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THE SPEEDWELL. 
VERONICA CHAMiEDRYS. 
“ Blue thou art, intensely blue ! 
Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue ? — 
When I open’d first my eye 
Upward glancing to the sky, 
Straightway from the firmament 
Was the sapphire brilliance sent.” 
Few wild, or indeed cultivated, flowers are more 
beautiful than the Veronica Chamsedrys. Its tint, 
“ Bright as the brightening eye of smiling child. 
And bathed in blue transparency of heaven,” 
together with its form, so light and elegant, might 
make it a fitting garland for a fairy; nor, perhaps, 
can spring, with all her variety of bloom, present a 
lovelier sight than 
« Banks with speedwell flowers gay.” 
In the English Flora it is said “to be by some mis¬ 
taken for the Myosotis palustris, the German forget-me- 
not ; it may, however, vie in beauty with the true one.” 
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