Or pause) the summit of the Leaning-tower.[85]

Nor[86] less remuneration waits on him

Who having left the Cemetery stands

In the Tower’s shadow, of decline and fall 180

Admonished not without some sense of fear,

Fear that soon vanishes before the sight

Of splendour unextinguished, pomp unscathed,

And beauty unimpaired. Grand in itself,

And for itself, the assemblage, grand and fair 185

To view, and for the mind’s consenting eye