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There Fire sublimely held supremest height, who by no grosser substance was sustainèd; lending to living things his life and light, since by Prometheus stolen and detainèd.
Behind him, standing high ’yond mortal sight, invis’ible Air a lower place maintainèd— Aether, which conquered ne by Heat ne Cold, ne’er suff’ereth Earth a vacuous space t’ enfold.