In hues that mocked the butterfly, and made

The rainbow colourless—satin and silk,

Cambric, and lawn, and muslin virginal:

Haply, there also whatsoe'er of strange

Elise, or Worth, or Harberton devise,

The wizards of adornment,—mystic shapes

Dual or indivisible,—the awed bard

Shrinks into silence.

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