10 CREATION OF ANIMALS. 



the earth, wherein there is life, I have given 

 every green herb for meat." And to this vege- 

 table diet, before the close of the present scene, 

 we are assured they shall again return so as to 

 render the last age of the world as happy as the 

 original state of man in paradise. 1 This harmony 

 of the animal creation, continued probably long 

 enough, after the fall, to allow sufficient time for 

 such a multiplication of the flocks and herds, 

 and flights and shoals of the gregarious animals, 

 as would secure them from extinction but then, 

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Daughter of sin, among th' irrational 

 Death introduced through fierce antipathy : 

 Beast now with beast 'gan war, and fowl with fowl, 

 And fish with fish ; to graze the herb all leaving, 

 Devour'd each other; nor stood much in awe j{ 



Of man but fled him, or with countenance grim 

 Glar'd on him passing. These were from without 



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Had Adam not fallen, this sad change would, 

 probably, never have taken place, for as the 

 author of the book of wisdom argues : " God 

 made not death, neither hath he pleasure in the 

 destruction of the living. For he created all things 

 that they might have their being ; and the genera- 

 tions of the ivorld were healthful; and there is no 



1 Isaiah, Ixv. 25. 



