All the World Was Broken [dactylic pentameter version] Light and more light: in the dawning of days it was kindled; Upward on weightless and luminous pinions God sent them, Barbary doves in their beauty and confident ravens, Great-winged condors majestically circling heaven. Over the broad and immeasurable grasslands he set there Wild sheep ranging, and bison of powerful shoulder, Also the forests with splendid eucalyptus standing, Firs everlasting and dark with their purple