Of Health and Spirits lent me,
Is deem’d as due to faith so true,
And thus by Fate is sent me.
While here she be there’s life for me,
And when high Heaven shall take her,
Alike last breath, I’ll ask of Death
To follow Molly Dacre.
M.”
Surely it was with true significance that Rosemary Dacre’s seal—the seal which always descends to her name-child in the house of Penicuik—was engraved with the sign of a single star, shedding a benign and steadfast light over a pathless vastitude of air and a fluctuating waste of sea; for the Lady’s memory seems to have shone with an ideal light through many human lives.