<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="center" class="head">Jewels.<br xmlns:exist="http://exist.sourceforge.net/NS/exist" xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"/> A YOUNG MAN TO A MERCHANT.</h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line">OLD Man, your pearls are not for us, </p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Your rubies die too soon:</p><p class="line">Have you the pearls of Sirius,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Or opals of the moon?</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">I do not ask for other gems;</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Flashing with frost and fire </p><p class="line">The sky's undying diadems</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Shall be my love's attire.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Emeralds, that into rubies melt</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Upon the brow of night,</p><p class="line"> I've taken from Orion's belt</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">To make her girdle bright.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">On high ways of the albatross</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">I scale the purple air </p><p class="line">For sapphires of the Southern Cross</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">And wreath them in her hair</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Her robe it is the morning sky, </p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Her veil it is the West;</p><p class="line">So robed, so veiled my love will fly. </p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">When I am gone to rest.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Yet all the rays of all the moons, </p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">The lights of all the skies</p><p class="line">Are pale beside the dim lagoons</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Of those mysterious eyes.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Old Man, your pearls are not for us, </p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Your rubies die too soon:</p><p class="line">Have you the pearls of Sirius,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Or opals of the moon</p></div></body></html> · Great War