Think--!
Imagine what it must have been like to have existence
in the days when life was sliding whirlwinds, blue hot weights,
in the days called chaos, which left us rocks, and gems!
Think that the sapphire is only alumina, like kitchen pans
crushed utterly, and breathed through and through
with fiery weight and wild life, and coming out
clear and flowery blue!
~D. H. Lawrence

Lucifer
Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell.
But tell me, tell me, how do you know
he lost any of his brightness in the falling?
In the dark-blue depths, under layers and layers of darkness,
I see him move like a ruby, a gleam from within
of his own magnificence,
coming like a ruby in the invisible dark, glowing
with his own annunciation, towards us.
~D. H. Lawrence