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 1     I|            though hid in brush,~ Of beasts, the mountain-rangers, when
 2    II|            though thou view'st some beasts to be more rare,~ And mark'
 3    II|         supply for mountain-roaming beasts.~ Wherefore great mother
 4    II|       mother of gods, and mother of beasts,~ And parent of man hath
 5    II|              They've yoked the wild beasts, since a progeny,~ However
 6    II|           powers and bodies of wild beasts~ And mighty-winged birds.
 7    II|           men, and cattle, and wild beasts,~ By mere conglomeration
 8    II|             Enormous bodies of wild beasts of old.~ For never, I fancy,
 9   III|          men would dote, and savage beasts be wise;~ For false the
10   III|       perishes in flames or jaws of beasts,~ Know well: he rings not
11   III|           oneself~ His body dead by beasts and vultures torn,~ He pities
12    IV|             And generations of wild beasts. Again,~ A pool of water
13    IV|         scented foot-prints of wild beasts,~ And, even when wakened,
14    IV|             can cattle, birds, wild beasts,~ And sheep and mares submit
15     V|         Swarms even now with savage beasts, even now~ Is filled with
16     V| mountain-chains~ And forests of the beasts do have and hold;~ And cliffs,
17     V|            dreadful breed of savage beasts, the foes~ Of the human
18     V|       flocks and herds and all wild beasts~ Come forth and grow, nor
19     V|            kind begot from seed~ Of beasts of draft, as, too, the woolly
20     V|      anxiously they fled the savage beasts,~ And peace they sought
21     V|             good service. But those beasts to whom~ Nature has granted
22     V|             of these same things -~ Beasts quite unfit by own free
23     V|             begot~ And limbs of all beasts heterogeneous~ Have been
24     V|            the roving habit of wild beasts.~ Not then were sturdy guiders
25     V|           bodies with the spoils of beasts;~ But huddled in groves,
26     V|           the forest-wanderers, the beasts;~ And many they'd conquer,
27     V|            that the clans of savage beasts~ Would often make their
28     V|             by fangs,~ Afforded the beasts a food that roared alive,~
29     V|            very generations of wild beasts~ Are wont dissimilar and
30     V|          profuse blood of four-foot beasts,~ Nor vows with vows to
31     V|             And various of the wild beasts fled apart~ Hither or thither,
32     V|           new contempt the pelts of beasts -~ Erstwhile a robe of honour,
33    VI|           dens~ Bluster like savage beasts, and now from here,~ And
34    VI|       ground, the race of birds and beasts~ Would or spring back, scurrying
35    VI|          sullen generations of wild beasts -~ They languished with