Commanded to Behold the Skies, Ovid.

The creation of human beings, from Ovid’s Metamorphoses.

On earth the brute creation bends its gaze,
but man was given a lofty countenance
and was commanded to behold the skies;
and with an upright face may view the stars:—
and so it was that shapeless clay put on
the form of man till then unknown to earth.

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