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       Easie, e’re God had bid the ground be drie,

       All but within those banks, where Rivers now

       Stream, and perpetual draw thir humid traine.

       The dry Land, Earth, and the great receptacle

       Of congregated Waters he call’d Seas:

       And saw that it was good, and said, Let th’ Earth

       Put forth the verdant Grass, Herb yeilding Seed,

       And Fruit Tree yeilding Fruit after her kind;

       Whose Seed is in her self upon the Earth.

       He scarce had said, when the bare Earth, till then

       Desert and bare, unsightly, unadorn’d,

       Brought forth the tender Grass, whose verdure clad

       Her Universal Face with pleasant green,

       Then Herbs of every leaf, that sudden flour’d

       Op’ning thir various colours, and made gay

       Her bosom smelling sweet: and these scarce blown,

       Forth flourish’t thick the clustring Vine, forth crept

       The smelling Gourd, up stood the cornie Reed

       Embattell’d in her field: add the humble Shrub,

       And Bush with frizl’d hair implicit: last

       Rose as in Dance the stately Trees, and spred

       Thir branches hung with copious Fruit; or gemm’d

       Thir Blossoms: with high Woods the Hills were crownd,

       With tufts the vallies & each fountain side,

       With borders long the Rivers. That Earth now

       Seemd like to Heav’n, a seat where Gods might dwell,

       Or wander with delight, and love to haunt

       Her sacred shades: though God had yet not rain’d

       Upon the Earth, and man to till the ground

       None was, but from the Earth a dewie Mist

       Went up and waterd all the ground, and each

       Plant of the field, which e’re it was in the Earth

       God made, and every Herb, before it grew

       On the green stemm; God saw that it was good:

       So Eev’n and Morn recorded the Third Day.

      Again th’ Almightie spake: Let there be Lights

       High in th’ expanse of Heaven to divide

       The Day from Night; and let them be for Signes,

       For Seasons, and for Dayes, and circling Years,

       And let them be for Lights as I ordaine

       Thir Office in the Firmament of Heav’n

       To give Light on the Earth; and it was so.

       And God made two great Lights, great for thir use

       To Man, the greater to have rule by Day,

       The less by Night alterne: and made the Starrs,

       And set them in the Firmament of Heav’n

       To illuminate the Earth, and rule the Day

       In thir vicissitude, and rule the Night,

       And Light from Darkness to divide. God saw,

       Surveying his great Work, that it was good:

       For of Celestial Bodies first the Sun

       A mightie Spheare he fram’d, unlightsom first,

       Though of Ethereal Mould: then form’d the Moon

       Globose, and everie magnitude of Starrs,

       And sowd with Starrs the Heav’n thick as a field:

       Of Light by farr the greater part he took,

       Transplanted from her cloudie Shrine, and plac’d

       In the Suns Orb, made porous to receive

       And drink the liquid Light, firm to retaine

       Her gather’d beams, great Palace now of Light.

       Hither as to thir Fountain other Starrs

       Repairing, in thir gold’n Urns draw Light,

       And hence the Morning Planet guilds his horns;

       By tincture or reflection they augment

       Thir small peculiar, though from human sight

       So farr remote, with diminution seen.

       First in his East the glorious Lamp was seen,

       Regent of Day, and all th’ Horizon round

       Invested with bright Rayes, jocond to run

       His Longitude through Heav’ns high rode: the gray

       Dawn, and the Pleiades before him danc’d Shedding sweet influence: less bright the Moon, But opposite in leveld West was set 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, Revolvd on Heav’ns great Axle, and her Reign With thousand lesser Lights dividual holds, With thousand thousand Starres, that then appeer’d Spangling the Hemisphere: then first adornd With thir bright Luminaries that Set and Rose, Glad Eevning & 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 op’n Firmament of Heav’n.

       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 bless’d them, saying,

       Be fruitful, multiply, and in the Seas

       And Lakes and running Streams the waters fill;

       And let the Fowle be multiply’d on the Earth.

       Forthwith the Sounds and Seas, each Creek & Bay

       With Frie innumerable swarme, and Shoales

       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, & through Groves

       Of Coral stray, or sporting with quick glance

       Show to the Sun thir wav’d 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

       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

       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 disclos’d

       Thir callow young, but featherd soon and fledge

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