...quaternion run Perpetual circle, multiform, and mix And nourish all things, let your ceaseless change Vary to our great Maker still new praise. Ye Mists...great Author rise; Whether to deck with clouds the uncoloured sky, Or wet the thirsty earth with falling showers, Rising or falling, still advance his...

...still new praise. Ye mists and exhalations, that now rise From hill or steaming lake, dusky, or grey, Till the sun paint your fleecy skirts with gold, —...His praise, ye winds ! that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft, or loud ! and wave your tops, ye pines ! With every plant, in sign of worship, wave....

...Paradise Lost indicate, are very near indeed. 37 Adam invokes the mists in his hymn to God's glory: "Ye mists and exhalations that now rise / From hill...Till the sun paint your fleecy skirts with gold, / In honor to the world's great Author rise" (PL 5.185—8). On the level of pure echo, one might make the...