Egeria

The 'Egeria,' schooner, was disabled very early in the race by the carrying away of the iron strop round her boom.

Something between an earthly Queen and a divine Egeria; "Serena" he calls her; and, in his high-flown fashion, is very laudatory.

I was not on a stage, but in a room, holding actual and rapt communion with my spirit-bride, Egeria!

It is a sweet illusion, for the maid is not Egeria nor Maud Muller, but under those gentle forms she is the nymph of opportunity.

So he tried another tack and called the child after the nymph Egeria.