Quote#Nature
Before the Sea and Lande were made, and Heaven that all doth hide
Quote byArthur Golding · 1536–1606
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Metamorphosis (1567; rev. 1575), Book I (The Creation).
English (original)
Before the Sea and Lande were made, and Heaven that all doth hide, In all the worlde one onely face of nature did abide, Which Chaos hight, a huge rude heape, and nothing else but even A heavie lump and clottred clod of seedes togither driven, Of things at strife among themselves, for want of order due.
— Arthur Golding
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