this is the garden: colours come and go

Read 'this is the garden: colours come and go' by 'Edward Estlin (E E) Cummings' and provide your summary and literary analysis in the comments section below.

this is the garden: colours come and go by Edward Estlin (E E) Cummings

this is the garden: colours come and go 
frail azures fluttering from night's outer wing
strong silent greens serenely lingering 
absolute lights like baths of golden snow.
This is the garden: pursed lips do blow
upon cool flutes within wide glooms and sing
(of harps celestial to the quivering string)
invisible faces hauntingly and slow.

This is the garden. Time shall surely reap
and on Death's blade lie many a flower curled 
in other lands where other songs be sung;
yet stand They here enraptured as among
The slow deep trees perpetual of sleep
some silver-fingered fountain steals the world.

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