Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume V. Nature. 1904. | | | | II. Light: Day: Night | | Light | | John Milton (1608–1674) |
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“LET there be light,” God said; and forthwith Light | |
| Ethereal, first of things, quintessence pure, | |
| Sprung from the deep; and from her native east | |
| To journey through the aery gloom began, | |
| Sphered in a radiant cloud, for yet the Sun | 5 |
| Was not; she in a cloudy tabernacle | |
| Sojourned the while. God saw the light was good; | |
| And light from darkness by the hemisphere | |
| Divided: light the Day, and darkness Night, | |
| He named. | 10 | | | |
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