Appeared not: over all the face of earth 279. Main, vast. 280. humor, moisture. 283-308. See Genesis i. 9, 10. 286. Emergent, rising out of the waters. 288. So high - so low. Psalm civ. 8, 9. See 291. precipitance, haste; headlong flow. 293. direct, perpendicular; steep. 294. such flight. "At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they ha Psalm civ. 7. 299. torrent, rushin violence; violent rap 301. or underground wide, either undergr wide circuit. 302. serpent, windin like. -error, irregular 303. ooze, soft mud 304. Easy, which i an easy thing, to do. All but within those banks, where rivers now And saw that it was good, and said, 'Let the earth 305 310 316 He scarce had said, when the bare earth, till then : Rose as in dance the stately trees, and spread 321 Their branches hung with copious fruit, or gemmed Their blossoms. With high woods the hills were crowned, With tufts the valleys and each fountain side, 326 With borders long the rivers; that Earth now Seemed like to Heaven, a seat where gods might dwell, Or wander with delight, and love to haunt 330 Her sacred shades: though God had yet not rained Went up and watered all the ground, and each 307. earth, he called earth. 309-312. See Genesis i. 11, 12. 314. Desert, uncultivated. 321. the corny reed, the jointed stem of corn (grain). 322. Embattled, as in order of battle. 323 implicit, entangled. 328. thai, so that. 331-337. See Genesis ii. 5, 6. Plant of the field, which ere it was in the God made, and every herb before it grew On the green stem. God saw that it was So even and morn recorded the third day Let 66 Again the Almighty spake : lights High in the expanse of heaven, to divide 339-353 See Genesis i. 14-18. light. 357. Globose, spherical. 360. her cloudy s line 248. 363. Her refers to 364. other stars, t which shine by lig from the sun. Repairing in their golden urns draw light, First in his east the glorious lamp was seen, 365 370 His longitude through heaven's high road; the gray 380 His mirror, with full face borrowing her light 385 east to west. "His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends thereof " Psalm xix. 6. 374. the Pleiades are a cluster of stars in the constellation Tau rus. 375. sweet influence. "Canst thou bind the sweet influences of the Pleiades?" Job xxxviii. 31. 376. levelled west, the western horizon. 377. His mirror, reflecting his rays. 379. that aspect, that situation with regard to the sun; here, in opposition. 380. her turn, in her turn. "And God said, 'Let the waters gener Reptile with spawn abundant, living soul; And let fowl fly above the earth, with win Displayed on the open firmament of heave And God created the great whales, and ea Soul living, each that crept, which plenteo The waters generated by their kinds, And every bird of wing after his kind; And saw that it was good, and blessed ther 'Be fruitful, multiply, and in the seas, And lakes, and running streams, the water And let the fowl be multiplied on the eart Forth with the sounds and seas, each creek With fry innumerable swarm, and shoals Of fish, that with their fins and shining sca Glide under the green wave, in sculls that Bank the mid sea: part single or with mat Graze the sea-weed, their pasture, and groves Of coral stray, or sporting with quick glanc Show to the sun their waved coats dropt wi Or in their pearly shells at ease attend Moist nutriment, or under rocks their food In jointed armor watch; on smooth the seal And bended dolphins play; part huge of bu Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait Tempest the ocean. There leviathan, Hugest of living creatures, on the deep 387-448. See Genesis i. 20-23. 388. The word reptile is here used for "every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth." 402. sculls, shoals or schools. 403. Bank, rise in banks in. 405. glance, flash; gleam. 406. dropt, variegated; spotted. 407. attend, lie in wait for. 409. jointed armor. The shell of the lobster resembles the ar mor anciently worn -smooth, smooth wa 410. bended dolp dolphin forms an are body as he leaps out and immediately dive neath its surface. 412. Tempest, dist tempestuous wind. "There is that leviat thou hast made to pla Psalm civ. 26. |