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Till night; then in the east her turn she shines,380
Revolved on heaven's great axle, and her reign
With thousand lesser lights dividual holds,
With thousand thousand stars, that then appeared
Spangling the hemisphere. Then, first adorned
With their bright luminaries that set and rose,
Glad evening and glad morn crowned the fourth day.
"And God said:—'Let the waters generate
Reptile with spawn abundant, living soul;
And let fowl fly above the earth, with wings
Displayed on the open firmament of heaven.'390
And God created the great whales, and each
Soul living, each that crept, which plenteously
The waters generated by their kinds,
And every bird of wing after his kind;
And saw that it was good, and blessed them, saying:
'Be fruitful, multiply, and, in the seas,
And lakes, and running streams, the waters fill;
And let the foul be multiplied on the earth!'
Forth with the sounds and seas, each creek and bay,
With fry innumerable swarm, and shoals400
Of fish that, with their fins and shining scales,
Glide under the green wave, in sculls that oft
Bank the mid sea. Part, single or with mate,