The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-12-15

Le,ths motto, the if you will. be the single line
of Bryan Waller Proctor;
"Hers's health to thee. Mary"
Sarah is nearly common name as Mary, but IT
lacks the prestige which its historical and p0etcal
Citations throw around the latter is from the Hebrew,
and signifies PRrScEss In poetry il takes the form OF
SALLY or SALLr and 10 found in many love song and
ballad Sally is sometimes contracted to SAL which Is
neither poecal nor euphoneous
"L'qSs a% 8: ;e ss WHAT p .ss g s's
: I TO Which ii III I'll i liEen thee s'i =
The sotiest shades OF heavens own blue .st ssg
Those lnstrous eyes melting through"
Susan. another name Of Hebrew origin. signifies a
LILLY 10 poetry II is mostly seen IN its contracted form
well-known ballad The Specification of the name is
very happily introduced in the closing line:
"Adieu, she cried, and waved her hand"
Ralph Hoyt in very graceful poem. entitled :" My
Sue" has the following lines:
"And how often have strayed
With the lads along the lea,
And with many pretty maid
ro a' q. aa @ ~Gos 0f i ioss b for mel
In the groups could not be seen,
No conteniment In my breast
No delight upon the green;
But there a garden nigh,
And still craved my heart and eye
That sweet LILLY there-nY Sne."
Mabel is probably derived from MA BELLA, sgnifying
my fair though suppose that II s contracted from
lovely or amable II good name in either
case, and worthy Of being perpetuated Mary Hewitt
has ballad commencing,
''Arse. my maiden Mabel"
which is the only poem we now ecolect in which the
Ursula-a name associated in our mind with homeli.
of face and goodness OF heart concealed under the
veil Of Nunis from the Latin, and signifies nothing
more amabe than female bear! Who, knowing this,
will give the name to child sa&
Blanche. one Of the sweetest names ever borne by
woman, is from the French and signifies white, fair.
Mary Hewitt makes the orange flower its floral type
| "Ah, Cousin Blanche, let's see
With those doveike eyes of thine,
And thy fair hairs sken twine
With thy low, broad forehead, white
As marble, and q purely bright;
With thy mouth so calm and sweet
f And thy dainty hands and feet
What's the flower most like to thee
Blossom OF the orange tree"
Lucy in its French form LucIE signifies LUCID, and
comes from the Latin.
Lucy is golden gr,'
says Bryan Proctor, and many viii echo the line Lucy
is a favorte name with almost every Wordsworth
has made il one OF the
"Namss welded unto songs"
and lovely, indeed, is the maiden bearing that sweet
name, whom Nature proposes TO mould at will 10 her
own taste:
"she will be sportive as the fawn
That, wild with glee. across the lawn
orup the mouHtain springs
And hers shall be the breathing balm,
And hers the silence and the calm.
Ofmute, insensate things.
1.-THE stars OF midnight shall be dear
To her, and she shall lean her
10 many secret place,
Where rivulets dance their maynard round,
And beauty born of murmuriny sound.
Shall pass into her face.
"And vital feelings OF delight
Shall rear her form to stately height
Her virgin bosom swell.
Such thoughts TO Lucy viii give,
While she aud together live
Here in this happy dell"
Beatrice is another name derived from the Latin II
signifies who besses makes happy. No can
be appropriate for lovely adectonate and ami
able woman Beatrice has been honored above all others
by the poets Dante, Shakespeare, and Shelley have, in
turn thrown around the charms of their numbers and
linked it with thoughts both lovely and tragic:
"Io Beatrice chi u faccio andare"
Caroline is the feminine form OF Charles, or rather OF
its Latin equivalent, CARoLus Ii comes from the Ger.
man, and has the Specification OF brave soued valiant
The name has been borne by women who have proved
themselves worthy of the name II is not in the manly
breast alone that valor is found needed There are
those who, having learned
-" How sublime thing Il is
To sufIer and be strong"
have displayed courage which shames that OF the
nor on the battle field Caroline is sometimes abbrevi-
aied TO Carrie, Cahe, and Cal.
al know n fair young girl, .4
With eye like the sky's own blue,
Or sweet spring flower when Its azure leaves
Are bright with the early dew
Oh, q thing half earth and half divine
Is she, the fair young Caroline"
Aw SOTIcE.-oyID F. JOHNSON and HENRY ROGERS,