She stood upon a continent of ice, which sparkled between sea and sky, endless and dazzling, as though the world kept all its treasure there; a scale which balanced poetry and prayer.
Carol Ann Duffy (2009). “Mrs. Scrooge: A Christmas Poem”, p.31, Simon and Schuster
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