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 1     I|    kind~ Throughout the lands lay miserably crushed~ Before
 2     I|       cattle, fat and drowsy, lay their bulk~ Along the joyous
 3     I|     flame, already fashioned, lay~ Stored up within the forests,
 4    II|   which they strive~ Still to lay hold, must then, beyond
 5    II|   ablaze,~ Within their frame lay up, if naught besides,~
 6    II|       wish under the world to lay~ Immortal ground-works,
 7    IV|    horribly roused us when we lay~ In slumber - that haply
 8     V| science bold~ Of ship-sailing lay dark in those far times.~
 9     V| thrones~ And haughty sceptres lay o'erturned in dust;~ And
10     V|     thing of price;~ And gold lay useless, blunted with dull
11    VI|        Their frames~ Forspent lay prone. With silent lips
12    VI|       though corpse on corpse lay piled~ Unburied on ground,