ladies’ names. 59 
Signification . . God hath sworn. 
Emblem .Blue Violet. 
Sentiment .... Faithfulness. 
Thou tender object of my early lore, 
How shall I all my grateful homage prove ? 
Thy young affection saved my erring youth, 
4 How could I stray, when alj 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. 
