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 1     I|      hooked ploughshare, though of iron, wastes~ Amid the fields
 2     I|           walls of houses, and the iron~ White-dazzles in the fire,
 3     I|           of basalt and the during iron;~ For their whole nature
 4    II|             And the brute bulks of iron, and what else~ Is of their
 5    II|        flint and strength of solid iron,~ And brazen bars, which,
 6    II|    strength~ Of sturdy farm-hands; iron tools to-day~ Barely avail
 7   III| executioners, the oaken rack,~ The iron plates, bitumen, and the
 8     V|            to work the fields with iron,~ Or plant young shoots
 9     V|          rest: copper and gold and iron~ Discovered were, and with
10     V|            Memmius,~ How nature of iron discovered was, thou mayst~
11     V|         known. Thereafter force of iron~ And copper discovered was;
12     V|        copper's use~ Was known ere iron's, since more tractable~
13     V|         slow degrees~ The sword of iron succeeded, and the shape~
14     V|            scorn was turned:~ With iron to cleave the soil of earth
15     V|         loom-wove later than man's iron is,~ Since iron is needful
16     V|         than man's iron is,~ Since iron is needful in the weaving
17    VI|        fire with mighty noise;~ As iron, white from the hot furnaces,~
18    VI|         paving-block~ Gives either iron rim of the wheels a jolt.~
19    VI|        Nature it came to pass that iron can be~ By that stone drawn
20    VI|         penetrate even strength of iron.~ Again, where corselet
21    VI|              The water hardens the iron just off the fire,~ But
22    VI|       magnet lures the strength of iron.~ First, stream there must
23    VI|       lying betwixt~ The stone and iron. And when is emptied out~
24    VI|     forthwith the primal germs~ Of iron, headlong slipping, fall
25    VI|            cold roughness of stout iron.~ Wherefore, 'tis less a
26    VI|           bodies can~ From out the iron collect in larger throng~
27    VI|          here it pushes forth~ The iron, because upon one side the
28    VI|         void and thus receives the iron in.~ This air, whereof I
29    VI|        thee,~ Winding athrough the iron's abundant pores~ So subtly
30    VI|            Thus, then, this air in iron so deeply stored~ Is tossed
31    VI|            at times that nature of iron~ Shrinks from this stone
32    VI|           seen~ Those Samothracian iron rings leap up,~ And iron
33    VI|           iron rings leap up,~ And iron filings in the brazen bowls~
34    VI|          magnet stone. So strongly iron seems~ To crave to flee
35    VI|            held possession of~ The iron's open passage-ways, thereafter~
36    VI|          of the stone, and in that iron~ Findeth all spaces full,
37    VI|            own current 'gainst the iron's fabric~ To dash and beat;
38    VI|            to be.~ Therefore, when iron (which lies between the
39    VI|          that Magnesian rock~ Move iron by their smitings.~ Yet
40    VI|           Seems more the fact with iron and this stone.~ Now, of