Or, less reluctantly to bonds of sense
Yielding his soul, the Babylonian framed
For influence undefined a personal shape;
And, from the plain, with toil immense, upreared
Tower eight times planted on the top of tower,
That Belus, nightly to his splendid couch
Descending, there might rest;[FD] upon that height
Pure and serene, diffused—to overlook[362]
Winding Euphrates, and the city vast
Of his devoted worshippers, far-stretched,