![Art Colours, By: G.K. Chesterton](https://i0.wp.com/poetrycatalog.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Art-Colours-By-G.K.-Chesterton.jpg?resize=750%2C420&ssl=1)
On must we go: we search dead leaves,
We chase the sunset’s saddest flames,
The nameless hues that o’er and o’er
In lawless wedding lost their names.
God of the daybreak! Better be
Black savages; and grin to gird
Our limbs in gaudy rags of red,
The laughing-stock of brute and bird;
And feel again the fierce old feast,
Blue for seven heavens that had sufficed,
A gold like shining hoards, a red
Like roses from the blood of Christ.