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Rh Till night; then in the east her turn she shines, Revolved on heaven's great axle, and her reign With thousand lesser lights dividual holds, With thousand thousand stars, that then appeared Spangling the hemisphere. Then, first adorned With their bright luminaries that set and rose, Glad evening and glad morn crowned the fourth day.
 * "And God said:—'Let the waters generate

Reptile with spawn abundant, living soul; And let fowl fly above the earth, with wings Displayed on the open firmament of heaven.' And God created the great whales, and each Soul living, each that crept, which plenteously The waters generated by their kinds, And every bird of wing after his kind; And saw that it was good, and blessed them, saying: 'Be fruitful, multiply, and, in the seas, And lakes, and running streams, the waters fill; And let the foul be multiplied on the earth!' Forth with the sounds and seas, each creek and bay, With fry innumerable swarm, and shoals Of fish that, with their fins and shining scales, Glide under the green wave, in sculls that oft Bank the mid sea. Part, single or with mate,