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Thus had the ceiling of this house a pearl here, and there a diamond; here a jasper, and there a sapphire; here a sardius, and there a jacinth; here a sardonyx, and there an amethyst.
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In Alphonso's " Clericalis Disciplina" a serpent was mentioned with eyes of real jacinth, and in the romantic history of Alexander he was said to have found snakes in the vale of Jordan " with collars of real emeralds growing on their backs."
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Men were as gods upon the earth, The women were most fair; Music was speech; a holy birth Of art was cradled there- For dreams took shape in pure jacinth, Seraphic brows upon the plinth.