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lucy's gem.
LUCY'S GEM.
a true story.
"You've read, my pet, in olden story,
That oft o'er royal infant's bed,
Some mystic gift of grace or glory
By fairy hands was shed.
That oft o'er royal infant's bed,
Some mystic gift of grace or glory
By fairy hands was shed.
"I know a child in modern days,
Who, when a baby, thus was bless'd;
But 'twas by One of rarer skill
Than fays of old possess'd.
Who, when a baby, thus was bless'd;
But 'twas by One of rarer skill
Than fays of old possess'd.
"This Being, kind as powerful, lent
The child two wondrous living gems,
More precious than the costliest stone
In Eastern diadems.
The child two wondrous living gems,
More precious than the costliest stone
In Eastern diadems.
