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and th habitations of the just; to him

glorie and praise; whose wisdom had ordaind

good out of evil to create; in stead

of spirits maligne a better race to bring

into thir vacant room; and thence diffuse ' 190 '

his good to worlds and ages infinite。

so sang the hierarchies: mean while the son

on his great expedition now appeerd;

girt with omnipotence; with radiance crownd

of majestie divine; sapience and love ' 195 '

immense; and all his father in him shon。

about his chariot numberless were pourd

cherub and seraph; potentates and thrones;

and vertues; winged spirits; and chariots wingd;

from the armoury of god; where stand of old ' 200 '

myriads between two brazen mountains lodgd

against a solemn day; harnest at hand;

celestial equipage; and now came forth

spontaneous; for within them spirit livd;

attendant on thir lord: heavn opnd wide ' 205 '

her ever during gates; harmonious sound

on golden hinges moving; to let forth

the king of glorie in his powerful word

and spirit ing to create new worlds。

on heavnly ground they stood; and from the shore ' 210 '

they viewd the vast immeasurable abyss

outrageous as a sea; dark; wasteful; wilde;

up from the bottom turnd by furious windes

and surging waves; as mountains to assault

heavns highth; and with the center mix the pole。 ' 215 '

silence; ye troubld waves; and thou deep; peace;

said then th omnific word; your discord end:

nor staid; but on the wings of cherubim

uplifted; in paternal glorie rode

farr into chaos; and the world unborn; ' 220 '

for chaos heard his voice: him all his traine

followd in bright procession to behold

creation; and the wonders of his might。

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then staid the fervid wheeles; and in his hand

he took the golden passes; prepard ' 225 '

in gods eternal store; to circumscribe

this universe; and all created things:

one foot he centerd; and the other turnd

round through the vast profunditie obscure;

and said; thus farr extend; thus farr thy bounds; ' 230 '

this be thy just circumference; o world。

thus god the heavn created; thus the earth;

matter unformd and void: darkness profound

coverd th abyss: but on the watrie calme

his brooding wings the spirit of god outspred; ' 235 '

and vital vertue infusd; and vital warmth

throughout the fluid mass; but downward purgd

the black tartareous cold infernal dregs

adverse to life: then founded; then conglobd

like things to like; the rest to several place ' 240 '

disparted; and between spun out the air;

and earth self ballanct on her center hung。

let ther be light; said god; and forthwith light

ethereal; first of things; quintessence pure

sprung from the deep; and from her native east ' 245 '

to journie through the airie gloom began;

spheard in a radiant cloud; for yet the sun

was not; shee in a cloudie tabernacle

sojournd the while。 god saw the light was good;

and light from darkness by the hemisphere ' 250 '

divided: light the day; and darkness night

he namd。 thus was the first day eevn and morn:

nor past uncelebrated; nor unsung

by the celestial quires; when orient light

exhaling first from darkness they beheld; ' 255 '

birth…day of heavn and earth; with joy and shout

the hollow universal orb they filld;

and touchd thir golden harps; and hymning praisd

god and his works; creatour him they sung;

both when first eevning was; and when first morn。 ' 260 '

again; god said; let ther be firmament

amid the waters; and let it divide

the waters from the waters: and god made

the firmament; expanse of liquid; pure;

transparent; elemental air; diffusd ' 265 '

in circuit to the uttermost convex

of this great round: partition firm and sure;

the waters underneath from those above

dividing: for as earth; so he the world

built on circumfluous waters calme; in wide ' 270 '

crystallin ocean; and the loud misrule

of chaos farr removd; least fierce extreames

contiguous might distemper the whole frame:

and heavn he namd the firmament: so eevn

and morning chorus sung the second day。 ' 275 '

the earth was formd; but in the womb as yet

of waters; embryon immature involvd;

appeerd not: over all the face of earth

main ocean flowd; not idle; but with warme

prolific humour softning all her globe; ' 280 '

fermented the great mother to conceave;

satiate with genial moisture; when god said

be gatherd now ye waters under heavn

into one place; and let dry land appeer。





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immediately the mountains huge appeer ' 285 '

emergent; and thir broad bare backs upheave

into the clouds; thir tops ascend the skie:

so high as heavd the tumid hills; so low

down sunk a hollow bottom broad and deep;

capacious bed of waters: thither they ' 290 '

hasted with glad precipitance; uprowld

as drops on dust conglobing from the drie;

part rise in crystal wall; or ridge direct;

for haste; such flight the great mand impressd

on the swift flouds: as armies at the call ' 295 '

of trumpet (for of armies thou hast heard)

troop to thir standard; so the watrie throng;

wave rowling after wave; where way they found;

if steep; with torrent rapture; if through plaine;

soft…ebbing; nor withstood them rock or hill; ' 300 '

but they; or under ground; or circuit wide

with serpent errour wandring; found thir way;

and on the washie oose deep channels wore;

easie; ere god had bid the ground be drie;

all but within those banks; where rivers now ' 305 '

stream; and perpetual draw thir humid traine。

the dry land; earth; and the great receptacle

of congregated waters he calld seas:

and saw that it was good; and said; let th earth

put forth the verdant grass; herb yielding seed; ' 310 '

and fruit tree yielding 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; unadornd;

brought forth the tender grass; whose verdure clad ' 315 '

her universal face with pleasant green;

then herbs of every leaf; that sudden flourd

opning thir various colours; and made gay

her bosom smelling sweet: and these scarce blown;

forth flourisht thick the clustring vine; forth crept ' 320 '

the smelling gourd; up stood the cornie reed

embattelld in her field: and the humble shrub;

and bush with frizld hair implicit: last

rose as in dance the stately trees; and spred

thir branches hung with copious fruit; or gemmd ' 325 '

thir blossoms: with high woods the hills were crownd;

with tufts the vallies and each fountain side;

with borders long the rivers。 that earth now

seemd like to heavn; a seat where gods might dwell;

or wander with delight; and love to haunt ' 330 '

her sacred shades: though god had yet not raind

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 ere it was in the earth ' 335 '

god made; and every herb; before it grew

on the green stemm; god saw that it was good。

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so eevn and morn recorded the third day。

again th almightie spake: let there be lights

high in th expanse of heaven to divide ' 340 '

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 heavn

to give light on the earth; and it was so。 ' 345 '

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 heavn

to illuminate the earth; and rule the day ' 350 '

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 framd; unlightsom first; ' 355 '

though of ethereal mould: then formd the moon

globose; and every magnitude of starrs;

and sowd with starrs the heavn thick as a field:

of light by farr the greater part he took;

transplanted from her cloudie shrine; and placd ' 360 '

in the suns orb; made porous to receive

and drink the liquid light; firm to retaine

her gatherd beams; great palace now of light。

hither as to thir fountain other starrs

repairing; in thir goldn urns draw light; ' 365 '

and hence the morning planet guilds her 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; ' 370 '

regent of day; and all th horizon round

invested with bright rayes; jocond to run

his longitude through heavns high rode: the gray

dawn; and the pleiades before him dancd

shedding sweet influence: less bright the moon; ' 375 '

but opposite in leveld west was set

his mirror; with full face borrowing her light

from him; for other light she needed none

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