“Pillars are fallen at thy feet,
Fanes quiver in the air,
A prostrate city is thy seat,
And thou alone art there.”

—  Lydia Maria Child

Marius amid the Ruins of Carthage

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American abolitionist, author and women's rights activist 1802–1880

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