Black, Yellow, Purple and green

Black & Yellow house
Poem on the side of the house reads,
Derek Jarman's garden - Dungeness
The Poem Reads

Busy old fo...
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Black & Yellow house
Poem on the side of the house reads,
Derek Jarman's garden - Dungeness
The Poem Reads

Busy old fool, unruly Sun,
Why dost thou thus,
Through windows, and through curtains, call on us ?
Must to thy motions lovers' seasons run ?
Saucy pedantic wretch, go chide
Late school-boys and sour prentices,
Go tell court-huntsmen that the king will ride,
Call country ants to harvest offices ;
Love, all alike, no season knows nor clime,
Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
In that the world's contracted thus ;
Thine age asks ease, and since thy duties be
To warm the world, that's done in warming us.
Shine here to us, and thou art everywhere ;
This bed thy center is, these walls thy sphere
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