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Art Colours

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On must we go: we search dead leaves,     We chase the sunset's saddest flames,     The nameless hues that o'er and o'er     In lawless wedding lost their names.     God of the daybreak! Better be     Black savages; and grin to gird     Our limbs in gaudy rags of red,     The laughing-stock of brute and bird;     And feel again the fierce old feast,     Blue for seven heavens that had sufficed,     A gold like shining hoards, a red     Like roses from the blood of Christ.

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"The Text is taken from Percy's Reliques (1765), vol. i. p. 71, 'given from two MS. copies, transmitted from Scotland.' Herd had a very similar bal"

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