The Sixt, and of Creation last arose
With Eevning Harps and Mattin, when God said, [ 450 ]
Let th Earth bring forth Soul living in her kinde,
Cattel and Creeping things, a of the Earth,
Ea their kihe Earth obeyd, and strait
opning her fertile Woomb teemd at a Birth
Innumerous living Creatures, perfet formes, [ 455 ]
Limbd and full grown: out of the ground up rose
As from his Laire the wilde Beast where he wonns
In Forrest wilde, in Thicket, Brake, or Den;
Among the Trees in Pairs they rose, they walkd:
The Cattel in the Fields and Meddowes green: [ 460 ]
Those rare and solitarie, these in flocks
Pasturing at once, and in broad Herds upsprung.
The grassie Clods now Calvd, now half appeerd
The Tawnie Lion, pawing to get free
His hinder parts, then springs as broke from Bonds, [ 465 ]
And Rampant shakes his Brinded main; the Ounce,
The Libbard, and the Tyger, as the Moale
Rising, the crumbld Earth above them threw
In Hillocks; the swift Stag from under gro……（内容加载失败！）
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