The Nature of Things

Fall                                                                        Samhain Moon

My first venture into Lucretius, De Rerum Natura:

Book I:

1. You who have born Aeneas, pleasure of man and god,

2. Bountiful Venus, gliding smoothly underneath the mark of heaven,

3. How thou dost enliven the ship-bearing sea and the fruitful earth

4. Everything since transformed into a living being is conceived through thou.