When Penny is old, she shall wear purple and a red hat that doesn't go,
Like the old lady who sat down on pavements that Elizabeth Lucas used to know,
Purple Penny will be her name and she will make up for the sobriety of her youth,
And she will dance in slippers when it rains and will apear otherwise uncouth.
Helen's beauty will launch a thousand ships across the sea so blue,
and take her all the way to Everest, via Lukla and Kathmandu,
Her eyes, like limpid pools, will draw men from far and wide,
but Hard Helen will leave them blue, like the hood 'neath which she hides.
So are Purple Penny and Hard Helen wearing the colours that will define their lives,
or is all not as it seems, as their future is still to arrive,
Penny is not yet old, and in love Helen is so careful,
so it must be Penny in blue and Helen in Purple!
