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"FORGET ME NOT.' 



ONNY wee flower wi" gouden ee, 

 Blmkm' sae blithe and daintylie, 

 You surel}' ken, ye're dear to me 



Dearer to me than a' the rest ; 



Sae I'll kiss ye, and place }e on my breast 



And tell ye why, I loe ye best. 



Altho' you are but a tiny flower 



O'er my auld heart your mystic power 



Cheers me in m}- twilight hour. 



My wayward memory travels back 

 Three score j^ears on life's rough track 

 To youth and happiness and J-ack. 



A glow of girlhood, I ween. 



Steals o'er me, as in love's young dream 



When he crown'd me with a diadem 



Of these sweet flowers of simny hue, 

 Forget-me-nots of azure blue ; 

 Emblems of his love so true. 



Ah ! then my heart beat double measure 

 When roaming with my God-given treasure, 

 Hand and soul were linked together. 



When unrelenting fate laid low 

 My love, I kissed his lips of snow, 

 Sair, sair, I wanted too to go. 



But I have lived life's summer through. 

 And winter soon will claim his due. 

 My sacred flowers, a short adieu ; 



W' e'll meet again : for in my dream 

 I saw you in God's " Pastures Green," 

 Blooming beside the Living Stream. 



Grandma Gowax. 



Mount Royal Vale, Montreal, P.Q. 



