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GREEN by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS

First Line: DEAR NATURE'S LOVE COLOR, AS MAN'S IS RED
Last Line: WEAVING AN ENDLESS METAMORPHOSIS.
Subject(s): GREEN (COLOR); METAMORPHOSIS;

Dear Nature's love color, as man's is red, --
Flushing the bosom of her swelling plains,
Mirrored in all her limpid flowing veins,
And on the sweet brows of her hills outspread, --
Your charm to all fair color charms is wed:
Royal as purple all your oak-green reigns;
Like girlish pink and white your birch-green lanes,
And with the sky's true blue your lawns are fed.
How does one color body many souls!
Young cedar-green laughs happy in the sun;
The green of elms a sage discourse outrolls;
Of hemlock green are plots and poisons spun;
A color drama with one actor this,
Weaving an endless metamorphosis.



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