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232 He named. Thus was the first day even and morn; Nor passed uncelebrated, nor unsung By the celestial quires. When orient light Exhaling first from darkness they beheld. Birthday of heaven and earth, with joy and shout The hollow universal orb they filled, And touched their golden harps, and hymning praised God and his works; Creator him they sung, Both when first evening was, and when first morn.
 * "Again, God said:—'Let there be firmament

Amid the waters, and let it divide The waters from the waters!' And God made The firmament, expanse of liquid, pure, Transparent, elemental air, diffused In circuit to the uttermost convex Of this great round; partition firm and sure, The waters underneath from those above Dividing—for as Earth, so he the World Built on circumfluous waters calm, in wide Crystalline ocean, and the loud misrule Of Chaos far removed, lest fierce extremes Contiguous might distemper the whole frame— And Heaven be named the firmament: so even And morning chorus sung the second day.
 * "The Earth was formed, but, in the womb as yet

Of waters, embryon immature, involved, Appeared not; over all the face of Earth