Just like scarlet-runners,—

Love, sure, they had won hers,

If at the beginning had been but for fun hers.

At the top it was low,

That her neck it might show,

As white as a turnip or two-days'-back snow.

Then her rather red face

embedded in lace,

With large green rosette, garnished to heighten each grace.

But a bright crimson shawl