when i have seen by time's fell hand defaced
the rich-proud cost of outworn buried age
when sometime lofty towers i see down-razed
and brass eternal slave to mortal rage
when i have seen the hungry ocean gain
advantage on the kingdom of the shore
and the firm soil win of the watery main
increasing store with loss and loss with store
when i have seen such interchange of state
or state it self confounded to decay