Diamond Or Coal

Christina RossettiChristina Rossetti

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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.
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Christina Rossetti
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Christina Rossetti

1830 - 1894/Female/EnglishA poet who wrote romantic, devotional, and children's poems.

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