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That was a fair one which a Queen / Pulled the great pearl from, in her spleen, / And drank its rich corroded sheen; / And dazzling bright was that which met, / And clasped its fatal diamond net
About Maria Antoinette; / And cool and fresh the dripping band
Which poor Undine, with trembling hand, / Snatched from the wave of Hildebrand; / But better mine, a little thread
Of jasmine blossoms, tipped with red, / As if in breaking they had bled.
It was all sweetness, and to one
Whose life on shore had just begun, / The very best beneath the sun!
Malta, August 23, 1851.