THE FORGET-ME-NOT 
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CHAPTER XVI. 
Forget-me-not — Haunts of Country Children — Islets on the 
Streams — Use of Forget-me-not by the Germans — Field 
of Waterloo — Various Names of the Forget-me-not — 
Hairs on Plants — Effect of Accurate Investigations on 
Mental Habits — ■ Borage — • Heliotrope — Comfrey — 
GromwelL 
Ye field-flowers! the gardens eclipse you, Tis true, 
Yet, wildlings of nature, I dote upon you; 
For ye waft me to summers of old. 
When the earth teemed around me with fairy delight. 
And daisies and buttercups gladdened my sight, 
Like treasures of silver and gold. 
Even now what affections the violet awakes. 
What loved little islands, twice seen in the lakes, 
Can the wild water-lily restore ! 
What landscapes I read in the primrose’s looks 1 
What pictures of pebbles and minnowy brooks. 
In the vetches that tangle the shore ! 
— Campbell. 
If, amid the rich glow of summer noon, we ramble abroad, 
how delighted we are to rest in glen or copse-wood, or 
beside the river, which, “ gliding at its own sweet will,” 
diffuses a sense of coolness even on the hottest day! It 
is pleasant to linger on the river-brink, and to find a group 
of children playing among the flowers, and collecting 
images of beauty to which they may look back in future 
days. Not altogether idle are the hours spent in wading 
among the sedges to gather the forget-me-nots, or in 
throwing stones into the stream ; for the little loungers are 
drinking in the delights of the blue, cloudless, summer 
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