Cow.
–Best the Cow
Of Aspect sour: her Head unshap’d and large,
Her hanging Neck enormous: from her Chin
Her swagging Dewlaps to her Knees depend.
Her Flank of Length unmeasur’d: all Parts huge:
Her Feet too: and beneath her crankled Horns
Her Ears uncouth and rough. Nor shall her Form
Be disapprov’d, whose Skin with Spots of white
Is vary’d: or who struggles with the Yoke,
And sometimes pushes with the Horn, in Front
A Bull resembles, tall, and big all o’er,
And with her Tail, in walking, sweeps the Ground.
Their Age for just Connubials fit, begins
After four Years: before the Tenth, expires:
The rest unapt for Teeming, and of Strength
Unequal to the Plough.–
Creation.
See Chaos. God.
First, that the Earth might regular appear,
He rounds the Figure to a perfect Sphere:
Then bad the Sea to roll:–and Winds he gave
To swell the Surges of the rising Wave:
The rising Wave commission’d to explore
The compass’d Earth, and bound it with a Shore.
The running Springs he adds, and standing Lakes,
And bounding Banks for winding Rivers makes:
Earth drinks in some; the rest their watry Train
Roll on, and pour their Treasures in the Main:
Where, in their narrow Banks confin’d no more,
They freer rage, and lash the sounding Shore.
He bad the Woods be cloth’d, the Plains extend,
Subside the Vallies, and the Rocks ascend.
The spacious Fields of Air, suspended high,
Inclose the Ball, and skirt it with the Sky:
Weighty, with Fire, with Earth compared, light,
The winged Air between them takes it’s Flight.
Thick Clouds o’erspread, and Storms engender there,
And Thunder’s Voice, which wretched Mortals fear,
And Winds with Lightnings mixt, thence shiv’ring Winter bear.
Far above these, in Order and in Place,
The wise Creator fix’d the heav’nly Space;
Fields of pure
(Henry Baker)
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