

178 LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS. 
Myosotis palustris, and its common English ' 
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name, Mouse-ear Scorplon-grass. , 
It is not surprising that the Forget-me-not dn 
should have become a favourite with our own § 
poets as well as those of Germany. In Gothe’s Thi 
“Lay of the Imprisoned Knight,” translated 0 
7 by Lord Francis Leveson Gower, are these : 
stanzas : 
Not on the mountain’s shelving side, Th 
Nor in the cultivated ground, 3 
peal ae Nor in the garden’s painted pride, il 
Hi th iid fi The flower I seek is found. ; 
De ch poral ae 
Ih jr fae i Where Time on sorrow’s page of gloom el 
When beet Has fix’d its envious lot, % 
gid Red ttea | Or swept the record from the tomb, Hale 
It says Forget me not. takofag 
And this is still the loveliest flower, the 
The fairest of the fair, te vonla 
Of all that deck my lady’s bower, m ‘ 
Or bind her floating hair. Ms, eg 
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It has been figured as a device on the seals i , 
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of lovers, who have sung its praises in their in : 
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verses : ith 
To flourish in my favourite bower, tay, 
To blossom round my cot, (, 
I cultivate the little flower eal 
They cail Forget-me-not. ant 
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