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Lucretius, De Rerum Natura (ed. William Ellery Leonard), BOOK III, line 1 (search)
Lucretius, De Rerum Natura (ed. William Ellery Leonard), BOOK III, line 41 (search)
Lucretius, De Rerum Natura (ed. William Ellery Leonard), BOOK III, line 624 (search)
Besides, if nature of soul immortal be,
And able to feel, when from our frame disjoined,
The same, I fancy, must be thought to be
Endowed with senses five,- nor is there way
But this whereby to image to ourselves
How under-souls may roam in Acheron.
Thus painters and the elder race of bards
Have pictured souls with senses so endowed.
But neither eyes, nor nose, nor hand, alone
Apart from body can exist for soul,
Nor tongue nor ears apart. And hence indeed
Alone by self they can nor feel nor be.
And since we mark the vital sense to be
In the whole body, all one living thing,
If of a sudden a force with rapid stroke
Should slice it down the middle and cleave in twain,
Beyond a doubt likewise the soul itself,
Divided, dissevered, asunder will be flung
Along with body. But what severed is
And into sundry parts divides, indeed
Admits it owns no everlasting nature.
We hear how chariots of war, areek
With hurly slaughter, lop with flashing scythes
The limbs away so suddenly that there,
Lucretius, De Rerum Natura (ed. William Ellery Leonard), BOOK IV, line 26 (search)
Lucretius, De Rerum Natura (ed. William Ellery Leonard), BOOK IV, line 143 (search)