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GONDIBERT,
55.
Then Motion, Nature's great Preservative,
Tun'd order in this World, Life's restless Inn;
Gave Tydes to Seas, and caus'd stretch'd Plants to live;
Else Plants but Seeds, and Seas but Lakes had bin.
Then Motion, Nature's great Preservative,
Tun'd order in this World, Life's restless Inn;
Gave Tydes to Seas, and caus'd stretch'd Plants to live;
Else Plants but Seeds, and Seas but Lakes had bin.
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But this Fourth Fiat, warming what was made,
(For Light ne'r warm'd, till it did motion get)
The Picture fills the World with woodie shade;
To shew how Nature thrives by Motion's heat.
But this Fourth Fiat, warming what was made,
(For Light ne'r warm'd, till it did motion get)
The Picture fills the World with woodie shade;
To shew how Nature thrives by Motion's heat.
57.
Then to those Woods the next quick Fiat brings
The Feather'd kind; where merrily they fed,
As if their Hearts were lighter than their Wings;
For yet no Cage was fram'd, nor Net was spred.
Then to those Woods the next quick Fiat brings
The Feather'd kind; where merrily they fed,
As if their Hearts were lighter than their Wings;
For yet no Cage was fram'd, nor Net was spred.
58.
The same Fifth voice does Seas and Rivers Store;
Then into Rivers Brooks the Painter powres,
And Rivers into Seas; which (rich before)
Return their gifts, to both exhal'd in Showrs.
The same Fifth voice does Seas and Rivers Store;
Then into Rivers Brooks the Painter powres,
And Rivers into Seas; which (rich before)
Return their gifts, to both exhal'd in Showrs.
59.
This voice (whose swift dispatch in all it wrought,
Seems to denote the Speaker was in haste,
As if more Worlds were framing in his thought)
Ads to this World one Fiat, as the last.
This voice (whose swift dispatch in all it wrought,
Seems to denote the Speaker was in haste,
As if more Worlds were framing in his thought)
Ads to this World one Fiat, as the last.
60.
Then straight an universal Herd appears;
First gazing on each other in the shade;
Wond'ring with levell'd Eyes, and lifted Ears,
Then play, whilst yet their Tyrant is unmade.
Then straight an universal Herd appears;
First gazing on each other in the shade;
Wond'ring with levell'd Eyes, and lifted Ears,
Then play, whilst yet their Tyrant is unmade.
61.
And Man, the Painter now presents to view;
Haughtie without, and busie still within;
Whom, when his Furr'd and Horned Subjects knew,
Their sport is ended, and there fears begin.
And Man, the Painter now presents to view;
Haughtie without, and busie still within;
Whom, when his Furr'd and Horned Subjects knew,
Their sport is ended, and there fears begin.
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