Kitap 5
And nature, artificer of the world, bring forth
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Aboundingly all things for all.
Since body of earth and water, air's light breath,
And fiery exhalations (of which four
This sum of things is seen to be compact)
So all have birth and perishable frame,
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Thus the whole nature of the world itself
Must be conceived as perishable too.
For, verily, those things of which we see
The parts and members to have birth in time
And perishable shapes, those same we mark
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To be invariably born in time
And born to die. And therefore when I see
The mightiest members and the parts of this
Our world consumed and begot again,
'Tis mine to know that also sky above
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And earth beneath began of old in time
And shall in time go under to disaster.
And lest in these affairs thou deemest me
