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 1     I|              It makes for one place, ere diffused through all.~ And
 2     I|            gates~ Of life within us, ere for thee my verse~ Hath
 3     I|              had been~ Eternal, long ere now had all things gone~
 4    II|          From out their colour, long ere they depart~ Back to the
 5    II|        honourable blameless ones!~ ~ Ere since the birth-time of
 6    II|             birth-time of the world, ere since~ The risen first-born
 7   III|           direst slaughter. For long ere to-day~ Often were traitors
 8   III|              germs be stirred in us~ Ere once the seeds of soul that
 9   III|          body have been strook,~ And ere, in pounding with such gaps
10   III|            the passing of many a man ere now.~ Nay, too, in diseases
11   III|           shivered in the very body~ Ere ever it slipped abroad and
12   III|         somehow retire,~ Repelled or ere we feel the harm they work,~ ~
13   III|              unto thee. And now,~ Or ere thou guessed it, death beside
14   III|            eld~ Of time the eternal, ere we had a birth.~ And Nature
15    IV|             That we perceive the air ere yet the glass.~ But when
16    IV|           fall,~ And falls the whole ere long - betrayed indeed~
17    IV|            engenders use:~ No seeing ere the lights of eyes were
18    IV|              were born,~ No speaking ere the tongue created was;~
19    IV|           before the gleaming spears ere flew;~ And Nature prompted
20    IV|           that drop of joyance which ere long~ Is by chill care succeeded.
21     V| awful-sounding breakage down!~ ~ But ere on this I take a step to
22     V|          been~ The everlasting, why, ere Theban war~ And obsequies
23     V|           percase, thou deemest that ere this~ Existed all things
24     V|              confused in their look~ Ere minished in their bigness.
25     V|            it blazing with his rays~ Ere he himself appear, or else
26     V|         winter time~ Do linger long, ere comes the many-rayed~ Round
27     V|              use to put his powers.~ Ere yet the bull-calf's scarce
28     V|              copper's use~ Was known ere iron's, since more tractable~
29     V|             down in verse;~ Nor long ere this had letters been devised -~
30    VI|          also we behold the flashing ere~ We hear the thunder, which
31    VI|             first the mists do form, ere ever the eyes~ Can there
32    VI|              much must be made sure~ Ere thou account of the thing
33    VI|            best it seems to tell of, ere I go~ To telling of the
34    VI|           the weakness of the grain~ Ere ever those taurine bonds