Carminum minorum corpusculum
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Original / primary: Perseus Eng1
33.p36
33.p36
This piece of ice still shows traces of its original nature : part of it has become stone, part resisted the cold. It is a freak of winter's, more precious by reason of its incomplete crystallization, for that the jewel contains within itself living water.