4: PARADISE LOST. tof5tt. Slued from the lake, a fecond multitude With wondrous art found out the maffy ore ; Severing each kind, and feumm'd the bullion drofs ; A third as loon had Entn'd within the ground ?c)c. A various mold ; and from the boiling cells By ftrange conveyance fill'd each hollow nook : As in an Organ from one Waft of wind To many a row of pipes the found-board breaths. Anon out of the earth a fabric huge 710 Rofe like an exhalation, with the found Of dulcet fymphonies, and voices fweet ; Built like a temple, where pilallers round Were fet, and Doric pillars overlaid With golden architrave : nor did there want 715 Cornice or freez., with boffy Iculptures grav'n ; The roof was fretted gold. Not Babylon, Nor great Alcairo fuch mAgnificence Equall'd in all their glories, to infhrine Belus, or Serapis, their Gods ; or feat 720 Their Kings, when 'Egypt with Affyria (trove In wealth and luxury. Th' afcending pile Stood fixt her ftately height, and ftreight the doors Op'ning their brazen folds, difcover wide Within her ample fpaces, o'er the fmooth 725 And level pavement : from the arched roof, Pendent by fubtle magic, many a row Of Harry lamps and blazing creffets, fed With Naphtha and Afphaltus, yielded light As from a fky. The hafty multitude 730 Admiring enter'd, and the work form praife And fome the architect : his hand was known In heav'n by many a tow'red ftruaure high, Where fceptred angels held their refidence, And fate as Princes ; whom the fupreme King 735 Exalted to fuch power, and gave to rule, Each
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