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 1     I|      Thou bringest the eternal generations forth,~ Kind after kind.
 2     I|     toil of ours,~ Spontaneous generations, fairer forms.~ Confess
 3     I|     light of life~ Restore the generations kind by kind?~ Or how, when
 4     I|    deep in Time. Nor could the generations~ Kind after kind so often
 5    II|    away;~ In a brief space the generations pass,~ And like to runners
 6    II|        love,~ It propagate the generations still,~ Lest humankind should
 7    II|           The peacock's golden generations, stained~ With spotted gaieties,
 8    II|      race and of the wild~ The generations all, the while she yields~
 9    II|      breeds of men,~ And other generations of the wild.~ Hence too
10    II|      she who created erst~ All generations and gave forth at birth~
11    II|     above let down~ The mortal generations to the fields;~ Nor sea,
12   III|         And thus like thee are generations all -~ Already fallen, or
13   III|     living on, fulfil~ As many generations as thou may:~ Eternal death
14    IV|  possessed by many a folk~ And generations of wild beasts. Again,~
15    IV|      and in this wise are~ The generations of the wild preserved.~ ~
16     V|    afterward begat~ The mortal generations, there upsprung -~ Innumerable
17     V|       unto the day~ The mortal generations; for prevailed~ Among the
18     V|   begetting life~ To forge the generations one by one:~ First, foods
19     V|     aloud and far~ The thirsty generations of the wild.~ So, too, they
20     V|      much more than now~ Would generations of mortality~ Leave the
21     V|    herds, aye, since~ The very generations of wild beasts~ Are wont
22     V| raucous songs -~ As long-lived generations of the crows~ Or flocks
23     V|        is it then~ That mortal generations abase themselves,~ And unto
24    VI|     realm of day,~ Among black generations of strong men~ With sun-baked
25    VI|     dusky lairs~ The wriggling generations of wild snakes.~ How far
26    VI|        the south,~ On to black generations of strong men~ With sun-baked
27    VI|   fixed diseases~ To seize the generations, kind by kind:~ There is
28    VI|   woods went forth~ The sullen generations of wild beasts -~ They languished