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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, 370 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, 380 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. 390 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 400 Of Fish that with thir Finns & 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 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 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 420 They summ'd thir Penns, and soaring th' air sublime With clang despis'd 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 In common, rang'd in figure wedge thir way, Intelligent of seasons, and set forth Thir Aierie Caravan high over Sea's 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, fann'd with unnumber'd plumes: >From Branch to Branch the smaller Birds with song Solac'd the Woods, and spred thir painted wings Till Ev'n, nor then the solemn Nightingal Ceas'd warbling, but all night tun'd her soft layes: Others on Silver Lakes and Rivers Bath'd 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 Walk'd firm; the crested Cock whose clarion sounds The silent hours, and th' other whose gay Traine Adorns him, colour'd with the Florid hue Of Rainbows and Starrie Eyes. The Waters thus With Fish replenisht, and the Aire with Fowle, Ev'ning and Morn solemniz'd the Fift day. The Sixt, and of Creation last arose With Eevning Harps and Mattin, when God said, 450 Let th' Earth bring forth Fowle living in her kinde, Cattel and Creeping things, and Beast of the Earth, Each in their kinde. The Earth obey'd, and strait Op'ning her fertil Woomb teem'd at a Birth Innumerous living Creatures, perfet formes,
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And bended Dolphins play: part huge of bulk 410<br />
Wallowing unweildie, enormous in thir Gate<br />
Tempest the Ocean: there Leviathan<br />
Hugest of living Creatures, on the Deep<br />
Stretcht like a Promontorie sleeps or swimmes,<br />
And seems a moving Land, and at his Gilles<br />
Draws in, and at his Trunck spouts out a Sea.<br />
Mean while the tepid Caves, and Fens and shoares<br />
Thir Brood as numerous hatch, from the Egg that soon<br />
Bursting with kindly rupture forth disclos'd<br />
Thir callow young, but featherd soon and fledge 420<br />
They summ'd thir Penns, and soaring th' air sublime<br />
With clang despis'd the ground, under a cloud<br />
In prospect; there the Eagle and the Stork<br />
On Cliffs and Cedar tops thir Eyries build:<br />
Part loosly wing the Region, part more wise<br />
In common, rang'd in figure wedge thir way,<br />
Intelligent of seasons, and set forth<br />
Thir Aierie Caravan high over Sea's<br />
Flying, and over Lands with mutual wing<br />
Easing thir flight; so stears the prudent Crane 430<br />
Her annual Voiage, born on Windes; the Aire<br />
Floats, as they pass, fann'd with unnumber'd plumes:<br />
>From Branch to Branch the smaller Birds with song<br />
Solac'd the Woods, and spred thir painted wings<br />
Till Ev'n, nor then the solemn Nightingal<br />
Ceas'd warbling, but all night tun'd her soft layes:<br />
Others on Silver Lakes and Rivers Bath'd<br />
Thir downie Brest; the Swan with Arched neck<br />
Between her white wings mantling proudly, Rowes<br />
Her state with Oarie feet: yet oft they quit 440<br />
The Dank, and rising on stiff Pennons, towre<br />
The mid Aereal Skie: Others on ground<br />
Walk'd firm; the crested Cock whose clarion sounds<br />
The silent hours, and th' other whose gay Traine<br />
Adorns him, colour'd with the Florid hue<br />
Of Rainbows and Starrie Eyes. The Waters thus<br />
With Fish replenisht, and the Aire with Fowle,<br />
Ev'ning and Morn solemniz'd the Fift day.<br />
The Sixt, and of Creation last arose<br />
With Eevning Harps and Mattin, when God said, 450<br />
Let th' Earth bring forth Fowle living in her kinde,<br />
Cattel and Creeping things, and Beast of the Earth,<br />
Each in their kinde. The Earth obey'd, and strait<br />
Op'ning her fertil Woomb teem'd at a Birth<br />
Innumerous living Creatures, perfet formes,
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