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 1     I|        the expected joy~ Of thy sweet friendship do persuade me
 2     I|         to give forth drops~ Of sweet milk, flavoured like the
 3     I|     hath strook into my breast~ Sweet love of the Muses, wherewith
 4     I|         around the cup with the sweet juice~ And yellow of the
 5     I|        twere,~ To touch it with sweet honey of the Muse -~ If
 6    II|          BOOK II~ PROEM~ ~ 'Tis sweet, when, down the mighty main,
 7    II|       smitten, but because 'tis sweet~ To mark what evils we ourselves
 8    II|      ourselves be spared;~ 'Tis sweet, again, to view the mighty
 9    II|    fingers, on the strings~ The sweet musicians fashion; or suppose~
10    II|       dividedly to see~ How the sweet water, after filtering through~
11    II|         come, this wisdom by my sweet toil sought~ Look thou perceive,
12    II|       the fruit of any dear new sweet.~ And so they must be furnished
13    II|    mortality; herself~ Gave the sweet fruitage and the pastures
14   III|       afar from secure life and sweet,~ Like huddling Shapes before
15   III|     after long, discovered with sweet toil.~ But under one name
16    IV|         around the cup with the sweet juice~ And yellow of the
17    IV|        twere,~ To touch it with sweet honey of the Muse -~ If
18    IV|   strings are made and wailings sweet~ Which the pipe, beat by
19    IV|        them. Hence when what is sweet to some,~ Becomes to others
20    IV|   bitter, for him to whom~ 'Tis sweet, the smoothest particles
21    IV|         with those to whom that sweet~ Is sour within the mouth,
22    IV|        of her are near~ And the sweet name is floating in thy
23    IV|     when now~ Their bodies have sweet presage of keen joys,~ And
24    IV|        He be called "father" by sweet children his,~ And end his
25    IV|         The baby-boys, and with sweet progeny~ Grow rich. And
26     V|         to us a god,~ From whom sweet solaces of life, afar~ Distributed
27     V|         child-bearing, with the sweet milk,~ Because all that
28     V|         of mortality~ Leave the sweet light of fading life behind.~
29     V|        bit by bit~ They learned sweet plainings, such as pipe
30    VI|       first that gave~ Life its sweet solaces, when she begat~
31    VI|         sea,~ Which bubbles out sweet water and disparts~ From
32    VI| mariners timely help,~ Belching sweet waters forth amid salt waves.~