Deckt with the sixty crowns of Asia,
Received her next, wearing for cognizance
Earth, of which Asia is the largest piece;
Which Earth again carried a lion’s mane,
As proclamation of her noblest growth.
Clara. Thence passing on, came to where Africa,
Her waste of arid desert embleming
By Fire, whose incarnation, the Sun,
Burn’d on this arch as in his house in heaven,
Bore record of the trophies two great Queens