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Here, too, the captives of the mine— The sapphire and the ruby—shine, Rekindling each a hidden spark, Unquenched by buried ages dark, Nor dimmed beneath the jewelled skies, Save by the sunlight of thine eyes.

From Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 by Various