Rubies
by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The crimson life-drops from a virgin heart
Pierced to the core by Cupid's fatal dart.
Source:
Poems of SentimentCopyright 1911
Gay And Hancock, Ltd., London
Copyright 1911
Gay And Hancock, Ltd., London
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