Kitap 1
That, too, the sum of things itself may not
Have power to fix a measure of its own,
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Great nature guards, she who compels the void
To bound all body, as body all the void,
Thus rendering by these alternates the whole
An infinite; or else the one or other,
Being unbounded by the other, spreads,
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Even by its single nature, ne'ertheless
Nor sea, nor earth, nor shining vaults of sky,
Nor breed of mortals, nor holy limbs of gods
Could keep their place least portion of an hour:
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For, driven apart from out its meetings fit,
The stock of stuff, dissolved, would be borne
Along the illimitable inane afar,
Or rather, in fact, would ne'er have once combined
And given a birth to aught, since, scattered wide,
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It could not be united. For of truth
Neither by counsel did the primal germs
'Stablish themselves, as by keen act of mind,
