Housepainter, be thou not timid!

Housepainter, be thou not timid,

Decline the Fainting Antelope,
Eschew the Midsummer Indigestion,
Go thou and buy a bucket of by-golly barn-door red!
Slap on some lavender,
Smear it in brown,
Or blue or orange or green,
Reject the pale anthropologists,
With their Cape Cod Figment and Rustic Potato,
Bring on the chromatic fanatics,
No more than one color of black!