BLUE NOTES
'Under his feet was something like a pavement made of lapis lazuli' (Exodus 24:10) 'Open the lid. Take out the tablet of lapis lazuli. Read how Gilgamesh suffered all and accomplished all.' 'Dolce color d'oriental zaffiro' (Dante Alighieri) 'Un colore nobile, bello, il piu perfetto di tutti i colori' (Cennino Cennini, Il Libro dell'Arte) 'O hyacinth of the swamp-lands, Blue lily of the marshes, How could I know, Being but a foolish shepherd, That you would laught at me?' (Theocritus) 'At last he rose and twitched his mantle blue, Tomorrow to fresh and pastures new' (John Milton) 'Within the circuit of this plodding life there enters moments of azure hue' (Henry David Thoreau) 'Tell me how far the morning leaps, Tell me what time the weaver sleeps Who spun the breadths of blue!' (Emily Dickinson) 'Oh never weep for love that's dead, since love is seldom true, but changes his fashion from blue to red from ...