Word: puree
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...have none other. Let our crew make the slight change which would be necessary in their handkerchiefs, from dark crimson to true magenta; and if our Freshmen represent Harvard, let the cherry be discarded. The fraction of the community even in our very midst which recognizes a magenta, pure and simple, is not amazingly large. It is very agreeable to receive pretty remarks from lady friends about the magenta; it is far from exhilarating to overhear afterwards their candid opinion of what they take to be magenta. But who can blame them for wishing to disguise their real sentiments...
...unutterable, awakening melodies of which only a little echo will reach the world, To those souls she especially appears who, in the melancholy of solemn moments, feel the bitterness of all human experiences; then, reaching out towards infinity, longing for a glimpse of that which is fadeless and pure, they suddenly perceive her shedding her brilliant fairy light over man's every-day life and nature's every-day appearance. Then the minstrel of the soul strikes his lyre, the soul is filled with deep tones of harmony, and the world faintly hears...
...baby pure and artless...
...Pure and spotless she must quite...
...pure, the spotless maiden...