She dove, plunging fully beneath the surface and came up again in tears. Rivulets ran from her face, and the sun ignited them each, transforming them, even amid her sorrow, into gilded runnels set with a diamond shine.

A.S. Peterson
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The story behind this poem is that the woman in the poem had fallen in love with a poor fisherman who lived on the dock by her house. She loved him so much, she was willing to marry him. But he had a younger sister who was desperately in love with him. They wanted to be together, yet they both knew that if they were married it would be no more than an arrangement.

After the wedding, the man's sister would have to leave. So she decided to kill herself in order to be with him forever. The writer of this poem goes on to say that she dove, plunging fully beneath the surface and came up again in tears.

Rivulets ran from her face, and the sun ignited them each, transforming them, even amid her sorrow, into gilded runnels set with a diamond shine.

Source: Fiddlers Green

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