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OF bodies chang'd to various forms I sing	A
Ye Gods from whom these miracles did spring	A
Inspire my numbers with coelestial heat	B
'Till I my long laborious work compleat	B
And add perpetual tenour to my rhimes	C
Deduc'd from Nature's birth to Caesar's times	C
The Creation of Before the seas and this terrestrial ball	D
the World And Heav'n's high canopy that covers all	D
One was the face of Nature if a face	C
Rather a rude and indigested mass	C
A lifeless lump unfashion'd and unfram'd	B
Of jarring seeds and justly Chaos nam'd	B
No sun was lighted up the world to view	E
No moon did yet her blunted horns renew	E
Nor yet was Earth suspended in the sky	F
Nor pois'd did on her own foundations lye	F
Nor seas about the shores their arms had thrown	G
But earth and air and water were in one	H
Thus air was void of light and earth unstable	I
And water's dark abyss unnavigable	I
No certain form on any was imprest	B
All were confus'd and each disturb'd the rest	B
For hot and cold were in one body fixt	B
And soft with hard and light with heavy mixt	B
But God or Nature while they thus contend	B
To these intestine discords put an end	B
Then earth from air and seas from earth were	J
driv'n	H
And grosser air sunk from aetherial Heav'n	H
Thus disembroil'd they take their proper place	C
The next of kin contiguously embrace	C
And foes are sunder'd by a larger space	C
The force of fire ascended first on high	F
And took its dwelling in the vaulted sky	F
Then air succeeds in lightness next to fire	J
Whose atoms from unactive earth retire	K
Earth sinks beneath and draws a num'rous throng	L
Of pondrous thick unwieldy seeds along	L
About her coasts unruly waters roar	M
And rising on a ridge insult the shore	M
Thus when the God whatever God was he	N
Had form'd the whole and made the parts agree	N
That no unequal portions might be found	B
He moulded Earth into a spacious round	B
Then with a breath he gave the winds to blow	I
And bad the congregated waters flow	I
He adds the running springs and standing lakes	C
And bounding banks for winding rivers makes	C
Some part in Earth are swallow'd up the most	B
In ample oceans disembogu'd are lost	B
He shades the woods the vallies he restrains	C
With rocky mountains and extends the plains	C
And as five zones th' aetherial regions bind	B
Five correspondent are to Earth assign'd	B
The sun with rays directly darting down	H
Fires all beneath and fries the middle zone	H
The two beneath the distant poles complain	H
Of endless winter and perpetual rain	H
Betwixt th' extreams two happier climates hold	B
The temper that partakes of hot and cold	B
The fields of liquid air inclosing all	I
Surround the compass of this earthly ball	I
The lighter parts lye next the fires above	O
The grosser near the watry surface move	P
Thick clouds are spread and storms engender there	Q
And thunder's voice which wretched mortals fear	R
And winds that on their wings cold winter bear	Q
Nor were those blustring brethren left at large	S
On seas and shores their fury to discharge	S
Bound as they are and circumscrib'd in place	C
They rend the world resistless where they pass	C
And mighty marks of mischief leave behind	B
Such is the rage of their tempestuous kind	B
First Eurus to the rising morn is sent	B
The regions of the balmy continent	B
And Eastern realms where early Persians run	H
To greet the blest appearance of the sun	H
Westward the wanton Zephyr wings his flight	B
Pleas'd with the remnants of departing light	B
Fierce Boreas with his off spring issues forth	T
T' invade the frozen waggon of the North	T
While frowning Auster seeks the Southern sphere	R
And rots with endless rain th' unwholsom year	R
High o'er the clouds and empty realms of wind	B
The God a clearer space for Heav'n design'd	B
Where fields of light and liquid aether flow	I
Purg'd from the pondrous dregs of Earth below	I
Scarce had the Pow'r distinguish'd these when	H
streight	B
The stars no longer overlaid with weight	B
Exert their heads from underneath the mass	C
And upward shoot and kindle as they pass	C
And with diffusive light adorn their heav'nly	I
place	C
Then every void of Nature to supply	I
With forms of Gods he fills the vacant sky	I
New herds of beasts he sends the plains to share	Q
New colonies of birds to people air	Q
And to their oozy beds the finny fish repair	Q
A creature of a more exalted kind	B
Was wanting yet and then was Man design'd	B
Conscious of thought of more capacious breast	B
For empire form'd and fit to rule the rest	B
Whether with particles of heav'nly fire	J
The God of Nature did his soul inspire	K
Or Earth but new divided from the sky	I
And pliant still retain'd th' aetherial energy	N
Which wise Prometheus temper'd into paste	B
And mixt with living streams the godlike image	U
cast	B
Thus while the mute creation downward bend	B
Their sight and to their earthly mother tend	B
Man looks aloft and with erected eyes	C
Beholds his own hereditary skies	C
From such rude principles our form began	H
And earth was metamorphos'd into Man	H
The The golden age was first when Man yet new	H
Golden Age No rule but uncorrupted reason knew	H
And with a native bent did good pursue	H
Unforc'd by punishment un aw'd by fear	R
His words were simple and his soul sincere	R
Needless was written law where none opprest	B
The law of Man was written in his breast	B
No suppliant crowds before the judge appear'd	B
No court erected yet nor cause was heard	B
But all was safe for conscience was their guard	B
The mountain trees in distant prospect please	C
E're yet the pine des	C

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