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3002 IV| And unguents and dainty Sicyonian shoes~ Laugh on their feet; 3003 VI| head-on, but rather~ Move side-wise and with motions contrary~ 3004 V| Which through the mighty and sidereal years~ Roll round in mighty 3005 VI| chasm -~ What once in Syrian Sidon did befall,~ And once in 3006 I| Princess Helen, "is" the siege and sack~ Of Trojan Town, 3007 II| Mother,~ Or else because they signify by this~ That she, the goddess, 3008 IV| Though still the austere silence of the night~ Abides around 3009 IV| they declare~ The voiceless silences are broken oft,~ And tones 3010 IV| A Satyress, a feminine Silenus";~ The blubber-lipped is " 3011 VI| was lying strewn~ Besides Silenus-headed water-fountains, -~ The 3012 III| to birth,~ And cross the sills of life, 'twould scarcely 3013 I| for dark speech~ Among the silly, not the serious Greeks~ 3014 V| and plains might run~ The silvery-green belt of olive-trees,~ Marking 3015 I| other parts~ And others similar in order lie~ In a packed 3016 I| frame.~ But powerful in old simplicity,~ Abide the solid, the primeval 3017 VI| out the very wind~ And, simultaneously, from out that thing~ Which 3018 IV| little Pallas," she;~ The sinewy and wizened's "a gazelle";~ 3019 I| choir,~ But sinless woman, sinfully foredone,~ A parent felled 3020 V| mind with us?~ Now let's us sing what makes the stars to 3021 I| With a dumb terror and a sinking knee~ She dropped; nor might 3022 I| and hymeneal choir,~ But sinless woman, sinfully foredone,~ 3023 V| last~ Old secrets and the sins.~ But Nature 'twas~ Urged 3024 III| renowned soul~ (Like bees that sip of all in flowery wolds),~ 3025 IV| the shapes of grandsires' sires, because~ Their parents 3026 III| Here in this life also a Sisyphus~ In him who seeketh of the 3027 IV| thirsty man,~ Likewise, he sits beside delightful spring~ 3028 VI| from the hot furnaces,~ Sizzles, when speedily we've plunged 3029 IV| eyes, their limbs,~ The skeleton? - How tiny thus they are!~ 3030 I| certain slender means to skulk from truth,~ Which Anaxagoras 3031 VI| first, they'd bear about~ A skull on fire with heat, and eyeballs 3032 I| Belched from its throat, and skyward bear anew~ Its lightnings' 3033 III| smooth oblong of an icy slab,~ Grow stiff in cold, or 3034 V| would summon them of old~ To slake the thirst, as now from 3035 II| cope of one blue sky, and slaking~ From out one stream of 3036 II| When smote by vertical or slanting ray.~ Thus in the sunlight 3037 VI| essential power,~ As if there slaughtered to the under-gods.~ Lo, 3038 VI| Would then, soon after, slaughtering Neglect~ Visit with vengeance 3039 V| wantonness -~ How great the slaughters in their train! and lo,~ 3040 IV| they lock,~ And mingle the slaver of their mouths, and breathe~ 3041 I| viewless void.~ But state of slavery, pauperhood, and wealth,~ 3042 V| countryside to pasture-lands,~ Or slay the wild and thrive upon 3043 II| shoots the guilty by,~ And slays the honourable blameless 3044 V| Would often make their sleep-time horrible~ For those poor 3045 V| seized upon this point by sleight to serve~ My own caprice - 3046 III| with rapid stroke~ Should slice it down the middle and cleave 3047 I| cause destruction. For the slightest force~ Would loose the weft 3048 II| With bended barbs, but slightly angled-out,~ To tickle rather 3049 V| as 'twere)~ All of the slime of the world, heavy and 3050 V| they bay,~ Or whimpering slink with cringing sides from 3051 VI| them by their weight to slip~ Down to the earth, and 3052 IV| surface,~ Or when, again, the slippery serpent doffs~ Its vestments ' 3053 IV| and bended and inclined~ Sloping to upwards, and turned back 3054 V| Debaucheries and every breed of sloth!~ Therefore that man who 3055 IV| stricken with remorse~ For slothful years and ruin in bordels,~ 3056 IV| doubt~ By launching some sly word, which still like fire~ 3057 III| Thus soul entire must be of smallmost seeds,~ Twined through the 3058 II| which sting~ Against the smarting pupil and draw tears,~ Or 3059 II| those bodies with no dye be smeared.~ Again, ourselves whatever 3060 IV| out in whatso place~ The smelling object is. For, dallying 3061 IV| out the cause of all these smiles;~ And if of graceful mind 3062 V| all~ If the weather were smiling and the times of the year~ 3063 IV| grow thick on high~ And smirch the serene vision of the 3064 VI| Innumerable, a very tide, which smites~ By blows that air asunder 3065 VI| excited from without,~ Smiteth into a cloud already hot~ 3066 VI| rock~ Move iron by their smitings.~ Yet these things~ Are 3067 VI| and when all the earth~ Smoking exhales her moisture. At 3068 III| tranquil air,~ Nor e'er doth smoky torch of wrath applied,~ 3069 IV| to whom~ 'Tis sweet, the smoothest particles must needs~ Have 3070 II| among the four-foot kind~ Snake-handed elephants, whose thousands 3071 VI| wriggling generations of wild snakes.~ How far removed from true 3072 V| gentle bites to gape and snap,~ They fawn with yelps of 3073 IV| powerful to cast them unto snares~ And hold them bound. Wherefore 3074 V| hard white teeth, begin to snarl,~ They threaten, with infuriate 3075 IV| and involve ourselves~ In snarls of self-deceit.~ SOME VITAL 3076 IV| and with their nostrils sniff~ The winds again, again, 3077 VI| thought to draw to light,~ By sniffing nostrils, from their dusky 3078 III| time's major part, and snorest~ Even when awake, and ceasest 3079 V| widening nostrils out he snorts~ The call to battle, and 3080 V| And, at her rising as she soars above,~ Hath there observed 3081 VI| flesh (made hard by heat) it softens.~ The oleaster-tree as much 3082 V| three-fold Geryon...~ ~ The sojourners in the Stymphalian fens~ 3083 V| horses to the earth. And Sol, his sire,~ Meeting him 3084 VI| Calliope, ingenious Muse,~ Solace of mortals and delight of 3085 II| atoms with their old~ Simple solidity, when forth they travel~ 3086 I| they conquer~ By their own solidness; though hard it be~ To think 3087 VI| adapt, that cavities~ To solids correspond, these cavities~ 3088 V| reverting veers~ Back to solstitial goals of Cancer; nor~ How ' 3089 II| enough by thought of mind to solve~ Why fires of lightning 3090 IV| That there exist those somewhats which we call~ The images 3091 V| gleams and dense with livid soot,~ Do hurry in like manner 3092 V| er populous domains,~ Now soothe the minds of men. But if 3093 I| even thou,~ Forced by the soothsayer's terror-tales, shalt seek~ 3094 V| quivering palms to loathsome sores,~ With horrible voices for 3095 III| with thee, when, like a sotted wretch,~ Thou'rt jostled 3096 VI| blow,~ Making the leaves to sough and limbs to crash.~ It 3097 III| members. For not only~ Are the soul-elements smaller far than those~ 3098 V| man to steer~ His life by sounder reasoning, he'd own~ Abounding 3099 V| spindles, shuttles,~ And sounding yarn-beams. And Nature forced 3100 IV| or the panacea,~ Strong southernwood, or bitter centaury -~ If 3101 V| crowns, so splendid on the sovereign heads,~ Soon bloody under 3102 IV| And Venus is about to sow the fields~ Of woman, greedily 3103 II| quarter its large heat,~ And sows the new-ploughed intervales 3104 IV| their bodies bright~ The span of heaven. And likewise 3105 II| what evils we ourselves be spared;~ 'Tis sweet, again, to 3106 V| green;~ The flowery meadows sparkled all aglow~ With greening 3107 III| number less,~ And scattered sparsely through our frame. And thus~ 3108 VI| Night and day,~ Recurrent spasms of vomiting would rack~ 3109 VI| And flying tempests, which spatter every sea~ And every land 3110 III| With its fresh wound, and spattering up the sod,~ And there the 3111 II| spurts its jets aloft~ And spatters gore. And hast thou never 3112 VI| with fiery heat? -~ And, specially, since scarcely potent he~ 3113 V| could have brought~ The species down the ages.~ Lest, perchance,~ 3114 II| thou wilt mark here many a speck, impelled~ By viewless blows, 3115 I| amain,~ Seized with the spell, all creatures follow thee~ 3116 V| then~ Would rouse no dour spells of the bitter cold,~ Nor 3117 IV| elsewhere thy mind; and vent the sperm,~ Within thee gathered, 3118 II| those lucent realms.~ Then, spew not reason from thy mind 3119 VI| From out thy mind thou spewest all of this~ And casteth 3120 VI| beat; by means whereof it spews~ Forth from itself - and 3121 III| Nor mists of night, nor spider's gossamer~ We feel against 3122 V| polished tools - the treadles, spindles, shuttles,~ And sounding 3123 VI| in the belly of the cloud spins round~ In narrow confines, 3124 III| contrariwise,~ A pile of stones or spiny ears of wheat~ It can't 3125 IV| garrulous,~ The spiteful spit-fire, is "a sparkling wit";~ 3126 IV| and the garrulous,~ The spiteful spit-fire, is "a sparkling 3127 V| greedy foemen there~ And splashed by blood, was ruined utterly~ 3128 IV| hunter on~ Whithersoever the splay-foot of wild beast~ Hath hastened 3129 II| supply~ For us thin air and splendour-lights of the sun.~ And many besides 3130 V| lumps anon~ To shine with splendour-sheen upon the ground,~ Much taken 3131 II| moon, the radiance of the splendour-sun:~ Yet all, if now they first 3132 IV| Therefore the earth is easily spoiled of light~ And easily refilled 3133 VI| into it, was by that bane~ Spoilt from within - in part, because 3134 IV| squeeze~ With hand and dry a sponge with water soaked.~ Next, 3135 I| without all toil of ours,~ Spontaneous generations, fairer forms.~ 3136 II| example put thee on the spoor~ Of knowledge. For this 3137 II| generations, stained~ With spotted gaieties, would lie o'erthrown~ 3138 V| Matuta also at a fixed hour~ Spreadeth the roseate morning out 3139 I| For soon as comes the springtime face of day,~ And procreant 3140 I| the tree-tops could not sprout their leaves,~ Unless, little 3141 II| At times big branches sprouting from man's trunk,~ Limbs 3142 V| at approach~ Of boar, the spumy-lipped, or lion strong,~ And in 3143 V| past until to-day~ Have spurned the multitudinous assaults~ 3144 IV| gleam by following gleam is spurred and driven.~ Thus likewise 3145 III| down~ Before our eyes, and sputter foam, and grunt,~ Blither, 3146 V| And blindly through the squadrons havoc wrought,~ Shaking 3147 V| mongst the thickets hid their squalid backs,~ When driven to flee 3148 IV| which be added too,~ They squander powers and with the travail 3149 III| Greeks,~ And set my footsteps squarely planted now~ Even in the 3150 II| the shrill rasping of a squeaking saw~ Consists of elements 3151 VI| contracts; and thuswise squeezes out~ Into the spring what 3152 III| the quality of honey~ More stable is, its liquids more inert,~ 3153 III| the onset oft~ Of antlered stag, the scurrying hawk would 3154 I| since matter, then,~ Had staid at rest, its parts together 3155 II| peacock's golden generations, stained~ With spotted gaieties, 3156 I| thing of breath, no stock or stalk of tree:~ In the wild congress 3157 II| seeks again~ Within the stall, pierced by her yearning 3158 V| cries and gestures~ They stammered hints how meet it was that 3159 IV| danger-lest indeed~ Thou standest in the way of thine own 3160 II| there is~ So easy that it standeth not at first~ More hard 3161 I| come,~ Bodies can be at standstill in the void,~ Deprived of 3162 VI| roll their eyeballs round,~ Staring wide-open, unvisited of 3163 IV| the space is short from starting-point~ To where that voice arrives, 3164 III| senses -~ Since, when he's startled from his sleep, a man~ Collects 3165 V| their shivering frames less staunch to bear,~ Under the canopy 3166 VI| forlorn of help.~ But who had stayed at hand would perish there~ 3167 V| and another be,~ In its stead and place, engendered anew,~ ' 3168 V| That ether can flow thus steadily on, on,~ With one unaltered 3169 I| much I dread slow age will steal and coil~ Along our members, 3170 III| well~ As sturdy strength of steed? We may be sure~ They'll 3171 V| dreadfully offend us, or the Steeds~ Of Thracian Diomedes breathing 3172 I| in things, they fear the steep~ And lose the road of truth. 3173 V| with its fiery exhalations steeps~ The world at large. For 3174 V| s party. Yet were man to steer~ His life by sounder reasoning, 3175 V| all a-tremble, and amain,~ Steering them over along their own 3176 V| Save energy of mind which steers the limbs?~ Now seest thou 3177 V| er be begotten with their stems~ Begrafted into one; but 3178 VI| noisome stench. What direful stenches, too,~ Scaptensula out-breathes 3179 V| When things acquired by the sternest toil~ Are now in leaf, are 3180 IV| the middle of the stream~ Sticks fast our dashing horse, 3181 III| oblong of an icy slab,~ Grow stiff in cold, or sink with load 3182 III| them too far; nor will they stiffen stark,~ Pierced through 3183 I| doorways of a house;~ And stiffening frost seeps inward to our 3184 VI| are changed now, with fury stilled;~ All other movements through 3185 IV| test~ A square and get its stimulus on us~ Within the dark, 3186 II| we may see from out the stinking dung~ Live worms spring 3187 V| covert round~ With net or stirring it with dogs of chase.)~ 3188 VI| When from Beyond 'thas stolen into our world.~ And tempests, 3189 IV| because~ It enters not through stony walls, wherethrough~ Unfailingly 3190 VI| over-full, how readily~ From stool in middle of the steaming 3191 I| and thy coming on,~ Flee stormy wind and massy cloud away,~ 3192 IV| boast of marvels in their story-tellings;~ Or by some other reason 3193 IV| very nets, and burst~ The stoutly-knotted cords of Aphrodite.~ Yet 3194 IV| tarried much,~ And mind hath strained upon the more, we seem~ 3195 IV| and panting ever,~ And straining utmost strength, as if for 3196 I| onward through the narrow straits,~ Swift ocean cuts her boundaries 3197 V| of roughly interplaited strands~ Were earlier than loom-wove 3198 IV| ground,~ As if beholding stranger-visages.~ And ever the fiercer be 3199 IV| tender limb, the while they stray~ Uncertain over all the 3200 VI| reason: since houses on the street~ Begin to quake throughout, 3201 VI| faithful dogs, in all the streets~ Outstretched, would yield 3202 VI| exercise their arms and strengthen shoulders?~ Why suffer they 3203 II| mimic warfare - either side~ Strengthened with large auxiliaries and 3204 VI| shift allowed. And sudden stress~ And poverty to many an 3205 II| that space~ To all sides stretches infinite and free,~ And 3206 V| will~ Yielded to laws and strictest codes. For since~ Each hand 3207 IV| after idols of the liquids strives~ And toils in vain, and 3208 V| aspires to seize the sky,~ Striving to set it blazing with his 3209 IV| serene vision of the world,~ Stroking the air with motions. For 3210 V| And on the bodies of the strong-y-winged,~ Thus then the new Earth 3211 VI| set~ The magnet stone. So strongly iron seems~ To crave to 3212 V| also the telluric world~ Strove to beget the monsters that 3213 V| see the standing grain~ Or stubble straw in conflagration all~ 3214 V| differ likewise, when the stud~ In buoyant flower of his 3215 VI| of heaven,~ The house so studded with the glittering stars,~ 3216 III| Leaving all else, he'd study to divine~ The nature of 3217 I| sweetly tickles in their stupid ears,~ Or which is rouged 3218 V| The sojourners in the Stymphalian fens~ So dreadfully offend 3219 VI| Amain into those caverns sub-terrene,~ And there at first tumultuously 3220 V| one only man could scarce subdue~ An overmastered multitude 3221 IV| to find~ The artifice to subjugate the bane.~ In such uncertain 3222 V| Therefore that man who subjugated these,~ And from the mind 3223 III| things that were;~ Add its submergence in the murky waves~ Of drowse 3224 IV| beasts,~ And sheep and mares submit unto the males,~ Except 3225 VI| Nature fashioned this fire~ Subtler than fires all other, with 3226 IV| forms~ Which flit around, of subtlest texture made,~ Invisible, 3227 VI| iron's abundant pores~ So subtly into the tiny parts thereof,~ 3228 II| covenants of fate,~ That cause succeed not cause from everlasting,~ 3229 II| all sides around~ By old succession of unending blows.~ For 3230 V| vilest lees of brawling mobs~ Succumbed, whilst each man sought 3231 V| issuing from contempt.~ In suchwise, then, the lapsing aeons 3232 IV| his kisses wet~ With lips sucked into lips; for oft she acts~ 3233 V| have won dominion o'er~ The sucked-up waters all? - And this they 3234 III| and roast in flames,~ Or suffocate in honey, and, reclined~ 3235 VI| following wise~ The clouds suffuse with leaping light the lands,~ 3236 II| which are of them made~ Suffused, each kind with colours 3237 IV| else it fails~ To enter suitably the proper places,~ Or, 3238 III| selfsame time.~ Therefore it suits that even the soul's dissolved,~ 3239 VI| that river~ From forth the sultry places down the south,~ 3240 V| starry fires~ Through the Summanian regions of the sky;~ Or 3241 V| thrust the sun away~ From summer-signs to mid-most winter goals~ 3242 IV| when the locusts in the summertime~ Put off their glossy tunics, 3243 II| creeping about~ Whither the summons of the grass, begemmed~ 3244 III| no more,~ When comes that sundering of our body and soul~ Through 3245 VI| poets of the Greeks have sung the tale;~ But very nature 3246 III| Of body and mind, each super-posed on each,~ Vary alternately 3247 III| tell.~ First, I aver, 'tis superfine, composed~ Of tiniest particles - 3248 III| of truth, and thou to us~ Suppliest a father's precepts; and 3249 III| all the frame,~ Perishes, supplying from itself the stuff~ For 3250 II| Fulfilled with piety, supported life~ With simple comfort 3251 V| most subtle energy of soul~ Supports our body, though so heavy 3252 III| But perchance~ If thou supposest that the soul itself~ Can 3253 I| Outward in all directions; or, supposing~ moment the all of space 3254 V| unto himself~ Dominion and supremacy. So next~ Some wiser heads 3255 II| sum yet seems to stand~ Supremely still, except in cases where~ 3256 III| religion.~ Wherefore, it's surer testing of a man~ In doubtful 3257 I| touch.~ And raiment, hung by surf-beat shore, grows moist,~ The 3258 IV| said above,~ But from their surfaces at times no less -~ Their 3259 II| the pores. For what may we surmise~ A blow inflicted can achieve 3260 I| see~ How far the tilled surpass the fields untilled~ And 3261 II| by little abandon their surprise.~ Look upward yonder at 3262 VI| with a thickened crust~ Surrounding; for thereafter, when the 3263 V| then again~ With open eye survey all regions wide,~ Resplendent 3264 II| blind-born, who have ne'er surveyed~ The light of sun, yet recognise 3265 VI| and flesh.~ And whoso had survived that virulent flow~ Of the 3266 VI| remains a subtle force, suspense~ In the atmosphere itself; 3267 III| since body's unable to sustain~ Division from the soul, 3268 V| and fabric of the world~ Sustained so many aeons! Nor do I~ 3269 II| strongholds high,~ 'Tis she sustains the cities; now, adorned~ 3270 V| food;~ Warmth was their swaddling cloth, the grass their bed~ 3271 III| ever it slipped abroad and swam away~ Into the winds of 3272 I| and frame,~ Unseen, and swamp huge ships and rend the 3273 VI| beneath, outstretched on the sward.~ There is, again, on Helicon' 3274 III| have gone under, once who swayed~ O'er mighty peoples. And 3275 VI| she leans,~ Then back she sways; and after tottering~ Forward, 3276 VI| throats,~ Black on the inside, sweated oozy blood;~ And the walled 3277 IV| though outstretched,~ Yet sweating in their sleep, and panting 3278 III| once~ Along man's members: sweats and pallors spread~ Over 3279 VI| thunder's seeds of fire, to sweep~ In a straight line unto 3280 V| force of fury-winds at sea~ Sweepeth a navy's admiral down the 3281 IV| and ugly~ The prosperous sweethearts in a high esteem;~ And lovers 3282 IV| man.~ The goaded regions swell with seed, and then~ Comes 3283 VI| Whither that force hath swept. It happens, too,~ That 3284 II| to man~ From that slight swervement of the elements~ In no fixed 3285 II| seeds~ Produce not by their swerving some new start~ Of motion 3286 IV| thou not see indeed~ How swifter and how farther must they 3287 VI| from them~ Fierce fire of swiftest flame, it lifts itself~ 3288 VI| pass~ Thine eye beholds the swinging stroke before~ The blow 3289 VI| on all Pandion's folk it swooped;~ Whereat by troops unto 3290 V| Then by slow degrees~ The sword of iron succeeded, and the 3291 II| sounds of arms, these savage swords~ But among kings and lords 3292 I| Pour from those lips soft syllables to win~ Peace for the Romans, 3293 VI| of the place compels.~ In Syria also - as men say - a spot~ 3294 VI| mighty chasm -~ What once in Syrian Sidon did befall,~ And once 3295 V| order rolled around~ The systems of the sky, and changed 3296 III| And hatred and fear of tables of their kin.~ Likewise, 3297 IV| Full or fatigued, thou takest; since 'tis then~ That the 3298 | taking 3299 IV| corporeal,~ Since the long talker loses from his frame~ A 3300 VI| more gentle yet uptwists tall trees~ And sucks them madly 3301 III| the fear;~ Wherefore it tallies that the mind no less~ Partaker 3302 II| hollow cymbals, tight-skinned tambourines~ Resound around to bangings 3303 II| However savage, must be tamed and chid~ By care of parents. 3304 II| debauch and ruin with sharp tang~ The odorous essence with 3305 III| a heaviness of limbs,~ A tangle of the legs as round he 3306 III| ours~ Here in this life. No Tantalus, benumbed~ With baseless 3307 IV| Are lost in Babylonian tapestries;~ And unguents and dainty 3308 II| fevers go,~ If on a pictured tapestry thou toss,~ Or purple robe, 3309 V| And the moon lags even tardier than the sun:~ In just so 3310 IV| art~ Opposed the shielding targe. And, verily,~ Yielding 3311 VI| spreads there under Birdless tarn.~ Such spot's at Cumae, 3312 VI| Birdless spots and Birdless tarns,~ What sort of nature they 3313 IV| which we theretofore have tarried much,~ And mind hath strained 3314 II| of which sort is the salt tartar of wine~ And flavours of 3315 V| farmer folk jeered at such tasks,~ And so were eager soon 3316 IV| with hues. Likewise the tasting tongue~ Has its own power 3317 VI| the grain~ Ere ever those taurine bonds will lax their hold.~ 3318 III| twist about with sinews taut,~ Gasp up in starts, and 3319 V| when things~ Were being taxed by maladies so great,~ And 3320 VI| and leaky that nowise~ 'Tcould ever be filled to brim; 3321 V| Whence was implanted in the teacher, then,~ Fore-knowledge of 3322 II| realms of air~ To drive her team of lions, teaching thus~ 3323 II| Unfailingly each to its proper teat,~ As Nature intends. Lastly, 3324 V| BOOK AND NEW~ PROEM AGAINST TELEOLOGICAL~ CONCEPT~ ~ And walking 3325 VI| to tell of, ere I go~ To telling of the fact at hand itself.~ 3326 V| broke the parents' haughty temper down.~ Then, too, did neighbours ' 3327 V| Be of condition and so tempered then~ As to be kindled, 3328 VI| sun with beams amid the tempest-murk~ Hath shone against the 3329 III| The ancestral fear and tendency to flee,~ And why in short 3330 V| tides,~ Keeping one onward tenor as it glides.~ ~ And that 3331 V| power~ There to postpone the Terminals of Fate,~ Or headway make ' 3332 III| nor sees meanwhile~ What terminus of ills, what end of pine~ 3333 V| varied loveliness~ All the terrain which men adorn and plant~ 3334 VI| marvel, because, when with terrific stroke~ 'Thas smitten, the 3335 IV| atmosphere,~ And the same terrify our intellects,~ Coming 3336 V| Whinnies at times with terror-quaking limbs?~ Lastly, the flying 3337 V| close, whose limbs with terror-spell~ Crouch not together, when 3338 I| Forced by the soothsayer's terror-tales, shalt seek~ To break from 3339 III| Wherefore, it's surer testing of a man~ In doubtful perils - 3340 I| Things soft and loosely textured to exist,~ As air, dew, 3341 V| any service unto us~ In thanks for which we should permit 3342 VI| and followeth on until~ 'Thath reached the stone itself 3343 VI| the all-beholding sun with thawing beams~ Drives the white 3344 IV| they at pains to hide~ All the-behind-the-scenes of life from those~ Whom 3345 IV| And ever the more the theatre's dark walls~ Around them 3346 V| The everlasting, why, ere Theban war~ And obsequies of Troy, 3347 III| make head~ 'Gainst errors' theories all, and so shut off~ All 3348 VI| ever the clouds~ Have come thereunder, then into the same~ Descend 3349 VI| whereby we might arrive~ Thereunto by a little cross-cut straight,~ 3350 III| taught,~ Crumble and crack, therewith outworn by eld.~ ~ Then, 3351 I| those,~ And no rein curbs therm from annihilation.~ For 3352 II| touched with dye~ Of the Thessalian shell...~ The peacock's 3353 IV| nourished:~ For some foods thicken seeds within our members,~ 3354 V| woods,~ And 'mongst the thickets hid their squalid backs,~ 3355 IV| were that we might see;~ Or thighs and knees, aprop upon the 3356 III| hold the soul, how then~ Thinkst thou it can be held by any 3357 I| fire to be condensed or thinned,~ If all the parts of fire 3358 IV| gold-leaf. For, indeed,~ Far thinner are they in their fabric 3359 I| A ring upon the finger thins away~ Along the under side, 3360 IV| And toils in vain, and thirsts even whilst he gulps~ In 3361 IV| Its vestments 'mongst the thorns - for oft we see~ The breres 3362 II| In intervening spaces, thoroughfares,~ Connections, weights, 3363 VI| primordial elements~ More thoroughly knit or tighter linked coheres~ 3364 V| offend us, or the Steeds~ Of Thracian Diomedes breathing fire~ 3365 V| their horns,~ And with a threat'ning forehead jam the sod;~ 3366 I| lightning's stroke~ Nor threatening thunder of the ominous sky~ 3367 VI| this account~ Earth oftener threatens than she brings to pass~ 3368 I| and here Aetna rumbles threats~ To gather anew such furies 3369 V| the sky:~ O Memmius, their threefold nature, lo,~ Their bodies 3370 IV| reversed, facing him who threw,~ And so remould the features 3371 V| mind content~ He lived by thrift; for never, as I guess,~ 3372 IV| with the body knit~ And thrives in strength, and by what 3373 III| spear corporeal 'tis in throes.~ Now, of what body, what 3374 VI| sick, brought thither, thronging from every quarter,~ Plague-stricken 3375 V| tried to scape~ The savage thrusts of tusk by shying off,~ 3376 IV| of us. Again, whene'er we thump~ With finger-tip upon a 3377 IV| aery gusts -~ Must there be thumped and strook by blows of air~ 3378 II| outside~ Cease not with thumping to undo a thing~ And overmaster 3379 VI| hurricane,~ What time the thunder-clap, from burning bolt~ That 3380 VI| also out at sea~ A blackest thunderhead, like cataract~ Of pitch 3381 I| follow after,~ Aye, lest the thundering vaults of heaven should 3382 VI| thence amain,~ Or what the thunderstroke portends of ill~ From out 3383 I| Hath strook with pointed thyrsus through my heart;~ On the 3384 II| slightly angled-out,~ To tickle rather than to wound the 3385 I| that true~ Which sweetly tickles in their stupid ears,~ Or 3386 IV| idol-images of some fair form -~ Tidings of glorious face and lovely 3387 IV| her complying ways, and tidy habits,~ Will easily accustom 3388 III| And this that breaks the ties of comradry~ And oversets 3389 II| come:~ And hollow cymbals, tight-skinned tambourines~ Resound around 3390 VI| More thoroughly knit or tighter linked coheres~ Than nature 3391 I| Lastly we see~ How far the tilled surpass the fields untilled~ 3392 V| Sailings on the seas,~ Tillings of fields, walls, laws, 3393 III| this like a mirror up~ Of time-to-be when we are dead and gone.~ 3394 V| perennial courses round,~ Timing their motions for increase 3395 VI| one?~ And is not brass by tin joined unto brass?~ And 3396 II| dye~ From bits of matter tinct with hue the same.~ For 3397 II| same we do not find to be~ Tinctured with any colour.~ Now that 3398 VI| pinched nostrils, nose's tip~ A very point, eyes sunken, 3399 III| on this motion which we title "sense"~ He battles in vain 3400 I| Than for some other cause 'tmight be dislodged.~ For all of 3401 VI| thrones of splendour, and to-breaks~ The well-wrought idols 3402 VI| Of the fierce hurricane to-rends the cloud,~ Breaking right 3403 III| is, and, as I've shown, to-riven,~ Asunder thrown, and torn 3404 VI| crust, lo, then the cloud, to-split in twain,~ Gives forth a 3405 III| Twitches its spreading toes. And even the head,~ When 3406 II| Even when aided by our toiling arms.~ We break the ox, 3407 II| adorned~ With that same token, to-day is carried forth,~ 3408 VI| scrolls oracular,~ Inquiring tokens of occult will of gods,~ 3409 II| wasting away and going to the tomb,~ Outworn by venerable length 3410 IV| form of word and a clear tone.~ But whatso part of voices 3411 IV| silences are broken oft,~ And tones of strings are made and 3412 IV| imposante";~ The stuttering and tongue-tied "sweetly lisps";~ The mute 3413 III| great death~ To parch, poor tongues, with thirst and arid drought,~ 3414 I| And how accomplished by no tool of Gods.~ Suppose all sprang 3415 VI| them up and on~ Unto the topmost summits of the mountain;~ 3416 III| change its bodies,~ How topsy-turvy would earth's creatures 3417 VI| Fierce and delirious, the tormented ears~ Beset with ringings, 3418 VI| Aetna's Mount~ Such vast tornado-fires out-breathe at times,~ I 3419 III| murky waves~ Of drowse and torpor.~ FOLLY OF THE FEAR OF DEATH~ ~ 3420 IV| gulps~ In middle of the torrent, thus in love~ Venus deludes 3421 I| fields~ Or swim the bounding torrents. Thus amain,~ Seized with 3422 V| at last~ It shrivels in torrid atmospheres the world.~ 3423 III| sleep?~ And, verily, those tortures said to be~ In Acheron, 3424 II| enough~ All matter of our total body goes,~ Hurried along, 3425 I| were all the space~ Of the totality and sum shut in~ With fixed 3426 II| what hue~ The things thou touchest be perchance endowed,~ But 3427 VI| conceived as o'er our head~ Towering most high; for never would 3428 IV| observe 'tis not~ So easy to trace out in whatso place~ The 3429 IV| another,~ And in her face sees traces of a laugh.~ ~ These ills 3430 IV| ploughshare's even course and track~ She throws the furrow, 3431 V| known ere iron's, since more tractable~ Its nature is and its abundance 3432 V| watchmen guard~ These old traditions, and have learned well~ 3433 IV| faces flying far along~ And trailing a spread of shadow; and 3434 II| after them they draw long trails of flame~ Wherever Nature 3435 V| puissant lions~ With armed trainers and with masters fierce~ 3436 III| the race of men:~ Though training make them equally refined,~ 3437 III| long ere to-day~ Often were traitors to country and dear parents~ 3438 III| short do all the rest of traits~ Engender from the very 3439 V| toss their friends,~ And trample under foot, and from beneath~ 3440 III| afoot, and did contemn,~ Trampling upon it with his cavalry,~ 3441 II| hearts~ Which pass in long tranquillity of peace~ Untroubled ages 3442 II| by whose means~ Nature transacts her work. And so I say,~ 3443 I| abroad from out the earth.~ Transfer the argument, and thou may' 3444 VI| pores. And much it does transfix,~ When these primordial 3445 V| all, compelleth all~ To transformation. Lo, this moulders down,~ 3446 I| all corporeal substances transformed,~ 'Tis thine to know those 3447 III| past,~ Still gnaw the old transgressions bitterly.~ Add, too, that 3448 III| smooth and round. That first transmits~ Sense-bearing motions through 3449 VI| That such may pant from a transpierced breast~ Forth flames of 3450 V| fixed periods~ Blow out from transverse regions of the world,~ Of 3451 VI| what new thing Nature were travailing at.~ ~ In these affairs 3452 I| be,~ If some one farthest traveller runs forth~ Unto the extreme 3453 II| of mind, all else~ Thou traverse through, thou wilt discover 3454 V| Such polished tools - the treadles, spindles, shuttles,~ And 3455 II| bedding. Wherefore, since~ Treasure, nor rank, nor glory of 3456 V| little rattles,~ Nor must be treated to the humouring nurse's~ 3457 III| the souls there be~ Such treaties stablished that the first 3458 IV| too joyously~ Herself she treats the Venus of the man~ With 3459 V| Already men had, under treaty pacts,~ Confederates and 3460 V| As now-a-days in summer tree-crickets~ Do leave their shiny husks 3461 I| again, the boughs~ Upon the tree-tops could not sprout their leaves,~ 3462 V| Hesperides,~ Coiled round the tree-trunk with tremendous bulk,~ O 3463 III| arching heaven~ Shuddered and trembled, and all humankind~ Doubted 3464 VI| wind~ Enkindled all: it trembles into heat~ Both by its own 3465 VI| underneath affixed and set,~ Trembleth above, jarred by big down-tumblings,~ 3466 VI| big jar~ There quiver the tremors far and wide abroad.~ And 3467 II| to speak,~ Mere changed trend. For were it not their wont~ 3468 IV| rage.~ But fleet the divers tribes of birds and vex~ With sudden 3469 VI| from the countryside~ That tribulation, which the peasantry~ Sick, 3470 IV| places, straightaway~ It trickles from them, and, returned 3471 IV| spots, around the wet and trickling~ Enclosures of the tongue. 3472 V| vipers venomous?~ Or what the triple-breasted power of her~ The three-fold 3473 VI| Acropolis, beside~ Fane of Tritonian Pallas bountiful,~ Where 3474 VI| I will unfold. And first triumphantly~ Will I persuade thee that 3475 I| the siege and sack~ Of Trojan Town, look out, they force 3476 III| anxious anguish eats,~ Whom troubles of any unappeased desires~ 3477 I| peace!~ For in a season troublous to the state~ Neither may 3478 III| erlong remove~ Is that, I trow, from what we mean by death.~ 3479 IV| form the same~ When the trump rumbles with a hollow roar,~ 3480 V| of the arbute-tree.~ And trusting wondrous strength of hands 3481 IV| scorning these the spoken truths,~ Thyself at fault unable 3482 II| with a raucous bray;~ The tubed pipe excites their maddened 3483 VI| Through all the narrow tubes of yonder ether,~ Yea, so 3484 VI| the steaming water~ Thou tumblest in a fit! How readily~ The 3485 II| light:~ Namely, because such tumblings are a sign~ That motions 3486 VI| things~ And air in vast tumultuosity~ Billows, infuriate with 3487 V| to dance onward, out of tune, with limbs~ Clownishly 3488 V| puckered lips along the tuned reeds,~ Whence, even in 3489 V| shores of light.~ These tunes would sooth and glad the 3490 IV| summertime~ Put off their glossy tunics, or when calves~ At birth 3491 I| walk a man,~ And from the turf would leap a branching tree -~ 3492 IV| stir and goad the regions turgid now~ With seed abundant; 3493 VI| passing huge~ The fiery turmoil of that conflagration!"~ 3494 IV| rubbed and rounded on a turner's wheel -~ Yet not like 3495 V| Unless, by the ploughshare turning the fruitful clods~ And 3496 V| On to the mid-most winter turning-points~ In Capricorn, the thence 3497 II| They have girt about~ With turret-crown the summit of her head,~ 3498 V| The serpent-handed, with turrets on their bulks -~ To dure 3499 V| scape~ The savage thrusts of tusk by shying off,~ Or rearing 3500 V| boars would gore with stout tusks their allies,~ Splashing 3501 IV| mirror, and thereafter,~ When twice dashed off, flies back unto