CXXV

As new created in her sculptured sphere,

I saw her rise again translucent, clear,

Robed in the kindling splendour of the sun,

Renascent from the sea of crystal air,

CXXVI

That limpid broke on her rejoicing shore,

Where life’s reviving stream welled evermore

From Nature’s fount, through teeming veins that bred

Man’s countless kin from one redundant core.