Work-Book

1   T-I|    purple –~that’s no fitting colour to go mourning –~no vermilion
2 T-III|       Can you see the paper’s colour, bloodless pale?~Can you
3  T-IV|  neither the strength nor the colour I used to have:~I’ve barely
4  T-IV|   temples already take on the colour of swan’s plumage,~and white
5   T-V| shining white so different in colour to my fate:~let them erect
6 ExIII|      which was white from the colour of the stone,~is darkened,
7  ExIV|     or a stagnant swamp,~it’s colour is diluted, and it’s barely