But just then some one chanced to say:

“The very Latest Thing! That Rose

In Paris is the Rage To-day.”

No Rose of such a Tint outré

Was ever seen in Garden Bed;

The Butterfly had such a Gay

Chromatic Sense, it turned his head.

“The Very Latest Thing?” he said;

“Long have I sighed for something New!

O Roses Yellow, White, and Red,