Sentence:  The captain wonderful to see / With eyes a-change in depth and <WSD>blee</WSD>; / A-change, a-change for ever and aye, / Blue, and purple, and black, and gray; / And hair like the weed that finds a home / In the depth of a trail of white sea-foam. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Colour, hue. (from 9th to early 17th c.)