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Down under the foundation of the earth.

The Immortal formed, since they wrought many evils.

Was the most faithful Noah, full of care

In thyself and to all the people preach

The whole race I will utterly destroy

Of planks strong and impervious to the wet.

Do thou discern. I clothe me with the heaven,

And cast the sea around me, and for me

Earth is a footstool, and the air is poured

Around me runs the chorus of the stars.

Around me runs the chorus of the stars.

I am; discern me. The first three have each

Two letters, the remaining one the rest,

Two letters, the remaining one the rest,

And five are mates; and of the entire sum

The hundreds are twice eight and thrice three tens

The people and began with words like these:

Revere, O mortals, the supremely great

Imperishable, whose dwelling is the sky;

For life of cities and of all the world,

For when the whole unbounded world of men

The air shall be disordered, and from heaven

The fury of the mighty God shall come

The fury of the mighty God shall come

That the immortal Saviour against men

The wrath of God most high not fearing, kept

To the fifth generation to atone!

When Eve's polluted race, in the great earth

And cities, men and all, shall the Earth-shaker

From the depths scatter and their walls destroy.

And then the whole world of unnumbered men

Shall be destroyed by waters. And the winds

O Phrygia, thou shalt from the water's crest

But when now to the lawless generation

He had thus vainly spoken, the Most High

"The time is now come, Noah, to proclaim

Throughout the boundless world even all the things

Throughout the boundless world even all the things

And the wives. Call as many as I bid,

Entered the house of wood; then also went

The other things, as many as God willed

About the lid, and in its polished place

Forthwith the purpose of the God of heaven.

Forthwith the purpose of the God of heaven.

And he massed clouds, and bid the sun's bright disk,

And moon, and stars, and circle of the heaven,

And all the winds together were aroused,

And all the veins of water were unloosed

And from earth's caverns and the tireless deep

Appeared the myriad waters, and the whole

Appeared the myriad waters, and the whole

But on the water swam that wondrous house;

But with its keel it cut the mass of foam

While the loud-babbling waters dashed around.

But when God deluged all the world with rains

By counsels of the Immortal; for he now

The house he opened from the polished wall,

The house he opened from the polished wall,

And looking out upon the mighty mass

And then the air became a little calm,

Since it was weary wetting all the world

How pale and blood-red was the mighty sky

For not yet had the water ebbed away;

He sent the dove once more, to learn if yet

Had ceased the many waters. And she flew

And flew on, and went o'er the earth and, resting

Her body lightly on the humid ground,

Because they hoped to look upon the land.

And coming to the land continued there.

And Noah knew the land was nearer now.

But when on dashing waves the craft divine

It was made fast upon the narrow strand.

There is in Phrygia on the dark mainland

Thence streams of the great river Marsyas spring.

There on a lofty peak the ark abode

When the waters ceased, and then again from heaven

The voice divine of the great God this word

The voice divine of the great God this word

And the three brides, and fill ye all the earth,

And the three brides, and fill ye all the earth,

Thus spoke the voice divine. Then from his couch

Noah, encouraged, hastened on the land,

And all things else went from the wooden house

As eighth, most just of men, when on the waters

Because of counsels of the mighty God.

From the time when the first-formed man appeared;

From the time when the first-formed man appeared;

When I escaped sheer ruin, by the waves

On the fig-tree a many-colored flower,

And afterward the royal power and sway

Self-growing, yielding much corn for the race.

And the foster-fathers, ageless all their days,

And unto Acheron in the abodes

The Lord of Sabaoth gave a noble mind,

Of earth-born men, the Titans. All excel

One language, as of old from the first race

Against the starry heaven. And then the stream

Against the starry heaven. And then the stream

Of the great ocean shall upon them pour

Its raging waters. But the mighty Lord