Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, COLOR, by JANE BLAKESLEE RICHARDS


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First Line: Blue, purple and scarlet and fine - twined linen
Last Line: The beauty that god and the angels love.
Subject(s): Colors; God


"Blue, purple and scarlet and fine-twined linen,"
The stones of the costliest garnished with gold,
What counsel for beauty God gave as they builded
His house in the desert, His temple of old!
In revel of scarlet and orange and yellow
The forest, His vaulted cathedral aglow,
The Master of color, the Artist Eternal
Has spread a new canvas of beauty below.
With emerald seas and resplendent aurora
And rainbows reflected in drops of the dew,
The world may be sombre with shadows of sorrow
But lances of glory have shotten it through.
In long ago days the dear grandames and mothers
(Apart from the halo that memory throws)
Were they saintlier robed in the greys of the gloaming
Than in colors of sunset, the blue and the rose?
Wherever may be the long home of the happy,
A-near or in infinite spaces afar,
Sometimes for the radiance dear ones are tempted
And slip through the gates that have trembled ajar.
And then do we think they are gladder or saddened
(If ever they sigh in that land of delight)
When those whom they love wear the garments of darkness
And veil as beneath the black wing of the night?
"Blue, purple and scarlet and fine-twined linen,"
Has mirrored the Mind and the Heart above,
The diamond, sapphire, amethyst city,
The beauty that God and the angels love.





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