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Metamorphoses

Book 6, Line 14 by Henry T. Riley (English)

Still did she weep on; and, enveloped in a hurricane of mighty wind, she was borne away to her native land. There, fixed on the top of a mountain, she dissolves; and even yet does the marble distil tears.

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