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 1     I|   aught of joyful or of lovely born,~ Thee do I crave co-partner
 2     I|        not know,~ Whether 'tis born, or enter in at birth,~
 3     I|      from nothing ever yet was born.~ Fear holds dominion over
 4     I|  taught that things cannot~ Be born from nothing, nor the same,
 5     I|    nothing, nor the same, when born,~ To nothing be recalled,
 6     I|   around from nothing had been born -~ But since I taught above
 7     I|    could, at season fixed,~ Be born, and arrive its prime and
 8     I|   earth's variety of things be born~ From any fires soever,
 9     I|        return to naught,~ And, born from naught, abundance thrive
10     I|      returned to naught,~ And, born from naught, abundance thrive
11    II|        of ours from pitch-pine born on earth.~ For thou canst
12    II|    holes which this our fire,~ Born from the wood, created from
13    II|     that something in the body born~ Wounds, or delighteth as
14    II|       kind and sole~ With body born, to which is nothing like~
15    II|        more readily, is sooner born~ Out of no colour, than
16    II|  belief that living things are born~ Of elements insensate,
17    II|      have not said~ Senses are born, under conditions all,~
18   III|        now ruler of our body,~ Born from that soul which perished,
19   III|  shoulders or the heels,~ And, born in any part soever, yet~
20   III|        same estate as if ne'er born before,~ When death immortal
21   III|      grieves that he is mortal born, nor marks~ That in true
22    IV|    reasoning,~ Since naught is born in body so that we~ May
23    IV|        the lights of eyes were born,~ No speaking ere the tongue
24    IV|       Are all which first were born and afterwards~ Gave knowledge
25     V|       Consists of mortal body, born in time,~ And in what modes
26     V|      and what ones~ Were never born at all; and in what mode~
27     V| shoulders, or the heels,~ And, born in any part soever, yet~
28     V|       us, if we had ne'er been born? -~ As though, forsooth,
29     V|       it him that he was never born?~ Whence, further, first
30     V|      we mark~ To be invariably born in time~ And born to die.
31     V|   invariably born in time~ And born to die. And therefore when
32     V|     That these same things are born in time; for things~ Which
33     V|      is with each new daybreak born.~ ~ The moon she possibly
34     V|        those far aeons man was born~ With such gigantic length
35     V|     when they saw an offspring born~ From out themselves, then
36    VI|       fashioned~ Of frame e'en born in time, and whatsoe'er~
37    VI|       fire and by same cause,~ Born of the same collision.~
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