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Confusion heard His voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till, at His second bidding, darkness fled, Light shone, and order from disorder sprung: Swift to their several quarters hasted then The cumbrous elements, Earth, Flood, Air, Fire; And this ethereal quintessence of Heaven Flew upward, spirited with various forms, That rolled orbicular, and turned to stars Numberless, as thou seest, and how they move: Each had his place appointed, each his course.
Confusion heard His voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till, at His second bidding, darkness fled, Light shone, and order from disorder sprung: Swift to their several quarters hasted then The cumbrous elements, Earth, Flood, Air, Fire; And this ethereal quintessence of Heaven Flew upward, spirited with various forms, That rolled orbicular, and turned to stars Numberless, as thou seest, and how they move: Each had his place appointed, each his course.
Approximate author period: c. 1641 AD · renaissance
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- John Milton
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- Approximate author period: c. 1641 AD · renaissance
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 568 · printed citation: Milton · subject: STARS
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