the Great Sphinx of Gizeh

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
           mineral muteness                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
           ambiguous and desolate                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
           ceaselessly scanning                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
           astonished eye                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
           of fossilised sphinx