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I	A
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Deep smoldering colors of the land and sea	B
Burn in these stones that by some mystery	B
Wrap fire in sleep and never are consumed	C
Scarlet of daybreak sunset gleams half spent	D
In thick white cloud pale moons that may have lent	D
Light to love's grieving rose illumined snows	E
And veins of gold no mine depth ever gloomed	D
All these and green of thin edged waves are there	F
I think a tide of feeling through them flows	E
With blush and pallor as if some being of air	F
Some soul once human wandering in the snare	F
Of passion had been caught and henceforth doomed	D
In misty crystal here to lie entombed	D
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And so it is indeed Here prisoned sleep	G
The ardors and the moods and all the pain	H
That once within a man's heart throbbed He gave	I
These opals to the woman whom he loved	D
And now like glinting sunbeams through the rain	H
The rays of thought that through his spirit moved	D
Leap out from these mysterious forms again	J
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The colors of the jewels laugh and weep	G
As with his very voice In them the wave	I
Of sorrow and joy that with a changing sweep	G
Bore him to misery or else made him blest	D
Still surges in melodious wild unrest	D
So when each gem in place I touch and take	K
It murmurs what he thought or what he spake	K
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FIRST OPAL	L
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My heart is like an opal	L
Made to lie upon your breast	D
In dreams of ardor clouded o'er	M
By endless joy's unrest	D
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And forever it shall haunt you	N
With its mystic changing ray	O
Its light shall live when we lie dead	D
With hearts at the heart of day	O
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SECOND OPAL	L
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If from a careless hold	D
One gem of these should fall	P
No power of art or gold	D
Its wholeness could recall	P
The lustrous wonder dies	Q
In gleams of irised rain	H
As light fades out from the eyes	Q
When a soul is crushed by pain	H
Take heed that from your hold	D
My love you do not cast	D
Dim shattered vapor cold	D
That day would be its last	D
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II	A
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THIRD OPAL	L
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He won her love and so this opal sings	R
With all its tints in maze that seem to quake	K
And leap in light as if its heart would break	K
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Gleam of the sea	B
Translucent air	F
Where every leaf alive with glee	B
Glows in the sun without shadow of grief	S
You speak of spring	T
When earth takes wing	T
And sunlight sunlight is everywhere	F
Radiant life	U
Face so fair	F
Crowned with the gracious glory of wife	U
Your glance lights all this happy day	O
Your tender glow	V
And murmurs low	V
Make miracle miracle everywhere	F
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Earth takes wing	T
With birds do I care	F
Whether of sorrow or joy they sing	T
No for they make not my life nor destroy	W
My soul awakes	B
At a smile that breaks	B
In sun and sunlight is everywhere	F
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III	A
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Then dawned a mood of musing thoughtfulness	B
As if he doubted whether he could bless	B
Her wayward spirit through each fickle hour	M
With love's serenity of flawless power	M
Or she remain a vision as when first	D
She came to soothe his fancy all athirst	D
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FOURTH OPAL	L
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We were alone the perfumed night	D
Moonlighted like a flower	M
Grew round us and exhaled delight	D
To bless that one sweet hour	M
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You stood where 'mid the white and gold	D
The rose fire through the gloom	X
Touched hair and cheek and garment's fold	D
With soft ethereal bloom	X
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And when the vision seemed to swerve	Y
'T was but the flickering shine	Z
That gave new grace a lovelier curve	Y
To every dream like line	Z
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O perfect vision Form and face	B
Of womanhood complete	D
O rare ideal to embrace	B
And hold from head to feet	D
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Could I so hold you ever could	D
Your eye still catch the glow	V
Of mine it were an endless good	D
Together we should grow	V
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One perfect picture of our love	A2
Alas the embers old	D
Fell and the moonlight fell above	A2
Dim shattered vapor cold	D
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IV	A2
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What ill befell these lovers Shall I say	B
What tragedy of petty care and sorrow	V
Ye all know who have lived and loved if nay	B
Then those will know who live and love tomorrow	V
But here at least is what this opal said	D
The fifth in number and the next two bore	B2
My fancy toward that dim world of the dead	D
Where waiting spirits muse the past life o'er	M
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FIFTH OPAL	L
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I dreamed my kisses on your hair	F
Turned into roses Circling bloom	X
Crowned the loose lifted tresses there	F
O Love I cried forever	M
Dwell wreathed and perfume haunted	D
By my heart's deep honey breath	C2
But even as I bending looked I saw	B
The roses were not and instead there lay	B
Pale feathered flakes and scentless	B
Ashes upon your hair	F
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SIXTH OPAL	L
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The love I gave the love I gave	A2
Wherewith I sought to win you	N
Ah long and close to you it clave	A2
With life and soul and sinew	B
My gentleness with scorn you cursed	D
You knew not what I gave	A2
The strongest man may die of thirst	D
My love is in its grave	A2
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SEVENTH OPAL	L
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You say these jewels were accurst	D
With evil omen fraught	D
You should have known it from the first	D
This was the truth they taught	D
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No treasured thing in heaven or earth	D2
Holds potency more weird	D
Than our hearts hold that throb from birth	D2
With wavering flames insphered	D
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And when from me the gems you took	E2
On that strange April day	D
My nature too I gave that shook	E2
With passion's fateful play	D
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The mingled fate my love should give	A2
In these mute emblems shone	B
That more intensely burn and live	A2
While I am turned to stone	B
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V	A2
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Listen now to what is said	D
By the eighth opal flashing red	D
And pale by turns with every breath	C2
The voice of the lover after death	C2
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EIGHTH OPAL	L
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I did not know before	B2
That we dead could rise and walk	F2
That our voices as of yore	B2
Would blend in gentle talk	F2
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I did not know her eyes	B
Would so haunt mine after death	C2
Or that she could hear my sighs	B
Low as the harp string's breath	C2
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But ah last night we met	D
From our stilly trance we rose	B
Thrilled with all the old regret	D
The grieving that God knows	B
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She asked Am I forgiven	B
And dost thou forgive I said	D
Ah how long for joy we'd striven	B
But now our hearts were dead	D
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Alas for the lips I kissed	D
And the sweet hope long ago	V
On her grave chill hangs the mist	D
On mine white lies the snow	V
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VI	A2
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Hearkening still I hear this strain	B
From the ninth opal's varied vein	B
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NINTH OPAL	L
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In the mountains of Mexico	V
Where the barren volcanoes throw	V
Their fierce peaks high to the sky	A2
With the strength of a tawny brute	D
That sees heaven but to defy	A2
And the soft white hand of the snow	V
Touches and makes them mute	D
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Firm in the clasp of the ground	D
The opal is found	D
By the struggle of frost and fire	M
Created yet caught in a spell	G2
From which only human desire	M
Can free it what passion profound	D
In its dim sweet bosom may dwell	G2
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So was it with us I think	H2
Whose souls were formed on the brink	H2
Of a crater where rain and flame	I2
Had mingled and crystallized	D
One venturous day Love came	I2
Found us and bound with a link	H2
Of gold the jewels he prized	D
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The agonies old of the earth	D2
Its plenitude and its dearth	D2
The torrents of flame and of tears	B
All these in our souls were inborn	B
And we must endure through the years	B
The glory and burden of birth	D2
That filled us with fire of the morn	B
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Let the diamond lie in its mine	B
Let ruby and topaz shine	B
The beryl sleep and the emerald keep	G
Its sunned leaf green We know	V
The joy of sufferings deep	G
That blend with a love divine	B
And the hidden warmth of the snow	V
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TENTH OPAL	L
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Colors that tremble and perish	J2
Atoms that follow the law	B
You mirror the truth which we cherish	J2
You mirror the spirit we saw	B
Glow of the daybreak tender	M
Flushed with an opaline gleam	K2
And passionate sunset splendor	M
Ye both but embody a dream	K2
Visions of cloud hidden glory	A2
Breaking from sources of light	D
Mimic the mist of life's story	A2
Mingled of scarlet and white	D
Sunset clouds iridescent	D
Opals and mists of the day	D
Are thrilled alike with the crescent	D
Delight of a deathless ray	D
Shot through the hesitant trouble	L
Of particles floating in space	B
And touching each wandering bubble	L
With tints of a rainbowed grace	B
So through the veil of emotion	B
Trembles the light of the truth	L2
And so may the light of devotion	B
Glorify life age and youth	L2
Sufferings pangs that seem cruel	L
These are but atoms adrift	D
The light streams through and a jewel	L
Is formed for us Heaven's own gift	D