t, and of Creation last arose
ittin, when God said, [ 450 ]
Let th Soul living in her kinde,
Cattel and Creeping t of th,
Eacrait
opning ile oomb teemd at a Birth
Innumerous living Creatures, perfet formes, [ 455 ]
Limbd and full gro of the ground up rose
As from where he wonns
In Forrest , Brake, or Den;
Among trees in Pairs they walkd:
ttel in the Fields and Meddowes green: [ 460 ]
tarie, these in flocks
Pasturing at once, and in broad herds upsprung.
the grassie Clods now Calvd, now half appeerd
tao get free
s, then springs as broke from Bonds, [ 465 ]
And Rampant she Ounce,
tyger, as the Moale
Rising, threw
In Stag from under ground
Bore up his branching head: scarse from his mould [ 470 ]
Be born of Earth upheavd
ness: Fleect ting rose,
As Plants: ambiguous between Sea and Land
the River horse and scalie Crocodile.
At once came fortever creeps the ground, [ 475 ]
Insect or orme; thir limber fans
For Lineaments exact
In all t of Summers pride
its of Gold and Purple, azure and green:
thir long dimension drew, [ 480 ]
Streaking trace; not all
Minims of Nature; some of Serpent kinde
ondrous in length and corpulence involvd
t crept
t, provident [ 485 ]
Of future, in small room large enclosd,
Pattern of just equalitie perhaps
er, joind in ribes
Of Commonaltie: s appeerd
t feeds her husband Drone [ 490 ]
Deliciously, and builds her waxen Cells
itord: t are numberless,
And tures kno, amp; gavst them Names,
Needless to ted; nor unknown
t suttlst Beast of all the field, [ 495 ]
Of ent somtimes, h brazen Eyes
And errific, to thee
Not noxious, but obedient at thy call.