FORGET-ME-NOT: 'MYOSOTIS AVENSIS.'
Reading edition
FROM THE GERMAN: BY FITZ-GREENE HALLECK.
I.
There is a flower, a lovely flower, Tinged deep with Faith's unchanging hue; Pure as the ether in its hour Of loveliest and serenest blue. The streamlet's gentle side it seeks, The silent fount, the shaded grot, And sweetly to the heart it speaks, Forget-me-not, forget-me-not.
II.
Mild as the azure of thine eyes, Soft as the halo-beam above, In tender whispers still it sighs, Forget me not, my life, my love! There where thy last steps turned away, Wet eyes shall watch the sacred spot, And this sweet flower be heard to say, Forget! ah, no! forget-me-not!
III.
Yet deep its azure leaves within Is seen the blighting hue of care; And what that secret grief hath been, The drooping stem may well declare. The dew-drops on its leaves are tears, That ask, 'Am I so soon forgot?' Repeating still, amidst their fears, My life, my love! forget-me-not!