...gain'd, and when thou fall'st Moon ! that now meet'st the orient sun, now fly'st, With the fix'd stars, fix'd in their orb that flies ; And ye five other...without song ; resound His praise, who out of darkness oall'd up light, ^jr, and ye elements ! the eldest birth Of nature's womb, that in quaternion run Perpetual...

...orient sun, now fliest, With the fixed stars, fixed in their orb that flies, And ye five other wandering fires that move In mystic dance not without song, resound His praise, who out of darkness called up light. Air, and ye elements, the eldest birth Of nature's womb, that in quaternion run Perpetual...

...With the fat Starrs, fat in thir Orb that/ies, And yeefve other wandring Fires that move In myslic Dance not without Song, resound His praise, who out of Darkness call'd up Light. Aire, and ye Elements the eldesl birth Of Natures Womb, tbat in quaternion run Perpetual Circle, multiform;...

...orient sun, now fliest, With the fixed stars, fixed in their orb that flies, And ye five other wandering fires that move In mystic dance not without song, resound His praise, who out of darkness called up light. Air, and ye elements, the eldest birth Of Nature's womb, that in quaternion run Perpetual...

...orient sun, now fli'st With the fixed stars, fixed in their orb that flies. And ye five other wandering fires that move In mystic dance not without song, resound His praise, who out of darkness called up light. Included in this same address we find air, mists, exhalations, pines, fountains, in...

...Sun, now fliest, With the fixed Stars, fixed in their orb that flies ; And ye five other wandering Fires, that move In mystic dance, not without song, resound His praise who out of Darkness called up Light. Air, and ye Elements, the eldest birth Of Nature's womb, that in quaternion run Perpetual...

...without Song, refound His Praife, who out of Darknefs cali'd up Lights Air, and ye Elements, the eldeft Birth Of Nature's Womb, that in quaternion run Perpetual Circle, multiform ; and mix And nouriih all Things, let your ceafelefs Change Vary to our great Maker flul new Praife. Ye Mifts and...

...extol Him first, him last, him midst, and without end. The verse is fitly pentametric for "And yee five other wand'ring Fires that move / In mystic Dance not without Song, resound / His praise," but with a stress shifted to "five" and a skipping step after "Dance." The rhythm again shifts to three...

...the order of the created world, Adam and Eve invoke Aire, and ye Elements the eldest birth Of Natures Womb, that in quaternion run Perpetual Circle, multiform ; and mix And nourish all things.2 The description of the act of creation itself follows of course the Hebrew account in Genesis,...

...Echo of my carefull cryes. An interesting case is furnished by John Milton's Paradise Lost (V, 17879): In mystic dance not without song, resound His praise, who out of darkness called up light. The phrase "resound His praise," which echoes the earlier "sound his praise" (172),...