SONGS OF COLOR
Where thy wonderful radiance bendeth
Ecstatic, alone, it ascendeth
Enwrapp'd in thy magical hue.
Ecstatic, alone, it ascendeth
Enwrapp'd in thy magical hue.
IV
SAPPHIRE
Fenc'd in with white a garden grows
Fair flowers of every kind one knows;
Bright as the sun across our view
A bird of brilliant sapphire hue
With flash of sudden color goes.
The loveliest garden! How its rows
Of bud on bud it gaily throws,
All rivals to the larkspur's blue,
Fenc'd in with white.
O air flower-sweet within the close,
Still sweet and sweeter thy breath blows
With breeze as fresh as morning dew.
Lo! where beyond in color, too,
The sea a summer garden shows
Fenc'd in with white.
Fair flowers of every kind one knows;
Bright as the sun across our view
A bird of brilliant sapphire hue
With flash of sudden color goes.
The loveliest garden! How its rows
Of bud on bud it gaily throws,
All rivals to the larkspur's blue,
Fenc'd in with white.
O air flower-sweet within the close,
Still sweet and sweeter thy breath blows
With breeze as fresh as morning dew.
Lo! where beyond in color, too,
The sea a summer garden shows
Fenc'd in with white.
V
VIOLET
The voices of night
From the pearly west
Are a circling flight.
From the pearly west
Are a circling flight.
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