Till joy shall be symboled in white!

Ah, well! it were idle to quarrel

With fashion, or aught she may do;

And so I conclude with a moral

And metaphor—warranted new:

When measles come handsomely out,

The patient is safest, they say;

And the sorrow is mildest, no doubt,

That works in a similar way!

John Godfrey Saxe.