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...increate ! Or hear'st thou rather, pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell ? Before the sun, Before the Heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest 10 The rising world of waters dark and deep » Won from the void and formless infinite. Thee I revisit...

...increate. Or hear'st thou rather pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell ? before the sun, Before the heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of...flight Through utter and through middle darkness borne With other notes than to th' Orphean lyre I sung of Chaos and eternal Night, Taught by the heavenly...

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...thou rather, pure etherial stream, Whose fountain who shall tell ? before the sun, Before the Heav'ns thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle,...formless infinite. Thee I revisit now with bolder wing, Escap'd the Stygian pool, though long detain'd In that obscure sojourn, while in my flight Through...

...thou rather, pure etherial stream, Whose fountain who shall tell ? before the sun, Before the Heav'ns thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle,...didst invest The rising world of waters dark and deep, 5 Won from the void and formless infinite. Thee I revisit now with bolder wing, Escap'd the Stygian...

...mantling vine Lays forth her purple grape, and gently creeps Luxuriant. Id. Before the sun, iiefore the heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as...and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite. Milton. I saw them under a green mantling vine, That crawls along the side of yon small hill, Plucking...

...increate. Or hear'st thou rather, pure etlierial stream, Whose fountain who shall tell ? Before the sun, Before the heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle did invest The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infmite. Thee I...

...flowing from the glory of the Almighty, she is the brightness of the everlasting light." [I, 9.] ... And at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest The rising world of waters dark and deep. Perhaps the original of these beautiful lines is in Job xxxviii. 9., where God says of the sea, " I...

...increate ! Or hear'st thou rather, pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell ? Before the sun, Before the Heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest 10 The rising world of waters dark and deep Thee 1 revisit now with bolder wing, Escaped the Stygian...