





eG, FORGET ME NOT, 
The eye that contemplates it well perceives 
Its glossy leaves; 
Order’d by an Intelligence so wise 
As might confound an atheist’s sophistries. 
Below a circling fence, its leaves are seen 
Wrinkled and keen ; 
No grazing cattle through their prickly round 
Can reach to wound ; 
But, as they grow where nothing is to fear,’ 
Smooth and unarm’d the pointless leaves appear. 
FORGET ME NOT. 
MYOSOTIS, OR MOUSE EAR. 
Nowuere are the beautiful flowers of this 
plant found in such great abundance, as on the 
banks of a brook near the Luxembourg. The 
peasants call that brook the « Fairy Bath,” 
or the “ Cascade of the enchanted Oak ;’?’ these 
two names are given to it on account of the 
beauty of its source, whence it issues murmur- 
ing at the foot of a very old oak. The waters 
of the brook at first roll on from cascade to 
cascade, under a long vault of verdure, and 
afterward flow gently through an extensive 
meadow; then they appear to the enchanted 
eye as along silver thread. The soutliern bank 
alone is covered with a thick tapestry of mouse 


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