victed, of having consulted the Hymmus ad Umbram of Wowerus, in the sixth stanza, which answers in some sort to these lines:
Illa suo præest nocturnis numine sacris—
Perque vias errare novis dat spectra figuris,
Manesque excitos medios ululare per agros
Sub noctem, et questu notos complere penates.
And again, at the conclusion:
Illa suo senium secludit corpore toto
Haud numerans jugi fugientia secula lapsu,
Ergo ubi postremum mundi compage solutâ
Hanc rerum molem suprema absumpserit hora
Ipsa leves cineres nube amplectetur opacâ,
Et prisco imperio rursus dominabitur umbra.
His Hymn to Light is not equal to the other. He seems to think that there is an East absolute and positive where the morning rises.
In the last stanza, having mentioned the sudden eruption of new created Light, he says,
A while th’ Almighty wondering stood.
