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Stranger in a Strange Land
Song by Iron Maiden ‧ 1986

Was many years ago that I left home and came this way
I was a young man, full of hope and dreams
But now it seems to me that all is lost and nothing gained
Sometimes things ain't what they seem
No brave new world, no brave new world
No brave new world, no brave new world

Night and day I scan horizon, sea and sky
My spirit wanders endlessly
Until the day will dawn and friends from home discover why
Hear me calling, rescue me
Set me free, set me free
Lost in this place, and leave no trace
Stranger in a strange land
Land of ice and snow
Trapped inside this prison
Lost and far from home
One hundred years have gone and men again they came that way
To find the answer to the mystery
They found his body lying where it fell all that day
Preserved in time for all to see
No brave new world, no brave new world
Lost in this place, and leave no trace
What became of the man that started
All are gone and their souls departed
Left me here in this place
So all alone

Stranger in a strange land
Land of ice and snow
Trapped inside this prison
Lost and far from home
What became of the man that started
All are gone and their souls departed
Left me here in this place
So all alone
Stranger in a strange land
Land of ice and snow
Trapped inside this prison
Lost and far from home
Stranger in a strange land
Land of ice and snow
Trapped inside this prison
Lost and far from home
Stranger in a strange land
Land of ice and snow
Trapped inside this prison
Lost and far from home

Fallen Caryatid Carrying Her Stone
Auguste Rodin French
Founder Coubertin Foundry
modeled 1881, cast 1981

The Gates of Hell became a major source of the wealth of individual sculptures that Rodin created during the last twenty years of the nineteenth century. The portal itself occupied the sculptor for more than a decade. It was still unfinished on the stipulated date of delivery in 1885, and in fact it was never cast in bronze during Rodin's lifetime. Owing to the great size and continuous, unbroken composition of The Gates, the clay models for individual figures and sections of the relief could
not be prevented from drying out and crumbling. Rodin removed them from the framework of the portal and preserved them in the more permanent form of plaster. In the process, many were finished in the round, enlarged, cast in bronze or carved in marble, and presented as individual works of art.
The Fallen Caryatid first appeared as a small, crouching woman at the top of the left pilaster of The Gates. About 1881 Rodin enlarged the figure and added a stone.

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/207511