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And far as the eye of God could seeDarkness covered everything,Blacker than a hundred midnightsDown in a cypress swamp.
Then God smiled,And the light broke,And the darkness rolled up on one side,And the light stood shining on the other,And God said, "That's good!"
Then God reached out and took the light in His hands,And God rolled the light around in His handsUntil He made the sun;And He set the sun a-blazing in the heavens.And the light that was left from making the sunGod gathered it up in a shining ballAnd flung it against the darkness,Spangling the night with the moon and stars.Then down betweenThe darkness and the lightHe hurled the world;And God said, "That's good!"
Then God himself stepped down—And the sun was on His right hand,And the moon was on His left;The stars were clustered above His head,And the earth was under His feet.And God walked, and where He trodHis footsteps hollowed the valleys outAnd bulged the mountains up.Then He stopped and looked and sawThat the earth was hot and barren.So God stepped over to the edge of the worldAnd He spat out the seven seas;'He batted His eyes, and the lightnings flashed;He clapped His hands, and the thunders rolled;And the waters above the earth came down.The cooling waters came down.

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