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FLORA'S LEXICON. 



OUSE-EAR, SCORPION-GRASS. Myo- 

 sotis Palustris. Class 5, Pentandria. Or- 

 der : Monogynia. This plant, so celebrated 

 in German love-song, under the emblem of 

 " Vergisz mich nicht" has hence been made 

 to signify " forget me not," by all the son- 

 net writers of Europe. 

 " Where time, on sorrow's page of gloom 

 Has fix'd its envious lot, 

 Or swept the record from the tomb, 

 ft says — Forget-me-not." 



FORGET ME NOT. 



The blue-eyed Forget-me-Not, beautiful flower, 

 Half-woo'd and half-stolen, I brought from her bower, 

 By the bright river's brink, where she nestled so low, 

 That the water o'er stem and o'er leaflet might flow; 

 As if, like Narcissus, she foolishly tried 

 To gaze on her own gentle face in the tide. 



Half inclined, half reluctant, the flower bade adieu 

 To the friends left behind in the dell where she grew; 

 And a few shining drops, from the river-spray flung, 

 Like tears of regret on her azure eyes hung ; 

 But I kiss'd them away, as a lover had done, 

 In joy that my fair river-beauty I'd won. 



TWAMLEY. 



Remember thee? 



Yea, from the table of my memory 



I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, 



All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, 



That youth and observation copied there; 



And thy commandment all alone shall live 



Within the book and volume of my brain, 



Unmix'd with baser matter. 



Shakspeare. 



