Order and Disorder
It is a miracle of grace and mercy, if such be not depriv’d of the light of Truth, who having shut their eyes against that Sun, have, instead of looking up to it, hunted gloworms in the ditch bottoms.
Lucy
Hutchinson
Hutchinson
Order and Disorder
Or, The World Made and Undone. Being Meditations upon the Creation and the Fall; As it is recorded in the beginning of Genesis
Lucy Hutchinson
Misattributed for 400 years, this beginning of the greatest epic rarely read stands as a personal reconstruction of faith by a stalwart woman, Puritan and poet during England’s Century of Revolution.
Contents
LONDON: MARGARET WHITE FOR HENRY MORTLOCK, 1679
NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2009
NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2009
Canto I.
Meditations on the Creation,
As recorded in the First Chapter of Genesis
As recorded in the First Chapter of Genesis