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Collections & Critiques

Scene: The Yard.

Come, Ralpho, you forget the line,

The composition and the fine

Manipulation of the hues

Which are low-toned and don't confuse

The seer with a bewildering blaze

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Of spots to leave him in a daze.

Chauvannes, the early decorator

Would explain the alpha and the beta

Of these two murals; he would say

The dull and solid tones convey

Intellectual dignity

And the murals, far from illustrations

Are contemplative decorations.

Ralpho:

But Hudibras, you miss my point.

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