it
                it was the
            it was the epoch of
       it was the season of Darkness
           it was the winter of
              we had nothing
                 we were                        she
                   was                        she wore
                                          she walked as if
                                     her hair was a fine tawny
                                        her eyes were slate
                                           she came over
                                             her mouth
                                                her

8 responses total.

(The challenge:  Identify the literary works from which these
diamonds were mined.)

Free association yields Steinbeck's _Winter of our discontent_, and
Byron's _She walks in beauty_, though tawny never met raven.

Nope - not Steinbeck, not Byron.

No further takers, eh?  Okay, as hint I'll state that the first
diamond is phrases from the very famous first paragraph of a
very famous classic of literature.  The second is more obscure, as
it's excerpted from somewhere in the middle of distinctly less
classic -- although still reasonably well-known -- work.

Let's try Dickens' _Tale of Two Cities_ for the first. ("It was the
best of times, it was the worst of times..."). Could the second be ..
_She_? (Haggard)

Yes, the first is _Tale of Two Cities_.  But the second is not _She_.
Less exotic than that.

                        I
                      I try
                   My hand at
                Penning one of 
                  Them thar
                   diamond
                    things
                     and
                      fail
o well

Re #7- a diamond in the rough.

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