Beside that strangest of the wonders there,
That house itself contain’d a house of prayer.
He told of park and wood, of sun and shade,
And how the lake below the lawn was made;
He spake of feasting such as never boy,
Taught in his school, was fated to enjoy—
Of ladies’ maids as ladies’ selves who dress’d, 730}
And her, his friend, distinguish’d from the rest, }
By grandeur in her look, and state that she possess’d. }
He pass’d not one; his grateful mind o’erflow’d