Charles Follen Adams

“ I'll take your fine young lover, Gray, And beat him till he's blue." Then Olive Brown to crimson turned, And said, "Do as you say: The country long has wished to see 'The Blue combined with Gray.'" Ben Green to purple turned with rage, And black his brow as night; While on the cheek of Olive Brown The crimson changed to white. "O cruel Olive Brown!" says Ben, " I've been dun-brown by you : Let this ' Grayback' his steps retrace, And take Greenback, — oh, do!" Poor Olive Brown, what could she say, To sea-Green look so sad ? And so she rose, and said to him, " I'll go and ask my dad." ”