T. LUCRETII De rerum natura liber II, v. 37-61
\nOf The Nature Of Things: BOOK II \u00a0– PROEM<\/p>\n
Wherefore, since
\nTreasure, nor rank, nor glory of a reign
\nAvail us naught for this our body, thus
\nReckon them likewise nothing for the mind:
\nSave then perchance, when thou beholdest forth
\nThy legions swarming round the Field of Mars,
\nRousing a mimic warfare\u2014either side
\nStrengthened with large auxiliaries and horse,
\nAlike equipped with arms, alike inspired;
\nOr save when also thou beholdest forth
\nThy fleets to swarm, deploying down the sea:
\nFor then, by such bright circumstance abashed,
\nReligion pales and flees thy mind; O then
\nThe fears of death leave heart so free of care.
\nBut if we note how all this pomp at last
\nIs but a drollery and a mocking sport,
\nAnd of a truth man’s dread, with cares at heels,
\nDreads not these sounds of arms, these savage swords
\nBut among kings and lords of all the world
\nMingles undaunted, nor is overawed
\nBy gleam of gold nor by the splendour bright
\nOf purple robe, canst thou then doubt that this
\nIs aught, but power of thinking?\u2014when, besides
\nThe whole of life but labours in the dark.
\nFor just as children tremble and fear all
\nIn the viewless dark, so even we at times
\nDread in the light so many things that be
\nNo whit more fearsome than what children feign,
\nShuddering, will be upon them in the dark.
\nThis terror then, this darkness of the mind,
\nNot sunrise with its flaring spokes of light,
\nNor glittering arrows of morning can disperse,
\nBut only nature’s aspect and her law.
\n <\/p>\n
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\nOf The Nature Of Things<\/strong><\/em>
\nLucretius<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"