Azure and Gold
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pril had covered the hillsWith flickering yellows and reds,The sparkle and coolness of snowWas blown from the mountain beds. Across a deep-sunken streamThe pink of blossoming trees,And from windless applebloomsThe humming of many bees. The air was of rose and goldArabesqued with the song of birdsWho, swinging unseen under leaves,Made music more eager than words. Of a sudden, aslant the road,A brightness to dazzle and stun,A glint of the bluest blue,A flash from a sapphire sun. Blue-birds so blue, 't was a dream,An impossible, unconceived hue,The high sky of summer dropped downSome rapturous ocean to woo. Such a colour, such infinite light!The heart of a fabulous gem,Many-faceted, brilliant and rare.Centre Stone of the earth's diadem!. . . . .Centre Stone of the Crown of the World,"Sincerity" graved on your youth!And your eyes hold the blue-bird flash,The sapphire shaft, which is truth.
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