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Excerpt from The Cameo Shell and Other Poems
The Cameo Shell.
First cast upon the shore from tropic seas;
By homesick sailor to his loved one brought,
Still ringing with its inborn melodies;
The pearly splendor of its surface caught
The eyes of one who loved it for itself,
And treasured it as miser hoards his pelf,
Till Death should play the liberator's part.
Then sold again, it came unto the mart
And young Cellini saw the rosy shell,
Where trembled hues of pearl and asphodel.
By cunning hand beneath his graver grew
The tragic scene of mad Electra's woe,
Imbued with Grecian life in miniature
On vagrant shell. O wondrous cameo!
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