at once as he named the ineffable Name,
And pile him a palace straight, to pleasure the princess he loved!

--
St. 1. The leading sentence, "Would that the structure brave", etc.,
is interrupted by the comparison, "as when Solomon willed", etc.,
and continued in the 2d stanza, "Would it might tarry like his", etc.;
the construction of the comparison is, "as when Solomon willed
that armies of angels, legions of devils, etc., should rush into sight
and pile him a palace straight"; the reference is to the legends
of the Koran in regard to Solomon's magical powers.

2.

Would it might tarry like his, the beautiful building of mine,
This which my keys in a crowd pressed and importuned to raise!
Ah, one and all, how they helped, would dispart now and now combine,
Zealous to hasten the work, heighten their master his praise!
And one would bury his brow with a blind plunge down to hell,
Burrow a while and build, broad on the roots of things,
Then up again swim into sight, having based me my palace well,
Founded it, fearless of flame, flat on the nether springs.

--
St. 2. the beautiful building of mine: "Of all our senses,
hearing seems to be the most poetical; and because it requires
most imagination. We do not simply listen to sounds,
but whether they be articulate or inarticulate, we are constantly
translating them into the language of sight, with which we are
better acquainted; and this is a work of the imaginative faculty."
--`Poetics: an Essay on Poetry'. By E. S. Dallas.

The idea expressed in the above extract is beautifully embodied
in the following lines from Coleridge's `Kubla Khan':--

"It was a miracle of rare device,
A sunny pleasure-dome, with caves of ice!
A damsel with a dulcimer
In a vision once I saw:
It was an Abyssinian maid,
And on her dulcimer she played,
Singing of Mount Abora.
Could I revive within me
Her symphony and song,
To such a deep delight 'twould win me,
That with music loud and long,
I would build that dome in air,
That sunny dome! those caves of ice!
And all who HEARD should SEE them there", etc.

3.

And another would mount and march, like the excellent minion he was,
Ay, another and yet another, one crowd but with many a crest,
Raising my rampired walls of gold as transparent as glass,
Eager to do and die, yield each his place to th