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  1     I|          away,~ For thee the daedal Earth bears scented flowers,~
  2     I|          hand~ Dead men whose bones earth bosomed long ago.~ SUBSTANCE
  3     I|           times arrive and pregnant earth~ Safely may give unto the
  4     I|         matter. Thus it comes~ That earth, without her seasons of
  5     I|        there are indeed~ Within the earth primordial germs of things,~
  6     I|           thus restored, may daedal Earth~ Foster and plenish with
  7     I|       fashioned soft -~ Air, water, earth, and fiery exhalations -~
  8     I|            become; much less~ Might earth's variety of things be born~
  9     I|           contrives things, or that earth~ Createth all and changes
 10     I|            joining air to fire, and earth~ To water; add who deem
 11     I|             Out of the four - fire, earth, and breath, and rain;~
 12     I|          exist,~ As air, dew, fire, earth, animals, and grains,~ Without
 13     I|            st the frame of fire and earth, the air,~ The dew of water
 14     I|     palpably be seen mixed up~ With earth together, unquenched heat
 15     I|          the rain begotten is,~ And earth created out of rain, and
 16     I|        reversely, are returned from earth -~ The moisture first, then
 17     I|           their ways from heaven to earth, from earth~ Unto the stars
 18     I|          from heaven to earth, from earth~ Unto the stars of the ethereal
 19     I|        winds of air~ And forth from earth are nourished, and unless~
 20     I|             of grains of gold,~ And earth concreted out of bits of
 21     I|            concreted out of bits of earth,~ Fire made of fires, and
 22     I|           bodies which upgrow~ From earth, are first within the earth,
 23     I|         earth, are first within the earth, then earth~ Must be compound
 24     I|        first within the earth, then earth~ Must be compound of alien
 25     I|        compound of alien substances earth.~ Which spring and bloom
 26     I|           bloom abroad from out the earth.~ Transfer the argument,
 27     I|             forth....~ Nor sea, nor earth, nor shining vaults of sky,~
 28     I|     river-waves abounding, and that earth,~ Lapped in warm exhalations
 29     I|     ponderous bodies which be under earth~ Do all press upwards and
 30     I|           do come to rest~ Upon the earth, in some ways upside down,~
 31     I|             yet cannot~ Tumble from earth to realms of sky below,~
 32     I|       inward, rather only those~ Of earth and water (liquid of the
 33     I|             by little, from out the earth~ For each were nutriment...~ ~
 34     I|            splinter upward, and the earth forthwith~ Withdraw from
 35    II|           enough to rock~ The solid earth: and yet some post there
 36    II|          and constellations drop to earth,~ Seest not? Nay, too, the
 37    II|            s heat downward tends to earth.~ Athwart the rain thou
 38    II|              Falls likewise down to earth.~ In these affairs~ We wish
 39    II|            By a like law we see how earth is pied~ With shells and
 40    II|             from pitch-pine born on earth.~ For thou canst say lightning'
 41    II|           the rough more readily in earth.~ Lastly, whatso thou markest
 42    II|            Does differ. Again, from earth's midsummer heats~ Unto
 43    II|              And, chief of all, the earth~ Hath in herself first bodies
 44    II|       teaching thus~ That the great earth hangs poised and cannot
 45    II|        cannot lie~ Resting on other earth. Unto her car~ They've yoked
 46    II|       service or by gift.~ Truly is earth insensate for all time;~
 47    II|             permit to go on calling earth~ Mother of Gods, if only
 48    II|         great again in any river of earth~ Are the distinct diversities
 49    II|             along the all-producing earth~ Feeding those dire Chimaeras
 50    II|           living forms,~ But sunder earth's whole ocean from the lands,~
 51    II|        soaking rains,~ The drenched earth rots; and all things change
 52    II|             Tis this: that liquids, earth, and wood, though mixed,~
 53    II|         from the soaking rains~ The earth is sodden, sure, sensations
 54    II|            through rivers, air, and earth, and all~ That is from earth
 55    II|        earth, and all~ That is from earth created, nor has met~ In
 56    II|         that same father, from whom earth,~ The fostering mother,
 57    II|        desert. What was before from earth,~ The same in earth sinks
 58    II|            from earth,~ The same in earth sinks back, and what was
 59    II|         there),~ That only this one earth and sky of ours~ Hath been
 60    II|              Of mighty things - the earth, the sea, the sky,~ And
 61    II|           on grounds the same~ That earth, sun, moon, and ocean, and
 62    II|             every kind which hereon earth~ Is so abundant in its members
 63    II|        risen first-born day of sea, earth, sun,~ Have many germs been
 64    II|           its lofty roofs~ Far over earth, and air arise around.~
 65    II|             moist to moist retires; earth gets increase~ From earthy
 66    II|           Its age is broken and the earth, outworn~ With many parturitions,
 67    II|            rocks~ Created them; but earth it was who bore -~ The same
 68   III|           Acheron, though the broad earth~ Bars me no more from gazing
 69   III|           trunk, they quiver on the earth,~ The while the mind and
 70   III|               How topsy-turvy would earth's creatures act!~ The Hyrcan
 71   III|           senses then -~ No, not if earth confounded were with sea,~
 72   III|          cold, or sink with load of earth~ Down-crushing from above.~ "
 73   III|          acres nine,~ But the whole earth - he shall not able be~
 74   III|         life of fools is Acheron on earth.~ This also to thy very
 75   III|         Carthage, gave his bones to earth,~ Like to the lowliest villein
 76    IV|       accord~ Begot, self-formed in earth's aery skies,~ Which, moulded
 77    IV|           below, in little time, to earth~ So many beams to keep all
 78    IV|             in heaven, upgleam from earth,~ Serene and radiant in
 79    IV|           falls~ Unto the shores of earth? Wherefore, again,~ And
 80    IV|             No marvel:~ Because the earth from spot to spot is reft~
 81    IV|             way,~ While any spot of earth by us abandoned~ Is filled
 82    IV|           the flame.~ Therefore the earth is easily spoiled of light~
 83    IV|       Offers a vision downward into earth~ As far, as from the earth
 84    IV|          earth~ As far, as from the earth o'erspread on high~ The
 85    IV|          Wondrously in heaven under earth.~ Then too, when in the
 86    IV|                Dead men whose bones earth bosomed long ago;~ Because
 87    IV|         void of life, now death and earth have gained~ Dominion over.
 88    IV|          mountains tumbling down to earth~ With all their frame, are
 89     V|           guess. For so the glutted earth~ Swarms even now with savage
 90     V|        stuff~ Established itself as earth and sky,~ Ocean, and stars,
 91     V|         Annihilation of the sky and earth~ That is to be, - and with
 92     V|           form~ In rotting clods of earth, in the sun's fire,~ In
 93     V|          own to guard - because the earth herself~ And Nature, artificer
 94     V|           And first,~ Since body of earth and water, air's light breath,~
 95     V|            that also sky above~ And earth beneath began of old in
 96     V|        because I have assumed~ That earth and fire are mortal things
 97     V|               Some certain parts of earth, grievously parched~ By
 98     V|             since, beyond a doubt,~ Earth, the all-mother, is beheld
 99     V|           them~ Is lost entire, and earth is overcast~ Where'er the
100     V|          above,~ Contains the whole earth in its one embrace:~ If
101     V|           forth across the lands of earth~ And whelmed the towns -
102     V|            sky, against the sun and earth~ And deep-sea waters, but
103     V|            off~ Those horses to the earth. And Sol, his sire,~ Meeting
104     V|          multitudinous universe~ Of earth, and sky, and the unfathomed
105     V|             fit~ Of mighty things - earth, sea, and sky, and race~
106     V|         ocean, nor heaven, nor even earth nor air.~ Nor aught of things
107     V|          much smaller elements than earth.~ And thus it was that ether,
108     V|            the innumerable pores of earth,~ And raised itself aloft,
109     V|          Exhale a mist, and even as earth herself~ Is seen at times
110     V|             air~ Midway between the earth and mightiest ether, -~
111     V|          been withdrawn,~ Amain the earth, where now extend the vast~
112     V|      constrained into one mass~ The earth by lashing it again, again,~
113     V|        condensation there afar from earth,~ The high refulgent circuits
114     V|           then, the massy weight of earth stood firm~ With now concreted
115     V|             glides.~ ~ And that the earth may there abide at rest~
116     V|        lives.~ On this account, the earth is not a load,~ Nor presses
117     V|             given thing may be. The earth~ Was, then, no alien substance
118     V|         part of us.~ ~ Besides, the earth, when of a sudden shook~
119     V|        could do~ By any means, were earth not bounden fast~ Unto the
120     V|            body, as air is with the earth~ Conjoined, and energy of
121     V|           must look~ Even here from earth just as they really be,~
122     V|          May there on high by us on earth be seen~ Just as she is
123     V|           fires~ Of ether thou from earth beholdest, these~ Thou mayst
124     V|          view~ Here in the lands of earth are seen to change~ From
125     V|            the constellations be to earth~ The less can they by whirling
126     V|         course~ Betwixt the sun and earth. There is, again,~ Some
127     V|         With thunder-bolts. At last earth's Shortest-Day~ Bears on
128     V|           moon be able to shut out~ Earth from the light of sun, and
129     V|           his light? And why should earth in turn~ Have power to rob
130     V|            the soft young fields of earth~ With earliest parturition
131     V|         winds.~ ~ In the beginning, earth gave forth, around~ The
132     V| strong-y-winged,~ Thus then the new Earth first of all put forth~
133     V|            is that adopted name~ Of earth - "The Mother!" - since
134     V|       Mother!" - since from out the earth~ Are all begotten. And even
135     V|           the fresh young years~ Of earth and ether. First of all,
136     V|           living. Then it was~ This earth of thine first gave unto
137     V| womb-cavities, by roots~ Affixed to earth. And when in ripened time~
138     V|            sought the air~ And fled earth's damps) had burst these
139     V|           thither turn the pores of earth~ And make her spurt from
140     V|          the mother-breasts.~ There earth would furnish to the children
141     V|             Abounding in soft down. Earth's newness then~ Would rouse
142     V|          like proportions; and then earth was young.~ ~ Wherefore,
143     V|             Is that adopted name of Earth - The Mother! -~ Since she
144     V|           the whole wide world, and earth~ Taketh one status after
145     V|        other prodigies and monsters earth~ Was then begetting of this
146     V|          have been engendered~ When earth was new and the young sky
147     V|            his head.~ For though in earth were many seeds of things~
148     V|           abounding from within the earth -~ Can still ne'er be begotten
149     V|          should be, since a hardier earth~ Had him begotten; builded
150     V|             To them had given, what earth of own accord~ Created then,
151     V|      wildman's limbs naked upon the earth,~ Rolling themselves in
152     V|     lightning brought primevally to earth~ The fire for mortals, and
153     V|             altars; nor so prone on earth~ Forward to fall, to spread
154     V|          together, when the parched earth~ Quakes with the horrible
155     V|            in derision! Again, when earth~ From end to end is rocking
156     V|         unto gods in all affairs of earth~ Assign as last resort almighty
157     V|          forest trees and baked the earth with fire,~ Then from the
158     V|          iron to cleave the soil of earth they 'gan,~ And the contentions
159     V|            them, bring~ Tumbling to earth, o'ermastered by the wound,~
160     V|       likely than upon~ One certain earth.) But men chose this to
161     V|             And mark they would how earth improved the taste~ Of the
162     V|            foot~ To beat our Mother Earth - from whence arose~ Laughter
163     V|            pelts, the naked sons of earth;~ But us it nothing hurts
164     V|            towers; and cultivate an earth~ All portioned out and boundaried;
165    VI|         other movements through the earth and sky~ Which mortals gaze
166    VI|           them crushed~ Down to the earth, because their ignorance~
167    VI|             from facts when here on earth~ A blast more gentle yet
168    VI|         fire~ Darts downward to the earth: because the clouds~ Themselves
169    VI|         from on high~ To engulf the earth. Then fearfully a quake~
170    VI|    glittering stars,~ And the whole earth around - most too in spring~
171    VI|             To be so blunted on the earth? And why~ Doth he himself
172    VI|           quarter, and when all the earth~ Smoking exhales her moisture.
173    VI|            under-earth, like to the earth around us,~ Is full of windy
174    VI|           clear fact~ Requires that earth must be in every part~ Alike
175    VI|            constitution. Therefore, earth,~ With these things underneath
176    VI|             lofty grottos, then the earth~ Bulks to that quarter whither
177    VI|           retreat, on this account~ Earth oftener threatens than she
178    VI|             there,~ Riving the deep earth, makes a mighty chasm -~
179    VI|          out-break of wild air~ And earth's convulsion, following
180    VI|            the innumerable pores of earth,~ To set her all a-shake -
181    VI|              lest the nature of the earth~ Suddenly rend them open,
182    VI|             at will that heaven and earth shall be~ Inviolable, entrusted
183    VI|             among others - that the earth, withdrawn~ Abruptly from
184    VI|           of vapour.~ Lastly, since earth is porous through her frame,~
185    VI|            is one man~ Of the whole earth. And plainly if thou viewest~
186    VI|         seeds enough,~ And this our earth and sky do bring to us~
187    VI|          suppose to all the sky and earth~ Are ever supplied from
188    VI|          enough whereby~ The shaken earth can of a sudden move,~ And
189    VI|        raging round,~ Hath made the earth and all the rocks it touches~
190    VI|          necks,~ Fall headlong into earth, if haply such~ The nature
191    VI|           oft I've said before:~ In earth are atoms of things of every
192    VI|          all thus rise from out the earth -~ Many life-giving which
193    VI|        things in many modes - since earth~ Contains them mingled and
194    VI|            thou not how in the very earth~ Sulphur is gendered and
195    VI|          hidden realms~ Deep in the earth? - Or what of deadly bane~
196    VI|           task? Thus, this telluric earth~ Out-streams with all these
197    VI|             things,~ Which from the earth rises into the breezes~
198    VI|         weight to slip~ Down to the earth, and lying prostrate there~
199    VI|            summer time, because the earth by heat~ Is rarefied, and
200    VI|           the water hid~ Within the earth. Further, when all the earth~
201    VI|        earth. Further, when all the earth~ Is by the cold compressed,
202    VI|            he, when under the gross earth,~ Make water boil and glut
203    VI|             Why, this, indeed:~ The earth about that spring is porous
204    VI|            shades~ Hath whelmed the earth, anon the earth deep down~
205    VI|         whelmed the earth, anon the earth deep down~ Grows chill,
206    VI|          the soil~ And rarefied the earth with waxing heat,~ Again
207    VI|          the Hot of water~ Into the earth retires; and this is why~
208    VI|         Within the water; and, from earth itself~ Out of the deeps
209    VI|        tempests, gathering from the earth and sky,~ Back to the sky
210    VI|           sky,~ Back to the sky and earth absorbed retire -~ With
211    VI|            doth bake and parch~ The earth; but ice he thaws, and with
212    VI|           derange the atmosphere of earth,~ The air becometh baneful.
213    VI|              or else collects~ From earth herself and rises, when,
214    VI|         unseasonable and suns,~ Our earth hath then contracted stench