But when you discern me, this fact you will know.

Doctors’ stuff I convey and small matters unfold,

Yet rare gems I preserve and great nuggets of gold.

In form I am round or three-cornered or square,

And at once I am known as both common and rare.

If you wish to be safe when you look at a show,

You must pay for, and take me, and sit in a row.

Clothed in crimson, and purple, and black I am seen,

Yet in gardens in winter I’m constantly green.

I am valued and dear, though ’tis equally clear,