In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.  And the earth was without form, and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep.

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And the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.  And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.

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And God saw the light; that it was good, and God divided the light from the darkness.

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Despairing cursing rage
Attends their rapid fall.
A new created world
Springs up at God's command.

And God made the firmament and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament, and it was so.

Outrageous storms now dreadful arise
As chaff by winds are impelled the clouds.
By heaven's fire the sky is enflamed,
And awful roll the tunders on high.
Now from the floods in steams ascend
Reviving showers of rain,
The dreary, wasteful hail,
The light and flaky snow.

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The marv'lous work beholds amazed
The glorious hierarchy of heav'n
And to th' ethereal vaults resounds
The praise of God
And of the second day.

And to th' ethereal vaults resounds
The praise of God
And of the second day.

And God said, "Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear," and it was so.  And God called the dry land Earth and the gathering of waters called the Seas, and God saw that it was good.

Rolling in foaming billows
Uplifted roars the boist'rous sea.
Mountains and rocks now emerge.
Their tops into the clouds ascend
Through open plains outstretching wide,
In serpent error rivers flow.
Softly purling gildeth on 
Through silent vales the limpid brook.

And God said, "Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself upon the earth," and it was so.

With verdure clad the fields appear
Delightful to the ravished sense;
By flowers sweet and gay
Enhanced is the charming sight.
Here vent their fumes the fragrant herbs.
Here shoots the healing plant.
by loads of fruits th' expanded boughs are pressed.
To shady vaults are bent the tufty groves;
The mountain's brow is crowned with closed wood.

And the heavenly host proclaimed the third day, praising God and saying:

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"Awake the harp, the lyre awake!
In shout and joy your voices raise!
In triumph sing the might Lord!
For He the heavens and earth has clothed in stately dress."

And God said, "Let there be lights in the firmament of heaven to divide the day from the night and to give light upon the earth; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and for years".  He made the stars also.

In splendor bright is rising now
The sun, and darts his rays,
An am'rous, joyful, happy spouse,
A giant proud run his measured course.
With softer beams and milder light steps on
The silver moon through silent night
The space immense of th' azure sky
Innum'rous host of radiant orbs adorns
And the sons of God announced the fourth day
In song divine, proclaiming thus His pow'r.

The heavens are telling the glory of God,
The firmament displays
The wonder of His works.

Today that is coming speaks in the day,;
The night that is gone, to following night.