Blue! ’Tis the life of heaven,⁠—the domain + 

Of Cynthia,⁠—the wide palace of the sun,⁠— + 

The tent of Hesperus, and all his train,⁠— + 

The bosomer of clouds, gold, gray, and dun. + 

Blue! ’Tis the life of waters⁠—ocean + 

And all its vassal streams, pools numberless, + 

May rage, and foam, and fret, but never can + 

Subside, if not to dark blue nativeness. + 

Blue! Gentle cousin of the forest-green, + 

Married to green in all the sweetest flowers,⁠— + 

Forget-me-not,⁠—the blue bell,⁠—and, that queen + 

Of secrecy, the violet: what strange powers + 

Hast thou, as a mere shadow! But how great, + 

When in an Eye thou art, alive with fate! + 