One foot he centerd, and the other turnd

This Universe, and all created things:

Matter unformd and void: Darkness profound

To journie through the airie gloom began,

Appeerd not: over all the face of Earth

God and his works, Creatour him they sung,

By the Celestial Quires, when Orient Light

In circuit to the uttermost convex

Built on circumfluous Waters calme, in wide [ 270 ]

His brooding wings the Spirit of God outspred, [ 235 ]

Satiate with 99lib•netgenial moisture, when God said

Crystallin Ocean, and the loud misrule

Into one place, and let dry Land appeer.

Of this great Round: partition firm and sure,

Let ther be Light, said God, and forthwith Light

Both when first Eevning was, and when first Morn. [ 260 ]

Nor past uncelebrated, nor unsung

Main Ocean flowd, not idle, but with warme

This be thy just Circumference, O World.

Then staid the fervid Wheeles, and in his hand

Agaihｔtp://ｗww.９９lｉb.neｔn, God said, let ther be Firmament

Dividing: for as Earth, so he the World

Thus God the Heavn created, thus the Earth,

Amid the Waters, and let it divide

And vital vertue infusd, and vital warmth

Disparted, and between spun out the Air,

Sojournd the while. God saw the Light was good;

Was not; shee in a cloudie Tabernacle

In Gods Eternal store, to circumscribe

And touchd thir Golden Harps, and hymning praisd

Fermented the great Mothewww.99lib.netr to conceave,

Transparent, Elemental Air, diffusd [ 265 ]

Of Waters, Embryon immature involvd,

And said, thus farr extend, thus farr thy bounds, [ 230 ]

Round through the vast profunditie obscure,

Of Chaos farr removd, least fierce extreames

The Firmament, expanse of liquid, pure,

And light from darkness by the Hemisphere [ 250 ]

The Earth was formd, but in the Womb as yet

Be gatherd now ye Waters under Heavn

Throughout the fluid Mass, but d

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He namd. Thus was the first Day Eevn and Morn:

And Earth self ballanct on her Center hung.

Like things to like, the rest to several place [ 240 ]

He took the golden Compasses, prepard [ 225 ]

And Heavn he namd the Firmament: So Eevn

Ethereal, first of things, quintessence pure

Adverse to life: then founded, then conglobd

Spheard in a radiant Cloud, for yet the Sun

The black tartareous cold Infernal dregs

Exhaling first from Darkness the藏书网y beheld; [ 255 ]

Sprung from the Deep, and from her Native East [ 245 ]

Birth-day of Heavn and Earth; with joy and shout

The Waters from the Waters: and God made

Divided: Light the Day, and Darkness Night

Prolific humour softning all her Globe, [ 280 ]

The hollow Universal Orb they filld,

The Waters underneath from those above

Contiguous might distemper the whole frame:

Coverd th Abyss: but on the watrie calme

And Morning Chorus sung the second Day. [ 275 ]