garden-statue

Updated: May 26, 2025

It was her repose that soothed me: moulded clay is not so calm, the marble rose of silence not half so beautifully folded to dreamful rest, so lovely and so still no garden-statue could have been; the cool, soft night infiltrated its tranquillity through all her being.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863