Or hear'st thou rather pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell? Before the sun, Before the heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle didst invest The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite. An Introduction to Astronomy ... - Page 289by John Bonnycastle - 1816 - 428 pagesFull view - About this book
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...thou rather, pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell ? before the Sun, Before the heavens thou wert, and, at the voice Of God, as with a mantle...and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite. SOLAR PHENOMENA. Light. The phenomena of light and vision have always been held to constitute a most... | |
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