Some Asked How Pearls Did Grow, And Where? Then Spoke I To My Girl To Part Her Lips, And Showed Them There The Quarelets Of Pearl.

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Some asked how pearls did grow, and where?
Then spoke I to my girl
To part her lips, and showed them there
The quarelets of pearl.
-- Robert Herrick (1591-1674)
-- The Rock of Rubies, and the Quarrie of Pearls

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