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"Globed From The Atoms"
Globed from the atoms falling slow or swift
I see the suns, I see the systems live
- Their forms; and even the systems and the suns
Even if there lurk behind some veil of sky
The fabled Maker, the immortal Spy,
- Ready to torture each poor life he made,
For I, if still you are haunted by the fear
Of hell, have one more secret for your ear.
- Hell & its torments are not there, but are here.
By Lucretius
(Lucretius, c. 99-55 B.C., a Roman poet,
concluded that all things - including man -
operate according to their own laws and
are not in any way influenced by supernatural
powers; with this view, he thought, man should
be free of the yoke of religious superstition
and the fear of death.)