his mirror; with full face borrowing her light
from him; for other light she needed none
in that aspect; and still that distance keepes
till night; then in the east her turn she shines; ' 380 '
revolvd on heavns great axle; and her reign
with thousand lesser lights dividual holds;
with thousand thousand starres; that then appeerd
spangling the hemisphere: then first adornd
with thir bright luminaries that set and rose; ' 385 '
glad eevning and glad morn crownd the fourth day。
and god said; let the waters generate
reptil with spawn abundant; living soule:
and let fowle flie above the earth; with wings
displayd on the opn firmament of heavn。 ' 390 '
。。!
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and god created the great whales; and each
soul living; each that crept; which plenteously
the waters generated by thir kindes;
and every bird of wing after his kinde;
and saw that it was good; and blessd them; saying; ' 395 '
be fruitful; multiply; and in the seas
and lakes and running streams the waters fill;
and let the fowle be multiplyd on the earth。
forthwith the sounds and seas; each creek and bay
with frie innumerable swarme; and shoales ' 400 '
of fish that with thir finns and shining scales
glide under the green wave; in sculles that oft
bank the mid sea: part single or with mate
graze the sea weed thir pasture; and through groves
of coral stray; or sporting with quick glance ' 405 '
show to the sun thir wavd coats dropt with gold;
or in thir pearlie shells at ease; attend
moist nutriment; or under rocks thir food
in jointed armour watch: on smooth the seale;
and bended dolphins play: part huge of bulk ' 410 '
wallowing unweildie; enormous in thir gate
tempest the ocean: there leviathan
hugest of living creatures; on the deep
stretcht like a promontorie sleeps or swimmes;
and seems a moving land; and at his gilles ' 415 '
draws in; and at his trunck spouts out a sea。
mean while the tepid caves; and fens and shoares
thir brood as numerous hatch; from the egg that soon
bursting with kindly rupture forth disclosd
thir callow young; but featherd soon and fledge ' 420 '
they summd thir penns; and soaring th air sublime
with clang despisd the ground; under a cloud
in prospect; there the eagle and the stork
on cliffs and cedar tops thir eyries build:
part loosly wing the region; part more wise ' 425 '
in mon; rangd in figure wedge thir way;
intelligent of seasons; and set forth
thir aierie caravan high over seas
flying; and over lands with mutual wing
easing thir flight; so stears the prudent crane ' 430 '
her annual voiage; born on windes; the aire;
floats; as they pass; fannd with unnumberd plumes:
from branch to branch the smaller birds with song
solacd the woods; and spred thir painted wings
till evn; nor then the solemn nightingal ' 435 '
ceasd warbling; but all night tund her soft layes:
others on silver lakes and rivers bathd
thir downie brest; the swan with arched neck
between her white wings mantling proudly; rowes
her state with oarie feet: yet oft they quit ' 440 '
the dank; and rising on stiff pennons; towre
the mid aereal skie: others on ground
walkd firm; the crested cock whose clarion sounds
the silent hours; and th other whose gay traine
adorns him; colourd with the florid hue ' 445 '
of rainbows and starrie eyes。 the waters thus
with fish replenisht; and the aire; with fowle;
evning and morn solemnizd the fift day。
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;
the sixt; and of creation last arose
with eevning harps and mattin; when god said; ' 450 '
let th earth bring forth soul living in her kinde;
cattel and creeping things; and beast of the earth;
each in their kinde。 the earth obeyd; and strait
opning her fertile woomb teemd at a birth
innumerous living creatures; perfet formes; ' 455 '
limbd and full grown: out of the ground up rose
as from his laire the wilde beast where he wonns
in forrest wilde; in thicket; brake; or den;
among the trees in pairs they rose; they walkd:
the cattel in the fields and meddowes green: ' 460 '
those rare and solitarie; these in flocks
pasturing at once; and in broad herds upsprung。
the grassie clods now calvd; now half appeerd
the tawnie lion; pawing to get free
his hinder parts; then springs as broke from bonds; ' 465 '
and rampant shakes his brinded main; the ounce;
the libbard; and the tyger; as the moale
rising; the crumbld earth above them threw
in hillocks; the swift stag from under ground
bore up his branching head: scarse from his mould ' 470 '
behemoth biggest born of earth upheavd
his vastness: fleect the flocks and bleating rose;
as plants: ambiguous between sea and land
the river horse and scalie crocodile。
at once came forth whatever creeps the ground; ' 475 '
insect or worme; those wavd thir limber fans
for wings; and smallest lineaments exact
in all the liveries dect of summers pride
with spots of gold and purple; azure and green:
these as a line thir long dimension drew; ' 480 '
streaking the ground with sinuous trace; not all
minims of nature; some of serpent kinde
wondrous in length and corpulence involvd
thir snakie foulds; and added wings。 first crept
the parsimonious emmet; provident ' 485 '
of future; in small room large heart enclosd;
pattern of just equalitie perhaps
hereafter; joind in her popular tribes
of monaltie: swarming next appeerd
the female bee that feeds her husband drone ' 490 '
deliciously; and builds her waxen cells
with honey stord: the rest are numberless;
and thou thir natures knowst; & gavst them names;
needless to thee repeated; nor unknown
the serpent suttlst beast of all the field; ' 495 '
of huge extent somtimes; with brazen eyes
and hairie main terrific; though to thee
not noxious; but obedient at thy call。
m。
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now heavn in all her glorie shon; and rowld
her motions; as the great first…movers hand ' 500 '
first wheeld thir course; earth in her rich attire
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