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Any color -- so long as it's red -- / Is the color that suits me best, / Though I will allow there is much to be said / For yellow and green and the rest; / But the feeble tints, which some affect / In the things they make or buy, / Have never (I say it with all respect) / Appealed to my critical eye.
There's that in red that warmeth the blood / And quickeneth a man within, / And bringeth to speedy and perfect bud / The germs of original sin; / So, though I am properly born and bred, / I'll own, with a certain zest, / That any color -- so long as it's red -- / Is the color that suits me best!