text:  Many of the battlements are still entire; but feeble seeds falling into the crevices and joints have burst them asunder with the roots of trees growing from them and assisted by the rains have thrown the stones to the earth and over the ruins triumphantly creep mallows and pomegranates; the eagle unmolested builds her nest in the turret once crowded with warriors and on the cold hearthstone lie the fresh bones of the wild-goat dragged thither by the jackals