Immediately tains huge appeer [ 285 ]
Emergent, and thir broad bare backs upheave
Into tops ascend the Skie:
So umid hills, so low
Doom broad and deep,
Capacious bed of aters: they [ 290 ]
ed ance, uprowld
As drops on dust conglobing from the drie;
Part rise in crystal all, or ridge direct,
For e; suc t command impressd
On t flouds: as Armies at the call [ 295 ]
Of trumpet (for of Armies t heard)
troop to tandard, so trie throng,
ave roer ave, whey found,
If steep, orrent rapture, if through Plaine,
Soft-ebbing; nor ood them Rock or hill, [ 300 ]
But t wide
it errour hir way,
And on the washie Oose deep Channels wore;
Easie, ere God he ground be drie,
All but hose banks, where Rivers now [ 305 ]
Stream, and perpetual draraine.
t receptacle
Of congregated aters he calld Seas:
And sa it th
Put fort Grass, herb yielding Seed, [ 310 ]
And Fruit tree yielding Fruit after her kind;
h.
ill then
Desert and bare, unsightly, unadornd,
Brougender Grass, whose verdure clad [ 315 ]
green,
t sudden flourd
Opning thir various colours, and made gay
: and these scarce blown,
Fort tring Vine, fort [ 320 ]
tood the cornie Reed
Embattelld in he humble Shrub,
And Bus: last
Rose as in Dance tately trees, and spred
t; or gemmd [ 325 ]
the hills were crownd,
itufts tain side,
it Earth now
Seemd like to w dwell,
Or , and love to [ 330 ]
not raind
Upon to till the ground
None from t
ent up and erd all the ground, and each
Plant of t h [ 335 ]
God made, and every grew
On temm; God sa it was good.