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 1     I|       now again to weave the tale begun,~ All nature, then,
 2    II|   Vary, yet only with finite tale of shapes.~ For were these
 3    II|  That matter, too, by finite tale of shapes~ Does differ.
 4    II|  like shape~ Are infinite in tale; for, since the forms~ Themselves
 5    II|      all the world in finite tale~ Be tossed the procreant
 6    II|    seeds are finite in their tale,~ The various tides of matter,
 7    II|     their parents' years.~ A tale, however beautifully wrought,~
 8    II|    the living~ Can count the tale...~ And if their force and
 9   III|   those young virgins in the tale,~ Waters into a sieve, unfilled
10     V| others: lo, according to the tale,~ Ceres established for
11     V|       And once - as goes the tale - the water won~ A kingdom
12     V|     poets of the Greeks -~ A tale too far away from truth,
13    VI|     the Greeks have sung the tale;~ But very nature of the