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 1     I|     Seized with the spell, all creatures follow thee~ Whithersoever
 2     I|      breed~ Of the swift scaly creatures somehow give,~ And straightway
 3     I| forsooth.~ For where can scaly creatures forward dart,~ Save where
 4     I|       lusty race~ Of breathing creatures bears and blooms, and that~
 5     I|        the nature of breathing creatures wastes,~ Losing its body,
 6     I|       above;~ That, when those creatures look upon the sun,~ We view
 7    II|      Whence this free will for creatures o'er the lands,~ Whence
 8    II|      the mute flocks~ Of scaly creatures swimming in the streams,~
 9    II|        them the senses of live creatures all,~ In manner about as
10    II|      same~ As that within live creatures as a whole.~ But of themselves
11    II|     must resemble, then,~ Live creatures as a whole, to have the
12    II|       sky,~ And race of living creatures. Thus, I say,~ Again, again, '
13   III|      topsy-turvy would earth's creatures act!~ The Hyrcan hound would
14    IV|       in proof:~ First, living creatures are sometimes so small~
15    IV|   Again,~ As all the breathing creatures which take food~ Are outwardly
16    IV|         But for some breathing creatures~ One odour is more apt,
17    IV| strange that all the breathing creatures~ Seek, even by nature of
18    IV|       innumerable,~ When weary creatures pant, or through the sweat~
19    IV|       their inner parts,~ When creatures draw a breath or blow it
20    IV|      in fact. And thus we see~ Creatures in many a wise crooked and
21     V|    moon;~ And then what living creatures rose from out~ The old telluric
22     V|  increase of crops~ And living creatures, or lest we should think~
23     V|       sky, and race~ Of living creatures.~ In that long-ago~ The
24     V|       progeny.~ For whatsoever creatures thou beholdest~ Breathing
25     V|        been, nor can there be~ Creatures of twofold stock and double
26     V|    sign that then~ Such hybrid creatures could have been begot~ And
27     V|      see~ All breeds of winged creatures trust to wings~ And from
28    VI|        things~ Be unto certain creatures suited more~ For ends of
29    VI|       power first strikes~ The creatures with a wildering dizziness,~
30    VI|       so, indeed, in breathing creatures be~ The several senses,
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