...Collecting every ray into his kind, To the charmed eye educed the gorgeous train Of parent colours. First the flaming red Sprung vivid forth; the tawny orange next; And next delicious yellow—by whose side Fell the kind beams of all-refreshing green ; Then the pure blue, that swells...

...world. Many things are colored, but the rainbow seems to be color itself. " First the flaming red Sprang vivid forth ; the tawny orange next, And next delicious...the pure blue that swells autumnal skies. Ethereal play'd ; and then, of sadder hue Emerged the deeper indigo (as when The heavy-skirted evening droops...

...Collecting every ray into his kind. To the charmed eye educed the gorgeous train Of parent colours. First the flaming red Sprung vivid forth ; the tawny...that swells autumnal skies, Ethereal played : and thenf of sadder hue Emerged the deepened indigo, as when The heavy-skirted evening droops with frost....

...kind, To the charmed eye educed the gorgeous train Of parent colours. First the flaming red Sprang vivid forth ; the tawny orange next, And next delicious...blue, that swells autumnal skies, Ethereal played j and then of sadder hue Emerged the deepened indigo, as when The heavy-skirted evening droops with...

...the,y arrange themselves as Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Violet. " First the flaming red Sprang vivid forth ; the tawny orange next. And next delicious...the pure blue that swells autumnal skies, Ethereal play'd ; . . . . While the last gleamings of refracted light Died in the fainting violet away." —...

...yellow, and orange, coming in rotation between the violet •and the red. Or, as the poet puts it : First the flaming red Sprung vivid forth : the tawny...Fell the kind beams of all-refreshing green. Then the pale blue, that swells autumnal skies, Eternal played ; and then, of sadder hue, Emerged the deepened...

...are colored, but the rainbow seems to be color itself. " First the flaming red Sprang vivid forth j the tawny orange next, And next delicious yellow ;...all-refreshing green. Then the pure blue that swells autumnal ikies, Ethereal play'd ; and then, of sadder hue Emerged the deeper indigo (as when The heavy-skirted...

...Collecting every ray into his kind, I'o the charmed eye educed the gorgeous train Of parent colours. First the flaming red Sprung vivid forth ; the tawny orange next ; And next deIicious yellow — by whose side Fell the kind beams of all-refreshing green : Then the pure blue,...

...the colors recalling the British poet Thomson's well-known lines : — " First the flaming red Sprang vivid forth ; the tawny orange next, And next delicious...Ethereal played ; and then, of sadder hue, Emerged the deeper indigo (as when The heavy-skirted evening droops with frost), While the last gleam ings of refracted...

...thing one can do When it is raining, is to let it rain. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The Rainbow Colours First the flaming Red Sprung vivid forth ; the tawny...the pure Blue, that swells autumnal skies, Ethereal play'd : and then, of sadder hue, Emerged the deepen'd Indigo, as when The heavy-skirted evening droops...