Kindergarten in disguise!

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Recognize this poem ?
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Scintillate, scintillate
Globule vivific
Fain would I fathom
Thy nature specific
Loftily perched
In the ether capacious
Strongly resembling
A gem carbonaceous.

????Guessed it ???

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