Question

"The Ruin" poem. Quote the lines that describe the decline and fall of the city.

Answer 1

The lines that describe the decline and fall of the city are the following:

• These wall-stones are wondrous —  calamities crumpled them, these city-sites crashed, the work of giants  corrupted.

• The roofs have rushed to earth, towers in ruins.
• The halls of the city  once were bright: there were many bath-houses,  a lofty treasury of peaked roofs, many troop-roads, many mead-halls  filled with human-joys until that terrible chance changed all that.
• Days of misfortune arrived—blows fell broadly— death seized all those sword-stout men—their idol-fanes were laid waste —the city-steads perished.
• This place has sunk into ruin, been broken  into heaps,