My heart has hardened in the years since;
if I am diamond now what was is mist,
coal dust scuttled in the mine too deep,
wet walls and heat condensed, the fog of sleep
beneath the stones of weeping;
where do men toil? In the earth,
to find the things they think of worth.
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