Thesauros Literature didactic De Rerum Natura

De Rerum Natura

De Rerum Natura Lucretius Carus, Titus

Kitap 6

 
When tempest begins its thunderbolts to forge.
 
Besides, full often also out at sea 15
 
A blackest thunderhead, like cataract
 
Of pitch hurled down from heaven, and far away
 
Bulging with murkiness, down on the waves
 
Falls with vast uproar, and draws on amain
 
The darkling tempests big with thunderbolts 20
 
And hurricanes, itself the while so crammed
 
Tremendously with fires and winds, that even
 
Back on the lands the people shudder round
 
And seek for cover. Therefore, as I said,
 
The storm must be conceived as o'er our head 25
 
Towering most high; for never would the clouds
 
O'erwhelm the lands with such a massy dark,
 
Unless up-builded heap on lofty heap,
 
To shut the round sun off. Nor could the clouds,
 
As on they come, engulf with rain so vast 30
 
As thus to make the rivers overflow
 
And fields to float, if ether were not thus
 
Furnished with lofty-piled clouds. Lo, then,
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