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* * * * * * * * * Paradise Lost, Book VII And thou their natures knowest, and gavest them names, Needless to thee repeated; nor unknown 495 The serpent, subtlest beast of all the field, Of huge extent sometimes, with brazen eyes And hairy mane terrific, though to thee Not noxious, but obedient at thy call. Now Heaven in all her glory shone, and rolled 500 Her motions, as the great first Movers hand First wheeled their course: Earth in her rich attire Consummate lovely smiled; air, water, earth, By fowl, fish, beast, was flown, was swum, was walked, Frequent; and of the sixth day yet remained: 505 There wanted yet the master-work, the end Of all yet done; a creature, who, not prone And brute as other creatures, but endued Paradise Lost, Book VII With sanctity of reason, might erect His stature, and upright with front serene 510 Govern the rest, self-knowing; and from thence Magnanimous to correspond with Heaven, But grateful to acknowledge whence his good Descends, thither with heart, and voice, and eyes Directed in devotion, to adore 515 And worship God Supreme, who made him chief Of all his works: therefore the Omnipotent Eternal Father (for where is not he Present?) thus to his Son audibly spake. Let us make now Man in our image, Man 520 In our similitude, and let them rule Over the fish and fowl of sea and air, Beast of the field, and over all the Earth, Paradise Lost, Book VII And every creeping thing that creeps the ground. This said, he formed thee, Adam, thee, O Man, 525 Dust of the ground, and in thy nostrils breathed The breath of life; in his own image he Created thee, in the image of God Express; and thou becamest a living soul. Male he created thee; but thy consort 530 Female, for race; then blessed mankind, and said, Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the Earth; Subdue it, and throughout dominion hold Over fish of the sea, and fowl of the air, And every living thing that moves on the Earth. 535 Where