The Wearing of the Greene

“Says a headline this morning: ‘Country Party Rebuked. Mr. Massy Greene Angry.’

There’s all the world where e’er I’ve
been,
I’ve never seen an angry Greene.
I’ve seen Browns raging, I’ve seen
Grays—
Go off their blocks in diverse ways.
I’ve seen Blacks black with spite and
spleen,
But I’ve never seen an angry Greene.

Whites I have seen, quite white with
passion,
Raging in a foolish fashion.
Scarletts, too, I’ve known to go
Quite off the handle, and I know
Some Blues who were quite blue, in
deed;
But Greene? How could he do this
deed?

My friends, I wish I had been there
To see him rage and tear his hair
The Browns and Blacks and all the
Greys—
I’ve watched them rave in diverse ways.
But—my misfortune—I’ve not seen
A really truly angry Greene.