Opning thir various colours, and made gay

But they, or under ground, or circuit wide

Seemd like to Heavn, a seat where Gods might dwell,

And Fruit Tree yielding Fruit after her kind;

With tufts the vallies and each fountain side,

Of congregated Waters he calld Seas:

Her sacred shades: though God had yet not raind

Plant of the field, which ere it was in the Earth [ 335 ]

Desert and bare, unsightly, unadornd,

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And saw that it was good, and said, Let th Earth

Capacious bed of Waters: thither they [ 290 ]

Down sunk a hollow bottom broad and deep,

And on the washie Oose deep Channels wore;

All but within those banks, where Rivers now [ 305 ]

Immediately the Mountains huge appeer [ 285 ]

Upon the Earth, and man to till the ground

Thir blossoms: with high wohttps://read.99csw.comods the hills were crownd,

Rose as in Dance the stately Trees, and spred

As drops on dust conglobing from the drie;

Embattelld in her field: and the humble Shrub,

Brought forth the tender Grass, whose verdure clad [ 315 ]

Thir branches hung with copious Fruit; or gemmd [ 325 ]

Then Herbs of every leaf, that sudden flourd

Emergent, and thir broad bare backs upheave

So high as heavd the tumid Hills,九_九_藏_書 so low

None was, but from the Earth a dewie Mist

Or wander with delight, and love to haunt [ 330 ]

Hasted with glad precipitance, uprowld

On the green stemm; God saw that it was good.

Troop to thir Standard, so the watrie throng,

Her bosom smelling sweet: and these scarce blown,

With borders long the Rivers. That Earth now

And Bush with frizld hair implicit: last

Her Universal Face with pleasant green,

Soft-ebbi九*九*藏*書ng; nor withstood them Rock or Hill, [ 300 ]

The dry Land, Earth, and the great receptacle

Forth flourisht thick the clustring Vine, forth crept [ 320 ]

Put forth the verdant Grass, Herb yielding Seed, [ 310 ]

On the swift flouds: as Armies at the call [ 295 ]

Easie, ere God had bid the ground be drie,

If steep, with torrent rapture, if through Plaine,

With Serpent errour wandring, found thir way,

Wave rowling after W九-九-藏-書ave, where way they found,

God made, and every Herb, before it grew

Of Trumpet (for of Armies thou hast heard)

Stream, and perpetual draw thir humid traine.

For haste; such flight the great command impressd

Into the Clouds, thir tops ascend the Skie:

Went up and waterd all the ground, and each

Whose Seed is in her self upon the Earth.

Part rise in crystal Wall, or ridge direct,

He scarce had said, when the bare Earth, till then