Then staid the fervid Wheeles, and in his hand
He took the golden passes, prepard [ 225 ]
In Gods Eternal store, to circumscribe
This Universe, and all created things:
One foot he terd, and the other turnd
Round through the vast profunditie obscure,
And said, thus farr extend, thus farr thy bounds, [ 230 ]
This be thy just Circumference, O World.
Thus God the Heaved, thus the Earth,
Matter unformd and void: Darkness profound
Coverd th Abyss: but orie calme
His brooding wings the Spirit of God outspred, [ 235 ]
And vital vertue infusd, and vital warmth
Throughout the fluid Mass, but dourgd
The black tartareous cold Infernal dregs
Adverse to life: then fouhen globd
Like things to like, the rest to several place [ 240 ]
Disparted, aween spun out the Air,
Ah self ballan her ter hung.
Let ther be Light, said God, and forthwith Light
Ethereal, first of things, quintessence pure
Sprung from the Deep, and from her Native East [ 245 ]
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