Hope

              Hope

A name may be arbitrary

But once given it's very

Specific. Ruth is always Ruth

And by personal linguistic truth

Ruth looks and acts like a Ruth.

Onomastics or toponymy

Reveal names of Mayflower fares as well:

Love Brewster and Humility Cooper

Helped prepare the way for a colonist suitor

To marry a Virtue, not just any souter. 

Constance, Desire and Remember;

Each woman a charter member

At Plymouth colony. A common trope,

Those Virtue eponyms that cope.

A pilgrim can persevere with Hope.