![]() Not far along the margin of the shores had Amphitrite stretched her lengthened arms,-for all the land was mixed with sea and air. As yet the sun afforded earth no light, nor did the moon renew her crescent horns the earth was not suspended in the air exactly balanced by her heavy weight. It was a rude and undeveloped mass, that nothing made except a ponderous weight and all discordant elements confused, were there congested in a shapeless heap. Before the ocean and the earth appeared-before the skies had overspread them all-the face of Nature in a vast expanse was naught but Chaos uniformly waste. My soul is wrought to sing of forms transformed to bodies new and strange! Immortal Gods inspire my heart, for ye have changed yourselves and all things you have changed! Oh lead my song in smooth and measured strains, from olden days when earth began to this completed time! CREATION OF THE COSMOS ![]() ![]() Julius Caesar METAMORPHOSES BOOK 1, TRANSLATED BY BROOKES MORE INVOCATION ![]()
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