ And have another substance 1950 IV| open peering-place,~ And lets us see so many things outside~ 1951 VI| Forth flames of the red levin - unto men~ A drastic lesson? - 1952 V| fondling tongue they start to lick~ Their puppies, or do toss 1953 V| For fire o'ermastered~ And licked up many things and burnt 1954 V| with its heel in mire~ The lictors' glorious rods and axes 1955 V| let the weary sweat their life-blood out~ All to no end, battling 1956 VI| water-fountains, -~ The life-breath choked from that too dear 1957 V| never can they be~ With life-force quickened.~ Likewise, thou 1958 VI| perish, and how fail~ The life-stores in those folk whom mighty 1959 II| So great that not whole life-times of the living~ Can count 1960 VI| from all rivers is there lifted up~ Moisture into the clouds. 1961 V| flight the antlered stags.~ Light-sleeping dogs with faithful heart 1962 II| thereby~ Distract her mind or lighten pain the least -~ So keen 1963 VI| that we beware~ Against the lightning-stroke, why feareth he~ To grant 1964 V| these affairs. Yet chief in likelihood~ Seemeth the doctrine which 1965 VI| Thou seest, first,~ How lime alone cementeth stones: 1966 II| things are given~ Their fixed limitations which do bound~ Their sum 1967 I| then, the All that is is limited~ In no one region of its 1968 I| could still be halved,~ With limitless division less and less.~ 1969 VI| their buoyancy of pennons limps,~ All useless, and each 1970 II| As happens when the gaudy linen's picked~ Shred after shred 1971 VI| world~ A sound on high, as linen-awning, stretched~ O'er mighty 1972 III| of life~ In every region lingers.~ And besides,~ If soul 1973 V| hath saved alive fierce lion-breeds~ And many another terrorizing 1974 IV| god-Pan~ With puckered lip oft runneth o'er and o'er~ 1975 VI| warmth on top,~ Wasteth and liquefies abundantly.~ But comes the 1976 IV| and tongue-tied "sweetly lisps";~ The mute girl's "modest"; 1977 V| When once ye offer to man's listening ears~ Something before unheard 1978 V| oppose, -~ Long wont for livelihood to groan and sweat~ Over 1979 III| Is sometimes smitten, or livens with a joy,~ Whilst yet 1980 III| as dead,~ Whilst yet thou livest and lookest? - who in sleep~ 1981 V| darting gleams and dense with livid soot,~ Do hurry in like 1982 IV| whither ye please; and loads,~ Many and huge, are moved 1983 V| shoots in holes of delved loam,~ Or lop with hooked knives 1984 V| now arise~ From out the loams how many living things -~ 1985 I| Rising against them, and are loath to leave~ An unmixed void 1986 V| conceded, men on this account~ Loathed the old life fostered by 1987 III| willy-nilly he cleaves to it and loathes,~ Sick, sick, and guessing 1988 V| yesterday.~ And thus~ Began the loathing of the acorn; thus~ Abandoned 1989 II| come:~ For, lo, a somewhat, loathlier than the rest~ To nostrils, 1990 III| dissolve~ Each in its own location in the frame.~ But were 1991 IV| greedily their frames they lock,~ And mingle the slaver 1992 IV| her body round man's body locked~ And holds him fast, making 1993 II| Well filled, are frisking, locking horns in sport:~ Yet all 1994 IV| condensed -~ As when the locusts in the summertime~ Put off 1995 VI| there must from off the lode-stone seeds~ Innumerable, a very 1996 I| Not where 'twas sent, nor lodges in its goal,~ Or whether 1997 V| All summits, all regions loftier than the rest,~ Smoke, blasted 1998 V| gold hath come~ Unto the loftiest honours. Thus it is~ That 1999 VI| not thus~ Furnished with lofty-piled clouds. Lo, then,~ Here 2000 II| its shapes,~ That by like logic each arrangement still~