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With living Creatures ſtor'd of all Degrees,
Now in the Earth, the Air, and in the Seas:
Creation-Work is now advanced far.
And all Things made in great Perfection are;
The Earth's Foundation now moſt firmly ſtood,
Eſtabliſh'd ſure upon the liquid Flood;
The ſpacious Sea around now on each Hand,
With ſwelling Waves environs every Land.
How beautiful the verdant Field appears
With Graſs and Flowers and fruitful Trees it bears;
By Day the Sun unto the World gives Light,
The Moon and Stars now do the ſame by Night;
The feather'd Hoſts now fly in Air above.
Great Shoals of Fiſhes in the Deeps now move:
What Store of Beaſts is now upon the field,
Which in abundance Food to them do yield ?
The ſtately Fabrick of the World thus ſtood,
Its Maker view'd it, and pronounc'd it good;
Yet ſtill the curious divine Architect
Doth in his Work eſpy a grand Defect,
Something undone, which he of old deſign'd
In the eternal Council of his Mind;
The glorious Creator's Arms, and great,
Was not as yet ſet up before the Gate.
The great Creator yet no Creature here
Had like himſelf, that did his Image beat;
Nor here below no Creature any where,
That could poſſeſs this World as his Heir;
No Being wiſe, intelligent, to be
His great Viceroy as yet on Earth had he,
To God from the Creation did belong
A Revenue of Praiſe; but then among
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