With some master-mason

His tense brows, critical

Of the loose enginery,

Hint famed devices flat, his rod

Scratching new schemes on the sand:

But read hard the scrawled lines there—

Limned turrets and darkness, chinks of light,

Half beasts snorting into the light,

A phantasmagoria, wild escapade

To our hearts’ clue; just a daring plan