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

The hollow Universal Orb they filld,

Again, God said, let ther be Firmament

Transparent, Elemental Air, diffusd [ 265 ]

And Morning Chorus sung the second Day. [ 275 ]

Be gatherd now ye Waters under Heavn

Throughout the fluid Mass, but downward purgd

Spheard in a radiant Cloud, for yet the Sun

God and his works, Creatour him they sung,

The Firmament, expanse of liquid, pure,

Then staid thread.99csw.come fervid Wheeles, and in his hand

By the Celestial Quires, when Orient Light

Disparted, and between spun out the Air,

Into one place, and let dry Land appeer.

Ethereal, first of things, quintessence pure

This Universe, and all created things:

Contiguous might distemper the whole frame:

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

The Waters underneath from those above

He took the golden Compasses, prepard [ 225 ]

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Of this great Round: partition firm and sure,

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

Of Waters, Embryon immature involvd,

Of Chaos farr removd, least fierce extreames

Adverse to life: then founded, then conglobd

To journie through the airie gloom began,

Prolific humour softning all her Globe, [ 280 ]

Was not; shee in a cloudie Tabernacle

Let ther be Light, said God, and fhttps://read.99csw.comorthwith Light

Round through the vast profunditie obscure,

In Gods Eternal store, to circumscribe

Divided: Light the Day, and Darkness Night

Fermented the great Mother to conceave,

The Waters from the Waters: and God made

This be thy just Circumference, O World.

Sojournd the while. God saw the Light was good;

Built on circumfluous Waters calme, in wide [ 270 ]

Thus God the Heavn created, thus the Earth,

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Amid the Waters, and let it divide

Appeerd not: over all the face of Earth

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

Nor past uncelebrated, nor unsung

Exhaling first from Darkness they beheld; [ 255 ]

Dividing: for as Earth, so he the World

One foot he centerd, and the other turnd

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

Matter unformd and void: Darkness profound

And vital vertue infusd, and vital warmth

And said, thus farr ex九*九*藏*書tend, thus farr thy bounds, [ 230 ]

And touchd thir Golden Harps, and hymning praisd

Main Ocean flowd, not idle, but with warme

And Earth self ballanct on her Center hung.

The Earth was formd, but in the Womb as yet

And light from darkness by the Hemisphere [ 250 ]

Satiate with genial moisture, when God said

Coverd th Abyss: but on the watrie calme

In circuit to the uttermost convex

Crystallin Ocean, and the loud misrule

And Heavn he namd the Firmament: So Eevn