[…] / Should kings and nations from thy mouth consult, / Thy counsel would be as the oracle / Urim and Thummim, those oraculous gems / On Aaron’s breast, or tongue of Seers old /
It is not for nothing, either, that the umbrella has become the very foremost badge of modern civilization—the Urim and Thummim of respectability.
1917, Thomas Hardy, “Jubilate”, in Moments of vision and miscellaneous verses[2]:
The hazy mazy moonlight at one in the morning / Spread out as a sea across the frozen snow, / Glazed to live sparkles like the great breastplate adorning / The priest of the Temple, with Urim and Thummim aglow.
