And the unimaginable hues appear,

With none to mark the rose and gold and green;

That Spring should walk the earth, and nothing seen

Of her fresh delicacy year by year.

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And if some beauteous things,—whose heavenly worth

And function overpass our mortal sense,—

Lie waste and unregarded on the earth

By reason of our gross intelligence,

These are not vain, because in nature’s scheme