To an emperor who reigns ten thousand years,

And through his labyrinthine palace-rooms,

Through courts and colonnades and balconies

Wherein immensity itself is mazed,

I seek the golden gorget he hath lost,

On which the names of his conniving stars

Are writ in little sapphires; and I roam

For centuries, and hear the brazen clocks

Innumerably clang with such a sound

As brazen hammers make, by devils dinned