Nor great Alcairo such magnificence

Severing each kind, and scumd the Bullion dross:

In wealth and luxurie. Th ascending pile

Nigh on the Plain in many cells prepard, [ 700 ]

Rose like an Exhalation, with the sound

And level pavement: from the arched roof

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Of Starry Lamps and blazing Cressets fed

That underneath had veins of liquid fire

And some the Architect: his hand was known

Where Scepterd Angels held thir residence,

With wondrous Art found out the massie Ore,

Equald in all thir glories, to inshrine

Built like a Temple, where Pilasters round

As in an Organ from one blast of wind

Thir Kings, when Ægypt with Assyria strove

Opning thir brazen foulds discover wide

Slucd from the Lake, a second multitude

With Naphtha and Asphaltus yeilded light

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A third as soon had formd within the ground [ 705 ]

Exalted to such power, and gave to rule,

To many a row of Pipes the sound-board breaths.

A various mould, and from the boyling cells

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By strange conveyance filld each hollow nook,

Pendant by suttle Magic many a row

In Heavn by many a Towred structure high,

Within, her ample spaces, ore the smooth [ 725 ]

Were set, and Doric pillars overlaid

With Golden Architrave; nor did there want [ 715 ]

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Belus or Serapis thir Gods, or seat [ 720 ]

Of Dulcet Symphonies and voices sweet,

Stood fixt her stately highth, and strait the dores

As from a sky. The hasty multitude [ 730 ]

Anon out of the earth a Fabrick huge [ 710 ]

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