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lecl; its fimpler greatnefs on the page of 

 Mofes, and on its fublime paraphrafe in the 

 [ Paradife Loft. The creation in this poem 

 is aftronomic, and involves the univerfe ; 

 and as fuch is of excellence yet unequalled 

 in its kind, and never to be excelled in the 

 grandeur of its conceptions* 



Let there be light, proclaim'd th' Almighty Lord, 

 A fionim'd Chaos heard the potent word j 

 Through all his realms the kindling ether runs, 

 And the mafs Harts into a million funs. 

 Earths round each fun, with quick explofion, burll, 

 And fecond planets iffue from the firft $ * 

 JBend, as they journey, with projectile force, 

 Jn bright ellipfis, their reluctant courfe ; 

 Orbs wheel in orbs, round centres centres roll, 

 And form, felf-balanc'd, one revolving whole; 

 Onward they move, amid their bright abode, 

 Space without bound, the bofom of their God. 



The word of the Creator, by an allufion to 

 theeffeds of a fparkupongunpowder,fetting 

 into inftant and universal blaze the ignited 

 particles in Chaos, till they burft into count- 



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