Whom she with dark embrace of Erebus
Commingling bore.
“Her first-born Earth produced
Of like immensity,[158] the starry Heaven:
That he might sheltering compass her around
On every side, and be for evermore
To the blest gods a mansion unremoved.
“Next the high hills arose, the pleasant haunts
Of goddess-nymphs, who dwell among the glens
Of mountains. With no aid of tender love