Lemon, and cinnamon, and ghostly grey,

Purple, and primrose. And the artist rose

And overhead the swift spring-curtains drew

This way and that in many a subtle shift

For fine effect of light and shade, and placed

Background of statuary and drooping boughs,

With cloud and curtain, tower and portico.

O British Public harken ere I die!

I heard great Heré. She to Paris made

Proffer of popular power, public rule,