Versos English George Parsons Lathrop FIRST OPAL

English poem

FIRST OPAL

by (1851–1898)

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My heart is like an opal Made to lie upon your breast In dreams of ardor, clouded o'er By endless joy's unrest.

And forever it shall haunt you With its mystic, changing ray: Its light shall live when we lie dead, With hearts at the heart of day!