And fast by hanging in a golden Chain
This pendant world, in bigness as a Star
Of smallest Magnitude close by the Moon.

Sources:

“Docking a Big Liner, S.S. Oceanic,” 1903. Detroit Publishing Company Collection, Library of Congress, http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/det1994011034/PP/. Photoshopped.

Paradise Lost II.1051-53.