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/ What ogive gates from gold of Ophir wrought, / What walls of bastioned Parian, lucid rose, / What marts of crystal, for the eyes of Thought / Hast builded on what Islands of Repose! / Vague onyx columns ranked Corinthian, / Or piled Ionic, colonnading heights / That loom above long burst of mythic seas: / Vast gynaeceums of carnelian; / Micaceous temples, far marmorean flights, / Where winds the arabesque and plastique frieze.
/ Where bulbous domes of coruscating ore / Cloud -- like convulsive sunsets -- lands that dream, / Myrrh-fragrant, over siren seas and hoar, / Dashed with stiff, breezy foam of ocean's stream. / Tempestuous architecture-revelries; / Built melodies of marble or clear glass; / Effulgent sculptures chiseled out of thought / In misty attitudes, whose majesties / Feed full the pleasure as those beauties pass / To pale extinctions which are beauty fraught.