Penelope's Irish Experiences by Kate Douglas Wiggin

'No, the heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close, As the sunflower turns on her god, when he sets, The same look which she turned when he rose. ' Thomas Moore.

Here we all are at O'Carolan's Hotel in Dublin -- all but the Colquhouns, who bade us adieu at the station, and the dear children, whose tears are probably dried by now, although they flowed freely enough at parting. Broona flung her arms tempestuously around Salemina's neck, exclaiming between her sobs, "Good-bye, my thousand, thousand blessings! " -- an expression so Irish that we laughed and cried in one breath at the sound of it.