Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1851-07-31
3riscelloneons.
Ternale Names.


MARY, the sweetest of female names,
may notinappropriately stand at the head
of our list. 1t is from the Hebrew, and
signifies exalted. Its French form is Ma.
RE. It is, we hardly need say, a famous
name in both sacred and profaue history.
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 favorite name with the poets. By.
ron, as he assured us, felt an absolute
passion for it. 1t interwoven with some
of its sweetest verses. The pleasant poet,
Burns, seems to have been as much at
tached to it as the author of Childe Ha.
rold-It is still the theme .of bards and
bardings unnumbered. We might fill
column or two here with songs, sonnets,
and ballads, in the melody of whose verse
the most musical syllables are those which
form the charming name of Mary. But
where SO much presents itself, we can
qnnta soth,;;rg We need a-euotesz MOTH
ing, 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 Bryan Waller Proctor:
"Here's health to thee, sweet Mary"
SARAH is almost as common name as
Mary, but it lacks the prestige which its
historical and poetical associations throw
around the latter.-It is also from the He
brew and signifies a princess. In poetry
it takes the form of Sally or Sallie, and
is found in many a love song and ballad.
Sally is sometimes contracted to Sal,
which is neither poetical nor euphonious.
Laughing. sporting, prattling Sallic,
Now tell me what shall be
That 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 orr
gin, signifies a lily. In poetry it is usu.
ally seen in its contracted form of Size.
1t is pretty name, and is immortalizcd
in Gays well-known ballad. The signif-
cation of the name is happily introduced
in the closing line:
"Adieu, she cried, and waved her lily hand"
Ralph Hoyt, in very graceful poem, en-.
titled, My Sue," has the following lines:
"And how often have straycd
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 con,entmcnt in my breast,
= - No delight upon the green;
But there was garden nigh,
With its bower just in view,
And still craved my heart and eye
That sweet lily there-ny Sue"
MABEL is probably derived from ma
bella, signifying my fair, though some
suppose it is contracted from amab;'lis,
lovely or amiable. 1t is good name in
either case, and worthy Of being perpetu.
ated. Mary Hewitt has ballad COM
mencing,
"Arise, my maiden Mabel"
which is the only poem we now recollect
in which the name occurs.
URSULA, name associated in our mind
with homeliness of face and goodness o
heart concealed under the veil of nun
is from the Latin, and signifies nothing
more amiable than female bear! Who
knowing this, will give the name to
child9
BLANCHE, one of the sweetest names
borne by woman, is from the French anc
signifies white or fair. Mary Howit
makes the orange flower its floral type
"Ah, cousin Blanche, let's see,
Whats the flower resembling thee;
With those dove-like eyes of thine,
And thy fair hairs silken twlnc,
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 to thee,
Blossom OF the orange tree"
LUCY, in it's French from Lacic, signi
fies lucid, and comes from the Latin.
"Lucy ia golden girl"
says Bryan Proctor, and many will eoh
the line. Lucy is favorite name wit
almost every one, Wordsworth has mad
it one of the
Names welded unto song"
And lovely indeed is the maiden bear
Ing that sweet name.