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  1     I|         to the rocks, heat to the fire, and flow~ To the wide waters,
  2     I|     Wherein all things go on, the fire of love~ Upblown by that
  3     I|        iron~ White-dazzles in the fire, and rocks will burn~ With
  4     I|         seeping cold~ Or piercing fire, those old destroyers three;~
  5     I|            The stuff of things is fire, and out of fire~ Alone
  6     I|        things is fire, and out of fire~ Alone the cosmic sum is
  7     I|          varied be,~ If formed of fire, single and pure? No whit~ '
  8     I|         No whit~ 'Twould help for fire to be condensed or thinned,~
  9     I|     thinned,~ If all the parts of fire did still preserve~ But
 10     I|           did still preserve~ But fire's own nature, seen before
 11     I|         anything -~ As throws the fire its light and warmth around,~
 12     I|            very well: behold,~ If fire shall spare to do so in
 13     I|         bodies, then,~ Are not of fire. For 'twere of no avail~
 14     I|         still in any case be only fire.~ The truth, I fancy, this:
 15     I|      posture, shapes~ Produce the fire and which, by order changed,~
 16     I|        thereafter nothing like to fire~ Nor whatso else has power
 17     I|           that all things are but fire~ And no true thing in number
 18     I|         of all things~ Exists but fire, as this same fellow says,~
 19     I|            The thing he calls the fire. For, though he thinks~
 20     I|     senses truly can perceive the fire,~ He thinks they cannot
 21     I|         heat only, then deny~ The fire and still allow all else
 22     I|        stuff of things~ To be but fire, and out of fire the sum,~
 23     I|           be but fire, and out of fire the sum,~ And whosoever
 24     I|        Twofold, by joining air to fire, and earth~ To water; add
 25     I|           grow~ Out of the four - fire, earth, and breath, and
 26     I|           to exist,~ As air, dew, fire, earth, animals, and grains,~
 27     I|        Thou think'st the frame of fire and earth, the air,~ The
 28     I|        and first they feign~ That fire will turn into the winds
 29     I|       perchance they have created fire,~ Can still (by virtue of
 30     I|  concreted out of bits of earth,~ Fire made of fires, and water
 31     I|           the teeth of death? the fire? the moist?~ Or else the
 32     I|       Ashes and smoke and bits of fire there hid.~ But since fact
 33     I|         flame."~ Good sooth - yet fire is not ingraft in wood,~
 34     I|          air, and with it the hot fire,~ Is borne asunder from
 35    II|         say lightning's celestial fire,~ So subtle, is formed of
 36    II|      through holes which this our fire,~ Born from the wood, created
 37    II|  elecampane.~ Again, that glowing fire and icy rime~ Are fanged
 38    II|      shape.~ Again, all things by fire consumed ablaze,~ Within
 39    II|       their power~ To throw forth fire and send out light from
 40    II|        wood and turns them all to fire.~ And seest not, therefore,
 41    II|         on a forge,~ Beat out new fire; and ether forges ether;~
 42   III|       from the eyes~ More swiftly fire; there is, again, that wind,~
 43   III|       into man,~ And its diffused fire gone round the veins,~ Why
 44   III|        streams, nor cold begot in fire.~ Besides, if nature of
 45    IV|          it holdeth many seeds of fire~ Which, working into eyes,
 46    IV|      atingeing them~ With his own fire - are yet away from us~
 47    IV|         many -~ As oft a spark of fire is wont to sprinkle~ Itself
 48    IV|       ground,~ Or crumbled by the fire, will smell the stronger~
 49    IV|   dissipates~ And quenches like a fire, that parching heat~ No
 50    IV|        among the members, even as fire~ Lurks buried under many
 51    IV|         can rise anew from unseen fire?~ ~ By what devices this
 52    IV|        sly word, which still like fire~ Lives wildly, cleaving
 53     V|       Thracian Diomedes breathing fire~ From out their nostrils
 54     V|      clods of earth, in the sun's fire,~ In water, or in ether'
 55     V|           assumed~ That earth and fire are mortal things indeed,~
 56     V|       issues - though indeed~ The fire was once the more victorious,~
 57     V|        kingdom in the fields. For fire o'ermastered~ And licked
 58     V|         from truth, meseems.~ For fire can win when from the infinite~
 59     V|          that ether, fraught with fire,~ First broke away from
 60     V|      flames; and to the sight the fire~ Is nothing shrunken. Therefore,
 61     V|          From forth the sun's own fire, albeit that fire~ Be not
 62     V|           s own fire, albeit that fire~ Be not a great, may permeate
 63     V|      invisible heats~ A plenteous fire, by no effulgence marked,~
 64     V|        wonder that these seeds of fire~ Can thus together stream
 65     V|        tremulous~ Bright beams of fire do waver tardily,~ Nor easily
 66     V|         they knew not to enkindle fire~ Against the cold, nor hairy
 67     V|        had procured and pelts and fire,~ And when the woman, joined
 68     V|        soften. For 'twas now that fire~ Rendered their shivering
 69     V|          primevally to earth~ The fire for mortals, and from thence
 70     V|         of mighty rub and rub~ Is fire engendered; and at times
 71     V|           given to mortal men the fire.~ Next, food to cook and
 72     V|         earlier mode and life~ By fire and new devices. Kings began~
 73     V|         on their foes~ Had hurled fire to frighten and dismay,~
 74     V|        hunting by pit-fall and by fire arose~ Before the art of
 75     V|          and baked the earth with fire,~ Then from the boiling
 76     V|      forest trees - and flame and fire,~ As soon as known. Thereafter
 77    VI|         of wet,~ Extinguishes the fire with mighty noise;~ As iron,
 78    VI|       cloud~ More dry receive the fire, 'twill suddenly~ Kindle
 79    VI|     collision, forth the seeds of fire:~ As if a stone should smite
 80    VI|          then too leaps forth and fire then scatters~ The shining
 81    VI|         is~ At same time with the fire and by same cause,~ Born
 82    VI|           the clouds the seeds of fire,~ And heap them multitudinously
 83    VI|        swift golden hue of liquid fire~ Darts downward to the earth:
 84    VI|       must hold abundant seeds of fire;~ For, when they be without
 85    VI|          pour abroad the seeds of fire pressed out,~ Which make
 86    VI|          not of wind or rain, but fire.~ Again, they often enkindle
 87    VI|        that Nature fashioned this fire~ Subtler than fires all
 88    VI|           And dartling bodies - a fire 'gainst which there's naught~
 89    VI|        fiery seeds, and with that fire~ Hath at the same time intermixed
 90    VI|         and by~ Repeated touch of fire. Thereafter, when~ The energy
 91    VI|         the fierce impulse of the fire hath sped~ Deeply within,
 92    VI|        hurtled forth~ Without all fire, yet in its voyage through
 93    VI| commingling, by their flight make fire:~ Much in the manner as
 94    VI|         the air~ New particles of fire. It happens, too,~ That
 95    VI|      force of blow itself arouses fire,~ When force of wind, a-cold
 96    VI|        hurtled forth~ Without all fire, hath strook somewhere amain -~
 97    VI|         the stroke: as flies~ The fire when with the steel we hack
 98    VI|       course already kindled with fire,~ It yet arriveth warmed
 99    VI|         of the thunder's seeds of fire, to sweep~ In a straight
100    VI|        whole,~ Because the liquid fire flieth along~ Athrough their
101    VI|           season is there lack of fire,~ And winds are scanty in
102    VI|           reverberations and hurl fire~ Whither it pleases each,
103    VI|         in skiey whirlwind and in fire?~ Nay, why, then, aim they
104    VI|         Quite off our guard, with fire, why thunders he~ Off in
105    VI|             Out-breaks the sacred fire, and, crawling on~ Over
106    VI|       celestial vaults~ Glow into fire, and rainy tempests rise~
107    VI|      struck off from them~ Fierce fire of swiftest flame, it lifts
108    VI|         and be~ Many the seeds of fire hard by the water;~ On this
109    VI|           what seeds she holds of fire~ (As one might squeeze with
110    VI|       abodes return~ The seeds of fire, and all the Hot of water~
111    VI|          whatso seeds it holds of fire~ It renders up, even as
112    VI|         tow (above it held)~ Take fire forthwith and shoot a flame;
113    VI|           deeps must particles of fire~ Athrough the entire fountain
114    VI|          then, can those seeds of fire burst forth~ Athrough that
115    VI|         Have many seeds of latent fire. Indeed,~ And seest thou
116    VI|          moment since, it catches fire before~  'Thas touched the
117    VI|          tis steeped in veritable fire.~ This, then, we must suppose
118    VI|    through, and cold, and heat of fire~ That's wont to penetrate
119    VI|        Melts to a liquid. And the fire, likewise,~ Will melt the
120    VI|     hardens the iron just off the fire,~ But hides and flesh (made
121    VI|          d bear about~ A skull on fire with heat, and eyeballs
122    VI|      would plunge those limbs~ On fire with bane into the icy streams,~