The Portable Roman Reader (Portable Library)
“B.C.-55 B.C.) From On the Nature of Things* Translated by William Ellery Leonard Book I PROEM Mother of Rome, delight of Gods and men, Dear Venus that beneath the gliding stars Makest to teem the many-voyagèd main And fruitful lands—for all of living things Through thee alone are evermore conceived, Through thee are risen to visit the great sun—Before thee, Goddess, and thy coming on, Flee stormy wind and massy cloud away, For thee the daedal Earth bears scented flowers, For thee the waters of ...the unvexèd deep Smile, and the hollows of the sérene sky Glow with diffusèd radiance for thee! For soon as comes the springtime face of day, And procreant gales blow from the West unbarred, First fowls of air, smit to the heart by thee, Foretoken thy approach, 0 thou Divine, And leap the wild herds round the happy fields Everyman’s Library, E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc. Or swim the bounding torrents. Thus amain, Seized with the spell, all creatures follow thee Whithersoever thou walkest forth to lead, And thence through seas and mountains and swift streams, Through leafy homes of birds and greening plains, Kindling the lure of love in every breast, Thou bringest the eternal generations forth, Kind after kind.MoreLess
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