Diamond Engagement Rings and Other Poetic Things

A star shaped setting with six clear points
Is what he's chosen for his bride
She'll wear between fourth finger joints
For she is proud with naught to hide
The girls will gather round to see
This lovely symbol of his troth
With hope they too will someday be
Preparing for their wedding oath

Carbon hard from eons packed
Is forged into this crystal form
And separated from the ore that's hacked
By miners who long days perform

With this ring
I thee engage
Perhaps in spring
At altar's stage

We'll stand united side by side
Before our family and our friends
And vow to each how we'll abide
The love-filled life that day portends

Gleaming facets this diamond has
It's part of pre-wedding razzmatazz
She'll have it all their married life
This talisman of beloved wife

Translucent crystal within the rocks
Below the covering landscape
Arrives in a pretty ebon box
A 'fore the girl with mouth agape
He plies it on her trembling finger
To sparkle in the midday sun
And while her eyes upon it linger
The man knows that his love is won

Do you know that an engagement ring
Need not be of a diamond clear
Consider a color sparkling
Beautiful choices are always near

There are many ways to ask your love
For her fair hand in marriage
Consider well and you'll be most proud of
Months before the wedding carriage

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