Wild Flowers as They Grow 



word " Souv eigne vous de moi," and having the 

 initial S and the flower embroidered on his collar. 

 His adherents wore the flower as a secret badge 

 during his exile, and thus the motto gave it its name. 

 It is recorded that at a famous joust in 1465 the 

 victor, Lord Scales, was given a gold collar enamelled 

 with blue Forget-me-nots. The children tell a 

 pretty httle legend that when the flowers were 

 being given their names by the Creator this 

 Uttle flower forgot hers, and went back timidly 

 to ask for it, and was then told to be " Forget- 

 me-not." 



The Persians have a beautiful story that an 

 angel loved a maiden of earth whom he had beheld 

 twining blue Forget-me-nots in her golden hair by 

 the river-side, but because of his love he was put out 

 of heaven. He wept bitterly outside the gate, and 

 was told he could only re-enter when she whom he 

 loved had planted the Forget-me-not in every comer 

 of the earth. He went back to her, and together 



they set forth on their task. At length it was com- 



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