Nigh on the Plain in many cells prepard, [ 700 ]
That underh had veins of liquid fire
Slucd from the Lake, a seultitude
With wondrous Art found out the massie Ore,
Severing each kind, and scumd the Bullion dross:
A third as soon had formd within the ground [ 705 ]
A various mould, and from the boyling cells
By strange veyance filld each hollow nook,
As in an an from one blast of wind
To many a row of Pipes the sound-board breaths.
Anon out of the earth a Fabrick huge [ 710 ]
Rose like an Exhalation, with the sound
Of Dulcet Symphonies and voices sweet,
Built like a Temple, where Pilasters round
Were set, and Doric pillars overlaid
With Golden Architrave; nor did there want [ 715 ]
ice or Freeze, with bossy Sculptures gravn,
The Roof was fretted Gold. Not Babilon,
Nreat Alcairo such magnifice
Equald in all thir glories, to inshrine
Belus or Serapis thir Gods, or seat [ 720 ]
Thir Kings, when Ægypt with Assyria strove
Ih and luxurie. Th asding pile
Stood fixt her stately highth, and strait the dores
Opning thir brazen foulds discover wide
Within, her ample spaces, ore the smooth [ 725 ]
And level pavement: from the arched roof
Pendant by suttle Magiy a row
Of Starry Lamps and blazing Cressets fed
With Naphtha and Asphaltus yeilded light
As from a sky. The hasty multitude [ 730 ]
Admirierd, and the work some praise
And some the Architect: his hand was known
In Heavn by many a Towred structure high,
Where Scepterd Angels held thir residence,
And sat as Princes, whom the supreme King [ 735 ]
Exalted to such power, and gave to rule,
Ea his Hierarchie, the Orders bright.