ladies’ names. 
175 
Ifrsstfo. 
Signification . . Light-footed, noiseless. 
Emblem ..... Daily Rose. 
Sentiment .... Lightness. 
Hast thou been in the woods with the honey bee ? 
Hast thou been with the Iamb in the pastures free ? 
With the hare through the copses and dingles wild? 
With the butterfly over the heath, fair child? 
Yes : the light fall of thy bounding feet 
Hath not startled the wren from her mossy seat ; 
Yet hast thou ranged the green forest dells, 
And brought back a treasure of buds and bells. 
Thou knowest not the sweetness, by antique song 
breathed o’er the names of that flowery throng ; 
The woodbine, the primrose, the violet dim, 
The lily that gleams by the fountain’s brim ; 
These are old words that have made each grove 
A dreaming haunt for romance and love, — 
Each sunny bank, where faint odors lie, 
A place for the gushings of poesy. 
Mrs. Hemans. 
