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396 THE DIAMOND
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And diamonds put forth radiant rods and bud With amethyst and topaz."
Lowell,
" Strewed moss and grass with diamonds bright," and one of Moore's
angels, telling in his story of a maiden of Earth, says:
" While playfully around her breaking The waters that like diamonds shone, She moved in light of her own making."
Shelley too, saw:
—" Many a fountain, rivulet and pond, As clear as elemental diamond."
The gem has place in a pretty conceit of Lowell's in " Beaver Brook " :
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The miller dreams not at what cost The quivering millstones hum and
whirl, Nor how for every turn are tost Armfuls of diamonds and of
pearls."
It
is a recognition of the precious if vagrant beauties with which the sun
delights the eye wherever waters are broken, or snows crust, and which,
because they are without money and without price, are therefore dearer
to the hearts of some than the costly gem which Nature has endowed with
the same glories permanent and unÂassailable.
Schiller
puts the flashlights of frosted snow in his descriptive posy, " The Lay
of the Mountain," where he describes the everlasting avalanche as a
queen:
" And wondrous the diamonds that blaze in the crown
That encircles her temples sublime."
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