Colours for a Garment

Colours for a Garment written by John Drinkwater

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 Make me a garment
 Of primrose yellow and the green
 Of mint, of marjoram and thyme,
 All crisp herbs of the prime,
 When Javeh went
 Bright palisades between,
 Of sapling apples, crimson plums,
 Figs bursting in the harvest, vines
 Heavy with wines
 Ripening to the presses and the vats;
 Make me of these a garment, when he comes,
 To sing magnificats.

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