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Charles Lamb - Neatness In Apparel
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In your garb and outward clothing
  A reservëd plainness use;
By their neatness more distinguished
  Than the brightness of their hues.


All the colours in the rainbow
  Serve to spread the peacock`s train;
Half the lustre of his feathers
  Would turn twenty coxcombs vain.


Yet the swan that swims in rivers,
  Pleases the judicious sight;
Who, of brighter colours heedless,
  Trusts alone to simple white.


Yet all other hues, comparëd
  With his whiteness, show amiss;
And the peacock`s coat of colours
  Like a fool`s coat looks by his.
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