按键盘上方向键 ← 或 → 可快速上下翻页,按键盘上的 Enter 键可回到本书目录页,按键盘上方向键 ↑ 可回到本页顶部!
————未阅读完?加入书签已便下次继续阅读!
divided: light the day; and darkness night
he namd。 thus was the first day eevn and morn:
nor past uncelebrated; nor unsung
by the celestial quires; when orient light
exhaling first from darkness they beheld; ' 255 '
birth…day of heavn and earth; with joy and shout
the hollow universal orb they filld;
and touchd thir golden harps; and hymning praisd
god and his works; creatour him they sung;
both when first eevning was; and when first morn。 ' 260 '
again; god said; let ther be firmament
amid the waters; and let it divide
the waters from the waters: and god made
the firmament; expanse of liquid; pure;
transparent; elemental air; diffusd ' 265 '
in circuit to the uttermost convex
of this great round: partition firm and sure;
the waters underneath from those above
dividing: for as earth; so he the world
built on circumfluous waters calme; in wide ' 270 '
crystallin ocean; and the loud misrule
of chaos farr removd; least fierce extreames
contiguous might distemper the whole frame:
and heavn he namd the firmament: so eevn
and morning chorus sung the second day。 ' 275 '
the earth was formd; but in the womb as yet
of waters; embryon immature involvd;
appeerd not: over all the face of earth
main ocean flowd; not idle; but with warme
prolific humour softning all her globe; ' 280 '
fermented the great mother to conceave;
satiate with genial moisture; when god said
be gatherd now ye waters under heavn
into one place; and let dry land appeer。
Paradise Lost Ⅶ7
,
immediately the mountains huge appeer ' 285 '
emergent; and thir broad bare backs upheave
into the clouds; thir tops ascend the skie:
so high as heavd the tumid hills; so low
down sunk a hollow bottom broad and deep;
capacious bed of waters: thither they ' 290 '
hasted with glad precipitance; uprowld
as drops on dust conglobing from the drie;
part rise in crystal wall; or ridge direct;
for haste; such flight the great mand impressd
on the swift flouds: as armies at the call ' 295 '
of trumpet (for of armies thou hast heard)
troop to thir standard; so the watrie throng;
wave rowling after wave; where way they found;
if steep; with torrent rapture; if through plaine;
soft…ebbing; nor withstood them rock or hill; ' 300 '
but they; or under ground; or circuit wide
with serpent errour wandring; found thir way;
and on the washie oose deep channels wore;
easie; ere god had bid the ground be drie;
all but within those banks; where rivers now ' 305 '
stream; and perpetual draw thir humid traine。
the dry land; earth; and the great receptacle
of congregated waters he calld seas:
and saw that it was good; and said; let th earth
put forth the verdant grass; herb yielding seed; ' 310 '
and fruit tree yielding fruit after her kind;
whose seed is in her self upon the earth。
he scarce had said; when the bare earth; till then
desert and bare; unsightly; unadornd;
brought forth the tender grass; whose verdure clad ' 315 '
her universal face with pleasant green;
then herbs of every leaf; that sudden flourd
opning thir various colours; and made gay
her bosom smelling sweet: and these scarce blown;
forth flourisht thick the clustring vine; forth crept ' 320 '
the smelling gourd; up stood the cornie reed
embattelld in her field: and the humble shrub;
and bush with frizld hair implicit: last
rose as in dance the stately trees; and spred
thir branches hung with copious fruit; or gemmd ' 325 '
thir blossoms: with high woods the hills were crownd;
with tufts the vallies and each fountain side;
with borders long the rivers。 that earth now
seemd like to heavn; a seat where gods might dwell;
or wander with delight; and love to haunt ' 330 '
her sacred shades: though god had yet not raind
upon the earth; and man to till the ground
none was; but from the earth a dewie mist
went up and waterd all the ground; and each
plant of the field; which ere it was in the earth ' 335 '
god made; and every herb; before it grew
on the green stemm; god saw that it was good。
。。!
Paradise Lost Ⅶ8
@小‘说〃网
so eevn and morn recorded the third day。
again th almightie spake: let there be lights
high in th expanse of heaven to divide ' 340 '
the day from night; and let them be for signes;
for seasons; and for dayes; and circling years;
and let them be for lights as i ordaine
thir office in the firmament of heavn
to give light on the earth; and it was so。 ' 345 '
and god made two great lights; great for thir use
to man; the greater to have rule by day;
the less by night alterne: and made the starrs;
and set them in the firmament of heavn
to illuminate the earth; and rule the day ' 350 '
in thir vicissitude; and rule the night;
and light from darkness to divide。 god saw;
surveying his great work; that it was good:
for of celestial bodies first the sun
a mightie spheare he framd; unlightsom first; ' 355 '
though of ethereal mould: then formd the moon
globose; and every magnitude of starrs;
and sowd with starrs the heavn thick as a field:
of light by farr the greater part he took;
transplanted from her cloudie shrine; and placd ' 360 '
in the suns orb; made porous to receive
and drink the liquid light; firm to retaine
her gatherd beams; great palace now of light。
hither as to thir fountain other starrs
repairing; in thir goldn urns draw light; ' 365 '
and hence the morning planet guilds her horns;
by tincture or reflection they augment
thir small peculiar; though from human sight
so farr remote; with diminution seen。
first in his east the glorious lamp was seen; ' 370 '
regent of day; and all th horizon round
invested with bright rayes; jocond to run
his longitude through heavns high rode: the gray
dawn; and the pleiades before him dancd
shedding sweet influence: less bright the moon; ' 375 '
but opposite in leveld west was set
his mirror; with full face borrowing her light
from him; for other light she needed none
in that aspect; a