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