De Rerum Natura
Lucretius
Lucretius. De Rerum Natura. William Ellery Leonard. E. P. Dutton. 1916.
- Sometimes too
- It happens- and through no divinity
- Nor arrows of Venus- that a sorry chit
- Of scanty grace will be beloved by man;
- For sometimes she herself by very deeds,
- By her complying ways, and tidy habits,
- Will easily accustom thee to pass
- With her thy life-time- and, moreover, lo,
- Long habitude can gender human love,
- Even as an object smitten o'er and o'er
- By blows, however lightly, yet at last
- Is overcome and wavers. Seest thou not,
- Besides, how drops of water falling down
- Against the stones at last bore through the stones?