TO ONE WHO LOVES JEWELS
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I gave you verses of mine Telling of my sadness And praising your beauty, But you tossed the beautiful white sheets That bore my poems Disdainfully away from you. I gave you my love— And more than that, I gave my dreams by night and day, But you understood neither And turned your face away. Then I gave you a jewel, A dark sapphire like the night With depths in it like the sea, And for that sapphire alone You smiled at me.