IMPROMPTU,

On seeing that the Publisher of the Messenger had changed the color of

its covers.

So _you're changing your colors_, I see, master White,

But say now d'ye think it is perfectly right?

Yet I own, on reflection, it is not so wrong,

And the reason, I think, is sufficiently strong:

Give it up? Then I'll tell you at once to your shame,

_You're a man of all colors yourself_--by your _name_;

For all the seven colors, you know, must unite

To make the commixture that people call _white_.

The southern literary messenger, Vol. I., No. 5, January, 1835 · 第 7 / 97 题