TO HIS BROWN-EYED MISTRESS
Who Rallied Him for Praising Blue Eyes in His Verses
If sometimes, in a random phrase
(For variation in my ditty),
And seem to intimate them pretty—
With too unmixed reiteration
That are my true intoxication.
For ladies' eyes, the only color;
(Compared to yours), opaquer, duller.
While blue-eyed maids the praise were drinking,
It was of yours that I was thinking!