Melbourne, Australia,

January, 1922.

Another, ere she slept, was stringing stones

To make a necklet—agate, onyx, sard,

Coral, and moonstone—round her wrist it gleamed

A coil of splendid colour, while she held

Unthreaded yet, the bead to close it up—

Green turkis, carved with golden gods and scripts.

Edwin Arnold—“The Light of Asia.”

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