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 Gems. 
 Amethyst, 
 Blood Stone, 
 Diamond, 
 Emerald, 
 Garnet, 
 Jet, - 
 Moss Agate, 
 Onyx, 
 Opal, 
 Pearls, 
 
 Ruby, 
 
 Sapphire, 
 
 Topaz, 
 
 turquois, 
 
 Sentiments represented. 
 
 _ _ - Peace of Mind. 
 
 I Mourn Your Absence. 
 
 Pride. 
 
 _ _ - Success in Love. 
 
 Fidelity in all Engagements. 
 
 _ _ _ Sad Remembrance. 
 
 _ - - Living Death. 
 
 Reciprocal Love. 
 
 Pure Thoughts. 
 
 Modest Loveliness. 
 
 Noble Nature, and Courage and Success 
 
 in Dangerous Enterprise. 
 
 _ _ _ - Innocence. 
 
 Fidelity. 
 
 Success and Happiness in Life. 
 
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 AmefliDst. 
 
 A transparent stone of every shade of violet. The finest specimens are obtained in 
 Ceylon, India, and Persia. Its sentiment is 
 
 Peace of Mind. 
 
 I ask not shining gold 
 Or greatness, lingering in the court of kingr, 
 But that the Shepherd guard our little fold, 
 
 Our harp's unbroken strings. 
 
 At eve, when all is still 
 Save the soft-sighing wind or evening bird, 
 How the home voices through my spirit thrill. 
 
 Till its depths are stirred. 
 
 No wild, unholy prayer 
 Lingers upon my lip with blasting power, 
 My hopeful heart, in love's congenial air. 
 
 Enjoys each fleeting hour. 
 
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 ilaact Stone, 
 
 This stone is of a darlc gveeu color, intermixed with red spots, resembling small drops 
 i( blood. It is mucli admired, and found in numerous places. Its sentiment is 
 
 I Mourn Your Absence. 
 
 Come to me, come, for long have I sustained 
 
 Life's weary toil alone ; 
 And felt, by hope deferred, my spirit pained, 
 
 And waited for the tone 
 Which made thy lightest word a treasured thing, 
 And now I pine like bird with broken wing. 
 
 Come to me, come ! Such partings are like death, 
 
 And make the heart an urn 
 For buried hopes, o'er which but memory's breath 
 
 Whispers of love's return ! 
 Come to me, come ! for thou too art a prey 
 Unto this wasting of the heart away. 
 
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 The colors of this, the most valuable of all gems, are white, yellow, pink, blue, and 
 black. It is found in India, Africa, and Brazil. Its sentiment is 
 
 Pride. 
 
 Thou tread' St as if common earth 
 Were all too mean a thing 
 
 For creature of thy lordly birth 
 And vast aspiring. 
 
 The diamond blazing in thy hair 
 Thy emblem meet may be ! 
 
 Thou lack'st a jewel, far more rare- 
 Meek-eyed humilit}'. 
 
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 Emeralct. 
 
 Au extremelj- valuable gem of a beautiful gveeu color ; the most valuable ones are 
 brought from Peru. Its sentiment is 
 
 Success in Love. 
 
 Precious and lovely, I yield her to thee ; 
 Take her, the gem of thy dwelling to be. 
 She, who was ever my solace and pride, 
 Flees from my bosom to cling to thy side. 
 
 Clouds and darkness flee away ! 
 In my soul is perfect day ! 
 Words are feeble to express 
 Half my hoarded happiness ! 
 Love hath kindled with its flame 
 Thoughts that have no earthly name, 
 But on lightest wing they soar 
 Earthly griefs and passions o'er ! 
 In my soul is perfect day, 
 Doubts and fears have passed away. 
 
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 The color of this stone is red (of various shades). Its localities are numerous. It 
 represents the noble sentiment of 
 
 Fidelity in every Engagement. 
 
 Swerving from duty never ! True thou art 
 To the best teachings of thy noble heart, 
 Like the vast rock which rears its giant form. 
 Breasting the ocean-tide, the wintry storm. 
 So art thou strong whatever blasts assail. 
 So doth thy changeless virtue never fail ! 
 Sooner shall solid continents decay 
 Than thine unbroken word will pass away. 
 
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 Jet is of a pure deep-blaok color. It is found in different parts of Europe, and much 
 used in ornaments for ladies' ivear. Its sentiment is 
 
 Sad Remembrance. 
 
 The wavelets ripple on the shore, 
 The swallows twitter as they soar, 
 The birds within their bowers sing 
 A cadence sweet to golden spring. 
 
 Where gently bow yon willow trees, 
 To the whisper, soft, of the noontide breeze, 
 Embowered, 'neath the emerald glade. 
 My darling sleeps beneath their shade. 
 
 The sunbeams bright, with gilding ray, 
 Among the laughing daisies play. 
 And modest violets, growing near, 
 With fragrance sweet perfume the air. 
 
 The crystal brooklet murmuring by,' 
 Bears to her couch her lover's sigh. 
 And as it wanders to the sea 
 Sings nature's softest lullaby. 
 
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 All agate foutaiuiiig' moss in a petrified state. Its sentiment is 
 
 Living Death. 
 
 When do we die ? 
 Not when enshrouded, the casket lid doth close, 
 Veiling the world from out our calm repose. 
 
 Severing each earthly tie. 
 
 When do we die ? 
 Not when the burdened soul, its trials o'er. 
 Fluttering, timid, through death's mysterious door, 
 
 Passes on high. 
 
 It is not death 
 When, like a mantle from the shoulder thrown. 
 Our nobler self our grosser self disown. 
 And like a birdling the ascending soul 
 In spirit, infancy achieves the goal,' 
 
 Breathing celestial breath. 
 
 -Then do we die, 
 When all the nobler feelings of the heart 
 That friendship, hope and charity impart, 
 In fragments lie. 
 
 Then do we die. 
 When confidence in man is turned 
 To ashes, and all of love is burned 
 
 Into a sigh^ 
 
 Then are we dead. 
 When gazing at unreached joys. 
 Ambition weeping, intellect decoys 
 To idle misery. Action, needed 
 By the saddened mind, we pass unheeded, 
 
 Then are we dead. 
 
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 A variety of agate. Its colors are black, white, red and green. It is used for cameos, 
 one layer being used for the base, the other for the object. It is much admired. Its senti- 
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 Reciprocal Love. 
 
 There is a bliss beyond all that the minstrel has told. 
 When two that are linked in one heavenly tie, 
 With heart never changing- and brow never cold, 
 Love on through all ills, and love till they die ! 
 One hour of passion so sacred is worth 
 Whole ages of heartless and wandering bliss ; 
 And, Oh ! if there be an elysium on earth, 
 It is this, it is this. 
 
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 A beautiful gem, redundaut with brilliant colors, very valuable ; but, througli a fool- 
 ish belief that it is unlucky, the ladies of the United States refuse to use it. It is much to 
 be regretted that a community so far advanced in civilization, can be influenced by super- 
 stition to such a degree that the opal — a gem in which naiure has photographed all the 
 beauties of the rainbow — receives such immerited neglect, particularly when, instead of 
 being unlucky. It has always represented the beautiful sentiment of 
 
 Pure Thoughts. 
 
 Pure thoughts are angel visitants ! Be such 
 The frequent inmates of thy guileless breast ; 
 They hallow all things by their sacred touch, 
 And ope the portals of the land of rest. 
 
 By the serene expression of thy face, 
 The mellow light that fills thine azure eye, 
 We know such guests thine inner temple grace, 
 Before whose presence sin and sorrow flj'. 
 
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 Obtained iu tlie Indies, Lower California, and in some of the streams of the United 
 States. They are -white, rose-colored, yellow, and a delicate blue. They rank with the 
 ruby and sapphire, next in value to the diamond. The sentiment represented by them is 
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 Modest Loveliness. 
 
 Not to the halls of the wealthy and gay, 
 
 Lead me not thither, I prithee, love, stay ! 
 
 See how the blush mantles over my cheek, 
 
 At the sweet words thou hast ventured to speak. 
 
 What shall I do when the flatterer smiles ? 
 
 How shall I answer his treacherous wiles ? 
 
 No, let me be, love, " a dweller apart," 
 
 Strong in the love of thy generous heart ! 
 
 Wise is thy answer, my beautiful dove, 
 
 Sitting content in the circle of love. 
 
 Fold, little trembler, thy fluttering wing, 
 
 Freely partake of love's fathomless spring ! 
 
 So hallowed thy presence, the spirit within 
 
 Hath whispered, " the angels protect thee from sin." 
 
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 This ranks, as a gem, next to the diamond. It is found in the sands of rivers, and in 
 Ceylon. Its color is rose red ; the most valuable specimens are of the " pigeon's blood " 
 tint. It represents tlie sentiments of 
 
 Noble Nature, and Courage and Success 
 IN Dangerous Enterprises. 
 
 Written on sei;tng the slatiie in the colhctiun qf A. T. Stewart, Esq. 
 
 Mark the misery on the chiseled face, 
 
 x\nd feel the swelling heart strain in its place 
 
 With throbbing anguish. — Note the list'ning ear, 
 
 The footstep firm— no sign of fear 
 
 Upon that graceful form, bereft of sight, 
 
 Her blindness guide unto her rival's flight ; 
 
 Her rival's, and her love's, both to save, 
 
 The mission self-imposed. Ah ! gentle slave ! 
 
 Unheeded groans the earthquake at thy feet. 
 
 Or crumbling temples choke the crowded street, 
 
 Unnoticed gloom, for thy sad life 
 
 Was lived in darkness. What to thee the strife 
 
 Of madden'd nature ? For thou wilt give 
 
 Thy love thy rival in happiness to live, 
 
 But to thyself a grave. Oh, Gods above ! 
 
 How great a sacrifice to rend from love. 
 
 Nydia ! legend ! stone ! whate'er thou art 
 
 Of noble nature, thine the nobler part. 
 
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 SappWe, 
 
 This gem ranks with the rubj' and pearl, next to the diamond, and is also found in 
 Ceylon. It represents the sentiment of 
 
 Innocence. 
 
 I bring no gift of passion, I breathe no tone of love, 
 But the freshness and the purity of a feeling far above ; 
 I love to turn to thee, fair girl, as one within whose heart 
 Earth hath no stain of vanity, and fickleness no part. 
 
 Save but to one familiar friend thy heart its veil should wear. 
 The faithless vow be all unheard— the flattery wasted there. 
 Heeding the homage of the vain as lightly as some star 
 Whose steady radiance changes not, though thousands kneel afar. 
 
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 Us color io white, yellow and pink; the darker colors are the most valuable. It 
 fo.iiid in all parts of the world. The sentiment represented by it is that of 
 
 Fidelity. 
 
 Could all thy noble beauty wane 
 Till not one lovely trace remain ; 
 Could genius sink in dull decay, 
 And wisdom cease to lend her ray. 
 Should all that I have worshipped change, 
 E'en this could not my heart estrange ; 
 Thou still WQuldst be the first, the first 
 That taught the love sad tears have nursed. 
 
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 This stone is of the most exquisite blue colov. It is found in Persia, and represents 
 the beautiful sentiment of 
 
 Success and Happiness in Life. 
 
 No shadow rests upon the brilliant scene 
 That spreads before thee. Disappointment veils 
 
 Its sombre visage — Hope, with brow serene, 
 Allures thy feet to flower-enameled vales, 
 
 Nor leaves thee there, but paints the distant view 
 
 Still lovelier, sparkling with refreshing dew. 
 
 Love, the celestial atmosphere, will shroud 
 Thy gladsome spirit, and the voice of song 
 
 Shall be thy chosen utterance, and the cloud 
 Which doth not to thine azure sky belong — 
 
 Though fringed with gold— shall noiseless melt away, 
 
 Nor dim the noon-tide splendor of thy day ! 
 
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