Sweden's Laureate: Selected Poems of Verner von Heidenstam/The Jewel
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THE JEWEL.
Happiness is a woman's jewel.
Gods remorseless, fates unsparing,
Scanty bread—aye, that 's the cruel,
Bracing life for men!
Gods remorseless, fates unsparing,
Scanty bread—aye, that 's the cruel,
Bracing life for men!