taid the fervid heeles, and in his hand
ook the golden Compasses, prepard [ 225 ]
In Gods Eternal store, to circumscribe
ted things:
One foot erd, and turnd
Round t profunditie obscure,
And said, tend, thy bounds, [ 230 ]
t Circumference, O orld.
ted, th,
Matter unformd and void: Darkness profound
Coverd t on trie calme
of God outspred, [ 235 ]
And vital vertue infusd, and vital h
t t downward purgd
tartareous cold Infernal dregs
Adverse to life: then conglobd
Like to like, t to several place [ 240 ]
Disparted, and bet the Air,
And Eart on er hung.
Let t, said God, and fort
Et of tessence pure
Sprung from tive East [ 245 ]
to journie the airie gloom began,
Sp Cloud, for yet the Sun
as not; sabernacle
Sojournd t was good;
And lighe hemisphere [ 250 ]
Divided: Lig
Day Eevn and Morn:
Nor past uncelebrated, nor unsung
By tial Quires,
Ex from Darkness they beheld; [ 255 ]
Birt
they filld,
And touchir Golden harps, and hymning praisd
God and our hey sung,
Bot Eevning was, and w Morn. [ 260 ]
Again, God said, let t
Amid ters, and let it divide
ters from ters: and God made
t, expanse of liquid, pure,
transparent, Elemental Air, diffusd [ 265 ]
In circuit to ttermost convex
Of t Round: partition firm and sure,
ters underneathose above
Dividing: for as Earthe orld
Built on circumfluous aters calme, in wide [ 270 ]
Crystallin Ocean, and the loud misrule
Of C fierce extreames
Contiguous migemper the whole frame:
And : So Eevn
And Morning Che second Day. [ 275 ]
t in t
Of aters, Embryon immature involvd,
Appeerd not: over all th
Main Ocean flo idle, but h warme
Prolific ning all her Globe, [ 280 ]
Fermented t Moto conceave,
Satiate ure, when God said
Be gaters under heavn
Into one place, and let dry Land appeer.