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 With living Creatures ſtor'd of all Degrees,

Now in the Earth, the Air, and in the Seas:

Creation-Work is now advanced far.

And all Things made in great Perfection are;

The Earth's Foundation now moſt firmly ſtood,

Eſtabliſh'd ſure upon the liquid Flood;

The ſpacious Sea around now on each Hand,

With ſwelling Waves environs every Land.

How beautiful the verdant Field appears

With Graſs and Flowers and fruitful Trees it bears;

By Day the Sun unto the World gives Light,

The Moon and Stars now do the ſame by Night;

The feather'd Hoſts now fly in Air above.

Great Shoals of Fiſhes in the Deeps now move:

What Store of Beaſts is now upon the field,

Which in abundance Food to them do yield ?

The ſtately Fabrick of the World thus ſtood,

Its Maker view'd it, and pronounc'd it good;

Yet ſtill the curious divine Architect

Doth in his Work eſpy a grand Defect,

Something undone, which he of old deſign'd

In the eternal Council of his Mind;

The glorious Creator's Arms, and great,

Was not as yet ſet up before the Gate.

The great Creator yet no Creature here

Had like himſelf, that did his Image beat;

Nor here below no Creature any where,

That could poſſeſs this World as his Heir;

No Being wiſe, intelligent, to be

His great Viceroy as yet on Earth had he,

To God from the Creation did belong

A Revenue of Praiſe; but then among