Who spread its canopy? Or curtains spun?
Who in this bowling alley bowled the sun?

In these lines, the speaker poses awed, rhetorical questions about the making of the cosmos, using homely, physical metaphors—canopy and curtains for the sky, and a “bowling alley” for the ordered arena of creation. The startling image of someone “bowling” the sun suggests both power and precision: the sun is not random but set in motion and placed by an intentional agent. The questions imply their own answer (God), turning wonder at nature into an act of devotion. The effect is to collapse the distance between everyday colonial life and metaphysical grandeur, making divine creation imaginable through familiar objects and games.