Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1850-11-21
Female Names.


inappropriately stand at the head of our list, It
is from the Hebrew, and signifies erGAed. Its
French is from Marie. Il is, VIC hardly need
say, a famous name in both sacred and profane
history.
In all ages from the time of Mary, the mother
OF Jesus, to that of Mary the mother of Wash
ington, the name has, literally, been exalted.
1t has been linked with titles and power--with
crowns and coronets, and adorned by goodness
and beauty.
Mary has ever been tavorite name with the
poets. Byron, as he assures us, felt an absolute
passion for it. 1t is interwoven with some of the
sweetest verses. The peasant poet, Burns,
seems to have been as much attached to it as
the author of Chidde Harold. 1t is still the
theme of bards and baraings unnumbered.--
We might fill columns osifsvo here with songs
and ballads. 81 III sssssIssdy Of whose
verse the most nuefcAi aytfoies are those winch
form the charming name OF Mary. But where
so much presents itself, we can quote nothing.
We need quote nothing, for
"The very music of the name has gone
Into our being"
Let the motto, or the toast, if you will, be the
single line of Barry Cornwall Proctor
"Here's health to thee, " MARY"
Sarah is almost as common name as Mary,
but it lacks the prestige which its historical and
poetica associations throw around the latter
1t is also from the Hebrew, and signifies prin.
cess. In poetry it takes the form of Sally or Sal
lie, and is found in many lOve-song and ballad.
Sally is sometimes contracted to Sal, which is
neither poetical nor euphonlous.
"Laughing, prattling, sporting SALL1E.
Now tell me what shall be
The tint of sky-sunlit Or starry?--
To which I'll liken thee
The softest shades of heavens own blue
Those lustrous eyes seem melting through"
Susan, another name of Hebrew origin, sig
nifes lily. In poetry is it usually seen in its
contracted form of Sue 1t is a pretty name,
and is immortalized in Gays well-known ballad.
The signlfcation of the name is very happily
introduced into the closing ine:-
"Adieu, she cried, and waved her lily hand"
Ralph Hoyt, in very graceful poem entitled
" NV Sue" has the following lines -
sand how often have strayed
With the lads along the lea;
And with many pretty maid,
Yet, ah none OF them for me.
For if she, whom | love best
In the groups could not be seen,
No contentment, in my breast,
No delight upon the green;
But there was garden nigh
With its bower just in view,
And still cIayed my heart and eve
That sweet lily there-my SUE"
Mabel is probably derived from ma bella, sig
nifylng my fair, though some suppose it is con-
tracted amabilis or amiabk. 1t is good name
in either case, and worthy Of being perpetuated.
Mary Hewitt has ballad commencing,
"Arise, my maiden MABEL"
which is the only poem we now recollect in
which the name occurs.
Ursula, is name associated in our mind with
homellness of face and goodness of heart con-
cealed under the veil of nun. 1t is from the
Latin, and signifies nothing more amiable than a
female bear! Who, knowing this, will give the
name to a child /?
Blanche, one of the sweetest names ever
borne by woman, is from the French, and signi-
, fes phite or far. Mary Hewitt makes the Or
ange-hower its floral type,
All, cousin BLANCHE let's see
What's the flower resembling thee
With those dove-like eyes of thine
And thy fair hairs sill ben tvine.
With thy low, broad forehead. white
: As marble, and as purely brigbt.
With thy mouth so Caln and sweet,
And thy dainty hands Spd feet:
What's the flower most like thee,
Blossom of the orangeaee! !"
Lucy, in its French from L,.cie sion;6os Ia.
cid, and comes from the Latin.
"LUoF Is goIfen girl"
d says Bryan Proctor, and mqny will echo the line
Wordsworth has made it ohe Of tho
"NameS "euuelunlo song"
> And lovely indeed is the maiden h0.,;,. ,h,.
sweet Nan'' "D'". na'''' proposes to mould, at
y will, to her own taste:-
> That wild Y wsI6 sPortlve 1sIv9 y lie fawn
orup the mountain USs 'Os;. The lawn,