With Honey stord: the rest are numberless,

And Rampant shakes his Brinded main; the Ounce,

And hairie Main terrific, though to thee

And thou thir Natures knowst, & gavst them Names,

Rising, the crumbld Earth above them threw

In all the Liveries dect of Summers pride

The Serpent suttlst Beast of all the field, [ 495 ]

Insect or Worme; those wavd thir limber fans

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Those rare and solitarie, these in flocks

Minims of Nature; some of Serpent kinde

His hinder parts, then springs as broke from Bonds, [ 465 ]

Of huge extent somtimes, with brazen Eyes

The Parsimonious Emmet, provident [ 485 ]

Of Commonaltie: swarming next appeerd

The Sixt, and of Creation last arose

Streaking the ground with sinuous trac九-九-藏-书-网e; not all

With Eevning Harps and Mattin, when God said, [ 450 ]

Bore up his branching head: scarse from his mould [ 470 ]

As from his Laire the wilde Beast where he wonns

Pattern of just equalitie perhaps

The Tawnie Lion, pawing to get free

For wings, and smallest Lineaments exact

Wondrous in length and corpulence involvd

The Libbard, and the Tyger, as the Moale

Thir S藏书网nakie foulds, and added wings. First crept

In Hillocks; the swift Stag from under ground

Limbd and full grown: out of the ground up rose

The Cattel in the Fields and Meddowes green: [ 460 ]

At once came forth whatever creeps the ground, [ 475 ]

Not noxious, but obedient at thy call.

His vastness: Fleect the Flocks and bleating rose,

Hereafter, joind in her popular Tribes

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Let th Earth bring forth Soul living in her kinde,

Each in their kinde. The Earth obeyd, and strait

With spots of Gold and Purple, azure and green:

Of future, in small room large heart enclosd,

Pasturing at once, and in broad Herds upsprung.

The River Horse and scalie Crocodile.

Innumerous living Creatures, perfet formes, [ 455 ]

In Forrest wilde, inwww.99lib.net Thicket, Brake, or Den;

The Female Bee that feeds her Husband Drone [ 490 ]

These as a line thir long dimension drew, [ 480 ]

Cattel and Creeping things, and Beast of the Earth,

The grassie Clods now Calvd, now half appeerd

Among the Trees in Pairs they rose, they walkd:

Deliciously, and builds her waxen Cells

Behemoth biggest born of Earth upheavd

opning her fertile Woomb teemd at a Birth