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Yea... but we know that light comes from fusion happening inside the sun, so the light on day 1 must be some other kind of light. Some spiritual light? Not sure how plants can photosynthesize that.



We know that, but the author of the poem didn't. During the day, light seems to come from everywhere, and not just the sun. Raleigh refraction was not a familiar concept at the time.


Author didn't know what he was talking about and any relation of his writings to actual reality is purely accidental.




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