He knew familiarly, by heat done Brown,

From tan to a burnt umber,

Ev'n those eruptions he had never seen

Of which the Caledonian Poet spoke,

As "rashes growing green"—

"Phoo! phoo! a rash grow green!

Nothing of course, but a broad Scottish joke!"

Then as to flaming visages, for those

The Scarlet Fever answer'd, or the Rose—

But verdant! that was quite a novel stroke!