COLOUR-TONES

COLOUR-TONES

I

A visionary filmy sheenScarce palpable of silver-greenLimns barren furrow and bare branch.One month more, and the welcomingGates o' the world will open wideTo let the full deep vernal tideSweep overland, an avalancheOf green, absorbing in its rushThis silver-misty verdure ... Hush!This is the old earth's dream of Spring.

A visionary filmy sheenScarce palpable of silver-greenLimns barren furrow and bare branch.One month more, and the welcomingGates o' the world will open wideTo let the full deep vernal tideSweep overland, an avalancheOf green, absorbing in its rushThis silver-misty verdure ... Hush!This is the old earth's dream of Spring.

A visionary filmy sheenScarce palpable of silver-greenLimns barren furrow and bare branch.One month more, and the welcomingGates o' the world will open wideTo let the full deep vernal tideSweep overland, an avalancheOf green, absorbing in its rushThis silver-misty verdure ... Hush!This is the old earth's dream of Spring.

A visionary filmy sheen

Scarce palpable of silver-green

Limns barren furrow and bare branch.

One month more, and the welcoming

Gates o' the world will open wide

To let the full deep vernal tide

Sweep overland, an avalanche

Of green, absorbing in its rush

This silver-misty verdure ... Hush!

This is the old earth's dream of Spring.

II

In Cobham woods the bluebells runCelestial rillets, streams and rivers,Or else a purple lake they lie,Or little azure pool;The blue flood shimmers in the sunOr under the wind's breathing shivers,While drops cerulean-tincted spillAmong the grass. Then very stillThe dim sweet waters grow and coolLike shadows of the sky.

In Cobham woods the bluebells runCelestial rillets, streams and rivers,Or else a purple lake they lie,Or little azure pool;The blue flood shimmers in the sunOr under the wind's breathing shivers,While drops cerulean-tincted spillAmong the grass. Then very stillThe dim sweet waters grow and coolLike shadows of the sky.

In Cobham woods the bluebells runCelestial rillets, streams and rivers,Or else a purple lake they lie,Or little azure pool;The blue flood shimmers in the sunOr under the wind's breathing shivers,While drops cerulean-tincted spillAmong the grass. Then very stillThe dim sweet waters grow and coolLike shadows of the sky.

In Cobham woods the bluebells run

Celestial rillets, streams and rivers,

Or else a purple lake they lie,

Or little azure pool;

The blue flood shimmers in the sun

Or under the wind's breathing shivers,

While drops cerulean-tincted spill

Among the grass. Then very still

The dim sweet waters grow and cool

Like shadows of the sky.

III

The yellow light of daffodilsThe lawns beneath the fruit-trees fills,The yellow light of early springSwims in the shining upper air,And all about the fragrant fairBlossoming boughs of sunlit whiteLike clouds of heavenly incense swing'Twixt yellow light and yellow light.

The yellow light of daffodilsThe lawns beneath the fruit-trees fills,The yellow light of early springSwims in the shining upper air,And all about the fragrant fairBlossoming boughs of sunlit whiteLike clouds of heavenly incense swing'Twixt yellow light and yellow light.

The yellow light of daffodilsThe lawns beneath the fruit-trees fills,The yellow light of early springSwims in the shining upper air,And all about the fragrant fairBlossoming boughs of sunlit whiteLike clouds of heavenly incense swing'Twixt yellow light and yellow light.

The yellow light of daffodils

The lawns beneath the fruit-trees fills,

The yellow light of early spring

Swims in the shining upper air,

And all about the fragrant fair

Blossoming boughs of sunlit white

Like clouds of heavenly incense swing

'Twixt yellow light and yellow light.


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