Thomas Creech

thumb|Thomas Creech Thomas Creech (1659–found dead 19 July 1700) was an English translator of classical works. Quotes But now suppose the soul, when separate,Could live, and think, in a divided state:Yet what is that to us, who are the whole, A frame composed of body, joined with soul?Nay, grant the scattered ashes of our urn,Be joined again, and life and sense return:Yet how can that concern us, when 'tis done,Since all the memory of past life is gone?Now we ne'er joy, nor grieve, to think that weWere heretofore, nor what those things will be,Which framed from us, the following age shall see.When we revolve, how numerous years have run,How oft the east beheld the rising sunE'er we began, and how the atoms move,How the unthinking seed forever strove;'Tis probable, and reason's laws allow,These seeds of ours were once combined as now;Yet now who minds, who knows his former state?The interim of death, the hand of fate,Or stopped the seeds, or made them all commenceSuch motions, as destroyed the former sense. T. Lucretius Carus the Epicurean Philosopher, His Six Books De Natura Rerum Done into English Verse (1682), Book III, lines 820–840 Forbear, design no hasty Rape On such a green, untimely Grape: Soon ruddy Autumn will produce Plump Ousters, ripe, and fit to use; She now that flies, shall then pursue, She now that’s courted doat on you: For Age whirls on, and every year It takes from Thee it adds to Her. The Odes, Satyrs, and Epistles of Horace. Done into English (1684), "To His Friend in Love with a Young Girl" (Horace, Odes II.5; cf. A.P. V.124) External links Category:1700 deaths Category:Translators from England Category:Anglicans from the United Kingdom Category:University of Oxford faculty Category:1659 births