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"A bracelet rich with gold, with amber gay, That shot effulgence like the solar ray, Eurymachus presents."
"Not the soft gold which Steals from the amber-weeping tree, Makes sorrow half so rich, As the drops distill’d from thee. Sorrow’s best jewels lie in these Caskets of which Heaven keeps the keys."

Amber is fossilized tree resin. It has been appreciated for its color and natural beauty since the Neolithic times, and worked as a gemstone since classical antiquity. Amber is used in jewelry and as a healing agent in folk medicine.