And God blessed them, saying: Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters of the sea; And let the birds multiply in the land. And there was evening and there was morning: a fifth day. SIXTH STROPHE. And God said, Let the land bring forth living souls after their kind: Cattle, and creeping things, and land-animals after their kind: And it was so. And God made land-animals after their kind, And cattle after their kind, And all creeping things after their kind. REFRAIN--_And God saw that it was good._ And God said, Let us make MAN in our image, after our likeness; And let him have dominion over the fish of the sea, And over the birds of the heavens, And over the cattle, And over the land, And over all the creeping things that creep upon the land. And God created MAN in his own image; In the image of God created He him: Male and female created He them. And God blessed them; and God said unto them, Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the Earth, and subdue it; And have dominion over the fishes of the sea, And over the birds of the heavens, And over all the animals that creep upon the land. And God said, Behold, I have given you all herbs seeding seed which are upon the face of all the land, And every tree which has seed-inclosed fruit: They shall be unto you for food. And to all land-animals, And to all the birds of the heavens, And to all creeping things upon the land wherein is a living soul, I have given every green herb for food: And it was so. REFRAIN--_And God saw every thing that He had made, and behold it was very good._ And there was evening and there was morning: the sixth day. EPODE. Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, And all the hosts of them. And on the seventh day God put period to the work which He had made; And He rested on the seventh day from all his work which He had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it: Because that in it He rested from all his works which God by making created. Who can read this sublime composition without feeling that it is "a solemn sonnet freighted with a single thought from beginning to end?" In our English Bible, broken up into verses, and split across into two chapters, it is like an image reflected in a shattered mirror; all its real beauty is concealed. But he who can look upon it with a clear eye, and grasp its real unity, must recognize it as a Sacred Hymn composed probably by Adam, and chanted in the tents of the patriarchs at their morning and evening devotions for more than two thousand years, to commemorate the fact and keep alive the faith that _the world is the work of the triune God_.