The Woodville Republican. [volume] (Woodville, Miss.) 1847-1853, 1851-02-18

takes the form of Sally or Satiie, and is
found in many a love song and ballad. Sally
is sometimes contracted TO Sal, which is nei-
thei poetical nor euphonious.
Laughing, sporting, prattling Sallio,
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,
signifies tShy In poetry it is usually seen
in its contracted form of Sue. 1t is pretty
name, and is immortalzed in Gays we'll
known ballad. The signifcation of the
name is very happily introduced in the clos
ing line:
"Adieu, she cried and waved her llly hand. ;
Ralph Hoyt in a 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,
Yet, ah! none of them for me.
For if she whom love best
In the groups could not be seen,
No contempt in my breast
No delight upon the green;
But there was garden nigh,
With its power just in view,
And still craved my heart and eve
That sweet lilly there--my Sue.p
Mabel is probably derived from ma bella,
signliying my fair, though some suppose that
it is contracted from amdbttiS, lovely or am
liable. 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 recolect in
which the name occurs.
Ursula, name associated in our mind with
homeliness ofiace and goodness of heart con-
ceaed under the veil of a nun, is from the
Latin and signifies nothing more amiable
than female bear! Who, knowing this,
will give the name to child!
Blanche, one of the sweetest names ever
borne by woman, is from the French, and
signifies white or iair-Mary Hewitt makes
the orange flower its floral type;
"Ah, Cousin Blanche, let'ssee
What's the flower resembling thee.
With those dove-like eyes of thine,
And thy fair hairs silken twine,
With thy low broad forehead, white
As marble, and as purely bright;
With thy mouth SO calm and sweet,
And thy dainty hands and feet;
What's the flower most like thee,
Blossom OF the orange treeW
Lucy, in its French from Luctc, signifies
Luctd, and comes from the Latin.
Lucy is golden girl"
says Bryan Proctor, and many will echo the
line. Lucy is a favorite name with almost
every one. Wordsworth has made it one
of the
"Names wsdded unto songo
! And lovely indeed is the maiden bearing
that sweet name, whom nature proposes To
mould, at will, to her own taste
"She will be sportive as the fawn
That wild with gee across the lawn
Or up the mountain spring
And hers shall be the breathing balm,
And hers the silence and the calm
Of mute insensate things
"The stars of midnight shall be dear
TO her, and she shall lean her ear
In many secret place,
Where rivulets dance their wayward rounC
And beauty born Of murmuring SQUAD.
Shall pass into her face.
GAnd vital feelings of delight
Shall rear her form TO stately height,
Her virgin bosom SWELL
Such thouhts to Lucy will give,
While she and together live,
| Here in this happy dell"
) Beatrice is another name derived from tn
, Latin, it signifies one toho 1'teaSes or make
: happy. No name can be more appropriai
for a lovely, a1ectionate, and amiable We
n man. Beatrice has been honored above a
), others by the poets Dante, Shakespear
and Shelly have, in turn, thrown around
;, the charm Of their numbers, and linked
with thoughts both lovely and tragic:
10 son Beatrice chi ii faccio andareo
Caroline is the feminine form Of Charlie
or rather Of its Latin equivalent Cay0tn
d 1t comes from the German, and hes the 81
II MITIGATION Of braw Sonied or gallant. II
= name has been borne by women who lla
proved themselves worthy Of the name.