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 1     I|     avail her now that first~ 'Twas she who gave the king a
 2     I|    hurled off amain, to where 'twas sent~ And shoots afar, or
 3     I|        so it comes~ Not where 'twas sent, nor lodges in its
 4    II|        From out those regions 'twas that grain began~ Through
 5   III|      body itself~ A while ago 'twas making. So for this,~ Again,
 6   III|    along the frame,~ And that 'twas shivered in the very body~
 7    IV|     mirror unto mirror; where 'twas left~ It comes to be the
 8     V|         Being thus beat upon, 'twas all condensed~ About its
 9     V|      those far times.~ Again, 'twas then that lack of food gave
10     V|    race~ Began to soften. For 'twas now that fire~ Rendered
11     V|       meditation, let me say~ 'Twas lightning brought primevally
12     V|     greater soon to be,~ Than' twas of old.~ And therefore kings
13     V|     and the sins.~ But Nature 'twas~ Urged men to utter various
14     V|     know and see in mind what 'twas he willed?~ Besides, one
15     V| thereof the causes. Therefore 'twas~ Men would take refuge in
16     V|    many a dreadful doom.~ (If 'twas, indeed, that thus they
17     V|      or vantage. Thus of old~ 'Twas pelts, and of to-day 'tis
18    VI|            BOOK VI~  PROEM~ ~ 'Twas Athens first, the glorious
19    VI|     master, did perceive that 'twas~ The vessel itself which
20    VI|          THE PLAGUE ATHENS~ ~ 'Twas such a manner of disease, '
21    VI|     such a manner of disease, 'twas such~ Mortal miasma in Cecropian