Technopaegnion III. — Verses Beginning and Ending with Monosyllables so contrived that the Word which Ends one Verse makes the Beginning of the Next

Things that concern men are frail, prospered, guided, and destroyed by Chance — Chance the unstable, ever-changing goddess, who is flattered by fond Hope — Hope, who knows no bounds of time; whose only end is Death — Death the insatiate, who is steeped in infernal gloom by Night — Night, who must yield place on the return of golden Light — Light bestowed by Heaven's gift, whose harbinger is the Sun — the Sun, who even in their stolen loves beholds Venus and warrior Mars — Mars unbegotten of a father, who is worshipped by the Thracian race — a race of uncurbed folk, with whom every crime is right: — Right bids them offer men in sacrifice: such is their savage wont — wont of a savage and a daring folk, all unrestrained by Law — Law, which was founded by the natural sway of Right— Right which is sprung from man's natural affection, Right which is God's unerring mind — mind which bedews with heavenly influence the deserving heart — the heart, alive, formed like the globe, the life's power and its strength: — strength, however, there is none in this: 'tis but a jest and a worthless thing.