SoEevnandMornrecordedtheThirdDay.
AgainthAlmightiespake:LettherebeLights
HighinthexpanseofHeaventodivide[340]
TheDayfromNight;ahembefnes,
ForSeasons,andforDayes,andcirgYears,
AhembefhtsasIordaine
ThirOffitheFirmamentofHeavn
TogiveLightoh;anditwasso.[345]
AndGodmadetwogreatLights,greatforthiruse
ToMan,thegreatertohaverulebyDay,
ThelessbyNightalterne:andmadetheStarrs,
AhemintheFirmamentofHeavn
ToillumiheEarth,andruletheDay[350]
Inthirvicissitude,andruletheNight,
AndLightfromDarkodivide.Godsaw,
SurveyinghisgreatWork,thatitwasgood:
ForofCelestialBodiesfirsttheSun
AmightieSpheareheframd,unlightsomfirst,[355]
ThoughofEtherealMould:thenformdtheMolobose,andeverymagnitudeofStarrs,
AndsowdwithStarrstheHeavnthickasafield:
OfLightbyfarrthegreaterparthetook,
TransplantedfromhercloudieShrine,andplacd[360]
IntheSunsOrb,madeporoustoreceive
AnddrinktheliquidLight,firmtoretaine
Hergatherdbeams,greatPalaowofLight.
HitherastothirFountaiarrs
Repairing,inthirgoldnUrnsdrawLight,[365]
AheMPlaguildsherhorns;
Bytinctureorrefletheyaugment
Thirsmallpeculiar,thoughfromhumansight
Sofarrremote,withdiminutionseen.
FirstihegloriousLampwasseen,[37entofDay,andallthHorizonround
IedwithbrightRayes,jodtorun
HisLongitudethroughHeavnshighrode:thegray
Dawn,andthePleiadesbeforehi