104 LEXICON OF 
Signification . . Exalted. 
Emblem Apple Blossom. 
Sentiment .... Fame speaks you great and good. 
Mary is sounding in our ears, 
From palace, and from cot; 
What place of high or low degree, 
Where this loved name is not? 
We read it oft in Sacred Writ ; 
This, poets most admire; 
We see it oft on History's page,— 
No name’s exalted higher. 
In youth we love to hear the sound 
Of this sweet, simple name; 
In age we love it as of yore ; 
It brings us back again : — 
It brings the long, bright, summer days, 
When we in sportive mood, 
Chased humming-bird and butterfly, 
And wandered in the wood, — ■ 
In search of childhood’s gay delight, 
The many-colored flowers, — 
With blue-eyed Mary by our side, 
We spent those sunny hours. 
