To Princess Rosa de H., on Her Name-Day

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To Princess Rosa de H., on Her Name-DayAuthor(s): John FitzpatrickSource: The Irish Monthly, Vol. 34, No. 399 (Sep., 1906), pp. 498-499Published by: Irish Jesuit ProvinceStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20501009 .

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498 THE IRISH MONTHLY

up, they made her watchful and suspicious. A hasty word, a fancied slight, or a cross look, caused her the deepest anguish.

She felt certain she was stupid, for, since everyone said so, it must be true, and hearing it whispered, on all sides, that she was a trouble and an expense to her uncle and aunt, she became

morbidly sensitive, and more than ever shy and reserved.

CLARA MULHOLLAND.

(To be continued.)

TO PRINCESS ROSA DE H., ON HER NAME-DAY

"A ROSE" the Latin rosa means. As I need hardly mention,

And 'twas the word that in my teens

Taught me my first declension; Now, Princess, 'tis no common noun.

And he would tell a whopper,

Who'd say, to set your sweetness down1 'Tis not the name most proper.

In ae its genitive doth bloom, With " of a rose " for meaning,

As are these rose-buds over whom

Your mother-love is leaning: God bless the blossoms of the Rose

"Amen," says Princess Sarah Which 'mid these Styrian mountains blows,

And on the Riviera.

Then " to a rose " the dative is

Unchanged in termination, Which brings to you our messages

Of love and admiration; For of the wealth as yet untold,

Which of the heart is native

And dearer is than gifts of gold, This date has made us dative.



TO PRINCESS ROSA DE H., ON HER NAME-DAY 499

Next comes the case accusative,

That has in am its ending;

But I do know not as I live What in you needs defending;

And if I could I would not tell, No matter how suggestive

This case is, for that were not well

Upon a day so festive.

The vocative is rosa, too; Its use is to address you,

As when one says, as now I do, " 0 Rosa "-may God bless you!

May He transplant to Paradise And set you near your patron

I mean, of course, when you're a nice

And venerable matron.

The ablative, last but not least

Of all these Latin cases,

Prints our good wishes for your feast

Upon our happy faces:

"From" Rosa may these keep away

And I live long to see it

All sorrow; thus in hope we pray, And fondly add, " so be it."

I still remember, as you see,

How I began my Latin, Though rosa meant much less to me

When life was in its matin.

Thank goodness ! that your mother chose

From out the land of Lima

Your name, dear Princess, else-who knows ?

It might have been-Jemima.

JOHN FITZPATRICK, O.M.I.



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