"the ruin" poem. quote the lines that describe the decline and fall of the city.

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,

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