Again th Almightie spake: Let there be Lights

And set them in the Firmament of Heavn

To Man, the greater to have rule by Day,

From him, for other light she needed none

Thir Office in the Firmament of Heavn

Though of Ethereal Mould: then formd the Moon

With thousand lesser Lights dividual holds,

His mirror, with full face borrowing her Light

And God said, let the Waters generate

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With thousand thousand Starres, that then appeerd

Regent of Day, and all th Horizon round

Of Light by farr the greater part he took,

Spangling the Hemisphere: then first adornd

Globose, and every magnitude of Starrs,

Surveying his great Work, that it was good:

Displayd on the opn Firmament of Heavn. [ 390 ]

Reptil with Spawn abundant, living Soule:

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By tincture or reflection they augment

Revolvd on Heavns great Axle, and her Reign

Glad Eevning and glad Morn crownd the fourth day.

But opposite in leveld West was set

In the Suns Orb, made porous to receive

To give Light on the Earth; and it was so. [ 345 ]

Till night, then in the East her turn she shines, [ 380 ]

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So Eevn and Morn recorded the Third Day.

And God made two great Lights, great for thir use

With thir bright Luminaries that Set and Rose, [ 385 ]

And sowd with Starrs the Heavn thick as a field:

The Day from Night; and let them be for Signes,

For of Celestial Bodies first the Sun

The less by Night alterne: and made the Starrs,

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Invested with bright Rayes, jocond to run

His Longitude through Heavns high rode: the gray

Repairing, in thir goldn Urns draw Light, [ 365 ]

High in th expanse of Heaven to divide [ 340 ]

Transplanted from her cloudie Shrine, and placd [ 360 ]

For Seasons, and for Dayes, and circling Years,

In thir vicissitude, and rule the Night,

In that aspect, and still that distance keepes

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Her gatherd beams, great Palace now of Light.

First in his East the glorious Lamp was seen, [ 370 ]

And drink the liquid Light, firm to retaine

Shedding sweet influence: less bright the Moon, [ 375 ]

Dawn, and the Pleiades before him dancd

A mightie Spheare he framd, unlightsom first, [ 355 ]

To illuminate the Earth, and rule the Day [ 350 ]

And Light from Darkness to divide. God saw,