Rubies

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Title:     Rubies
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson [More Titles by Emerson]

They brought me rubies from the mine,
And held them to the sun;
I said, they are drops of frozen wine
From Eden's vats that run.

I looked again,--I thought them hearts
Of friends to friends unknown;
Tides that should warm each neighboring life
Are locked in sparkling stone.

But fire to thaw that ruddy snow,
To break enchanted ice,
And give love's scarlet tides to flow,--
When shall that sun arise?

[The end]
Ralph Waldo Emerson's poem: Rubies

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