"Tis said, fantastic ocean doth enfold The likeness of whate'er on land is seen."

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The natural alone is permanent. Fantastic idols may be worshipped for a while; but at length they are overturned by the continual and silent progress of Truth, as the grim statues of Copan have been pushed from their pedestals by the growth of forest-trees, whose seeds were sown by the wind in the ruined walls.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow