...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. Through utter and through middle darkness borne, With other notes than to the orphan lyre, I sung of...

...Hail, holy light! offspring of Heaven, first born ! Before the sun thou wert; and, at the voice Of Ood, as with a mantle, didst Invest The rising world of...and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite. 4. Hail, lovely pow'r! whose bosom heaves the sigh, When fancy paints the scene of deep distress; Whose...

...Imii 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 , didsl invest The rising world of waters dark and deep , ЛЛ'оп from the void and formless infinite....

...equate the two. The words are these (PL 3.8-12) addressed to light : before the Sun, Before the Heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a Mantle...deep, Won from the void and formless infinite. The passage has been understood to tell us that by God's creative light a finite Chaos ("waters") was won...

...closely associated with the androgynous breeding-hatching Dove that brought life to the waters : [Light] at the voice Of God, as with a Mantle didst invest...and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite. (3.10-12) At the same time, Milton's description of Light investing or clothing the dark and deep waters...

...all things by virtue of light, light qua light extinguishes itself in performing this office.29 Light "as with a Mantle didst invest / The rising world of waters dark and deep" — a mantle that eventually found its way into the new wardrobe of the Emperor, for the world is being...

...light.33 First, he evokes the creation. The light, whether eternal or coeternal, is the light that "with a Mantle didst invest / The rising world of...and deep, / Won from the void and formless infinite" (III. 10- 12). There is another evocation of Genesis in the catalogue of morning and evening, the seasons,...

...the original, created light, to the rifing fun, and to Michael. -before the fun, Before the heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didft inveft The rifing world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formlefs infinite. Firft...

...unapproached Light Dwelt from Eternitie, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate. Or hear'st thou rather pure Ethereal stream, Whose...didst invest The rising world of waters dark and deep, |ohn Mi|ton Won from the void and formless infinite. Seventeenth century G' iOD from God, Light from...

...Light"68 and dwells in the "Bright effluence of bright essence increate" that existed "before the Sun," and at the voice Of God, as with a Mantle didst invest...and deep. Won from the void and formless infinite. (3.1-12) That effluence pours forth to fill the "Male and Female Light" of the created world. Earth...