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OCTAVES IN AN OXFORD GARDEN: 20 by ARTHUR W. UPSON

First Line: EVEN SO OUR FANCIES' COLOURS, KEEN OF YORE
Last Line: NOR SHINING NIMBUS OF TRANSFIGURED SAINT
Subject(s): COLORS; NATURE; PAINTINGS AND PAINTERS;
Even so our fancies' colours, keen of yore,
When one we love lays by this earth-constraint,
Upon our palettes do wax dull and faint,
Fulfilling not commissions first they bore.
For he is gone, and never holy lore
Nor shining nimbus of transfigured saint



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