Then once I found a diamond on my round

• Then once I found a diamond on my round;
• It had a different gleam from all the rest:
• I picked it up and brushed it off and found
• It more beautiful than all the others’ best.
• When I put it in my keep, it said to me,
• “You don’t know me; you’re better off without.”
• “I know just what you are and what can be;
• “Most wonderful,” said I, “without a doubt!”
• So you see, my Love, I know your soul and you,
• Though only knowing you for some short Time.
• That a diamond is a diamond, is most true;
• That you are you’s a fact that’s most sublime.
• I knew right from the start your heart was pure,
• So marry me: let love always endure!

Copyright, John Justice, 2015