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CRYSTAL AND CORAL by LOUIS GINSBERG

First Line: EACH TREE IS ARMORED IN ICE. EACH STREET
Last Line: LOST ATLANTIS OF CRYSTAL AND CORAL!
Subject(s): ICE; TREES;

Each tree is armored in ice. Each street
Is tiled with a rich and burnished sleet.

Hedges blazon their magic powers
In efforescence of glassy flowers.

A wicket fence in strangest guise
Offers a crystal exercise.

Shingled with brilliant and opaque light
Roof-tops are alabastered bright.

Telegraph poles on every side
Are huge stalagmites that flash their pride.

Enchantment everywhere lights its spells
In all the glittering icicles. . . .

Till passersby are bowed down under
Dazzle of all the opal wonder

Of such a newly discovered floral
Lost Atlantis of crystal and coral!



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