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And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

Therefore of clay, base, vile, and next to naught,
Yet formed by wondrous skill, and by His might,
According to an heavenly patterne wrought,
Which He had fashioned in His wise foresight,
He man did make, and breathed a living spright
Into his face, most beautifull and fayre,
Endewed with wisedome's riches, heavenly, rare.

Such He him made, that he resemble might
Himselfe, as mortall thing immortall could;
Him to be lord of every living wight

He made by love out of His owne like mould,
In whom He might His mightie selfe behould :
For Love doth love the thing beloved to see,
That like itselfe in lovely shape may bee.

And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so. And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

Blessed that eve!

The Sabbath's harbinger, when, all complete
In freshest beauty from Jehovah's hand,
Creation bloomed; when Eden's twilight face
Smiled like a sleeping babe: the voice divine
A holy calm breathed o'er the goodly work:
Mildly the sun upon the loftiest tree

Shed mellowly a sloping beam. Peace reigned,
And love, and gratitude; the human pair

Their orisons poured forth; love, concord reigned.

Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.

With silent awe I hail the sacred morn,

Which slowly wakes while all the fields are still :
A soothing calm on every breeze is borne,
A graver murmur gurgles from the rill,
And Echo answers softer from the hill,
And softer sings the linnet from the thorn,

The sky-lark warbles in a tone less shrill.
Hail, light serene! hail, sacred Sabbath morn!
The rooks float silent by in airy drove;

The sun a placid yellow lustre shows;

The gales, that lately sighed along the grove,
Have hushed their downy wings in dead repose;
The hovering rack of clouds forget to move :
So smiled the day when the first morn arose !

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THESE are Thy glorious works, Parent of good!
Almighty! Thine this universal frame,
Thus wondrous fair; Thyself how wondrous then!
Unspeakable, who sitt'st above these heavens
To us invisible, or dimly seen

In these Thy lowest works; yet these declare
Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Speak ye, who best can tell, ye sons of light,
Angels! for ye behold Him, and with songs
And choral symphonies, day without night,
Circle His throne, rejoicing; ye in heaven.
On earth join all ye creatures to extol

Him first, Him last, Him midst, and without end.

HESE are the generations of the heavens and of the earth.

THES

when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made.

the earth and the heavens, and every plant of the field before

it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew:
for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and
there was not a man to till the ground. But there went up
a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and
breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became
a living soul.

When God did man to His own likeness make,
As much as clay, though of the purest kind,

By the great potter's art refined,
Could the divine impression take,
He thought it fit to place him where
A kind of heaven too did appear,

As far as earth could such a likeness bear:
That man no happiness might want,
Which earth to her first master could afford,
He did a Garden for him plant

By the quick hand of His omnipotent word.
As the chief help and joy of human life,

He gave him the first gift; first, even before a wife.

And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads. The name of the first is Pison that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold; and the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone. And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia. And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates. And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him. And out of the

ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof. And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found a help meet for him. And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof. And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.

When out of hope, behold her, not far off,
Such as I saw her in my dream, adorned
With what all earth or heaven could bestow
To make her amiable. On she came,
Led by her heavenly Maker, though unseen,
And guided by His voice; not uninformed
Of nuptial sanctity, and marriage rites.
Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye,
In every gesture dignity and love.

And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall,
Godlike erect, with native honour clad,
In naked majesty seemed lords of all:
And worthy seemed; for in their looks divine
The image of their glorious Maker shone,
Truth, wisdom, sanctitude severe and pure,
(Severe, but in true filial freedom placed,)
Whence true authority in men; though both
Not equal, as their sex not equal seemed:
For contemplation he and valour formed;
For softness she and sweet attractive grace:
He for God only, she for God and him.

O lovely, happy, blest, immortal pair!
Pleased with the present, full of glorious hope.
But short, alas, the song that sung their bliss!
Henceforth the history of man grows dark :

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At first, as one who sought access, but feared
To interrupt, sidelong he works his way.
As when a ship by skilful steersman wrought
Nigh river's mouth or foreland, where the wind
Veers oft, as oft so steers, and shifts her sail :
So varied he, and of his tortuous train

Curled many a wanton wreath in sight of Eve,
To lure her eyes.

the serpent was more subtile than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die : for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened;

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