Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE CROWN JEWELS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR


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THE CROWN JEWELS, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Eye of a god was this blazing stone
Last Line: In the fairy plots of a palace garden.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Crowns; Russia; Saint Petersburg, Russia; Soviet Union; Russians; Leningrad; Petrograd


EYE of a god was this blazing stone,
Beyond the snows of the Himalaya;
These dazzling stars might have lit the zone
Of the Queen of Jove or the Grace, Aglaia;
And the rubies are such as the Burman king
Sends his elephants white to bring,
With a troop of soldiers and high grandees
Greeting the finder, on bended knees.
Here's an emerald rare as the rose of pride
Cortez gave his Castilian bride,
And lustrous-green as the Indian gem
Charlemagne wore in his diadem;
And pearls hard-won by the Ceylonese
From the silent depths of the tropic seas,
While the conjurer muttered his spells ashore
Till the diver's toils for the day were o'er;
And crystals, amber, and amethyst,
That only the Oural caves could harden, --
Bright as blossoms the sun has kissed
In the fairy plots of a palace garden.





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