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Signification . . God hath sworn. 
Emblem Blue Yiolet. 
Sentiment .... Eaithfulness. 
Thou tender object of my early love, 
How shall I all my grateful homage prove ? 
Thy young affection saved my erring youth, 
How could I stray, when all thy soul was truth ? 
When bright prosperity, with swelling tide, 
Had filled my cup, and all my wants supplied ; 
My prospects fair, serene, without a cloud, — - 
Thy sweet injunction came, “ 0 be not proud ! ” 
And when revenge and malice sought to wrong, 
And bore me from the home I ’d loved so long, 
Thou still went with me, and thy tender hand 
Was more to me than arms of martial band. 
And thus through life, in sickness and in health ; 
In poverty and want, in ease and wealth, 
Thou wert my angel-guide, my faithful friend ; 
Aye ! thou hast kept thy faith e’en to the end. 
Anon. 
