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If, in the silent mind of One all-pure, / At first imagin'd lay / The sacred world; and by procession sure / From those still deeps, in form and colour drest, / Seasons alternating, and night and day, / The long-mus'd thought to north south east and west / Took then its all-seen way: / O waking on a world which thus-wise springs!
Whether it needs thee count / Betwixt thy waking and the birth of things / Ages or hours: O waking on Life's stream!