Get out the microscope, because we’re going through this poem line-by-line.
Lines 25-30
It was the rampart of God's house
That she was standing on:
By God built over the sheer depth
The which is Space begun;
So high, that looking downward thence
She scarce could see the sun.
- After the brief aside of stanza 4, we're back to learning more about the young woman in heaven.
- She's standing on a "rampart," or protective wall, around "God's house" (25).
- It sounds like God's got a pretty expansive stack of bricks. It's as large as "Space" itself and so high up that our damsel can barely even see the sun.
- We hope she's not afraid of heights.