FLORAL KMBLEMS. 151 



FORGET ME NOT. 



MOUSE-EAR SCORPION GRASS. Myosotis Palustris. 



" Pour exprimer 1'amour, ces fleurs semblent eclore ; 

 Leur langage est un mot mais il est plein d'appas ! 

 Dans la main des amans elles disent encor : 

 Aimez-moi, ne m'oubliez pas." 



Lettres a Sophie. 



This plant so celebrated in German love- 

 song, under the emblem of " Vergils micli 

 nicht" has hence been made to signify " for- 

 get me not/' by all the sonnet writers of 

 Europe. 



" Where time, on sorrow's page of gloom 



Has fixed its envious lot, 

 Or swept the record from the tomb, 

 It says Forget-me-not." 



