These verses are inclosed with the foregoing letter, as a retort to Mr. Boyd's parody.
Elizabeth Barrett's 'pet name' (see her poem, Poetical Works, ii. 249), given to her as a child by her brother Edward, and used by her family and friends, and by herself in her letters to them, throughout her life.
Do you mind that deed of Até
Which you bound me to so fast,—
Reading 'De Virginitate,'
From the first line to the last?
How I said at ending solemn,
As I turned and looked at you,
That Saint Simeon on the column
Had had somewhat less to do?
'Wine of Cyprus' (Poetical Works, iii. 139)