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Limb'd 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 walk'd: 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 Calv'd, now half appeer'd The Tawnie Lion, pawing to get free His hinder parts, then springs as broke from Bonds, And Rampant shakes his Brinded main; the Ounce, The Libbard, and the Tyger, as the Moale Rising, the crumbl'd 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 upheav'd His vastness: Fleec't 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, Insect or Worme; those wav'd 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 involv'd Thir Snakie foulds, and added wings. First crept The Parsimonious Emmet, provident Of future, in small room large heart enclos'd, Pattern of just equalitie perhaps Hereafter, join'd in her popular Tribes Of Commonaltie: swarming next appeer'd The Femal Bee that feeds her Husband Drone 490 Deliciously, and builds her waxen Cells With Honey stor'd: the rest are numberless, And thou thir Natures know'st, and gav'st them Names, Needlest to thee repeated; nor unknown The Serpent suttl'st Beast of all the field, Of huge extent somtimes, with brazen Eyes And hairie Main terrific, though to thee Not noxious, but obedient at thy call. Now Heav'n 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
Consummate lovly smil'd; Aire, Water, Earth, By Fowl, Fish, Beast, was flown, was swum, was walkt Frequent; and of the Sixt day yet remain'd; There wanted yet the Master work, the end Of all yet don; a Creature who not prone And Brute as other Creatures, but endu'd With Sanctitie of Reason, might erect His Stature, and upright with Front serene Govern the rest, self-knowing, and from thence 510 Magnanimous to correspond with Heav'n, But grateful to acknowledge whence his good Descends, thither with heart and voice and eyes Directed in Devotion, to adore And worship God Supream, who made him chief Of all his works: therefore the Omnipotent Eternal Father (For where is not hee Present) thus to his Son audibly spake. Let us make now Man in our image, Man In our similitude, and let them rule 520 Over the Fish and Fowle of Sea and Aire, Beast of the Field, and over all the Earth, And every creeping thing that creeps the ground. This said, he formd thee, Adam, thee O Man Dust of the ground, and in thy nostrils breath'd The breath of Life; in his own Image hee Created thee, in the Image of God Express, and thou becam'st a living Soul. Male he created thee, but thy consort Femal for Race; then bless'd Mankinde, and said, 530 Be fruitful, multiplie, and fill the Earth, Subdue it, and throughout Dominion hold Over Fish of the Sea, and Fowle of the Aire, And every living thing that moves on the Earth. Wherever thus created, for no place Is yet distinct by name, thence, as thou know'st He brought thee into this delicious Grove, This Garden, planted with the Trees of God, Delectable both to behold and taste; And freely all thir pleasant fruit for food 540 Gave thee, all sorts are here that all th' Earth yeelds, Varietie without end; but of the Tree Which tasted works knowledge of Good and Evil, Thou mai'st not; in the day thou eat'st, thou di'st; Death is the penaltie impos'd, beware, And govern well thy appetite, least sin Surprise thee, and her black attendant Death.
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Consummate lovly smil'd; Aire, Water, Earth,<br />
By Fowl, Fish, Beast, was flown, was swum, was walkt<br />
Frequent; and of the Sixt day yet remain'd;<br />
There wanted yet the Master work, the end<br />
Of all yet don; a Creature who not prone<br />
And Brute as other Creatures, but endu'd<br />
With Sanctitie of Reason, might erect<br />
His Stature, and upright with Front serene<br />
Govern the rest, self-knowing, and from thence 510<br />
Magnanimous to correspond with Heav'n,<br />
But grateful to acknowledge whence his good<br />
Descends, thither with heart and voice and eyes<br />
Directed in Devotion, to adore<br />
And worship God Supream, who made him chief<br />
Of all his works: therefore the Omnipotent<br />
Eternal Father (For where is not hee<br />
Present) thus to his Son audibly spake.<br />
Let us make now Man in our image, Man<br />
In our similitude, and let them rule 520<br />
Over the Fish and Fowle of Sea and Aire,<br />
Beast of the Field, and over all the Earth,<br />
And every creeping thing that creeps the ground.<br />
This said, he formd thee, Adam, thee O Man<br />
Dust of the ground, and in thy nostrils breath'd<br />
The breath of Life; in his own Image hee<br />
Created thee, in the Image of God<br />
Express, and thou becam'st a living Soul.<br />
Male he created thee, but thy consort<br />
Femal for Race; then bless'd Mankinde, and said, 530<br />
Be fruitful, multiplie, and fill the Earth,<br />
Subdue it, and throughout Dominion hold<br />
Over Fish of the Sea, and Fowle of the Aire,<br />
And every living thing that moves on the Earth.<br />
Wherever thus created, for no place<br />
Is yet distinct by name, thence, as thou know'st<br />
He brought thee into this delicious Grove,<br />
This Garden, planted with the Trees of God,<br />
Delectable both to behold and taste;<br />
And freely all thir pleasant fruit for food 540<br />
Gave thee, all sorts are here that all th' Earth yeelds,<br />
Varietie without end; but of the Tree<br />
Which tasted works knowledge of Good and Evil,<br />
Thou mai'st not; in the day thou eat'st, thou di'st;<br />
Death is the penaltie impos'd, beware,<br />
And govern well thy appetite, least sin<br />
Surprise thee, and her black attendant Death.