He
magnified the almighty word that spoke it into form. He sung of the
loose and fenny soil which gradually acquired firmness and density. The
immeasurable, eternal caverns of the ocean were scooped. The waters
rushed along, and fell with resounding, foamy violence to the depth
below. The sun shone forth from his chamber in the east, and the earth
wondered at the object, and smiled beneath his beams. Suddenly the
whole face of it was adorned with a verdant, undulating robe. The purple
violet and the yellow crocus bestrewed the ground. The stately oak
reared its branchy head, and the trees and shrubs burst from the surface
of the earth. Impregnated by power divine, the soil was prolific in
other fruits than these. The clods appeared to be informed with a
conscious spirit, and gradually assumed a thousand various forms. The
animated earth seemed to paw the verdant mead, and to despise the mould
from which it came. A disdainful horse, it shook its flowing mane, and
snuffed the enlivening breeze, and stretched along the plain. The
red-eyed wolf and the unwieldy ox burst like the mole the concealing
continent, and threw the earth in hillocs. The stag upreared his
branching head. The thinly scattered animals wandered among the
unfrequented hills, and cropped the untasted herb.
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