Moist nutriment, or under Rocks thir food

Floats, as they pass, fannd with unnumberd plumes:

Of Coral stray, or sporting with quick glance [ 405 ]

Thir callow young, but featherd soon and fledge [ 420 ]

Between her white wings mantling proudly, Rowes

Walkd firm; the crested Cock whose clarion sounds

And God created the great Whales, and each

From Branch to Branch the smaller Birds with song

Ceasd warbling, but all night tund her soft layes:

Huhtｔpｓ://ｒｅａd•99ｃsw•cｏmgest of living Creatures, on the Deep

And every Bird of wing after his kinde;

Stretcht like a Promontorie sleeps or swimmes,

They summd thir Penns, and soaring th air sublime

The mid Aereal Skie: Others on ground

Bursting with kindly rupture forth disclosd

Or in thir Pearlie shells at ease, attend

Of Fish that with thir Finns and shining Scales

Thir downie Brest; the Swan with Arched neck

And saw that it was good, and bles九-九-藏-書sd them, saying, [ 395 ]

Solacd the Woods, and spred thir painted wings

With Fish replenisht, and the Aire, with Fowle,

And seems a moving Land, and at his Gilles [ 415 ]

The silent hours, and th other whose gay Traine

Evning and Morn solemnizd the Fift day.

And let the Fowle be multiplyd on the Earth.

Till Evn, nor then the solemn Nightingal [ 435 ]

Intelligent of seasons, and set forth

Graze the Sea weed thir pasture, and through Groveｒeａｄ•99csw•ｃoms

With clang despisd the ground, under a cloud

Mean while the tepid Caves, and Fens and shoares

Glide under the green Wave, in Sculles that oft

Show to the Sun thir wavd coats dropt with Gold,

And bended Dolphins play: part huge of bulk [ 410 ]

In prospect; there the Eagle and the Stork

The waters generated by thir kindes,

Part loosly wing the Region, part more wise [ 425 ]

Thir Brood as numerous hatch, from the Egg that soon

And Lakes and runninhｔtｐｓ://reａｄ.9９cｓｗ•ｃｏmg Streams the waters fill;

Wallowing unweildie, enormous in thir Gate

Bank the mid Sea: part single or with mate

Easing thir flight; so stears the prudent Crane [ 430 ]

Flying, and over Lands with mutual wing

Tempest the Ocean: there Leviathan

With Frie innumerable swarme, and Shoales [ 400 ]

Thir Aierie Caravan high over Seas

Her state with Oarie feet: yet oft they quit [ 440 ]

In jointed Armour watch: on smooth the Seale,

The Dank, and rising on s九*九*藏*書tiff Pennons, towre

Adorns him, colourd with the Florid hue [ 445 ]

Of Rainbows and Starrie Eyes. The Waters thus

Be fruitful, multiply, and in the Seas

Draws in, and at his Trunck spouts out a Sea.

Soul living, each that crept, which plenteously

Forthwith the Sounds and Seas, each Creek and Bay

On Cliffs and Cedar tops thir Eyries build:

Others on Silver Lakes and Rivers Bathd

Her annual Voiage, born on Windes; the Aire,

In common, rangd in figure wedge thir way,