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Rh "The blood forsook her face: amidst the flood "Pour'd from her cheeks, quite fix'd her eye-balls stood. "Her tongue, her palate both obdurate grew, "Her curdled veins no longer motion knew; "The use of neck, and arms, and feet was gone, "And ev'n her bowels hard'ned into stone: "A marble statue now the queen appears, "But from the marble steal the silent tears." Rh