Like a marble statue placed, Looking o'er the watery waste, With its white fixed gaze; There the Goddess sits, her eye Raised to the unpitying sky. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon)

Like a marble statue placed, Looking o'er the watery waste, With its white fixed gaze; There the Goddess sits, her eye Raised to the unpitying sky.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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