A STUDY IN BROWN.
I've caught you, hazel-eyed brunette, day-dreaming, chin on hand!
Don't think, now, that my stolen sketch is bold and contraband!
Nay, rather, 'tis the duty that's imposed on ev'ry beauty,
To grant that with respectful glance her profile may be scanned.
To picture such a wealth of brown would Vandyck's self delight;
Brown eyes I see, and waving hair, brown as a summer night.
I cannot do you justice, but this thumb-nail sketch, I trust, is