Poem by Christina Georgina 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.

1. Fluttered Wings
2. Eve
3. The Convent Threshold
4. Under The Ivy Bush
5. Sweet Death

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