Christianity and Greek Philosophy / or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles

by B. F. Cocker

By showers and sunshine ushered into day. [⁸⁰³]

Whence less stupendous tribes should then have risen

More, and of ampler make, herself new-formed,

In flower of youth, and Ether all mature. [⁸⁰⁴]

Of these birds first, of wing and plume diverse,

Broke their light shells in spring-time: as in spring

Still breaks the grasshopper his curious web,

And seeks, spontaneous, foods and vital air.

Then rushed the ranks of mortals; for the soil,

Exuberant then, with warmth and moisture teemed.