AND HYMNS.

4 The liquid element below

Was gather'd by his hand: The rolling feas together flow, And leave the folid land.

5 With herbs and plants( a flow'ry birth) The naked globe he crown'd,

Ere there was rain to blefs the earth, Or fun to warm the ground.

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6 Then he adorn'd the upper fkies;

Behold the fun appears!

The moon and ſtars in order rife To mark out months and years.

7 Out of the deep th' Almighty King Did vital beings frame, The painted fowls of ev'ry wing, And fifh of ev'ry name.

8 He gave the lion and the worm At once their wondrous birth, And grazing beafts of various form Rofe from the teeming earth.

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9 Adam was fram'd of equal clay, Tho' fov'reign of the reft, Defign'd for nobler ends than they, With God's own image blefs'd.

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