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The Complete Poems by Christina Rossetti
A diamond or a coal?
  A diamond, if you please:
Who cares about a clumsy coal
  Beneath the summer trees?

A diamond or a coal?
  A coal, sir, if you please:
One comes to care about the coal
  What time the waters freeze.
Book: The Complete Poems by Christina Rossetti
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