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

With spots of Gold and Purple, azure and green:

And hairie Main terrific, though to thee

Needless to thee repeated; nor unknown

Behemoth biggest born of Earth upheavd

As from his Laire the wilde Beast where he wonns

In Hillocks; the swift Stag from under ground

The Female Bee that feeds her Husband Drone [ 490 ]

Of Commonalhtｔｐｓ://ｒｅad•９9ｃｓw•cｏｍtie: swarming next appeerd

Minims of Nature; some of Serpent kinde

Deliciously, and builds her waxen Cells

Each in their kinde. The Earth obeyd, and strait

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

Hereafter, joind in her popular Tribes

Let th Earth bring forth Soul living in her kinde,

And Rampant shakes his Brinded main; the Ounce,

The Libba九_九_藏_書rd, and the Tyger, as the Moale

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

Those rare and solitarie, these in flocks

Cattel and Creeping things, and Beast of the Earth,

For wings, and smallest Lineaments exact

In all the Liveries dect of Summers pride

The River Horse and scalie Crocodile.

Of future, in small room large heart enclosd,

The Sixt, and of Creat九九藏書ion last arose

Thir Snakie foulds, and added wings. First crept

As Plants: ambiguous between Sea and Land

The Tawnie Lion, pawing to get free

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

Of huge extent somtimes, with brazen Eyes

Pasturing at once, and in broad Herds upsprung.

Insect or Worme; those wavd thir limber fans

Limbd and full grown: out of the ground up rose

His va九*九*藏*書stness: Fleect the Flocks and bleating rose,

And thou thir Natures knowst, & gavst them Names,

Pattern of just equalitie perhaps

opning her fertile Woomb teemd at a Birth

Rising, the crumbld Earth above them threw

With Honey stord: the rest are numberless,

Streaking the ground with sinuous trace; not all

The grassie Clods now Calvd, now half appeerd

The Parsimonious Emmet, provideｒeaｄ.９9ｃsw.cｏmnt [ 485 ]

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

Among the Trees in Pairs they rose, they walkd:

Wondrous in length and corpulence involvd

In Forrest wilde, in Thicket, Brake, or Den;

Innumerous living Creatures, perfet formes, [ 455 ]

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

Not noxious, but obedient at thy call.

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