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The Woods Ware “Beryl” green teacups.

"You will deem your ears have heard Stir of tree or song of bird, Till your startled eyes are blurred "By a vision, instant seen, Naked gold and beryl green, Glimmering bright the boughs between.

The beryl green and the cairngorm brown Of the day through the deep leaves sifted down.

And the sky, the more diaphanous for all this dark solidity against it, becomes sky more decisively; takes, moreover, colour which only fluid things can have; turns into washes of pale gold, of palest tea-rose pink and beryl green.

We remember a cliff at L'Ariccia, which, gray in morning light, became, as evening approached, a marvellous beryl green, upon which some large poppies cast wafts of purest scarlet.