FORGET-ME-NOT. 
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EOEGET-ME-NOT. 
LOVE, FORGET ME NOT, FOR IF FORSAKEN I DIE. 
Emblems. 
LOVE, FORGET-ME-NOT — MYRTLE. FORSAKEN — ANE¬ 
MONE: I DIE IF NEGLECTED —LA UR USTINUS. 
Thy very name is Love’s own Poetry, 
Born of the heart and of the eye begot, 
Nursed amid sighs and smiles by Constancy, 
And ever breathing, “Love, Forget me not.” 
Love and flowers caused the wise king of Israel 
to break forth into song, and the lays he chanted 
to the dark-haired daughter of Egypt are amongst 
the richest notes that ever hung upon the golden 
chords of the lyre. That the divinity he adored 
was a fair daughter of Eve, whose beautiful form 
often glided through the fretted chambers of the 
