Of the Nature of Things
"Mother of Rome, delight of Gods and men, dear Venus that beneath the gliding stars makest to teem the many-voyaged 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..."Of the Nature of Things is a first-century BC didactic poem by the Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius Carus