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COLORS IN A SLUMBERING STATE (TO K.Y.), by                    
First Line: These colors, red and blue
Last Line: These sleeping colors, blue, or green, or red.
Subject(s): Colors


These colors, red and blue,
Yellow, green, black and white;
Are factors, if the hand be true
To bring a rare delight!

Dainty shades that slumber here,
Oh mix them with your tears --
Of sadness, or of gladness, of great cheer
A vibrant, vital challenge to all years.

So man may mark the glory of your time --
The splendor of the world wherein you stray,
That they may sing more sweetly than a rhyme
The wonders and the beauty of a day.

There lurks a sunrise such as never yet
Has dawned -- grass so green is seldom spread;
Oh waken them, too long in slumber set
These sleeping colors, blue, or green, or red.





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