“Black (for such the quarries yield
Where the sun hath never shone,
Which night only rests upon,
Was the marble floor, which gave
Mirror like some clear dark wave.”

—  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The London Literary Gazette, 1831

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English poet and novelist 1802–1838

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