Hurrying to intermix their sister tides,

Where still their silver-bosom’d nymphs abhor

The blood-smear’d mansion of gigantic Thor—

Erst fires volcanic in the marble womb

Of cloud-wrapp’d Whetton rais’d the massy dome;

Rocks rear’d on rocks, in huge disjointed piles,

Form the tall turrets, and the lengthen’d aisles;

Broad pond’rous piers sustain the roof, and wide

Branch the vast rainbow ribs from side to side.

While from above, descends, in milky streams,