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...stream, Whose fountain who shall tell ? before the sun, Before the heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle didst invest The rising world...formless infinite. Thee I revisit now with bolder wing, Escaped the Stygian pool, though long detained In that obscure sojourn, while in my flight Through...

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...stream, Whose fountain who shall tell ? before the sun, Before the Heav'ns thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest The rising world of waters dark and deep, 5 Won from the void and formless infinite. Thee I revisit now with bolder wing, Escap'd the Stygian...

...grape, and gently creeps Luxuriant. Id. Before the sun, iiefore the heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle didst invest The rising world...and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite. Milton. I saw them under a green mantling vine, That crawls along the side of yon small hill, Plucking...

...tell ? Before the sun, Before the heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle did invest The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infmite. Thee I revisit now with bolder wing, Escap'd the Stygian pool, though long detain'd In that...

...glory of the Almighty, she is the brightness of the everlasting light." [I, 9.] ... And at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest The rising world of waters dark and deep. Perhaps the original of these beautiful lines is in Job xxxviii. 9., where God says of the sea, " I...