The swelling gourd, up stood the corny reed, 321 crown'd; With tufts the valleys and each fountain side; 327 With borders long the rivers: that earth now Seem'd like to heaven, a seat where gods might Or wander with delight, and love to haunt [dwell, Her sacred shades: though GOD had yet not rain'd Upon the earth, and man to till the ground 332 None was; but from the earth a dewy mist 336 340 Again th' Almighty spake: Let there be lights High in th' expanse of heaven to divide The day from night; and let them be for signs, For seasons, and for days, and circling years; And let them be for lights, as I ordain 321 swelling] See Le Api de Ruscellai, v. 460. 'E dir ci come col gonfiato ventre L'idropica cucurbita s'ingrossi.' and Milton's Prose Works, vi. p. 388. 'The tumid pumpkin.' 321 corny] Virg. Æn. iii. 22. 'Quo cornea summo Virgulta, et densis hastilibus horrida myrtus.' Hume. Their office in the firmament of heaven 345 To give light on the earth; and it was so. 350 357 361 A mighty sphere, he fram'd, unlightsome first, 365 358 sow'd] Spens. Hymn to Heav. Beauty. v. 53. Todd. 362 liquid] Lucret. lib. v. 282. 'Largus item liquidi fons luminis, æthereus sol.' Newton. 866 her] In the first ed. 'his horns,' which Fenton and Bentley follow. Their small peculiar, though from human sight So far remote, with diminution seen. 376 First in his east the glorious lamp was seen, 370 373 gray] See Carew's Poems, p. 60, 12mo. 374 Pleiades] Phosphoros. Bentl. MS. Todd. 'There every starre sheds his sweet influence.' Todd. 376 opposite] v. Adamus Exul of Grotius, p. 20. 'Sed Luna, noctis domina, fraternum sibi 383 thousand stars] 'Rutilantia corpora mille, Mille oculos, mille igniculos intexit olympo.' A. Rams. Poem. Sacr. i. p. 6. With their bright luminaries, that set and rose, 390 The waters generated by their kinds, And every bird of wing after his kind; 396 And saw that it was good, and bless'd them, saying, groves 400 405 Of coral stray, or sporting with quick glance 402 sculls] See Hagthorpe's Divine Meditations, p. 39. 'The sculls, oh! Lord, of all the lakes and fountains, The herdes are thine upon ten thousand mountains.' 407 shells] A. Rams. Poem Sacr. i. p. 8. 'Pars quoque tarda, hærens scopulis, sub cortice concha, Pinnarumque, pedumque expers, depascit arenam.' 415 In jointed armour watch: on smooth the seal 409 armour watch] A. Ramsæi Poem. Sacr. i. 7. non remige pinna Sulcat aquas, munitâ latens sub tegmine testa.' 410 bended] See Huet's Note to Manilius, v. 418: he gives near ten examples from the Latin Poets of this expression. 'Perpetuum hoc Delphinûm Epitheton.' v. Burm. ad Ovid. i. p. 269. 'Curvo Delphine.' Sat. Theb. i. 121. Also Fanshaw's Pastor Fido. p. 11. 'The crook-back'd dolphin loves in floods.' 416 spouts] Ov. Met. iii. 686. 'Et acceptum patulis mare naribus efflant.' Newton. 422 clang] See Stat. Theb. xii. 516, and Burman's Note to Ovid. Metam. xii. 528. See Orellius on Arnobius, vol. ii. p. 477. Tryphiodorus. v. 345. (Merrick's Transl.) 'Loud as th' embody'd cranes, a numerous throng |