Kitap 2
Since an immutable somewhat must remain,
Lest all things utterly be brought to naught.
For change of anything from out its bounds
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Means instant death of that which was before.
Wherefore be mindful not to stain with colour
The seeds of things, lest things return for thee
Receive no property of colour, and yet
Be still endowed with variable forms
From which all kinds of colours they beget
And vary (by reason that ever it matters much
With what seeds, and in what positions joined,
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And what the motions that they give and get),
Forthwith most easily thou mayst devise
Why what was black of hue an hour ago
Can of a sudden like the marble gleam,-
As ocean, when the high winds have upheaved
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Its level plains, is changed to hoary waves
Of marble whiteness: for, thou mayst declare,
