244 FAITHFULNESS. 
VIOLET, BLUE. 
Viola Odorata. 
Language —FAITHFULNESS. 
Thy gentle eyes are not so bright 
As when I wooed thee first; 
* Yet still they have the same sweet light 
Which long my heart hath nursed ; 
They have the same enchanting beam 
Which charmed me in love’s early dream; 
And still with joy on me they stream, 
My beautiful, my wife! 
Anon. 
Faithful found 
Among the faithless, faithful only he ; 
Among innumerable false, unmoved, 
Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified; 
His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal; 
Nor number, nor example with him wrought 
To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind, 
Though single. 
Milton’s Paradise Lost. 
I bless thee for the noble heart, 
The tender and the true, 
Where mine hath found the happiest rest 
That e’er fond woman knew; 
I bless thee, faithful friend and guide, 
For my own, my treasured share, 
In the .mournful secrets of thy soul, 
In thy sorrow and thy care. 
Mbs. Hemans. 
