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242 And hairy mane terrific, though to thee Not noxious, but obedient at thy call.
 * "Now heaven in all her glory shone, and rolled

Her motions, atas [sic] the great First Mover's hand First wheeled their course; earth, in her rich attire Consummate lovely, smiled; air, water, earth, By fowl, fish, beast, was flown, was swum, was walked, Frequent; and of the sixth day yet remained. There wanted yet the master-work, the end Of all yet done; a creature, who not prone And brute as other creatures, but endued With sanctity of reason might erect His stature, and, upright with front serene, Govern the rest, self-knowing, and from thence Magnanimous to correspond with Heaven, But grateful to acknowledge whence his good Descends; thither with heart, and voice, and eyes Directed in devotion, to adore And worship God supreme, who made him chief Of all his work: therefore the omnipotent Eternal Father—for where is not he Present?—thus to his Son audibly spake:
 * Let us make now Man in our image, Man

In our similitude, and let them rule Over the fish and fowl of sea and air, Beast of the field, and over all the earth,